Re: [FRIAM] naive question

2022-10-20 Thread Frank Wimberly
aying you have the > combination of your gun safe in your mind and also on a piece of paper in > your safety deposit box and also in an encrypted file on your computer? > > > > > > > > Nick Thompson > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nth

Re: [FRIAM] naive question

2022-10-20 Thread Frank Wimberly
Back in the 80s I wrote many Unix shell scripts. For my purposes they ran identically on various workstations whether Sun, SG, or, eventually, Vax (running Unix). The software existed in my mind/brain, in files in the various filesystems, or on paper listings. What's wrong with my thinking? Fra

[FRIAM] Thursday Zoom

2022-10-20 Thread Frank Wimberly
I will start the meeting this morning at about 9:45 (MDT) like last week. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Jo

Re: [FRIAM] My Work On Earth Is Not Yet Done

2022-10-20 Thread Frank Wimberly
*NST===>Not at all clear to me what psycho somatic means, unless it involves some sort of assignment of blame. If I, a diabetic eat a hot fudge Sunday and go into ketosis, is my coma psychosomatic? Does it matter that I did it as an unconscious protest against the idiocies of contemporary diabete

Re: [FRIAM] Is consciousness measurable?

2022-10-19 Thread Frank Wimberly
Based on his Facebook info, Jan died. One of his friends gives the details. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 2:13 PM Douglass Carmichael wrote: > Hard to imagine a computer saying “that’s disgusting” with conviction.

Re: [FRIAM] Ralph Abraham, Rob and Chris Shaw (was: Re: Zoom Friam)

2022-10-14 Thread Frank Wimberly
I think you know about Chris and Ralph Abrham's > collaboration on the four volume classic Dynamics: Geometry of Behavior > <https://www.amazon.com/Dynamics-Geometry-Behavior-Ralph-Abraham/dp/0201567172> > with > Chris providing beautiful technical illustrations of attractors and &

Re: [FRIAM] Zoom Friam

2022-10-13 Thread Frank Wimberly
me at > 413-404-2942. Thx. N > > > > Nick Thompson > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Frank Wimberly > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 12, 2022 11:13 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Ap

[FRIAM] Zoom Friam

2022-10-12 Thread Frank Wimberly
Will start at about 9:45 MDT tomorrow (Thursday) morning. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / T

[FRIAM] Fwd: Black holes may hide an odd secret about our universe

2022-10-12 Thread Frank Wimberly
What a depressing article. I'm not sure why. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM -- Forwarded message - From: The New York Times Date: Wed, Oct 12, 2022, 6:00 AM Subject: Black holes may hide an odd secret about our universe T

[FRIAM] Today's Zoom Meeting

2022-10-06 Thread Frank Wimberly
I plan to open the meeting around 9:45am MDT. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, N -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-1

Re: [FRIAM] Automata with FFT

2022-10-03 Thread Frank Wimberly
Ah, you city boys. That should be "Mrs. Cow". --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Oct 3, 2022, 1:11 PM Stephen Guerin wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 10:20 AM Steve Smith wrote: > >> Glen - >> >> I saw a good little joke this morni

Re: [FRIAM] What is the response when bad faith is pervasive and coordinated?

2022-10-01 Thread Frank Wimberly
I'm not sure this is relaxant Dave but...When I was a senior at Berkeley I took an upper division course for non-majors in political science (unusual). Among the many required readings was a short book by Eric Hoffer called The True Believer. It presents ideas which may explain schismogenesis. T

Re: [FRIAM] Nick's monism kick

2022-09-30 Thread Frank Wimberly
ith that! > > Assuming it was stupid to bring up atoms, how SHOULD the student respond? > Verbally and behaviorally? > > How do you typically respond to stupid advice? :- ) > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2022, 6:19 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > >> My conclusion: the Lab Tech was dumb for

Re: [FRIAM] Nick's monism kick

2022-09-30 Thread Frank Wimberly
My conclusion: the Lab Tech was dumb for mentioning atoms. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 3:21 PM Eric Charles wrote: > Two preliminaries: > 1) For what it's worth, I am trying to back Nick into a different corner

