Hi David, I'll manually remove your email.
For others, the unsubscribe link is in the signature of the messages. It is: http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com ____________________________________________ CEO Founder, Simtable.com [email protected] Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Lab [email protected] mobile: (505)577-5828 On Mon, Apr 15, 2024, 7:01 AM Pedersen, David John II <[email protected]> wrote: > Good morning, > > > > Can you take me off this list? > > > > *David J. Pedersen II* > > Training Instructor > > P.O. Box 1663 MS-G724 | Los Alamos, NM 87545 > > Office 555-555-5555 > > Mobile 555-555-5555 > > Northern New Mexico Integrated Security – A Centerra-TCS Joint Venture > > > > *From:* Friam <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Nicholas Thompson > *Sent:* Thursday, April 11, 2024 9:33 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > [email protected]> > *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] [FRIAM] The DeFrocked English Major Strikes Again > > > > I am pretty sure this the stupidest question I have ever asked this > forum,, so I am at your mercy. > > I am in one of those situations where language and mathematics are rubbing > together and driving crazy. > > Let say that my patio is ten steps down from my back door. I have two > cats, Dee and Ess, and Dee is dominant to Ess. So, if I go out to let > them in, and I find Ess on step -2 and Dee on step -8, I know I have > an unstable situation . And I would rate the degree of instability as a > positive 6. How would I compare the two numbers mathematically to get a > minus 6. > > But let’s say that for conceptual reasons I want to conceive of the > situation as a degree of stability, with negative stability corresponding > to instability. Now, according to my index, the situation is a minus 6. > How would I compare the two numbers mathematically to get a minus 6. > > The situation I am trying to model here is the origin of the notion of > static stability in meteorology. Static Stability has a lot to do with > differential lapse rates. But lapse rates are minus numbers. So a parcel > is unstable if it has a lower lapse rate than surrounding parcels, and the > greater the absolute value the difference between them, the greater the > instability. > > I asked “George” (GPT) to help me with this, but he suggested I just take > absolute values and give them whatever sign I want, but somebody told me, > way back when, that taking absolute values was not kosher in mathematics. > (Why else would the variance be the mean SQUARED deviation about the > mean?). > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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