Re: [FRIAM] looking for a word

2018-08-27 Thread Vladimyr
preoccupied lately and my attendance has suffered. My apologies. Vladimyr From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Steven A Smith Sent: August-24-18 11:52 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] looking for a word Vladimyr - Good

Re: [FRIAM] looking for a word

2018-08-22 Thread Vladimyr
exchange system reduces the difference in gradients i.e. gases, heat flow. Rete Mirable , the miraculous network that was first discovered in Tuna used to keep the blood warm. There are many such systems in the human body. vladimyr -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun

Re: [FRIAM] What are the scenarios? Game theory?

2017-08-10 Thread Vladimyr
The US can always do nothing considering its awesome power. Wiping out a nation or two seems would cause the greatest global shame for everyone. Should America use unimaginable power to subdue a noxious mosquito? The compulsion to use such power is frightening. North Korea has no

Re: [FRIAM] the role of metaphor in scientific thought

2017-07-20 Thread Vladimyr
Strange idea that networks can be stitched together to create something larger as a plaything... Vladimyr -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ? Sent: July-20-17 11:10 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re

Re: [FRIAM] the role of metaphor in scientific thought

2017-07-19 Thread Vladimyr
as possible, avoiding Python or Anaconda's. inSilico Ecology as an idea has startling possibilities. Energy flow will make that possible I think. But just where do I start...Hmmm vladimyr -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ? Sent: July-19-17 11

Re: [FRIAM] the role of metaphor in scientific thought

2017-07-18 Thread Vladimyr
. But will have to wait out my current physical inconvenience. I hope Nick found something useful on his quest. Vladimyr -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ? Sent: July-18-17 5:28 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group

Re: [FRIAM] the role of metaphor in scientific thought

2017-07-17 Thread Vladimyr
could just as easily work with a section of a millipede or a wind turbine. This thread should be maintained even though it seems to be rather dormant. I am well aware that my offer also hides self interest but we can discuss that after this heat passes. vladimyr From: Friam [mailto:friam

Re: [FRIAM] the role of metaphor in scientific thought

2017-07-17 Thread Vladimyr
as open material on the web. I am sure that many of you can help guide/assemble such a work, Well its not like building an building an Alaska Highway vladimyr From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Nick Thompson Sent: June-23-17 4:31 PM To: 'The Friday

Re: [FRIAM] Janus colloids

2017-07-10 Thread Vladimyr
to be a lot of fire within the Complexity Smoke lately from odd locations. vladimyr -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ep ropella Sent: July-10-17 3:58 PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: [FRIAM] Janus colloids Spontaneous system follows rules

Re: [FRIAM] the role of metaphor in scientific thought

2017-06-25 Thread Vladimyr
. The simplex concept should help answer how birds learn songs . Can a group of neurons become a reference tutor to detect errors… Vladimyr From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Nick Thompson Sent: June-23-17 4:31 PM To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity

Re: [FRIAM] the role of metaphor in scientific thought

2017-06-24 Thread Vladimyr
infuriating layers may well be each some kind of container projections/boundaries out side of x,y, and z. Perhaps this is all a child’s plaything… vladimyr Tom-- Fine, informative article. One cohesive view of the evolution of mathematical thought might be: 1. Geometry/ number

Re: [FRIAM] More food for thought: Is There a Multidimensional Mathematical World Hidden in the Brain’s Computation?

