Re: [FRIAM] What is Wealth for?

doubt ones definition of wealth? *From:* Friam mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com>> *On Behalf Of *Robert J. Cordingley *Sent:* Saturday, March 13, 2021 6:44 PM *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group mailto:f

Re: [FRIAM] What is Wealth for?

Steve If you are taking a poll... For starters on what wealth might mean economically, it might be useful to understand the cost of living and purchasing power by country .  Is 'wealthy' some factor based on a ratio of income over cost of

Re: [FRIAM] Acronyms

I think you're discussing initialisms not acronyms. Laser, scuba and Nasa are acronyms. TLA is a TLI On 1/26/21 9:33 AM, Barry MacKichan wrote: Clearly a context-sensitive TLA. On 26 Jan 2021, at 11:24, Frank Wimberly wrote: Three Mile Island, of course. - . -..-. . -. -.. -..-.

Re: [FRIAM] incitement

So textually analyze "will no one rid me of this turbulent priest "! Your last sentiment if widely held is scary indeed. Acquitting is being absolved of the crime.  As others have pointed out what would a

Re: [FRIAM] Biden beats Trump

BTW, I worry smiling Pompeo wasn't in denial he was predicting a 'smooth transition to a second term'. Meanwhile, PBS is showing the Rise of the Nazis see https://www.pbs.org/show/rise-nazis/. It took 4 years for the Nazis to destroy democracy. -Robert C On 11/11/20 4:11 PM, David Eric

[FRIAM] What if he refuses to concede?

You have to watch this Ted Talk if you don't know. It gets messy. https://youtu.be/WZWRhLW7Y8w -- Cirrillian Web Design & Development Santa Fe, NM http://cirrillian.com 281-989-6272 (cell) - . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom

Re: [FRIAM] election eve

FWIW and then similarly someone came up with: /*It's those with insight who must make the concessions*/. (which sucks). On "half the country is batshit crazy" - to be generous a big percentage of voters were struggling making a living or making ends meet, raising kids, making payments, etc.,

Re: [FRIAM] Trump as a victim

Trump is A Problem. The system that put him there is The Problem. It'll still be there after November regardless. RJC PS I read Mary Trump's book and felt sorry for him. That lasted about 10 seconds. R On 10/7/20 5:04 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: I think of him as a wounded hippo and I don't

Re: [FRIAM] flu versus COVID

All So... I have to suggest to the locals, see 350santafe.org , everyone else see 350.org for a local chapter. There's a lot of work to do and lots of skill and expertise required. Lurking Robert On 9/13/20 12:29 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: Dave

[FRIAM] Babel was Re: OK. That's funny.

So I visited the Library of Babel site. Fascinating and potentially a productivity sink for the rest of the day for FRIAM types. Searching coherent English phrases, such as that last sentence, successfully found ~10^29 possible exact matches. Now the statistics don't worry my so much as how

Re: [FRIAM] Economics 101?

within the family. N Nicholas Thompson Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology Clark University thompnicks...@gmail.com https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ -Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf Of Robert J. Cordingley Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 5:56 PM To: The Friday

[FRIAM] Economics 101?

Meanwhile, during this pandemic/economic crisis, where has all the money gone? The people laid off don't have it, their employers don't have, their laid off customers don't have it. Landlords and mortgage holders probably don't have it because their clients are not making the payments like

Re: [FRIAM] the end of the pandemic

Perhaps some data (from the last years that I could find) would put the 'anthropologists' argument in perspective? 2017-now US Population about 320 million. *US Suicides* *2017* 14.0 per 100,000 Total: *47,173* *US Motor Vehicle Fatalities* *2018* 11.18 per 100,000 Total:

Re: [FRIAM] Five Predictions as Cities Learn to Address Wireless Health Risks

re: RFR exposure: Did anyone notice in the linked paper that the control rats probability of survival was lower than the exposed rats? /At the end of the 2-year study, survival was lower in the control group of

Re: [FRIAM] Whew!

. *From:*Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Robert J. Cordingley *Sent:* Sunday, May 07, 2017 1:50 PM *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Whew! Taxes bypassed? Probably not so. See https://www.abqjourn

Re: [FRIAM] Whew!

Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Whew! Ya gotta love the City Different: Inline image 1 The small print: Inline image 2 On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 11:37 AM, Robert J. Cordingley <rob...@cirrillian.com <mailto:rob...@cirrillian.com>>

Re: [FRIAM] Whew!

Let me throw some things into this mix Some estimates (SFNewMexican ) suggest in total over $3.12 million was spent by both sides on the campaign

Re: [FRIAM] re-use achieved!

I wonder how much of today's success is a result of advances in onboard computing power and advanced sensor and control technologies. I'd imagine a big chunk. Any suggestions? Thanks, Robert C On 3/30/17 8:20 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: Wow. Just Wow. First second flight. Ever. EVER! On Thu,

Re: [FRIAM] Dumb Experiment

May be you saw this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmINGWsyWX0 Enjoy, Robert On 3/24/17 9:49 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: Me: OK Google, speak to Alexa Google: Alexa, will you be my friend? Alexa: Sure, I'm always happy to make new friends. They must have anticipated that someone would try

[FRIAM] Broadband in NM

Does anyone local have any ideas/insight why the NM governor vetoed the LOCAL GOV'T BROADBAND INFRASTRUCTURE SB24 bill? Sour grapes? See http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=d1faf3c75d2ac5da75ced6dd5=130117cfbe=0bf456e615 "The bill passed the Senate by a vote of 37-1 and passed

[FRIAM] Blockchain Questions

From The Verge* with my emphases; 'Like blockchain technologies, this information will be *write-only*...' - funny! 'Blockchain entities like Bitcoin are distributed among lots of different players require a lot of power (computing and literal) to compile and check — *as much as a small

Re: [FRIAM] Fractals/Chaos/Manifolds

In one German dictionary I found /mannigfaltigkeit/ translates to /variousness/ which seems pretty obtuse but indicates it may have less to do with the original entymology of /manifold/ (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/manifold Entymology 1). Per Dean's pdf, perhaps it's a made up usage

[FRIAM] Fractals/Chaos/Manifolds

OK, why are mathematical manifolds called that? It seems such a weird and out of place term. I've tried to find out without success. Robert C -- Cirrillian Web Design & Development Santa Fe, NM http://cirrillian.com 281-989-6272 (cell) Member Design Corps of Santa Fe

Re: [FRIAM] Naïve physics question

Seems like from a thermodynamics question you can first think of having two identical systems with identical energy inputs. Unless one of the systems is capable of storing energy in some form differently from the other the equilibrium temperatures should be the same. Now CFBs emit more of the

Re: [FRIAM] on the obustness of globalism

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." - possibly paraphrased from a 1935 Sinclair Lewis novel. On 2/2/17 11:23 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: *“*Where are our shared values?” Once imposed, they will be our shared values.

Re: [FRIAM] AI advance

So once AI machines are allowed to start designing themselves with at least the goal for increasing performance, how long have we got? (It doesn't matter whether we (ie the US) allow that or some other resourceful, perhaps military, organization does it.) Didn't Hawking fear runaway AI as a

Re: [FRIAM] AI advance

You can find go players in Santa Fe, NM by visiting the http://santafegoclub.org website and attending their meets and any teaching sessions. For other places see the AGA at http://usgo.org or the EGF at http://www.eurogofed.org/ AlphaGo went on to beet Korean top player Lee Seedol 4-1 in

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

The Washington Post has an interesting essay from a Venezuelan on what to do and mostly what not to do. https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/01/27/in-venezuela-we-couldnt-stop-chavez-dont-make-the-same-mistakes-we-did Robert C On 1/28/17 11:21 AM, Nick Thompson wrote: Ok

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

Aren't you now talking about different reasoning models/tasks: Classification Diagnosis Hypothetical Reasoning Bayesian Fuzzy logic etc. On the other hand I've always felt the medical community named too many diseases and conditions after their symptoms usually in a hi-falutin format rather

Re: [FRIAM] The year ahead

“Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.” ― Aristotle, The Philosophy of Aristotle and from Psychology Today a build and an argument to get control of the media too: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-power-rest/201303/give-us-kid-till-shes-7-and-well-have-her-life

