[FRIAM] At the limits of thought

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[FRIAM] Fundraiser by Christina Z. : Ohoris Staff Relief Fund

To The Mother Church, As you know, I am addicted to coffee and particularly to coffee houses, and particularly to Ohori's-next-to-Kaune's, where I like to loll in the sunshine of a late afternoon like the flea-bitten old dog that I am. Over the years I have come to befriend and greatly admire th

Re: [FRIAM] Fundraiser by Christina Z. : Ohoris Staff Relief Fund

Nick - Thanks for the link.  Ohori's is not my goto, but I'm 100% with the spirit.  I have had no traction on trying to extend this kind of help TO my regular go-tos.   I am of a mind that at the very least, my weekly *tip* budget could go straight into the same pockets it used to with no harm to

Re: [FRIAM] Fundraiser by Christina Z. : Ohoris Staff Relief Fund

Ed, Thanks for your kind note. If you'll dump a little change into "mine", I will dump a little change into "yours". I just think it's way to help these folks feel that somebody has noticed what they are doing and is aware of what has happened to them. Thanks, Nick Nichol

[FRIAM] Earth School

https://ed.ted.com/earth-school > Welcome to Earth School! We’re embarking on a month of daily adventures – or > Quests – that will help you understand and celebrate our natural world, while > learning about how dependent we are on our planet. Now more than ever, we > need to protect, nurture a

Re: [FRIAM] Fundraiser by Christina Z. : Ohoris Staff Relief Fund

I tipped Ohori's staff, hoping that success there will maybe encourage lateral transmission to other restaurants. I also found Sweetwater on goFundMe and gave them a little "taste" even though I've only been there once. https://www.gofundme.com/f/50KSWnm Glen made the point with me at one point

Re: [FRIAM] Earth School

Glen - Good find...  I wonder what the Flat-Earthers and the Creationists version of this would look like?   I have forwarded it to my daughter who has an 8 year old and a 10 year old step (daughters)...   it feels like great "bite size" self-directed investigations of merit for that age-group! >

Re: [FRIAM] Fundraiser by Christina Z. : Ohoris Staff Relief Fund

Hi Steve, Thanks, Steve, I was listening to a podcast by the guy who runs Robin Hood, an organization dedicated to getting at the institutional roots of poverty. When asked where we should give money in this crisis, he said, give it where you feel passion, because that is where you are l

Re: [FRIAM] Fundraiser by Christina Z. : Ohoris Staff Relief Fund

Heh, it's funny how something you say can be perfectly inverted by the audience to mean the opposite of what you intended. The Telephone Game is always relevant. My point to Steve was about "effective altruism", the idea that the philanthropist has any idea whatsoever of the relative optimality

Re: [FRIAM] Fundraiser by Christina Z. : Ohoris Staff Relief Fund

Whenever I get drawn to contributing to a charity, usually based on sentimental TV ads, I send them an email and ask how to access their IRS Form 990, which has to be publicly available, usually via a web page. The last time I did this was for Shriners' Hospital for Children. If I read the form c

Re: [FRIAM] At the limits of thought

I suppose it's delusional synergy that I saw Krakauer's essay the same (sleepless) morning I saw this: Experience Grounds Language https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10151 And since all the news all the time is about the parasite, I can't help but think Krakauer's wrong in the main thread that unde

Re: [FRIAM] Fundraiser by Christina Z. : Ohoris Staff Relief Fund

Go to Charity Navigator or Charity Watch. There are others. They’ll give you access to the IRS forms and more importantly give you how much of thir funds are spent on programs. Ed __ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emer

Re: [FRIAM] Fundraiser by Christina Z. : Ohoris Staff Relief Fund

Nick, I have no problem with anyone wanting to support their local barista. Please remember also that the Food Bank really needs funds. I do have a problem with your view of the 60’s. Those young folks you remember were almost 100% white middle class kids, Almost no blacks, hispanics, native a

Re: [FRIAM] Fundraiser by Christina Z. : Ohoris Staff Relief Fund

Hi Glen, Yeh, in retrospect, the Wikipedia entry just doesn't seem to do jusrtice to the radicalism of Robin Hood's current leader, Wes Moore. So here's the podcast. It's Preet Brahara's Stay Tuned, and it's only the first part. https://www.omnycontent.com/d/playlist/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-

Re: [FRIAM] Fundraiser by Christina Z. : Ohoris Staff Relief Fund

ProPublica's thing seems good too: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/362193608 On 4/22/20 2:20 PM, Angel Edward wrote: > Go to Charity Navigator or Charity Watch. There are others. They’ll give you > access to the IRS forms and more importantly give you how much of thir fu

