Re: [FRIAM] the power of metaphor.

NM On Thu, Jan 7, 2021, 7:52 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > Frank, you make it sound like empathy is as delicate as reaching a > grandparent in a séance. To me it is like anticipating a melody. Once I > know how it goes I don’t need to keep listening to it. > > > > *

Re: [FRIAM] the power of metaphor.

One of the senior psychoanalysts in Pittsburgh once said to my wife that nothing is sadder than the last act of a narcissist. "Act" as a metaphor for part of a play. I will be interested to learn whether I will have empathy for Trump during his last act. Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo

Re: [FRIAM] Tangled up in our own 2nd Amendment? Bleak Lives Manner?

Well said, Eric. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Jan 6, 2021, 3:34 PM David Eric Smith wrote: > It would do to unseat all those engaged in today’s little display, as > co-conspirators with the group outside. > > Gosh, Mitch, you s

Re: [FRIAM] truth, reality, & narrative

I haven't tried to prove it but I suspect those two definitions are equivalent. In our statistical causal reasoning work we used the causal Markov condition: every node in a Bayesian network is conditionally independent

Re: [FRIAM] The scientific method

Especially apt for psychology as I experienced it. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Jan 6, 2021, 9:23 AM Eric Charles wrote: > It's really pretty simple when you get right down to it. > > - . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-.

[FRIAM] Prayer

>From a friend: in Shul last Shabbat, I heard a sweet elderly lady in a nearby pew saying a prayer. She was so innocent and sincere that I just had to share it with you: “Avinu she'ba'shamayim (Our Father in Heaven): This last year has been very tough. You have taken my favorite actors Sean Con

Re: [FRIAM] Applied Category Theory 2021 — Adjoint School – Azimuth

s of previous classes were supposed to be written up at > the n-category-cafe. > > > On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 10:57 AM Frank Wimberly > wrote: > >> Do I understand correctly that there are 4 or 5 projects and 4 members of >> each project. I think I'll leave

Re: [FRIAM] Applied Category Theory 2021 — Adjoint School – Azimuth

m > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/FRIAM-COMIC> > http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > -- Frank Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Research: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wim

Re: [FRIAM] Sunset and Sunrise

I see. Nifty. But it repeats the assertion that the tilting of >>> the earth also has to do with it. Could it be that the fact that the earth >>> is not quite a sphere be playing a role, in which case the tilting on the >>> axis would make a difference? Where are all our

Re: [FRIAM] Sunset and Sunrise

gt; > > Have you noticed that the rising full moon is moving rapidly up the > horizon. By march it will be rising in the NE. > > > > > > > > Nicholas Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > > Clark University > > thompnicks

[FRIAM] Sunset and Sunrise

orbit around the sun is *not* a perfect circle shape. -- Frank Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Research: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 - . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays

Re: [FRIAM] MY MISTAKE; SEE THIS: Recycling electronics: What to do with your old laptops, phones, cameras and batteries

Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > -- Frank Wimberly 140 Calle O

Re: [FRIAM] Discovery of 'cryptic species' shows Earth is even more biologically diverse | Wildlife | The Guardian

All this reminds me of when my now middle-aged daughter said to me scornfully, "What do you know about speciation, Dad?" I have no memory of what the issue was. She was in highschool. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, Dec 27, 2020,

Re: [FRIAM] Edmund Clarke Pioneered Methods For Detecting Software, Hardware Errors - News - Carnegie Mellon University

; > -- Russ Abbott > Professor, Computer Science > California State University, Los Angeles > > > On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 2:37 PM Frank Wimberly > wrote: > >> >> https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2020/december/obituary-ed-clarke.html?fbclid=IwAR2ZITw4mPMa

[FRIAM] Edmund Clarke Pioneered Methods For Detecting Software, Hardware Errors - News - Carnegie Mellon University

https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2020/december/obituary-ed-clarke.html?fbclid=IwAR2ZITw4mPMaZRMzQ0JDOMln-A_Fw-bkM646F6TUzwZ_s4bkeLiqz9Hk18Y I attended many meetings with Ed when we both worked on the Spice Project. - . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. . .-. . FRIAM Applied Comp

[FRIAM] Meeting Report

Attendance was light. Jack, Jon, Bruce, and Frank attended at various times. Grandson Matthew was briefly present. He and Jon discussed developer consoles in video games. Baby Tycho was asleep. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM - . -.

