Re: [FRIAM] words

I confess I haven’t read this email carefully (I’m trying to work through my email backlog), but this question reminds me of something I read a long time ago, which is that the eye identifies straight line because they are invariant under motions of the eye back and forth in a single

Re: [FRIAM] Walking Thunder one page first pass

You might tell him that Jane Goodall does not spell her last name as Godall. I always feel like a jerk when I correct somebody like this, but perhaps he has a chance to change it. —Barry On 19 Mar 2024, at 21:24, Frank Wimberly wrote: I met the director of this film. His enthusiasm was

Re: [FRIAM] Please join Zoom meeting in progress Virtual Friam

So, you missed it because you got screwed. Got it. On 25 Jan 2024, at 15:46, Nicholas Thompson wrote: Hi, Frank, I was hoping to join you for a bit today but a super long dentist appointment intruded. sscrewing and screwing unscrewing and screwing unscrewin and screwing. An hour and a

Re: [FRIAM] Trump's expertise on magnets

I saw a snippet of that talk. He expanded on the Big Lie by claiming he won 50 states in 2020.  —Barry On 6 Jan 2024, at 15:23, Tom Johnson wrote: During a "Commit to Caucus" rally at the North Iowa

Re: [FRIAM] Off the wall question about turbulence

I have no idea how this got sent three times. My apologies. —Barry On 30 Nov 2023, at 16:57, Barry MacKichan wrote:  Sounds like you’ve got an infestation of Maxwell’s demons. Maybe call an exterminator. — Barry Sent from my iPad On Nov 27, 2023, at 12:23 PM, cody dooderson wrote

Re: [FRIAM] metathesis

At some point in the past I got mildly interested in linlguistics, and linguists believe that there are very many dialects for most languages. I got less stressed after I changed my “‘Axe’? The word is ‘ask’, dumbo” response to “‘Axe’? Oh he/she is speaking that dialect”. But I agree that

Re: [FRIAM] Off the wall question about turbulence

Sounds like you’ve got an infestation of Maxwell’s demons. Maybe call an exterminator.— BarrySent from my iPadOn Nov 27, 2023, at 12:23 PM, cody dooderson wrote:I have no idea. You might be able to buy a clear plasti replacement for the u-trap. Then you could add some food coloring to the wash

Re: [FRIAM] Watch "The Most Important Idea in Physics: The Principle of Least Action - Ask a Spaceman!" on YouTube

This is late since another ISP cut my fiber connection a week ago. Living with only cell service plus $15 per gigabyte is not pleasant. Some comments. 1. I believe that the fact that photons travel on geodesics (least distance betwee2 points on a surface (manifold)) gives a fingerhold on

Re: [FRIAM] Cumulus Nevis

But that was your point, wasn’t it? On 2 Jul 2023, at 10:40, Barry MacKichan wrote: Looks like snow to me. Like by our driveway when I was young. —Barry On 1 Jul 2023, at 15:40, Nicholas Thompson wrote: Frank, you can add this to your categories of cloud, cumulo-nimbus, cumulus congestus

Re: [FRIAM] Cumulus Nevis

Looks like snow to me. Like by our driveway when I was young. —Barry On 1 Jul 2023, at 15:40, Nicholas Thompson wrote: Frank, you can add this to your categories of cloud, cumulo-nimbus, cumulus congestus, cumulus castellatus, cumulo-arboris, and now cumulo-nevis Actually, if I have my

Re: [FRIAM] Trees as wind farms.

I would think the energy is too dispersed to be collectable. At risk of bending this infant thread … you reminded me of John Muir: It has been said that trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment rooted in the ground. But they never seem so to me. I never saw a

Re: [FRIAM] Call blockers

I like Frank’s solution, but I’m also interested in a solution for our land line. The other option for the land line is to cancel it entirely, but about six weeks ago I got a call from a friend who looked us up when he was in Santa Fe, which is when he found out we had moved. He found our land

Re: [FRIAM] IEEE Milestone celebrating computer graphics history at U of Utah

Mount Olympus! Sent from my iPad > On Mar 28, 2023, at 1:24 AM, Guerin, Stephen > wrote: > >  > Wow, what a gathering at Utah on Thurs and Friday. > > > > > Left to Right: Alvy Ray Smith, John Warnock, Henri Gouraud, Ed Catmull, Henry > Fuchs, Martin Newell, Jim Blinn > >

Re: [FRIAM] ChatGPT and William James

I haven’t followed the discussions here carefully, but the question “And we humans are different?” brings up Noam Chomsky’s view in the NYT, gifted here:

Re: [FRIAM] Magic Harry Potter mirrors or more?