Re: [FRIAM] Fundraiser by Christina Z. : Ohoris Staff Relief Fund

Ed, Wait a minute: these young folks of the sixties were a hypothetical! I can make them as brown or as lower class or as native American as I like. Don’t Mess With My Mythos. Nick Nicholas Thompson Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology Clark University

Re: [FRIAM] Fundraiser by Christina Z. : Ohoris Staff Relief Fund

glen - I definitely didn't intend to *invert* your intention... I *did* understand (roughly) that it is arrogant to believe that *I* can engineer a better altruism than say Red Cross or Habitat for Humanity or the Social Welfare apparatus of my city/state/national/UN efforts. But I think your

Re: [FRIAM] Fundraiser by Christina Z. : Ohoris Staff Relief Fund

On 4/22/20 3:29 PM, Edward Angel wrote: > Nick, > > I have no problem with anyone wanting to support their local barista. > Please remember also that the Food Bank really needs funds. > > I do have a problem with your view of the 60’s. Those young folks you > remember were almost 100% white middle

Re: [FRIAM] Fundraiser by Christina Z. : Ohoris Staff Relief Fund

8^) Sorry. I didn't intend to accuse anyone of purposefully manipulation. That's why I mentioned the Telephone Game. It doesn't matter what we intend, the message will get perverted. ("The only problem with communication is the illusion that it exists." -- somebody somewhere I'm too lazy to look

[FRIAM] Local News not so good

All, Unless we are looking at some sort of statistical artifact, or geriatric bumbling on my part, the new numbers are not so good. Today's was the largest number of identified state cases EVER. The santa fe increase, is part of the largest 3 day total of new cases since April 6. New hospit

Re: [FRIAM] Local News not so good

I don't know. It still looks pretty good to me. (See attached.) And the site Steve sent shows NM headed back in the right direction after a bit of a bump: https://rt.live/ I've been watching Atlanta (DeKalb county) and Georgia and will be interested to see the number of cases curve after this F

Re: [FRIAM] [501 (c)(3)

Have you heard of Charity Navigator?  If not, you might want to check it out.  They evaluate charities above a certain size with published records.  They give the Shriners' Hospital for Children in Tampa, FL  a very good rating. (Comparable to Doctors Without Borders, which I like very much.)

Re: [FRIAM] Local News not so good

Well, the next few days will tell the story. I expect an easter bump. N Nicholas Thompson Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology Clark University thompnicks...@gmail.com https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ -Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf Of u?l? ? Sent: Wednesd

Re: [FRIAM] Local News not so good

A Nanopore sequencing machine would have been a great SF Complex purchase. FRIAM could screen members for in-person meetings. I guess that Santa Fe is in a terrible financial condition now, so they won't be buying one. On 4/22/20, 5:08 PM, "Friam on behalf of thompnicks...@gmail.com" wr

Re: [FRIAM] Local News not so good

If median ... median ... incubation is ~5 days, and we had perfect case data (Ha!), then we'd see the bump near the 18th/19th. The rt.live data shows NM's R(t) > 1 on the 14th, two days after Easter, then seemingly peaking ~16th, with a fat tail. The smoother could easily be affecting that. A go

Re: [FRIAM] Local News not so good

Well, how long does it take a case to incubate, "come in", and be tested. I was thinking that was around ten days. I will check with the DHS data when it comes out on Thursday. Remember most cases start (and often remain) pretty cold-like. Still, there are more tests around, now, so the lag

Re: [FRIAM] Local News not so good

Also, you can see that many states in the rt.live data show a bump around the 16th, some later toward the 19th. I grok the point about feeling symptoms then coming in, then wait for the test results. But we also have to factor in that many people who are infected won't come in and get tested at

Re: [FRIAM] Local News not so good

With all that we don't know about this disease that is probably unknowable for months, there are a gazillion useful things that we could know which would be great to know: Like, what is the relation between rapidity of onset and outcome? Nick Nicholas Thompson Emeritus Professor of Ethology

Re: [FRIAM] Fundraiser by Christina Z. : Ohoris Staff Relief Fund

ED, You wrote: The $500 fund I started at my local market to allow checkers/management to let anyone unable to pay their full grocery bill was my alternative to the occasional "bailout" That was a fabulous idea and I am glad you did it. Nick Nicholas Thompson Emeritus Profess