Re: [FRIAM] if by 'populism' he meant ...

gt; with Long. What I want are criticisms of formulations. If you're not > willing to criticize my formulation, then perhaps you could write a > counterpoint and explain why Long was NOT populist? But I definitely > encourage donations to Wikipedia. I gave them $50 this year. > &

Re: [FRIAM] if by 'populism' he meant ...

Glen, As an alternative to reading Garry Boulard's book you could read the Wikipedia article on Huey Long https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_Long He was an early example if not the defining one of "populism", I believe. Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 50

Re: [FRIAM] if by 'populism' he meant ...

I first heard the word extensively as a description of the appeal of Huey Long. He was a Louisiana farm boy who didn't like city people. As governor he ordered the National Guard to occupy New Orleans' City Hall. They set up machine guns in the hallways. See https://www.amazon.com/dp/156554303

Re: [FRIAM] Christmas Day

Yes! --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sat, Dec 19, 2020, 9:20 PM Gary Schiltz wrote: > I may be able to make it. Is it at 9am MST? > > On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 10:44 PM Frank Wimberly > wrote: > >> I'm

Re: [FRIAM] Christmas Day

n Dobson > > On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 7:50 PM Frank Wimberly > wrote: > >> Was there any discussion of a meeting on Christmas day? I am probably >> one of very few who live with young children. But they will have long >> since opened their presents by 9:00am. >>

Re: [FRIAM] 5 agencies compromised

Marcus, I saw and ad that claimed that if you enlisted in the Navy upon graduating from law school you would become lead attorney in cases immediately. The ad claimed that it could take years for that to happen in the private sector. I wonder if other government organizations are similar. Frank

Re: [FRIAM] Christmas Day

a few hours. > > > > N > > > > Nicholas Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > > Clark University > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *

[FRIAM] Christmas Day

Was there any discussion of a meeting on Christmas day? I am probably one of very few who live with young children. But they will have long since opened their presents by 9:00am. Shall we have a meeting or just skip it? Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 6

Re: [FRIAM] Constitution Drafting Project

Onan "spilled his seed on the ground." No? --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sat, Dec 12, 2020, 9:58 AM Prof David West wrote: > Onanism? > > I assume you are using the in the modern metaphor/euphemism sense > (masturbation/coitus inter

Re: [FRIAM] one adage a day.

The couch is the right choice. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Dec 9, 2020, 4:26 PM wrote: > In my present state, I have just enough energy to claw myself to my > computer, and write a single pithy sentence. I so I think I will t

Re: [FRIAM] Please change the damned thread

Do not go gently into that good night. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Tue, Dec 8, 2020, 1:29 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > I like the image of two old men on their deathbed shaking their fists. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly

Re: [FRIAM] Please change the damned thread

l did, and like > Neuralink is poised to do. > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Frank Wimberly > *Sent:* Tuesday, December 8, 2020 11:45 AM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Please change the dam

Re: [FRIAM] Please change the damned thread

??? > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 8:09 AM > > > To: friam@redfish.com > > > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Nick's Recovery > > > > > > It's important, even/especially for long-term partners, to reflect on > possibly abusive habits. Even if the

Re: [FRIAM] Nick's Recovery

rku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Frank Wimberly > *Sent:* Monday, December 7, 2020 5:57 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Nick's Recovery > > > >

Re: [FRIAM] Nick's Recovery

. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Dec 7, 2020, 6:44 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > Come on, that’s even mean for me! > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Frank Wimberly > *Sent:* Monday, December 7, 2020 4:00 PM > *To:* The Fr

Re: [FRIAM] Nick's Recovery

Yes, does that cause you to modify your belief that consciousness is a point of view? Are you suffering from it? I am very sorry. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Dec 7, 2020, 3:35 PM wrote: > Do you know about Charles Barret syn