When I bought back my company about 25 years ago, the mantra for programmers was “Google the error message!” Now ChatGPT will write some of the code for you. The job of programming still requires a lot of knowledge and experience since using ChatGPT-generated code without quality checking is

[FRIAM] Whisper, a speech-to-text prrogram based on GPT-3

I downloaded Whisper and tried it out. I fed it a 20-minute screencast I did about 10 years ago. There are about four levels you can choose which trade accuracy for speed. I tried the recommended level, down one from the highest. After a substantial wait, I got the results. First, the input

[FRIAM] ChatGPT is not very smart...

or is obsessed with four-letter words. From an email from another group. Paragraphs with an initial capital are ChatGPT’s responses. The others are input: Chat GPT dialog, courtesy of Paul Ginsparg: “how many states in the united states have four letter names? “There are actually two states

Re: [FRIAM] [off topic] Bank of america problems

One more bank story. About 35 years ago, 1987 I think, we were owed $40,000 by a German company that had developed a keyboard with programmable LCD symbols in the keys. We had a word processor for mathematics which allowed the user to design new characters. We handled the display and printing

Re: [FRIAM] technical notes on fusion announcement

I am a long-time environmentalist (I think I joined the Wilderness Society in the early 60’s) and I opposed fission power plants because of safety issues and because of the long-lived waste products. My feeling is that even if you make the probability of a screw-up very low, given 10,000

Re: [FRIAM] Eero wifi just not connecting

Are you using the Eero app (I have it on iPhone and iPad, but I’m sure there’s an Android version)? IIRC, you can reset everything and then follow the app instructions. One of the Eeros has to have a connection to your internet modem, so probably it has to be a wired connection. —Barry On 9

Re: [FRIAM] The Starship and the Canoe

I read “The Starship and the Canoe” quite a long time ago, and I read a book (Baidarka) by George Dyson shortly after we moved to Seattle in 1988. I met him many years later. The director of the Institute for Advanced Study was visiting Seattle, and there was a get-together at Charles

Re: [FRIAM] Exoplanet Archive

I think the first image is stunning. I’ve known about gravitational lensing for probably 50 years, but I always thought it would be rare. Not so, apparently. This image seems to contain quite a few dramatic examples of it. —Barry On 11 Jul 2022, at 22:53, Marcus Daniels wrote: In case

Re: [FRIAM] Covid

There is a lot of talk and some evidence that negative tests are not reliable (presumably this means not as reliable as they used to be). —Barry On 30 Jun 2022, at 13:23, George Duncan wrote: Ed, Sorry to hear that test result. Having been at FRIAM, I just took the test, as did my wife

Re: [FRIAM] Zoom Friam on June 30

Well, it’s Friday in New Zealand. —Barry On 30 Jun 2022, at 11:56, George Duncan wrote: You mean THUAM? George Duncan Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University georgeduncanart.com See posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram Land: (505) 983-6895 Mobile: (505) 469-4671 My

Re: [FRIAM] Birx presentation

Dragon has a dialog for new vocabulary. I pasted “ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙ ꙮ” into it and entered “grass elephant” for the spoken trigger, and then spoke “this is a test new line grass elephant” and got this: This is a test ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙

Re: [FRIAM] Birx presentation

My first thought, which passed quickly, is the Glen dictated the message. Which got me asking if he used voice recognition to write “ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙ ꙮ”. I know you can do it in Dragon, but I’m not so sure Siri is bright enough for the task. —Barry On 23 Jun 2022,

Re: [FRIAM] it's boring

This prompts me to propose, with tongue slightly in cheek, the *Weak Turing Test*, which consists of a remote observer trying to distinguish between a computer and Donald Trump. It doesn’t require any deep analysis on the part of the computer, just a database of grievances. —Barry On 20 Jun

