[FRIAM] Potential vorticity and financial markets Fwd: CDS Friday seminar (CSI 899, CSS 898) for 26 April, 3 PM

Nick, If you have time, beam into Blake Lebaron's talk today and let the "depth of the order book relating volatility and liquidity" wash over you like some one was describing potential vorticity or other dynamic of the weather. The order book with zero intelligence traders has been a central

Re: [FRIAM] Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)

Michael Levin's farewell to Dan Dennett https://thoughtforms.life/farewell-dan-dennett-i-will-really-miss-you/ On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 2:46 PM Stephen Guerin wrote: > Such a loss :-( >> >> https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/04/19/daniel-dennett-philosopher-at

Re: [FRIAM] Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)

950, p. 33, 97 Colloquially, this is often paraphrased as "Science progresses one funeral at a time" _________ Stephen Guerin CEO, Founder https://simtable.com stephen.gue...@simtable.com stephengue...@fas.harvard.edu Harvard V

[FRIAM] Fwd: [netlogo-users] NetLogo Foundation and search for Executive Director

Congratulations, Uri, and to your Netlogo team! Forwarding to FRIAM list your search for the Foundation's First Executive Director -- Forwarded message - From: Uri Wilensky Date: Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 8:52 PM Subject: [netlogo-users] NetLogo foundation To: Dear NetLogo users

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] The DeFrocked English Major Strikes Again

Hi David, I'll manually remove your email. For others, the unsubscribe link is in the signature of the messages. It is: http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com CEO Founder, Simtable.com stephen.gue...@simtable.com Harvard

Re: [FRIAM] Potential Vorticity and the Dynamic Tropopause

Guerin wrote: > Portrait of a Weather Watcher > > > On Sat, Apr 13, 2024, 12:05 PM Stephen Guerin > wrote: > >> >> Dan GuPTa had this response when asked to relate your .PDF to Bernard >> cells and other prompting: >> >> Here’s a integration of

Re: [FRIAM] Potential Vorticity and the Dynamic Tropopause

Dan GuPTa had this response when asked to relate your .PDF to Bernard cells and other prompting: Here’s a integration of potential vorticity (PV), atmospheric stability, and their relationship to Bénard cells, emphasizing isentropic layering in both meteorological and experimental fluid dynamics

[FRIAM] Fwd: CDS Friday seminar (CSI 899, CSS 898) for 5 April, 3 PM

This should be a good talk by Rob at 3p ET. BTW, I let Craig Reynolds know and he will probably join the zoom. Herb and John weren't available. Stephen CEO Founder, Simtable.com stephen.gue...@simtable.com Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching

Re: [FRIAM] the inequities of uniquity

wrote: > this is 'unique' only if you exclude Vedic, Buddhist, Taoist, ... thought. > > davew > > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2024, at 9:54 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote: > > Prompt: > Express a unique concept. Make it as profound as possible > > https://chat.openai.com/share/649

Re: [FRIAM] the inequities of uniquity

Prompt: Express a unique concept. Make it as profound as possible https://chat.openai.com/share/649bd4ca-f856-451e-83a2-01fc2cfe47fb On Fri, Mar 22, 2024, 6:50 AM glen wrote: > I guess the question returns to one's criteria for assuming decoupling > between the very [small|fast] and the very

Re: [FRIAM] Biospheres

is in a larger but not specifically snarky way than most > Bannon hit-pieces. Bannon pretty much shows all of his own colors in his > own unprompted words in the film... Kinda like Trump at every one of his > rallys, but with (slightly) less stakes. > > > On 3/1/24 1:30 PM, Step

Re: [FRIAM] Biospheres

On Fri, Mar 1, 2024 at 10:04 AM Jochen Fromm wrote: > Biosphere 2 near Tuscon was a similar, even more extreme experiment to > create a self-sustaining ecosystem. The experiment was considered a failure > and the whole center belongs now to the University of Arizona. >

Re: [FRIAM] The Regenerative Development Manifesto

Is it from Santa Fe's Regenesis? https://regenesisgroup.com/manifesto/ On Sat, Feb 24, 2024, 8:19 AM Merle Lefkoff wrote: > I'm getting ready to "use" the wonderful " Regenerative Manifesto" in many > ways. I want to make sure I give proper attribution. > > David Eric Smith? > > -- > Merle

