Re: [FRIAM] BBC News - Ant colony 'personalities' shaped by environment

Rebuttal by shame! If you have to ask you can't afford it. -- rec -- On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote: Hey, wait a minute, guys! You have lost me. What is this consciousness of which you speak. I am not sure I have one and I need you to describe it

[FRIAM] sheep herding algorithm

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/aug/27/sheepdogs-replaced-by-robots Appears to be 1) make them flock by minding the gaps, and 2) chase the flock in the desired direction. -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets

Re: [FRIAM] a $7.00 invention + refurbished computers = access

Anyone have a theory about how this is supposed to change the world forever more than running some other Linux distribution off a $7.00 USB drive? Or running ChromeOS off a USB drives? That's been done for years. -- rec -- On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net

Re: [FRIAM] How to reduce the influence of money in US politics! he7a1agy

The real issue is that we're all a mess. The surprise isn't that attempts to change things for the better fail, the miracle is that anything works at all. The more we collectively learn, the more ignorant we all individually become, and there isn't any *authority* that can tell us which part of

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: [1st-mile-nm] UNM HSC gets $15M. for Telehealth Project - odensm...@gmail.com - Gmail

Owen -- That url is a link to a message in your gmail inbox, no one can read it. -- rec -- On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: For those not on 1-st mile: ​​ https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/148f765a669ec6d8 ​Maybe there's hope for NM

[FRIAM] 100 MW fusion reactor in 7x10 foot footprint, 10 years to deployment

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/15/lockheed-breakthrough-nuclear-fusion-energy -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe

Re: [FRIAM] Linux and WInderz Qs

Twitter: jtjohnson slideshare.net/jtjohnson/presentations http://www.jtjohnson.com t...@jtjohnson.com On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Roger Critchlow r...@elf.org wrote: The best advice I ever gave about Linux was to my sister in law

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] Re: [ SPAM ] Re: Ebola, Science, and the collapse of the Deweyan consensus

The facts of the matter are that you can get a political body to do anything, once you've talked enough people into believing that it should be done. And you don't have to talk people into believing in contamination because that's been part of our explanations forever, so arguing to isolate the

Re: [FRIAM] swarming nano meds

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Roger Critchlow *Sent:* Thursday, December 04, 2014 11:12 AM *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee

Re: [FRIAM] TMo vs ATT in Santa Fe

It's interesting that the basic act of comparison shopping is thwarted by the need to keep your own phone number while testing. If you aren't getting the calls that you normally would get, then it's pretty hard to judge the coverage. Just because it says x-bars doesn't mean that it won't drop

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] RE: [ SPAM ] Re: Re: clinical diagnosis of [a]theism?

The strict calvinist answer to Glen's question is that no one knows but god who god has chosen to be the religious elect. Even the subject's testimony is no good, for they could be deluded, though you could torture them to determine if how strongly they hold to their delusion. But I guess that

[FRIAM] ransomware all the way down

So, you've probably heard about the virus that encrypts your hard disk and demands a bitcoin ransom to give it back to you? Well, now there are people looking to steal the keys to your web services so they can hold your business web site ransom, for a much larger ransom. It's either punishment

Re: [FRIAM] clinical diagnosis of [a]theism?

And a month later, though actually submitted two months in anticipation, scientific research responds with: http://pnis.co/vol2/s1.html Neural correlates of people waiting to get into Heaven It should be noted that PNIS is a mock scientific journal. -- rec -- On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 4:28 PM,

[FRIAM] academic fields whose practitioners believe ...

Great article in Science this week: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6219/262.short The more the practitioners of an academic field agree that Being a top scholar of [discipline] requires a special aptitude that just can’t be taught, the less successful women and african americans are in

[FRIAM] fresh Snowden

To facilitate listening to cell phone conversations, the NSA and GCHQ hacked the world wide supplier of SIM cards and stole the encryption keys used to secure cell phone communications between handsets and the vendor's backbone. https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/19/great-sim-heist/

Re: [FRIAM] academic fields whose practitioners believe ...

at 6:52 PM, Roger Critchlow r...@elf.org wrote: Great article in Science this week: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6219/262.short The more the practitioners of an academic field agree that Being a top scholar of [discipline] requires a special aptitude that just can’t be taught

Re: [FRIAM] fresh Snowden

] *On Behalf Of *Roger Critchlow *Sent:* Thursday, February 19, 2015 2:15 PM *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group *Subject:* [FRIAM] fresh Snowden To facilitate listening to cell phone conversations, the NSA and GCHQ hacked the world wide supplier of SIM cards and stole

Re: [FRIAM] new book on the origin of zero.

