At 10:59 AM 6/19/2007, bill kilpatrick wrote:
open mic' here at the vihuela bargrill appears to
have become dusty of late ... so i'd thought i'd
dredge up a fave'-rave', golden oldie and bring it up
to date:
a review of the book the black swan: impact of the
highly improbable in a recent edition
--- Eugene C. Braig IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
like the proverbial kangaroo straight in poker?
Perhaps denser than most (or showing my total
disinterest in card games),
but I have no idea what this analogy is trying to
imply.
a new comer from back east sits in on a card game out
west
At 01:21 PM 6/19/2007, Roman Turovsky wrote:
From: Eugene C. Braig IV [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In most cases outside mathematics, I don't believe in proof. Much of
western science is built on the notion of disproof leaving evidence for
whatever is left standing; I like that system. Accepting the
what intrigured me about this review - the book, i
confess, will not be bought - was the idea that
certain passions attract certain types of intellect
and that what's acceptable in general terms by some
may be rejected by others because of specifics.
should it arise, i wonder how you (plural)
From: bill kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:11:43 +0100 (BST)
To: Eugene C. Braig IV [EMAIL PROTECTED], vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: vihuela's black swan
The proverbial kangaroo-straight in poker
A new comer from back east sits in on a card
Monica Hall wrote:
another example cited in the review - more pertinent
here, me thinks - reflects the inability of humans to
factor in the possibility of randomness and
uncertainty. i would say reluctance rather than
inability but the point is made again by saying
.. humans have an
At 03:37 PM 6/19/2007, bill kilpatrick wrote:
what intrigured me about this review - the book, i
confess, will not be bought - was the idea that
certain passions attract certain types of intellect
and that what's acceptable in general terms by some
may be rejected by others because of specifics.
I don't really see any black swan issues here. An instrument is what its
contemporary builders and players named it. I don't see nearly as much
value in categorizing instrument types into biological-like families as
some. Of course, all these things are related and borrow inspiration from
--- Eugene C. Braig IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whatever folks were calling
vihuela in the 1500s
might have been very charango-like, but it wasn't a
charango because nobody
called it that.
conversely ... whatever it is that folks (bless you,
euge') refer to as charango today might
Dear Arto,
the evidence would seem to suggest that there were vihuelas in 16th-
century Spain. In very rough terms, the evidence is approximately:
- some 70 inventory descriptions
- over 60 iconographic representations from the 16th century of flat-
backed plucked vihuelas
- more than 150 known
- Original Message -
From: bill kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 6:29 pm
Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: vihuela's black swan
--- Eugene C. Braig IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whatever folks were calling
vihuela in the 1500s
might have been very charango-like,
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