Re: [FRIAM] scraping a web site

Hi Glen So I'm curious, what tools did you use to do Nick's migration? Thanks, Robert On 1/4/17 10:28 AM, glen ep ropella wrote: Hey Nick, I went ahead and downloaded your page(s) and put it up here: http://agent-based-modeling.com/ntnd/nickthompson/naturaldesigns/index.html Let me

Re: [FRIAM] scraping a web site

Hi Nick Your old Earthlink site seems to comprise just about ten 'pages' of content, with many of those pages (Published Works) listing many bibliographic citations, each with a link to an image and further link to a pdf document. Grabbing all the content manually is perhaps tedious but

Re: [FRIAM] Model of induction

in reasoning. All best, Eric On Dec 12, 2016, at 12:44 PM, Robert J. Cordingley <rob...@cirrillian.com> wrote: Based on https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce/#dia - it looks like abduction (AAA-2) to me - ie developing an educated guess as to which might be the winning wheel. Enough funds

Re: [FRIAM] Model of induction

Based on https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce/#dia - it looks like abduction (AAA-2) to me - ie developing an educated guess as to which might be the winning wheel. Enough funds should find it with some degree of certainty but that may be a different question and should use different

Re: [FRIAM] Window Blinds

to your repair kit ? Joe On 7/17/16 10:10 PM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote: Hi Owen We have some kind of honeycomb blinds from Coronado too - there's one 'cell' that extends across the full width. We have no reason not to recommend Coronado, they came out to measure and everything fits great

Re: [FRIAM] Window Blinds

Hi Owen We have some kind of honeycomb blinds from Coronado too - there's one 'cell' that extends across the full width. We have no reason not to recommend Coronado, they came out to measure and everything fits great. I have my own repair kit to replace broken cords - bought online. It's

Re: [FRIAM] Understanding you-folks

My question is then what do Analog Computers do and how do they fit into Nick's exploration? As I recall they have no procedures but do produce 'answers' without computation as we commonly know it these days. They probably have an 'accept state'

[FRIAM] [ SPAM ] Re: Anyone from England

From an ol-ex-pat... I listened to BBC World Service live on my iPhone app with mounting surprise as the returns showed the Leave solidifying their gains. I agree Cameron gambled and lost. I can sympathize with some resentment towards the 'faceless' bureaucrats in Brussels making fine-grained

[FRIAM] [ SPAM ] Re: Here's to the 1%!

Seems the question revolves around societies' morals. Jesse Prinz (a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York) writing in Philosophy Now suggests that societies do not converge

Re: [FRIAM] go programs

Access, for a fee, to the original Jan, 2016 Nature article on AlpahGo is at http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v529/n7587/full/nature16961.html. The freely available abstract says it uses deep neural networks ('value networks' and 'policy networks'), tree search and Monte Carlo algorithms.

Re: [FRIAM] go programs

There were stories during the expert systems episode in the 80's that some experts when debriefed in an attempt to identify their rules went on to lose faith in their own expertise and to resign from the field. Other anecdotes talked about how some experts weren't capable of expressing their

Re: [FRIAM] go programs

ot;. FYI the final match 5 is on Monday Mar 14 9:00 pm Mountain Time - Tuesday Mar 15 04:00 GMT Robert C On 3/13/16 9:03 AM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote: Here's the link for match 4 (of 5) that AlphaGo resigned. Score now stands at 3:1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCALyQRN3hw Post m

Re: [FRIAM] go programs

Here's the link for match 4 (of 5) that AlphaGo resigned. Score now stands at 3:1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCALyQRN3hw Post match press conference starts around 5:45:10 - a big news event in Korea. Robert C On 3/13/16 8:00 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: I've been watching parts of the

Re: [FRIAM] Hosting Service

Hi Owen, Most hosting companies will offer a VPS which will give you total control of the *nix platform. Costs more but you can install whatever you want including your own versions of PHP and MySQL for example. Shared hosting accounts don't allow that but suspect you know this. Here's a