The first few paragraphs of a New Yorker article went by this week about the arrival of Never-Lost Land, wondering if something got lost when we stopped losing things. -- rec -- On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 1:12 PM, George Duncan gtdun...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks. In principle I think origins are

Re: [FRIAM] The Attack on Truth - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Of course the really fun thing about statistics is the ongoing discussion about the willful ignorance of scientists submitting papers with technically correct but wholly dubious claims of statistical significance, because -- rather, becorrelate -- their salaries depend on getting published. Funny

Re: [FRIAM] The Attack on Truth - The Chronicle of Higher Education

This tweet turned up in a search for the #wcsj2015 hashtag -- a conference of science journalists going on in South Korea where a Nobel biologist has made such a sexist ass of himself that the Royal Society decided to publicly distance itself (

Re: [FRIAM] The Attack on Truth - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Roger Critchlow *Sent:* Tuesday, June 09, 2015 1:37 PM *To:* The Friday Morning Applied

Re: [FRIAM] WebAssembly/design

I think that was already accomplished by asm.js, given the right C/C++ you could compile to asm.js and run at fastest javascript speeds. This substitutes a binary format, probably a variant of the LLVM bitcode mentioned elsewhere, which will be code-generated into asm.js by a javascript polyfill

Re: [FRIAM] Complexity Explorer

We have had discussions on this many times, and the usual result is that everyone gets fed up with all the technical details that need to be kept sorted out. There are equilibrium vs non-equilibrium systems, classical vs statistical thermodynamics, closed vs open systems, statistical mechanics vs

Re: [FRIAM] The Attack on Truth - The Chronicle of Higher Education

and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Roger Critchlow *Sent:* Tuesday, June 09, 2015 1:37 PM *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] The Attack

Re: [FRIAM] DOH!

I caught the cat sitting on the bathroom counter watching the faucet drip the other day. -- rec -- On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 10:40 PM, Marcus Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.com wrote: Nick writes: It seems to me that in the discussion we are having, the word entertainment cannot go undefined. How

Re: [FRIAM] Fun Times in Ecuador

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote: [...] an infection from a hot spring [...] oh, dear, don't like the sound of that, -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe

[FRIAM] upgrade those stingrays

So it always seemed sort of stupid that the Stingray cell tower masqueraders only collected meta data, since they had to handle all the payload packets to get the metadata anyway. Oh, an upgraded Stingray that captures all payloads of cell terminals that connect to it is called a dirt box and

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: How brand-new words are spreading across America

So business people are anti-union not because unions interfere with the running of their own businesses, but because unions interfere with their ruining of other peoples businesses? I think we could get a whole new freakonomics franchise out of this. -- rec -- On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 4:22 PM,

Re: [FRIAM] speculative Q

I think the issue with that last 20% of user facing software is that it's very expensive to run the marketing campaigns to persuade users that it's really, really good when in fact it sucks, especially when your competitors are working very hard at marketing their own brands of sucky user

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] 'Playing' Versioned Source Repositories

Look at gitk, unless you're actually looking for an animation of the tree of files and directories over time. Though tk might be a good choice for doing that, too, if Ben Bederson's Pad++ is still working. -- rec -- On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 8:52 PM, Arlo Barnes arlo.bar...@gmail.com wrote: So

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Meat

speaking of crash and burn, you all caught the PNAS early release today, http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/10/28/1512482112.abstract?sid=6a257104-4e5a-45e0-ad64-03d3b03c8f43, anticipating 3m sea rise in the next 60 years, and no sign of anything to be done at this point? -- rec -- On Mon,

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Meat

-- On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Roger Critchlow <r...@elf.org> wrote: > speaking of crash and burn, you all caught the PNAS early release today, > http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/10/28/1512482112.abstract?sid=6a257104-4e5a-45e0-ad64-03d3b03c8f43, > anticipating 3m sea rise

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] cell phones options-

Then there's the new Motorola Force, http://www.androidauthority.com/motorola-moto-x-force-launching-december-628-640424/, reported to have a shatterproof screen, but not for a while yet. But with claims like that, everybody would be wanting to test your phone's powers, ... -- rec -- On Tue,

