Re: [FRIAM] NSF 2010 Call for Entries

There are all kinds of programs in NSF. You really have to search nsf.gov. Most of the major grants now require some sort of outreach activity. That's what supported the Sys Bio event which was funded by NIH and was the first showing of the winners last year's visualization contest. There is

Re: [FRIAM] Query about rating agencies/groups

I'd worry about about how to use that number. The prevailing view in both academic departments and industry is that Java is on its way out. For the kinds of things that Java is good at, scripting languages have advanced so much that they are replacing Java. For large scale applications,

Re: [FRIAM] Net Neutrality?

I believe a major part of the concern is that a provider can decide to provide better service for some rather than equal service for all. For example, if you use comcast as your provider, you would be affected if Comcast provided their own streaming video at a high QoS while giving Netflix,

Re: [FRIAM] Semipalatinsk and Los Alamos

We should also take into account the many Sandia scientists and technicians that were part of the Pacific tests. I don't know what has been documented about them but when I first moved to NM in the late 70's. I met a number of them. They all seemed to believe that many of their coworkers

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] Fwd: Announcing Cluster GPU Instances for Amazon EC2

Everything I do is GPU based. It's all graphics. Today I turn in the final manuscript for a major revision of my graphics textbook (used in over 200 colleges and universities) that switches everything to using the GPUs instead of CPUs. Cells phones are now using GPU code and WebGL, which is now

Re: [FRIAM] Dissertation Browser | Stanford

Not a very good display since it starts with the traditional silos. Another reference is some work my MS student Brian Wylie did at Sandia as part of his thesis. See http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.10066/abstract Ed __ Ed Angel Chair, Board of Directors, Santa Fe

[FRIAM] Graphics Class at the Complex

A number of you have shown interest in having a course in Computer Graphics at the Complex. I've been working with UNM on it so that those of you who are interested and what credit for the class can do that. So here is what I'm proposing to do. We'll do the equivalent of UNM's CS/EECE 412

Re: [FRIAM] Graphics Class at the Complex

if it will help the course make. -tom johnson On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Edward Angel an...@cs.unm.edu wrote: A number of you have shown interest in having a course in Computer Graphics at the Complex. I've been working with UNM on it so that those of you who are interested

[FRIAM] Graphics Class

I've received a lot of positive responses about the class so it looks it's a go. Some of you have asked about scheduling. I'm pretty open as to times and I intend to have a lot of material available on line. Steve Smith has set up a doodle poll so people can put in their preferences. It's at

[FRIAM] Graphics Class at SFX

I edited the doodle poll with possible times including some late in the day. Please enter your prefered/possible times to meet. We'll probably meet twice a week, at least to start, with the first meeting early in March. http://www.doodle.com/qw535ewa3ux3zxcw42grre5n/admin I've also put

[FRIAM] Graphics Class

Everything seems to be set for our graphics class. I've set up a google group SFX_Graphics(http://groups.google.com/group/sfx_graphics?hl=en) so from now on all email and announcements about the class should go through there. Anyone can join the group at that url. The class will be taught as

[FRIAM] Graphics Class begins

We'll be doing a first intro graphics class this Wed at noon at the Complex. If any of you are interested but haven't joined the SFX_Graphics google group, please do so now. I think we have enough people signed up so it will be an official UNM class but others can participate as well. Ed

Re: [FRIAM] Streaming of Ed Angel's OpenGL class at Santa Fe Complex

Any book on Java, OpenGL and Jogl has to be over five years out of date. Jogl was popular for a while because CS students were learning Java as their primary programming language. There was a lot of activity for a while with Sun and Java3D but when that died, it ignited some interest in Jogl.

[FRIAM] Wedtech

Were going to have another wedtech roundtable this Wed at noon that will focus on doing agent based models using modern shader-based OpenGL (versions 3.1 and up, ES 2..0 and WebGL). I'll show some demos and discuss the use of frame buffer objects for rendering to texture and then using double

Re: [FRIAM] Drop of water at 2, 000 frames per second - That Video Site

The interesting thing to me is the technology they use to get the pictures. When I was an undergrad, I spent a summer working on a project that took 2000 frames/sec of crack propagation. To do that we had a 5 foot in diameter cylinder that was lined with a long strip of film. A rotating mirror

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] iClarified - Apple News - Amazon Launches Textbook Rentals for the Kindle

