A simple model is based on timezones. When I post something at 9 AM CET (or
CEST) Central European Time, then I usually get no response before 5 PM when it
it is 8 AM in California and 9 AM in Santa Fe. The posting times reflect where
a person is physically located. The rest is more or less unpredictable. Posts
could be correlated to even more posts. Some kind of self-reinforcing bubble.
It also reminds me of the famous El-Farol Bar Problem which predicts visitors
for a bar. Does this bar still exist in Santa Fe?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Farol_Bar_problemIn general it seems to be
unpredictable. I posted for example less in recent weeks because my mail server
provider from New York changed the settings and I had difficulties to access
this email account I am using now. -J.
-------- Original message --------From: Marcus Daniels <[email protected]>
Date: 8/12/26 5:05 PM (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity
Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] What is FRIAM and is it
still alive I was looking for a (null space) model of when and why a post
occurs. Like why a person would reach for the remote and change the TV
station. It may have nothing to do with the coherence or silliness of any
particular programming. Like going out for a cup of coffee or a smoke. From:
Friam <[email protected]> on behalf of jofr <[email protected]>Date:
Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 7:58 AMTo: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity
Coffee Group <[email protected]>Subject: Re: [FRIAM] What is FRIAM and is it
still aliveYou mean a "credit model" depending on correspondence length and
authorship time? GitHub has a statistics page for repositories which shows who
has committed the most lines in what timeframe. And some open source frameworks
like Ruby on Rails list their most active contributors
https://contributors.rubyonrails.org ChatGPT says about you Marcus that you are
the most active poster by a substantial margin. You win clearly in this
category. Nick and Glen are funnier according to ChatGPT though. ChatGPT is
particularly fond of the Nick's post "All those who think Steve was wrong raise
your hands" and Glen's post "Say it again … Say it again in a different way …
Again … Again, damnit!" -J. -------- Original message --------From: Marcus
Daniels <[email protected]> Date: 8/12/26 4:28 PM (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday
Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re:
[FRIAM] What is FRIAM and is it still alive Correspondence length and apparent
authorship time that follows the distribution of a compile/link cycle or system
integration test suite execution duration? From: Friam
<[email protected]> on behalf of [email protected]
<[email protected]>Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 4:50 AMTo: The Friday
Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]>Subject: Re: [FRIAM]
What is FRIAM and is it still aliveChatGPT proposed these two laws:FRIAM's
First Law: We take difficult philosophical problems and worry them to death
until someone produces either a profound insight, a completely insane
hypothesis, or a phrase like "quantum woo".FRIAM's Second Law: If a theory is
suspiciously elegant, somebody on the list will throw a shoe at it.The reason I
have asked ChatGPT and Gemini is I am writing a new self-published book, and
the first chapter is about FRIAM. Their summaries are surprisingly good. I
asked them to find funny anecdotes in the FRIAM archives and they found a post
from Nick that said "OK friammers, All those who think Steve was wrong raise
your hands" :-)If you do NOT want to be mentioned in the chapter because it is
too much quantum woo for you then please let me know or raise your hand. Will
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