Re: [FRIAM] Message to the non-posting 95%

Pieter, Very cool solution. Do you process a composited 1/4 resolution grid of the 4 video streams in the Rasberry Pi/Neural Compute Stick? Or do you switch the videos with the DVR and process in serial? -Stephen ___

Re: [FRIAM] "I have come to bury Ayn Rand"

Nick, The link is a David Sloan Wilson article in case you didn't check it On Mon, Mar 29, 2021, 9:56 PM wrote: > Not to praise her? > > > > Nick Thompson > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Roger Critchlow > *Sent:*

Re: [FRIAM] The God Equation

My first evening (1998?) in Santa Fe was Marcus to my left and you to my right at Second Street and then the visit to SFI discussing web-based SWARM. You two are forever dual homunculi of the same creature in my mind :-) ___

Re: [FRIAM] The God Equation

Marcus writes: > > Why "equation"? What is this obsession with equality or equivalence or > even similarity/symmetry? OK. I get it, equations help us ask questions > like "How does this thing over here transmogrify into that thing over > there?" And if you have a bunch of terms in the equation,

Re: [FRIAM] GOES-East CONUS - GeoColor - NOAA / NESDIS / STAR

Here's the bottom-up view of the same clouds at 7:22p. Hyperlapse 32x realtime looking NW. https://photos.app.goo.gl/1vjTdjqDYCvXA34W9 The video is in a shared "Santa Fe Sky"Google Photo Album. Phone camera was clamped to roof rack of my car but the wind still blew it around. If other folks want

[FRIAM] Watching a Moose solve a Maze Re: solving mazes

Late September 2009, a young M0ose (Cody Smith) walked into the Santa Fe Complex. He approached me and said he heard about the place and wanted to help contribute. He showed me some of his computational sketches on his laptop. One that caught my eye was his Javascript breadth-first maze solver:

Re: [FRIAM] A Theory of (Almost) Everything - IEEE Spectrum

We don't have an energy problem. Energy is conserved. We have a "free energy" problem. On Thu, Apr 15, 2021, 11:17 AM wrote: > Merle, and all, > > > > A naïve question: Do we have an energy supply problem or do we have an > energy distribution problem? For starters, let there be a solar

Re: [FRIAM] Instructional scaffolding - Wikipedia

On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 5:48 PM wrote: > Or as Kahil Gibran once famously said: “You are the bow from which your > children as arrows fly; let you bending in the hands of The Archer be for > joy.” > Nick you turned me on to this poem a couple of weeks ago and I think it's beautiful. Who/What do

Re: [FRIAM] Instructional scaffolding - Wikipedia

is > kindly warning, I am never ready for the “twang!” > > > > How do you imagine Her. > > > > > > Nick > > > > Nick Thompson > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Step

Re: [FRIAM] Religious Imagination: The Archer

Thanks, Nick! A lot to respond to. I will do it in chunks. On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 4:22 PM wrote: > For me, heaven will be, a doubles match on the court in Ipswich, my > parents, family and friends cheering from the shade of the grape arbor, and > me, bent to the net, with my big brother at

Re: [FRIAM] Can Slime Mould Solve Mazes? | Earth Lab - Bing video

In the case of slime molds, there are over 900 species with different collective behaviors but there are some common universal mechanisms of their self-organization using chemical fields like Cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP). In addition to Maze Solving by an individual cell, another classic

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: A Theory of (Almost) Everything - IEEE Spectrum

Merle, Hopefully you aren't referring to Eric's suggestion for a framework of analysis and planning. I suspect your use of Embodied Energy is complimentary to his description. On Thu, Apr 15, 2021, 4:41 PM Merle Lefkoff wrote: > I'm afraid I have to bail from this stream because it causes me

Re: [FRIAM] neural/symbolic integration workshop

Thanks for forwarding, Jon. I did a 5-minute skim and would agree with Glen. I would add that a bidirectional path tracer would reverse the meaning of the semantic edge. eg, the next sentence after Glen's quote: Although we have directed edges in the schema graph, we traverse it in an undirected