Re: [FRIAM] Amphibians of Colorado - Reptiles and Amphibians of Colorado

A correction: Wix, Weebly, Jimdo, IM Creator do have free plans see the comparison chart at http://www.websitebuilderexpert.com/website-builders-comparison-chart/ Thanks Robert On 9/11/15 12:14 PM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote: To build on Gary's suggestions there's a review of DIY Websites

Re: [FRIAM] Amphibians of Colorado - Reptiles and Amphibians of Colorado

To build on Gary's suggestions there's a review of DIY Websites at http://www.websitebuilderexpert.com/diy-website-builder/. Comparisons from September 4 this year include Wix, Squarespace, Weebly, Jindo, GoDaddy and IM Creator, but none are free. WordPress.com is free

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Amphibians of Colorado - Reptiles and Amphibians of Colorado

At the risk of perhaps stating the obvious, WordPress.com (which hosts sites with some limitations) is different from wordpress.org which provides documentation, resources and know how primarily for developers to host their own WordPress site with no limitations and with access to the core

Re: [FRIAM] Greek Crisis Philosophy

It used to bug my British parents that Germany's factories got rebuilt out of the Marshall Plan deal while Britain's, that were also heavily bombed, didn't. Think of the impact that must have had on the economic competitiveness of the two countries for a long time. However, as a means to

[FRIAM] Greek Crisis Philosophy

As part of my continuing search for understanding how the world works and the role of philosophy... 1st question: It's been pointed out in a recent Washington Post article

Re: [FRIAM] A New Society for the Study of Cultural Evolution

The 2014 Annual Report names names for the Board of Directors See https://evolution-institute.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/NP_EI_2014_AnnualReport_web-printout.pdf Robert C On 6/29/15 10:43 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: is this a U.S. based organization -- hard to know since they hide their

Re: [FRIAM] The Attack on Truth - The Chronicle of Higher Education

It has been suggested https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age that stifling of independent reasoning (aka willful ignorance) contributed to the end of the Islamic Golden Age. I've seen other references calling it a rise in anti-rationalism. Western civilization may be heading the

Re: [FRIAM] Euclid

on an otherwise relatively difficult subject. Robert C On 2/27/15 2:54 PM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote: A new but possibly entertaining productivity sink? http://euclidthegame.com Robert C FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets

[FRIAM] Euclid

A new but possibly entertaining productivity sink? http://euclidthegame.com Robert C FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe

Re: [FRIAM] FRIAM Field Trip?

Hmm... * to get an appreciation of the macro and micro cultures of American militarism of the period * to marvel at the engineering accomplishments * /Fifi/ is the last B-29 on active flying status* and that can't last forever * a fascination with warcraft but of course that's not

Re: [FRIAM] Smart Forums

With the Apple/IBM recent announcement http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/07/23/what-does-the-apple-partnership-with-ibm-mean-for.aspx Watson on your iPhone is looking distinctly possible - from Aug 28, 2012:

Re: [FRIAM] Smart Forums

I think a forum is a sub-optimal (i.e. terrible) means of delivering technical support. At best it might be a linked list (thread) of emails submitted by participants with a heavy dose of anecdotal evidence and occasional contributions and responses from the vendor. Searching a forum for a

[FRIAM] Smart Forums

Recent experiences with software support and the forums that vendors use leave much to be desired. Primary problems seem to be: poor signal to noise ratios, ineffective search navigation tools and no meaningful structures. Looks like it's an AI problem or perhaps specifically even a problem

Re: [FRIAM] How to reduce the influence of money in US politics!

Correction - typo: it was $349,190. Math was still ok - I think. R On 7/4/14 4:20 PM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote: Based on Owen's number at 3:48 pm when I received the email and just now at 4:12 pm when it was $340,190 to go, seems like folks are pledging at the rate of about $106,765/hr which

[FRIAM] Done! Re: How to reduce the influence of money in US politics!