Re: [FRIAM] Programming-related XQCD cartoons

On 26 May 2022, at 11:44, Barry MacKichan wrote: The following amusing list comes from a TeX-related mailing list: https://xkcd.com/292/ https://xkcd.com/844/ https://xkcd.com/1579/ https://xkcd.com/1695/ https://xkcd.com/2054/ https://xkcd.com/2138/ https://xkcd.com/2347

[FRIAM] Programming-related XQCD cartoons

The following amusing list comes from a TeX-related mailing list: https://xkcd.com/292/ https://xkcd.com/844/ https://xkcd.com/1579/ https://xkcd.com/1695/ https://xkcd.com/2054/ https://xkcd.com/2138/ https://xkcd.com/2347/-. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM

Re: [FRIAM] quotes and questions

Concerning Musk and Twitter, note according to Andy Borowitz (where I turn for news that doesn’t give me a headache), “**Twitter in Chaos After the Elon Musk Who Offered to Buy It Turns Out to Be a Bot** The bid for Twitter is believed to be the largest corporate takeover ever proposed by a

Re: [FRIAM] Thursday Friam

That’s fine in general. I may have to leave early this week. --Barry On 8 May 2022, at 13:44, Frank Wimberly wrote: How would it work to change the time of the Thursday meeting to 10:30am MDT? A number of regulars don't arrive until that time anyway and a conflict has emerged for me at

Re: [FRIAM] (no subject)

Wasn’t that the guy who touted curing bubonic plague wtih bleach and bright lights? --Barry On 9 May 2022, at 10:38, glen wrote: Draft Overturning Roe v. Wade Quotes Infamous Witch Trial Judge With Long-Discredited Ideas on Rape

Re: [FRIAM] (no subject)

Especially if it were retroactive… --Barry On 8 May 2022, at 21:29, Frank Wimberly wrote: Wasn't it Alito? That would doom Social Security. Also people would be outraged. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, May 8, 2022, 7:14

Re: [FRIAM] Roswell, Aliens, FBI and SFI

they decided they were on the wrong trail? The horses couldn't turn around so they had to back down. That stimulated my fear or heights. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Apr 25, 2022, 9:44 AM Barry MacKichan wrote: Preston

Re: [FRIAM] Roswell, Aliens, FBI and SFI

Preston and a friend rode horses from the Mexican border at Rio Pedro to Albuquerque and on to Santa Fe eventually. This is approximately the route that Coronado took in 1540. Some parts of it were in scary-rough mountains. He wrote a book about it: “Cities of Gold: A Journey Across the

Re: [FRIAM] Enamine

WHO’s on first? My last year at Harvard, after all the mathmematics students had been matched to graduate schools, some of us were talking at lunch. One of them was going to UCLA. I asked, “Who’s at UCLA?” “Yes”, he answered. *Sze-tsen Hu wrote a book on Homotopy Theory On 9 Mar 2022, at

Re: [FRIAM] sanctions schmanctions

Well, Don Jr. said about a decade ago that they no longer needed banks because all the capital they needed came “out of Russsia”. —Barry On 24 Feb 2022, at 12:06, glen wrote: I can't help but wonder what "investments" we have over here. .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -.

Re: [FRIAM] tapeworms

I’m guessing that the strategy doesn’t work when your colony is virtual, so, no, I won’t be going out to lick bird poop. —Barry On 20 Feb 2022, at 23:10, Roger Critchlow wrote: Where's my ivermectin? On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 1:48 PM Steve Smith wrote: well found/shared... On 2/20/22 8:12

Re: [FRIAM] ... --- ...

Wikipedia in order to distract us from our work? If so, then it worked. ;P "In memory of Vámóðr stand these runes" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B6k_runestone#Unicode ċ̖̗̇̂̂̂̃ ŏ̤̮̈ d̤̥̣̈̊̇ ẙ̊̊ On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 2:06 PM Barry MacKichan <

Re: [FRIAM] ... --- ...

