Re: [FRIAM] TLS encryption [was gmail forums exploded]

Ideally your VPN vendor would provide you the direct services that made sense, allow you to ramp up the stream cipher to the level which suits your paranoia, and the vendor's peering arrangements would allow your gateways to pop onto the public internet at interconnects around the world. This kind

Re: [FRIAM] outsider everything

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: > > In the case of mobsters, they know that they are criminals and risk > punishment if they don't protect each other and their information. > > In relevant situations, individuals in such groups can predict, in a > positive and reinforcing

Re: [FRIAM] The HoTT Book | Homotopy Type Theory

There is a lot about HoTT beyond the collaboration of a Fields Medal winner with other mathematicians, mediated through git, and producing an open access book in less than a year. I spent a few hours puzzling over it when it was released, but got distracted. The core of HoTT is an executable vers

[FRIAM] 36 hour online game/research exercise

UCSF is running an online game to explore possible avenues of development for medical research, education, and practice, from 8AM Sep 11 to 8PM Sep 12 at http://www.ucsf2025.org/. There are some interesting ideas in the promotional video already, such as open sourcing the biomedical research liter

Re: [FRIAM] 36 hour online game/research exercise

p all that futurama into the promo video, but the idea of using a game to sort things out sounds intriguing. I wonder if I get to express my feelings about insurance companies ala GTA. -- rec -- On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Steve Smith wrote: > On 9/10/13 10:12 AM, Roger Critchlow wro

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: iClarified - Apple News - iOS Continues Closing the Gap on Android in the U.S.

Meanwhile, in China, the iPhone fell to 5% market share in the 2nd quarter. The 5C is priced at $733, the 5S at $864. Shares in Apple suppliers fell today as analysts tried to understand why Apple's "low end" phone was priced at more than 2x the competition in the world's largest market. http://

[FRIAM] JSTOR access

I received an email a few hours ago from Reed College announcing that alumni will henceforth be able to access JSTOR over the internet through the Reed library. *This new benefit of alumni status is part of JSTOR's initiative to offer alumni access for participating institutions, increasing its ef

Re: [FRIAM] JSTOR access

That's tuition, room, and board in 2013 education dollars. Tuition was much less 40 years ago, but still not cheap. -- rec -- On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: > On 9/11/13 9:30 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > > I received an email a few hours ago fro

Re: [FRIAM] JSTOR access

t me know what you find. > > ** ** > > Nick > > ** ** > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > > Clark University > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/**** > > ** ** > >

Re: [FRIAM] asymmetric snooping

Well, it wasn't just any normal employee audit. This was the Superintendent of the school district and the school district Director of Athletics and Activities trading racist text messages. Discussing how many african-american teachers were getting fired due to budget constraints. And the school

Re: [FRIAM] asymmetric snooping

eed a different straw man for your privacy arguments, these idiots aren't in the game. -- rec -- On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:32 PM, glen wrote: > Roger Critchlow wrote at 09/23/2013 01:49 PM: > > Well, it wasn't just any normal employee audit. >> > > Yeah, but did t

Re: [FRIAM] Government Shutdown

This was fun: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/09/meadows-boehner-defund-obamacare-suicide-caucus-geography.html Where the suicide caucus lives, republican congressmen and mitt romney won last fall with double digit margins, the population is > 80% white, and there's not a chance

Re: [FRIAM] Government Shutdown

On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote: > > So my question is: as such can Obama not replace the people that forced > the closure? > > I believe they're immune to prosecution except by congress itself, most especially on questions of being bad congress people. So, no, the presid

Re: [FRIAM] openness

There's an xkcd comic in this week's Science, http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/58.full, titled the rise of open access. I hope it's open access. -- rec -- On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: > On 10/3/13 3:15 PM, glen wrote: > >> But when you have to pay for some

Re: [FRIAM] hypothetical causes for semantic drift (was Notions of entropy)

I would rework Steve's explanation. Just as infants babble to learn the correct sounds for their native language by feedback, older children babble explanations to see what works. Unfortunately, correctly formed explanations can be uninformed opinions or fallacious reasonings or imaginary evidenc

Re: [FRIAM] hypothetical causes for semantic drift (was Notions of entropy)

I think the article's plea to see the liberal arts and sciences as a united front pursuing evidence and reason based explanations has something to do with Lee's rant about semantic infelicities between disciplines. They're all doing the same thing for a fuzzy enough definition of thing. In partic

Re: [FRIAM] hypothetical causes for semantic drift (was Notions of entropy)

Nature publishes a letter: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v502/n7471/full/502303d.html Communication: Metaphors advance scientific research which references a perspective: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v500/n7464/full/500523a.html Communication: Mind the metaphor and another letter

Re: [FRIAM] Most Distant Galaxy - What's wrong with this statement?