Re: [FRIAM] coding versus music

Archive pointer to 2013 FRIAM thread on literate programming: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/Literate-CoffeeScript-td7581862.html Owen gave a nice WedTech talk sometime around then, too. -Stephen On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 8:24 PM Russell Standish wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 11:45:46AM

Re: [FRIAM] argh

On Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 9:05 AM wrote: > Funny that we continue to worship in those bare ruined choirs. Old issues > unsettled? Chancel culture of another's time > - . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6

Re: [FRIAM] "ZAMM"

Nick, do you know Phaedrus? On Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 7:46 PM wrote: > Colleagues, > > > > I wonder if Pirsig’s *Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance *was a > thing for any of you, and if you would be interested in pursuing a thread > about it and, if so, if you would be willing to get it

Re: [FRIAM] Can a robot have a soul?

On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 9:42 PM wrote: > If you mean by what you wrote, could consciousness, etc., be properties of > the organism’s (or the robot’s) relation to other objects, my answer is > emphatically YES. I hate to smear you before the rest of the group by > agreeing with you, but you’ll

Re: [FRIAM] Can a robot have a soul?

On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 9:53 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > There seems to be individual differences in how people have responded to > the longer stretches of the pandemic. Some people lost benefits from the > “open” system. They lost access to their friends or lost their cadence. > Other people

Re: [FRIAM] Can a robot have a soul?

Jochen, The Chinese have a famous thought experiment called the "John Searle Room" (虚构研究员, 1984). Take the living John Searle, and place him in a sealed closed room. In a short time, he is no longer alive, has no cognition, no consciousness, and certainly no soul. Place a common conception of a

[FRIAM] Mesoscale modeling of wildfire plume dynamics

Nick, Related to the Stormscapes paper for cloud formation dynamics, here's an extension this year by the same team for driving the heat raster from wildfire propagation: The video is enough to get the main ideas. http://computationalsciences.org/publications/haedrich-2021-wildfires.html -S

Re: [FRIAM] Great Circle

, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > > On Sun, Sep 19, 2021, 3:19 PM Stephen Guerin > wrote: > >> I was going to post this similar site but Ed beat me with his :-) This >> one also ha

Re: [FRIAM] Great Circle

I was going to post this similar site but Ed beat me with his :-) This one also has a globe view... https://www.greatcirclemap.com/globe?routes=CLT-HNL ___ stephen.gue...@simtable.com CEO, Simtable http://www.simtable.com 1600

Re: [FRIAM] hot streaks

May be related to Barabasi's ideas of work (and many other phenomena) coming in discrete clumps in his 2010 book "Bursts" https://barabasi.com/book/bursts On Mon, Sep 13, 2021, 12:16 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > Open access at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25477-8 > > Across a

Re: [FRIAM] *-sovereignty

At VFriam with Glen and Jon. as I came into their discussion on identity, I brought up Self-Sovereignty Identity as something we're designing for in our day job with Realtime.Earth. If we classify Web 1.0 (1993-2005) roughly simple pages with databases and forms. Web 2.0 (~2005-2015) was an era

Re: [FRIAM] stygmergy, CA's, and [biological] development

Nick, A reminder on Micheal Levin's work on regeneration, inheritance and connection to bioelectric fields: https://youtu.be/XheAMrS8Q1c?t=428 zoomed to experiment but I encourage you to watch the whole talk. Stigmergy is coordination through indirect communication. Ant foraging, termite

Re: [FRIAM] Heart Rate

On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 6:01 PM ⛧ glen wrote: > Ha! Nice redirect. Your mischarachterization was not about race. It'll be > interesting if any in this office buys that. Your mischaracherization was > about old people vs young or partially employed people. Referee: **Thread bending whistle**

Re: [FRIAM] Schwill Rock?

