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I missed some of the discussion and will have to catch up once I get the
number of unread emails I have at least less than the current year :P but I
don't see why true transparency wouldn't affect people becoming dominant
through a better understanding of
While MS may have lost loyal users who had used Office 2003 or 199X for
years when they introduced the Ribbon, but they gained a bunch of new
users. The goal was doubtless to 'freshen' Microsoft's (or more
specifically Office's) image, and it worked at least for a while. It is not
uncommon to see
[Edit: ninja'd by Glen Grant since I got distracted by explaining the
Zooniverse https://www.zooniverse.org/ to my science teacher]
I think the distinction between singularists and technologists more
generally is how their function curves; the singularity being a cultural
asymptote, requiring a
Thanks all for the congratulations. Robert Nott contacted us a week or two
before the presentation, and then gathered our responses and
names/ages/grades/etc. on the day of, so it was kind of a pleasant surprise.
To respond to the communication issue and the 'how should we perceive
interlocks'
For either phrase, either assume your audience knows what you are talking
about or define the terms before you go on. Explain that it is like a
control panel you can receive data from and send instructions through, and
being so generally defined does not go into details of implementation.
-Arlo
Get a tan, have some pina coladas and come back rested and ready.
rAmen. I subscribed to the Discuss list at about the same time as I
subscribed to another list, that of the Aerican Empire (there is a strong
sense of community there, and a lot of noisy signal). A year or so ago we
had the most
[still going through old drafts]
I agree that killing is for most intents/purposes the same as letting die
since trying to ascertain a difference between the two is trying to find
the 'natural' state of whatever is being killed/let die, and that is often
very hard if not impossible to establish.
I am rapidly becoming envious of a generation (there I said it) who will
have the option of saying everything I know, I learned from XKCD. I'm
already guilty of imagining that everything I know, I learned from
Wikipedia. Wikipedia having it's own feeling of being self-generating.
Well,
`
Geez, owen. I see what you mean!
At first I thought this was a joke because the first couple of days I saw
this thread both inline images were giving me the broken image icon:
Kinda like the XKCD Umlaut comic.
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Going through some old emails and completing and sending drafts I had.
I voted for Obama more because he was young than because he was
not-white.
He is young compared to most presidents, but JFK and Teddy Roosevelt
outflanked him, and nobody can go younger than 35 (I don't believe the
I think a small portion of it is accounted for by businesses having
different ideas of what pisses people off from some of their customers. For
example, many times after signing up for an account with a small startup,
to see what it is, I get an email or often a series of emails from an
employee
[Week-old draft]
But subgroups require me to know what I want and what I don't want so I can
absolutely have or not have them, respectively. This does not reflect real
mail, where I am not sure whether I think Phunny Stuph is amusing or crass
and have to see it first. The best way to do this would
And it will change who we are in ways we probably can't anticipate.
For example, the short film Sight on YouTube. :P
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Especially with the icebergs melting! *Zing*!
...Too soon?
In other news, I went to the holography workshop Steve mentioned and it was
great to meet him, Fred Rebecca, and many other interesting people IRL.
And now I have a hologram of a skullpture and some knowledge of how it was
made / how it
I would say self-control is a sufficient but not necessary condition for
doing science. Besides the joy that it gives me to find out about it, my
life will be more or less the same whether I know the ratio of blue to red
elliptical galaxies or not.
I saw there was another (currently small) thread
But it sounds like it is out of your price range, at least for now. The
author (nor the
publisherhttp://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/03/reminder-why-theres-no-tipjar.html)
gets no money from you checking the book out of the library, so what are
they losing from you pirating the book?
I have watched a two-hour video on Youtube before, for what it is worth.
What matters even more perhaps is who the intended audience is. If it is of
the artsy variety of footage Vimeo might take it...of course since most
video sites are self-moderated with some exception, it would really be
When/if we get ubiquitous volumetric displays, the webpage could be a
1000-person-wide cube; if the voxels-per-inch-cube-edge resolution was the
same as the current http://www.7billionworld.com/howbig.php pixels-per-inch
I thought the tautology is that scientists are trying to converge on Truth,
but Truth is defined as what scientists converge on.
I would break the cycle by arguing that scientists are not trying to
converge on anything, at least not if they are doing it right. They would
expect that minus
In an economics class we watched a video of Malcolm Gladwell at a TED talk
relating the commercial history of spaghetti sauces, and demonstrating how
an individual in the industry (I forget his name) changed the reigning
paradigm from finding the perfect spaghetti sauce to seeing what areas
of
Unfortunately I think I am coming into this a bit too late to read through
the whole thread and respond, but I would like to present a couple of
related topics and see what people think.
