Re: [FRIAM] lurking

2021-11-07 Thread Eric Charles
So... yeah... if Steve was in a conversation with me, and tried to act proud of beating his drunk buddies in poker... that's exactly what I was agreeing would be cringe... but nothing that he said has any connection with the type of strategy that goes into professional poker playing. Why not point

[FRIAM] EuroVis 2022 – 24th EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization

2021-11-07 Thread Tom Johnson
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Re: [FRIAM] best microphone?

2021-11-07 Thread Marcus Daniels
Got the Yeti X and the Bluevoice “signal cleanup” does a good enough job for me. Thanks! From: Friam On Behalf Of Eric Charles Sent: Sunday, November 7, 2021 7:57 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] best microphone? I got a Yeti Pro last summer and

Re: [FRIAM] lurking

2021-11-07 Thread Marcus Daniels
IIRC the new Samsung Galaxy phones can go up to 960 frames per second. One problem could be where to send that much bandwidth. Even with a good optical zoom, it would max out wireless links unless the image focus area was small set of pixels. From: Friam On Behalf Of David Eric Smith Sent:

Re: [FRIAM] lurking

2021-11-07 Thread Marcus Daniels
My inclination would be to invest in standoff biometrics (e.g. Eulerian Video Amplification) and then find the best poker playing code. It ought to be possible to automate and perhaps get rich in the process. From: Friam On Behalf Of Eric Charles Sent: Sunday, November 7, 2021 7:42 AM To:

Re: [FRIAM] best microphone?

2021-11-07 Thread Eric Charles
I got a Yeti Pro last summer and have been very happy with it. It comes with software that will gate and suppress, as well as several other features. If you're doing high end recording, it might not work, but it's been just fine reducing normal home sounds from the background for my purposes.

Re: [FRIAM] lurking

2021-11-07 Thread Eric Charles
I DID read all the thread so far... but I'm curious how we got to one of the starting points: "as cringy as it may be for some dork to be proud of their Poker prowess" I am somewhat satisfied with my Poker mediocrity, certainly not proud of it... but if I met someone who was ACTUALLY startlingly

Re: [FRIAM] stygmergy, CA's, and [biological] development

2021-11-07 Thread Jon Zingale
"And I even know David Spivak, and know some of his work with Brendan Fong." Cool. He and I knew each other briefly when he was at the University of Oregon. Around the time David was learning topos theory, he, my buddy Ralf (who was in the math grad program there at the time) and I worked through