Re: [FRIAM] Today's Sermon:: a minor awokening

2020-09-08 Thread Frank Wimberly
I doubt this will shed any light on the etymological question but this is a Country classic that is, or was, heard from the Central Valley of California to the Hollers of West Virginia to the honky tonks of Texas: https://youtu.be/4N3iVHxP8FQ --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, N

Re: [FRIAM] Today's Sermon:: a minor awokening

2020-09-08 Thread uǝlƃ ↙↙↙
I like his video essays, but finally unsubbed his youtube channel because all he does is talk to the camera [⛧]. Here is more info on him (at least I think it's him): https://justinking.org/about/ http://www.digitaljournal.com/internet/profile-of-a-digital-journalist-activism-fuels-justin-king/a

[FRIAM] speaking of good video essays

2020-09-08 Thread uǝlƃ ↙↙↙
I'd missed this one, which is fairly important right NOW in the context of systemic police brutality, BLM, Michael Reinoehl, Aaron Danielson, and self-policing: Was Every German Soldier Bad? - A Response https://youtu.be/Fu-MDEXwV4s Actually LOL: "Keeping in mind what we have talked about thus

Re: [FRIAM] Today's Sermon:: a minor awokening

2020-09-08 Thread Frank Wimberly
And here's the intertextual reference in "Redneck, White Socks, and Blue Ribbon Beer". I see it as a romanticization of alcoholism. https://youtu.be/kKuTeDUPljQ --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Tue, Sep 8, 2020, 7:53 AM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote

Re: [FRIAM] Today's Sermon:: a minor awokening

2020-09-08 Thread Steve Smith
I'll see your PBR and raise you a Little Brown Jug. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07T7rREzYMc My parents who were (near) teatotallers for most of their lives would get Rocky Mountain High (just woodsmoke and cold mountain air, none of John Denver's roll yer own version) and sing this and ot

Re: [FRIAM] The Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra

2020-09-08 Thread Barry MacKichan
This is not particularly surprising. The two were friends in Washington during World War II, both as British agents. See https://www.amazon.com/Irregulars-Roald-British-Wartime-Washington/dp/0743294580. It is a pretty good book as I recall. —Barry On 7 Sep 2020, at 17:48, Steve Smith wrote:

Re: [FRIAM] Today's Sermon:: a minor awokening

2020-09-08 Thread jon zingale
"Dear America, stay wasted. Throw your credit cards in the air. Did you really think, we were waiting for the walls to come tumbling down?" - company: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4g2o4kYxnE&ab_channel=Company-Topic "I'm trying to drink away the part of the day that I cannot sleep away" - mode

Re: [FRIAM] Today's Sermon:: a minor awokening

2020-09-08 Thread jon zingale
"Alcohol is stealing my soul, it's drowning my heart, swallowing me whole..." - The Specs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LTe0iKKvTs&ab_channel=CharlestonSubterrain -- Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ - . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexit

[FRIAM] maximally-stateful versus purely-functional: some thoughts on diffusion-limited aggregration

2020-09-08 Thread Jon Zingale
RogerF, What I am calling *maximally-stateful* is a limiting notion opposed to that of *purely functional*. Effectively, a *maximally stateful* process is one whose side-effects dominate the computation, with little else analytically calculable. At present, I am thinking of things like clouds, cel