It is done! Somewhen around 7:30pm. Now at $5,018,512 Thanks Robert C On 7/4/14 6:19 PM, Steve Smith wrote: I see they accept bitcoin... I wonder if there is any stats on how many people are paying *with* bitcoin? Hi By my calcs, over the past hour or so folks are pledging at the rate of

Re: [FRIAM] How to reduce the influence of money in US politics!

politics? (95% of US population agree its got out of hand.) Please share what you can and what S.T.E.M. skills are being used. Possibly, there are others here who can help with such initiatives. Robert C On 7/2/14 9:35 AM, glen wrote: On 07/01/2014 09:22 PM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote: Dare I say

Re: [FRIAM] How to reduce the influence of money in US politics!

the economy (//2 pages)//: ssrn.com/abstract=1977688 http://ssrn.com/abstract=1977688./ /_/** On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Robert J. Cordingley rob...@cirrillian.com mailto:rob...@cirrillian.com wrote: For US Citizens

Re: [FRIAM] How to reduce the influence of money in US politics!

Dare I say, as expected, offered an opportunity to actual do something, many (the 91%?) keep explaining (debate back and forth) why one should do nothing. With all the talent and expertise on this list, surely someone could help Larry Lessig succeed with his campaign? It's

[FRIAM] How to reduce the influence of money in US politics!

For US Citizens and Residents on this list, this might be of interest - a super pac to beat all other super pacs! I pledged. Thanks Robert C FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College

Re: [FRIAM] student loans

Some (US) people on this list with 'kids' (or may be even grandkids) might find this a worthy cause. I signed a petition to The United States Senate which says: Last year Congress lowered interest rates for new student loans, but didn't help people stuck with older student loans at 6, 8, even

[FRIAM] Fwd: Kiss the internet goodbye?

For others in this group that don't receive these notices and might have an interest in supporting MoveOn in this effort see below. Thanks Robert C Original Message Subject:Kiss the internet goodbye? Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 13:54:35 -0700 From: Maria Tchijov,

Re: [FRIAM] SEO

You can talk to the folks at WESST in Albuquerque and study their materials at: http://www.wesst.org/business-toolkit/free-seo-tools/ and check out their consulting services at: http://www.wesst.org/services/search-engine-optimization/ tho' they may not work with out of state

Re: [FRIAM] More on Spam

Nick You could try talking to Earthlink.net (See Support Get Live Help now). May be you saw this page: http://support.earthlink.net/articles/email/e-mail-abuse.php##1 that might be helpful Robert C On 3/6/14 12:17 PM, Nick Thompson wrote: Barry, and others, Thanks, everybody, for taking

[FRIAM] English Spelling was Re: QRE: Spelling of Spanish Surnames

For more research into the origins of the Twain piece see The English Spelling Society; http://www.spellingsociety.org/journals/j31/satires.php and review the irregularities http://www.spellingsociety.org/spelling/irregularities Nick might like to join them

Re: [FRIAM] WhatsApp ... Death of SMS?

So much technology for so much trivial and superficial purposes ... as similarly and amply portrayed (perhaps unintentionally) on Generation Like http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/generation-like/ (PBS Frontline 2) ... it's all about ads. Robert C On 2/22/14 1:33 PM, Owen Densmore

Re: [FRIAM] Fascism?

from George Orwell. I think totalitarianism is the more general term, Hannah Arendt wrote a book about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism -J. Sent from Android Original message From Robert J. Cordingley rob...@cirrillian.com Date: 15/01/2014 20:39 (GMT+01:00

Re: [FRIAM] Amazon Patents “Anticipatory” Shipping — To Start Sending Stuff Before You’ve Bought It | TechCrunch

This looks awfully like the traditional model of shipping from a warehouse to a local store/cache with it's own delivery service. The local store/cache carries oft purchased items in its market while less common orders will be back ordered. May be I'm missing something. Patent denied!

Re: [FRIAM] Fascism?

In 1944 George Orwell wrote What is Fascism http://orwell.ru/library/articles/As_I_Please/english/efasc . Has anything really changed - tho' the bit about Catholics seems a tad harsh? On 1/15/14 10:17 AM, glen wrote: On 01/14/2014 07:45 PM, Steve Smith wrote: Berkeley, the center of

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] Net neutrality?

I don't know. Suppose ATT, Verizon etc get into the travel business*. How easy do you suppose it would be to access Expedia*? The current issue appears to be about whether the FCC has jurisdiction over setting the rules for net neutrality. Let's hope they get/claim it back so that big media

Re: [FRIAM] used car advice?

