[FRIAM] 3D Printed Dog Nose is Helping to Enhance Electronic Scent-Detection Devices | 3DPrint.com

2016-12-04 Thread Tom Johnson
Just when you think you have heard it all... https://3dprint.com/157560/3d-printed-dog-nose/ === Tom Johnson - Inst. for Analytic Journalism Santa Fe, NM t...@jtjohnson.com 505-473-9646 === ==

[FRIAM] Divided America

2016-12-04 Thread Jochen Fromm
In Europe people are shocked about the results of the American presidential election. What is your opinion in NM, will the new president Trump make America great again or will he lead America into some form of cronyism, nepotism, fascism or even totalitarianism? American itself seems to be deepl

Re: [FRIAM] Divided America

2016-12-04 Thread Frank Wimberly
Friam was overwhelmingly pro Clinton and Santa Fe strongly pro Clinton. She won in New Mexico. I am sure I will be corrected if necessary. Frank Frank Wimberly Phone (505) 670-9918 On Dec 4, 2016 5:28 AM, "Jochen Fromm" wrote: > In Europe people are shocked about the results of the American >

Re: [FRIAM] Divided America

2016-12-04 Thread Marcus Daniels
"What is your opinion in NM, will the new president Trump make America great again or will he lead America into some form of cronyism, nepotism, fascism or even totalitarianism?" Short of states flipping from recounts, electoral college defectors, or impeachment, the best case is that he makes

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2016-12-04 Thread George Duncan
My golly, technology now putting sniffing dogs out of work. George Duncan Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University georgeduncanart.com Land: (505) 983-6895 Mobile: (505) 469-4671 My art theme: Dynamic exposition of the tension between matrix order and luminous chaos. "Attempt

Re: [FRIAM] Stop Calling People "Low Information Voters" | Quillette

2016-12-04 Thread Marcus Daniels
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/opinion/sunday/why-blue-states-are-the-real-tea-party.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-0&action=click&contentCollection=Opinion®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=Blogs [https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/12/04/opinion/su

Re: [FRIAM] Divided America

2016-12-04 Thread Nick Thompson
Dear Jochen, Thanks for writing. Frank is correct, I think, about the general tenor of FRIAM. I don’t know about the diaspora, but at the meeting of the “Mother Church” I thought we had at least one trumper, but it turned out his allegiance was only per argumentum. I am pretty frigh

Re: [FRIAM] Divided America

2016-12-04 Thread Owen Densmore
>From the Santa Fe newspaper, support for Frank: New Mexico goes its own way http://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/local_columns/roundhouse-roundup-new-mexico-goes-its-own-way/article_9cdebaed-520c-525a-9cb6-de6f41742291.html On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 7:44 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > Friam wa

Re: [FRIAM] Stop Calling People "Low Information Voters" | Quillette

2016-12-04 Thread Roger Critchlow
https://medium.com/@Richard_Florida/the-most-disruptive-transformation-in-history-80a50ef89b4d#.7grm8x0r1 On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/opinion/sunday/why-blue- > states-are-the-real-tea-party.html?&moduleDetail=section- > news-0&action

[FRIAM] Autocracy: Rules for Survival | by Masha Gessen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

2016-12-04 Thread Nick Thompson
Any, This article begins a badly needed conversation about what resistance must look like. http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/10/trump-election-autocracy-rules-for-s urvival/ Nick FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv M

Re: [FRIAM] Stop Calling People "Low Information Voters" | Quillette

2016-12-04 Thread Marcus Daniels
"We need a strategy and a system where these two Americas can live peaceably beside one another, and where each can undertake the investments and shape the safety nets and other policy measures they need." I don't have a problem with subsidizing rural America, but the reason to do it shouldn't

Re: [FRIAM] Autocracy: Rules for Survival | by Masha Gessen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

2016-12-04 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Nick, thanks so much for sending this. I just sent it to one of our donors and to my Canadian grad students and to our social network. It's wonderfully written, although hardly "beginning a badly needed conversation." I think because of Complexity science I actually did imagine the future that ha