I suspect it's a rather hopeless venture, at least for technical books. I just spent a couple of days with my editors at Addison-Wesley. Since I have about 250 adoptions of my textbook in the US, both I and AW are very interested in all these issues and have been following the various attempts

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] iClarified - Apple News - Amazon Launches Textbook Rentals for the Kindle

to make it easy to write 3D animations that run in a browser. We're making good progress on this. Bruce On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Edward Angel an...@cs.unm.edu wrote: I suspect it's a rather hopeless venture, at least for technical books. I just spent a couple of days with my editors

Re: [FRIAM] Ongoing cell-phone threads, esp T-Mobile

Owen, You should also mention that 1. Even if you have a GSM phone, unless you either pay a high price for an unlocked phone, have a Blackberry or are aware of the issue and find out how to unlock your phone, you are in danger of being hit with enormous roaming charges when you go to another

Re: [FRIAM] Machine Learning - Stanford University

To expand on what Owen wrote about the possibility of having UNM participate, the idea is build wither an independent study or special topics class around the Stanford course. The discussions thus far are based on the notion that the credit course would be involve a significant ML project of

Re: [FRIAM] another resource for kids and other humans: Khan Academy

I agree. It's more a sad commentary on the state of our schools than a significant contribution to how technology can help learning. I can't look at their simple black screen for more than a few minutes without being bored out of my mind, regardless of how good the the lecturer is. Consider

Re: [FRIAM] heart beats

On the face of it, it's pretty absurd. If a human has an average heart rate of 70 beats per second and an average lifetime that is 10 times that of a dog, the dog's average heart rate would be 700 beats/sec. Don't think so. Ed __ Ed Angel Chair, Board of Directors, Santa Fe Complex

[FRIAM] tomorrow

Is FRIAM back at St. John's tomorrow? Ed __ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home)

Re: [FRIAM] Understanding the Occupy Movement : or Pay Attention, What you do Matters!

During a visit to ABQ to dedicate the microcomputer exhibit at the ABQ Museum of Natural History and Science, Paul Allen denied the truth of the often told anecdote of why Microsoft left ABQ. He told the special student question and answer session we put together that at the time when he and

Re: [FRIAM] Understanding the Occupy Movement : or Pay Attention, What you do Matters!

I totally agree re Walmart. I was only commenting on the generally accepted version of the Microsoft anecdote. Two comments on incentives. First, I don't think you can find a reputable economist who would defend incentives as a long term strategy. What they are potentially good for is building

Re: [FRIAM] re virtual library

On Amazon my textbook sells for $85 and the Kindle edition for $80, so there are almost no Kindle sales. Hard to explain the pricing. Although pads may change this, students prefer to have paper versions of books. One thing that at least some publishers are trying is to sell both version for

Re: [FRIAM] The evil empire?

I had a somewhat similar experience with Dell. I bought a laptop and docking station that had a serious defect. If I left the laptop asleep in the dock, it would slowly heat up but the fan would not go on. Consequently, the mother board would burn out in a few days. This was a design defect

Re: [FRIAM] The disappearing virtual library

Although I am no fan of the present broken publishing system, the recent posts have led me to think about the steps that an author has to go through to get a book out. If you look at what it takes, all the proposed alternatives don't solve the problem for an author. I'm addressing my comments

Re: [FRIAM] The disappearing virtual library

One of the first casualties of the increasing cost of journals was books. When the prices of journals that faculty deemed absolutely necessary to have in the library went up, there was no money left to buy new books or other materials. Ed __ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research,

Re: [FRIAM] Alan Turing turns 100

Also, the google.com home page for today features a Turing machine. Ed __ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home)

Re: [FRIAM] Friam Tomorrow?

I can't make it tomorrow. Ed __ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home) an...@cs.unm.edu

[FRIAM] This week

Is there any sentiment for moving FRIAM to Tue or Thu this week? Ed __ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home)

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] This week

. On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Edward Angel an...@cs.unm.edu wrote: Is there any sentiment for moving FRIAM to Tue or Thu this week? Ed __ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University

Re: [FRIAM] Hacking Phones In China

I still use an old Verizon Blackberry which Verizon was happy to unlock. I've used it with multiple SIMs around the world without a problem. I'm about to take it off the Verizon network but keep the phone for travel. One of my SIMS gives me a permanent UK number and a US number which works as