On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 11:09 AM wrote: > Jon, et. al, > > > > I love it when you guys talk dirty! > > > > I am afraid I won’t be able to make it Friday (travel angst), so could > somebody explain in a few sentences what is going on, here? > A few Google searches related to "Smiles

Re: [FRIAM] Newborn Heart Rate

On Sat, Oct 2, 2021 at 10:59 AM wrote: > You might help me distinguish between vicious DAWW and virtuous DAWW. > You might exile me. But you probably won’t get me to stop. > If we follow the virtuous DAWW, it feels like wuwei

Re: [FRIAM] Newborn Heart Rate

On Sat, Oct 2, 2021 at 5:57 PM wrote: > Just to be clear – and perhaps nerdishly literal minded – I would NEVER > claim that word play alone is science; I would only claim that it has a > role to play. > > > > On Sat, Oct 2, 2021 at 10:59 AM wrote: > > You might help me distinguish between

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: What a funny

2017 Chemistry Olympiad. https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/web/2017/07/US-team-makes-history-IChO.html The US students won 4 gold medals. from the article: The medals were announced during the closing ceremony on July 14. Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) was the only other country to receive four gold

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: What a funny

ugh and run. > > === > Tom Johnson > Inst. for Analytic Journalism > Santa Fe, New Mexico > 505-577-6483 > === > > On Mon, Oct 4, 2021, 9:56 PM Stephen Guerin > wrote: > >> 2017 Chemistry Olympiad. >> >> https://cen

Re: [FRIAM] stygmergy, CA's, and [biological] development

> > On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 5:00 PM Frank Wimberly > wrote: > I want to clarify what a dual space is. The domain of dual.space can be mapped to any other domain :-) ___ stephen.gue...@simtable.com CEO, Simtable

Re: [FRIAM] The epiphenomenality relation

Nick, Whenever we discussed your Natural Design Perspective over the last 15 years, I've tried to form a bridge toward Complexity, Self-Organization, Least Action, and related ideas. From your Natural Design Wikipedia entry : Natural design is

Re: [FRIAM] The epiphenomenality relation

bile: (505)577-5828 twitter: @simtable z <http://zoom.com/j/5055775828>oom.simtable.com On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 2:08 PM Stephen Guerin wrote: > > Nick, > > Whenever we discussed your Natural Design Perspective over the last 15 > years, I've tried to form a bridge towar

Re: [FRIAM] Application of robo-pigeon in ethological studies of bird flocks

Nick, > Is Hong Kong not being digested as we speak? Is pressure not increasing on the Taiwanese? An orthogonal perspective is healing and unification post-occupation and aggression by foreign powers. ie: - North/South Vietnam - Manchuria/China - East/West Germany - North/South

Re: [FRIAM] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/technology/pamela-mccorduck-dead.html [eom]

We were fortunate to have Pamela among us. Take some time and search the interwebs on Pamela . Order her books and watch her interviews

Re: [FRIAM] Thread Bust: WAS: stygmergy, CA's, and [biological] development

Nick, I put the standard Netlogo CA model set to rule 30 online here https://redfish.com/models/CARule30.html Hit setup or setup-random then go. You can play with the rule set on the left. Note as a binary bits, the CA number ranges from 0-255 depending on which bits are switched on. Play with

[FRIAM] Exaptations and the "Design" evolution of the Internet (was Re: The epiphenomenality relation)

Nick, You may be interested in this recent short blog on exaptations and the design of the internet: https://subconscious.substack.com/p/exapt-existing-infrastructure Note the Internet is more about protocol than any particular hardware/network instantiation and it has evolved on top of other

Re: [FRIAM] Solutions documentary

Doh. I see the facebook link now https://fb.me/e/Sh0VZI83 On Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 12:54 PM Stephen Guerin wrote: > Cool. Did you find a place to stream or purchase? > > Did you attend most of the virtual conference this year? Any notable > papers/presentations? > > On Fri, Jul

Re: [FRIAM] Solutions documentary

Cool. Did you find a place to stream or purchase? Did you attend most of the virtual conference this year? Any notable papers/presentations? On Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 12:19 PM uǝlƃ ☤>$ wrote: > They re-premiered this at ALIFE 2021. I figured it would be interesting, > if for no other reason than