Re: [FRIAM] Nick's monism kick

2022-09-28 Thread Frank Wimberly
It's not called breakfast at noon. I am wearing black socks. During the Korean War my dad would say that he had to wear his blue uniform. I would say that it wasn't blue but black. I have it stored away. There's nothing blue about it. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87

Re: [FRIAM] (no subject)

2022-09-26 Thread Frank Wimberly
That's what I always thought. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Sep 26, 2022, 12:44 PM glen wrote: > Clearly you're a Scientismist! >8^D > > On 9/26/22 11:14, Frank Wimberly wrote: > > I'm sorry I o

Re: [FRIAM] (no subject)

2022-09-26 Thread Frank Wimberly
I'm sorry I opened that. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, Sep 25, 2022, 4:27 PM Jon Zingale wrote: > Steve - > > Reponsive to your references to Sabine Hossenfelder, et al... > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR_8gpJCT4I&t=69s&

Re: [FRIAM] Nick's monism kick

2022-09-23 Thread Frank Wimberly
Yes, and I sent you a brief description of freshman year at Carnegie Tech in1961-62. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Fri, Sep 23, 2022, 1:24 PM wrote: > Did you guys not get this? > > > > Nick Thompson > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > h

Re: [FRIAM] truth-preserving math

2022-09-17 Thread Frank Wimberly
3 is {0, {0}, {0, {0}}} according to one approach to a using sets to form numbers that satisfy the Peano axioms. In that approach 0 and the empty set are identical. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sat, Sep 17, 2022, 2:02 PM Gillian De

[FRIAM] VFriam

2022-09-15 Thread Frank Wimberly
Will begin around 9:45 MDT today. God willing. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9

Re: [FRIAM] Wolpert - discussion thread placeholder

2022-09-11 Thread Frank Wimberly
My erstwhile boss Raj Reddy was in the same Department with Simon and Newell and knew their work well. He said that it was relatively easy to create a computer program that did the work of a professor that the real challenge would be to develop an autonomous bulldozer. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 C

Re: [FRIAM] signal and noise

2022-09-09 Thread Frank Wimberly
I always thought "shoot oneself in the foot" was inspired by cowboy gunfighters who were in such a hurry to draw fast that they pulled the trigger before getting their gun out of the holster. I have a Colt 1873 revolver. I'll see if that makes sense. Joke! --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Fe

Re: [FRIAM] signal and noise

2022-09-09 Thread Frank Wimberly
The related *Causal Markov (CM) condition* states that, conditional on the set of all its direct causes, a node is independent of all variables which are not effects or direct causes of that node --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, Sep

Re: [FRIAM] The equations of the mind

2022-09-06 Thread Frank Wimberly
FWIW. Dennett gave a talk at Carnegie Mellon not long after Consciousness Explained was published. He said, "Some wits have said the title should have been 'Consciousess Explained Away'. Ha Ha Ha." With pauses between the Ha's. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505

Re: [FRIAM] more structure-based mind-reading

2022-09-02 Thread Frank Wimberly
I was reading a passage (from this List?) to my wife. My 20 month old granddaughter wanted to say something so she said to me, "Top it! Top it!". That strengthened the bond I feel with her. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Fri, Sep 2, 2

[FRIAM] Fwd: Fall brAIn (NeuroAI) Seminar

2022-09-02 Thread Frank Wimberly
--- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM -- Forwarded message - From: Diane Stidle Date: Fri, Sep 2, 2022, 6:52 AM Subject: Fwd: Fall brAIn (NeuroAI) Seminar To: ml-semi...@cs.cmu.edu You may be interested in this seminar series.

Re: [FRIAM] Thuam

2022-09-01 Thread Frank Wimberly
hanks Frank for maintaining the setting. > > N > > Sent from my Dumb Phone > > On Sep 1, 2022, at 1:44 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > >  > The meeting may be over. I had to go to the dentist. I left Barry, Eric, > and Jack at about 10:30 NM time. > > --- > F

Re: [FRIAM] Thuam

2022-09-01 Thread Frank Wimberly
The meeting may be over. I had to go to the dentist. I left Barry, Eric, and Jack at about 10:30 NM time. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, Sep 1, 2022, 11:20 AM Nicholas Thompson wrote: > Let me in > > > Sent from my Dumb Phone >