The first is in response to 'would I like people to burst my placebo/nocebo
bubble?': the latest issue of
Compare Urban Dictionary:
woothttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=woot
.
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Or perhaps they wanted it to sound futuristic, and believe in the Used
Future http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UsedFuture design ethic.
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I am disappointed they chose to support the proprietary SMELLCD™ format -
OpenAroma may be small, but it is growing, and since it is not limited to
just a few brands of devices, I am confident it is the future of olfactory
computing.
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One thing to consider is that as time goes on, the disc population 'ages' -
probably discs are only replaced when they are completely broken, or enough
people complain.
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To give my input on a related recent topic, I would rather be uncertain or
silent than vague, but would rather be any of those than wrong. That
implies certainty in an unverified belief, which is something fixed with
science, some effort, and a little introspection.
-Arlo James Barnes
Steve, thank you for linking the WikiMedia Commons SVG, I like vector
graphics, particularly ones that are also infographics.
However, it does not display what is really going on with DST. Although
everybody has stories about how it came about and was implemented and why
(for factories, for gas
I propose a new, potentially lengthy discussion topic for FRIAM: why,
and/or why not plain ASCII text email readers are/are not superior to html
readers.
Points awarded for verbosity.
Points detracted for succinctness.
You have been advised.
What are the points awarded/detracted for using
I believe the 'cookies in the omnibar' icon is from a plugin, not vanilla
Chrome. Is this correct?
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I have heard a proposal for doing smaller adjustments more often - but why
not take that to the logical extreme and do it continuously? Most people
use some form or other of computer to tell time nowadays anyway, and even
physical mechanisms would not be extremely difficult (I think) to redesign
[email composed 5 messages back]
There is a lot I don't know about Google, and considering it's complexity I
agree that some aspects may be unknowable.
But it is not going to drop Gmail soon. Although it may not be as much of a
money maker as it was when ads were more prominent, it is the main way
I was at the Santa Fe Institute on Friday, where they were filming for
Melanie Mitchell's MOOC.
Also, I have been getting into MOOs a bit lately, and noticed many were set
up partially or fully for educational purposes; has anyone here some
experience with how well they worked? Wikipedia lists the
I thought the whole point of twitter was the noise. At least, that is what
I put on my feed and how I use it - it is like the fleeting pleasure of
being in a loud, crowded room. I find it indicative that most of Twitters
pageviews come from external sites, being linked in from people's little
And would things have gone the way they did if they kept the 'BackRub' name?
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I don't have an answer for your general question, but as for your
Illustrator files: Google Docs recognizes few formats itself, but can
handle more if you install 'apps' (found on the Chrome webstore but might
be available to other browsers if Docs is 'installing' them to the Google
account
Here is an interesting use of a slide-show-like format (nothing I would not
rather have in a lecture, but):
Conformal Models of Hyperbolic Geometry (1) http://bulatov.org/math/1001/
(via ogre's gallery http://bendwavy.org/doodle/, via User:Tamfang -
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ugh, this argument again. I have to admit, it would be neat to deflect an
asteroid - but neater still to have a space colony, unlikely as that seems
(unless we get terraforming down pat or just find a habitable planet/moon a
convenient distance away, a poor bet).
-Arlo
Not sure I quite understand the situation, but CCleaner has a utility to
look at the StartUp folder (where startups come from, of course) and the
registry to see what is being run at startup, and removing these insures
that you have to muck around with Task Manager Processes less. Of course,
some
The MASTERS Program at the community college has one (a tabletop version).
The samples they give you are graphite and a CD, but I will suggest trying
floppy discs. We are just now getting the kinks of using it out.
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Perhaps it is called larding because it is a more acceptable version of
spam? Although the only similarities are that both are content one might
not read (then again, one might). See *bacn*.
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*PostScript*: For a relatively SFW (though as we all know, little on the
web is actually
Yeah, when they came out with it Facebook was billing it as the
email-killer - well, we see how that turned out.
Apropos:spam, apparently FileZilla Forums blocks users from signing up
using a Gmail, citing spam. I am not sure where most spam comes from, but
it seems a little unfair to single out
You mean...he has gone to the Vi side? :P
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One of the downsides of email's serial format rather than hypermedia's tree
format is that I cannot make this message just a child of an earlier
message, but instead the whole threas.