Unicode group Runic Runic Letter Short-Twig-Ar A, Runic Letter Fehu Feoh Fe F, Runic Letter Tiwaz Tir Tyr T, … —Barry On 18 Feb 2022, at 14:30, Frank Wimberly wrote: ROK runestone? --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Fri, Feb 18,

Re: [FRIAM] The Insurrection Index

This map, like many others, is pretty much a map showing the population of each state. Using color to give #insurrectionists/population would be better, but even this still improperly gives relative importance to the states with large areas. Dave named the two states that are formerly

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

Aha! I think the exercise here was to come up with a categorical statement. —Barry On 25 Oct 2021, at 10:19, Marcus Daniels wrote: It is hard to find the motivation to invest much in category theory when the practical considerations are left as an exercise to the reader. .-- .- -. - / .-

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

(Sorry about the previous message that got sent before I wrote it) On 25 Oct 2021, at 11:36, Barry MacKichan wrote: > The domain of dual.space can be mapped to any other domain :-) Is this a theorem, or a koan? —Ba

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

> > On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 5:00 PM Frank Wimberly > wrote: > I want to clarify what a dual space is. The domain of dual.space can be mapped to any other domain :-) ___ stephen.gue...@simtable.com CEO, Simtable

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

You might want to try https://www.wolfram.com/language/. This could work since the “programming” needed is minima (given that you have the interpretating program). See also https://www.wolfram.com/language/11/new-visualization-domains/plot-cellular-automata.html. There seem to be free versions

Re: [FRIAM] Breakfast in Santa Fe

A year or so after we moved from Las Cruces to Seattle, when our son was 17m we heard that one of our son’s Las Cruces friends had died. He and a friend were sitting on a couch playing with a gun and what happened is what you probably expected. —Barry On 22 Oct 2021, at 18:52,

Re: [FRIAM] Heart Rate

The author Isabel Wilkerson wrote two books which I’ve read in the last year or two. The second one was “Caste, The Origins of our Discontents.” In it, she looks at castes in three countries: India, the US, and Germany. She notes the extent to which the Nazis, once they had control of the

Re: [FRIAM] The unvaccinated

I tried again. This time I used the sharing icon on the NYT website. On 16 Oct 2021, at 14:52, Jon Zingale wrote: > Barry, > > It is behind a payway. Would you summarize? > > https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/opinion/covid-vaccines-unvaccinated.html > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -.

[FRIAM] Opinion | The Unvaccinated May Not Be Who You Think - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/opinion/covid-vaccines-unvaccinated.html?searchResultPosition=1 .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe

[FRIAM] The unvaccinated

Zeynep Tufekci had a column in the NY Times that agrees with Glen’s (oops! I mean s‚uǝlƃ) position in the discussion yesterday. It makes it more understandable why many have resisted vaccinations. (I hope it is not behind a paywall.)

Re: [FRIAM] Cartoon

Facebook? What’s Facebook? On 15 Oct 2021, at 10:19, Marcus Daniels wrote: > I will navigate paywalls. Facebook, that is a bridge too far! > > On Oct 15, 2021, at 7:14 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > >  > https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10209886140188090=1771160841 > > > --- > Frank

Re: [FRIAM] Geometrical Mechanics

Yeah, sounds like a good excuse. Go with that one. —Barry On 13 Oct 2021, at 18:12, Frank Wimberly wrote: > I suspect Marc Raibert handed it to me and said, "Read this" so I took it > without seeing the "do not remove" stamp. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM

Re: [FRIAM] Geometrical Mechanics

I think it looks interesting as well as something I’ve always wanted to understand better. Count me in. Wow! It is a trip down memory lane. The summer of 1960 I was at an NSF summer institute on mathematics in Corvallis, OR. Raphael Zahler, the note-taker for these lectures, was there. So,

[FRIAM] Fwd: A cartoon from The New Yorker

Some amusement for the morning.  —Barry .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam

Re: [FRIAM] do you answer those phone calls?

Our phone service here (in N. Carolina) includes caller id by voice — which is generated by a text-to-voice program that hilariously garbles the text. It seems like state of the art circa 1990. Back when there were humans on the line (usually trying to pump stocks), I’d say hello and then

Re: [FRIAM] Great Circle

In November 1994 I was on a sailing trip down the Chilean islands. Local time was an hour *later* than NY time. I think part of that was that Chile was on daylight savings time. I once flew from Seattle to LA to get on a flight to Beijing. That flight took us back over Seattle, Anchorage, and

Re: [FRIAM] Great Circle

In the northern hemisphere a great circle route between two points with the same latitude will be north of the parallel, so if the latitudes are close, the great circle will arch above the straight line (for most map projections that keep “parallels” parallel). A gnomonic projection of the

Re: [FRIAM] in the interest of consistency

Masks are unneeded for those with their heads up their *sses. On 17 Sep 2021, at 1:53, Marcus Daniels wrote: In the interest of consistency: No vaccination then no hemorrhoid medication!