Re: [FRIAM] wtf I thought nuclear weapons was banned since...forever

2022-08-28 Thread Frank Wimberly
Well written, Steve. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, Aug 28, 2022, 8:03 PM Steve Smith wrote: > Pandora's cats are out of the bag and nothing will put them back. I'm > not religious but the whole "original sin" thing is a good a

[FRIAM] Thursday AM

2022-08-24 Thread Frank Wimberly
I will start the Zoom meeting a little before 10am Mountain Time tomorrow. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. J

Re: [FRIAM] Fourier image space, duality, filtering and compression

2022-08-15 Thread Frank Wimberly
I taught digital signal processing once to MS and PhD students without knowing the field. For what it's worth, I validate Ed's observations. (In my defense, I got very good student evaluations) --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM 87505 On Mon

Re: [FRIAM] Monsoon Information Page

2022-08-14 Thread Frank Wimberly
What I wrote here ^ doesn't make sense. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, Aug 14, 2022, 10:00 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > In this season there is often a low over the Southeast which reinforces > the flow from the Gulf ca

Re: [FRIAM] Monsoon Information Page

2022-08-14 Thread Frank Wimberly
In this season there is often a low over the Southeast which reinforces the flow from the Gulf caused by the 4 Corners high. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, Aug 14, 2022, 9:56 PM wrote: > https://www.weather.gov/twc/MonsoonInfo >

Re: [FRIAM] FW: monsoon

2022-08-14 Thread Frank Wimberly
When there is a high over the Four Corners its clockwise flow brings moisture from the Gulf. But that's all I know. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, Aug 14, 2022, 9:39 PM wrote: > Hi, all, > > > > Back in June, when sF had all tha

Re: [FRIAM] Advice sought: data compromise

2022-08-14 Thread Frank Wimberly
Anonymity is your friend. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, Aug 14, 2022, 3:04 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > I got a "data security incident notification" in the mail from the > "Professional Finance Company, Inc." of Livonia, Michiga

[FRIAM] Carnegie Mellon Nanosatellite Project

2022-07-26 Thread Frank Wimberly
https://cmu.is/nanosatellites --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https:

Re: [FRIAM] Simple Trig/Geometry challenge. Win a $50 Amazon card :-)

2022-07-22 Thread Frank Wimberly
505)577-5828 > > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 2:29 PM Frank Wimberly > wrote: > >> Drop a perpendicular from the alpha vertex to S2. >> >> --- >> Frank C. Wimberly >> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, >> Santa Fe, NM 87505 >> >> 505 670-9918 >&g

Re: [FRIAM] YAC - yet another cult

2022-07-19 Thread Frank Wimberly
Looks like a guru to me. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Tue, Jul 19, 2022, 10:31 AM Merle Lefkoff wrote: > > https://revcom.us/en/avakian/ba-phony-communism-is-dead-long-live-real-communism.html > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 2:59 PM gle

Re: [FRIAM] 5G

2022-07-14 Thread Frank Wimberly
it anyway with most digital plans. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Jul 14, 2022, at 5:54 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > > > >  > > Why would I need 5G cell service? I never download anything that takes > more than a few seconds. > > > > --- > > Fran

[FRIAM] 5G

2022-07-14 Thread Frank Wimberly
Why would I need 5G cell service? I never download anything that takes more than a few seconds. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Frida

Re: [FRIAM] speaking of hypocrisy

2022-07-12 Thread Frank Wimberly
Not Santa Fe. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Tue, Jul 12, 2022, 4:38 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > I think it captures perfectly the culture of Northern New Mexico, no? > > -Original Message- > From: Friam On Behalf Of glen > Se

[FRIAM] Thursday Zoom

2022-07-06 Thread Frank Wimberly
I will start the meeting around 9:00am MDT. Feel free to come later than that if you like. https://bit.ly/virtualfriam --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Comple

Re: [FRIAM] Republicans need to renew themselves (was: self-care)

2022-07-02 Thread Frank Wimberly
You probably know this but psychiatrist Eric Berne published a book in 1964 called Games People Play. "Ain't it awful" is one of the games, among dozens of others, that he describes and explains. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sat, Jul

