Re: [FRIAM] Walking Thunder one page first pass

Then there is Buffalo Thunder, which I have been told is a euphemism for fart. > On Mar 19, 2024, at 7:24 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > > I met the director of this film. His enthusiasm was great and he seemed very > proud of his work. I told him I would forward this poster to people I >

Re: [FRIAM] Working for the Military Institute of Technology Causes Cognitive Dissonance

tech-a-niques of the master.) > > Not sure why I feel compelled to compose typologies of the styles of > shiftiness in the world. The impulse to see some fingerprints that occur > repeatedly seems to scratch s

Re: [FRIAM] Where does Friam meet?

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[FRIAM] Where does Friam meet?

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Re: [FRIAM] links for this morning's FRIAM: Special Unitary Groups and Quaternions

a quaternion version of Euler's formula https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvpAFWBVgy0 A bit late for the discussion, and kind of sketchy when you get into it. -Roger > On Apr 28, 2023, at 8:18 AM, Stephen Guerin > wrote: > > Special Unitary Groups and Quaternions > > Mostly for Ed from the

[FRIAM] Quantum Optimization

People interested in the most effective methods for improving quantum optimization algorithms should read the excellent compendium of methods in Using a quantum computer to solve a real-world problem -- what can be achieved today? by Robert Cumming and Tim Thomas, 62 pages

[FRIAM] In a Moment, Mathematicians Merge Probability and Number Theory | Quanta Magazine

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Re: [FRIAM] The WEBB seeing back to the first millennia

They are shifted so far to the red that when they reach us, they are stop lights. On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 9:42 AM Gillian Densmore wrote: > Same Q! My guess is what they meen is that stuff is reely far away so it'd > be like looking at events that had happened but we can catchup to the show >

[FRIAM] Adversarial Go trick defeats KataGo

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Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Join SFI for two lectures by Mathematician Steven Strogatz, September 21st and 22nd

https://www.youtube.com/c/SFIScience On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 9:14 AM Owen Densmore wrote: > Do you know where the videos are? I'd love to watch them. > > -- Owen > > On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 12:51 PM Tom Johnson wrote: > >> FYI >> >> === >> Tom Johnson >> Inst. for

[FRIAM] Memorial for Reuben today

The memorial plaque for Reuben Hersh will be formally unveiled today at 1:30pm MT at Riviera Cemetery in Santa Fe. Drive all the way around to the back wall. The ceremony had been postponed due to Covid. -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity

[FRIAM] Doyne says green saves money

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[FRIAM] new wildfire models

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Re: [FRIAM] Another reason the future is nothing like the past...

oooh. Thank you. Wow. On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 4:59 PM Jon Zingale wrote: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiadG3ywJIs_channel=Tai-DanaeBradley > > What a great way to introduce readers to a phd thesis. > > > https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4773=gc_etds > > joy! > -.

Re: [FRIAM] Wilson and Snower on Economics

Several books by Mary B. Hesse including *Models and Analogues in Science* can be borrowed from the Internet Archive https://archive.org/search.php?query=mary%20b.%20hesse On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 2:41 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > >

Re: [FRIAM] Great Circle

The basic insight is that the central limit of random walks from any point in a soap bubble (whose surface is a harmonic potential function) to the boundary will generate the harmonic function. On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 7:53 PM Jon Zingale wrote: > "Is this related, at some level, to..." > > Oh

Re: [FRIAM] Random Evolutions

Wait a minute. I thought this was the Reuben thread, not the wild dream thread. On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 4:52 PM Jon Zingale wrote: > Reuben and Richard's article is wonderful and has given me a new > appreciation for capacitory potential (a concept that can often appear > dry). Walking back

Re: [FRIAM] Can empirical discoveries be mathematical?

he > face by a bent hickory sapling.] > > > > These are the things I might have written to you about were I not doing my > income tax. > > > > Nick > > > > Nick Thompson > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ >

Re: [FRIAM] What are you reading?

I have books open in many areas at the moment: Zeta functions, Buddhism, Old Testament, Arabic Poetics, but in fiction, I have been reading James Baldwin and Stephen Graham Jones. The SGJ short story that got me hooked was https://www.tor.com/2016/09/21/the-night-cyclist/ On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at

Re: [FRIAM] Weighted Ensemble

Yes, I have been using the sklearn random forest and other ensemble methods at SigmaLabsInc. I can't tell you too much because it is proprietary, but we downsample the normal pixels some, upsample the anomalies some, and apply class weights to complete the balance. We wrote a white paper that is

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] Diffracton: minding the gap

Congratulations, Steve! These moments of insight are rare and wonderful. On Sat, Aug 14, 2021, 9:57 PM Stephen Guerin wrote: > Ed, > > Yes, that's how I'm seeing it. > > For others, Ed's Step function is what I was calling Rect pulse function > which is Fourier dual of the Sinc function.