Re: [FRIAM] the end of the pandemic

MailMate on the Mac. https://freron.com —Barry On 13 Sep 2021, at 10:31, Gary Schiltz wrote: What email client and platform are you using? On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 8:37 AM Barry MacKichan < barry.mackic...@mackichan.com> wrote: My email client keeps track of conversations, so if m

Re: [FRIAM] the end of the pandemic

My email client keeps track of conversations, so if message A today is a reply to message B from a year ago, the top of my inbox shows message B with a disclosure triangle. Clicking it will show message B — the next part of the conversation. In Friam, almost every message gets responses, so

Re: [FRIAM] gen'fur

When I was (much) younger, I tended strongly to the nurture side of the nature vs nurture divide. My wife and I raised four kids, two from her previous marriage, one that we are responsible for, and one biracial adopted son. So, four kids, three fathers, and two mothers. It did not take long

Re: [FRIAM] Can empirical discoveries be mathematical?

Briefly, and in my opinion, mathematics can only make claims like ‘if A is true then B is true’. To say B is true, you must also say A is true. Eventually you have to go back to the beginning of the deductive chain, and the truth of the initial statement is inductive, not deductive or

Re: [FRIAM] Can empirical discoveries be mathematical?

That’s good — it means you didn’t put your legs through the sleeves. Sent from my iPad > On Sep 3, 2021, at 8:39 PM, thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote: > > No. I never managed upside down - . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays

Re: [FRIAM] Can empirical discoveries be mathematical?

Well, your discovery was certainly empirical. The explanation is mathematical, having to do what you can do with an oriented surface. BTW, did you take a picture when you put it on upside down? I can visualize a couple of ways you could have done that, but if you weren’t doing hand stands the

Re: [FRIAM] Kill it!

If there are really ‘fashion police’ they will squash it. Really, red with black stripes and dots! —Barry On 24 Aug 2021, at 10:44, uǝlƃ ☤>$ wrote: ‘Kill it!’ US officials advise no mercy for lanternfly summer invasion Am I so wrong to root for the bad guy? ... such a good lookin' bug. --

Re: [FRIAM] philosophers

Nick, have you given names to your thumbs? On 16 Aug 2021, at 13:53, thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote: Two Ughs. I am inventing a new rating system: Ughs v Hugs. Ambrose Bierce gets Two Ughs. n Nick Thompson thompnicks...@gmail.com

Re: [FRIAM] Can current AI beat humans at doing science?

I think one of the shortcomings of machine learning is that it can learn but has no insight. A recent lesson about this comes from David Heinemeier Hansson, who reported that Apple Card gave him a credit limit 20x that of his wife. They live in a community property state, file a joint tax

Re: [FRIAM] Collective sensemaking

I did a fair amount of spelunking in my undergraduate days. While I occasionally encountered a solitary bat, most bats that I’m familiar with hang cheek to jowl in vast crowds. In caves, which you could fairly describe as “inside”. To answer BW: No, not suspicious at all. *The Sixth

[FRIAM] Sean x Carrol

One of the (trivial, granted) ways the universe amuses me is that there are two Sean Carrols, one of whom authored ‘Endless Forms Most Beautiful’. I first heard of that book on a Friday morning at St. John’s. The are both prominent in their fields (physics and biology) and are very good

Re: [FRIAM] Ipod Nano 7 and Win 10

You’ll probably have to pay for it, but the people at BestBuy may look at you strangely and ask “What’s a DVD? (This depends on their ages). The fastest and, I think, expected way is to buy it online and download the installation program. —Barry On 13 Jul 2021, at 11:38, Frank Wimberly

Re: [FRIAM] of straw and steel

My habit of reading titles of books on bookshelves of journalists, etc., shows *Caste* appearing on the shelves of Judy Woodruff and Jonathan Capehart. David Brooks sits too far from his bookshelf. I don’t recall Sandel’s book showing up, but I first heard about him from Owen Densmore, who

Re: [FRIAM] of straw and steel

I can endorse both Sandel’s *Tyrrany of Merit* and Wilkerson’s *Caste*. Also I highly recommend Wilkerson’s earlier book, *The Warmth of Other Suns* about the great migration in the early 20th century of blacks from the south to the north and California. An interesting factoid is how important

