Re: [FRIAM] Are your skills obsolete?

2008-11-12 Thread Steve Smith
Phil Henshaw wrote: I recognize much of your experience of a rush toward a vanishing point and sense of expectation about that. My question is how can you tell the difference between the usual kind and the unusual kind? I agree that this is the essential question.

[FRIAM] Computing Our Way Into The Collapse - Forbes.com

2008-11-12 Thread peter
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/1117/044.html About says it in a nutshell, quants and all ( : ( : pete -- Peter Baston *IDEAS* /www.ideapete.com/ http://www.ideapete.com/ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets

Re: [FRIAM] Dictionary definitions

2008-11-12 Thread Pamela McCorduck
Your channel to God is excellent. On Nov 11, 2008, at 10:28 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: I apologize in advance for the didactic tone of what follows. Yes, God IS speaking through me. The closer one gets to the dictionary-making enterprise, the less one is inclined to use a dictionary to

Re: [FRIAM] Dictionary definitions

2008-11-12 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Thus spake Nicholas Thompson circa 11/11/2008 07:28 PM: When somebody says, I think we ought to keep close to the defnition they are making a claim for the immutability of language, which, of course, is a fairly silly claim. These sorts of arguments remind me of original intent arguments

[FRIAM] Your Search Activity Predicts Flu Outbreaks - O'Reilly Radar

2008-11-12 Thread Tom Johnson
FTI http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/11/your-search-activity-predicts.html --- -- tj == J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c)505.473.9646(h)

Re: [FRIAM] Obama, Proposition 8

2008-11-12 Thread Phil Henshaw
I think that's actually very consistent with what I *intended* to say anyway. ;-)I think most married people I know thought the legally unbinding (formal spiritual) marriage was the real one, and I was just saying people should have the choice of what they think is the real symbol of their

[FRIAM] A Modest Query

2008-11-12 Thread Peter Lissaman
Does anyone know why Excel SOLVER gives unrepeatable (unspeakable) results for a simple variation problem? A high order wave equation. I'll give details if you e-mail me. Peter Lissaman, Da Vinci Ventures Expertise is not knowing everything, but knowing what to look for. 1454 Miracerros Loop

Re: [FRIAM] Are your skills obsolete?

2008-11-12 Thread Phil Henshaw
Steve, [ph] So we see many of the same historic signs of explosive acceleration, it's just a fact, and how it's been accumulative (till last month anyway. :-) ) Look at how vastly each generations life experience has been from the last, going back as many generations as we have any personal

Re: [FRIAM] Obama, Proposition 8

2008-11-12 Thread chris
Perhaps I can lend a little bit of perspective here. I was married in the Philippines; despite the rather extensive influence of the Catholic Church there, marriage consists of two separate and unrelated ceremonies. First there is what is called a civil ceremony, generally done before a judge,

Re: [FRIAM] Forget the bailout, start over: the New American Bank Initiative - O'Reilly Radar

2008-11-12 Thread Owen Densmore
The url got scrambled: http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/11/new-american-bank-initiative-r.html .. or http://tinyurl.com/6g35mv -- Owen On Nov 12, 2008, at 7:23 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: OReilly has an interesting take on the bailout: http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/11/new-american

Re: [FRIAM] Obama/proposition 8

2008-11-12 Thread Russ Abbott
To return to the original question, I recall a discussion right after the election that said (as a previous writer pointed out) that the black community strongly supported Prop 8. The increased black vote for Obama helped Prop 8 as well. In fact--although I don't remember the exact