2017-06-24 Thread Vladimyr
Tom Johnson; Thank- you I felt dumbstruck when I finished reading… That only reassured me. Awesome is this news, in the original sense, like a kick to the head. .vladimyr From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Tom Johnson Sent: June-24-17 1:01 PM To: Friam

Re: [FRIAM] the role of metaphor in scientific thought

2017-06-24 Thread Vladimyr
training. He was pleasant enough but tutoring is not something I am likely to resume. Soon I expect to see the Grim Reaper and have to apologize for avoiding him all these years. Vladimyr perhaps the writing of computer code engages all faculties at once. From: Friam [mailto:friam

Re: [FRIAM] the role of metaphor in scientific thought

2017-06-23 Thread Vladimyr
guarded, it, delusion/metaphor, still is useful. You guys are marvellous, i wish we could meet. But reality does not always provide convenient stage trap doors. Vladimyr -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of ?glen? Sent: June-23-17 10:13 AM

Re: [FRIAM] the role of metaphor in scientific thought

2017-06-23 Thread Vladimyr
drive us elsewhere. So lets wrap this up before anyone utters “… moving forward…” >From the old days,”…put a stake through its heart before we leave or it will >rise again…” Nail this devil to something firm. vladimyr From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of

Re: [FRIAM] IS: Does Complexity have a circularity problem WAS: Any non-biological complex systems?

2017-06-09 Thread Vladimyr
I think I will have to think a little (lot) more about your description of your stack of rectangular matrices, self-avoiding walks and Hamiltonian/Eulerian (processes?). I will attempt to parse more of this and respond under separate cover. Referencing your (imaginary) namesake, I am feeling mildl

Re: [FRIAM] IS: Does Complexity have a circularity problem WAS: Any non-biological complex systems?

2017-06-09 Thread Vladimyr
So that's good. 8^) On 06/09/2017 11:54 AM, Nick Thompson wrote: > But wait a minute! Holding a side the mathematical meaning of model for a > minute, what is the difference between a model and a metaphor? I recently made an ass of myself arguing this very point with Vladimyr and

Re: [FRIAM] the arc of socioeconomics, personal and public: was VPN server

2017-04-25 Thread Vladimyr
rom: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels Sent: April-24-17 5:27 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] the arc of socioeconomics, personal and public: was VPN server Vladimyr writes: "If the referents are robustly entrench

Re: [FRIAM] the arc of socioeconomics, personal and public: was VPN server

2017-04-24 Thread Vladimyr
>Marcus wrote " Others are just involved in collective performance art in the hopes of pushing their citation count higher." They profit since so many are seduced by crappy graphics. My last academic supervisor was one of these characters. But knowing that I finally completed my sentence in

Re: [FRIAM] the arc of socioeconomics, personal and public: was VPN server

2017-04-22 Thread Vladimyr
huge term that covers almost everything under the sun, "model" _does_ at least require a referent. A purely imaginary construct has no referent. It is purely imaginary. So not just any old brain fart can be called a "mental model". And whatever you and Vladimyr mean by "

Re: [FRIAM] the arc of socioeconomics, personal and public: was VPN server

2017-04-21 Thread Vladimyr
Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] the arc of socioeconomics, personal and public: was VPN server On 04/20/2017 09:45 PM, Vladimyr wrote: > "If you don't know how to measure it, then you don't know how to model it." > > That statement has the feel of circularity

Re: [FRIAM] the arc of socioeconomics, personal and public: was VPN server

2017-04-20 Thread Vladimyr
04/19/2017 04:10 PM, Vladimyr wrote: > I don't know of any measuring device that operates in these realms. Exactly. If you don't know how to measure it, then you don't know how to model it. > You might be able to help with one of my issues,... How to make one object > talk to anoth

Re: [FRIAM] the arc of socioeconomics, personal and public: was VPN server

2017-04-19 Thread Vladimyr
ngineering but not the long range sensing... vib -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ? Sent: April-19-17 4:22 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] the arc of socioeconomics, personal and public: was V

Re: [FRIAM] the arc of socioeconomics, personal and public: was VPN server

2017-04-18 Thread Vladimyr
with the special sciences like biology, parsimony can be as much a bane as a boon. To unjustifiably impute simplicity can defeat the search for solutions. On 04/17/2017 04:41 PM, Vladimyr wrote: > Your models are so sophisticated that I barely grasp their intricacies. > I only offered a sugg

Re: [FRIAM] the arc of socioeconomics, personal and public: was VPN server

2017-04-17 Thread Vladimyr
7 04:36 PM, Vladimyr wrote: > Create Agents that only behave honestly when they think they are under > observation. > When they think they have been detected they will weave a > rationalization out of standard clichés, that appears as if they were honest > but mistaken due to ambiguity o

Re: [FRIAM] the arc of socioeconomics, personal and public: was VPN server

2017-04-14 Thread Vladimyr
Glen, Try something else... Create Agents that only behave honestly when they think they are under observation. When they think they have been detected they will weave a rationalization out of standard clichés, that appears as if they were honest but mistaken due to ambiguity of language.

