Re: [FRIAM] Reading

2024-11-12 Thread Prof David West
I am pretty much addicted to physical. But would definitely do kindle if I was with you. Europe was just as friendly and i could actually get psylocibin and mescaline instead of mushrooms and cacti. It annoys me no end that I can get fentanyl/heroin or opioids on any street corner but impossible

Re: [FRIAM] Reading

2024-11-12 Thread Gary Schiltz
Catching up on old threads here. Hey David, these days do you mainly read physical books, or do you e-read? Living in a Spanish-speaking country, options for physical books in English here are severely limited. Despite dislike for feeding the behemoth Bezos, Karen and I are grateful to be able to b

Re: [FRIAM] Reading

2024-11-07 Thread Marcus Daniels
not helping me to think or learn. At those times, the best thing to do is to start fresh. -Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf Of Prof David West Sent: Thursday, November 7, 2024 11:43 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Reading agreed. On Thu, Nov 7, 2024, at 1:20

Re: [FRIAM] Reading

2024-11-07 Thread Prof David West
witching is better than the sequential beatdown. >>> >>> On 11/7/24 09:00, Marcus Daniels wrote: >>>> Gemini, Copilot, and Chatgpt all give responses like this: >>>> >>>> < It’s hard to pinpoint an exact number, but the data likely encompasse

Re: [FRIAM] Reading

2024-11-07 Thread glen
cademic articles and historical documents. The aim was to capture a broad and varied perspective, rather than comprehensive coverage of any single source type or genre. > *From: *Friam on behalf of Prof David West *Date: *Thursday, November 7, 2024 at 7:55 AM *To: *friam@redfish.com *Subject:

Re: [FRIAM] Reading

2024-11-07 Thread Prof David West
anuals to academic articles and historical >> documents. The aim was to capture a broad and varied perspective, rather >> than comprehensive coverage of any single source type or genre. > >> >> *From: *Friam on behalf of Prof David West >> >> *Date: *Thur

Re: [FRIAM] Reading

2024-11-07 Thread Marcus Daniels
LLM or stable diffusion training will do the same thing, taken to the extreme. From: Friam on behalf of glen Date: Thursday, November 7, 2024 at 9:22 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Reading I actually land almost exactly opposite to Dave. Descent into authoritarianism is

Re: [FRIAM] Reading

2024-11-07 Thread glen
academic articles and historical documents. The aim was to capture a broad and varied perspective, rather than comprehensive coverage of any single source type or genre. > *From: *Friam on behalf of Prof David West *Date: *Thursday, November 7, 2024 at 7:55 AM *To: *friam@redfish.com *Subje

Re: [FRIAM] Reading

2024-11-07 Thread Marcus Daniels
M To: friam@redfish.com Subject: [FRIAM] Reading several people made comments about people not reading much and glen mentioned he has read maybe 2 books this year. This triggered me, a lifelong addicted bibliophile. I started reading (comic books with Donald Duck in Mathemagic Land and heroe

[FRIAM] Reading

2024-11-07 Thread Prof David West
several people made comments about people not reading much and glen mentioned he has read maybe 2 books this year. This triggered me, a lifelong addicted bibliophile. I started reading (comic books with* Donald Duck in Mathemagic Land* and heroes like Lex Luthor) a couple of hears before starti

Re: [FRIAM] reading the log

2024-11-05 Thread Marcus Daniels
If you put an AM radio near the processor, you'll hear that. -Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf Of glen Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2024 8:08 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: [FRIAM] reading the log Some much needed levity this morning, courtesy of https://mastodon.social/

Re: [FRIAM] reading the log

2024-11-05 Thread Stephen Guerin
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] reading the log

2024-11-05 Thread glen
Some much needed levity this morning, courtesy of https://mastodon.social/@mpir...@mas.to curl -v https://google.com https://youtu.be/atcqMWqB3hw?si=4LCXKWTQVDqTDz1k -- ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙ ꙮ .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... -

[FRIAM] reading through the text

2020-07-09 Thread ∄ uǝlƃ
Linguistics, Style and Writing in the 21st Century - with Steven Pinker https://youtu.be/OV5J6BfToSw?t=1054 From the presentation: "- Avoid clichés like the plague: We needed to think outside the box in our search for the holy grail, but found that it was neither a magic bullet nor a slam dunk,

[FRIAM] Reading the signals of environmental systems

2008-12-01 Thread Phil Henshaw
Reading the signals of environmental systems The Reasoner, www.thereasoner.org (cc FRIAM) I’ve been working with an effective method for reading the signals of change within and for developing complex systems, for many years. It seems to have produced a list of apparently high quality n

Re: [FRIAM] reading

2008-09-02 Thread PPARYSKI
Perhaps the same could be said about obsessive web surfing, Second Life, Macbook, and so on and on. But perhaps 21st century realities are so "a-palin'" that we need to escape? Paul ** It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. (http://in

Re: [FRIAM] reading

2008-09-02 Thread Carl Tollander
If he lived in different times and had said, "People in general do not willingly watch TV if they can have anything else to amuse them.", would we say this was (1) an observation about people being reluctant to watch TV, or (2) an observation about a collective rational response to the low qual

Re: [FRIAM] reading

2008-09-02 Thread Pamela McCorduck
I think the quote is mine (this week). It comes from that great 18th century London dictionary compiler and writer, Samuel Johnson. It amused me to think that people were complaining about the reluctance to read as early as that. P. Recent posts included a quote - something to effect

Re: [FRIAM] reading

2008-09-02 Thread Kenneth Lloyd
ECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of peggy miller Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 10:42 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] reading Recent posts included a quote - something to effect that we don't read if we have anything better to amuse ourselves with. I was reading A N

Re: [FRIAM] reading

2008-09-02 Thread peggy miller
Recent posts included a quote - something to effect that we don't read if we have anything better to amuse ourselves with. I was reading A New Kind of Science this morning. I rest my case. Peggy Miller FRIAM Applied Complexity Group list