Re: [FRIAM] Solutions documentary

2021-07-23 Thread Stephen Guerin
Cool. Did you find a place to stream or purchase? Did you attend most of the virtual conference this year? Any notable papers/presentations? On Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 12:19 PM uǝlƃ ☤>$ wrote: > They re-premiered this at ALIFE 2021. I figured it would be interesting, > if for no other reason than to

Re: [FRIAM] Solutions documentary

2021-07-23 Thread Stephen Guerin
Doh. I see the facebook link now https://fb.me/e/Sh0VZI83 On Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 12:54 PM Stephen Guerin wrote: > Cool. Did you find a place to stream or purchase? > > Did you attend most of the virtual conference this year? Any notable > papers/presentations? > > On Fri, Jul

Re: [FRIAM] argh

2021-08-18 Thread Stephen Guerin
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 9:05 AM wrote: > Funny that we continue to worship in those bare ruined choirs. Old issues > unsettled? Chancel culture of another's time > - . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 b

Re: [FRIAM] "ZAMM"

2021-08-19 Thread Stephen Guerin
Nick, do you know Phaedrus? On Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 7:46 PM wrote: > Colleagues, > > > > I wonder if Pirsig’s *Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance *was a > thing for any of you, and if you would be interested in pursuing a thread > about it and, if so, if you would be willing to get it down

Re: [FRIAM] hot streaks

2021-09-13 Thread Stephen Guerin
May be related to Barabasi's ideas of work (and many other phenomena) coming in discrete clumps in his 2010 book "Bursts" https://barabasi.com/book/bursts On Mon, Sep 13, 2021, 12:16 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > Open access at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25477-8 > > Across a ran

Re: [FRIAM] Can a robot have a soul?

2021-09-18 Thread Stephen Guerin
Jochen, The Chinese have a famous thought experiment called the "John Searle Room" (虚构研究员, 1984). Take the living John Searle, and place him in a sealed closed room. In a short time, he is no longer alive, has no cognition, no consciousness, and certainly no soul. Place a common conception of a

Re: [FRIAM] Can a robot have a soul?

2021-09-18 Thread Stephen Guerin
On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 9:42 PM wrote: > If you mean by what you wrote, could consciousness, etc., be properties of > the organism’s (or the robot’s) relation to other objects, my answer is > emphatically YES. I hate to smear you before the rest of the group by > agreeing with you, but you’ll j

Re: [FRIAM] Can a robot have a soul?

2021-09-18 Thread Stephen Guerin
On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 9:53 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > There seems to be individual differences in how people have responded to > the longer stretches of the pandemic. Some people lost benefits from the > “open” system. They lost access to their friends or lost their cadence. > Other people d

[FRIAM] Mesoscale modeling of wildfire plume dynamics

2021-09-18 Thread Stephen Guerin
Nick, Related to the Stormscapes paper for cloud formation dynamics, here's an extension this year by the same team for driving the heat raster from wildfire propagation: The video is enough to get the main ideas. http://computationalsciences.org/publications/haedrich-2021-wildfires.html -S .--

Re: [FRIAM] Great Circle

2021-09-19 Thread Stephen Guerin
I was going to post this similar site but Ed beat me with his :-) This one also has a globe view... https://www.greatcirclemap.com/globe?routes=CLT-HNL ___ stephen.gue...@simtable.com CEO, Simtable http://www.simtable.com 1600 L

Re: [FRIAM] Great Circle

2021-09-19 Thread Stephen Guerin
NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > > On Sun, Sep 19, 2021, 3:19 PM Stephen Guerin > wrote: > >> I was going to post this similar site but Ed beat me with his :-) This >> one al

Re: [FRIAM] Newborn Heart Rate

2021-10-02 Thread Stephen Guerin
On Sat, Oct 2, 2021 at 10:59 AM wrote: > You might help me distinguish between vicious DAWW and virtuous DAWW. > You might exile me. But you probably won’t get me to stop. > If we follow the virtuous DAWW, it feels like wuwei

Re: [FRIAM] Newborn Heart Rate

2021-10-03 Thread Stephen Guerin
On Sat, Oct 2, 2021 at 5:57 PM wrote: > Just to be clear – and perhaps nerdishly literal minded – I would NEVER > claim that word play alone is science; I would only claim that it has a > role to play. > > > > On Sat, Oct 2, 2021 at 10:59 AM wrote: > > You might help me distinguish between vici

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: What a funny

2021-10-04 Thread Stephen Guerin
2017 Chemistry Olympiad. https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/web/2017/07/US-team-makes-history-IChO.html The US students won 4 gold medals. from the article: The medals were announced during the closing ceremony on July 14. Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) was the only other country to receive four gold medal

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: What a funny

2021-10-04 Thread Stephen Guerin
Take the laugh and run. > > === > Tom Johnson > Inst. for Analytic Journalism > Santa Fe, New Mexico > 505-577-6483 > === > > On Mon, Oct 4, 2021, 9:56 PM Stephen Guerin > wrote: > >> 2017 Chemistry Olympiad. >> >&

Re: [FRIAM] Schwill Rock?