Re: [FRIAM] organizations

2017-03-22 Thread Vladimyr
<http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Vladimyr Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 6:21 PM To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <friam@re

Re: [FRIAM] organizations

2017-03-22 Thread Vladimyr
probably be arrested for felony abuse of an animal, perhaps with justification. Thank you for your indulgence. Frank Frank Wimberly Phone (505) 670-9918 On Mar 21, 2017 8:47 PM, "Vladimyr" <vbur...@shaw.ca> wrote: Marcus hit it on the head but the only detect

Re: [FRIAM] organizations

2017-03-22 Thread Vladimyr
Marcus, That sounds preferable to Trapping the little devil. They get really mean if you get in their way. So clearly a little tactful negotiation is preferable , as I recall my advisor at that time flipped a coin to determine who would have to approach the cage trap and release him. I

Re: [FRIAM] organizations

2017-03-21 Thread Vladimyr
Marcus hit it on the head but the only detectable difference is that one structure is deluded by hypocrisy and the other is stripped down naked. Both stink up the air. But the gullible facilitate our problem on both sides of the northern border. If anyone even suggests a northern wall send

Re: [FRIAM] Questions, rants and Raves...

2017-03-05 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
Gillian, I recently started to use Processing 3.0.2 but not js only .pde as from Processing.org. The download was free and a little quirky to set up but seems to work and you can download working source code from Open Processing. Much that gets you up to speed quickly. I did notice some

Re: [FRIAM] IS: Rhetoric in scientific arguments WAS: FW: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs

2017-03-03 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
Glen , I had a favorite student once that I favored and explained this business like selling fast- food... Give the managers and accountants what they want. vib Is that with or without mayo sir? -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ? Sent:

Re: [FRIAM] IS: Rhetoric in scientific arguments WAS: FW: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs

2017-03-02 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
Eric, I doubt an idea before I ever apply for a grant. Then I deceptively claim to be trying to replicate an authorities claims. But the devil within me recalls that at least once maybe more often , I have noticed that the authority’s prediction failed. That knowledge is my group’s secret

Re: [FRIAM] Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs

2017-02-28 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
I am attached to the thread’s name. It strikes me as so outlandish that it deserves attention. On the speculated history of song-birds was a recent paper suggesting most if not all songbirds appear to have had a singular ancestry from SE Asia or Australasia. If you seek to embellish the

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs

2017-02-25 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
brothers. Thanks, Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Vladimyr Burachynsky Sent: Friday, February

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs

2017-02-24 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
at events Robert Wall introduced a novel idea Flow affecting individuals. Vladimyr suggested that the description of Flow might be extended to Society or Social Groups. And that multiple low dimensional view points could recover higher dimensional realities. Glen strongly protests this assertion

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs

2017-02-23 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
Glen, I think Robert Wall is nudging close to an idea that he failed to adequately clarify but you may have nailed it while trying to deny it (this I call a backhanded strike). Last week there was a strange article about groups of people having the same memory that have no contact with each

Re: [FRIAM] Wow! He did Good!