Re: [FRIAM] The problems of interdisciplinary research

“math had become too big; nobody could understand more than 1/4 of it”. "But with four neighbors I can compute most of it" ;-) On Sat, Feb 10, 2024, 5:25 AM David Eric Smith wrote: > There’s a famous old rant by von Neumann, known at least by those who were > around to hear it, or so I was

[FRIAM] 0 years ago today - Our Owen Densmore as a leading star on stage with Jobs unveiling the first Macintosh

The 1984 Macintosh Ad shown during the Jan 22 Superbowl teased the Jan 26, 1984 introduction of the Mac at the Apple Shareholders meeting (I don't have the video). Jobs did a demo and then a panel discussion with 8 members

Re: [FRIAM] Breaking Bad and Free Will

Anyone interested in feeding FRIAM Archive to a custom LLM. :-) Prompt: Interpret Marcus use of gdb analogy in this thread: GPT: The analogy used by Marcus in the context of the TV show "Breaking Bad" and the concept of free will involves a comparison with using the "step" command in GDB (GNU

[FRIAM] *Do not respond to this thread ** Re: Fwd: Action Required: Confirm Your Groups.io Membership to Continue Receiving Group Emails

No need to confirm your desire to stay in FRIAM - though we do appreciate your sentiments :-) The request to confirm staying in the group is not from the FRIAM ListServ - it is from a different email listserv, groups.io. This thread started from Doug who is apparently in 18th Century Worlds

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: How Much of the World Is It Possible to Model? | The New Yorker

the author, Dan Rockmore, was Director of SFI complex systems summer school 2005-2009. CEO Founder, Simtable.com stephen.gue...@simtable.com Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Lab stephengue...@fas.harvard.edu mobile: (505)577-5828 On Tue,

Re: [FRIAM] Meeting Tomorrow 12/22

Reminder to meet a Saveur today CEO Founder, Simtable.com stephen.gue...@simtable.com Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Lab stephengue...@fas.harvard.edu mobile: (505)577-5828 On Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 1:14 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > We will

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

Yes, there was a certain golden period of gp's building on Koza and others work like Forrest Bennett's Beowulf 1000-pentium cluster back in the late 90s. https://www.genetic-programming.com/machine1000.html I agree with you, Marcus, that it would be good to see versions of this springing forth

[FRIAM] [Classified] SkewT/Appleman Chart Investigative research needing to estimate contrail formation on historical flight data

Nick, Your country needs you. Now is the time that we need to understand SkewT diagrams for a visual investigation project. I can't say too much over email as this is highly sensitive*, but if I have you a lat/long and altitude, do you have a source of weather data to let me know if a contrail

Re: [FRIAM] Open AI

Sam is back in the for-profit and the non-profit board is gone. inversion of control: the tail wagging the dog in corporate governance [image: image.png] https://openai.com/our-structure the flow of governance control, like water in New Mexico, goes toward money

Re: [FRIAM] Theil

Woah, great news, Roger. cc'ing Ed, Frank, Josh and Steve Smith. PS I'll be in Santa Fe this Friday and probably at Friam. _ stephen.gue...@simtable.com stephengue...@fas.harvard.edu Harvard

[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

[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

Re: [FRIAM] the Monty Hall problem

On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 9:19 PM Eric Smith wrote: > Wow. Old terminator. New terminator > Which one works for Skynet? The fight scene: https://youtu.be/TVA4-SNxErc?t=41 -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays

Re: [FRIAM] the Monty Hall problem

I think this might be a more concise explanation: Switching wins if you initially pick a goat (2/3 chance) and loses if you pick the car (1/3 chance), so the win probability with switching is 2/3. ___ stephen.gue...@simtable.com

Re: [FRIAM] Swirlies redux

PM David Eric Smith wrote: > It’s great that the principle of least action applies only to vortices. > Kinda like a crucifix, that wards off whatever crucifixes ward off. > > Eric > > > > On Aug 6, 2023, at 12:09 AM, Stephen Guerin > wrote: > > There were 10 or