2021-10-13 Thread Stephen Guerin
On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 11:09 AM wrote: > Jon, et. al, > > > > I love it when you guys talk dirty! > > > > I am afraid I won’t be able to make it Friday (travel angst), so could > somebody explain in a few sentences what is going on, here? > A few Google searches related to "Smiles Chemistr

Re: [FRIAM] Heart Rate

2021-10-17 Thread Stephen Guerin
On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 6:01 PM ⛧ glen wrote: > Ha! Nice redirect. Your mischarachterization was not about race. It'll be > interesting if any in this office buys that. Your mischaracherization was > about old people vs young or partially employed people. Referee: **Thread bending whistle** Fra

Re: [FRIAM] *-sovereignty

2021-10-18 Thread Stephen Guerin
At VFriam with Glen and Jon. as I came into their discussion on identity, I brought up Self-Sovereignty Identity as something we're designing for in our day job with Realtime.Earth. If we classify Web 1.0 (1993-2005) roughly simple pages with databases and forms. Web 2.0 (~2005-2015) was an era o

Re: [FRIAM] stygmergy, CA's, and [biological] development

2021-10-19 Thread Stephen Guerin
Nick, A reminder on Micheal Levin's work on regeneration, inheritance and connection to bioelectric fields: https://youtu.be/XheAMrS8Q1c?t=428 zoomed to experiment but I encourage you to watch the whole talk. Stigmergy is coordination through indirect communication. Ant foraging, termite nest

Re: [FRIAM] stygmergy, CA's, and [biological] development

2021-10-24 Thread Stephen Guerin
> > On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 5:00 PM Frank Wimberly > wrote: > I want to clarify what a dual space is. The domain of dual.space can be mapped to any other domain :-) ___ stephen.gue...@simtable.com CEO, Simtable http://www.s

Re: [FRIAM] Thread Bust: WAS: stygmergy, CA's, and [biological] development

2021-10-25 Thread Stephen Guerin
Nick, I put the standard Netlogo CA model set to rule 30 online here https://redfish.com/models/CARule30.html Hit setup or setup-random then go. You can play with the rule set on the left. Note as a binary bits, the CA number ranges from 0-255 depending on which bits are switched on. Play with t

Re: [FRIAM] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/technology/pamela-mccorduck-dead.html [eom]

2021-11-04 Thread Stephen Guerin
We were fortunate to have Pamela among us. Take some time and search the interwebs on Pamela . Order her books and watch her interviews

Re: [FRIAM] Application of robo-pigeon in ethological studies of bird flocks

2021-11-12 Thread Stephen Guerin
Nick, > Is Hong Kong not being digested as we speak? Is pressure not increasing on the Taiwanese? An orthogonal perspective is healing and unification post-occupation and aggression by foreign powers. ie: - North/South Vietnam - Manchuria/China - East/West Germany - North/South Kore

Re: [FRIAM] The epiphenomenality relation

2021-11-29 Thread Stephen Guerin
Nick, Whenever we discussed your Natural Design Perspective over the last 15 years, I've tried to form a bridge toward Complexity, Self-Organization, Least Action, and related ideas. From your Natural Design Wikipedia entry : Natural design is design-

Re: [FRIAM] The epiphenomenality relation

2021-11-29 Thread Stephen Guerin
95-0206 mobile: (505)577-5828 twitter: @simtable z <http://zoom.com/j/5055775828>oom.simtable.com On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 2:08 PM Stephen Guerin wrote: > > Nick, > > Whenever we discussed your Natural Design Perspective over the last 15 > years, I've tried to form

[FRIAM] Exaptations and the "Design" evolution of the Internet (was Re: The epiphenomenality relation)

2021-11-30 Thread Stephen Guerin
Nick, You may be interested in this recent short blog on exaptations and the design of the internet: https://subconscious.substack.com/p/exapt-existing-infrastructure Note the Internet is more about protocol than any particular hardware/network instantiation and it has evolved on top of other co

Re: [FRIAM] One of many things the country is fucked on

2022-01-13 Thread Stephen Guerin
On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 11:15 PM Gillian Densmore wrote: > Now is the taste of beer a power law related to it's flavor? that is to > say if it's more rich and flavorfull does the quantity quafed go up > exponentially? And does the amount of flavorfulness relate to it's > hoppyness and the amount