Re: [FRIAM] One of many things the country is fucked on

On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 11:15 PM Gillian Densmore wrote: > Now is the taste of beer a power law related to it's flavor? that is to > say if it's more rich and flavorfull does the quantity quafed go up > exponentially? And does the amount of flavorfulness relate to it's > hoppyness and the

[FRIAM] Alien Crash Site, Complexity, Future Fossils and Jim Rutt Podcasts

Steve S., Given your science fiction depth, have you been following SFI's "Alien Crash Site" podcast hosted by Caitlyn? Any feedback? https://www.aliencrashsite.org/ Also, others here are probably already aware of related SFI podcasts: Michael Garfield hosts SFI"s "Complexity" podcast

Re: [FRIAM] Coverage of Russia

A crowdsourced effort to geolocate social media imagery in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia Note when you click on a map point, the metadata will have a "geolocation" tweet that documents how those locations were determined. https://maphub.net/Cen4infoRes/russian-ukraine-monitor The organization

Re: [FRIAM] OGS

nice appreciation expressed in the OGS comments, John. cool move. On Sat, Feb 26, 2022, 10:32 AM Jon Zingale wrote: > """ > Given the current situation many Ukrainians find themselves in, I am > preemptively canceling all recurring charges for anyone with a Ukrainian > billing address and

Re: [FRIAM] Pressurized air in pipelines?

Not sure of your reference, but I've looked at the numbers around this untapped pressurized air resource . Back of the envelope calculations, we could

Re: [FRIAM] Layers

Looks cool, Frank. Surfing around: a Deep Equilibrium Model paper by Shaojie Bai: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2019/file/01386bd6d8e091c2ab4c7c7de644d37b-Paper.pdf And one of his 12-minute talks:

Re: [FRIAM] Agentscript steganography for distributing model code with an image (was Re: ... --- ...)

On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 11:23 AM glen wrote: > Shirley you could finagle this into some malware or some miningware (aka > "citizen science") so that the image was automatically executed by an > injected browser add-on. > Yes, we do have chrome extension that could look for code in any image in

[FRIAM] Tomorrow, 12p-2 Stu Kauffman on drums at Museum Hill Cafe, Santa Fe

LOCAL MAXIMA Lunch Jam Tomorrow, Sat 1/29 12p-2 Museum Hill Cafe, Santa Fe Diane Johnson will be on piano and Stuart Kauffman, The Cool Daddy of Complexity, will be on snare drums. (I'm psyched to play roadie). Come up for lunch, listen to some improvised grooves and I'll buy you a sake bloody

[FRIAM] New Mexico Rivers and Navigable Servitude [was: One of many things the country is fucked on]

;> Gil is right, the world is broken in many ways. Obviously we need to >> support our politicians in understanding the mess and in finding ways to >> fix it. Complexity science helps us to study complex systems on a large >> scale, to understand how they work, how they interact and how

Re: [FRIAM] New Mexico Rivers and Navigable Servitude [was: One of many things the country is fucked on]

, 2022 at 10:24 AM Stephen Guerin wrote: > or commerce and navigability may be accomplished by a NM Stream Commission > contract to continuously survey the waterway bathymetry with unmanned > surface vehicles: > https://www.oceanalpha.com

Re: [FRIAM] New Mexico Rivers and Navigable Servitude [was: One of many things the country is fucked on]

...@simtable.com CEO, Simtable http://www.simtable.com 1600 Lena St #D1, Santa Fe, NM 87505 office: (505)995-0206 mobile: (505)577-5828 twitter: @simtable z <http://zoom.com/j/5055775828>oom.simtable.com On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 10:16 AM Stephen Guerin wrote: > Cody, > > Noticed

Re: [FRIAM] New Mexico Rivers and Navigable Servitude [was: One of many things the country is fucked on]