2017-02-23 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
Well, maybe Sanfa Fe and Winnipeg could become sister cities and piss off both our federal governments. Your Mayor has balls. Maybe doing the right thing takes some special kind of courage. vib From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Nick Thompson Sent:

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs

2017-02-23 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
To the congregation, Oops, someone is watching…. I had Better pull up my trousers and get a shave Jeez, I was only running off at the mouth about getting into TensorFlow code. vib From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Jon Zingale Sent: February-23-17 12:29 PM

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs

2017-02-21 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
herence and internal consistency. It seems like some sort of rhetorical fallacy, perhaps the fallacy fallacy. Perhaps we can arrive at the truth in spite of completely flawed (e.g. self-inconsistent) representations? Even a broken clock (Trump) is right (a)periodically. On 02/21/2017 01:09 PM,

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs

2017-02-21 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
itute in his SA article From Complexity to Perplexity <http://www2.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/hogan.complexperplex.htm> . But, as Vladimyr muses, maybe this is the best we can do ... and symbolic reference is what nature served up for us to cope, concerning what we are perceiving. But,

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs

2017-02-21 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
a tesselation of the sphere's surface. I thought you intended a 3D irregular grid. Regardless, I certainly didn't notice the camera issue. I did notice an odd squashing of the earth textured sphere, though. On 02/20/2017 10:12 PM, Vladimyr Burachynsky wrote: > Glen, > > The Voronoi Me

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs

2017-02-20 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
using, matters less -- and can be more readily debugged. I.e. when we're looking at an ink blot, are we aware that the more prickly ones allow less ambiguity? On 02/15/2017 06:20 PM, Vladimyr Burachynsky wrote: > I have been mulling over the thread about Representation versus Dynamic

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs

2017-02-20 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
you and the transform you're using is _not_ the one you think you're using, matters less -- and can be more readily debugged. I.e. when we're looking at an ink blot, are we aware that the more prickly ones allow less ambiguity? On 02/15/2017 06:20 PM, Vladimyr Burachynsky wrote: > I have b

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs

2017-02-15 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
Nick or Glen, I have been mulling over the thread about Representation versus Dynamicism for a bit and the differences that language imposes whenever cross-disciplines attempt to converse. Today I was struggling with some code to create Voronoi Meshes nested within each other based on

Re: [FRIAM] Why depth/thickness matters

2017-02-15 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
I am an iconoclast as a consequence of trying to use statistical modelling during earlier stages of my life. zThese statistical models were generally very poor when applied to field work in animal distributions until someone accepted that truth and started admitting "clumpiness in

Re: [FRIAM] Why depth/thickness matters

2017-02-14 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
This iconoclast appreciates this thread simply because symbols are only approximations of reality constrained by our limited knowledge and language. The Fly Ball imagery is startlingly profound and played a major role in my own coding efforts. I never believed that our brains contained a

Re: [FRIAM] Theorore Spyropoulos's group on "Behavioral Complexity" at UCL

2017-02-12 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
Steve Guerin, Thanks so much, I think this is at least the second time someone from FRIAM sent me in the right direction. I loved this work and I am trying to compile many more examples, my site is sort off deranged currently. https://vimeo.com/55938597 https://vimeo.com/165006724

Re: [FRIAM] What does it mean to say that it will probably rain tomorrow?

2017-02-11 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
streets fishing for converts. I have travelled very far without weather reporters just making my own sky watch assumptions. Just look up. vib This world has too many idle control freaks trying to find levity by crying wolf to dumb villagers. Oh great, when you see Vladimyr wearing a hat you can

Re: [FRIAM] free will on the ten meter tower

2017-02-01 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
Thank you Roger Critchlow, The video shows people overcoming fear in a social setting. Which is in some way confirming the benefits of a society, But it also hints at the extremes some people are willing to go to escape fear. Perhaps those with the most fear are the most worrisome. vib

Re: [FRIAM] Globalism in the age of populism? .. & Open Source Software

2017-02-01 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
Pamela. Thank-you, but I rarely ever use the word pain and did not use it in my post. Some of us can endure more than others. The fear of pain seems to have also become more prevalent in the recent past. Now the fear of inconvenience or waiting in a line. Our fears have been trivialized or

Re: [FRIAM] Globalism in the age of populism? .. & Open Source Software

2017-01-31 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
The elites can not be accurately defined as a coherent group since the accusers are shooting in so many divergent directions. No more than a young child’s fear of the closet ghost, which can ever be used in a forensic investigation. There may not be elites but certainly there are many fearful

Re: [FRIAM] AI advance

2017-01-30 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
the M00se Dooderson has beat me every time we have played I think. Weak, weak, weak! But I do find it fascinating. - Steve On 1/30/17 8:07 PM, Vladimyr Burachynsky wrote: > To Joseph Spinden, > > The article is old and I wonder if you play the game. > I ran a Go club at th

Re: [FRIAM] AI advance

2017-01-30 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
To Joseph Spinden, The article is old and I wonder if you play the game. I ran a Go club at the University of Manitoba and can tell you strange stories about a time before Hassabis. I swear I never won a game in 5 years but I kept playing anyway. I guess I am bloody minded. Eventually I

Re: [FRIAM] Globalism in the age of populism? .. & Open Source Software

2017-01-30 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
? .. & Open Source Software On 01/27/2017 08:34 PM, Vladimyr Burachynsky wrote: > So I cause confusion only because I do not fit into any well > established classification system. I bring this up because my experience in > life defies most systems which you are attempting to tease

Re: [FRIAM] Globalism in the age of populism? .. & Open Source Software

2017-01-27 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Globalism in the age of populism? .. & Open Source Software Vladimyr writes: < So I cause confusion only because I do not fit into any well established classification system. I bring this up because my experience in life defies most systems which you are attempting t

Re: [FRIAM] Globalism in the age of populism? .. & Open Source Software

2017-01-27 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
To Glen and Marcus, Not so fast gentlemen. You managed to pull apart a few strands using tried assumptions. The Alpha is the most conspicuous personality type commonly encountered in smallish sample sizes, <10,000 individuals. Once when lounging about in the grad students lounge a group of

Re: [FRIAM] Nautilus: Investing Is More Luck Than Talent

2017-01-23 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
"Neoliberalism is simply the idea that any full exploration of the phenotype requires parallel processing." Well said, and that does not even include the "extended Phenotype" nor the much hairier and very fearsome," Genotypes". Since I am not a Neoliberal, but was proudly declared an enemy

Re: [FRIAM] Cold War Jitters Resurface as U.S. Marines Arrive in Norway - The New York Times

2017-01-18 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
The New York Times article seems to conflate geography like a party game, Twister. It starts in Norway switches to Sweden, Finland, Lithuania Kalingrad and keeps returning to fear and Russia. They should have provided a map to keep track of the game pieces. The Norwegians share an interest

Re: [FRIAM] Is the new president mentally ill?

2017-01-13 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
On 01/11/2017 03:34 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote: > Eric I believe you are wrong if you believe you can have a narcissistic > person on your site. A narcissist cares only for himself. The policy of Trump > boils down to "I'm great and you're not unless you are like me, myself and I, > you loser".

Re: [FRIAM] Trump, truth, and politics: Why do we still think Trump is acting with respect to the truth?

2017-01-04 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
I think I am responding to Eric Charles, It appears as you suggest rather trivial… Yet it does contain a rather startling component. Accusation This need not be based on truth it seems or context. Accusation by itself draws to itself Gullible believers that then they are encouraged to

Re: [FRIAM] Please Help. Was it a dream?

2016-12-10 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
Nick , Perhaps a nightmare? The intriguing aspect of what has happened worldwide, is that reaction is focused on the "Elites" An Italian Political Scientist suggested that the left and the right joined forces for the first time to stop Renzi's referendum just as in Britain.