(30-13.1) / 13.1 = 1.29 light-years / year. -- rec -- On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:25 PM, wrote: > > From the BBC at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24637890 > > (today) > > > > /Because it takes light so long to travel from the outer edge of the > > Universe to us, the galaxy app

Re: [FRIAM] Most Distant Galaxy - What's wrong with this statement?

Where is "the outer edge of the Universe" and what sort of observation would locate something there? All that the original report in Nature established was redshift (7.51), age (700 Myr after the Big Bang), and a surprising rate of star formation (330 solar masses / year). -- rec -- > > > From

Re: [FRIAM] Most Distant Galaxy - What's wrong with this statement?

radius is time and > is 13.5 by? The center being when the big bang occurred. Then the > furthest object would be diametrically opposite and hypercircumferentially > at 13.5*pi bly or 42.4 bly away? So in the 'now' being at 30bly away is > chicken feed. > > Robert C. &g

[FRIAM] more fun in psychology

http://narrative.ly/pieces-of-mind/nick-brown-smelled-bull/ and http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/the-magic-ratio-that-wasnt/33279 describe how the principles of "positive psychology" got their mathematical "foundations" demolished this summer. A lesson in the hazards of basing your career

Re: [FRIAM] phonebloks teams with motorola

I think they're saying that the dry biomass of terrestrial species is 30% of the fresh biomass. Especially since the "global dry biomass in million tonnes" / "global wet (fresh) biomass in million tonnes" = 0.3 for all those rows in the table. -- rec -- On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Robert Ho

Re: [FRIAM] now that's the spirit!

No more Mister Nice Google, it's all going to be random noise from here on out. -- rec -- On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: > On 11/6/13, 5:30 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > > I think the inter-mail-server hops are encrypted, or I certainly hope > so! And the clients all s

[FRIAM] Emergence of macroscopic directed motion in populations of motile colloids

So take a tub full of microscopic colloidal blobs, make the blobs roll around by applying an external electrical field, and you can get the whole mess to swarm. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v503/n7474/full/nature12673.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v503/n7474/full/503043a.html

[FRIAM] flocking windmills

A golden oldie for you all. Just about this time in 2009 we discussed the possibility that vertical axis wind turbines could be organised as schools of fish to boost efficiency as a flock. Peter Lissaman was not amused. It turns out that the physicist who proposed the idea won a MacArthur fellow

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] 11 American Nations

The comments to the original Post article are entertaining, looks like nearly everyone found something to bitch about. -- rec -- On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Stephen Thompson wrote: > I agree all publications have cultural biases. However, if Mr. Woodard is > of > British Isles descent, the

[FRIAM] the previous surveillance party

I'd forgotten, but http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/public-editor/sullivan-lessons-in-a-surveillance-drama-redux.html?src=recg the NYTimes had evidence of warrantless wiretapping by the first Dubya administration and was persuaded to sit on the story until after Bush was reelected. Which is why S

Re: [FRIAM] Forum hacked

On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Steve Smith wrote: > > Moral of the story, "don't be a low-hanging fruit!" . > > Easier said than done. -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's Co

Re: [FRIAM] BitCoin

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/29/5156246/7-5-million-bitcoins-on-hard-drive-thrown-away-in-uk -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mail

Re: [FRIAM] Managing large numbers of passwords

~240 accounts stored in keepass. -- rec -- On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > Just out of curiosity, how many of us have a reasonable idea of the number > of logins we have? At a guess, I'd say I have over 200 simply because over > the last year I have logged 150+ in 1Pas

Re: [FRIAM] Managing large numbers of passwords

I agree, I considered a subpoena for the browser password management page to see how many "accounts" are being hidden by these scoundrels. -- rec -- On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Carl Tollander wrote: > >> Yeah, I'm about at 5-10 in re

Re: [FRIAM] King James Programming

Charles Stross (twitter @cstross) trained up his own off the KJV and the compete works of H P Lovecraft: "the strangely open doorway with the generation of poets is enormous." -- rec -- On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 5:15 PM, glen wrote: > > Given our ongoing discussion of nonsense and verbosity: > >

