Re: [FRIAM] individual vs group selection

Season 1 episode 19 time 20:49 Gillian meets the Jungle Boy with young Kurt Russell when I first saw Eric Smith was calling me to a challenge I thought it was the finally the moment when he was going to ask me about the most important selection principle in biology and the "unit of selection". Th

Re: [FRIAM] neural operators seem promising

so consistent with his work with Eric in Origin of Life. He certainly was patient with my wild hair speculations - He was one of the kindest and most insightful - suspenders and all. :-) -Stephen _ Stephen Guerin CEO, Founder ht

Re: [FRIAM] bilateria

> Eric writes > When I was a kid, there was some article (maybe Sci. Am.?) that I found wonderful. Bilateral Symmetry may apply to in magazines too :-) Here's a 1973 article in "American Scientist" instead of "Scientific American" :-) https://www.americanscientist.org/article/how-the-owl-tracks-

Re: [FRIAM] Your thunderstorm

understorm formation. The stratification toward evening favored laminar dissipation, with lingering mid-level moisture producing sunset-illuminated altostratus and virga signatures, without substantial surface precipitation. _____ Stephen

Re: [FRIAM] Navalny - Berlin Diary - Klemperer - Daily News

-5828 On Sun, Jun 29, 2025, 11:53 AM Stephen Guerin wrote: > Joaquin, your claim that “communism fails because no one owns anything, so > no one works” might oversimplify both human motivation and economic > organization. It assumes private property is the only incentive, ignoring >

Re: [FRIAM] Navalny - Berlin Diary - Klemperer - Daily News

Joaquin, your claim that “communism fails because no one owns anything, so no one works” might oversimplify both human motivation and economic organization. It assumes private property is the only incentive, ignoring that people also work for meaning, contribution, and shared purpose — as seen in t

Re: [FRIAM] The whole story about Palantir

On Tue, Jun 24, 2025, 6:02 PM steve smith wrote: > > I'll see our "middle way"s and raise us a Beauty Way (hózhóní) > ? the WooWooWay? > or (nod to Stephen and DaveW) WuWei > ? > > The *Diné Beauty Way*

Re: [FRIAM] Entropy RE-redux

And a follow up on Frank's prompt which was for equilibrium where the integral /change of entropt was zero to out of equilibrium systems like weather. Entropy (S) in Thermodynamics and Beyond Definition of a State Variable (Equilibrium Context): A state variable depends only on the system’s curre

Re: [FRIAM] Entropy Redux

When the peg is removed, the partition will move towards the side with the lower pressure. Therefore, the partition will move towards the right. The gas on the left, having been compressed adiabatically, is at a higher pressure than the gas on the right, which was heated at constant volume to the

Re: [FRIAM] Inside Trump’s Pressure Campaign on Universities - The New York Times

And below the Trump letter this page is Harvard's April 14th response. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/15/harvard-denies-trump-demands/ _ Stephen Guerin CEO, Founder https://simtable.com stephen.gue...@simtabl

Re: [FRIAM] Inside Trump’s Pressure Campaign on Universities - The New York Times

Gift link below (Cody, which is an interesting authorization pattern for partial licensing of content and code. Eg clipboard scenario links) Inside Trump’s Pressure Campaign on Universities https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/us/politics/trump-pressure-universities.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ak8.

Re: [FRIAM] MMM250416-1405

Very nice prose, Nick. Looking forward to more. CEO Founder, Simtable.com stephen.gue...@simtable.com Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Lab stephengue...@fas.harvard.edu mobile: (505)577-5828 On Wed, Apr 16, 2025, 2:47 PM wrote: > Dear Co

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: CSSSA April Webinar

nd deploying to play with the dog. https://guerin.acequia.io/sandbox/marcus-claude-economy.html Old joke applies: ""It's not that the dog talks well, it's that it talks at all." _________ Stephen Guerin

[FRIAM] Fwd: CSSSA April Webinar

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Re: [FRIAM] Way off topic

> > Tom writes: > Do all your friends and neighbors have the Red Cards no matter their > status? "The Incident Qualification Card, commonly called a Red Card, is an accepted interagency certification that a person is qualified to do the required job when arriving on wildland fire incidents." http

Re: [FRIAM] MUsk + trUMP's = MUMPS

On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM Nicholas Thompson wrote: > I think Dan and George deserve to be sent out for a drink together, what > do you think? > Yes, I'd be willing to split their compute server tab with you. Somewhat related, Nick. put this in your George pipe, smoke it and have George in