[FRIAM] New Mexico Rivers and Navigable Servitude [was: One of many things the country is fucked on]

2022-01-21 Thread Stephen Guerin
e in Hawaii. >> >> Gil is right, the world is broken in many ways. Obviously we need to >> support our politicians in understanding the mess and in finding ways to >> fix it. Complexity science helps us to study complex systems on a large >> scale, to understand how they wo

Re: [FRIAM] New Mexico Rivers and Navigable Servitude [was: One of many things the country is fucked on]

2022-01-21 Thread Stephen Guerin
...@simtable.com CEO, Simtable http://www.simtable.com 1600 Lena St #D1, Santa Fe, NM 87505 office: (505)995-0206 mobile: (505)577-5828 twitter: @simtable z <http://zoom.com/j/5055775828>oom.simtable.com On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 10:16 AM Stephen Guerin wrote: > Cody, > > Noticed

Re: [FRIAM] New Mexico Rivers and Navigable Servitude [was: One of many things the country is fucked on]

2022-01-21 Thread Stephen Guerin
, 2022 at 10:24 AM Stephen Guerin wrote: > or commerce and navigability may be accomplished by a NM Stream Commission > contract to continuously survey the waterway bathymetry with unmanned > surface vehicles: > https://www.oceanalpha.com

Re: [FRIAM] New Mexico Rivers and Navigable Servitude [was: One of many things the country is fucked on]

2022-01-21 Thread Stephen Guerin
Actually you would need to go >> paddle-board around Cochiti lake to find it I suppose. >> On 1/21/22 10:24 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote: >> >> or commerce and navigability may be accomplished by a NM Stream >> Commission contract to continuously survey the wat

Re: [FRIAM] Communication guides for the elderly

2022-01-22 Thread Stephen Guerin
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 11:17 AM Stephen Guerin wrote: > as a GenX, column C missed the subtlety and expressiveness of fuck idioms. > EG idioms on this page is probably 10% of the way there. > https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/fuck > Learned a new Aussie

Re: [FRIAM] Struck me as funny

2022-01-24 Thread Stephen Guerin
On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 10:36 AM wrote: > New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) on Sunday morning said the Big Apple is > planning to dispatch mental health professionals > > to it

[FRIAM] Complexity, Ottawa and Nanotechnology (was Re: Struck me as funny)

2022-01-24 Thread Stephen Guerin
Merle, I'm no expert but here are some writings I trust Philip Ball as a science writer that distills well and doesn't add mushy fluff: https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/8/6/nwaa266/6009035 There's some debate on using the framework of Complexity as an appropriate lens for nanotechnology (I o

Re: [FRIAM] Complexity, Ottawa and Nanotechnology (was Re: Struck me as funny)

2022-01-24 Thread Stephen Guerin
-0206 mobile: (505)577-5828 twitter: @simtable z <http://zoom.com/j/5055775828>oom.simtable.com On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 12:12 PM Stephen Guerin wrote: > Merle, > > I'm no expert but here are some writings > > I trust Philip Ball as a science writer that distills well and

[FRIAM] Tomorrow, 12p-2 Stu Kauffman on drums at Museum Hill Cafe, Santa Fe

2022-01-28 Thread Stephen Guerin
LOCAL MAXIMA Lunch Jam Tomorrow, Sat 1/29 12p-2 Museum Hill Cafe, Santa Fe Diane Johnson will be on piano and Stuart Kauffman, The Cool Daddy of Complexity, will be on snare drums. (I'm psyched to play roadie). Come up for lunch, listen to some improvised grooves and I'll buy you a sake bloody m

Re: [FRIAM] Visual Migraines

2019-05-06 Thread Stephen Guerin
Frank, Sorry you're experiencing migraines - no fun! On the upside, the mathematician in you may appreciate the opportunity of direct observation of potentially interesting feedback phenomena. Jack Cowan, one of Stu's mentors, gave a nice talk at BioGroups back in 2001 on geometric patterns durin

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] July 10 Wedtech?