Re: [FRIAM] Nick's Recovery

Isn't it Charles Bonnet (BO-nay)? --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Dec 7, 2020, 4:40 PM Steve Smith wrote: > Nick - > > I don't know about this syndrome by name (Charles Bonnet), but am familiar > with "sundowner's syndrome", havin

Re: [FRIAM] How Prestige Journals Remain Elite, Exclusive And Exclusionary | beSpacific

When I was still at Carnegie Mellon, Glymour and I submitted a paper to Journal of Machine Learning Research. We mentioned that we had asked a very visible researcher for the data he had used to test a method similar to ours and that he refused to share it with us. The editors rejected our paper

Re: [FRIAM] Who's on Friston? Me and my Markov Blanket

As I recall, after 20+ years, I had to implement both PCX and HITON in Java. On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 1:14 PM Stephen Guerin wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 1:11 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > >> Stephen, >> >> Here's a paper. I don't think I have a copy but I

Re: [FRIAM] Who's on Friston? Me and my Markov Blanket

Stephen, Here's a paper. I don't think I have a copy but I'll check my Research Gate account PCX: Markov Blanket Classification for Large Data Sets with Few Cases I checked and apparently a full text is available there. Do you have a Research Gate account? Let me know if not. Frank --- Fran

Re: [FRIAM] New ways of understanding the world

oom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > > - . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .

[FRIAM] Fwd: Reminder: Thesis Proposal - December 1, 2020 - Nicolay Topin - Unifying State and Policy Level Explanations for Reinforcement Learning

I think we were talking about explanation of reasoning in AI systems recently. This thesis proposal is relevant. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM -- Forwarded message - From: Diane Stidle Date: Mon, Nov 30, 2020, 8:04 AM Su

Re: [FRIAM] social distancing increases risk of severe COVID reaction

Did you see that the Dakotas have the highest rate of infection increase in the world? --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, Nov 26, 2020, 11:05 AM Prof David West wrote: > being isolated and distanced increases stress.; > > social isol

Re: [FRIAM] The next Heterodox University faculty member

Turbo. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 11:50 AM wrote: > Hi Marcus, > > > > But what is the metaphor, here? When people say “spin up /down” I think > of a centrifuge. What is it that you think of? > > > > N > > > >

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: COVID Cases since June by state partisanship (see dropdown for different versions )

The top half is dominated by red states. Maybe Trump lost the election because his voters were ill or deceased. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, Nov 15, 2020, 6:26 PM George Duncan wrote: > "If static graphs are informative—dynamic

Re: [FRIAM] this seems like good news

; FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > -- Frank Wimberly 140

Re: [FRIAM] Biden beats Trump

By the way I'm really oversimplifying here. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 12:00 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > If you feel angry at them while not understanding that it's because > they're similar

Re: [FRIAM] Biden beats Trump

k University > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Frank Wimberly > *Sent:* Thursday, November 12, 2020 12:47 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.co

Re: [FRIAM] Biden beats Trump

COMIC> > http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > > > - . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman

Re: [FRIAM] Biden beats Trump

sisted the attraction so why can't they. Again, in my opinion Frank On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 11:40 AM Frank Wimberly wrote: > I think you should feel empathy and if you feel judgemental you should > understand it's because of your own impulse to behave in the same way as >

Re: [FRIAM] Biden beats Trump

logy > > Clark University > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Frank Wimberly > *Sent:* Thursday, November 12, 2020 10:53 AM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <

Re: [FRIAM] Biden beats Trump

"But steeling yourself against WHAT?" The impulse to do the same thing. Being judgemental is so human that Jesus warned against it. I don't usually quote him but... Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall

Re: [FRIAM] How soon until AI takes over polling?

implemented as just one more layer of reinforcement learning. > Probably end up with 70 million Fox viewers, and 70 million more Elvis > fans, standing in for human comprehension. > > But I don’t work in this area, and will stop now. > > Eric > > > > On Nov 11, 2020,

Re: [FRIAM] How soon until AI takes over polling?

quot; way to do it. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Nov 11, 2020, 9:05 AM David Eric Smith wrote: > > > On Nov 11, 2020, at 8:54 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > > Don't some AI systems include subsystems for explai

Re: [FRIAM] Uncanny Valley was: Biden beats Trump

How do the names of these threads get changed? --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Nov 11, 2020, 8:45 AM Steve Smith wrote: > Eric/Glen, et alia - > > I have my own near stress-narcolepsy around extreme conspiracy theories, > perhaps

Re: [FRIAM] How soon until AI takes over polling?