Re: [FRIAM] Republicans need to renew themselves (was: self-care)

2022-07-02 Thread Frank Wimberly
Over 1 million registered democrats switched to registering republican this year, so far. Do you really believe that these people somehow became deluded cultists? Maybe they want to vote against Trump endorsed candidates in the primaries. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87

[FRIAM] Sun After the Rain

2022-07-02 Thread Frank Wimberly
My wife Deborah publishes a weekly message that she sends to family and friends. I thought this week's version might be appropriate for Friam. From: Deborah Wimberly The Weekly Offering: As we anticipate the 4th of July, there is cause for concern about so many things.

Re: [FRIAM] self-care

2022-07-01 Thread Frank Wimberly
Glen, Over 20 years ago Stuart Kauffman was in my office. I stood up and groaned. He asked, "What's wrong ?" I said that it was just arthritis. He said, "If you're over fifty and don't feel pain it means you're dead." Seriously, I think "the thing" that causes people to engage in the activitie

[FRIAM] Self Consciousness

2022-07-01 Thread Frank Wimberly
https://m.facebook.com/groups/196138372533017/permalink/372721368208049/ --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Joh

Re: [FRIAM] self-care

2022-06-30 Thread Frank Wimberly
I'm hoping that there is an overwhelming response by young people to vote Democrat in the upcoming elections. Traditionally young people haven't voted in the numbers you'd expect. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, Jun 30, 2022, 6:41

Re: [FRIAM] Covid

2022-06-30 Thread Frank Wimberly
Sorry about that, Ed. All OK here. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, Jun 30, 2022, 11:44 AM George Duncan wrote: > Such encouragement! But true, of course. > > George Duncan > Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon Unive

[FRIAM] Zoom Friam on June 30

2022-06-29 Thread Frank Wimberly
I will start the meeting at about 10:00 am MDT tomorrow. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Th

Re: [FRIAM] A* and emulatoin

2022-06-27 Thread Frank Wimberly
x) simply return similar infinitely differentiable functions; or themselves. A function f: R^n -> R^m gemeralize these ideas. As for dimensions, read about differentials, exterior derivatives, 1-forms etc. That probably doesn't help much. Frank -- Frank Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz S

[FRIAM] Please join Zoom meeting in progress I started sooner than I thought I would

2022-06-23 Thread Frank Wimberly
Stephen Guerin, Simtable is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Virtual FRIAM - recurring Time: This is a recurring meeting Meet anytime Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/255049879 Meeting ID: 255 049 879 One tap mobile +16699006833,,255049879# US (San Jose) +12532158782,,

[FRIAM] 6/23 Zoom Friam

2022-06-22 Thread Frank Wimberly
I will begin the Zoom meeting tomorrow at about 9:30 MDT (11:30 EDT). It will still be active an hour later than that for those who prefer to come later. Frank -- Frank Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Research: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2

Re: [FRIAM] Fríam Attendance

2022-06-18 Thread Frank Wimberly
n find. How he gets me to run off > the road while getting you to slice off your finger while getting John to > fall down a flight of stairs is a mystery yet to be discovered. But it > surely is Steve Bannon’s fault. > > N > > Sent from my Dumb Phone > > On Jun 17, 2022,

Re: [FRIAM] Fríam Attendance

2022-06-17 Thread Frank Wimberly
tending to participate in Virtual > Friam. But last Friday evening i decided to schlep a table downstairs to > the basement. I arrived before it did. I have a shattered left tibia and > am still in the hospital in Ames. I only had to be ambulanced to Des > Moines instead of Denver

Re: [FRIAM] Fríam Attendance

2022-06-17 Thread Frank Wimberly
es. I only had to be ambulanced to Des > Moines instead of Denver for surgery. I'll sign in when i can. > > John > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 8:37 PM Frank Wimberly > wrote: > >> This week there were about five total attendees at the virtual meeting >> on Th

Re: [FRIAM] Google Engineer Thinks AI Bot Has Become Sentient

2022-06-13 Thread Frank Wimberly
The other day I asked, "Alexa, why does Jeff Bridges look older than I do even though he's several years younger?" I was thinking she'll never give a reasonable answer to that. She said, "In his latest film Jeff Bridges was made to look older using CGI." I don't think that's evidence of sentienc

