Re: [FRIAM] scraping a web site

Dear Robert, Tom, and Marcus, I am not sure how I would survive in this complicated world without this ability to ask a quick question of friam and get a quick answer. The problem I so often face is WHAT QUESTION to ask the web, when I plunge into it. I had gotten seduced by the dramatic

Re: [FRIAM] scraping a web site

Hi Nick Your old Earthlink site seems to comprise just about ten 'pages' of content, with many of those pages (Published Works) listing many bibliographic citations, each with a link to an image and further link to a pdf document. Grabbing all the content manually is perhaps tedious but

Re: [FRIAM] scraping a web site

Once you’ve got all the files (like below) Microsoft Word can import HTML files. Editors designed to HTML editing (e.g. Kompozer) will often have a “Open from web” option such that you can just type the URL. If you really want systematic scraping, look at libraries like Beautifulsoup

Re: [FRIAM] scraping a web site

Nick; You might try installing Firefox, if you don't already use it, and go here to add-on DownThemAll. I recall that you can set how many layers deep you want to go. Of course if you get ALL your content you will have to figure out where and how you want to repost it.

[FRIAM] scraping a web site

Dear Phellow Phriammers, I am in the uncomfortable position of being bound by threads of steel to Earthlink. Many, MANY, years I go I started a website on Earthlink, {http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ }, and put a lot of my writing, and some commentary up on it. The

Re: [FRIAM] Political tangents

I don't know. I don't care about him or what he wants/thinks. To some extent, he's part of our tribe and in that sense, we have an obligation to either own the repercussions of his actions/statements _or_ rebuke him and police our tribe. But other than that, he's a silly person and I just

Re: [FRIAM] Political tangents

"[..] our education culminates with the knowledge that the broader education of the body politic has become a fool’s errand.". It is a plausible claim and he helped evidence it by supporting Trump. But if the body politic does nothing informed or intelligent, then I would guess their

Re: [FRIAM] Political tangents

Well, the cow<->Thielian boundary is ephemeral. 2 cows can reproduce to make a Thielian. Thielian production is chaotic and polyphenic. And that's likely to continue despite any widespread but non-catastrophic problem with the cattle population. The Thielian epistocracy will need some

Re: [FRIAM] Political tangents

I was following you with the blood, but if they need fresh minds and, due to their sabotage of the health care act, they get widespread microcephaly (say) from their pool of baby makers, then that's a problem, no? Likewise if the time and resources aren't given for education.It seems like

Re: [FRIAM] What should we do?

Eric writes: "I wish there were still many Indians alive who had experienced living through the (Mohandas) Gandhi years. What was it like to coordinate hundreds of millions of people so that, when the institutions were getting unwanted control signals, they could, in a widely distributed

Re: [FRIAM] Political tangents

The obvious answer is that the Thiels know they need fresh _minds_ as well as fresh blood, at least for now. And this is more than simply growing disrupter-smart cows who will ascend to full humanity in their ranks. They need a delicate balance of suggestibility and intelligence ... cows who

Re: [FRIAM] Political tangents

Some that suffer from microcephaly life to be 30-35 years! -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of gepr Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2017 4:31 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM]

Re: [FRIAM] Political tangents

Naa. As the essay argues, Thiel's ilk trusts that those people are more like cattle. Big families keep the labor pool stocked and keep plenty of fresh blood available for the vampires' life-extending transfusions. There's no need for universal healthcare because we only need the human