Re: [FRIAM] for the optimists

I’m not prepared to weigh in on any long discussion, but my impression is that the reason that the inventions after 1960 pale in comparison with them before is that the low-hanging fruit that really makes life easier (electricity, public health infrastructure like sewage treatment and clean

[FRIAM] Patent trolls -- John Oliver's take

I mentioned patent trolls, and Uniloc specifically, in Friday’s Zoom meeting. Here is a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bxcc3SM_KA I did not mention the Uniloc name because I temporarily forgot it. I understand that is a common reaction to trauma and post traumatic stress. —Barry-

Re: [FRIAM] of straw and steel

Exactly. They are a prime example of what economists call “rent seekers”, which means they can charge far beyond what their costs would indicate. I would guess that the majority of their income comes from the government, as part of overhead clauses in grants. —Barry On 30 Jun 2021, at 9:05,

Re: [FRIAM] Coffee Shop

I can send you two tin cans, but I’m having trouble finding enough string. —Barry On 3 Jun 2021, at 13:15, uǝlƃ ☤>$ wrote: I don't think a hybrid is a good idea. I can see how maybe 1 remote node might fold into a meatspace group, but not ≥2. You might consider just keeping the virtual

Re: [FRIAM] Hywel's anti-representationalism

That is one of the nicest obituaries I’ve seen. —Barry On 24 Mar 2021, at 19:24, jon zingale wrote: From time to time, I find myself reflecting on the wisdom of my old friend Hywel, and this time in particular, on the anti-representational nature of his epistemology. Hywel was well known for

Re: [FRIAM] I am accepting wagers

Don’t worry about it. I’m outsourcing my memory now, to Google. —Barry On 16 Mar 2021, at 10:58, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote: Sorry. That was Oxford, in England, not Harvard. [sigh] I'm too old to post without a fact checker. - . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity

Re: [FRIAM] I am accepting wagers

With the understanding that I am not talking about any specific project but rather about generalities, I can point out how much effort you could save with shared code — kill 50 (55 including territories) birds with one stone. Especially if that code is built with tinker toy modules. I think

Re: [FRIAM] I am accepting wagers

Sorry, looks like it has been done . See https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2021/03/demystifying-vaccination-procedures?utm_source=SilverpopMailing_medium=email_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020210315b%20(1) It might be interesting to see how close to useful this comes. —Barry. On 13 Mar 2021,

Re: [FRIAM] I am accepting wagers

What you describe probably could be done approximately as fast as Dave says. But we are not talking simply about a system with an elegant web interface for the public and a static database on the back end. The compexity of the back end depends a lot on the requirements. Localities have to keep

Re: [FRIAM] I am accepting wagers

When the healthcare.gov fiasco was going on, I was trying repeatedly to refill my Starbucks card using their web site. I thought it would be interesting to see which site would be running correctly first. I don’t know which was first but it was close — it wasn’t a slam dunk win for private

Re: [FRIAM] federal legislation

Anyone for a delicious stew, beginning with eye of newt and toe of frog? My personal recollection is that Gingrich had a major role in creating the toxic partisanship we are struggling with today. —Barry On 7 Mar 2021, at 20:13, George Duncan wrote: H.R.4079 - National Drug and Crime

[FRIAM] Isadore Singer

Isadore Singer died last month. He was born in 1924. In my mind I keep a short list of great mathematicians who were also exceptional human beings. Singer is one; another is my thesis advisor Don Spencer. There is a good obituary at quantamagazine.org. Although we never worked together, he

Re: [FRIAM] Interview with Jeremy Howard

In poker terms, I’ll meet your 20 years and raise it to 60. When I was a freshman, Harvard had optional non-credit seminars to introduce us to some advanced work. The one I took was on computer science before that was a phrase, much less a department. My project was with Anthony Oettinger and

Re: [FRIAM] Here's How the Texas Energy Grid Fell Short

To quote the zeitgeist, a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. On 16 Feb 2021, at 22:51, thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote: > https://www.texaspolicy.com/heres-how-the-texas-energy-grid-fell-short/ > > Another viewpoint on the Texas Powergrid mystery. > > Clean energy is definitely made the boogie

Re: [FRIAM] While walking to get tacos...