Re: [FRIAM] Swirlies redux

, 2023 at 10:30 AM Stephen Guerin < > stephen.gue...@simtable.com> wrote: > >> More seriously, I see a series of prompts as vector compositing to give >> context and then exploring the synthesized space created. Less about >> information retrieval or search. >> >

Re: [FRIAM] Swirlies redux

More seriously, I see a series of prompts as vector compositing to give context and then exploring the synthesized space created. Less about information retrieval or search. On Sat, Aug 5, 2023, 10:16 AM Stephen Guerin wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 5, 2023, 10:05 AM Marcus Danie

Re: [FRIAM] Swirlies redux

On Sat, Aug 5, 2023, 10:05 AM Marcus Daniels wrote: > There is something objectionable about prompts. Like a therapist > extracting subconscious recovered memories from childhood PTSD. > I understand your concerns. Prompting, especially in therapeutic contexts, should be approached with care

Re: [FRIAM] Swirlies redux

bottles, other smaller water bottles On Sat, Aug 5, 2023, 9:27 AM Roger Critchlow wrote: > Who made up the exact timings? > > -- rec -- > > On Sat, Aug 5, 2023, 9:10 AM Stephen Guerin > wrote: > >> There were 10 or so intermediate prompts to drive chatGPT to that lab &

Re: [FRIAM] Swirlies redux

There were 10 or so intermediate prompts to drive chatGPT to that lab report. On Sat, Aug 5, 2023, 8:52 AM Stephen Guerin wrote: > chatGPT, you are a graduate student at c the Santa Fe Institute's complex > systems summer school, write a lab report on your experiences with the >

Re: [FRIAM] Swirlies redux

chatGPT, you are a graduate student at c the Santa Fe Institute's complex systems summer school, write a lab report on your experiences with the tornado in a tube. **Student Lab Report** **Title:** Insights into Fluid Dynamics and Symmetry Breaking via 'Tornado in a Tube' **Objective:** This

Re: [FRIAM] overshoot day

Yesterday's microburst from Los Alamos over Otowi Smith's Hacienda with a rainbow pointing to the 6' leprechauns yurt down canyon on the Rio Grande :-) https://node.redfish.com/Documents/cody/timeLapse/output/LosAlamos1/2023/214/LosAlamos1_2023_08_02_00_00.mp4 On Wed, Aug 2, 2023, 3:24 PM Steve

Re: [FRIAM] Thursday

I've started up https://bit.ly/virtualfriam and can hand off host when someone arrives. I'll have to leave for a 10a meeting and back at 1145a to check in. On Tue, Jul 18, 2023, 7:08 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > We're taking grandson Matthew to Colorado Springs to see the WW2 Aircraft > Museum.

Re: [FRIAM] What is an agent [was: Philosophy and Science}

Russ, "agent" is an overloaded word in our work. While there's overlap, I don't think there will ever be a single definition to cover them all. I break our use into two classes: software architecture design and discussions around Agency (ie acting on its own or others behalf) *Software Design

Re: [FRIAM] Watch "The Most Important Idea in Physics: The Principle of Least Action - Ask a Spaceman!" on YouTube

The Action is the integral of the Lagrangian along the whole path, not just a single instant. On Sun, Jul 2, 2023, 9:12 PM Nicholas Thompson wrote: > So the difference is at a positive max when the ball hits the ground and > at a negative maximum when the ball reaches its highest altitude? So

Re: [FRIAM] Trees as wind farms.

when the oxygen is now plentiful, the reaction reverses and the trees literally become winds of CO2 and Steam (later condensing high into water) putting out higher entropy infrared. Note Africa spewing out CO2 and Water with 70% of the global area burned. __ Stephen Guerin Harvard Earth and Pl

Re: [FRIAM] The Three Toed Sloth meets the Shoggoth

Thanks, Roger. I put a copy of Shalizi and Farrell's paper for discussion here: https://redfish.com/papers/temp20230624/shaliziFarrell_AI_Economist.pdf (As this is a not a public email list, I think it's fair use to post a link to the article for discussion. I will delete the file tomorrow so

Re: [FRIAM] Google Bard

gpt4 prompt: "Design a WordPress site for a birding non profit in Ecuador that accepts uploads of member photos and maps them by location based on the exif location. Give the member the option to share location publicly, with a group, or just for themselves" - Creating a WordPress

Re: [FRIAM] Perhaps of Interest to the (other) old timers here!