You could try Automotive Resources (http://arsantafeautorepair.com/). They used to be and may be still are the only AAA certified autoservice shop in Santa Fe. I'm not sure what or if they'd charge for any second opinion. Thanks Robert On 1/11/14 12:47 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote: Yet

Re: [FRIAM] right vs left

I think this works for awhile but since it's a positive feedback system (making the rules gets you more gold) it eventually breaks or has to be intervened. So when the revolution comes we know who will be first against the wall/sent to the guillotine/sent packing. Following an undetermined

[FRIAM] Android Phone Testing

I'd like to test/access websites on an Android phone over my own wifi (Airport Extreme). I don't need a dataplan nor phone service for it. Does anyone have any good suggestions for an economical option and are there any technical issues? Thanks Robert C

Re: [FRIAM] Android Phone Testing

, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Robert J. Cordingley rob...@cirrillian.com mailto:rob...@cirrillian.com wrote: I'd like to test/access websites on an Android phone over my own wifi (Airport Extreme). I don't need a dataplan nor phone service for it. Does anyone have any good suggestions

Re: [FRIAM] weather meditation tool

Click on 'earth' for controls/options and about. You probably found this already. Robert C On 1/2/14 10:18 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: Wow. What exactly is that? Isobars or Wind for the planet played for the last hour or so? On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Roger Critchlow r...@elf.org

Re: [FRIAM] Firefox updates

FWIW I'm now on v26 with no problems, but I don't access Gmail (tested ok today) or eBay with it. Robert C +Mac OSX 10.8.5 On 12/11/13 10:56 AM, Gillian Densmore wrote: Greetings fellow technomancers, The tittle is incomplete: I don't know if this has happend to anyone else: after Firefox

Re: [FRIAM] Corporate responsibility wrt health insurance

IMHO. You would presumably be doing business as a sole proprietor and not as a corporation and would hire them as independent contractors, then I think the answer is no, because their contract will bestow no employment benefits. But I am not an attorney, so I'd consult my local friendly

Re: [FRIAM] Corporate responsibility wrt health insurance

to you, whether or not you've incorporated. On 12/06/2013 06:34 AM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote: IMHO. You would presumably be doing business as a sole proprietor and not as a corporation and would hire them as independent contractors, then I think the answer is no, because their contract will bestow

Re: [FRIAM] Most Distant Galaxy - What's wrong with this statement?

calculated by multiplying the speed of light by the age of the universe. These details are a frequent source of confusion among amateurs and even professional physicists. -- rec -- On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Robert J. Cordingley rob...@cirrillian.com mailto:rob...@cirrillian.com wrote

Re: [FRIAM] Most Distant Galaxy - What's wrong with this statement?

of the universe. These details are a frequent source of confusion among amateurs and even professional physicists. -- rec -- On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Robert J. Cordingley rob...@cirrillian.com mailto:rob...@cirrillian.com wrote: Regardless of the poetic 'outer edges' is it possible

Re: [FRIAM] Most Distant Galaxy - What's wrong with this statement?

of confusion among amateurs and even professional physicists. -- rec -- On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Robert J. Cordingley rob...@cirrillian.com mailto:rob...@cirrillian.com wrote: Regardless of the poetic 'outer edges' is it possible what might be meant is in the context

[FRIAM] Most Distant Galaxy - What's wrong with this statement?

From the BBC at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24637890 (today) /Because it takes light so long to travel from the outer edge of the Universe to us, the galaxy appears as it was 13.1 billion years ago (its distance from Earth of 30 billion light-years is because the Universe is

Re: [FRIAM] Most Distant Galaxy - What's wrong with this statement?

Regardless of the poetic 'outer edges' is it possible what might be meant is in the context of a hyperspherical universe where the radius is time and is 13.5 by? The center being when the big bang occurred. Then the furthest object would be diametrically opposite and hypercircumferentially

Re: [FRIAM] This is a Real War: Samsung pays Apple $1 Billion Sending 30 Trucks Full of 5 Cent Coins | TCGeeks

This is worth watching again: http://www.ted.com/talks/drew_curtis_how_i_beat_a_patent_troll.html Thanks Robert C On 7/9/13 12:34 PM, Barry MacKichan wrote: The killer with software patents is that to contest a patent infringement suit is at least a $1 million. That means that trolls can sue

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] JavaScript GUI Libraries

talking to a MySQL server. Nothing wrong with that, maybe I'll even consider it when I grow up :-) ;; Gary On Jul 1, 2013, at 11:20 PM, Robert J. Cordingley rob...@cirrillian.com wrote: Then you might consider who's going to maintain it when your not available and what level of skill may

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] JavaScript GUI Libraries

Then you might consider who's going to maintain it when your not available and what level of skill may be needed. Esoteric and cool is... well esoteric and cool. Pragmatic and well worn and well known might lead you to consider more mundane but well used tools especially on the server side

Re: [FRIAM] Obama on NSA Surveillance

And then from May 15 Google's added PHP runtime to their App Engine: http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/15/google-opens-up-powerful-aws-competitor-compute-engine-to-all/ How horrifying is that? Robert C On 6/18/13 2:52 PM, Gary Schiltz wrote: It does seem that the internet ecosystem is settling

Re: [FRIAM] API alternative?

What about doorway? Some doors are easily opened, some require a key, some open up to a new world. Depending on the audience (the suggestions was it was for lay people) the allegories may work quite well. Robert C On 5/10/13 11:55 PM, Saul Caganoff wrote: I prefer the term service as in

Re: [FRIAM] the Engineering deck on the Enterprise..

Apparently it's more than a resemblance... http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/star-trek-boldly-goes-unlikely-real-life-locations-153158175.html (paras 5/6) Thanks Robert On 5/18/13 7:16 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: Hi, If you're prone to attending Star Trek movies, note how this

Re: [FRIAM] Web meets Print

Hey Marcus Thanks for the pointers which I will look at closely. So far, they indicate to me that this is not a trivial task! Robert C On 5/11/13 9:30 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: On 5/11/13 9:22 AM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote: I want to server-side generate a report from a database

[FRIAM] Web meets Print

There seem to be frustratingly few resources and tools to help with what seems like a relatively simple and common word processing need. I want to server-side generate a report from a database, automatically paginate it and prepare a table of contents ready for printing. I'm scripting in PHP

[FRIAM] Splitting? was Re: How do forces work?

Some (semi-serious) suggestions around how to split the list (use subgroups): Philosophy Physics of Quanta and the Continuum Phunny stuff Phuture trends in sociology/crowd sourcing/etc. Sophtware oh and... Complexity and ABM Seems neither Mailman (the current listserv) nor Google Groups

[FRIAM] PHPLint

Quick question... Does anyone have any experience/success compiling and running PHPLint http://www.icosaedro.it/phplint/index.html on Mac OSX (Mountain Lion)? Are there alternatives? Thanks Robert C FRIAM Applied Complexity Group

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: 7 Billion World - 7 billion people on 1 page

How do I find which one is me! Robert C (snicker) On 4/14/13 9:04 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: From Twitter by David Brin, retweeted by Lessig: http://www.7billionworld.com/ .. Don't forget the page scrolls both directions! Nice way to get an idea just how big a billion is! -- Owen

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: 7 Billion World - 7 billion people on 1 page

Oh wait, I'm the one with the red tie on holding hands with the guy with a blue tie on. What number am I? Robert C On 4/14/13 9:17 AM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote: How do I find which one is me! Robert C (snicker) On 4/14/13 9:04 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: From Twitter by David Brin, retweeted

Re: [FRIAM] Cloud storage

So has anyone successfully restored an entire system from the Cloud (or a Time Machine come to think of it)? How easy was it? Any statistics on success rate? Some TM instructions require 'your original Mac OS 10.5 Leopard DVD' but I upgraded to Mountain Lion on line and have no

Re: [FRIAM] just the facts

So how do we fund/organize an education system *for all* that teaches critical thinking skills (if it's possible)? Especially when faced with such phenomenon (from July 2012) as described in

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