Re: [FRIAM] King James Programming

Here, he blogged the evenings work: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/lovebiblepl.html -- rec -- On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 10:10 AM, glen wrote: > On 12/05/2013 05:15 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > > Charles Stross (twitter @cstross) trained up his own off the KJ

Re: [FRIAM] Singularians, Less Wrong, and Roki's Basilisk

Which reminds me of the research I posted about growing socially intelligent agents by embedding them in an environment where they're forced to play prisoners dilemma with each other over and over. I wondered how they would feel about having been subjected to thousands of generations of this tortu

Re: [FRIAM] Where was I when this was happening?

I think that you knew about it, Owen posted back at the beginning of 2012: Timothy Gowers the Fields medalist mathematician has a recent post on Elsevier and a growing movement to boycott their use http://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/elsevier-my-part-in-its-downfall/ This includes not submitt

[FRIAM] weather meditation tool

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/orthographic=-194.94,91.32,295 -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/l

Re: [FRIAM] "rational"

On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 11:41 AM, glen wrote: > [ ... ] > Now, that carries us to how/whether/why humans would use irrational > inference procedures. But I think we would _need_ some evidence that > people actually use irrational reasoning procedures. I think even > so-called "irrational" things

Re: [FRIAM] Android Phone Testing

I'd try downloading the android emulator and testing them there, it's the least insane way to test different releases of android and different sizes of screens. And it's free for the time you spend figuring out how to make it work. I believe the release packages will give you a browser and the me

Re: [FRIAM] "rational"

There are two things reading Altemeyer would clear up. 1) He calls them Right Wing Authoritarians not because they're necessarily right wingers politically, but because they're invested in maintaining the status quo in their world. He believes the rank and file Stalinists were probably as authori

Re: [FRIAM] "rational"

points out, may > not be a bad thing). > > But I suppose the extent to which behavior can be dependent on > thought/reason, we might be able to say that those who think about what > they will do before they do it are more rational than those who do not. > If all thought is j

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: [sethmessageboard] ten core beliefs that most scientists take for granted [1 Attachment]

David Gelernter's attack on materialist chutzpah: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/the-closing-of-the-scientific-mind/ -- rec -- On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Rich Murray wrote: > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Mark M (Giese) > Date: Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 6:02

[FRIAM] return of the flying pelaton

In Nature today http://www.nature.com/news/v-is-for-vortex-1.14507, http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v505/n7483/full/505295a.html, and http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v505/n7483/full/nature12939.html describe instrumenting juvenile northern bald ibis raised in captivity to measure their

Re: [FRIAM] To Each According to its Degree: The Meritocracy and Topocracy of Embedded Markets : Scientific Reports : Nature Publishing Group

This is quite amusing, Tom. More than an argument for eliminating barriers to internet access, it's a whole new way to evaluate the social costs of privileges which the privileged will eternally argue should be eternally theirs because they stole them first. -- rec -- On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 8:

Re: [FRIAM] To Each According to its Degree: The Meritocracy and Topocracy of Embedded Markets : Scientific Reports : Nature Publishing Group

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: > On 1/22/14, 11:18 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > >> This is quite amusing, Tom. More than an argument for eliminating >> barriers to internet access, it's a whole new way to evaluate the social >> costs of pr

Re: [FRIAM] To Each According to its Degree: The Meritocracy and Topocracy of Embedded Markets : Scientific Reports : Nature Publishing Group

lecom companies. -- rec -- On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: > On 1/22/14, 12:59 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > >> But _they're_ not providing the jobs and the taxes, the location is >> providing the jobs and the taxes, all _they're_ providing is

Re: [FRIAM] WhatsApp ... Death of SMS?

There are, I believe, several larger messaging apps with strong followings outside the American market. See this article http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/05/technology/chinese-messaging-app-gains-ground-elsewhere.htmlabout WeChat from a year and a half ago. Is it just me, or has the future lost all

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: FPI > 210

The IEEE noticed that peak copper is coming this century, too. 1 years we've been mining all the copper we wanted, no trouble, but sometime before 2100 the tide turns. If you think there's been a lot of copper theft lately, just wait till the prices double a few more times. But the real crun

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: WhatsApp ... Death of SMS?

