Re: [FRIAM] hot streaks

Overall, the wealthy (senior authors) in this scenario are as with real money. They are: 1) the ones who create cranks to turn (some random topic to torture endlessly), and 2) those that employ people to turn them on their behalf. But, if someone does find a way to turn them into integral un

Re: [FRIAM] hot streaks

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Re: [FRIAM] The Islamic Flowering

Thanks so much, Nick, for sharing Muzaffar Iqbal's important book. May I add (not on the longer list), Abdulaziz Sachedina's book, "The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism", Oxford U. Press, 2001. He wrote this with the support of a colleague of mine at CSIS when we were working together in the

Re: [FRIAM] hot streaks

It's preposterous to say that citations are worth $100,000 each. That makes me a multi-multi-millionaire. Did you read the article, Roger? What can that possibly mean? --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Tue, Sep 21, 2021, 2:35 PM Roger C

Re: [FRIAM] hot streaks

Barabási is getting the Gelman treatment today: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/09/21/albert-laszlo-barabasi-is-underpaid-by-a-lot/ https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/09/21/more-on-that-claim-that-scientific-citations-are-worth-10-each/ Turns out that Gelman reviewed Burs

[FRIAM] The Islamic Flowering

Dear Friam Colleagues, Some weeks ago, you-all expressed an interest in the flowering of Islamic scientific though that anticipated, and may have caused, a similar flowering during the, so called, Western enlightenment. In response, I wrote to my Iranian colleague Hossein Najafizideh (he

Re: [FRIAM] buzzwords aside

I mean it is getting down to a culling of the get-off-my-lawn unemployed nutjob set. -Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf Of u?l? ?>$ Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 6:58 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] buzzwords aside Well, even if it's only slightly worse than the

Re: [FRIAM] buzzwords aside

Well, even if it's only slightly worse than the flu, vaccination will still reduce the number of dead each year ... and the number of days lost to ill employees, etc. Public health will always be important. My hope is that more people will realize that. But they probably won't. On 9/20/21 7:36

Re: [FRIAM] Spotted Appointed to Endowed Chair at CMU

Autocorrect changed "Spirtes" to "Spotted". --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Tue, Sep 21, 2021, 7:00 AM Frank Wimberly wrote: > > https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/news/news-stories/2021/september/spirtes-marianna-brown-dietrich-professor.ht

[FRIAM] Spotted Appointed to Endowed Chair at CMU

https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/news/news-stories/2021/september/spirtes-marianna-brown-dietrich-professor.html I worked with Spirtes, Glymour, and Scheines off and on for about ten years. Peter is a very nice man with a wry sense of humor. Once when we were talking he said that it appeared that I