Re: [FRIAM] So, *Are* We Alone?

2012-04-06 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Dear Nick I would treat induction/deduction/abduction in an alternate formal manner. http://psivision.objectis.net/DeductionAbductionInduction otherwise we would be inducing that all cows in Scotland are black. http://www.lockergnome.com/windows/2006/04/19/are-all-cows-in-scotland-black/ I

[FRIAM] definitions will be the death of us (was: So, *Are* We Alone?)

2012-04-06 Thread glen
Sarbajit Roy wrote at 04/06/2012 06:36 AM: I would treat induction/deduction/abduction in an alternate formal manner. http://psivision.objectis.net/DeductionAbductionInduction Thread successfully hijacked! ;-) I think it's hilarious how we all want to _fix_ the semantic map and that we fail to

Re: [FRIAM] definitions will be the death of us (was: So, *Are* We Alone?)

2012-04-06 Thread Douglas Roberts
Thank you, Glen. Re: Vampires, *Twilight* is one thing that happened. Ick. A note on dazzled or bedazzled, vs. amused, or bemused: I am frequently amused, and often bemused by things I see and hear every single day, but almost never dazzled. To be dazzled is to lose one's vision, or

Re: [FRIAM] Great Free Math Book

2012-04-06 Thread Alfredo Covaleda
Muy chévere. Gracias 2012/4/6 Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net A couple of friends from Silicon Valley are taking the Stanford Algorithms course with me. One of the readings for the class is: Mathematics for Computer Science Eric Lehman and Tom Leighton 2004

[FRIAM] Charlie Rose - Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson

2012-04-06 Thread Owen Densmore
Pretty good chat by Simpson Bowles on their debt reduction plan .. that wasn't accepted by Washington. http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12265 -- Owen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at