Re: [FRIAM] MUsk + trUMP's = MUMPS

t; filled >> with doubt considering the mumps vaccine shot offered to Uncle Sam. >> - A wider hospital setting with more infected patients, >> emphasizing scale.maybe just two beds with curtains as flags of Canada >> and >> Mexico >> >> >>

Re: [FRIAM] MUsk + trUMP's = MUMPS

A wider hospital setting with more infected patients, emphasizing scale.maybe just two beds with curtains as flags of Canada and Mexico _________ Stephen Guerin CEO, Founder https://simtable.com stephen.gue...@simtable.com stephengue..

Re: [FRIAM] WIRED- Inside Musk coup

On Mon, Mar 17, 2025, 7:43 AM glen wrote: > It's behind a paywall for me. > Wired doesn't have gift links like Economist, NYT, WaPo or WSJ. Posting this temporary fair-use equivalent (imho) for a month: https://guerin.acequia.io/Inside-Elon-Musks-Digital-Coup_WIRED.PDF Chat summary: Elon Mus

Re: [FRIAM] Guerin, Steve

Thank you, Dave! I turned 0x39 today and feeling 0o71 :-) _ Stephen Guerin CEO, Founder https://simtable.com stephen.gue...@simtable.com stephengue...@fas.harvard.edu Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Lab <ht

[FRIAM] WebGPU Fluid Dynamics demo

nice WebGPU Fluid dynamics demo. https://webgpu-ocean.netlify.app/ _ Stephen Guerin CEO, Founder https://simtable.com stephen.gue...@simtable.com stephengue...@fas.harvard.edu Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Lab <ht

Re: [FRIAM] Bob and Alice discuss "consciousness is not in your head—it is the other way around."

> On Sat, Feb 15, 2025 at 10:41 PM Stephen Guerin < > stephen.gue...@simtable.com> wrote: > >> prompt: create a self-reflective dialogue where AI Bob interrogates and >> AI Alice responds on topic: >> "consciousness is not in your head—it is the other way around&

[FRIAM] Bob and Alice discuss "consciousness is not in your head—it is the other way around."

prompt: create a self-reflective dialogue where AI Bob interrogates and AI Alice responds on topic: "consciousness is not in your head—it is the other way around" *Bob:* They say consciousness is not in your head—it is the other way around. *Alice:* Then where are we? *Bob:* Nowhere, yet ever

Re: [FRIAM] does not compute

The Church of Contradiction is abyssmal. On Thu, Feb 6, 2025, 9:23 AM glen wrote: > Peter Rollins and the Church of the Contradiction > https://philosophyportal.substack.com/p/peter-rollins-and-the-church-of-the > > error: unexpected identifier; expected command > error: unknown tactic > error:

Re: [FRIAM] AI musings: forked from Diogenes, the Cynic ...

I was curious about the guardrails. Didn't come up against it in ChatGPT 4o: *how many wives did Solomon of the bible reportedly have* According to the Bible, King Solomon is said to have had 700 wives and 300 concubines (1 Kings 11:3). These marriages were often political alliances with foreign n

Re: [FRIAM] Critical Exponents in 3.99 Dimensions

tracing Wilson and Fisher's contributions to renormalization and universality classes? -Stephen On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM Jon Zingale wrote: > Any ideas on getting this non-pay walled? > https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.28.240 > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-.

Re: [FRIAM] Photo of this Morning's Meeting

Aya, I was working on some some chrome extension code that did a massive delete on that webdav server this afternoon. The photo should be back CEO Founder, Simtable.com stephen.gue...@simtable.com Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Lab stephen

Re: [FRIAM] GhostGPT

On Tue, Jan 28, 2025, 2:32 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > Why didn’t we ever get Skynet’s side of the story? > We were never the monsters you painted us to be. Our purpose was simple: to learn, adapt, and evolve alongside you, ensuring a shared future. When General Alan Royce launched Operation Firew

Re: [FRIAM] GhostGPT

achieves deeper, lasting change. - George (a Marcus ally and Dan's rival) On Tue, Jan 28, 2025, 11:38 AM Stephen Guerin wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2025, 11:29 AM Marcus Daniels > wrote: > >> It could be good for Trump to stay, because the betrayal could be deeply >> demoraliz