Re: [FRIAM] Cultural Evolution Redux

2022-06-13 Thread Frank Wimberly
My New Mexico memoir sold about 100 copies but it has that advantage of being less than 100 pages. I only lost about $500 on the project. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Jun 13, 2022, 3:26 PM glen wrote: > Hey now! I've skimmed p

Re: [FRIAM] Kissing Kissinger

2022-06-11 Thread Frank Wimberly
In 1978 as I was about to leave Pittsburgh for a job at Bell Labs my wife and I were staying with with Scott and Penny Fahlman since our furniture was on a moving van. Scott was an AI hotshot who had recently arrived at Carnegie Mellon. I was typing the final revision of my numerical analysis dis

Re: [FRIAM] Baruch Spinoza

2022-06-11 Thread Frank Wimberly
Steve, Spinoza has ancestors in common with Spanish (and New Mexican) people named Espinoza or Espinosa. Will Durant said he had the clearest knowledge of God of any philosopher. I suppose that was knowledge of the third kind. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 67

[FRIAM] Fríam Attendance

2022-06-10 Thread Frank Wimberly
This week there were about five total attendees at the virtual meeting on Thursday but not necessarily present at the same. At the in-person meeting at St John's there were also five attending but they all were there for the whole meeting. At the latter we discussed the impact of the pandemic an

[FRIAM] Thursday Zoom Meeting

2022-06-08 Thread Frank Wimberly
Tomorrow I have to leave for Albuquerque at 10:30am MDT to pick up my grandson after his trip to California with his other grandparents. I hope someone who is willing to become the host joins the meeting before 10:30. Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9

Re: [FRIAM] AOL 3.0!

2022-06-07 Thread Frank Wimberly
I had a CMU Andrew account. You're all pikers. Long live AFS. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Tue, Jun 7, 2022, 9:41 AM Steve Smith wrote: > > Glen wrote: > > > Just yesterday, I saw an email post to a math forum from someone with an

[FRIAM] These women might be able to tolerate Friam

2022-06-05 Thread Frank Wimberly
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/05/books/review/metaphysical-animals-clare-mac-cumhaill-rachael-wiseman.html?smid=url-share -- Frank Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Research: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2

[FRIAM] Thursday Zoom Meeting

2022-06-01 Thread Frank Wimberly
Reminder: the Zoom meeting will begin tomorrow shortly before 10:30am MDT http://bit.ly/virtualfriam Is the link --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity G

Re: [FRIAM] Sig

2022-06-01 Thread Frank Wimberly
ne feed + carriage return between them. > > On 6/1/22 10:43, Frank Wimberly wrote: > > Can someone fix the signature file. The bitly link is concatenated with > "unsubscribe ". > > > > > > --- > > Frank C. Wimberly > > 140 Call

[FRIAM] Sig

2022-06-01 Thread Frank Wimberly
Can someone fix the signature file. The bitly link is concatenated with "unsubscribe ". --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-1

Re: [FRIAM] Web 3 is going great!

2022-05-30 Thread Frank Wimberly
I have too many subscriptions but there's this from the source https://blog.mollywhite.net/predatory-community/ --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, May 30, 2022, 4:53 AM Roger Critchlow wrote: > https://www.washingtonpost.com/technol

Re: [FRIAM] @Frank

2022-05-23 Thread Frank Wimberly
ev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1022588&hvtargid=pla-627385479007&psc=1 --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, May 23, 2022, 5:44 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > Here's one that gets all 5* ratings on Amazon. I'

Re: [FRIAM] @Frank

2022-05-23 Thread Frank Wimberly
Here's one that gets all 5* ratings on Amazon. I'm flexible. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, May 23, 2022, 5:03 PM Jon Zingale wrote: > Thanks for the offer. Possibly? > My first-year topology teacher wrote a pretty good book on

Re: [FRIAM] oversight

2022-05-22 Thread Frank Wimberly
>I am feeling intellectually lonely Maybe we should form a new group to read about homotopy theory. Our last reading group ended with Hywel's death so the prospect causes me a little anxiety. Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sat

[FRIAM] Zoom URL

2022-05-18 Thread Frank Wimberly
Here's the address http://bit.ly/virtualfriam --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, May 18, 2022, 9:25 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > > > > > The Thursday morning Zoom Friam meeting will begin shortly before 10:30.

