[FRIAM] Twitch's data leak

2021-10-06 Thread Gillian Densmore
https://mashable.com/article/twitch-data-breach-leak https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-entirety-of-twitch-has-reportedly-been-leaked/ TLDR Anonymous for fun just pwnd Twitch. I can hear jef bezos's screams now. Pwnd in this case includes source code to twitch. I thought it was public

Re: [FRIAM] Aborted project by Errol Morris for the year 2000

2021-10-06 Thread Roger Critchlow
There's an article in Science from last Friday about finding families of bacterial enzymes that take an RNA template and edit DNA where the template matches. The families appear to be related to the enzymes used in CRISPR, and there are lots of them. So where CRISPR was the molecular scissors

Re: [FRIAM] Aborted project by Errol Morris for the year 2000

2021-10-06 Thread Marcus Daniels
Jon writes: < What do you suppose people imagine when they imagine computers the size of atoms? Little boxy Rosey the robots? > I once was on a project concerned with reducing cellulose to glucose, and part of it was imaging with STMs and similar devices. The enzymes that break the

Re: [FRIAM] Aborted project by Errol Morris for the year 2000

2021-10-06 Thread Jon Zingale
"I saw Chuang in a recent panel discussion about QC, and..." Well said. My experiences and observations of the academic/professional researcher world corresponds pretty readily. What do you suppose people imagine when they imagine computers the size of atoms? Little boxy Rosey the robots? .-- .-

Re: [FRIAM] Aborted project by Errol Morris for the year 2000

2021-10-06 Thread Marcus Daniels
I saw Chuang in a recent panel discussion about QC, and he pitched the idea of computers that could grow from seeds. People on the panel acted like he was nutty. He seems to have many wild ideas on many topics. Maybe for someone like that everything is easy, and they don’t feel trapped in

Re: [FRIAM] Aborted project by Errol Morris for the year 2000

2021-10-06 Thread Jon Zingale
"It almost seems cautionary. He still talks optimistically" I remember getting his book out of the CSU library when I was 20, about the time of this interview. I remember feeling hope that while others around me were so concerned with the boolean question of whether there would one day be such

Re: [FRIAM] Newborn Heart Rate

2021-10-06 Thread David Eric Smith
Gilding the lily, since I don’t disagree with anything that has specifically been said. I have felt like, somewhere between the deliberate distortion of Emerson that reads “consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds” (Fun ref see

Re: [FRIAM] Aborted project by Errol Morris for the year 2000

2021-10-06 Thread Marcus Daniels
I wonder how far he sees the exponential progress of computing compared to his progress from the future. It almost seems cautionary. He still talks optimistically like that, at least in public. From: Friam On Behalf Of Jon Zingale Sent: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 9:55 AM To:

Re: [FRIAM] Managing the Pandora Papers

2021-10-06 Thread uǝlƃ ☤ $
I managed to read it. BTW, the tokens after the "?" should be deleted unless you want Wired to log everyone's click to that email campaign. It's an interesting problem. But it sounds like they have it well in hand. I've donated to the ICIJ a few times. This year, I'm afraid all my donation

Re: [FRIAM] Managing the Pandora Papers

2021-10-06 Thread uǝlƃ ☤ $
I managed to read it. BTW, the tokens after the "?" should be deleted unless you want Wired to log everyone's click to that email campaign. It's an interesting problem. But it sounds like they have it well in hand. I've donated to the ICIJ a few times. This year, I'm afraid all my donation

Re: [FRIAM] Aborted project by Errol Morris for the year 2000

2021-10-06 Thread Jon Zingale
That video is pretty cool. Isaac Chuang seems unimaginably young in 2000. It was one of those moments for me when someone who appeared so much older than me at the time appears so much younger in hindsight. .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied

Re: [FRIAM] new european record for 12 hours of rainfall

2021-10-06 Thread cody dooderson
Wow. I think Owen Densmore is in Padua. I wonder if he is dry enough to read FRIAM right now. Cody Smith On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 6:36 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/10/05/italy-record-rainfall-/ > > 29.2 inches in 12 hours, and a half a million

[FRIAM] Managing the Pandora Papers

2021-10-06 Thread Tom Johnson
I hope you can get in to read this interesting WIRED story. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/pandora-papers-leak?utm_source=Pew+Research+Center_campaign=7493ce817a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_10_06_01_38_medium=email_term=0_3e953b9b70-7493ce817a-399349929 === Tom Johnson Inst. for