Re: [FRIAM] [1st-mile-nm] Friedman on Chattanooga's fiber network

The answer is easy to write down; not easy to carry out. As you know, we did part 1 with the City's Communication Advisory Committee. We did a lot of work and gave the results to all the people on the list. They didnt like what we had to say so we were immediately replaced by a new committee

Re: [FRIAM] Academics and other Stereotypes

There was a very interesting article in Time last October. The reporter took three versions of an introductory physics course: one at an elite university, one at an inner-city community college and one with a MOOC. Her observations were that each was suited for some and not for others. The

Re: [FRIAM] Academics and other Stereotypes

MOOCs have had two great benefits. First they have shaken up the universities, which hopefully will lead them to address the educational issues they have avoiding dealing with for a long time. Second, they do provide access to people who would otherwise have none. Nevertheless, I see them as

Re: [FRIAM] Academics and other Stereotypes

Densmore wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Edward Angel an...@cs.unm.edu wrote: snip Most striking is that none of the entities providing MOOCs have a sustainable business model. They are being supported by foundations, such as the Gates Foundation with the Khan Academy

Re: [FRIAM] Advice on laptop

I've been happy with my MacBook Air. I wound up buying an external CD/DVD player which I needed to install Parallels/Windows on a separate partition but it was very inexpensive. Ed __ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor

Re: [FRIAM] Advice on laptop

I rarely need my remote DVD with my MacAir since for almost everything you can use a remote disk on another computer so I usually don't carry it on trips (although it weighs almost nothing). Possibly having something else to carry is offset by the weight difference between an Air and a heavier

Re: [FRIAM] IS: wHEN IS COMPLEXITY A GOOD? WAS: Windows Resource Monitor

Although it might seem that I would have a similar view as Bruce since we both support 3D graphics for educational purposes, my experience is exactly the opposite of Bruce's. I have to support thousands of mostly CS students and various professionals every year. Windows is an absolute nightmare

Re: [FRIAM] Two (and more) Cultures

It's hard to buy into that argument when it leaves us at the mercy of incompatible versions of Direct X and problems of dealing with third party drivers. In many ways, most the difficulties we experience started with and continue to be driven by the game world. For many years graphics and

Re: [FRIAM] Two (and more) Cultures

) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel On Feb 8, 2013, at 2:19 PM, glen e. p. ropella wrote: Edward Angel wrote at 02/08/2013 12:57 PM: For many years graphics and mathematical software was driven by the scientific community which valued stability and backward compatibility. When

Re: [FRIAM] Two (and more) Cultures

In response to Marcus: Of course they work that way. But they are far from monolithic. For example, Nvidia was the company that pushed OpenGL 3.0 to announce that starting with 3.1, a tremendous amount of functionality would be deprecated, thus rendering most existing OpenGL applications to

Re: [FRIAM] cloud backup recomendations wanted

Google Drive lets you share and allows you to choose if you want to allow the sharee to edit the file. Ed __ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa

Re: [FRIAM] glsl.js, a Javascript + GLSL library = DRY efficient • @GreWeb

The more I look at what this guy has done, the more I find it objectionable and fraudulent. Depending on the your culture, he has enormous chutzpah or cajones. It takes a lot of them to call what he has done glsl.js; that's the fraudulent part. He's taken a small part of GLSL, which is

Re: [FRIAM] The Professors' Big Stage

I suspect it may be only the beginning of Nick's nightmare. There really are gifted people who can teach an exciting course to 1000 students. Any if 1000, why not 100,000 via a MOOC? Parents and students who are paying $40,000 and more for tuition may wonder about where their money is going if

Re: [FRIAM] The Professors' Big Stage

. Was your experience different from that? N From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Edward Angel Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 4:44 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The Professors' Big Stage I suspect it may be only

Re: [FRIAM] A new kind of pfishing?

I got the call a couple of months ago. He tried to give the impression that he was working for Microsoft and they were doing the monitoring. He got very flustered when I pointed out that I had only Apple hardware and didn't run Windows. That didn't stop him from continuing his pitch. I finally

Re: [FRIAM] A new kind of pfishing?

didn't give him the chance to get annywhere when could bairly say Microsoft I just hung up. That virln(Roach) is probably scurring around I doubt that the kind of person that goes to or is on the FRIAM list is his mark. On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Edward Angel an...@cs.unm.edu wrote: I

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Please sign this thing! Eliminate the bi-annual time change caused by Daylight Savings Time

I doubt this is still true but when I was younger the maps showed that Saudi Arabia was on solar time, i.e. the time depended on where you were standing. Ed __ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer

[FRIAM] DST

A quote from an obituary (http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sunherald/obituary.aspx?pid=163538353#fbLoggedOut) that has gone viral He particularly hated Day Light Saving Time, which he referred to as The Devil's Time. It is not lost on his family that he died the very day that he would have

Re: [FRIAM] perplexed by netflix

We're still all DVD and all Blue Ray. We get maybe 1 in 10 with a problem, usually a scratch. One potential issue may be an old DVD player. New features on DVDs can require at least a software upgrade to the player. Ed __ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and

Re: [FRIAM] mooc for credit?

Dave, I don't think interesting describes my response to this post. More like disgusted. I would have said outraged but I'm getting too used to seeing nonsense on the web to respond as I used to. Although I agree with most of the points you and Bruce made, I disagree in a couple of important

Re: [FRIAM] mooc for credit?

of corresponding one-semester university courses. Bruce On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Edward Angel an...@cs.unm.edu wrote: Dave, I don't think interesting describes my response to this post. More like disgusted. I would have said outraged but I'm getting too used to seeing nonsense

Re: [FRIAM] mooc for credit?

There are a lot statistics for Engineering and CS salaries. I believe the major factor is that while engineering/CS professor salaries have gone up at about the same rate as those in industry, the typical teaching load has more than dropped in half. Consequently, the cost of teaching a student

Re: [FRIAM] mooc for credit?

31, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Edward Angel an...@cs.unm.edu wrote: Let me ask you the following question: Do you think that the student who chooses digipen will get a better CS education that if she went to the University of Washington which has one of the top CS programs? How does the answer depend

Re: [FRIAM] mooc for credit?

about graduation rates for on-line schools, like Full Sail University or Walden? I think the Feds have started requiring for-profits to start posting this data, but could not find it in a cursory search. davew On Sun, Mar 31, 2013, at 09:48 AM, Edward Angel wrote: Dave

Re: [FRIAM] Just For Ed

I'll have to revise all my earlier posts. Definitely worthy of at least 3 credits in any program at the best universities. Theory and practice, what more could one ask for. Ed __ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus

Re: [FRIAM] mooc for credit?

a substantial, radical and revolutionary change. davew On Sun, Mar 31, 2013, at 03:30 PM, Edward Angel wrote: Dave, Actually, I had only one very slight disagreement with you which I kind of forgot about by the end of my email. I have no problem with what you are proposing and should

Re: [FRIAM] MacPro Wifi compatibility in France

I never had any problems with my Mac Air traveling all over France and northern Italy. Ed __ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501

Re: [FRIAM] Ray Tracers and SketchUp

Pov-Ray is pretty standard. What kinds of output does Sketch-Up provide? Pete Shirley (formerly Utah, now Nvidia) was working on GPU ray tracers. There is also an example of a WebGL fragment shader ray tracer in WebGL Beginners Guide. If you have Obj files, there are Obj to JS converters so

Re: [FRIAM] Cloud storage

I'm pretty simplistic about it and use mozy. My computers are backed up automatically and I don't spend any time thinking about it. The two times there was a failure of their data base on my machine getting corrupted, they were able to recover everything quickly. When we returned to NM after

Re: [FRIAM] Cloud storage

) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel On Apr 4, 2013, at 9:25 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Edward Angel an...@cs.unm.edu wrote: I'm pretty simplistic about it and use mozy. My computers are backed up automatically and I don't spend any time thinking about

Re: [FRIAM] Cloud storage

_ On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Edward Angel an...@cs.unm.edu wrote: You can specify directories or back up the whole disk. Being a little cheap and having 3 computers on my account, I don't back up the OS or some aps that are easy to reload. You pay by the how much space

Re: [FRIAM] World Religions

In the recent documentary Marley there's footage of Haile Selassie's visit to Jamaica. Ed __ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501

Re: [FRIAM] Cloud storage

In addition to the other reasons for offsite backup, let me add break-ins. Mush more likely than a fire. Within two minutes your computers can all be gone. I doubt any statistics on disk failures. I've had two backup disks and an internal disk fail in the last year. Two of the failures were on

Re: [FRIAM] Cloud storage

Unable to find a VHS player to buy, I bought a refurbished VHS/DVD recorder from Best Buy for about $100 which works fine for transferring VHS to DVD. Ed __ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science,

Re: [FRIAM] digital ethics

From an author's perspective: 1. By downloading a pirated copy, you lower the number of books a library will purchase which does cost the author. 2. Having a permanent copy has some value over a library book for many people. Ed __ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology

Re: [FRIAM] digital ethics

, but I don't think they've done it yet. Az doesn't offer pdf's yet but I'm sure they'll both improve their page references etc, and go multiformat sometime. -- Owen On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Edward Angel an...@cs.unm.edu wrote: From an author's perspective: 1

Re: [FRIAM] ADVISORY: City Will "Flip the Switch" on Gigabit Internet Speeds at 12/14 Special Event

When I met the (present) mayor, he asked me if I thought the project was just throwing $1M into a hole in the ground. It seems the answer is clear. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer

Re: [FRIAM] ADVISORY: City Will "Flip the Switch" on Gigabit Internet Speeds at 12/14 Special Event

I don’t know if the Qwest lawsuit over the Communications Franchise Ordinance was ever settled. I would think that unless the ordinance was fixed, it will be hard for companies to provide services via this new link. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research,

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

There is a large group of distinguished people including Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, Bill Joy and Martin Rees, who believe that AI is an existential threat and the probability of the human race surviving another 100 years is less than 50/50. Stephen Hawking has said he has no idea what to do

[FRIAM] [ SPAM ] Re: Grumble- NM's crappy internet

I now see the brilliance of the City putting $1M to get a connection in the Railyard. As we’re all lined up with our computers waiting a turn to back them up, we’ll want to have coffee, dinner, maybe even shop. We’ll be resurrecting the Railyard. It would be sort of like old paintings of people

[FRIAM] Fwd: [1st-mile-nm] Akamai Report

At least we’re tied for 49th; usually we stand alone in 49th place. ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136

Re: [FRIAM] Ting Internet | Crazy fast fiber Internet for US cities

I have a difficult time believing that Ting will decide to come here. Some of the reasons: The pricing is very interesting. Right now I pay about $60/month for 80 mbps downloads and 5-6 mbps uploads. The service has been very reliable. So it sounds good to have the possibility of getting

Re: [FRIAM] Ting Internet | Crazy fast fiber Internet for US cities

mpson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > Clark University > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> > > From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com > <mailto:friam-boun...@red

Re: [FRIAM] To Be “A Speaker of Words and a Doer of Deeds:” Literature and Leadership | Harvard University

Relevant to what? Certainly not to becoming a film editor. He probably got good advice at the Filmmakers Institute. I have a couple of close friends whose children married aspiring film editors and writers. The great education my friends' children got at the best universities went to

Re: [FRIAM] what other subject is there this morning

Even if Congress were willing to get rid of the EC, the constitutional amendment could never get enough states to pass it. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of

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

At the risk of pissing off a lot of my friends, Owen's proposal strikes me as tokenism at its worst. If we elites want to do more than talking to and emailing each other, I’d suggest that we instead spend some of our time doing something to help the sad state of education and the economy in NM.

Re: [FRIAM] (amused): Re: Spam solutions

Check out nomorobo.com. It’s free on landlines if the carrier supports it. Small monthly charge for cell phones. We have it since we have a comcast digital phone at home. It captures almost 100% of the robo calls. If one gets through, we can add the number to their data base. Only one every

[FRIAM] TEST

Checking if the server has been blacklisted at UNM. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home)

[FRIAM] Fwd: October 13 Talk with ACM A.M. Turing Award Winner Silvio Micali on Algorand and More Efficient Blockchains

Those of you interested in security (e.g. bitcoin and data) might be interested in this webinar next week. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017

Re: [FRIAM] What is Stopping Poor People From Moving? - The Atlantic

There are a number of things that bother me about the article. First, most (poor) people don’t need a bunch of academics to tell them that a higher wage is an illusion if the cost of living is astronomical. Second, regardless of your philosophical position on affordable housing, as hinted at

Re: [FRIAM] Chess and Horses

After FRIAM, I remembered the name of the USC Chess Player: Albert Zobrist. He invented Zobrist hashing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zobrist_hashing ) which is fundamental to all chess playing programs. He created the first go program too

Re: [FRIAM] Why Paper Jams Persist | The New Yorker

Both Owen and I were in Rochester in the mid 70’s. Owen was a Xerox and I was at the U of Rochester. We were working with the same people but somehow never met. In the early 80’s I did some consulting with National Computing Systems. They made the machines that read and scored standardized

Re: [FRIAM] the pseudoscience of evolutionary psychology?

o > ubiquitously... sort of the "Hello World" of CG. But probably nothing about > culinary arts or kitchens or even the British love of Tea is likely to be > significant. > > - Stve > > On 2/24/18 6:57 PM, Edward Angel wrote: >> I found the email wit

Re: [FRIAM] the pseudoscience of evolutionary psychology?

I found the email with David’s question for me re the Lena image. I don’t think the Lena image had anything significant to do with the decline in the percentage of women going into CS. It was a very limited group of people that actually dealt with or even saw the image. And they were almost all

[FRIAM] Fwd: input needed- expanding Computer Science education in Santa Fe schools

Please consider filling out the survey, especially if you live in Santa Fe. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501

Re: [FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers

I would have grabbed the gas station job. I spent a summer working in a warehouse for $1 hour (no benefits too). My boss’ boss, recognizing what I good worker I was, tried to get me to not return to Caltech and keep working in the warehouse. After all, my direct boss was making $60/week after

Re: [FRIAM] Few of you ...

Herman Wouk’s brother Victor is credited with being the inventor of the hybrid car. He interviewed me for Caltech when I was a senior in high school. Ed Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science,

Re: [FRIAM] !RE: A million tech jobs unfilled

One consequence of the present situation that will have long term consequences is even though the amount of research funding in CS is high, universities are having trouble attracting high quality graduate students, the next generation of educators. Although this situation has little to do with

[FRIAM] Micro:bit event March 8

On March 8 4-6 PM, there will be a community micro:bit event at Meow Wolf, jointly sponsored by Meow Wolf, the Computer Science Alliance and the Santa Fe Alliance for Science. It will bring together students, teachers, parents, hackers and many others including I hopeFRIAM and Wedtech to demo,

[FRIAM] Microcontroller event at Meow Wolf reminder

The microcontroller event at Meow Wolf is less than two weeks away on March 8. The event started as a microbit event but we’ve expanded it to include all kinds of devices, Some of you indicated that you’d bring a project to demo. The event is open to the public but we expect to have a lot of

Re: [FRIAM] Photos of popped balloon

For two summers while I was an undergrad I worked on a crack propagation project that was using high speed photography to image crack propagation on thin seamless 18” copper cylinders. During the first summer, I made the cylinders by first making solid wax molds that I lathed to the right

Re: [FRIAM] Learning about Bayesian Statistics

You might also like Nate Silver’s book “The Signal and the Noise”. It’s almost non technical and has interesting examples of the use and non use of Bayesian reasoning from the house market collapse to evaluating baseball players. Ed Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research,

Re: [FRIAM] Photos of popped balloon

lking about homology groups. > > --Barry > > On 2 Feb 2019, at 12:56, Tom Johnson wrote: > > How did the melting wax exit the sphere? Probably a hole. So how did you > patch the hole to retain perfect symmetry > T? > > On Fri, Feb 1, 2019, 10:03 PM Edward Angel &

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: NO LANL IN SANTA FE! Wednesday, 12; 00 outside SF City Hall; bring friends

The issue in NM and other poor places around the world is not the debate about whether people should or should not have children but what to do about the children who exist. Do we really want to hold the children responsible for the” sins" of their parents? It seems we who have benefited either

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: NO LANL IN SANTA FE! Wednesday, 12; 00 outside SF City Hall; bring friends

Although I totally agree with Merle on the moral issues, I doubt we are going to change any minds on this list. I would like to comment on some of the economic and scientific issues. Over the 40 years I’ve been here, I’ve worked with the labs in open areas (visualization, remediation,

Re: [FRIAM] New information on COVID-19

We’ve had two life-threatening incidents, one trekking in Nepal and the other in a remote part of Sri Lanka, where the availability of a pulse oximeter made all the difference. We now routinely check our oxygenation with one. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art,

Re: [FRIAM] New information on COVID-19y bb

The point is that if you check your blood oxygen level you might catch the problem before it is so bad that you have to be put on a ventilator and probably won’t survive. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab)

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