Re: [FRIAM] Autocracy: Rules for Survival | by Masha Gessen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

2016-12-04 Thread Jochen Fromm
Yes, looks interesting (somehow my mail client does not show all FRIAM mails, for instance I don't see Nicks mails, I have only received Merles response?).  From a complexity science viewpoint the development in the US is interesting, whether it will be a step back into an oligarchy or autocracy,

Re: [FRIAM] Divided America

2016-12-04 Thread Prof David West
Nick, The mother church does have one "trumper" — in the sense that I believe he is a potential antidote for a whole series of toxic trends in the body politic and a rude (but decidedly earned) "f... you" directed towards a specific cultural elite, epitomized by Mrs. Clinton, her Democratic Part

Re: [FRIAM] Divided America

2016-12-04 Thread Gary Schiltz
Dave, I find it at least mildly encouraging to hear people who are obviously quite intelligent, but have not jumped to the conclusion that the USA is going to crap because of the president that it elected. On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 7:00 PM, Prof David West wrote: > Nick, > > The mother church does

Re: [FRIAM] Divided America

2016-12-04 Thread Marcus Daniels
David writes: "Clearly there are many who are frightened at the prospect of a Trump administration. I sympathize, but would suggest that those fears arise from a woefully incomplete understanding of the forces — the people who comprise the core and majority of his support and their values — th

Re: [FRIAM] Divided America

2016-12-04 Thread Steven A Smith
Frank - I like Jochen's contrast (literal/serious vs serious/literal) and was mildly shocked he would ask the question so boldly here. I don't mind, but have felt that everyone was avoiding any discussion outside of my lame attempts to get a discussion about the election framed within the m

Re: [FRIAM] Autocracy: Rules for Survival | by Masha Gessen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

2016-12-04 Thread Carl Tollander
Got this from an link from the Hoffman article in the Atlantic on "reality". Regardless of the niftiness of the paper, I think it's interesting that somebody is using games to model how truth has come to fare so badly in our politics. Talks up some varieties of realism, so, hi, Nick. http://cogs

Re: [FRIAM] Divided America

2016-12-04 Thread Frank Wimberly
Thanks, Steve. I should have been explicit that I was thinking of the dozen or more people who sit around the table on Friday mornings when I said Friam was overwhelmingly pro Clinton. I sometimes forget about the couple hundred(?) who read the list but may not even live in Santa Fe. I apologize

Re: [FRIAM] Divided America

2016-12-04 Thread Nick Thompson
Well, I espouse it. I might be the only one, but I am in. I admit to believing that bad things happen in chaos. I admit that the historical record is kind of mixed on that point. “Switzerland … peace…. The cuckoo clock, etc.” But I am willing to talk to anybody who disagrees with me s

Re: [FRIAM] Autocracy: Rules for Survival | by Masha Gessen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

2016-12-04 Thread Nick Thompson
Carl – I would have thought that these results had been shown years ago, particularly with respect to self perception. There is probably very little harm in quite a lot of over self-confidence. Interestingly, there’s an old result from years ago that married couples who are balmy abou

Re: [FRIAM] Autocracy: Rules for Survival | by Masha Gessen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

2016-12-04 Thread Carl Tollander
Well, it *is* a 2010 paper. Still relevant to the current contretemps I think. The more recent article (which I found to be fun but a bit less coherent (see, how that works!) is at: https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160421-the-evolutionary-argument-against-reality/ Atlantic picked it up later. C

Re: [FRIAM] Divided America

2016-12-04 Thread Carl Tollander
I'm more on the "given that 'common understandings' itself can be fraught, given a that 'deep linguistic structure' may be problematic (ie not so fruitful as we may hope), let's figure out what can you do now" sort of frame of mind. For example, Sabine might talk about issues with "emergent gravit

Re: [FRIAM] Divided America

2016-12-04 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
Nice to hear from Jochen seems like a long absence. The political weather seems to have become more turbulent. The directional Vectors from Italy and Austria only add to the mess. Fear of the future appears to manifest itself in many oddities. Canadians are only joking when they suggest