2019-06-28 Thread Stephen Guerin
Hi Bruce, The Wedtech on July 10 will be at our office. We're having two distinguished speakers who were some of the earliest thinkers in computational thinking in education and with particular expertise in computational physics. They will review their career trajectory and and update the crowd on

Re: [FRIAM] Ownership of expired patent

2019-07-02 Thread Stephen Guerin
Not a lawyer / this is my understanding. Yes, the firm owns the copyright to the code and is a form of intellectual property independent of patent. Copyright is owned by the author (or entity that had work-for-hire agreements) at the moment of creation. As an author or someone that had access t

[FRIAM] FW: Einstein: physics for English Majors

2019-07-27 Thread Stephen Guerin
Reposting Nick's original email with a web link to the paper instead of an attachment (10MB). The book he references is here: http://redfish.com/friam/evolutionofphysi033254mbp.pdf note: the FRIAM listserv currently has a 1MB attachment limit. It doesn't sound like a big file but if it goes

[FRIAM] FRIAM email delivery and reliability (was: Re: query and observation)

2019-09-14 Thread Stephen Guerin
As we speak, Dr. Strangelove may be painting the image of the Symposiarch ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium#Drinking) regulating the flow. Or a kind of immanent Maxwellian Demon actively operating the email gate so that intellectual work can be extracted. Or as we're running on Majordomo li

[FRIAM] Wedtech Lecture Tomorrow (Wed): Gar Clarke - NM Geospatial Information Officer (and all around expert GIS veteran)

2019-09-17 Thread Stephen Guerin
SPEAKER: Gar Clarke - NM Geospational Information Officer TIME: 12:30p LOCATION: https://bit.ly/SimtableOffice Pizza will be available for $10 or bring your lunch/wine/beer Gar Clarke is the New Mexico Geospatial Information Officer (GIO) for the State Department of Information Technology (NM DoI

[FRIAM] Wedtech Lecture TODAY (Wed): Gar Clarke - NM Geospatial Information Officer (and all around expert GIS veteran of 200 years)

2019-09-18 Thread Stephen Guerin
** TODAY ** TODAY ** TODAY ** The State of the State using GIS and much, much more! You don't want to miss this - Gar has been on the frontier of GIS developments over his 200-year career (in base 4)! SPEAKER: Gar Clarke - NM Geospatial Information Officer TIME: 12:30p LOCATION: 1600 Lena St. Sui

Re: [FRIAM] Optimization problem

2019-09-20 Thread Stephen Guerin
Algorithm with guaranteed optimal: 1. purchase ceil(TotalLengthNeeded / 6) tubes 2. Weld purchased tubes into one long tube * 3. Cut what you need in any order * assumes welder $ < optimization design and compute time _

Re: [FRIAM] Optimization problem

2019-09-21 Thread Stephen Guerin
Gary, Thanks for posing this problem to the group - it's been fun to have in the back of the mind for a day. I agree with Pieter that this is a kind of knapsack problem for which Dynamic Programming is a popular approach where you would extend to multiple knapsacks. I might approach it with a var

Re: [FRIAM] Optimization problem

2019-09-22 Thread Stephen Guerin
sfu heuristic to both problems. And by golly, there's an extension to the cutting stock problem that involves welding :-) https://www.hindawi.com/journals/aor/2019/6507054/ On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 8:59 PM Stephen Guerin wrote: > Gary, > > Thanks for posing this problem to the gr

Re: [FRIAM] Optimization problem

2019-09-23 Thread Stephen Guerin
a bit of research on the upper bound of the error of this approximation. If OPT = the optimal found by brute force search, "first fit decreasing" is guaranteed to be no worse than 11/9 * OPT + 6/9 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-74450-4_1 On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 4:2

Re: [FRIAM] Meeting Place for Dec 27

2019-12-20 Thread Stephen Guerin
How about the regular alternate of Saveur? ___ stephen.gue...@simtable.com CEO, Simtable http://www.simtable.com 1600 Lena St #D1, Santa Fe, NM 87505 office: (505)995-0206 mobile: (505)577-5828 twitter: @simtable On Fri, Dec 20

Re: [FRIAM] climate change questions

2020-01-01 Thread Stephen Guerin
On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 12:16 PM Douglass Carmichael wrote: > We are stuck at the point where, to stay under 1.5 or 2, it is clear that > we must cut fossil fuel extraction and use and there is no existing > politics todo it because it mans loss of jobs, failures of mortgages, > collapse of banks

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Question from Merle

2020-01-05 Thread Stephen Guerin
Lars, Merle, Nick, and FRIAM members, Thank you for taking the time to respond, Lars! It's an important first spark of interaction between two groups with Stockholm and Santa Fe as nexus. To the FRIAM Group members, Steve Smith can probably give you a good summary of our brief but intense interac

[FRIAM] [WedTech] Talk Tomorrow 11a; Kaz Manavi, Kalman Filters and Their Application in Wildfire Models

2020-02-04 Thread Stephen Guerin
*Wednesday February 5 11:00a (tomorrow)* Title: Kalman Filters and their application in Wildfire Models Speaker: Kasra “Kaz” Manavi Kaz will be talking about his recent review of wildfire models and their utility of Kalman filters. Where: Simtable / Redfish Office 1600 Lena Street Suite D1 We