Re: [FRIAM] the next phone

I wonder, too. It seems that we've entered the age where the cloud backed AI's compete for our attention from phone, tablet, and PC. There is Siri, Google Now, and Cortana, and now there are announcements of Duer (from Baidu) and M (from Facebook) in the past day. The Guardian notes that Echo

Re: [FRIAM] bubbles

you scared everybody away anyway, two customers, 14 books sold out of 49 boxes. still got chemistry and Lysenko for you, ... -- rec -- On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Nick Thompson wrote: > Ok, so the grandkids are messing about with bubbles. When two bubbles of >

[FRIAM] book sale in santa fe, sunday, december 5

My personal library, accumulated over 40 years and moved from coast to coast to coast to continental divide, is being downsized for a life in a smaller volume. As a result the majority will soon be boxed up for donation to the Santa Fe Public Library. I will be happy to part with any of these

Re: [FRIAM] book sale in santa fe, sunday, december 6

Correction, the one day book sale is tomorrow, Sunday, December 6, 2015 -- rec -- On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Roger Critchlow <r...@elf.org> wrote: > My personal library, accumulated over 40 years and moved from coast to > coast to coast to continental divide, is being downsize

Re: [FRIAM] book sale in santa fe, sunday, december 6

-- On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 2:29 PM, glen <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I wish I were there! I bet you have a few treasures. > > On 12/05/2015 12:56 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > > Correction, the one day book sale is tomorrow, Sunday, December 6, 2015 > > >

Re: [FRIAM] Physicists and Philosophers Debate the Boundaries of Science | Quanta Magazine

That will be quite a trick: Bayes' theorem is named after Rev. Thomas Bayes > (/ˈbeɪz/ > ; 1701–1761), who > first[*citation needed > *] showed

Re: [FRIAM] Fascinating article on how AI is driving change in SEO, categories of AI and the Law of Accelerating Returns

https://medium.com/utopia-for-realists/why-do-the-poor-make-such-poor-decisions-f05d84c44f1a was interesting, vis a vis what happens when you just give poor people money. -- rec -- On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > I suspect a universal basic income

Re: [FRIAM] Fascinating article on how AI is driving change in SEO, categories of AI and the Law of Accelerating Returns

"Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers." -- David Parnas Which is even funnier now than it was in 70's or 80's when first said, because artificial flowers have become more and more amazing over the decades. -- rec -- On Sun, Jun 5,

[FRIAM] catch a gravitational wave press conference

This morning at 10:30 eastern, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyo4DFr4D4I www.nature.com has posted a live feed link, too, revisionists there are arguing who actually deserves credit for predicting gravitational waves. -- rec -- FRIAM

Re: [FRIAM] Weeds of pragmatism: Subjectivity and intimacy

This turned up in my Quora feed a few minutes ago: What is the most effective way to see a person's true personality?

Re: [FRIAM] Subjectivity and intimacy (lost in the weeks?)

There's an article in this weekend's issue of the NYTimes Sunday Magazine about what Google has learned about how groups work and fail to work. One of the test instruments used presents pictures of peoples' eyes and asks what the people are feeling. Ah, the "Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test".

Re: [FRIAM] Subjectivity and intimacy (lost in the weeks?)

By all means, read the article, but it was the idea of reading feelings in pictures of eyes that seemed apropos to the ongoing discussion. I thought it was clear that Google already knew how to hire productive individuals, the question was why they, reliably productive individuals, made such

[FRIAM] same difference

http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/3983 -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com

Re: [FRIAM] same difference

ed in > Boston Harbor. > > > > N > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > > Clark University > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > > *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.co

[FRIAM] go programs

I've been watching parts of the match between Lee Sedol and Alpha Go on the youtube deepmind channel. It's quite good, they start off with a discussion of the previous game, give running commentary during the game, and audibly gasp when the progress of the game shocks them. The post match press

Re: [FRIAM] go programs

twork trained from self play has a subjective, and >> even inscrutable inner representation. Imagine such techniques were applied >> to public policy decisions or medical diagnosis. Without a linguistic >> component that co-evolved to describe a taken action, one could be le

[FRIAM] IMSI catchers

Lovely article this, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-10/what-happens-when-the-surveillance-state-becomes-an-affordable-gadget. The LTE network was supposed to be secure against IMSI catchers like StingRays and DirtBoxes, then Harris figured out how to knock the phone back to a 2G

Re: [FRIAM] Weekend Tweet Of The Week

él no tiene nada -- rec -- On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 9:02 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > I love to collect odd tweets. Here's this weeks nifty: > > Lecturing Professor: "a double negative forms a positive but in no > language does a double-positive express a negative" > Kid

[FRIAM] subjectivity and brain scans

In today's issue of Science, http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6277/1074 Goal-directed human behaviors are driven by motives. Motives are, however, purely mental constructs that are not directly observable. Here, we show that the brain’s functional network architecture captures

Re: [FRIAM] Here's to the 1%!