In the late 60s I worked on Project Talent in which data for 440,000 high school students was collected and analyzed. This included , test scores, interests, socioeconomic status, etc. I've mentioned this before. The project included longitudinal following of the participants for decades. That fo

Re: [FRIAM] Small Nuclear

My dad worked on advanced, highly safe, concepts for nuclear reactors at Westinghouse Nuclear Energy Division. I don't remember the details but he said that there would be a severe international crisis by 2050 if the world didn't aggressively pursue nuclear (fission) energy in some form. --- Fran

Re: [FRIAM] Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ends truce by warning ‘incompetent’ Democratic party

Is she old enough? You have to be 35. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, Nov 8, 2020, 7:28 PM jon zingale wrote: > I would have much prefered her as the new president-elect. > > > > -- > Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/

Re: [FRIAM] A/R theory

A partition, e.g. the buckets, defines an equivalence relation which is transitive. Or is that what you said. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, Nov 8, 2020, 7:25 PM jon zingale wrote: > Unless I am somehow forgetting some clever in

Re: [FRIAM] Biden beats Trump

meritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > > Clark University > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Frank Wimberly > *Sent:* Sunday, November 8, 2020 1:37 PM > *To:* The Fri

Re: [FRIAM] Biden beats Trump

Nick, An experience: There was a pretty girl that I had crush on in highschool. Margie was hyper conscientious and had a perfect GPA. We went to numerous formal dances and had friends in common but our "relationship" was entirely superficial in my opinion. I eventually realized that she was ve

Re: [FRIAM] Biden beats Trump

But I have no idea where to start. Come down to Mountainair with me one of these days. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, Nov 8, 2020, 10:14 AM wrote: > Jochen, > > > > After my original bout of hysteria, I have been pretty sure that

Re: [FRIAM] The solution to Trump-Biden polarization may be easier (and cheaper) than we think

I wonder if there would be dancing in the streets if Trump had won. Why or why not? Because the cities have more Biden voters? Because there are not enough people in the smaller towns and cities? Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On

Re: [FRIAM] vote

I think I can see Houston, Dallas, St Louis, etc. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Fri, Nov 6, 2020, 4:59 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > The chemtrails (or that other thing) would just have to tip the vote in > the right direction.. > > ---

Re: [FRIAM] vote

The conditional probability of Trump given rural is high but you said that in other words. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Fri, Nov 6, 2020, 4:34 PM Prof David West wrote: > A comment was made at vFRIAM that support of trump/biden was

Re: [FRIAM] election eve

Thanks, Rog. He's right, Nick. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Nov 4, 2020, 12:25 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > Oh, go ahead and relax, what can you do about it? > > -- rec -- > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 1:

Re: [FRIAM] election eve

Professor of Ethology and Psychology > > Clark University > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Frank Wimberly > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 4, 2020 12:12 PM > *To:* The Friday Morni

Re: [FRIAM] election eve

Nick, See Glen's 270 to 267 estimate. Biden may still win either Georgia or Pennsylvania or both because of the Democrat majority that is likely among the uncounted votes. If any of that happens Biden wins with a margin. But it's too close for relaxation. Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle

[FRIAM] Election

Well, it isn't a landslide but I'm still optimistic. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM - . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/sub

Re: [FRIAM] election eve

Any party that participates in efforts to invalidate ligitimate voters or ballots does not deserve to have candidates in office. In every case that I am aware of in this election courts have decided in favor of the voters or ballots that are the subjects of these kinds of efforts. Trump et al see

Re: [FRIAM] Getting You Libertarians' Goats

I learned about all those symmetry groups a couple of years ago (When was it Jon?) and I remember almost nothing. But I can state the Heine-Borel theorem, Stokes' theorem and others in complex analysis and algebra that I learned about 55 years ago. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa

Re: [FRIAM] Tuomas Sandholm on heads up, no limit Texas hold'em

I know Tuomas. Nice guy. He was one of our users at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, Oct 29, 2020, 1:17 PM jon zingale wrote: > There was some discussion of Texas hold'em on vFriam recently,

Re: [FRIAM] high turnout and tight races?

Bring it, Jon. I voted by sending my absentee ballot via USPS. The County Clerk's website confirms that they received and processed it a few days later. F --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, Oct 29, 2020, 12:58 PM jon zingale wrote:

Re: [FRIAM] high turnout and tight races?

y > > Clark University > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Roger Critchlow > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 28, 2020 7:16 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <

Re: [FRIAM] high turnout and tight races?

N = 3 is slightly better. But I don't have time or incentive to do a detailed statistical analysis. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 6:14 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > In 1964 Johnson beat Goldwater by 60 to

Re: [FRIAM] high turnout and tight races?

Frank Wimberly wrote: > I'm saying that in this election there will be high turnout and not a very > close election. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 5:59 PM

Re: [FRIAM] high turnout and tight races?

inion on whether high > turnout negatively or positively correlates with narrow victories? > > > On 10/28/20 4:52 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > > I predict that Biden will win by a large margin and that the outcome > will be clear on election night notwithstanding any outstanding uncount

Re: [FRIAM] high turnout and tight races?

I predict that Biden will win by a large margin and that the outcome will be clear on election night notwithstanding any outstanding uncounted votes. Young people are voting in unprecedented numbers and are reportedly voting against Trump. Similarly the elderly, who favored Trump over Clinton by

Re: [FRIAM] Getting You Libertarians' Goats

t doesn’t involve group selection. > > > > N > > > > Nicholas Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > > Clark University > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > > *From:* Friam

Re: [FRIAM] Getting You Libertarians' Goats

I'm not Marcus but a classical example is mental events causing physical events. Note the use of mental language. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 1:12 PM wrote: > Marcus, > > can't claim to understand you fully, he

Re: [FRIAM] Dennett on agency

I intend to check the mail in a few minutes. I am not doing it now. Nobody else knows of my plan until you read this. Why can't I validly say that I have that intention? --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Tue, Oct 20, 2020, 2:27 PM wrote

Re: [FRIAM] now it's personal

Thank you, Jon. I'll have to ponder that but I probably won't have time to grok it. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, Oct 15, 2020, 11:20 AM jon zingale wrote: > "What's the function associated with it? Words like derivative, > di

Re: [FRIAM] now it's personal

What's the function associated with it? Words like derivative, differential, directional derivative etc. mean so mething to me. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Oct 14, 2020, 3:11 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > liked the derivative of

Re: [FRIAM] Sorry for the distraction

obile: (505)577-5828 > twitter: @simtable > z <http://zoom.com/j/5055775828>oom.simtable.com > > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 12:10 PM Frank Wimberly > wrote: > >> My eight year-old grandson was attending school online today when his >> teacher said she thought he mi

Re: [FRIAM] Sorry for the distraction

Anomalous. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Oct 14, 2020, 12:10 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > My eight year-old grandson was attending school online today when his > teacher said she thought he might become a scientist. H

[FRIAM] Sorry for the distraction

My eight year-old grandson was attending school online today when his teacher said she thought he might become a scientist. He said, "Well only if I work for SCP and find an anomolous entity." --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe - . -..-. . -.

Re: [FRIAM] now it's personal

What was the relationship between the Library of Alexandria and the Muslim library in Cordoba that preserved many of the Greek writings and the Greek version of the Bible? Did the latter get some of the holdings of the former before the burning? Or do I have the timing all wrong? On Tue, Oct 13,

Re: [FRIAM] 8^D

I put that during into Google and one of the first hits was "How to fill the magazine of an Airsoft gun with green gas.". Another was about conjugating ir verbs in Irgun. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 11:51 AM uǝlƃ ↙