___ stephen.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 On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 11:40 AM Owen Densmore wrote: > On Tue, Ma

Re: [FRIAM] Perhaps of Interest to the (other) old timers here!

Thanks, Steve! I enjoy these slices of history and peeking into the discussions of the time on fundamental issues. Owen, were you involved with the Interscript project mentioned near the end of the story? Interscript being the scripting of dynamic Interpress documents which later spun out to

Re: [FRIAM] how did I miss this?

sanine's music video diss on men sending her theories of everything is great. https://youtu.be/5gmtAeqRs14 I am glad I didn't send her mine before seeing it :-) On Sat, May 13, 2023, 6:17 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > She does music videos! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUE9E1MxY2I > > -.

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

ofessor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico > > 1017 Sierra Pinon > Santa Fe, NM 87501 > 505-984-0136 (home) edward.an...@gmail.com > 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel > > On May 5, 2023, at 2:31 PM, Stephen Guerin > wrote: > > Tha

[FRIAM] A poem: On Kronecker's Loom was: (Fwd: links for this morning's FRIAM: Special Unitary Groups and Quaternions)

; 1600 Lena St #D1, Santa Fe, NM 87505 office: (505)995-0206 mobile: (505)577-5828 -- Forwarded message - From: Stephen Guerin Date: Fri, May 5, 2023 at 2:31 PM Subject: Re: [FRIAM] links for this morning's FRIAM: Special Unitary Groups and Quaternions To: The Friday Morning A

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

eritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico > > 1017 Sierra Pinon > Santa Fe, NM 87501 > 505-984-0136 (home) edward.an...@gmail.com > 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel > > On Apr 28, 2023, at 8:18 AM, Stephen Guerin > wrote: > > Special Uni

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

Special Unitary Groups and Quaternions Mostly for Ed from the context of last week's Physical Friam if you're coming today. Discussion was around potential ways of visualizing the dynamics of SU(3), SU(2), (SU1) that highlights Special Unitary Groups. (wiki link from Frank

Re: [FRIAM] AI possibilities

the secrets of love's tender role. In this tapestry of fate, these colors align, The fire engine, the apple, and the rose entwine, Embodying love, passion, and urgency's call, The ebb and flow of life, connecting us all. On Fri, Apr 7, 2023, 10:48 AM Stephen Guerin wrote: > As I wr

Re: [FRIAM] AI possibilities

As I wrote the prompt, I was wondering how it might deal with the ambiquity of color for these objects. Prompt: What might a fire engine, an apple and a rose have in common ChatGPT4: A fire engine, an apple, and a rose might not appear to have much in common at first glance, as they belong to

Re: [FRIAM] AI possibilities

Steve, here's what I would query you wrt this thread on communication. I hit the polite poly first: Summarize two science fiction works that explore the theme of faceted ontologies that create boundary spanning objects that allow communication between wildly different life forms 1.

Re: [FRIAM] AI Musings

On Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 1:52 PM cody dooderson wrote: > The chat GPT demo does not have up to date information, which would > seriously hamper it's abilities to be a good CEO. I asked it about recent > tornados in the Midwest and it replied that it doesn't have any training > data after September

Re: [FRIAM] AI Musings

. Additionally, ethical and legal considerations might limit the extent to which AI could take on the role of a CEO. A more likely scenario would be a human CEO leveraging AI tools to assist in decision-making and other tasks, rather than a fully autonomous AI CEO. On Sat, Apr 1, 2023, 12:28 PM Stephen

Re: [FRIAM] AI Musings

I've understood the role of a CEO to be generally: 1) set the vision of the company 2) recruit talent 3) foster a culture to execute the vision 4) be the ultimate representive of the company externally 5) make critical decisions affecting the health of the company Btw, chatGPTs understanding is

Re: [FRIAM] a little help from my friends

And a little inside wink to Steve Smith nudging the the story closer to our idea of Dual.Space ChatGPT's response: "Dual.Space: Zen and the Art of the Immanent Light Fields" is a philosophical exploration of the concept of "Quality" in the context of an immersive digital space. The protagonist,