Thanks, Marcus, now we know how to get things sorted out here on FRIAM, -- rec -- On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 10:54 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > http://goo.gl/OcUVLV > > > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >

Re: [FRIAM] Tagged "Get off my lawn!"

I think it's pretty funny. The singularity happened before the millennium, when our libraries outgrew our ability to thoroughly test or understand them. In mere decades the artificial universe, starting from nothing, had become as mysterious as reality. -- rec -- On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 3:18

Re: [FRIAM] Tagged "Get off my lawn!"

I've done a completely "off my lawn" thing over the past few weeks. Playing Mahjong solitaire on Ubuntu is one of my vices, but I don't like the way the supplied program works in many ways. At least twice I've downloaded the source for gnome-mahjongg and looked at it until my eyes started

Re: [FRIAM] The Unbearable Asymmetry of Bullshit | Quillette

There was a great sound bite from Mark Cuban to the effect that Trump is that guy who goes into a bar and will say whatever it takes to get laid. -- rec -- On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 1:09 PM, glen ⛧ wrote: > > I find the executive actions (EPA, immigration, title 9, etc.) >

[FRIAM] free will on the ten meter tower

This documentary https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/opinion/ten-meter-tower.html is great viewing. -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe

Re: [FRIAM] on the obustness of globalism

If you read the linked article, you'll see that this Mom died several days before the executive order was signed. -- rec -- On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 10:44 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > We just got a lot dumber. > > (Terence Tao? Wow! Didn't know many of us followed him.

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Your Daily digest for David Pogue

Everybody and her mother wants to be the next battery technology. Pogue's got a whole horse race of candidates in the wings. But the proof is in the pudding, when you can mass produce your technology, and that proof requires years of scaling up. I was impressed with a recent review article in

Re: [FRIAM] AI advance

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Pamela McCorduck wrote: > > > On Jan 31, 2017, at 7:32 AM, Steven A Smith wrote: > > > > > >> " AlphaGo itself isn't scary it's what comes next and so on and how > quickly these advances are progressing that give some great

[FRIAM] poker playing AI

I noticed the poker playing AI winning the tournament recently in the news, but I hadn't noticed until today that the lead researcher was Tuomas Sandholm at CMU, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sandholm/, who was hot into computing mechanisms years ago. Mechanisms being self enforcing contract terms,

Re: [FRIAM] National Constitution Center

google "bush directive 51" finds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_and_Homeland_Security_Presidential_Directive which discusses the non-classified procedures for maintaining continuity of government in the event of a "catastrophic emergency". There are constitutional questions about

Re: [FRIAM] white house petitions no longer counting

And the Post finally weighs in on the subject: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/02/04/no-the-white-house-is-not-freezing-anti-trump-petitions/?utm_term=.61a51998db69 -- rec -- On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Roger Critchlow <r...@elf.org> wrote: > I agree,

[FRIAM] white house petitions no longer counting

It appears that https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/ is no longer counting signatures, someone doesn't want to hear what we think anymore. -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's

Re: [FRIAM] white house petitions no longer counting

fkoff <merlelefk...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Roger, the site is still up. I don't understand. How do you know this? >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 7:43 AM, Roger Critchlow <r...@elf.org> wrote: >>> >>>>

[FRIAM] only america first

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=30553_source=dlvr.it_medium=twitter The linguists attempt to parse Trump rhetoric, but the real fun comes from the 1940's vintage Dr Seuss cartoons at the end of the article. Then further down in the comments there's Woody Guthrie singing: 'They say

Re: [FRIAM] Nautilus: Investing Is More Luck Than Talent

I started an answer about what Chomsky meant, I think he means that if you choose to align your interests with the property owners, there is no way you can redeem yourself, you are on the side of government protecting the property holders' rights against everyone else, that first, and whatever

Re: [FRIAM] How we can make the COUNTRY great again

https://x.company/loon/ -- rec -- On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 8:46 PM, Gary Schiltz wrote: > I don't have much experience with the GEO providers, e.g. Hughes, but I > seem to remember that the minimum latency of about a quarter second round > trip imposed by the speed