Actually you would need to go >> paddle-board around Cochiti lake to find it I suppose. >> On 1/21/22 10:24 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote: >> >> or commerce and navigability may be accomplished by a NM Stream >> Commission contract to continuously survey the waterway

Re: [FRIAM] Communication guides for the elderly

On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 11:17 AM Stephen Guerin wrote: > as a GenX, column C missed the subtlety and expressiveness of fuck idioms. > EG idioms on this page is probably 10% of the way there. > https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/fuck > Learned a new Aussie

Re: [FRIAM] Complexity, Ottawa and Nanotechnology (was Re: Struck me as funny)

-0206 mobile: (505)577-5828 twitter: @simtable z <http://zoom.com/j/5055775828>oom.simtable.com On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 12:12 PM Stephen Guerin wrote: > Merle, > > I'm no expert but here are some writings > > I trust Philip Ball as a science writer that distills well and does

Re: [FRIAM] Struck me as funny

On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 10:36 AM wrote: > New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) on Sunday morning said the Big Apple is > planning to dispatch mental health professionals > > to

[FRIAM] Complexity, Ottawa and Nanotechnology (was Re: Struck me as funny)

Merle, I'm no expert but here are some writings I trust Philip Ball as a science writer that distills well and doesn't add mushy fluff: https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/8/6/nwaa266/6009035 There's some debate on using the framework of Complexity as an appropriate lens for nanotechnology (I

[FRIAM] **TODAY April 7 4p Second Street Brewery ** Re: tomorrow at 2nd St

Merle, We're going to 2nd Street Brewery original location which is shutting down that location on Saturday . 2nd Street will still

Re: [FRIAM] **TODAY April 7 4p Second Street Brewery ** Re: tomorrow at 2nd St

well played photo, Glenn. Cheers! On Thu, Apr 7, 2022, 1:59 PM glen wrote: > Cheers! > > On 4/7/22 12:38, Stephen Guerin wrote: > > Merle, > > > > We're going to 2nd Street Brewery original location which is shutting > down that location on Saturday < > ht

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

We will resume in-person FRIAM at St John's on Fridays. Virtual FRIAM will shift to Thursday mornings. .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe

Re: [FRIAM] [Colloquia] Cris Moore's colloquium talk this Wednesday

for those that can't make that zoom time, Day 2 of Cris's SFI Ulam Lecture might cover similar ground https://youtu.be/Sg2jtEY6qms On Mon, Apr 11, 2022, 10:19 AM Angel Edward wrote: > I thought you two might be interested in Cris Moore’s CS colloquium this > Wed. > > Tom: we may be going back

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

On Mon, Apr 11, 2022, 1:34 PM Nicholas Thompson wrote: >> as the groups only octogenarian On Thursday, Owen will be 120 in octal! On Mon, Apr 11, 2022, 1:34 PM Nicholas Thompson wrote: > > Has anybody questioned St. John’s about this matter? > Speaking as the groups only octogenarian, I

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

On Mon, Apr 11, 2022, 5:51 PM Edward Angel wrote: > It’s much kinder number in hexidecimal. > 50 is the new 80 .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe

[FRIAM] masks required at St John's

please wear mask when entering. extras are available at switchboard. there have been some reported cases at Saint John's. .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam

[FRIAM] **tomorrow** 9/20/2023 WedTech lunchtime talk: Kasra Manavi: On Graph Traversals and Traffic Evacuation

In person and Zoom Wed 9/20 12:30p Speaker: Kasra Manavi, Simtable Title: On Graph Traversals and Traffic Evacuation Abstract: Kas will present work on a Santa Fe Evacuation model based on Evacuation Zones, Destination Sinks and graph flood fills for vehicle routing Where: Simtable / Redfish

[FRIAM] Constraint Propagation and "Wave Function Collapse" Algorithm

Just went down a 2-hour rabbit hole on the "wave function collapse" algorithm that emerged in graphics in 2016 but just came onto my radar... Has anyone else explored it already? https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse Many of you have written versions of constraint propagation algorithms

Re: [FRIAM] fluid codes

On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 9:43 PM Jon Zingale wrote: > > They are so beautiful. What things are there to consider when writing > fluid codes from first principles? Maybe you're looking for this level of description (WebGL based but would apply to python and other implementations)?