[FRIAM] Eric Smith's interview on Jim Rutt's podcast

2020-02-10 Thread Stephen Guerin
Just listened to this on a flight today. Always great to get your perspective, Eric! https://www.jimruttshow.com/eric-smith/ Multidimensional thinker Eric Smith has a wide-ranging talk with Jim about the origins of life, monetary systems, language & sustainability. Eric starts by sharing how geoc

Re: [FRIAM] friam Winter Party

2020-02-12 Thread Stephen Guerin
Alisom and I are in. Maybe Reed (16 yrs) . He will cook something whether he attends or not :-) On Wed, Feb 12, 2020, 2:33 PM Merle Lefkoff wrote: > O.K. Merle Lefkoff is in. Maybe two of us. I'll bring two bottles of > wine and a good loaf of bread. I don't cook. > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at

Re: [FRIAM] friam Winter Party

2020-02-15 Thread Stephen Guerin
Uber/Lyft is also an option On Sat, Feb 15, 2020, 9:43 AM George Duncan wrote: > Greetings, FRIAM Party-Goers! > > Sherry Kelsey and I are excited about welcoming you to the big, big FRIAM > social event of the year. We begin this evening at 5pm at our house, Casa > de Arroyo Pequeno, situated o

Re: [FRIAM] friam Winter Party

2020-02-16 Thread Stephen Guerin
the tension between matrix order and > luminous chaos. > > > "Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may > then be a valuable delusion." > > From "Notes to myself on beginning a painting" by Richard Diebenkorn. > > "It

[FRIAM] Fwd: [netlogo-users] Release of NetTango

2020-03-10 Thread Stephen Guerin
-- Forwarded message - From: Uri Wilensky Date: Tue, Mar 10, 2020, 11:21 AM Subject: [netlogo-users] Release of NetTango To: netlogo-users Dear netlogo-users: This message announces a new NetLogo-related product developed at the CCL - NetTango, a domain-blocks interface to NetLo

Re: [FRIAM] Meeting of "Physical Friam"

2020-03-18 Thread Stephen Guerin
Redfish has paid Zoom and Join.me accounts with no time limit and recording capability. I will send out an invite and can make Frank, Steve Smith, or someone else host. As an aside, jitsi.org and talky.io are good free versions that we use for small meetings. We also use Google Hangout. Skype and

[FRIAM] Zoom invite for March 20 Virtual FRIAM

2020-03-18 Thread Stephen Guerin
I configured to auto mute attendees when they enter to minimize feedback issues and background noise. You can unmute yourselves when you would like to speak. I will be there to Host. I suggest that we have a reasonably focused conversation given an online format: Some suggestions: - China, Si

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] Zoom invite for March 20 Virtual FRIAM

2020-03-18 Thread Stephen Guerin
a > semi-conversation unfold. > Tom > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 9:42 PM Stephen Guerin > wrote: > >> I configured to auto mute attendees when they enter to minimize feedback >> issues and background noise. You can unmute yourselves when you would like >> to speak. I

[FRIAM] Reminder: Zoom invite for today's (March 20) Virtual FRIAM 9:30-12p MDT (GMT -6)

2020-03-19 Thread Stephen Guerin
We'll open the virtual doors at 9a MDT (GMT -6) for folks to get settled, get their microphones/speakers configured and some small talk. We'll start with a semi-structured talk at 9:30a. Coffee and donuts will be served here Join Zoom Meeting https

[FRIAM] SFI virtual workshop: After the Wave

2020-04-03 Thread Stephen Guerin
I mentioned this on the close of Virtual Friam today: https://santafe.edu/news-center/news/after-first-wave-virtual-workshop-covid-19-pandemic The first wave of COVID-19 is well underway, and social distancing will hopefully bend the curve downward (after far too high a price is paid). But what

[FRIAM] VirtualFriam disconnect issue today

2020-04-03 Thread Stephen Guerin
Oops, VirtualFriam disconnected today. I set up a recurring Zoom FRIAM meeting with a paid account. I didn't realize, though, that I couldn't have two different meetings going with the same host id at the same time. When I started a different Zoom meeting during Friam this stopped virtual friam. G

Re: [FRIAM] The fundamental theory of physics

2020-04-15 Thread Stephen Guerin
Here's a nice lecture by Carlo Rovelli on his development of Spin Foams with Lee Smolin. Great to see the intro to his lecture by Penrose: https://livestream.com/oxuni/rovelli/videos/199493556 At time 41:33, you can check out how space is defined as the volume around a vertex. Steve Smith and som

