Re: [FRIAM] Scolary- tools for analysis

[Russell Standish]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 08:09:35AM -0700, Tom Johnson wrote:
> FYI 
> 
> https://scolary.com/ 

It doesn't seem that helpful. It has a clear obvious bias towards web
applications, rather than native as one problem. Many of the tools
listed seem to solve problems already well solved by other tools that
are missing - eg the TeX platform, with bibTex for handling
citations. Matlab is mentioned, but not Octave, an almost complete
freeware replacement for Matlab.

Whilst there is a button marked "free", what sort of free Libre, or as
in beer (which covers a lot of freemium stuff). Also cannot restrict
platforms - I'm only interested in stuff that I can run on my Linux
platform, which might include under Wine of necessary.

I looked under the category "Project management", but the tools listed
appeared to have nothing to do with PM.

At this point in time, traditional methods of discovery - searching
through one's repo's packages, and googling are more useful than this
directory. Maybe it can be improved.

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Re: [FRIAM] Curmudgeons Unite!

[thompnickson2]

Jon, 

 

Two things: 

 

I really LIKE what you are doing, here. 

 

..but.I don’t quite get it, yet.  I think it’s closely related to my take on 
the IOWA thing, which was that the phenomenon of interest was our out rage that 
the democratic process hadn’t been so rigged that we could have the results 
before we put out the dog and brung in the cat (or was it put out the cat, and 
brung in the dog; even when I had cats and dogs, I never knew which), and gave 
the babies one more tuck before we ourselves went to bed.  The funniest thing I 
ever heard was the 538 blog trying to use up the half hour they had booked with 
their audience.  Instead of saying, “Sorry, folks, we got nothing; go to bed 
early and get a good night’s sleep, for once,” they tried to turn the fact that 
they had nothing into a political event warranting their prescribed time slot.  
I was almost as humiliating as when Rachel Maddow tried to turn a fragment of 
one of Trump’s tax returns into a 43 minute saga.  If ever there were a case of 
the media tail wagging the political dog, this would be it.  

 

Don’t get me wrong.  I love these people.  Am addicted to them.  But it’s when 
your friends do stupid things that it REALLY hurts. 

 

N

 

Nicholas Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology

Clark University

  thompnicks...@gmail.com

  
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

 

 

From: Friam  On Behalf Of Jon Zingale
Sent: Friday, February 7, 2020 12:55 PM
To: friam@redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Curmudgeons Unite!

 

My intention in drawing attention to critical application

development is an attempt to deepen the discussion

around 'apps' and rhetoric. In the discussions around

app usage in the democratic primaries, the target appears

to be the vulnerability which exists today because

programmers today are a bunch of python hacks who

never read Knuth. Yet, not a single Friam mother-church

meeting passes without a discussion of the precision

engineering embodied in our Porches, Teslas, or iphones.

 

Of particular interest to me in directing this rhetorical frame

are the so-called-on-wikipedia FBI-Apple 
  
encryption dispute

and the Target corp data breach   of 
2013. In the first case,

the federal government is confronted by the reality that a

phone manufacturer can in fact make cryptographically

challenging hand held devices. Further we can use this

powerful technology for sending our family cat pictures

which arrive at their target destinations almost without

fail and near instantaneously. There is a sense of justified

indignation when the cat photo takes more than a second

to be delivered. The state-of-the-art is such that we can

have nice things.

 

In the second case, a data breach is exploited in the POS system

of big box corporation which sells mostly useless things. Next,

a public rhetoric emerges similar to the rhetoric I am witnessing

here with the democratic primaries. Instead of pointing out that

Target corp doesn't consider our privacy a critical concern, we

speak of how impossible it is to have privacy and how vulnerable

we feel because Target corp is a critical institution.

 

Jon

 

 


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Re: [FRIAM] Curmudgeons Unite!

[Marcus Daniels]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/opinion/western-society-decadence.html

From: Friam  on behalf of Jon Zingale 

Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group 
Date: Friday, February 7, 2020 at 11:55 AM
To: "friam@redfish.com" 
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Curmudgeons Unite!

My intention in drawing attention to critical application
development is an attempt to deepen the discussion
around 'apps' and rhetoric. In the discussions around
app usage in the democratic primaries, the target appears
to be the vulnerability which exists today because
programmers today are a bunch of python hacks who
never read Knuth. Yet, not a single Friam mother-church
meeting passes without a discussion of the precision
engineering embodied in our Porches, Teslas, or iphones.

Of particular interest to me in directing this rhetorical frame
are the so-called-on-wikipedia FBI-Apple encryption 
dispute
and the Target corp data breach of 2013. 
In the first case,
the federal government is confronted by the reality that a
phone manufacturer can in fact make cryptographically
challenging hand held devices. Further we can use this
powerful technology for sending our family cat pictures
which arrive at their target destinations almost without
fail and near instantaneously. There is a sense of justified
indignation when the cat photo takes more than a second
to be delivered. The state-of-the-art is such that we can
have nice things.

In the second case, a data breach is exploited in the POS system
of big box corporation which sells mostly useless things. Next,
a public rhetoric emerges similar to the rhetoric I am witnessing
here with the democratic primaries. Instead of pointing out that
Target corp doesn't consider our privacy a critical concern, we
speak of how impossible it is to have privacy and how vulnerable
we feel because Target corp is a critical institution.

Jon



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Re: [FRIAM] Curmudgeons Unite!

[Jon Zingale]

My intention in drawing attention to critical application
development is an attempt to deepen the discussion
around 'apps' and rhetoric. In the discussions around
app usage in the democratic primaries, the target appears
to be the vulnerability which exists today because
programmers today are a bunch of python hacks who
never read Knuth. Yet, not a single Friam mother-church
meeting passes without a discussion of the precision
engineering embodied in our Porches, Teslas, or iphones.

Of particular interest to me in directing this rhetorical frame
are the so-called-on-wikipedia FBI-Apple encryption dispute

and the Target corp data breach  of
2013. In the first case,
the federal government is confronted by the reality that a
phone manufacturer *can* in fact make cryptographically
challenging hand held devices. Further we can use this
powerful technology for sending our family cat pictures
which arrive at their target destinations almost without
fail and near instantaneously. There is a sense of *justified*
*indignation* when the cat photo takes more than a second
to be delivered. The state-of-the-art is such that we *can*
have nice things.

In the second case, a data breach is exploited in the POS system
of big box corporation which sells mostly useless things. Next,
a public rhetoric emerges similar to the rhetoric I am witnessing
here with the democratic primaries. Instead of pointing out that
Target corp doesn't consider our privacy a critical concern, we
speak of how impossible it is to have privacy and how vulnerable
we feel because Target corp is a critical institution.

Jon

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[FRIAM] Scolary- tools for analysis

[Tom Johnson]

FYI

https://scolary.com/

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