Re: [FRIAM] fluid codes

office: (505)995-0206 mobile: (505)577-5828 twitter: @simtable z <http://zoom.com/j/5055775828>oom.simtable.com On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 10:18 PM Stephen Guerin wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 9:43 PM Jon Zingale wrote: >> >> They are so beautiful. What things are there to

Re: [FRIAM] quotes and questions

On Thu, May 12, 2022, 8:54 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > > Unitary operators are needed. Apply a Trumping operator you get a Biden > and apply another one to get a Trump back. As we project our political views onto the other, the unitary operator in this projective geometry might be the

Re: [FRIAM] Panorma Mesdag while in the Hague (Fwd: Immersive Panoramas of the late 1800s, Edinburgh and other cities (first immersive metaverses))

On Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 7:44 AM Stephen Guerin wrote: > > there was another museum in The Hague we went to, Mauritshuis, that had > some other artist but I forgot his name. > oh, it was was guy not as immersive, but still pretty good.. Rembraint or something, I think and his

[FRIAM] Ed Angel admitted to SIGGRAPH Academy with this year's award announcements

well deserved, Ed! Congratulations! https://www.siggraph.org/announcing-the-acm-siggraph-award-winners/ -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom

[FRIAM] Panorma Mesdag while in the Hague (Fwd: Immersive Panoramas of the late 1800s, Edinburgh and other cities (first immersive metaverses))

ephen.gue...@simtable.com CEO, https://www.simtable.com <http://www.simtable.com/> 1600 Lena St #D1, Santa Fe, NM 87505 office: (505)995-0206 mobile: (505)577-5828 -- Forwarded message ----- From: Stephen Guerin Date: Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 11:20 AM Subject: Immersive Panoramas of

Re: [FRIAM] Zoom Friam on June 30

Friday is already here, it's just not very evenly distributed. On Thu, Jun 30, 2022, 9:56 AM George Duncan wrote: > You mean THUAM? > > George Duncan > Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University > georgeduncanart.com > See posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram > Land:

[FRIAM] Virgil Griffith was sentenced to 63 months on April 12

Shit, just noticed Virgil's sentencing from April. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_Griffith#Prosecution - https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-citizen-who-conspired-assist-north-korea-evading-sanctions-sentenced-over-five-years-and -

Re: [FRIAM] stranger than fiction

Gary, I bet that Microsoft software is for the birds. :-) or is your nonprofit dealing with community broadband? On Wed, Jul 27, 2022, 8:42 AM Gary Schiltz wrote: > I am the geek guy for a small nonprofit foundation here in Ecuador and I > must say that at least a few software companies are

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

> 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2022, 2:38 PM Stephen Guerin > wrote: > >> Yes, that's what I was calling "splitting the slanted face" this morning. >> Keep going... :-) >>

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

NM 87505 office: (505)995-0206 mobile: (505)577-5828 On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 2:29 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > Drop a perpendicular from the alpha vertex to S2. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM >

[FRIAM] Veritasium shoutout to GlowScript!

High profile use of GlowScript, by Ruth Chabay and Bruce Sherwood. Cool!!! a few of us discussed the previous video on electric fields and circuits a couple months ago. you can zoom to the shout out to Bruce and Ruth at time 7:50 https://youtu.be/oI_X2cMHNe0?t=470 -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -..