Re: [FRIAM] anthropological observations

2020-04-17 Thread Stephen Guerin
Eric, Was it Barrier to Objects? https://scholar.harvard.edu/walterfontana/publications/barrier-objects-dynamical-systems-bounded-organizations That was the constructivist lambda calculus paper. Bill Mckelvey extended to pi calculus On Sat, Apr 18, 2020, 12:36 AM David Eric Smith wrote: > Ve

Re: [FRIAM] anthropological observations

2020-04-18 Thread Stephen Guerin
Oops, weird slip. Meant Bill Macready On Sat, Apr 18, 2020, 12:55 AM Stephen Guerin wrote: > Eric, > > Was it Barrier to Objects? > > https://scholar.harvard.edu/walterfontana/publications/barrier-objects-dynamical-systems-bounded-organizations > > That was the construct

[FRIAM] Tripping on the Rye: She's a Witch! How do you know? . (Re: basis for prediction — forked from the tail end of anthropological observtions)

2020-04-19 Thread Stephen Guerin
I was completely ignorant of the history/impacts of ergot before this thread. Fascinating! In this context, we can think about Dave's different ways of knowing when we show cause and evidence that someone is a witch. 1. Science: https://www.youtube.com/wat

Re: [FRIAM] Tripping on the Rye: She's a Witch! How do you know? . (Re: basis for prediction — forked from the tail end of anthropological observtions)

2020-04-19 Thread Stephen Guerin
Marcus, Yes, Lead is a good guess. Though if you listen closely, it was already offered right before "duck" :-) https://youtu.be/zrzMhU_4m-g?t=157 On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 12:32 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > How about lead? > > > https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lead-in-americas-water-systems-is-a-n

Re: [FRIAM] basis for prediction — forked from the tail end of anthropological observtions

2020-04-19 Thread Stephen Guerin
On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 11:41 AM wrote: > > > Of COURSE it would be you who would recognize “Red, Right, Returning”. > > > > I am surprised that some conservative magazine hasn’t adopted it as its > motto. > Might be a better motto for the centrists to keep Left of the Red markers. ie keep navig

Re: [FRIAM] Agentscript steganography for distributing model code with an image (was Re: ... --- ...)

2022-02-10 Thread Stephen Guerin
On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 11:23 AM glen wrote: > Shirley you could finagle this into some malware or some miningware (aka > "citizen science") so that the image was automatically executed by an > injected browser add-on. > Yes, we do have chrome extension that could look for code in any image in

[FRIAM] Alien Crash Site, Complexity, Future Fossils and Jim Rutt Podcasts

2022-02-16 Thread Stephen Guerin
Steve S., Given your science fiction depth, have you been following SFI's "Alien Crash Site" podcast hosted by Caitlyn? Any feedback? https://www.aliencrashsite.org/ Also, others here are probably already aware of related SFI podcasts: Michael Garfield hosts SFI"s "Complexity" podcast https://co

Re: [FRIAM] Pressurized air in pipelines?

2022-02-18 Thread Stephen Guerin
Not sure of your reference, but I've looked at the numbers around this untapped pressurized air resource . Back of the envelope calculations, we could po

Re: [FRIAM] OGS

2022-02-26 Thread Stephen Guerin
nice appreciation expressed in the OGS comments, John. cool move. On Sat, Feb 26, 2022, 10:32 AM Jon Zingale wrote: > """ > Given the current situation many Ukrainians find themselves in, I am > preemptively canceling all recurring charges for anyone with a Ukrainian > billing address and issuin

Re: [FRIAM] Coverage of Russia

2022-02-28 Thread Stephen Guerin
A crowdsourced effort to geolocate social media imagery in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia Note when you click on a map point, the metadata will have a "geolocation" tweet that documents how those locations were determined. https://maphub.net/Cen4infoRes/russian-ukraine-monitor The organization behin

Re: [FRIAM] Layers

2022-03-30 Thread Stephen Guerin
Looks cool, Frank. Surfing around: a Deep Equilibrium Model paper by Shaojie Bai: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2019/file/01386bd6d8e091c2ab4c7c7de644d37b-Paper.pdf And one of his 12-minute talks: https://crossminds.ai/video/oral-at-neurips-2020-multiscale-deep-equilibrium-models-5fb82261

[FRIAM] **TODAY April 7 4p Second Street Brewery ** Re: tomorrow at 2nd St

2022-04-07 Thread Stephen Guerin
Merle, We're going to 2nd Street Brewery original location which is shutting down that location on Saturday . 2nd Street will still

Re: [FRIAM] **TODAY April 7 4p Second Street Brewery ** Re: tomorrow at 2nd St

2022-04-07 Thread Stephen Guerin
well played photo, Glenn. Cheers! On Thu, Apr 7, 2022, 1:59 PM glen wrote: > Cheers! > > On 4/7/22 12:38, Stephen Guerin wrote: > > Merle, > > > > We're going to 2nd Street Brewery original location which is shutting > down that location on Saturday < &g

