Re: [FRIAM] Privacy, Individual vs. Collective

2010-12-11 Thread Pamela McCorduck
Yes, it is. Oh, HONEY!! On Dec 10, 2010, at 8:14 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: I got backscattered at Albq last Wednesday, is my picture on the internets yet? --Doug "If you're away from Broadway, you're only camping out." Thomas E. Dewey ==

Re: [FRIAM] Privacy, Individual vs. Collective

2010-12-11 Thread Nicholas Thompson
"Honey"!? Isn't that Bing Crosby talk? N From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Pamela McCorduck Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 8:19 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Privacy, Individual vs. Coll

Re: [FRIAM] Privacy, Individual vs. Collective

2010-12-11 Thread Douglas Roberts
I don't care *who* invented it: it works for me. --Doug On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Nicholas Thompson < nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > “Honey”!? > > > > Isn’t that Bing Crosby talk? > > > > N > > > > > > *From:* friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On > Behal

Re: [FRIAM] Privacy, Individual vs. Collective

2010-12-11 Thread Steve Smith
At least they got my good side. On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Steve Smith wrote: I got backscattered at Albq last Wednesday, is my picture on the internets yet?

Re: [FRIAM] Privacy, Individual vs. Collective

2010-12-11 Thread Douglas Roberts
In recognition of people's dislike of same-sex gropings, TSA is now offering co-ed gropings as an additional, for-pay option. I bet you didn't know that. On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Steve Smith wrote: > At least they got my good side. > > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Steve Smith wrot

Re: [FRIAM] Privacy, Individual vs. Collective

2010-12-11 Thread James Steiner
LINKS/PICS or it didn't happen... :) On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > In recognition of people's dislike of same-sex gropings, TSA is now > offering co-ed gropings as an additional, for-pay option. I bet you didn't > know that. > >

[FRIAM] Dissertation Browser | Stanford

2010-12-11 Thread Tom Johnson
Visual display of the relationship of dissertation topics at Stanford. Note the narrowness of those coming out of "Communications." Doesn't seem to be much cross-pollination from other perspectives/disciplines. [No surprise, that.] But I wonder how

Re: [FRIAM] Support Wikileaks

2010-12-11 Thread Bill Eldridge
Hmmm Julian Assange is not the hero - Wikileaks is the hero, or at least our proxy press. However, organizations need leaders, and Assange is now the face - must stand up. If the Swedish sex charges weren't trumped up, someone would have trumped up something else. If Assange quits, the n

Re: [FRIAM] Privacy, Individual vs. Collective

2010-12-11 Thread Steve Smith
What happens inside TSA security *stays* inside of TSA security... just like Vegas... something like a free-trade zone... free trade in various forms of insecurity, however. LINKS/PICS or it didn't happen... :) On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Douglas Roberts mailto:d...@parrot-farm.net>> w

Re: [FRIAM] Dissertation Browser | Stanford

2010-12-11 Thread Steve Smith
This is one reason that Johan Bollen and his crue at LANL did this work: http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090309/full/458135a.html I am not positive but I think the distance metric being used in this work must be based on citations. It is fundamental to the process of publication, especiall

[FRIAM] The "decline effect"

2010-12-11 Thread Nicholas Thompson
All- Have others seen the article in the New Yorker on the "decline effect", the alleged tendency for the effect sizes of well documented phenomena to decline with successive years of replication. I kept turning back to the front of the article to reassure myself that it was not one of the "