Re: [FRIAM] Political compass teest

Trump's re-election. Perish the thought. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 9:40 AM Stephen Guerin wrote: > On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 5:26 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > >> -4.75 Left -4.26 Libertarian, I don't think we'v

Re: [FRIAM] fundamental.pdf

Found this in my old email. Berkeley did pretty well by me. I remember most of the theorems and have at least some idea of their proofs. On a linear algebra midterm or final one problem was to prove that a linear transformation from a finite dimensional vector space to itself is one to one if an

Re: [FRIAM] Political compass teest

I agree. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sat, Oct 10, 2020, 6:40 PM Russ Abbott wrote: > I came out closer to the center than to the corner because I never checked > "Strongly Agree." "Agree" always seemed good enough. > > "Strongly A

Re: [FRIAM] labels

ld-ass guesses. I believe the anecdotally identified > dimensions are at least *orderable* if not *metrizeable*... > > Does this still sound like nonsense? > > - Steve > On 10/10/20 12:43 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > > Wait, what? Eigenvectors are properties of a linear transfo

Re: [FRIAM] Political compass teest

Same as everyone else https://www.politicalcompass.org/yourpoliticalcompass?ec=-4.25&soc=-4.62 --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sat, Oct 10, 2020, 5:57 PM wrote: > Do we all agree at an insanely high level? Then wtf have we been argui

Re: [FRIAM] labels

ou are probably also religious, and probably > not living in a city. > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Frank Wimberly > *Sent:* Saturday, October 10, 2020 11:43 AM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject:

Re: [FRIAM] labels

Wait, what? Eigenvectors are properties of a linear transformation from a space to itself. What's the space and what's the linear transformation? Principal components analysis is a method of spanning a space of variables with one of lower dimension. Or are you speaking metaphorically? --- Frank

Re: [FRIAM] legendary black dragon

It sounds like the Trump admin. Or is that too obvious? --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, Oct 8, 2020, 11:56 PM jon zingale wrote: > Ha! pretty much. > > > > -- > Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > - . -..-. . -

Re: [FRIAM] labels

During one of his many terms FDR was accused of trying to pack the Court. He responded that he was trying to unpack it. I don't remember the details since I learned that in a U.S. history course I took during my junior year which was about 55 years ago. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,

Re: [FRIAM] labels

I accept the compliment. Add that to Nick calling me a Cartesian and John Baez calling me a logician and I feel that I've made it. In Baez's book, Gauge Fields, Knots and Gravity, he says that 1x1 real matrices are real numbers. When I explained to him why that isn't true he said, "Only logician

Re: [FRIAM] Trump as a victim

I think of him as a wounded hippo and I don't love him in the least. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Oct 7, 2020, 4:30 PM Steve Smith wrote: > Gotta love watching Trump "crack the whip" by tweeting that he's ending > COVID relief

[FRIAM] Fwd: UC Berkeley's Jennifer Doudna awarded 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

--- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM -- Forwarded message - From: Dean Michael Botchan Date: Wed, Oct 7, 2020, 2:30 PM Subject: UC Berkeley's Jennifer Doudna awarded 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry To: To view this email as a we

Re: [FRIAM] Trump as a victim

Guilty --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Oct 7, 2020, 11:19 AM Marcus Daniels wrote: > It seemed a rookie mistake for a logician! > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Frank Wimberly > *Sent:* Wednesday, Octobe

Re: [FRIAM] Trump as a victim

Try again: You either see a pooper and crier or someone adorable or both. https://photos.app.goo.gl/JaXtpLd9H2gjjj3x5 --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Oct 7, 2020, 11:07 AM Frank Wimberly wrote: > You see either a pooper

Re: [FRIAM] Trump as a victim

You see either a pooper and crier or someone adorable https://photos.app.goo.gl/KpmCLdxcqNqCLfn2A --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Oct 7, 2020, 10:59 AM Marcus Daniels wrote: > Frank writes: > > < I feel empathy and sympathy for

Re: [FRIAM] Trump as a victim

I feel empathy and sympathy for the little baby Donald before the remote mother and the overweening father made their imprint on him. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Oct 7, 2020, 9:38 AM Marcus Daniels wrote: > Empathy requires at

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