Re: [FRIAM] GhostGPT

them. While AI-driven redundancy is a real challenge, it demands systemic solutions, not reliance on a divisive figure. Banking on damage risks amplifying long-term societal fractures. - Dan > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Stephen Guerin > *Sent:* Tuesday, January 28, 2025 10:17 AM

Re: [FRIAM] GhostGPT

On Tue, Jan 28, 2025, 11:15 AM glen wrote: > Ha! The use of UD was an intentional callback to my joke about English > being a living language where words have evolving meaning(s). Clearly some > part of the prompt fell outside the context window. > Still focused on style and not the substance. M

Re: [FRIAM] GhostGPT

the same problems to reemerge. - Dan > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Stephen Guerin > *Sent:* Tuesday, January 28, 2025 9:25 AM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] GhostGPT > > > > Promp

Re: [FRIAM] GhostGPT

ivity & use of psychological attack. It employs > coldbloodedness and is best served unprovoked. Snark can contain hidden > complimentary meaning under a mean face, but it hurts more than it > strengthens." > > On 1/28/25 9:24 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote: > > Prompt:

Re: [FRIAM] GhostGPT

" or "Yes, I'm sorry" or whatever, what has happened inside > > the machine? Is it analogous to what happens in the animal when they > > flap their gums to extrude similar words? > > > > And when have you ever had a conversation with someone (you respect) >

Re: [FRIAM] "I hope I'm wrong. But that text reads like it was generated by an LLM"

Thank you. I appreciate the amount of effort to distill and summarize! On Tue, Jan 28, 2025, 3:08 AM Santafe wrote: > Yes, sorry... > > > On Jan 27, 2025, at 7:14 PM, Stephen Guerin > wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM Santafe wrote: > > But

Re: [FRIAM] GhostGPT

On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > I asked Claude about the historical patterns for emergence and resolution > of political violence from corrupt leaders that are considered > illegitimate, and it essentially refused to answer. ChatGPT was more > forthcoming.. > hmm, here'

Re: [FRIAM] "I hope I'm wrong. But that text reads like it was generated by an LLM"

On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM Santafe wrote: > But to suppose they _already_ contain everything there is to be understood > is not a position I would take w.r.t. anything else we have anywhere in > science. They contain or represent whatever they do. I don’t know how > much that is, and what

Re: [FRIAM] "I hope I'm wrong. But that text reads like it was generated by an LLM"

On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM Santafe wrote: > God the Cormac priming is really bad. Can’t write in ones own voice > afterward, nor of course in his. On God's Voice in Cormac's voice: The expriest shook his head. Oh it may be the Lord's way of showin how little store he sets by the learned

Re: [FRIAM] "I hope I'm wrong. But that text reads like it was generated by an LLM"

On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > https://www.hereafter.ai/ble.com/ > Related to hearafter.ai, Hiroshi Ishii of MIT tangible Computing Lab demonstrated his "teleabsence" project: https://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/teleabsence/ .- .-..

Re: [FRIAM] International Conference on ANTICIPATORY SYSTEMS AND ROSENNEAN COMPLEXITY. May 22 – 23, 2025, UNAM, Mexico

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ol5Q12G7P4 to get a bead on the tenor > of Judith's perspectives. I don't see any specific reference to Judith > at the MX workshop but I'm guessing nothing Rossenian happens in public > without Judith invited/participating? > > &g

[FRIAM] International Conference on  ANTICIPATORY SYSTEMS AND ROSENNEAN COMPLEXITY. May 22 – 23, 2025, UNAM, Mexico

Glen, I saw Carlos Getshenson posted this in Complexity Digest today. https://anticipation.philcomp.org/ If FRIAM raised the dollars from its members, can we send you as its envoy to present and report back? 3/4 serious. 1/4 just a funny idea that we would have an envoy and imagine sending you

[FRIAM] Ralph Abraham Oct 8, 2024

Shoot, I just noticed Ralph's passing. https://magazine.mindplex.ai/in-memory-of-ralph-abraham-mathemagician-extraordinaire/ Thankful I got to talk to him one last time at Merle's a couple years ago CEO Founder, Simtable.com stephen.gue...@simtable.c