[FRIAM] Tweet from XKCD Comic (@xkcdComic)

XKCD Comic (@xkcdComic) tweeted at 8:08 PM on Wed, Apr 21, 2021: Excel Lambda https://t.co/nKcOGM4O8b https://t.co/6n7ltzWAbE https://t.co/XMqH0WSt8G (https://twitter.com/xkcdComic/status/1385052798266404866?s=03) - . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity

[FRIAM] After cracking the “sum of cubes” puzzle for 42, mathematicians discover a new solution for 3 | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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[FRIAM] How to divide a football cake

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[FRIAM] Libertarian Walks into a Bear

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[FRIAM] Combining convolutional neural network with computational neuroscience to simulate cochlear mechanics

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[FRIAM] 12 Life Lessons From Mathematician and Philosopher Gian-Carlo Rota

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Re: [FRIAM] coding versus music

I agree wholeheartedly. The one computer course I got to take in my senior year while majoring in electrical engineering and physics saved me from electrocuting or irradiating myself in a lab. Computer math made such sense to me that I could enjoy doing the assignments instead of fumbling through

Re: [FRIAM] Another Abel prize interview

gt; 1017 Sierra Pinon > Santa Fe, NM 87501 > 505-984-0136 (home) an...@cs.unm.edu > 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel > > On Jan 21, 2021, at 8:38 AM, Roger Frye wrote: > > Peter Lax, Mathematician: An Illustrated Memoir > by Reuben Hersh > <https://smi

Re: [FRIAM] Another Abel prize interview

Peter Lax, Mathematician: An Illustrated Memoir by Reuben Hersh (Author) https://smile.amazon.com/Peter-Lax-Mathematician-Illustrated-Memoir/dp/1470417081/ref=sr_1_1 On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at

[FRIAM] Ten computer codes that transformed science

I'm sure others would make some changes to this list, but it hits many of the big ones. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00075-2 - . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam

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

Looks like results 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 this for younger people like you

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

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[FRIAM] Plaing Go With Darwin

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Re: [FRIAM] Trump as a victim

My stumbling block is Stephen Miller. After some effort, I could muster up Buddhist compassion for Trump and wish that he be healthy, strong and happy. But I chastised myself for wishing Stephen Miller would get it when I saw a picture of him walking next to Hope Hicks. Then when I heard that he

Re: [FRIAM] my data is bigger

The article ends with a damning argument about FRIAM: On one level, it’s ironic to find a philosopher—a professional talker—arguing that science was born when philosophical talk was exiled to the pub. On another, it makes sense that a philosopher would be attuned to the power of how we talk and

Re: [FRIAM] maximally-stateful versus purely-functional: some thoughts on diffusion-limited aggregration

, engineered to > abstract out the (stateful) details cannot help evaluate counterfactual > scenarios. Traditional AI/ML has the same problem. Models fail > extensionally because they're intensionally unfaithful. Or in my preferred > language, behavioral analogy fails because

Re: [FRIAM] maximally-stateful versus purely-functional: some thoughts on diffusion-limited aggregration

Jon, Thanks for the clarifications on your current focus. Problems where the process is at least as important as the result vary greatly, so multiple types of implementation might apply. I think of Eugenio Moggi's monads as a way to cheat in functional programming by encapsulating extra state.

Re: [FRIAM] Programming Languages

Galileo wrote in Italian in *Opera Il Saggiatore* [The universe] cannot be read until we have learnt the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and the letters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without

[FRIAM] Fundamental Theorems

Oliver Knill a math prof at Harvard has posted a list and description of the fundamental theorems. You can download a PDF here . Here is the beginning: Abstract. An expository hitchhikers guide to some theorems

[FRIAM] Ron Graham obituary | Mathematics | The Guardian

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[FRIAM] John Baez on Noether

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Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Important Article

Thank you, Frank. I forwarded the article to twitter. On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 11:35 AM Marcus Daniels wrote: > I was about to say the same thing, but sarcastically. Good and evil is > subjective. It’s an election, as you say. > > > > *From: *Friam on behalf of Frank Wimberly < >

Re: [FRIAM] science privilege — fork from acid epistemology

Another relevant word is "sous rature", which translates as "under erasure". Originally used by Heidegger when discussing Being, and extended by Derrida. It refers to the practice of writing a word and crossing it out so that the original can still be seen. It means that the word is not totally

Re: [FRIAM] Celeste Kidd - How to Know

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 8:59 AM Roger Critchlow wrote: > > >> When several hypotheses are presented to our mind which we believe to be >> mutually exclusive and exhaustive, but about which we know nothing further, >> we distribute our belief equally among them This being admitted as an >>

[FRIAM] Reuben has passed on

Out friend Reuben Hersh died Thursday night. He had been failing for the past few weeks. His son Daniel is making arrangements. -Roger FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to

[FRIAM] Scant evidence of power laws

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Re: [FRIAM] Run with a single bit?

