Maybe all you need to know is GAN means generalized adversarial network. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505
505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, Jun 4, 2020, 6:13 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh. Gosh! Will somebody please explain the joke to me. > > > > I get some of the joke. I mean the whole joke. > > > > n > > > > Nicholas Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > > Clark University > > [email protected] > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > > *From:* Friam <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Steve Smith > *Sent:* Thursday, June 4, 2020 6:08 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [FRIAM] the Snarking of the Bandersnatch > > > > Glen - > > You have taken good humored sarcasm (Snark*) to "the next level" (another > modern idiom I am just coming to recognize) here. It feels like you've > captured FriAM-at-large pretty well here... or at least the arc of our > discussions-of-late. Not only the discussions, but to some extent the > "nut" of some of them. > > Your spoof of an idea to ontologize the fruits of our discussions and the > metaphorize them across domain-specific ontologies comes way too close to > at least one holy grail of a project or two I've worked on (thus my > references to a "Faceted Ontology". I'm not saying your snark is empty, > nor that the holy grail I refer to was entirely unachievable, mostly just > appreciating how well you nailed it here, and perhaps (en caricature?) > captured some of what Nick has been wishing and hoping for... > > Carry On, > > - Steve > > Ha! And a boon would be we can transform it arbitrarily onto any other > domain-specific ontology. So, whatever is written about, say, evolutionary > biology could be mapped ... [cough] metaphored ... into a paper about, > say, holography! If we can design a GAN to well-fit the maps, then > whatever "theory" we end up with will provide us with *the* explanation > of consciousness and solve the hard problem! > > Man this technology thing is cool. Whatever was I thinking. >8^D > > > > On 6/4/20 4:19 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > I think there should be a XML-based ontology format to encode our > *important* conversations as a formal system. And not mere CSS3, there > should be a whole XSL pipeline to generate Nick’s book. Everyone *follow > the rules* or your e-mails will not validate and *will be rejected* by > the mail server! > > -- > > ☣ uǝlƃ > > > > - .... . -..-. . ...- --- .-.. ..- - .. --- -. -..-. .-- .. .-.. .-.. -..-. > -... . -..-. .-.. .. ...- . -..-. ... - .-. . .- -- . -.. > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > > - .... . -..-. . ...- --- .-.. ..- - .. --- -. -..-. .-- .. .-.. .-.. > -..-. -... . -..-. .-.. .. ...- . -..-. ... - .-. . .- -- . -.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
- .... . -..-. . ...- --- .-.. ..- - .. --- -. -..-. .-- .. .-.. .-.. -..-. -... . -..-. .-.. .. ...- . -..-. ... - .-. . .- -- . -.. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