Heroes of the telegraph, by J Munro: At a second interview, Mr. Cooke told Wheatstone of his intention to bring out a working telegraph, and explained his method. Wheatstone, according to his own statement, remarked to Cooke that the method would not act, and produced his own experimental telegrap

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Let's level the playing field for SAT prep - odensm...@gmail.com - Gmail

That fits quite nicely (tongue-in-cheek) with this research, http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39450/title/Self-Citation-Gender-Gap/, though it took Owen to come up with citing his own mailbox. -- rec -- On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > Blush! > > >

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

So, what's the question here? You think maybe that the predominance of straight white men in technology is innately right? That other genders and races aren't capable of doing the job, so all those white male losers and assholes that we have to deal with are objectively the best people for the jo

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Steve Smith wrote: > Glen - > > Well intuited/analyzed/stated as always! > > On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 09:50 -0700, glen wrote: >> >>> The asymmetries being amplified by our new openness are simply >>> different from those that dominated before the openness. Our ne

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote: > > > Have you seen the latest research on how increasingly impossible it is to > move from one class to another in America? You were so right in your post > above. Born into working class, marry within working class, raise working > class chi

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > Roger - > > Are our only options extremes such as all rushing headlong to become >> the new "robber barons" ourselves, based on your (possible) ability/agility >> to manipulate said "new social manifold" (great term by the way, unless it >>

Re: [FRIAM] Open Access Publication

And some which do require Open Access have just recently started to crack the whip, http://www.nature.com/news/funders-punish-open-access-dodgers-1.15007 -- rec -- On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Gary Schiltz wrote: > Regarding OA mandates, which I assume stands for “Open Access” mandates, I

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Math (On Electric Car)

Your ranter should be forced to breath nothing but car exhaust until he changes his mind. Google says the average cost of electricity to US customers is $0.12/kwh. The most expensive state is Hawaii at $0.37/kwh. So it's $1.92 to charge the battery and $0.0768/mile cost on electricity. The http

[FRIAM] check your privilege?

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6183/461.full Male Scent May Compromise Biomedical Studies 1. David Grimm Jeffrey Mogil's students suspected there was something fishy going on with their experiments. They

Re: [FRIAM] Solar Panels Drain the Sun's Energy, Experts Say | National Report

Clickbait, given the window dressing on the "National Report" website. It's not being taken seriously except for its ability to drag eyes to the page and feed them onto other pages designed to tax the credulous. So, not much in the news because it's out south of Cabo and unlikely to reach shore,

Re: [FRIAM] Solar Panels Drain the Sun's Energy, Experts Say | National Report

he National Report, The Onion, and perhaps even > Fox News (!?) may ultimately serve a valuable role in public education. > > John Balwit > > > > On May 26, 2014, at 10:03 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > > Clickbait, given the window dressing on the "National Report&q

Re: [FRIAM] Comcast Is Turning The US Into Its Own Private Hotspot | TechCrunch

Oh, that's why they've been pitching their awesome WiFi all these months, because it has this trapdoor in it. I wonder if this means they're going to start supporting https://www.eff.org/wp/open-wi-fi-and-copyright-primer-network-operators, wouldn't that be a kick in the pants? More likely they'l

[FRIAM] Gerald M. Edelman (1929-2014)

The beginning of the obituary in Science: Gerald M. Edelman, who was born in New York in 1929, died at his home in La Jolla, California, on 17 May 2014. With him, biology has lost a great scientist and something even rarer—a profound thinker. Edelman's work in the 1960s revealed the chemical struc

[FRIAM] NSA deep packet inspection targets

Basically, anyone who looked at any technology that might be used to evade NSA surveillance, like everyone on this mailing list. http://boingboing.net/2014/07/03/if-you-read-boing-boing-the-n.html On the bright side, this appears to come from a source independent of Snowden. -- rec -- ==

Re: [FRIAM] IPViking live

Probably zero-zero island, 0 degrees longitude, 0 degrees latitude, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Bleep. -- rec -- On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: > Ah.. > > > http://www.theweek.co.uk/technology/59191/live-map-shows-cyber-war-in-real-t > ime > > "Rather than t

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 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 >> to me

[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 F

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 wrote: > On Sun, Sep 7

[FRIAM] what could go wrong?