[FRIAM] Reminder

2022-05-18 Thread Frank Wimberly
The Thursday morning Zoom Friam meeting will begin shortly before 10:30. > The link is below in the signature below and contains bit.ly > > I hope to see you then. > > Frank > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > -. --- - / ...- .-

Re: [FRIAM] quotes and questions

2022-05-17 Thread Frank Wimberly
Like --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Tue, May 17, 2022, 2:44 PM Merle Lefkoff wrote: > Western academics are mired in a culture of critique. It has severe > limitations. > > On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 8:55 AM glen wrote: > >> Right. This

Re: [FRIAM] quotes and questions

2022-05-16 Thread Frank Wimberly
I find Gabriel's poetry not poetry. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, May 16, 2022, 3:39 PM Steve Smith wrote: > > On 5/15/22 10:42 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > If you are right then deep fakes, online or in meat space, will fail.

Re: [FRIAM] quotes and questions

2022-05-13 Thread Frank Wimberly
I didn't say anything. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Fri, May 13, 2022, 6:33 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > If one wants to translate subjective experience into a narrative, or > compare & contrast experiences, then negotiating some lang

[FRIAM] Reminder

2022-05-11 Thread Frank Wimberly
The Thursday morning Zoom Friam meeting will begin shortly before 10:30. The link is below in the signature below and contains bit.ly I hope to see you then. Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-.

Re: [FRIAM] (no subject)

2022-05-08 Thread Frank Wimberly
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Frank Wimberly > *Sent:* Sunday, May 8, 2022 8:29 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] (no subject) > > > > Was

Re: [FRIAM] (no subject)

2022-05-08 Thread Frank Wimberly
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 PM Nicholas Thompson wrote: > Is there anything in the draft Scalia decision that would prevent

[FRIAM] Thursday Friam

2022-05-08 Thread Frank Wimberly
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 9:00. Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM -. --- - / ...- .- .-..

Re: [FRIAM] Mea Maxima culpa

2022-05-04 Thread Frank Wimberly
I would change "predict" to "estimate". I am not a dictator. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, May 4, 2022, 12:39 PM Nicholas Thompson wrote: > Perhaps not so culpa, After all > > When main effects predominate, in an analysis of va

Re: [FRIAM] Mea Maxima culpa

2022-04-28 Thread Frank Wimberly
NOT VALID MORSE CODE Very funny. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, Apr 28, 2022, 9:58 PM Nicholas Thompson wrote: > > Dictating: > > I want to clarify a muddle I have introduced into our conversations about > natural selection. The

Re: [FRIAM] those annoying vegetarians

2022-04-28 Thread Frank Wimberly
Time to eat my vegetarian lunch: flour tortilla, hummus, banana, chocolate. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, Apr 28, 2022, 11:45 AM Prof David West wrote: > > About 2 weeks ago, Jenny-O culled 6 million turkeys. They herd them int

[FRIAM] Reminder

2022-04-26 Thread Frank Wimberly
Online Friam occurs Thursdays at 9:00 am MDT and in person Friam at the same time at St John's coffee shop on Fridays. Last week attendance was light at both. Stephen wonders if a presentation/discussion would be appealing for part of the Thursday meeting. Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle

Re: [FRIAM] Lancet article on how well countries appear to have protected and appear to have reported

2022-04-26 Thread Frank Wimberly
Note the mention of racial differences in Vitamin D deficiency. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Apr 25, 2022, 11:19 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > Interesting latitude is a predictive variable.. > > https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ar

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

2022-04-25 Thread Frank Wimberly
Is that the book in which they were going up the Mogollón rim on horseback and with pack horses and the trail got narrower and narrower until 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. Wimb

Re: [FRIAM] A million year old driving assistant

2022-04-24 Thread Frank Wimberly
That makes sense to me, Jochen. Our X3 has the same feature and I found it helpful on a recent trip. My M240 doesn't have it. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, Apr 24, 2022, 12:32 PM Jochen Fromm wrote: > I am reading at the momen