[FRIAM] Jerry is meandering in Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo methods to establish ensemble distributions in gerrymandering https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2022/algorithmic-redistricting/?itid=hp-top-table-main-t-5 Some of you know Yenny Cocq - she and her husband, Fred Gifford, were in the office 6 months ago. Fred works

Re: [FRIAM] Jerry is meandering in Monte Carlo

ttp://www.simtable.com/> 1600 Lena St #D1, Santa Fe, NM 87505 office: (505)995-0206 mobile: (505)577-5828 On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 11:38 AM Stephen Guerin wrote: > Monte Carlo methods to establish ensemble distributions in gerrymandering > > https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2

Re: [FRIAM] Jack Cowan / Visual Hallucinations and structure of Visual Cortex (was Re: dystopian vision(s))

;http://www.simtable.com/> 1600 Lena St #D1, Santa Fe, NM 87505 office: (505)995-0206 mobile: (505)577-5828 On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 6:20 PM Stephen Guerin wrote: > Steve Smith writes: > > There is surely research into how much/which psychoactives get involved > in modulati

[FRIAM] Jack Cowan / Visual Hallucinations and structure of Visual Cortex (was Re: dystopian vision(s))

Steve Smith writes: > There is surely research into how much/which psychoactives get involved in modulating these processes. Jack (not George) Cowan gave a great lecture at BiosGroup in 2000 on this very topic: " What geometric visual hallucinations tell us about the visual cortex"

[FRIAM] Wedtech Talk Oct 19: Richard Gabriel, AI, Creativity and the Inkwell Poetry Generator. (hybrid in-person/zoom)

Speaker: Richard Gabriel Location: Simtable office Time: Oct 19 1230p will be streamed at https://zoom.redfish.com pizza will be avail for lunch. $5 a slice. -- Forwarded message - From: Steve Smith My hack at the basics of an announcement for Gabriel/Wetdtech. Our FriAM

[FRIAM] Today: Wedtech Talk Oct 19: Richard Gabriel, AI, Creativity and the Inkwell Poetry Generator. (hybrid in-person/zoom)

Speaker: Richard Gabriel Location: Simtable office, 1600 Lena St Suite D1 Time: Oct 19 1230p will be streamed at https://zoom.redfish.com pizza will be available for lunch. $5 a slice. -- Forwarded message - From: Steve Smith My hack at the basics of an announcement for

Re: [FRIAM] Jack Cowan / Visual Hallucinations and structure of Visual Cortex (was Re: dystopian vision(s))

Nick, On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 8:32 PM wrote: > And always, always, remember that you are looking through the blood supply > to your retina because it is mounted backwards. There must be an enormous > amount of error correction going on. > Language like that might well get you kicked out of

[FRIAM] Owen Densmore, father of object-oriented postcript in NeWS object.ps, desktop publishing and relation to NEXT [was: Re: naive question]

On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 11:30 AM Steve Smith wrote: > My copy of Glenn Reid's 1990 Thinking in PostScript > > sat on my shelf for two decades singing a siren song that wasn't ever quite > strong enough for me to

[FRIAM] Wedtech Lunch (no LoyalHound today) 1230p Online Watch party today: ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication

We'll be at the office watching the publicly viewable keynote of the ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication. Three-Day Schedule: https://scf.acm.org/2022/index.html Today's Youtube LiveStream: https://youtu.be/0tjI8P1KC1M If you're in town and want to join us at the office, feel free to

[FRIAM] Fwd: GMU CDS/CSS/CSI Colloquium, Friday 10/28, 3 PM: Rob Axtell: We Are NOT Living in a Simulation

Rob's Zoom talk tomorrow (Fri 10/28 3p ET). See below. I would recommend Rob's talk regardless of topic. :-) ___ stephen.gue...@simtable.com CEO, https://www.simtable.com 1600 Lena St #D1, Santa Fe, NM

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] Fwd: GMU CDS/CSS/CSI Colloquium, Friday 10/28, 3 PM: Rob Axtell: We Are NOT Living in a Simulation

Hi Bruce!! Your observation of a puzzle being at just the right level of difficulty reminds me of this simple and elegant classic book for game designers: Raph Koster: Theory of Fun for Game Design https://www.amazon.com/Theory-Game-Design-Raph-Koster/dp/1449363210 "Now in full color, the 10th