Two stories that arrived at almost the same time this morning, and one from earlier this week. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/11/afp-apologises-plastic-explosive-in-suitcase-sydney-airport The Australian Federal Police left a suitcase with 230g of plastic explosive at the Sydney airpor

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 wrote: > For those not on 1-st mile: > ​​ > https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/148f765a669ec6d8 > > ​Maybe there's hope for NM after all. > >-

[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 http://redfish.com/mailm

Re: [FRIAM] Linux and WInderz Qs

The best advice I ever gave about Linux was to my sister in law this spring. I said: ¨Just buy another disk for the laptop, keep the windows disk as a backup in case you want to go back.¨ Truth is, it takes less time to buy a new laptop drive and swap it in than it does to explain how to set up a

Re: [FRIAM] Linux and WInderz Qs

ion 9 > <http://www.spj.org/region9.asp> Director > Twitter: jtjohnson > slideshare.net/jtjohnson/presentations > http://www.jtjohnson.com t...@jtjohnson.com > ==== > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Roger Critchlow wrot

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 po

[FRIAM] swarming nano meds

http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21635321-tiny-particles-could-be-programmed-swarm-together-and-mount-determined-attack -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's Coll

Re: [FRIAM] swarming nano meds

; N > > > > 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 &g

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 th

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 tor

[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 i

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,

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

u, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Roger Critchlow 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

[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 for

[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/ Tha

Re: [FRIAM] fresh Snowden

> > *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *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

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 wrote: > Thanks. In principle I think origins are often earlier than t

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. Funn

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 ( https://royalsociety.org/news/2015/06/tim-hunt-comment

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 &

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

t; >> But Roger, isn’t this a ticket to apathy? Where is the spur to action >> without outrage? I know that question sounds odd, but I am really asking >> it. Nick >> >> >> >> Nicholas S. Thompson >> >> Emeritus Professor of Psychology

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] 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 f

Re: [FRIAM] Fun Times in Ecuador

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Steve Smith 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 at St. John's

[FRIAM] 10x10x100

This site was posted by David Pogue yesterday. It's 100 photos of 10x10 flats in a housing complex in Hong Kong, with the occupants and their possessions. http://photomichaelwolf.com/100x100/ -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Comp

Re: [FRIAM] Intentionality is the mark of the vital

This discussion has sent me back to the Gerald Edelman paper that I posted several months ago: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/102/6/2111 As the abstract says: Analyzing neural dynamics underlying complex behavior is a major challenge in systems neurobiology. -- rec --

Re: [FRIAM] computer models of the mind

On 7/19/06, Robert Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not strictly true I think. Sure, Linux can't run without a PC but does that > mean it can't exist without one? Linux started its existence in Torvalds' > head before it appeared on a CPU and if all CPUs vanished tomorrow it would > still exist

Re: [FRIAM] OT: GSM Phones w/ Email & Web

I just bought a new Cingular branded, but unlocked, Treo 650 on ebay for $302 with $19.95 shipping. It been working fine since it arrived, but it did take the seller an excruciatingly long time (9 business days) to ship. -- rec -- FRIA

Re: [FRIAM] OT: GSM Phones w/ Email & Web

On 7/22/06, Owen Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cool! Are you using T-Mobile? Yes. I mentioned this on Friday, with respect to the $100 laptop, but I just rechecked the prices and a Treo 600 is about $150 on Ebay now. -- rec -- ===

Re: [FRIAM] Miss Manners@ Friam

Nick -- It's always polite to pare quoted material down to the bone. Sometimes it's hard to figure out what someone is talking about if they don't remove the irrelevant crap. MM On 7/27/06, Nicholas Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > should I always delete all of the history of what I am app

Re: [FRIAM] FRIAM book

Hmm, perhaps we should start with a "Complexity Hackers Dictionary" wiki? -- rec -- On 7/30/06, Jochen Fromm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Such a book should of course contain a big cautionary note on > the use of buzzwords. Buzzwords are especially frequent in the > area of complex systems, the

[FRIAM] Socio-Technal Systems Conference

Here's a note of interest to the Northern New Mexico branch of FRIAM. -- rec -- Good Morning: As a reminder, the CNLS 26th Annual Conference on Socio-Technical Systems is starting today at the Oppenheimer Center of the LANL Library and will continue through Thursday. It is open to the public an

Re: [FRIAM] abduction = inference to the best explanation

On 8/14/06, Nicholas Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, then, if metaphoric reasoning is not what is meant by abduction, what > kind of duction is metaphoric reasoning? > It's duct tape, not a duction at all. -- rec -- FRIAM

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