[FRIAM] Virtual FRIAM moving to Thursdays. FRIAM will be in person on Fridays

2022-04-11 Thread Stephen Guerin
We will resume in-person FRIAM at St John's on Fridays. Virtual FRIAM will shift to Thursday mornings. .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfi

Re: [FRIAM] [Colloquia] Cris Moore's colloquium talk this Wednesday

2022-04-11 Thread Stephen Guerin
for those that can't make that zoom time, Day 2 of Cris's SFI Ulam Lecture might cover similar ground https://youtu.be/Sg2jtEY6qms On Mon, Apr 11, 2022, 10:19 AM Angel Edward wrote: > I thought you two might be interested in Cris Moore’s CS colloquium this > Wed. > > Tom: we may be going back

Re: [FRIAM] Virtual FRIAM moving to Thursdays. FRIAM will be in person on Fridays

2022-04-11 Thread Stephen Guerin
On Mon, Apr 11, 2022, 1:34 PM Nicholas Thompson wrote: >> as the groups only octogenarian On Thursday, Owen will be 120 in octal! On Mon, Apr 11, 2022, 1:34 PM Nicholas Thompson wrote: > > Has anybody questioned St. John’s about this matter? > Speaking as the groups only octogenarian, I th

Re: [FRIAM] Virtual FRIAM moving to Thursdays. FRIAM will be in person on Fridays

2022-04-11 Thread Stephen Guerin
On Mon, Apr 11, 2022, 5:51 PM Edward Angel wrote: > It’s much kinder number in hexidecimal. > 50 is the new 80 .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe

[FRIAM] masks required at St John's

2022-04-15 Thread Stephen Guerin
please wear mask when entering. extras are available at switchboard. there have been some reported cases at Saint John's. .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/sub

Re: [FRIAM] fluid codes

2022-04-18 Thread Stephen Guerin
On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 9:43 PM Jon Zingale wrote: > > They are so beautiful. What things are there to consider when writing > fluid codes from first principles? Maybe you're looking for this level of description (WebGL based but would apply to python and other implementations)? http://blog.jam

Re: [FRIAM] fluid codes

2022-04-18 Thread Stephen Guerin
office: (505)995-0206 mobile: (505)577-5828 twitter: @simtable z <http://zoom.com/j/5055775828>oom.simtable.com On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 10:18 PM Stephen Guerin wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 9:43 PM Jon Zingale wrote: >> >> They are so beautiful. What things are there to

[FRIAM] Veritasium shoutout to GlowScript!

2022-04-30 Thread Stephen Guerin
High profile use of GlowScript, by Ruth Chabay and Bruce Sherwood. Cool!!! a few of us discussed the previous video on electric fields and circuits a couple months ago. you can zoom to the shout out to Bruce and Ruth at time 7:50 https://youtu.be/oI_X2cMHNe0?t=470 -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. /

Re: [FRIAM] quotes and questions

2022-05-15 Thread Stephen Guerin
On Thu, May 12, 2022, 8:54 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > > Unitary operators are needed. Apply a Trumping operator you get a Biden > and apply another one to get a Trump back. As we project our political views onto the other, the unitary operator in this projective geometry might be the fundamenta

[FRIAM] Panorma Mesdag while in the Hague (Fwd: Immersive Panoramas of the late 1800s, Edinburgh and other cities (first immersive metaverses))

2022-06-24 Thread Stephen Guerin
__ stephen.gue...@simtable.com CEO, https://www.simtable.com <http://www.simtable.com/> 1600 Lena St #D1, Santa Fe, NM 87505 office: (505)995-0206 mobile: (505)577-5828 -- Forwarded message ----- From: Stephen Guerin Date: Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 11:20 AM Subject: Immersive Panoram

Re: [FRIAM] Panorma Mesdag while in the Hague (Fwd: Immersive Panoramas of the late 1800s, Edinburgh and other cities (first immersive metaverses))

2022-06-24 Thread Stephen Guerin
On Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 7:44 AM Stephen Guerin wrote: > > there was another museum in The Hague we went to, Mauritshuis, that had > some other artist but I forgot his name. > oh, it was was guy not as immersive, but still pretty good.. Rembraint or something, I think and his bud

Re: [FRIAM] Zoom Friam on June 30

2022-06-30 Thread Stephen Guerin
Friday is already here, it's just not very evenly distributed. On Thu, Jun 30, 2022, 9:56 AM George Duncan wrote: > You mean THUAM? > > George Duncan > Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University > georgeduncanart.com > See posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram > Land: (505)