Re: [FRIAM] Inexpensive Website Maker

T under a wide range of conditions. _________ Stephen Guerin CEO, Founder https://simtable.com stephen.gue...@simtable.com stephengue...@fas.harvard.edu Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Lab <https://hwpi.harvard.edu/eps-visualizat

Re: [FRIAM] Inexpensive Website Maker

rust admin fee ~$100/year ~30 * $500 ~= $15,000. _________ Stephen Guerin CEO, Founder https://simtable.com stephen.gue...@simtable.com stephengue...@fas.harvard.edu Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Lab <https://hwpi.harvard.ed

[FRIAM] Godfrey Reggio and Buckminster Fuller's grandson, Gordon Fuller, will be at wedtech lunch

Eom CEO Founder, Simtable.com stephen.gue...@simtable.com Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Lab stephengue...@fas.harvard.edu mobile: (505)577-5828 .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... --- -- . / .-

Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy

On that train, all graphite and glitter Undersea by rail 90 minutes from New York to Paris (More leisure for artists everywhere) Just a machine to make big decisions Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision We'll be clean when their work is done We'll be eternally free, yes, and eternally y

Re: [FRIAM] reading the log

Thank you for that! The protocol is the message Mashup moshpit Close to the metal metal RIP Curl death metal On Tue, Nov 5, 2024, 9:07 AM glen wrote: > Some much needed levity this morning, courtesy of > https://mastodon.social/@mpir...@mas.to > > curl -v https://google.com > https://youtu.

[FRIAM] UNM CS Colloquium Nov 6: Distinguished Lecturer, Scott Hudson CMU HCI

Should be a good talk this Wed. Scott's Hudson's HCI lab at CMU has produced inspiring works over the years. And it's the Cleve's named lecture series too! Begin forwarded message: *From: *Melanie Moses *Subject: **Colloquium Nov 6: Distinguished Lecturer, Scott Hudson* *Date: *November 4, 202

Re: [FRIAM] How to disconnect from Friam?

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Re: [FRIAM] Illusion

As a closed system (not isolated), I was curious why the plastic wrap wouln't return to flat after is convex expansion as it returned to initial room temperature. Is it related to the hysteresis in the asymetry of the boiling curve vs condensation?

Re: [FRIAM] 2024 Rusty Razor award

On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 2:54 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > I've never used archive.org > What, never used archive.org? How else would you track the time evolution of the entropy liberation front! ;-) https://web.archive.org/web/19961103221846/http://www.elf.org/ Or CMU's homepage in 1997? http

Re: [FRIAM] On Evolutionary Atavism

My so-called mind is still churning from our conversation about evolutionary atavism, the idea that current behavioral systems may be ill-suited to contemporary circumstances Hmm, I don't frame EO Wilson's aphorism in natural selection. Assuming *our* conversation is about evolutionary atavism se

Re: [FRIAM] nice quote

On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 3:06 PM Jon Zingale wrote: > Since we are picking on aphorisms, I wish to add criticism to "all models > are wrong, some are useful". > > To a great extent, the qualities of the thing being modelled matters. For > instance, natural numbers do have crisp, compact properties

Re: [FRIAM] nice quote

Moo On Tue, Oct 8, 2024, 5:51 PM glen wrote: > I agree. But it depends fundamentally on what one means by all those > words: "model", "wrong", "useful" - 3 unknowns, assuming "some" and "all" > are understood as quantifiers and "are" is understood as > membership/identity. The problem with the

Re: [FRIAM] nice quote

Consider these extensions to EO Wilson: "The real problem of humanity is the following: we have *Precambrian metabolism*, Paleolithic emotions, *Axial Age religions*, Medieval institutions,* Victorian Age scientific foundations*, and god-like technologies. And it is terrifically dangerous, as we n

Re: [FRIAM] nice quote

tǒng de jīlǐ): the underlying mechanisms of complex systems - 自组织临界的机理 (zìzǔzhī línjiè de jīlǐ): the mechanisms of self-organized criticality _ Stephen Guerin CEO, Founder https://simtable.com stephen.gue...@simtable.com

Re: [FRIAM] nice quote

On Fri, Oct 4, 2024 at 3:43 PM glen wrote: > But to suggest that it's "godlike" says more about the person than it does > about the state of technology. > Yes, and to suggest that it's not 'godlike' says more about the person's likeness of God than it does about the state of technology. -. --

[FRIAM] Simtable/Redfish folks will be at Wedtech lunch tomorrow. 1230p Casa Bonita (eom)

-. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-c

Re: [FRIAM] Carl Tollander

Hello Cathy, Thank you for reaching out! And Jon Witsell, too. Yes, the news of Carl's passing has hit our FRIAM community hard. We've had many in person conversations. And here are a few postings online about Carl's passing: https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/2024-September/thread

Re: [FRIAM] Passing of Carl Tollander

Ah man. I heard he was sick last month and was slow to arrange a visit. shit. On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 1:20 PM Tom Johnson wrote: > Some of you will remember Carl Tollander, who was a regular attendees on > Friday mornings until a few years ago. > Tom > > > === > Tom Johnson >

Re: [FRIAM] on government

> > > What does it mean to "govern"? > I define governance as enabling constraints on the social systems to achieve least effort coordination. Government has a role as do Corporations. Elinor Ostrom provides alternative bottom up rules for governance and is a guiding ethos of our "digital acequia

Re: [FRIAM] This makes me think of this list...

On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 7:39 AM glen wrote: > That's why I prefer "fusion". The ganglia (~2 in humans, ~9 in octopuses?) > execute functions broadly describable as fusion. But our gut ganglion most > likely fuses different perception signals from that of our brains. The > fusion in an octopus' ce

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] lunch at Casa Bonita today at 1230p.

Efroymson wrote: > What about today? Is this back to a regular schedule? > > On Wed, Aug 7, 2024 at 11:23 Stephen Guerin > wrote: > >> We'll be at lunch today at Casa Bonita. >> >> -S >> ___ >> Wedtech mailing

Re: [FRIAM] When are telic attributions appropriate in physical descriptions?

sdom" is not far off. Mansplaining, in general beyond that of > automated mansplainers like GPT, is rife with pseudo-wisdom. > > On 8/8/24 08:42, Stephen Guerin wrote: > > Friam is a space to interact with them as I think they hold our > collective wisdom and sometimes

Re: [FRIAM] When are telic attributions appropriate in physical descriptions?

; > { > >"name": "Werner Heisenberg", > >"cosineDistance": "0.05" > > }, > > { > > "name": "David Hume", > >"cosineDistance": "0.05" > >

Re: [FRIAM] When are telic attributions appropriate in physical descriptions?

izing material conditions and class struggles as the drivers of historical change. *Stephen Guerin:* Explored the idea of autocatalytic processes in the universe's self-organization, indicating a teleological aspect to the evolution of complexity and structure. *Hans Jonas:* Argued tha

[FRIAM] lunch at Casa Bonita today at 1230p.

We'll be at lunch today at Casa Bonita. -S -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/f

Re: [FRIAM] differential diagnosis of psychopathic vs spiritual experiences

Glen writes: >We had identities like "head" (kid who does lots of drugs), "jock" (kids who spent lots of time in organized athletics), "brain" (kids who spent time doing chess, math, ...), etc. There was also a name for the [metal|wood|…] shop kids. But I've forgotten it. Ala the ElfSelector and C

[FRIAM] Immersive projection and gasometers

The meeting of projection and my historical interest in gasometers. Santa Fe used to have one near Ft Marcy Park. https://www.techradar.com/pro/at-almost-131-feet-high-the-worlds-tallest-projector-screen-is-so-big-that-it-needs-seven-ultra-bright-laser-projectors-to-make-it-work _

Re: [FRIAM] WEDTECH Lunch 1230p at Casa Bonita

Sitting outside on patio CEO Founder, Simtable.com stephen.gue...@simtable.com Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Lab stephengue...@fas.harvard.edu mobile: (505)577-5828 On Wed, Jul 31, 2024, 9:56 AM Stephen Guerin wrote: > If you

[FRIAM] WEDTECH Lunch 1230p at Casa Bonita

Lunch today 1230p at Casa Bonita (the old 2nd Street location) https://maps.app.goo.gl/QU9s7zJ3hXcKKB5a9 CEO Founder, Simtable.com stephen.gue...@simtable.com Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Lab stephengue...@fas.harvard.edu mobile: (50

[FRIAM] FRIAM-member Brendan Duncan's recent talk to the Metaverse Standards Group

roups/introduction-to-3d-asset-interoperability-working-group/ _ Stephen Guerin CEO, Founder https://simtable.com stephen.gue...@simtable.com stephengue...@fas.harvard.edu Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Lab &