Re: [FRIAM] How we can make the COUNTRY great again

their mind to it. I wonder how many other federal commissions might be similarly poised to grind to a halt? -- rec -- On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 9:26 PM, Roger Critchlow <r...@elf.org> wrote: > https://x.company/loon/ > > -- rec -- > > On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 8:4

[FRIAM] more fun with AI

Okay, this one got published in Science today, https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.02318, they solve an n-body quantum wave function with artificial neural nets, they earned two separate commentary articles: The challenge posed by the many-body problem in quantum physics originates from the difficulty of

Re: [FRIAM] more fun with AI

I watched the livestream from the TensorFlow Dev Summit in Mountainview yesterday. The individual talks are already packaged up as individual videos at https://events.withgoogle.com/tensorflow-dev-summit/videos-and-agenda/#content, but watching the livestream with the enforced moments of deadtime

Re: [FRIAM] Otra acción hostil

If you go and sign the petition to release Trump's tax returns: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/immediately-release-donald-trumps-full-tax-returns-all-information-needed-verify-emoluments-clause-compliance they will send you an email to verify your signature along with a link that you

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

Someone pointed out that Trump never laughs. Not at himself, not at others, not at his own jokes, not at anything. -- rec -- On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 5:32 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > Nick, > > No. "Self" has a technical meaning in psychoanalysis. The tiny baby >

Re: [FRIAM] Wi-Fi speeds could triple and range double thanks to MIT breakthrough | ZDNet

The last author on the article, Dina Katabi ( http://people.csail.mit.edu/dina/), is a Syrian, a MacArthur Fellow (2013), and "the Andrew & Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, [...] the leader of NETMIT

Re: [FRIAM] speaking of analytics

See the result of the AI judged beauty contest? Apparently the training set needed more curation. Very teachable moment. -- rec -- On Sep 8, 2016 7:10 PM, "Marcus Daniels" wrote: > Racial profiling is a single dimensional predictor. It's bad because it > is regressive,

Re: [FRIAM] Court: Judges Can Consider Predictive Algorithms in Sentencing

yuval harari on a similar question http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/50bb4830-6a4c-11e6-ae5b-a7cc5dd5a28c.html#axzz4ITEeTSei excerpted from his new book, I think. -- rec -- On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 7:24 PM, Pamela McCorduck wrote: > So agree. We are *so* far from certain on this one. >

[FRIAM] ah, spelling

So this review was intriguing me, the sources of American Philosophy, excavated from the library of William Earnest Hocking, but subtitled "A Love Story" as is appropriate since it happens in New England. But then Charles Sanders Peirce enters the story, only to become Pierce in the very next

Re: [FRIAM] THREAD BENDING ALERT: Was "Is Bezos a Bozo?" IS NOW"Reading Email exchanges chronologically"

Nick -- Look at https://storify.com/ -- rec -- On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 10:03 PM, Nick Thompson wrote: > Dear everybody, > > > > On several occasions, this one included, I have gotten involved in email > exchanges on FRIAM and elsewhere that were so good that I

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

illegitimate > non-citizen hundreds of times over 7 years. Clinton emails. Trump uses > campaign donations to enrich his own businesses. Clinton emails. Trump says > laziness is an inherent trait in black people. Clinton emails. > > Frank Wimberly > Phone (505) 670-9918 >

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

d your comment, AND I want to. > > > > Nick > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > > Clark University > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > > *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

Aren't the libbies constitutionally required to disdain funding from the government? Seems like they should disdain elections, too, hold out for victory by acclamation? -- rec -- On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 2:28 PM, ┣glen┫ wrote: > On 11/04/2016 09:53 AM, Marcus Daniels

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

Welp, just sitting around shaking my head this morning, think I'll take out the trash. -- rec -- On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 6:38 AM, Steven A Smith wrote: > Marcus - > > It would appear that your fears were more founded than I could have > imagined. > > It would also seem that I

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

Maine apparently legalized cannabis, too, though too close to call through the night. -- rec -- On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > OTOH: California, Massachusetts and Nevada legalized marijuana. > >

Re: [FRIAM] Model of induction

You have left the model for the untainted computers unspecified, but let's say that they are producing uniform pseudo-random numbers over some interval, like 0 .. 1. Then your question becomes how do we distinguish the tainted computers, which are only simulating a uniform distribution? This