The Turing machine worked on tapes of bits. On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 10:16 AM, Barry MacKichan < barry.mackic...@mackichan.com> wrote: > “How, or what, can you do with a "single bit."?“ > > Start a discussion on Friam. > > --Barry > > On 1 Jul 2017, at 23:42, Tom Johnson wrote: > > Friam Friends:

Re: [FRIAM] Run with a single bit?

It's the width of the channel. They had been reducing the precision of the floating point numbers being transmitted between nodes from 64 bits to 16 and then to 8 bit bytes. Nothing to prevent you from reducing to a more complicated network of on/off channels. Reminds me of my early days in

Re: [FRIAM] Trump right again?

And it happened after Trump said it. One might argue for causality. On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Barry MacKichan < barry.mackic...@mackichan.com> wrote: > Chrome translates the Dagbladet page if you say the language is Norwegian, > not Swedish (!). It looks like it was a small group

Re: [FRIAM] Complex Numbers .. the end of the line?

On Jan 23, 2012, at 5:38 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: The obvious question is what next? I.e. if we look at complex numbers at 2-tuples with a peculiar algebra, shouldn't we expect 3-tuples and more that are needed for operations beyond polynomial equations? The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra

Re: [FRIAM] Name this spider

We have one outside our front door tonight, and it hides during the day. It seems to be harmless, and the back looks like a smiley face. We think it is an orange crab spider (google that for images). On Oct 8, 2010, at 7:59 PM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote: Hoping there's someone on this list

Re: [FRIAM] ambiguity and mathematics

-Roger Frye On Dec 29, 2009, at 12:09 PM, ERIC P. CHARLES wrote: Well, of course, all of this (Glen and Nick's posts) is ignoring the obvious fact that ambiguity is the antithesis of mathematics. Of course (?!?), there is a nuanced resolution of this tension, having something to do

[FRIAM] Chicken brain parameter space

I can't tell whether this works in real life, but researchers found a collapse in the parameter space of a neural circuit in a chicken brain: http://www.brainmysteries.com/research/Inside_the_chicken_brain.asp FRIAM Applied Complexity

[FRIAM] Thurston vs Jaffe and Quinn

I think it is important to look at William Thurston's paper ON PROOF AND PROGRESS IN MATHEMATICS http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/math.HO/9404236 in the context of the very provocative article which stimulated it by Arthur Jaffe and Frank Quinn “THEORETICAL MATHEMATICS”:

Re: [FRIAM] The unreasonable Effectiveness of ABMs in ComplexSystems

Roger Frye, 505-670-8840 Qforma, Inc. (formerly CommodiCast) INNOVATE, NAVIGATE, SURPASS Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail transmission may contain confidential or legally privileged information that is intended only for the individual or entity named in the e-mail address. If you

Re: [FRIAM] random vs pseudo-random

improvement over the order N^2 convergence provided by a purely random sequence or by most PRNG. -Roger Frye On Apr 23, 2009, at 1:05 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: Hi, everybody, Now that the recent burst of metaphysics is completed, I was curious about your take on the following quote

Re: [FRIAM] Rosen, and mapping

I agree with Russell and Carl, but a couple of mathematical examples might help. Consider the mapping (i.e. arrow) from a pair of factors to their product. There is not a unique reverse mapping from the product to the factors. Also, if the factors are positive, consider the mapping from

Re: [FRIAM] Mentalism and Calculus

Nick, I think I am beginning to get a glimmer of what you are complaining about. The wording of your definition is ambiguous. How about this one from Google: a geometric element that has position but no extension; a point is defined by its coordinates I think you are arguing that since

Re: [FRIAM] Pythagorean theorem

Bogomoly's site doesn't mention it, but proof #69 can be thought of as an infinite double tiling of the plane. Furthermore, an infinite number of new proofs can be generated by sliding the square an increment in any direction and adding up the areas. So the number of proofs is not just 78.

Re: [FRIAM] Why true random?

I would argue the opposite. While I agree with Doug that you need good RNGs (though not necessarily true RNGs) in order to avoid bias, the problem with good pseudo- or true- RNGs is that they have order N^2 convergence for Monte Carlo simulations. Quasi-random number generators on the

[FRIAM] CommodiCast - Qforma

%20becomes%20Qforma.pdf or check out the new website at http://www.qforma.com. -Roger Frye Qforma, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 505-670-8840 cell / 505-989-3558 office Innovate, Navigate, Surpass. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets