Re: [FRIAM] Moral collapse and state failure

I don’t know who Larry Elder is, but I believe he is incorrect. The right wing of today in the USA believes, or at least says, that liberals are both misguided and really, really bad people. God told them so. On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 1:40 AM Pieter Steenekamp wrote: > Steve, > > Your "The Wrong (f

Re: [FRIAM] "ZAMM"

It’s one I’ve always intended to read, but somehow never got around to it. I’d be interested, but need to read it soon. On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 8:46 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

Re: [FRIAM] vax v unvax

Glen, that has to be the comment of the day winner. Well said! On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 9:07 AM uǝlƃ ☤>$ wrote: > I appreciate that. But while I'm taking her and her ideas seriously, > discussing them calmly while holding a cup of coffee, people who hold those > very same ideas are carrying AR-15

Re: [FRIAM] Medical treatments for some or for all

Is it right? Is it right that I can eat steak and some can’t afford enough rice and beans? The world is grossly unfair I’m sure I’m not the only one who struggles with the unfairness of the world. The question is what to do about it. How much social disruption would occur from a governor dying in

Re: [FRIAM] Kill it!

By the subject, I thought this would be about the Taliban. On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 9:45 AM uǝlƃ ☤>$ wrote: > > ‘Kill it!’ US officials advise no mercy for lanternfly summer invasion > > https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/24/pennsylvania-lanternfly-summer-invasion > > Am I so wrong

Re: [FRIAM] Kill it!

Culling is easy, and they are delicious! Kung Pao Meow! On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 10:23 AM Marcus Daniels wrote: > I have seen what happens when ferals proliferate. Out in the country it > is common to have a few non-domesticated cats around, but they can > proliferate amongst households. Look

Re: [FRIAM] aversive learning

That idea (not Dave, but the idea that someone who might be in fact a bot) reminds me of one or more trolls that used to, and maybe still do, hang out on comp.lang.lisp under a variety of pseudonyms. On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 10:26 AM Marcus Daniels wrote: > I’m already convinced Dave is bot. I kn

Re: [FRIAM] the end of the pandemic

Maybe I missed something, but what prompted you to dig up a 16 month old comment from Marcus to respond to? On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 3:29 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > Pollyanna! (ironic) > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, >

Re: [FRIAM] the end of the pandemic

. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > <https://www.google.com/maps/search/140+Calle+Ojo+Feliz,++Santa+Fe,+NM+87505?entry=gmail&source=g> > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > <https://www.google.com/maps/search/140+Calle+Ojo+Feliz,++Santa+Fe,+NM+87505?entry=gmail&am

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

Great Searle videos. I knew his name, but had never listened to him. On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 3:57 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > We are just stuff and stuff can be simulated.. on quantum computers if > necessary. > > > On Sep 18, 2021, at 1:45 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote: > > > >  > > I have watched Jo

Re: [FRIAM] Masks

Piggybacking on Gillian's question, are N95 masks commonly available in the USA? I've never seen one in Ecuador, but the KN-95 (Chinese version) have come down in price from initially around $2 each to around $0.25 each. On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 3:00 PM Gillian Densmore wrote: > What masks does e

Re: [FRIAM] A pretty cellular automata video

I frankly can't imagine our "species" (Homo faber) surviving our own short sightedness long enough to make it to posthumanism. I suspect that Homo sapiens will survive the environmental apocalypse to come, but that the majority of our highly interdependent society will quickly fall apart. IMHO. On

Re: [FRIAM] Heart Rate

I don't know Jon, except from a single VFriam during the peak of the pandemic last year. I really hope that he meant that as some sort of a joke, though even that would be in very, very bad taste. If he was serious, then I would say "shame on you". At the ripe young age of 63 years, I've begun to r

Re: [FRIAM] Breakfast in Santa Fe

Jochen - I'm sorry that you feel as unsafe as you say about guns in the USA. My own feeling, based on living in the States from birth until age 49 (13 years ago), is that the danger and direct impact on society from firearms is much exaggerated by the news media. Like so many issues of our time, ou

Re: [FRIAM] In Case Those Links Didn't Work

A skill that many never seem to outgrow. On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 1:26 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > Yeah, among other things they can all put their feet in their mouths. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, >

Re: [FRIAM] What can or can't (shouldn't) be said on FriAM...

Is that quote by Cormac McCarthy? One of his novels? On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 9:55 PM Jon Zingale wrote: > """ > So, Jon, and all of you other ex-perts, Is it the case, or not? I can see > that it might be the case for those of you who, unlike me, MIGHT become > massively important to others lat

Re: [FRIAM] we are lost

I have to agree with you, Nick. If we as a species are to survive, we've got to stop this reversion back to our pre-civilized roots. I'm not really a bleeding-heart liberal, but I do want to evolve beyond survival of the fittest. On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 1:30 PM wrote: > Ok, So, Marcus, > > > > >

Re: [FRIAM] Unrecognized Thinkers

I vote to induct Nick into the Friam Hall of Fame (INFame?) On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 11:56 AM wrote: > Ahem. Speaking as the “Dean” (oldest surviving member) of this > distinguished mostly geriatric community, I think respect goes both ways, > or it goes nowhere. So, those of us who seek to comm

Re: [FRIAM] Windows 11 and X

That’s pretty darn cool. On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 9:50 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > In case anyone is forced to use Windows: I do believe Microsoft finally > figured out a nice way to handle X11 with WSL2 in Windows 11. > > Ubuntu can be installed from the Microsoft Store and when the terminal is >

Re: [FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!??

While I’m not particularly a big fan of Bezos the cowboy billionaire, I do like Amazon the marketplace. Lots of small and large retailers offering goods from all over the world (okay, China) with buyers’ ability to comment on and rate the products. With a behemoth at least sort of standing behind t

Re: [FRIAM] The Insurrection Index

I’m in favor of what you describe, David. Good luck getting legislation in the USA passed that would enable that. (sarcasm mode on) Speaking of the word “enable”, I believe the pushback would be that such laws would be enablers by decreasing the risk of taking drugs. The risk makes drugs less appea

Re: [FRIAM] Income Equality

Hey Nick, what species of hominid do you think would go for that? I'm thinking maybe bonobos, but Homo sapiens' certainly doesn't seem to be headed that way. It would be nice in a utopian sort of way, but doesn't seem too likely. On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 5:03 PM Nick Thompson wrote: > All, > > Loo

Re: [FRIAM] enough sleep?

I go back and forth between being a stark raving mad free-marketeer and being a stark raving mad socialist. The former says that we need to keep our noses to the grindstone in order to compete (or in the past, to merely survive). The latter says that those filthy rich bastards keep the noses of the

Re: [FRIAM] keyboard and hard drive recommendations wanted.

I had a "Happy Hacking" keyboard when I last worked for a living, and loved it. The "light" version that I had doesn't have the Cherry switches, but it was still good for the price. As for hard drives, they are cheap as heck these days, and I have no real preference among the major brands (WD, Seag

Re: [FRIAM] enough sleep?

I'm not a big fan of "why" questions. I think "why" is just an excuse for not wanting to admit that we don't know "what" in sufficient detail. To misquote Yoda, "There is no Why. What, or what not.". On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 9:09 AM Marcus Daniels wrote: > On 4/10/19, 7:46 AM, "Friam on behalf o

Re: [FRIAM] keyboard and hard drive recommendations wanted.

apping at it. > > Again, solid state drives are more expensive, but few things come as close > to making your computer seem brand new and twice as fast. The switch to SSD > reminded me of the ’80s when every new processor generation doubled your > speed. > > --Barry > >

[FRIAM] Android phones

Looking for advice on escaping the gravitational well that is the Apple iOS ecosystem before I reach the event horizon. Hope it isn't too late already. The hard part seems to be choosing a device. With so many years of having barely any choice (other than how much money to shovel into the furnace),

Re: [FRIAM] Win/Mac lookalikes for charity

https://itsfoss.com/macos-like-linux-distros/ The only one of these that I’ve diddled with a bit is elementaryOS. I’d recommend you download a bunch of them and install them on VirtualBox. You might do the same with some of the Chrome OS variants. On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 1:32 PM Ron Newman wrote

Re: [FRIAM] Predictive coding basedon deep learning

Boy howdy (I've always wanted to say that) does that ring true here in Ecuador. There are just so many things that I took for granted back in the USA that I can't get here, be it technology, tools, food ingredients. If something I brought from there breaks, I make sure to tear it apart to see if it

Re: [FRIAM] query and observation

FRIAM is such a strange beast. At times full of philosophical discourse that flies far above my head, other times full of irreverent inanities that defy categorization, and occasionally even with something to do with complexity. And then the periodic deafening silence that makes me realize just how

[FRIAM] Optimization problem

I'd like advice on possible ways to solve the following problem (plumbers must surely face this all the time). I need to cut a set of metal tubes of varying lengths from standard length (6 meter) galvanized conduit stock. The goal is to find the number of tubes I need to buy, and the order of cuts

Re: [FRIAM] Optimization problem

> like https://www.ibm.com/za-en/products/ilog-cplex-optimization-studio (they > have a free edition that will be good enough for your application) will solve > it for you without you necessarily knowing how the software does it. > > On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 at 21:00, Gary Schiltz wr

Re: [FRIAM] Optimization problem

you can use optimization > >> software like > >> https://www.ibm.com/za-en/products/ilog-cplex-optimization-studio (they > >> have a free edition that will be good enough for your application) will > >> solve it for you without you necessarily knowing how t

Re: [FRIAM] Optimization problem

.coursera.org/learn/discrete-optimization covers that relatively > well. > >> b) But if you just want to get the solution you can use optimization > software like > https://www.ibm.com/za-en/products/ilog-cplex-optimization-studio (they have > a free edition that will be

Re: [FRIAM] Optimization problem

CEO, Simtable http://www.simtable.com > 1600 Lena St #D1, Santa Fe, NM 87505 > office: (505)995-0206 mobile: (505)577-5828 > twitter: @simtable > > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 1:56 PM Gary Schiltz > wrote: >> >> Thanks for the links, Peter. I will probably use that s

Re: [FRIAM] Disk Drive Prices (1955-2019)

Would you care to elaborate, George? On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 9:57 AM George Duncan wrote: > Impressive! Thanks, Tom. I've used info like this in talks about how the > declining price of data storage has made data policy a salient issue. > > George Duncan > Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Carneg

Re: [FRIAM] Test

Was the post about TM recent? If it was, then I didn't see it. On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 7:37 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > Multiple people say they didn't see my message about Transcendental > Meditation. Also, I don't see Nick's posts until people quote them. > > Frank > >

Re: [FRIAM] Test

hone (505) 670-9918 > > On Sun, Oct 20, 2019, 6:57 PM Gary Schiltz > wrote: > >> Was the post about TM recent? If it was, then I didn't see it. >> >> On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 7:37 PM Frank Wimberly >> wrote: >> >>> Multiple people say they did

Re: [FRIAM] the Commons and Convenience

I know that's true for me. It seems so foreign to me to watch a movie or read a book set before the 1990s, where someone have to park their car to try to find a phone booth in order to make a phone call. On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 9:52 AM Steven A Smith wrote: > > > Steve writes: > > > > < It is

Re: [FRIAM] means of production take 3

Is your paper available? On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 7:11 AM Prof David West wrote: > Some comments that might be intrusive (in which case, I apologize and > please ignore) or contributory as context to the "ownership" discussion. > > Two-years ago I presented a paper, "Patterns of Humanity," at a s

Re: [FRIAM] IEEE Computer Society's Top 12 Technology Trends for 2020

What is sorely lacking in articles like that is discussion of how societies will address the massive displacement of workers that such automation continues to cause. To be fair, that perhaps isn’t the job of IEEE, but *someone* had better think about it. On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 9:45 AM Tom Johnson

Re: [FRIAM] IT is Not Sustainable

Spot on. On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 2:29 AM Marcus Daniels wrote: > Most programmers won't struggle to rationalize or improve code written by > other people.The problem is that people are selfish. They think that > their 10K LOC problem is beautiful and nimble, but that 1M LOC was once > that

Re: [FRIAM] belly of the beast

Speaking of modeling environments and bellies and beasts, weren’t Glen and/or Marcus largely behind Swarm? On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 10:37 AM Steven A Smith wrote: > Nick - > > Our Own Lee Rudolph, was there as well. In the belly of Net Logo, I > think. > > > > Lee Are you out there? > > That

Re: [FRIAM] climate change questions

The cloud forests and coastal plains of northern South America are very humid with lots of sunshine and rain for much of the year. I am leaving the majority of my 110 acres here in Ecuador in secondary forest for the wildlife. Of course when the shit really hits the fan in the north, ownership will

Re: [FRIAM] Austriallia is on fire chat here

Being American and a child of the 1960s (born in 1958, before microbreweries), I always thought of Foster's Lager as being on par with Heineken and Saint Pauli Girl beers. Maybe it was just that it came in a big "oil can" that was the major appeal. On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 6:08 PM Russell Standish

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

Elitism at its finest. I applaud whoever finally had the guts to speak the (their) truth. Did anyone on the LANL side have the guts to admit that that community member was right? I doubt it. On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 3:57 PM Merle Lefkoff wrote: > Hi Marcus, > > My client many years ago was Los Al

Re: [FRIAM] Murdoch and Trump

Winter? What's that? (uttered from 2000 meters elevation in the Andes, 3 miles from the equator) On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 2:28 PM doug carmichael wrote: > the problem with the small plot of land approach > > 1. what to do in the winter? > 2. given the number Of people who will try it, what about

Re: [FRIAM] A winter party

They have an expression down here for that kind of thing. It's called PV (puta vejez, i.e. f***ing old age). I've starting attributing a lot of things these days to la PV. On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 2:59 PM wrote: > You were there! I saw you. Debbie sat and talked to your hostess for a > long tim

Re: [FRIAM] Curmudgeons Unite!

Please post a link to your paper. I for one would love to read it. On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 3:45 AM Prof David West wrote: > Jon, > > As an observer of software "engineering" since its inception in 1968 (my > first job as a programmer was that fall, and that spring/summer is when the > NATO confer

Re: [FRIAM] friam Winter Party

Merle, just after I read your message, I received a message (unrelated to FRIAM) with this link: https://cuencahighlife.com/box-wines-have-come-of-age-and-make-more-environmental-sense-than-ever/. Chilean wine in a box is pretty popular down here in South America, and not half bad. I won't be able

Re: [FRIAM] friam Winter POTLUCK

Cardinal? The only cardinal I know has red feathers and a conical beak made for cracking seeds. And by the way, it's Ecuador, not Peru. In any case, in honor of Cardinal Standish, and as someone who lives two miles south of the equator, I will break out in song: "I come from the land down... er...

Re: [FRIAM] friam Winter POTLUCK

uum. >> >> —Barry >> >> On 13 Feb 2020, at 19:01, Gary Schiltz wrote: >> >> Cardinal? The only cardinal I know has red feathers and a conical beak >> made >> for cracking seeds. And by the way, it's Ecuador, not Peru. In any case, >> in >&g

Re: [FRIAM] Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve” - Washington Post

I love the simulations, kind of a "NetLogo meets Pong". On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 11:07 PM Tom Johnson wrote: > Interesting simulations. Scroll down. > > https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-simulator/ > > FRIAM Appl

Re: [FRIAM] Meeting of "Physical Friam"

I’m game. On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 6:18 PM Tom Johnson wrote: > When the 40-min limit is reached, just resend an invitation to the the > same list. Might take a couple minutes to sort out, but that has worked in > the past. > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 5:10 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > >> There is a

Re: [FRIAM] wifi repeaters?!

Traditionally, the best solution is to put an access point in several spots to provide coverage. Normally that requires ethernet cabling to be in place. Another solution is to use the electrical cabling in your house to carry the packets to other rooms, where you connect other repeaters. That can w

Re: [FRIAM] SarsCoV-2 meta-list

It's a shame it depends on Flash. These days, most browsers don't come with it installed, and on the iOS platform, it isn't even available. On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 1:16 PM Tom Johnson wrote: > Or a meta Doc with links pointing to Doc w Category Table(s)? > I also like to use Comapping for this so

Re: [FRIAM] covid19.healthdata.org

>From what I've read, it seems to me that if the only way for the virus to be stopped is for enough people to become immune that it runs out of hosts in which to reproduce. Immunity could develop in at least three ways: a) be vaccinated (probably 2+ years off); b) have natural immunity (probably a

Re: [FRIAM] anthropological observations

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:53 AM Prof David West wrote: > ... > 2) There are always ways to ameliorate the Absolute Law. Those ways differ > by culture. Edward Hall compared how and where amelioration differs between > US and Mexican cultures. In the US the cop has latitude as to when and with >

Re: [FRIAM] FB self-selected antibody covid testing of 3000+ in Santa Clara

Hey Tom, that link points to a domain that is for sale. On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 5:04 PM Tom Johnson wrote: > Related: > BS NEWS April 19, 2020, 9:07 AM > "On the trail of COVID-19: Contact tracing the virus > bit.ly/mSad > TJ > > > > Tom Johnson - t..

Re: [FRIAM] whackadoodles go mainstream!

Steve, you waded in further than I did. I stopped when it was about to go over the tops of my boots :-) On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 1:50 PM Steven A Smith wrote: > > > The worst conspiracy theory I've seen is this TL;DR, which uses TL;DR as > a *weapon* to blind the audience with "science": > > > >

Re: [FRIAM] ill-conceived question

Hey Nick, did you mean your question to apply to mostly the USA? Europe? Asia? Africa? South America? Although I keep up a little bit with what's going on in the USA and a bit more about Europe, lately my familiarity is more with Ecuador and to a lesser extent the rest of South America. Down here,

Re: [FRIAM] ill-conceived question

I hope it didn't sound like I was yelling at you, Nick :-) Given the state of the economy here in northern South America, your question a little too USA-centric. And my response was obviously from a different perspective. I actually don't know what the state of the US economy is right now. For exa

Re: [FRIAM] ill-conceived question

The human civilization that has developed over the last handful of millennia is a pretty thin veneer over the basic drives that control the rats' behavior. Like most of us, I've grown up dependent on that thin veneer, and would sorely miss it :-) I'm not very optimistic that it will survive, but I

Re: [FRIAM] ill-conceived question

Would the rich, with proportionally more in the stock market, be disadvantaged by drops in stock prices? I suppose, on the other hand, they would tend to have enough cash or equivalent to to take advantage of the price drops to buy stocks at reduced prices. On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 5:02 PM wrote:

Re: [FRIAM] ill-conceived question

Great rant/stream of consciousness as usual, Steve! Has anyone watched this five minute video yet? A bit utopian, but maybe not... https://vimeo.com/411278238 On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 7:23 AM David Eric Smith wrote: > I can’t weave a grand diorama that has the meaning of everything in it, > and an

Re: [FRIAM] ill-conceived question

Sorry Steve, I quoted the Wrong Wrant :-) Rest assured, though, that it was my intention to complement Your Rant. David, your rant was good as well. Always the diplomat, Gary On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 11:53 AM Steven A Smith wrote: > Gary - > > Watching now... but THIS rant was Eric's not mine...

Re: [FRIAM] ill-conceived question

Merle, I'd like to watch that interview. Do you watch Fareed over cable or satellite, or over the internet? On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 11:55 AM Merle Lefkoff wrote: > Nick, the only mainstream news program I watch is Fareed Zakaria on Sunday > morning. Below is part of this morning's report. Not s

Re: [FRIAM] ill-conceived question

t a current that is all going the > wrong way. The latter nut is one that is seeming particularly hard to > crack. > > Many thanks, > > Eric > > > On May 3, 2020, at 10:05 PM, Gary Schiltz > wrote: > > Great rant/stream of consciousness as usual, Steve! Has anyone w

Re: [FRIAM] Ranked Choice Voting app

Whatever voting technology is chosen, it needs to be open source, both software and hardware. On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 8:52 PM Jon Zingale wrote: > Cody, > > I'm inspired to contribute some thoughts to yours. I feel that > whatever *fix* is imagined for voting, we should be prepared to > adopt it

Re: [FRIAM] What Is the Real Coronavirus Toll in Each State? - The New York Times

The denominator is the elephant in the room that nobody seems to want to talk about. Without knowing how many people in the population at large are infected, how the hell can we learn anything about how serious Covid-19 is? Without a doubt, a large percentage of the people who are hospitalized for

Re: [FRIAM] Thursday Friam

I’ll try to make it some Thursday. That time works for me. Please send the link again. On Sun, May 8, 2022 at 2:23 PM wrote: > Sounds good to me. Soon that’ll be noon, my time. Breakfast. > > > > N > > Nick Thompson > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > >

Re: [FRIAM] Sig

Same for me, Frank. The bit.ly link itself points to the unsubscribe link. On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 1:20 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > When I try to select the link for copying the "un/subscribe" comes with > it. Does anyone else experience this? > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, >

Re: [FRIAM] Birx presentation

I imagine they are, but don’t call me Surely. On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 12:23 PM glen wrote: > This was a good presentation. If I get a minute later today, I'll try to > find the slides. Shirley they're available somewhere? > > https://youtu.be/r7ubPjYHHYQ?t=913 > > -- > ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥ

Re: [FRIAM] stranger than fiction

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 fairly generous with licensing for academic and nonprofit organizations. Microsoft has been particularly helpful. On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 8:48 PM Jon Zingale wrote: > """C

Re: [FRIAM] stranger than fiction

I volunteer for. mindocloudforest.org On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 10:16 AM Stephen Guerin wrote: > 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 >

Re: [FRIAM] stranger than fiction

I should mention that the website is in need of serious updating. On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 11:50 AM Gary Schiltz wrote: > Yes, it’s for the birds. The IT infrastructure for the group is a chaotic > mess. I’m trying to bring a bit of order to the chaos. Both IT wise and > organization w

Re: [FRIAM] stranger than fiction

e mining company of Ecuador, founded under > Rafael Correa's administration and responsible for the over-development and > destruction of indigenous lands." > > > On 7/27/22 09:50, Gary Schiltz wrote: > > Yes, it’s for the birds. The IT infrastructure for the group is a

Re: [FRIAM] "tech" companies suck

Here in Ecuador, group chat is very widespread. Unfortunately (?) it is mostly through informal WhatsApp groups. Email is *so* last millenia, and even FaceBook has mostly given way to Instagram, TikTok, whatever. Yuck. I especially dislike WhatsApp groups because it has even taken over some institu

Re: [FRIAM] "tech" companies suck

I see that 22 years after Y2K, I've already forgotten how to spell millennia, and that the singular is millennium. Maybe I need to write a WhatsApp message to myself as a reminder :-) On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 11:14 AM Gary Schiltz wrote: > Here in Ecuador, group chat is very wi

Re: [FRIAM] dystopian vision(s)

I wonder what proportion of people worldwide, like me, see "urban" places as mainly, at best, necessary evils. Maybe it's mainly an American phenomenon, maybe a bourgeoisie idea for only those who can afford land. On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 8:23 AM glen wrote: > At the top of my LIFO stack of dysto

Re: [FRIAM] Portland interruption but my laughable internet keeps going down

Where in Santa Fe do you live? I ask only out of idle curiosity, since I now live 6378 km from Santa Fe (check out the cool earth distance calculator at https://keisan.casio.com/exec/system/1224587128). But having lived in Pecos for 10 years and being in Santa Fe most of those days for work, intern

Re: [FRIAM] phones with keyboards, or a keyboard you can buy for a phone?

I get by with a two year old iPhone SE. I also hate typing on glass, but I have a laptop for typing. On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 11:01 AM Gillian Densmore wrote: > > Hello, all looking for phone recommendations. My pixel 4a is 2 years old > feeling closer to 4. > Are there any phones you can get wit

Re: [FRIAM] Find String in Spreadsheet

Instead of digging into the guts of Excel with Visual Basic, I think it would be about as easy (and maybe more fun) to import the spreadsheet into a database that you could query. If I were to take a first crack at it, I would first export the Excel file to a comma separated values file (CSV file).

Re: [FRIAM] technical notes on fusion announcement

We humans tend to think of such long-term thinking as silly, frivolous mind exercises for the elite educated. I would applaud such thinking. But western civilization has trouble with seven generations, let alone seven million generations. On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 3:21 PM David Eric Smith wrote: >

Re: [FRIAM] vFriam on Thursday

I keep meaning to attend but seem to always be busy. I promise to try next Thursday. On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 12:20 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > As of 10:15 no one has arrived. Last week Barry attended for about an > hour. Jack came briefly. Nick arrived after the others had left. I made > him

Re: [FRIAM] new thermal tech

Amusing indeed (the PV magazine article). The pump “reportedly produces 3 kW to 4 kW of heat for every kilowatt of power it consumes”. Say what? On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 8:28 AM Roger Critchlow wrote: > > I was amused to see an announcement of a thermoacoustic heat pump the other > day: > > >

Re: [FRIAM] unrest in SoAm & Global ideological/sociopolitical/economic alignment...

Despite living here in the middle of the world, I'm afraid I don't give these ideas enogh serious thought these days. I interact mostly with people who are retired and avoid deep political thought, and with locals who don't have the education or experience to see much beyond the local community. I

Re: [FRIAM] unrest in SoAm & Global ideological/sociopolitical/economic alignment...

ion and science may > also support the hypothesis that back then, Latin American countries had a > big potential for convergence. Argentina, for example, was thought to be so > promising that it could join the innovators’ club (Castaldi et al., > 2008(16)). Then, what happened during

Re: [FRIAM] [EXT] News Alert: Most young men are single. Most young women are not.

A few really do want our species to go extinct, but many believe that we are already overpopulated and need to level off or reduce population. I lean only slightly toward the latter. On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 12:51 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > Agreed. But if we don't construct any new ones and the

Re: [FRIAM] the end of the pandemic

I'm supposed to be a geek, but I don't understand "Tempus Dictum's Discord" - sounds like some mathematical proof from the ancient Greeks. Google search shows a company called Tempus Dictum, and there appears to be some software called Discord, either or both of which may or may not be associated w

Re: [FRIAM] the end of the pandemic

rsday. If > not, let me know. > > > > Nick > > > > > > Nicholas Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > > Clark University > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > >

Re: [FRIAM] the end of the pandemic

d becoming infected during that > period. > > They also acknowledged (in January) that "Climate Change is real, and > going to cause real problems for real people, like US!", when they had been > ardent (if polite) deniers for at least the 20 years I have put down my own

Re: [FRIAM] Please join Zoom meeting in progress

If I'm not mistaken, the host must explicitly turn over the meeting to another participant to serve as host in order for the meeting to continue. On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 1:16 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > I apologize. Stephen said he made me and Tom hosts. I assumed that if > one host left it wou

Re: [FRIAM] evaporative cooling

No scientific results here, but some anecdotal experience from about 40 years ago. I spent two summers in west Texas (near Wink, birthplace of Roy Orbison). I was a field tech on a project studying Desert Side-blotched Lizards. Temperatures were often over 110 F in the early afternoon, with humidit

Re: [FRIAM] Peirce & Postmordernism

The observer problem. Does it require a human to do the observation? What about a parrot? A chimpanzee? An amoeba? A Turing machine? On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 9:47 AM Prof David West wrote: > Peirce: > > "To satisfy our doubts, therefore, it is necessary that a method should be > found by which ou

Re: [FRIAM] God

Not a religion per se, but reincarnation seems anything but static. On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 7:39 AM Prof David West wrote: > The book i promoted at vFRIAM - Excellent Beauty by Eric Dietrich does a > good job of dealing with the question "why religion" AND "why science?" > Pretty much the same q

Re: [FRIAM] The Second Wave is Gathering

Not to be melodramatic or anything, but maybe the red-state progressives should stay inside and put lambs blood above their doors for the next few weeks or months, just to be on the safe side: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagues_of_Egypt#10._Death_of_firstborn:_Ex._11:1%E2%80%9312:36 On Mon, May

Re: [FRIAM] Covid and Politics

Nick, you're reinforcing the negative perceptions that most of the world has toward the USA. If 1% of the population dies, that's 1% of 8 billion people, i.e. about 80 million. Not 3.5 million. Unless you want to close off borders across the world, we all have to think of this as a human disease, n

Re: [FRIAM] Interdisciplinary work

For those who have read Don Quixote, I would be interested to know what what would be your favorite English translation as well as your favorite modern Spanish version (as I understand it, a lot of the story was written in "Old Castilian"). On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 12:28 PM Frank Wimberly wrote:

Re: [FRIAM] More distraction

Ah, the illustrious portmanteau. We English speakers seem to really love making up new words. I wonder if this is mostly an English phenomenon? I've tried with Spanish a lot of times here in Ecuador, with little success. The only one I can think of that I've repeatedly tried to get to catch on is "

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