Re: [FRIAM] power posers in the university of truth

at 1:00 PM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> wrote: > Are Falsehoods the new Truthy? > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Joe Spinden <j...@qri.us> wrote: > >> Love it. >> >> On 12/6/16 9:41 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: >> >> Enter the power pos

Re: [FRIAM] Truth vs. Social Justice on college campuses

-leaning > professors is because universities do pursue truth. And perhaps it just > turns out that the left is more true than the right. > > On 12/05/2016 06:58 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > >> And it's also amusing to consider that the bulk of his complaint is that >> th

[FRIAM] power posers in the university of truth

Enter the power pose, the proposition that standing up straight will give you the super powers to overcome adversity, except that no one can replicate the original experiment, the primary author has disavowed the publication, yet the primary advocate is making millions off the idea.

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: In Memoriam: Thomas C. Schelling

Ah, the mortality is getting thick. My high school buddy Aaron had a fatal massive heart attack in August. My sister-in-law Mimi succumbed to cancer on October 30 while I was flying back from visiting her and my brother. Dave Weininger, master of chemical information, passed away on November 2.

Re: [FRIAM] Model of induction

Seems like the abduction step would be assuming that there are loaded wheels before you have any empirical evidence. A wheel could be fat-tailed, tending to longer runs, without being biased toward any particular numbers. There would be an incentive to bet on a run continuing, but no particular

Re: [FRIAM] Truth vs. Social Justice on college campuses

I was amused to hear a heckler yelling about false dichotomy toward the end of the video. Haidt wanted a clean vote between christian university, truth university, and social justice university, so he didn't open the ballot to poll for none of the above. And it's also amusing to consider that

Re: [FRIAM] Stop Calling People "Low Information Voters" | Quillette

https://medium.com/@Richard_Florida/the-most-disruptive-transformation-in-history-80a50ef89b4d#.7grm8x0r1 On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/opinion/sunday/why-blue- > states-are-the-real-tea-party.html?=section- >

Re: [FRIAM] Stop Calling People "Low Information Voters" | Quillette

On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 2:56 PM, glen ☣ wrote: > > We could try a parallax approach, though ... divide the whole into parts > by multiple (different) methods (state, county, demographic, ...) and use > something akin to Kullback-Leibler to constrain a set of "common models",

Re: [FRIAM] organizations

I dunno, you think there's a connection between diversity/intersectionality and agile design? They always harp on hearing the quiet voice that's telling the important truth. Seems like agile's main point is that the clients really want something much simpler than they can be talked into, but you

[FRIAM] organizations

Twitter brought me a link to the 18F code of conduct this evening, via New Zealand: https://github.com/18F/code-of-conduct/blob/master/code-of-conduct.md which leads me to wonder about the goals and purposes of organizations and the ways they challenge members and other organizations. It's

Re: [FRIAM] organizations

am to make sure that the social but > otherwise ordinary team members will always be able to delay coherent > technical planning, or (worse!) edgy debates where any proposition could be > shown to be poorly motivated or false. > > > > *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On

Re: [FRIAM] organizations

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > > > Someone like that can be taken down by a faster or stronger dog. The > problem is that he has the lemmings.. Lemmings are the problem. > > > I don't get it, is it detailed technical planning or dog fighting?

[FRIAM] spam glorious spam

I went searching in my gmail spam folder for a missing message that wasn't there. But I found that I've been receiving daily updates from i...@mail.whitehouse.gov with the chipper subject "Your 1600 Daily", all of which gmail has classified as spam, because many recipients marked it as spam. --

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On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > It distances him from Putin, so it is useful to him. And the babies, > don't forget about the babies! (Although it was fine was they were > washing up on the shore.) > > Or being shipped back to Hungary to be

Re: [FRIAM] How I made my own VPN server in 15 minutes | TechCrunch

Interesting coincidence, I was reading http://www.rss.org.uk/Images/PDF/publications/2017/Gelman-Hennig-April-17.pdf because the authors are talking in London tomorrow. I won't be there, but I got notified and the abstract was interesting, so I watched a youtube of Andrew Gelman and Chris Hennig

[FRIAM] Legal scholars get with the program

In this week's Science, a Policy Forum paper: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6332/1377?rss=1 Harnessing Legal Complexity, J B Ruhl, Daniel Martin Katz, Michael J Bommarito II Summary Complexity science has spread from its origins in the physical sciences into biological and social

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