Re: [FRIAM] Divided America

2016-12-06 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
/watch?v=7Q7DrtPZw5s How time flies… Admitting to both only leads to melancholy. So let’s all get thoroughly pissed, the reality will still be there when we wake up. I Hope someone prepares the coffee. That seems the basis for any social structure; bemused sympathy. vib Vladimyr Well

Re: [FRIAM] Divided America

2016-12-05 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
Vladimyr vib From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Nick Thompson Sent: December-05-16 11:34 AM To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Divided America Sorry, Vladimyr, My Bad. “the mother church” and “the diaspora

Re: [FRIAM] Divided America

2016-12-04 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
is that Trump will be impeached within 24 months. Vladimyr vib From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Jochen Fromm Sent: December-04-16 6:28 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: [FRIAM] Divided America In Europe people are shocked about

Re: [FRIAM] Stop Calling People "Low Information Voters" | Quillette

2016-12-01 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
To the Congregation, Canada has recently thrown out a crony conservative party replaced by a supposedly more moderate liberal party. But very recently we have become alarmed by their behavior, they presume to be speaking on the constituents behalf. We ask where those ideas came from in stunned

Re: [FRIAM] The Sign Game

2016-11-22 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
Nick, I hope this link is of some value. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161121165921.htm Vladimyr vib From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Nick Thompson Sent: November-18-16 3:19 PM To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' Subject: Re

Re: [FRIAM] The Sign Game

2016-11-18 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
finally reached freezing temps last night, but no snow, and soon the roads will be littered by accidents. The Geese are still here idly waiting, on golf courses, for the proper signs to travel the long journey south. Vladimyr From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com

Re: [FRIAM] Please I need help with a technical term

2016-11-17 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
University <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Vladimyr Burachynsky Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 11:32 PM To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity

Re: [FRIAM] Please I need help with a technical term

2016-11-16 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
pit and the Bavarian Watering Hole. From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Frank Wimberly Sent: November-16-16 8:00 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Please I need help with a technical term Vladimyr, Two of my closest

Re: [FRIAM] Please I need help with a technical term

2016-11-16 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
responds to an image that fits an optical pattern. It is rather timely that someone adds to this topic from a hard science position, bridge the divide so to speak. If you manage to reconcile so much literature it should be seen as a triumph. Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky vib names

Re: [FRIAM] Please I need help with a technical term

2016-11-11 Thread VLADIMYR BURACHYNSKY
Peck_Ground_Now is "Seeds" Birds peck for gravel to aid digestion in the crop. They have to replace the grinding stones regularly. So without grit they starve to death even when supplied with more than adequate g rain. Your interpretation of this particular symbol requires a modification.

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

2016-11-11 Thread VLADIMYR BURACHYNSKY
ass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing." On 11/10/2016 09:08 PM, VLADIMYR BURACHYNSKY wrote: > There seem to be many diverse combatants demanding that we align our minds to > facilitate their agendas or delusions. > >  Am I ,your enemy if I cho

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

2016-11-10 Thread VLADIMYR BURACHYNSKY
Gentlemen and ladies, There seem to be many diverse combatants demanding that we align our minds to facilitate their agendas or delusions.  Am I ,your enemy if I choose to think for myself. Why must I accept unwanted fear from pundits. It is very difficult to exist as an independent

Re: [FRIAM] speculative Q

2015-07-21 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
If the truth did matter there is very little evidence of it. Quite often a viewpoint from the empowered is sufficient. We seem to have done pretty well thinking the earth the center of the universe. Knowing the truth seemed to be reason enough to end up in the market square to be incinerated.

Re: [FRIAM] speculative Q

2015-07-15 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
Sometimes I wonder if our society may in fact be a collaboration of the criminal minded. The fact that it appears to promote civilization seems a convenient Cover-Up story. If money is the only incentive how can we distinguish corporation execs from drug lords or war lords. Even the courts

[FRIAM] WERE: DOH!

2015-07-06 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
Glen and others, We have all known for a long time that this is generally true about mankind. We are not supposed to speak about such truths. So we Keep inventing smart machines to avoid using people who can not be trusted. We may claim to be protecting the Children or symbols or something

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] RE: clinical diagnosis of [a]theism?

2015-02-01 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] RE: clinical diagnosis of [a]theism? On 01/29/2015 07:56 PM, Vladimyr Burachynsky wrote: I have the distinct awkward feeling that, while I write, there is no compelling evidence of my existence, only my utterings. Perhaps

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] RE: clinical diagnosis of [a]theism?

2015-01-29 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
To Glen or so it seems, I have the distinct awkward feeling that, while I write, there is no compelling evidence of my existence, only my utterings. Perhaps my hollow ringing echoes are sufficient to serve as my fake evidence, should I choose to perjure myself in a court. Is there such a beast

[FRIAM] [ SPAM ] RE: clinical diagnosis of [a]theism?

2015-01-27 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
To Marcus and Group, If there are multiple points of view of any event, which one of the many can be true, or are all true in some respect? If every view point is contaminated by default belief/delusion how can we decide which is true? Consensus or democracy seems appealing but it is a very

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] Re: academic fields whose practitioners believe ...

2015-01-16 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
Marcus or to Steve, Damn Good Call. If you would not have uttered such a comment I would not now have such a headache. The threads have become confusing with everyone cutting and pasting chunks with unclear attributions. ( could we get coloured highlights ?) You have the advantage of seeing

Re: [FRIAM] Slasdhot linked article RE; god

2015-01-08 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
This is becoming a shark feeding frenzy of Media demanding that I believe different versions of the demented beliefs. Which ever outlet I side with demands I become a believer. I am not Normal to begin with, otherwise I MIGHT actually take up arms and shoot at a target they suggest. Should I

Re: [FRIAM] Slasdhot linked article RE; god

2015-01-08 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
So... Delusions are very common and make up the bulk of frenetic Human Activity. Since so few know which Delusions may turn out to be falsifiable, they must resort to a dirty trick. They defend every delusion with denial: should the truth remain , they then resort to threat of violence and when

Re: [FRIAM] Does philosophy have a heuristic value

2014-11-04 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
To Roger and Nick, That idea has been on the backburner of Biology for 5 decades or more. The greatest problem in the 70’s and later was Statistics which tended to dismiss anything outside of a curve. It started after the second war when an unusual coincidence of scientific minds

Re: [FRIAM] vol 98, iss.25 psychology cont'd

2012-04-15 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
/againstconsensus.htm Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky PhD vbur...@shaw.ca 120-1053 Beaverhill Blvd. Winnipeg,Manitoba, R2J3R2 Canada (204) 2548321 Land From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Robert J. Cordingley Sent: April-12-12 2:05 PM

Re: [FRIAM] FW: See this?

2012-03-17 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
seems extremely upsetting to certain dogmatic positions. If you use Biology as a metaphor for Computer code you should be careful not to fixate on that aspect exclusively. Computer code may not be a suitable metaphor for describing Biology. Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky PhD vbur...@shaw.ca Sky Drive

Re: [FRIAM] YES YES YES and Hurrah

2012-02-11 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
letters. Apparently Cryptic equals Important for most people. What is wrong with our species to believe in such fairy tales? I curse St Augustine who claimed belief was greater than reason. Madness in Groups seems very fashionable lately. Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky PhD mailto:vbur

Re: [FRIAM] GlowScript 0.7

2012-02-08 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
long away. I admit being spoiled by Maple when it comes to the Matrices and Math Functions. Thank you for the consideration. Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky PhD vbur...@shaw.ca 120-1053 Beaverhill Blvd. Winnipeg,Manitoba, R2J3R2 Canada (204) 2548321 Land -Original Message- From: friam

Re: [FRIAM] Privacy in the workplace

2012-01-19 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
so by Avoiding distractions designed to prevent thinking. Body gestures also can result in Cognitive Overload. Perhaps this thread may be titled The Distracted Society Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky PhD mailto:vbur...@shaw.ca vbur...@shaw.ca S120-1053 Beaverhill Blvd. Winnipeg

Re: [FRIAM] 99%, occupyWallStreet, Santa Fe, etc.