Old (drafted days ago):To focus on a different aspect: Clips are one thing,
but it does not seem 3-D printed
I got Dropbox mainly for collaboration (sharing datasets and R files), and
now I use it as the central storage location for all my photos - they go
straight from the card (which is then cleared to make room) to Dropbox
through it's automatic transfer function. I have had no problems, although
the
My parents have a slide projector, I can ask them in the morning whether it
is available to be loaned out.
Personal use, I am assuming (not that it matters)? What are the drop off /
pick up details?
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While they HAVE noticed that the sunset/rise moves N and south along the
horizon in spring and fall, Few have noticed that the moon makes that same
trip in a month.
So where is our moonalemma? I guess I have a Googling/Photography project
now.
outside the normal flyways for airlines and
Excellent! I loved *Complexity: A Guided Tour*, I will be sure to sign up
for updates on this.
Thanks,
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I doubt a convincing Turing test will ever be made, so while we are still
just playing around with the idea, another thing to consider is that the
gamemaster, being lazy, does not have to create a compelling game (with
just the right amount of challenge, as you mentioned); s/he simply has to
alter
To add on to that, the original values-hating email was not a contradiction
- Lee did not claim he did not have values, just that he hated them. In
fact, perhaps someone would care less about values one way or the other if
they did not have them.
From my perspective, because values seemingly
Apropos of the Turing Test: collision detection: The female Turing
Testhttp://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2005/04/most_people_thi.php
(that
is a good blog by the way).
Wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test#The_standard_interpretation
also
covers the topic pretty well. So it
But then that implies a false positive: if in other configurations we don't
notice it as a puzzle, then we only (or are more likely to) notice the more
'puzzle-like' phenomena, and interpret that as meaning we are in a game.
But is a game the same as a simulation? Sure, games can have elements of
I finally got around to closing some tabs, so I had enough memory to load
the flash to watch the video. The singing and guitar playing was pretty
good, even if all I had to go on to understand the lyrics was the
translation (I will send it to my Japanese/English bilingual cousins), so I
may check
Goodness, no. I like to do science, and I like to play music, and I support
and enjoy both and the combining of both, but a scientist's job is to do
science, not promote it through music or otherwise. Not that it would not
be good for them to do it anyway, just that it should not be a requirement.
pleasing, albeit interesting from a technical / complexity point of view.
Ron
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Arlo Barnes arlo.bar...@gmail.comwrote:
My uncle, an accomplished musician, just told me he started learning
Python to apply different chord formations to arbitrary intervals (I do
I am always fascinated by spam - who makes it and why. Fully 50% of the now
significant amount of spam I get per week is from Zoosk. At what point does
this unintentionally become negative advertising?
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My uncle, an accomplished musician, just told me he started learning Python
to apply different chord formations to arbitrary intervals (I do not really
understand the music theory, but that is what he told me), and he seems to
really like it.
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On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:56 AM,
I was endorsed for 'teaching' and 'research'. It makes one wonder to what
extent the people responsible for hiring actually use LinkedIn to search
for / verify candidates - it seems there are better (albeit specialized)
sites, like Behance for artists, et cetera).
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Our economic system could use some preferential detachment.
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Thank you Nick, I was going to say the same thing.
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Well, this was an interesting thread, I will definitely have to follow some
of the math concepts mentioned above. My response was at least partly
flippant, as I do not think humans are quite that easy to model, but I do
appreciate the fact that some people at least pretended to take it
seriously
So if you are saying that actions are the derivative of feelings, because
feelings are [an interpretation of] a trend, does that mean all we have to
do to perceive intent is to find the integral of an action function,
indefinite as the result may be?
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It's something
else ... perhaps a type of action distinguishable from other types of
action ... perhaps something called state, which is distinguishable
from process?
Well, if we are being literalists, it could be construed as the chemical
actions taking place in a brain, or perhaps
But what if the compressible class turns out to be the same as the
uncompressible class? It seems the only way to tell is to test every
possible case, as you say in your second paragraph.
What it comes down to, though, is that, again as you say, you are talking
about knowledge, how people model
I'm afraid I have not been following the news, but wasn't some of the
discussion about Muslims who have no opinion on the video or don't take it
seriously being antagonized? If so, I think the tenet that nobody has the
same religion, just their own views of what they say their religion is may
be a
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Robert Holmes rob...@robertholmes.orgwrote:
You guys clearly know too much about philosophy and not enough about
zombies. Your notion that there is a single type of zombie has long been
discredited.
Not to mention the original meaning, which is somebody who
Off-topic, but the two hyphens acting as an em dash in your signature
prepend a Morse 'm' to your message.
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Composition of Reply in Progress
(should have put that up when you first sent this)
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The next one is about the SAT, and we get the third one this coming
Tuesday. Everyone submit their own what-ifs!