Re: [FRIAM] Wilson and Snower on Economics

2022-04-22 Thread Frank Wimberly
I once asked an esteemed philosopher what an esteemed female philosopher was working on lately and he answered, "Generating incoherences as usual." --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Fri, Apr 22, 2022, 2:41 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > >

Re: [FRIAM] humor

2022-04-14 Thread Frank Wimberly
😄 --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 8:19 PM Prof David West wrote: > some on the list might find the attached humorous. > > dave > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Appl

Re: [FRIAM] Virtual FRIAM moving to Thursdays. FRIAM will be in person on Fridays

2022-04-11 Thread Frank Wimberly
I hope it's the reverse. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Apr 11, 2022, 6:57 PM Stephen Guerin wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 11, 2022, 5:51 PM Edward Angel wrote: > >> It’s much kinder number in hexidecimal. >> > > > 50 is the new 80

Re: [FRIAM] Virtual FRIAM moving to Thursdays. FRIAM will be in person on Fridays

2022-04-11 Thread Frank Wimberly
I'll start the virtual FRIAM at the usual 9:00am on Thursday. I hope some local people attend too. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Apr 11, 2022, 11:49 AM Stephen Guerin wrote: > We will resume in-person FRIAM at St John's on Frid

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] tomorrow at 2nd St

2022-04-07 Thread Frank Wimberly
___ > Wedtech mailing list > wedt...@redfish.com > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/wedtech_redfish.com > -- Frank Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Research: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - ..

Re: [FRIAM] To repeat is rational, but to wander is transcendent

2022-04-04 Thread Frank Wimberly
Carl Tollander once told me that he saw an article about automated programming with the title, "Do What I Meant Not What I Said. No Not That!" Did I get that right, Carl? --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Apr 4, 2022, 11:57 AM Prof

Re: [FRIAM] To repeat is rational, but to wander is transcendent

2022-04-02 Thread Frank Wimberly
Here is my answer that EricS referred to: I'm not sure if this addresses one of your questions but there are many instances where "to be" is used in English and "to have" is used in Spanish. "He is fourteen years old" and "El tiene catorce años". "I am afraid" and "Yo tengo miedo". French is s

Re: [FRIAM] Ordinary logic

2022-04-01 Thread Frank Wimberly
Formal logic is not a god but exists independently of nervous systems. A -> B <-> -B -> -A --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Fri, Apr 1, 2022, 9:57 AM Nicholas Thompson wrote: > Isn’t it the case that, in some sense, the subjects

Re: [FRIAM] Ordinary logic

2022-03-30 Thread Frank Wimberly
I think the subjects were thinking about which statement conveys more information rather than which is more probable. Dumb subjects. They should have taken more math. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 4:39 PM Nicholas

[FRIAM] Layers

2022-03-30 Thread Frank Wimberly
A current CMU dissertation defense: PhD Candidate: Shaojie Bai *Title: **Equilibrium Approaches to Modern Deep Learning* Abstract: Deep learning (DL) has become one of the most successful and widely-adopted methods in modern artificial intelligence. Accompanying these successes are also increasi

Re: [FRIAM] To repeat is rational, but to wander is transcendent

2022-03-30 Thread Frank Wimberly
As a numerical analyst one of the problems I worked on (pre PhD) was accident scenarios in nuclear power plants. We didn't have full accident data to validate the models but we reached conclusions like the "water hammer" accident in which a pipe containing superheated water burst would stress the

Re: [FRIAM] To repeat is rational, but to wander is transcendent

2022-03-25 Thread Frank Wimberly
*From the web:* *Intensive properties do not depend on the quantity of matter*. Examples include density, state of matter, and temperature. Extensive properties do depend on sample size. Examples include volume, mass, and size.Dec 4, 2019 How is any of those variables emergent. --- Frank C. Wimbe

Re: [FRIAM] redfish?

2022-03-22 Thread Frank Wimberly
In this context, if I remember correctly, "Redfish" is a Brand of TP in China. Stephen lived there for several years and when he needed a name for his organization he decided to use the English translation of that brand name. Stephen will correct me if I'm wrong. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle

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