2011-11-12 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
they will be quickly forgotten with some bribe, Loaves to the masses Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky PhD mailto:vbur...@shaw.ca vbur...@shaw.ca 120-1053 Beaverhill Blvd. Winnipeg,Manitoba, R2J3R2 Canada (204) 2548321 Land (204) 8016064 Cell From: friam-boun...@redfish.com

Re: [FRIAM] 99%, occupyWallStreet, Santa Fe, etc.

2011-11-11 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
leadership globally is perhaps due to so many living I a delusional state of mind where someone else will always end up being scapegoated. At least Pontius Pilot tried to wash his own hands. Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky PhD vbur...@shaw.ca 120-1053 Beaverhill Blvd. Winnipeg

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: The Psychology Of Yogurt

2011-09-17 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
magical wand. Is the issue of human rights really so trivial that one individual can strip another of protection because of a hidden desire? Good luck. Vladimyr Burachynsky. From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Steve Smith Sent: September

Re: [FRIAM] symmetry breaking video

2011-07-05 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
Nick, Take a look at this video http://www.dhingana.com/video/rodin-coil-vortex-in-water/related-_-d71vJQ89M /1 You can see the water level rising as it is thrown to the side and nearly empty toward the centre. The experiment is also happily modest . Vladimyr From: friam-boun

Re: [FRIAM] symmetry breaking

2011-07-02 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
the drain . A suggestion, set up a free Sky Drive account and dump some video with notes and we can all have a look without the Viagra adverts. Sprinkle some floaters ( rubber duckies) and see how they travel perhaps. Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky PhD mailto:vbur...@shaw.ca vbur

Re: [FRIAM] Why Evolve , when you Thriving!

2011-05-23 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
as Sarbajit points out the corruption is almost mindless. Amoral and very unromantic, You are not alone, Foolishness has been my problem since stepping into science. Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky PhD mailto:vbur...@shaw.ca vbur...@shaw.ca 120-1053 Beaverhill Blvd. Winnipeg

Re: [FRIAM] What evolves?

2011-05-12 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
others use eggs Perhaps to reduce sibling predation, who knows why ; Its anyone's guess. Most mutations by necessity must be invisible. So turn the thinking around 180 degrees. The introduction of a new term VOID seems to simply be a NICHE. Is it necessary to use the new term?. Vladimyr Ivan

Re: [FRIAM] Modeling obfuscation (was - Terrorosity and it's Fruits)

2011-05-08 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
a programming difficulty where the outcome of some event must iterated through each agent to get a single outcome. Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky PhD mailto:vbur...@shaw.ca vbur...@shaw.ca 120-1053 Beaverhill Blvd. Winnipeg,Manitoba, R2J3R2 Canada (204) 2548321 Land (204) 8016064 Cell

Re: [FRIAM] Modeling obfuscation (was - Terrorosity and it's Fruits)

2011-05-08 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
intriguing . It is an old joke , but the more people in the room the dumber it gets. Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky PhD mailto:vbur...@shaw.ca vbur...@shaw.ca 120-1053 Beaverhill Blvd. Winnipeg,Manitoba, R2J3R2 Canada (204) 2548321 Land (204) 8016064 Cell From

Re: [FRIAM] Terrorosity and it's Fruits

2011-05-06 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
story, Hadji Murat, describes much of the same atmosphere. The killing was easy , the understanding is difficult. It takes no great skill to kill, any brute can do it, it is a much greater challenge to keep something alive. How do we model stupifaction of real people? Vladimyr Ivan

Re: [FRIAM] Memetic Drift in Threads, was: off topic....., but still

2011-05-04 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
our pens , by a wind storm we are now discovering a new world beyond the knocked down fences. Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky PhD vbur...@shaw.ca 120-1053 Beaverhill Blvd. Winnipeg,Manitoba, R2J3R2 Canada (204) 2548321 Land (204) 8016064 Cell -Original Message- From: friam-boun

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