Re: [FRIAM] FRIAM Homework Assignment: Gala Planning Sliding Scale Chart

You have two degrees of freedom (number of attendees and ticket price) with one constraint, fundraising goal of 100k. So there are multiple solutions for ticket price. If you want to keep the ticket price as low as possible and fill to capacity, then you can solve for ticket price. attached is

Re: [FRIAM] monte carlo geometry processing

What a great talk. As I was watching, given my stuck bit on dual fields and bidirectional path tracing, I expected a bidirectional path search method to be applied to Walk on Spheres (WoS).Yep, at time 43:26: https://youtu.be/bZbuKOxH71o?t=2796 Here's the reference paper with video:

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] Cleve Moler/Jack Dongarra visits

I RSVP'ed - looking forward to Jack's lecture and reception! I up for a carpool, too. ___ stephen.gue...@simtable.com CEO, https://www.simtable.com 1600 Lena St #D1, Santa Fe, NM 87505 office:

[FRIAM] Tomorrow's 10/5 Wedtech will be 1230p at Loyal Hound Pub

We try out Loyal Hound Pub for tomorrow's Wedtech Lunch. We'll have a Wedtech talk in two weeks Wed 10/19 by Richard Gabriel ( wikipedia ), Topic and abstract will be posted later. -Stephen -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-.

Re: [FRIAM] pardon the interuption,

Gil, in response to your desire to generate 3D from 2D I've been watching the "novel view synthesis" space using NeRF ( https://www.matthewtancik.com/NERF) over the last 2 years or so. It was close but not exactly what you were asking for. now here's a diffusion approach to generate 3D from 2D.

Re: [FRIAM] Automata with FFT

On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 10:20 AM Steve Smith wrote: > Glen - > > I saw a good little joke this morning, which echoes SteveS' nihilistic > argument from > > "Excuse me Mr. Cow, why are you at a factory farm if you don't want to get > eaten?" > > Participating in the Amazon / BigTech transaction

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

*On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 3:45 PM Steve Smith > wrote:* > *THE Ralph Abraham > ? Or the > OTHER Ralph Abraham > ? Or Yet > Another... ?* > Yes, the first :-) *On Fri, Oct 14,

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

Jon, Mike and I were talking about fourier transforms on images, JPEG compression and filtering at this morning's FRIAM. Here's a nice site that lets you load an image, and its fourier transform (amplitude spectrum) in cartesian or log-polar. https://www.djmannion.net/img_freq_web/ A menu

Re: [FRIAM] Isness: Using Multi-Person VR to Design Peak Mystical-Type Experiences Comparable to Psychedelics

On Tue, Aug 9, 2022, 10:18 AM glen wrote: > > [⛧] My black PS4 controller is terribly twitchy compared to my gold one. I > died like 5 times getting my latest Dark Souls twink started. Pfft. > learned a new meaning of Twink today :-) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinking -. --- - / ...- .-

Re: [FRIAM] Isness: Using Multi-Person VR to Design Peak Mystical-Type Experiences Comparable to Psychedelics

very NLP if not actually poetic. > > I was only aware of the gay-culture terminology but trusted that Glen (as > he is wont to do) was expanding our vocabulary/awareness in some way that I > failed to unroll fully (nominally an arbitrarily deep fractal/iterated > map?). > > -SS &

Re: [FRIAM] Isness: Using Multi-Person VR to Design Peak Mystical-Type Experiences Comparable to Psychedelics

hurttryhard just wants to defeat > the stupid boss to make progress in the game and some twink keeps killin' > 'em on the run to the boss. The victim thinks it's cheating. But game > theory and coevolution tell other stories. Git Gud or Go Home. Do what thou > wilt is the whole of t

Re: [FRIAM] PostHumanism/Modernism/Anthropocene

Hi, Merle, I put a copy of the paper here: https://redfish.com/papers/Countdown_to_Extinction_Posthumanism_in.pdf In the future you can download without paying - ignore the button about "full pdf package" advertisement and hit the "download pdf" button. Kind of a silly interface. [image:

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