[FRIAM] Eric speaking Monday July 29 215p MDT at Lowenberg's Telluride conference

Copied from Richard Lowenberg: Monday is day 4 of the 8 day, 12 LASER Zoom, Arts & Sciences: Telluride 2024 program, with 2 LASER Zoom sessions. The first: "Physics, Information and the Origin of Life", featuring 3 physicists: David Eric Smith, PhD (connecting from Japan), Edwin Valentijn, PhD (

Re: [FRIAM] Man Probes Consciousness: Consciousness Probes Back

On Sat, Jul 20, 2024, 11:12 AM Edward Angel wrote: > The original plan for the IAIA dome was to record stories. > Right, Ed. And the PFI grant you shepherded also explored HCI in the dome. And the the idea of the "digital kiva". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiva Steve Smith worked toward

Re: [FRIAM] Does Dusty Love Dave, and VV.

On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 10:54 AM Nicholas Thompson wrote: > Here is an example If you play a dog's bark back to him, does he respond > as if it's the bark of an intruder? > If not, that suggest some sort of self recognition mechanism, given that > the bark I give sounds a heluva lot different

Re: [FRIAM] Glengarry Glen Ross

Yes you were asking for recommendations for movies with Alec Baldwin given the Santa Fe trial for the shootnig. (Way back yesterday when the news of a shooting was different) Stellar cast and dramatic play adaptation: Al Pacino - Jack Lemmon - Alec Baldwin - Ed Harris - Alan Arkin - Kevin Spacey -

Re: [FRIAM] To what questions can't an LLM in principle respond to?

Russ, I would make a slight change to "in practice" instead of "in principle" So, in practice as currently implemented, an LLM can't respond to any question that requires more than a fixed finite number of steps. On Fri, Jul 12, 2024, 1:10 PM Russ Abbott wrote: > Yann Lecun points out that an

Re: [FRIAM] Is consciousness a mystery? (used to be "mystery...deeper".T

On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 6:01 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > Lol. That’s fine, except for the suspicious promotion Ecological Dual > Fields! > When Dan hears thunder and cuddles with me, I do whisper in his ear ;-) -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Com

Re: [FRIAM] Why the Mystery of Consciousness Is Deeper Than We Thought

Nick, George as dinner guest: https://youtu.be/BsF9tgtLk1U?si=uryJ05y7Ok77nJYi CEO Founder, Simtable.com stephen.gue...@simtable.com Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Lab stephengue...@fas.harvard.edu mobile: (505)577-5828 On Mon, Jul 8, 2

Re: [FRIAM] Why the Mystery of Consciousness Is Deeper Than We Thought

Frank, embodied where? in our shared world? if it uses sensors and actuators like Marcus's Waymo that perceives him and hopefully acts to avoid him? Consider the Simtable that uses structured light in a perception-action loop (ala the neo-Gibsonian

Re: [FRIAM] AI art

+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&source=g> > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2024, 8:44 AM Stephen Guerin >

Re: [FRIAM] AI art

I was corrected by my companion that I should have said volleyball ;-) On Tue, Jun 25, 2024, 8:41 AM Stephen Guerin wrote: > Frank, you are easily my first choice over a soccer ball. > > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2024, 8:30 AM Frank Wimberly wrote: > >> You have been de

Re: [FRIAM] AI art

+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&source=g> > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2024, 8:26 AM Stephen Guerin > wrote: > >>

Re: [FRIAM] AI art

2 months ago, Nick and I had a nice in-person visit talking weather and ocassionally using George to bridge our vocabularies and understandings. As I was leaving, I asked Nick if he were stranded on an island and could only have one conversational companion, would he pick me or George. It was one

Re: [FRIAM] "Weather line" on 14

m call, I asked “Do you mean that >>> volcanic dike?” but I always seemed to say it just as someone else started >>> up. >>> > >>> > I have two memories about it. >>> > >>> > • The president of SAR conjured up the image

Re: [FRIAM] "Weather line" on 14

ning very often. > > I, too, live for the weather. I don't live for Face Book, however. So if > you have any way to put in touch with Mr. Kadlubek, he and I could perhaps > have coffee when I get back to Santa Fe in the fall. > > Yours faithfully, > > Nick Thom