[FRIAM] Ed Angel admitted to SIGGRAPH Academy with this year's award announcements

2022-07-02 Thread Stephen Guerin
well deserved, Ed! Congratulations! https://www.siggraph.org/announcing-the-acm-siggraph-award-winners/ -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtua

[FRIAM] Virgil Griffith was sentenced to 63 months on April 12

2022-07-06 Thread Stephen Guerin
Shit, just noticed Virgil's sentencing from April. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_Griffith#Prosecution - https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-citizen-who-conspired-assist-north-korea-evading-sanctions-sentenced-over-five-years-and - https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/04/1

Re: [FRIAM] Simple Trig/Geometry challenge. Win a $50 Amazon card :-)

2022-07-22 Thread Stephen Guerin
a Fe, NM 87505 office: (505)995-0206 mobile: (505)577-5828 On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 2:29 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > Drop a perpendicular from the alpha vertex to S2. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM

Re: [FRIAM] Simple Trig/Geometry challenge. Win a $50 Amazon card :-)

2022-07-22 Thread Stephen Guerin
, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2022, 2:38 PM Stephen Guerin > wrote: > >> Yes, that's what I was calling "splitting the slanted face" this morning. >> Keep going... :-) >>

Re: [FRIAM] stranger than fiction

2022-07-27 Thread Stephen Guerin
Gary, I bet that Microsoft software is for the birds. :-) or is your nonprofit dealing with community broadband? On Wed, Jul 27, 2022, 8:42 AM Gary Schiltz wrote: > I am the geek guy for a small nonprofit foundation here in Ecuador and I > must say that at least a few software companies are

Re: [FRIAM] Isness: Using Multi-Person VR to Design Peak Mystical-Type Experiences Comparable to Psychedelics

2022-08-09 Thread Stephen Guerin
On Tue, Aug 9, 2022, 10:18 AM glen wrote: > > [⛧] My black PS4 controller is terribly twitchy compared to my gold one. I > died like 5 times getting my latest Dark Souls twink started. Pfft. > learned a new meaning of Twink today :-) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinking -. --- - / ...- .- .

Re: [FRIAM] Isness: Using Multi-Person VR to Design Peak Mystical-Type Experiences Comparable to Psychedelics

2022-08-09 Thread Stephen Guerin
ch and Twink... very NLP if not actually poetic. > > I was only aware of the gay-culture terminology but trusted that Glen (as > he is wont to do) was expanding our vocabulary/awareness in some way that I > failed to unroll fully (nominally an arbitrarily deep fractal/iterated > map?).

Re: [FRIAM] Isness: Using Multi-Person VR to Design Peak Mystical-Type Experiences Comparable to Psychedelics

2022-08-09 Thread Stephen Guerin
Of course, it's irritating when the butthurttryhard just wants to defeat > the stupid boss to make progress in the game and some twink keeps killin' > 'em on the run to the boss. The victim thinks it's cheating. But game > theory and coevolution tell other stories.

[FRIAM] Fourier image space, duality, filtering and compression

2022-08-12 Thread Stephen Guerin
Jon, Mike and I were talking about fourier transforms on images, JPEG compression and filtering at this morning's FRIAM. Here's a nice site that lets you load an image, and its fourier transform (amplitude spectrum) in cartesian or log-polar. https://www.djmannion.net/img_freq_web/ A menu a

[FRIAM] Jack Cowan / Visual Hallucinations and structure of Visual Cortex (was Re: dystopian vision(s))

2022-08-19 Thread Stephen Guerin
Steve Smith writes: > There is surely research into how much/which psychoactives get involved in modulating these processes. Jack (not George) Cowan gave a great lecture at BiosGroup in 2000 on this very topic: " What geometric visual hallucinations tell us about the visual cortex" https://www.m

Re: [FRIAM] Jack Cowan / Visual Hallucinations and structure of Visual Cortex (was Re: dystopian vision(s))

2022-08-19 Thread Stephen Guerin
ps://www.simtable.com <http://www.simtable.com/> 1600 Lena St #D1, Santa Fe, NM 87505 office: (505)995-0206 mobile: (505)577-5828 On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 6:20 PM Stephen Guerin wrote: > Steve Smith writes: > > There is surely research into how much/which psychoactives get inv

[FRIAM] Jerry is meandering in Monte Carlo

2022-08-24 Thread Stephen Guerin
Monte Carlo methods to establish ensemble distributions in gerrymandering https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2022/algorithmic-redistricting/?itid=hp-top-table-main-t-5 Some of you know Yenny Cocq - she and her husband, Fred Gifford, were in the office 6 months ago. Fred works arou

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