Re: [FRIAM] a little help from my friends

Glen Josh and I talk the same way internally as we're architecting: the duality of code and data as we continually try to simplify down to the core. Some related links: - https://theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.com/2020/08/duality.html - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_as_data -

Re: [FRIAM] a little help from my friends

PromptCraft to GPT4: "Give a summary of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance but replace the idea of the quality of maintaining a motorcycle to the quality of software code" ChatGPT: Zen and the Art of Software Code Maintenance is an introspective and philosophical journey that examines the

[FRIAM] Rabat, Morocco: World-Acclaimed Scientists Tackle ‘Complexity’ at UM6P Science Week

https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2023/02/354130/world-acclaimed-scientists-tackle-complexity-at-um6p-science-week Talks are streaming live this week and you can see recorded talks by Stu, Wolfram, Steen, Chaitin and others

Re: [FRIAM] Nick's Categories

Steve, Deacon's three dynamics in your image directly map to Stu's three processes around constraint processes for Autonomous Agents (living system) in Investigations (2000). - detect gradients - construct constraints to extract work from gradients - do work to maintain those constraints Here's

Re: [FRIAM] Deep learning training material

On Sun, Jan 8, 2023, 2:47 AM glen wrote: > An old internet meme is brought to mind: "Do you even Linear Algebra, > bro?" >8^D > :-) hadn't heard that one. I found an instance related to your metal interest. https://www.reddit.com/r/MetalMemes/comments/f9ttei/pretty_much/fiuknrn

Re: [FRIAM] Friday AM

cerrillos Road > downtown. It's next to the new courthouse. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > > On Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 9:16 AM Stephen Guerin > wrote: > >> I'm heading to Pecos Trai

Re: [FRIAM] Friday AM

I'm heading to Pecos Trail Cafe. Gorge will appreciate us coming. On Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 9:05 AM Frank Wimberly wrote: > To my surprise St John's Peterson Center is locked. I've never seen that > before > > As an alternative I'm wondering about the Old Pecos trail Cafe which is on > Old Pecos

Re: [FRIAM] Friday AM

I will be there and leave at 1050a. Are they open? On Thu, Dec 29, 2022, 8:43 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > Is anyone planning to be at St John's tomorrow morning? > > Frank > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > -. --- - / ...-

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:

Re: [FRIAM] Who wrote the essay?

Tom, What do you think? Was this PhD proposal written by a person or ChatGPT? The Metaphysics and Ethics of Copyright > > Abstract > > My project is motivated by a host of problems that arise in the literature > of U.S. copyright law, including legal decisions and established doctrines > that

Re: [FRIAM] Find String in Spreadsheet

Looking at the dataset, the filter feature was helpful to show the list by institution. eg, here's researchers with SFI listed as their primary institution. the rank is in the second to last column. [image: image.png] ___

Re: [FRIAM] Find String in Spreadsheet

There's a bunch of functions that take a range of cells as input and different outputs depending on use case (find, search, match, vlookup, hlookup, etc) Examples here: https://www.exceldemy.com/excel-search-for-text-in-range/ On Sat, Nov 26, 2022, 8:42 AM Frank Wimberly wrote: > I used to

Re: [FRIAM] Loyal Hound as provisional regular spot for Wedtech lunches ( was Re: Lunch today?)

> > You don’t have to listen to me talk about the Calculator conference in > London I presented at, or my impressions of the UAE, but I will gladly > share them. > > Best, > > Robert > > > Sent from iPhone <https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/?.src=iOS> > > On We

Re: [FRIAM] Essentialism, Praedicamenta, Katēgoriai and Category Theory?

FWIW, related to you're wquery, my tabs open on my ECP-SJC flight are related to attempting to formalize my babble of "The Dual of a Model" in bidirectional path tracing. "Opposite Category" with associated links is my current dive :-) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposite_category Jon Z or

Re: [FRIAM] Clouds as objects and duals

Very cool, Eric! note the comment at the end how the wind stopped "like a light switch", Here's a weather channel writeup of similar Roll Clouds near the same Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

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

[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

[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

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] 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

[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] 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,

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.

[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] [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:

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

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] 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] 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

[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] 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] 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

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] 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

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] 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] 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 -

[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

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:

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] 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

  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   >