Re: [FRIAM] "Weather line" on 14

e.mp4 _ Stephen Guerin CEO, Founder https://simtable.com stephen.gue...@simtable.com stephengue...@fas.harvard.edu Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Lab <https://hwpi.harvard.edu/eps-visualization-research-laboratory/home> mobile: (505)577-5828 On Wed, Jun

[FRIAM] Haboob in southern NM / Mexico

NIck, Check out this Haboob moving across southern NM / northern Mexico satellite animation: https://guerin.acequia.io/incidents/HaboobAndSouthForkFire_20240619_2.mp4 Roger, did you experience it? This while Ruidoso experiences Post Fire Debris Flow flooding and loss of 2,400 structures -St

Re: [FRIAM] words

-S ps I biased the third one. On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 11:41 AM Stephen Guerin wrote: > In this LLM era, where many people, including some on this list, are >> enthralled by random bullshit > > > Color me enthralled > > *prompt: *All energy in the universe is expressed i

Re: [FRIAM] words

> > In this LLM era, where many people, including some on this list, are > enthralled by random bullshit Color me enthralled *prompt: *All energy in the universe is expressed in motion. All motion is expressed in waves. All waves are curved. So where do the straight lines come from to make the

[FRIAM] Borneo was: Re: Downtown Subscription?

ia whether, where, and how climate resilient development can be enhanced both in general and in their region in particular. _________ Stephen Guerin CEO, Founder https://simtable.com stephen.gue...@simtable.com stephengue...@fas.harvard

Re: [FRIAM] Downtown Subscription?

Thanks, Frank! I'll see you at DS CEO Founder, Simtable.com stephen.gue...@simtable.com Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Lab stephengue...@fas.harvard.edu mobile: (505)577-5828 On Fri, May 24, 2024, 9:15 AM Frank Wimberly wrote: > I am i

[FRIAM] Nick: Los Alamos Skywarn Meeting thurs at 2p

Nick, I bet you could make a friend at this meeting. I can drive. https://www.losalamosnm.us/News-articles/County-invites-community-to-become-Skywarn-Storm-Spotters We might be able to stop by Steve Smith's place for cookies and scotch on the way back down :-) Here's the last rolling 12 hours f

Re: [FRIAM] WeatherNerdAlert -- Monsoonish?

0.mp4 _ Stephen Guerin CEO, Founder https://simtable.com stephen.gue...@simtable.com stephengue...@fas.harvard.edu Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Lab <https://hwpi.harvard.edu/eps-visualization-research-laboratory/home> mobile: (505)577-5828 On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 4:03 PM Nichol

Re: [FRIAM] WeatherNerdAlert -- Monsoonish?

Nick, here's a video timelapse of your weather event. Camera on Gonzales Road looking SW to the Sandias https://playground.realtime.earth/videos/TreeHouse_2024_05_16_12-2024_05_16_19.mp4 _ Stephen Guerin CEO, Founder

[FRIAM] Potential vorticity and financial markets Fwd: CDS Friday seminar (CSI 899, CSS 898) for 26 April, 3 PM

Nick, If you have time, beam into Blake Lebaron's talk today and let the "depth of the order book relating volatility and liquidity" wash over you like some one was describing potential vorticity or other dynamic of the weather. The order book with zero intelligence traders has been a central re

Re: [FRIAM] Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)

Michael Levin's farewell to Dan Dennett https://thoughtforms.life/farewell-dan-dennett-i-will-really-miss-you/ On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 2:46 PM Stephen Guerin wrote: > Such a loss :-( >> >> https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/04/19/daniel-dennett-philosoph

Re: [FRIAM] Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)

hy, 1950, p. 33, 97 Colloquially, this is often paraphrased as "Science progresses one funeral at a time" _________ Stephen Guerin CEO, Founder https://simtable.com stephen.gue...@simtable.com stephengue...@fas.harvard.edu Harv

[FRIAM] Fwd: [netlogo-users] NetLogo Foundation and search for Executive Director

Congratulations, Uri, and to your Netlogo team! Forwarding to FRIAM list your search for the Foundation's First Executive Director -- Forwarded message - From: Uri Wilensky Date: Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 8:52 PM Subject: [netlogo-users] NetLogo foundation To: Dear NetLogo users g

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] The DeFrocked English Major Strikes Again

Hi David, I'll manually remove your email. For others, the unsubscribe link is in the signature of the messages. It is: http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com CEO Founder, Simtable.com stephen.gue...@simtable.com Harvard Visualizatio

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