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The innocence of many of your questions as posed should be more overtly
valued... many of us are busy asking (quietly) similar or related
questions.
Amen!
A thing to think about re: mixing of alcohol and water is that both are
polar molecules, and thus mutually attracted, which no doubt
...336264832397985356295141.3
...EEaSaPBESEeBZEZaSeZIPI.E
...Easy as pi(e)?
Not sure if XKCD would do this - first saw it in *Joy of Pi*.
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Contents of email that I thought I had sent minutes after my last one:
s/someone else/others
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SedAlso I wanted to note that this counted
as my belated reply to the alternative medicine thread: perhaps most
medicines, not just 'alternative' varieties, are still
It seems so far science and tech have been regarded as thing, or adjectives
to describe 'problem' - whereas I consider them processes (and to a much
lesser extent philosophies in the) and not necessarily even ones with
discrete ends, but more a recursive approach - I see a phenomena, I make a
Mr. Schnada favours his views on sexp, judging from the
sitehttp://schnada.de.
What must be taken into consideration is that the Usenet post copied at the
link http://www.schnada.de/grapt/eriknaggum-xmlrant.html you posted says
that it was posted at 03:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), and considering
You speak to statistical support of at least an anecdotal nature with
The research and validation on both Chinese and Ayurvedic Medicine goes
back millenium, with many cases.
But I would be curious about what mechanistic explanations have been
offered for the effectiveness/efficacy of specific
Aside: It seems the Gmane archive of this conversation is the last listing
on the first page of a Google search for 'MerKaBa antenna'. The rest (I did
not bother to look farther than the first page) are all references to the
first hit, In5D.org. Additionally, all are very wu and rather in
Ah, one of my favorite authors, Arthur C. Clarke. Well, in 2012 the von
Neumann machines were used to increase the density of Jupiter to fusion
point, creating Lucifer, the solar system's second star, in order that the
life on Europa might have a more stable source of heat to evolve in than
the
I actually have not turned off such a switch. This is not because I am lazy
or because I do not care about matters of privacy - on the contrary, I care
a great deal that people have the law-guaranteed right to create, reveal,
own, and trade/barter/buy/sell as much or as little data about or by
I would hope respect for the right to privacy is not a fringe extreme
opinion.
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But there are a lot more strings that will have a tail in it (infinite, or
infinite minus one if you like) than there are strings that are all heads,
randomly generated or otherwise. If randomly generated, we assume all
strings are equally likely, so the chance of never getting a tail gets it's
I have seen artistic modifications to QR codes - things like the Go board,
but also different colourations across a code, and even logos obscuring
parts of the center (not sure how that works, I guess there is a lot of
redundancy?)
I think the most interesting was a QR cookie (I shall endeavor to
Gasland was an excellent movie. It's point was that gas is not the clean
fuel it advertises to be, it just shifts some (not even all) of it's impact
from when it is used by the consumer to when it is extracted. It is not
just fracking, although of course that worsens things; gas drilling is just
a
I was elated to find JoVE (the Journal of Visual Experiments, a video
database of footage of experiments and techniques) but deeply disappointed
to find it was not open access.
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Dear All:
To shift slightly... Aren't there conflicting metaphors here? How
can something be free, and yet be a marketplace? In marketplaces people
are orderly, follow the rules, pay for things, etc. The idea of a
free marketplace of ideas is inherently contradictory. Either it is an
Sadly, I am not going to answer your question, because I am still focussing
in my current education on vanilla complex number geometries anyway.
Instead, I am going to comment on are there higher order numbers beyond
complex needed for algebraic operations by emphasizing 'needed' - I always
Actually, I can think of one application for which quaternions and such are
not enough: 3D fractals. I will have to find the thread on fractalforums.com,
but it describes the creation of the MandelBox and MandelBulb in accessible
language but technical detail, as the story of an artist being
Jochen, it seems like your question is generating a variety of types of
answers, maybe you want to clarify your meaning in the context of the
answers given so far?
That said, this would be an excellent Quora http://quora.com
question/set-of-answers.
I think (from my very tangential experience, I
Open source hardware and software can spread quickly to those who want it,
and clearly companies that sell mobile phones do not want it. But there are
enough smart people out there that communities could build the phones they
want. So the issue is coverage. nG should be like WiFi - as open or
I assume you mean 'free kittens' as in free up front but thousands of
dollars in food and veterinary checkups per year for ten plus years?
As to how one would go about constructing a meshnet, I *think* all that
would be required is a program constantly running on devices, looking for
signals from
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