No, it’s a haiku. On 4 Feb 2021, at 15:23, jon zingale wrote: > Above my house, an unkindness of ravens flew. > And distinguished from the many was one > whose feathers shone white, almost translucent > against the sky in the bright sunlight. > Is this a common genetic variant? > > > > -- > Sent

Re: [FRIAM] NYU Professor Creates COVID-19 Dashboard to Compare Country and State Data

Tom, you’re a journalist, so now that I have your (virtual and asynchronous) attention, I’d like to register some complaints. We seem to get the same data again and again, but there is critical data that noone has included in what I’ve read. Two examples: 1. We get daily death rates and

Re: [FRIAM] Acronyms

Clearly a context-sensitive TLA. On 26 Jan 2021, at 11:24, Frank Wimberly wrote: > Three Mile Island, of course. - . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe

Re: [FRIAM] Acronyms

TMI On 25 Jan 2021, at 18:43, Steve Smith wrote: > Nick - > > I think it *can* be the thing you call out, but I encounter it in so > many contexts where that explanation doesn't really fit.   Sometimes I > think it is entirely unconscious shortcutting.   On this list, for > example, I use LANL

Re: [FRIAM] Acronyms

Are you spamming on behalf of the New York and Atlantic Railway? ;-) On 25 Jan 2021, at 18:16, Prof David West wrote: > NYAR - . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe

Re: [FRIAM] Acronyms

When I see someting like BICBW, 1. I double click it 2. Get into a Google screen (or Duck Duck Go) (5 keystrokes using Launchbar on a Mac) It is unnecessary to copy it; Launchbar can with the selection. 3. Hit return. 4. Three out of the first five links contain the definition in the first

Re: [FRIAM] tangent from uncanny valley

Hm…… ok On 25 Jan 2021, at 11:59, Marcus Daniels wrote: I think a lot of that could be sorted out from population-based statistical inference from whole genome sequencing and large biobanks. From: Friam On Behalf Of Barry MacKichan Sent: Monday, January 25, 2021 8:09 AM To: The Friday

Re: [FRIAM] tangent from uncanny valley

There used to be a lot of talk about “junk DNA” which doesn’t do anything, but I’ve gotten the impression (sorry, I can’t give references) that more recently the “junk DNA” does play a role. Also, adjacency or propinquity of genes on a chromosome affects evolution (if I get one of the genes

Re: [FRIAM] Another Abel prize interview

Reuben said he was working on a biography of Peter Lax (his advisor). Does anyone know if he ever finished it? An aside. The first national math meeting I attended was in 1966. It was in San Francisco and I was at Stanford. It was where I finally was able to put faces to names. Peter Lax was

Re: [FRIAM] Talent and Moral Luck - Steelman attempt

I think you would have trouble (eventually, perhaps, or immediately) if you tried to transfer money to ISIS. —Barry On 13 Jan 2021, at 12:26, jon zingale wrote: Very well summarized. I am hearing that Nick's question is one of cultural cultivation. Finding and maintaining a sweet spot seems

Re: [FRIAM] Great Communicator or NLP unto TDS

The names of the two styles would be “thoughts” and “emotion” (or, to slice and dice a bit more, “grievance”). —Barry On 10 Jan 2021, at 13:01, Frank Wimberly wrote: Trump speaks at a junior high level ("fantastic", "disgusting") and repeats every phase two or three times.  Obama was a

Re: [FRIAM] best rant so far

Wow! I hadn’t realized that AI has gotten so insightful! —Barry On 10 Jan 2021, at 13:04, Frank Wimberly wrote: My mail client (Android Gmail) warns me that every.message from Marcus "appears dangerous". I don't think it has anything to do with the content.  Is anyone else experiencing this?

Re: [FRIAM] Fallback in barbarism

My suggestions: A party of the plutocracy which would not win any elections without exploiting social differences and dog-whistle racism. The system of primaries and the gerrymandering of congressional districts has allowed a minority of a minority to control who gets to run for public

Re: [FRIAM] Plaing Go With Darwin

Trump, Trump, Trump! Everywhere you look, there is Trump! On 19 Dec 2020, at 13:17, jon zingale wrote: > while chronicling the tragic descent of a man unwilling to allow the > next generation to take its rightful place - . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. . .-. . FRIAM Applied

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