Re: [FRIAM] A pretty cellular automata video

"Bandwidth" sounds as if there are robots among us who are listening. Amazon offers now an "Astro" robot - a tablet attached to a vacuum cleaner body. What do you think of it, would you buy one? ZDNet says it costs about $1500https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078NSDFSB-J. Original message

Re: [FRIAM] A pretty cellular automata video

"...but I won't waste anyone's bandwidth with my reflective rambling..." Wait, no, please, more reflective rambling. .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscri

Re: [FRIAM] "epistemic status"

I retook the test back-to-back and was a little surprised by the results:  1. I did increase my high confidence correct answers marginally (unsurprising) 1. This means I still got a few dead wrong. 2. I did lower my overall confidence. 1. no-brainer after seeing how overconfident

[FRIAM] deep weather

Now the deep learning kids have a model for nowcasting precipitation. https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/29/1036331/deepminds-ai-predicts-almost-exactly-when-and-where-its-going-to-rain/ points to source https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03854-z They build a GAN (Generative Adve

Re: [FRIAM] "epistemic status"

On 9/29/21 7:26 AM, uǝlƃ ☤>$ wrote: > Do you know what you know? > A Confidence Calibration Exercise > http://confidence.success-equation.com/ I share Glen's interest in retaking such a test under different personal contexts.   I found some of the questions seemingly a little disingenous and was

Re: [FRIAM] A pretty cellular automata video

Jon - > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2uhhAXd7PI&ab_channel=ElliotWaite > I never cease to be surprised and fascinated watching simple rules generate complex structure and dynamics. I had a lot of complex reactions to this bu

Re: [FRIAM] unplanned [sen|obsol]escence

Yes. The worker-friendly protected labor markets that Sanders or Nader care about are just another sort of Elysium. At some point one has to address the fact that moving the gates around (or literally building fences) doesn't change the underlying reality that others have it worse than us, and

Re: [FRIAM] unplanned [sen|obsol]escence

I think I understand the model you (Marcus) are using here and think it makes a lot of sense to me...  Maybe the eco/SJ-warriors blow the dam/gates when they get the chance, no matter whether the reservoir is full and no matter who is living downstream... or maybe they let the more level heads wor

Re: [FRIAM] A pretty cellular automata video

""" Very nice. Part of the trick is that when a cell dies in the 2D space (Game of Life), it fades to black rather than goes black immediately. """ Yeah, that is a very nice feature. I like that the "fade" is also a seemingly random fade through the RGB. It would be really cool to have a side scr

[FRIAM] "epistemic status"

Do you know what you know? A Confidence Calibration Exercise http://confidence.success-equation.com/ "After answering each of the true/false questions below, indicate how confident you are in your answer using the corresponding slider. A value of 50% means you have no idea what the right answer