Re: [FRIAM] Another Abel prize interview

Reuben said he was working on a biography of Peter Lax (his advisor). Does anyone know if he ever finished it? An aside. The first national math meeting I attended was in 1966. It was in San Francisco and I was at Stanford. It was where I finally was able to put faces to names. Peter Lax was o

Re: [FRIAM] Another Abel prize interview

I know that Lax reviewed a late draft which suggests it was essentially complete. Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 8:30 AM Barry MacKichan wrote: > Reuben said he was working on a biography of Peter Lax (his ad

Re: [FRIAM] Another Abel prize interview

Peter Lax, Mathematician: An Illustrated Memoir by Reuben Hersh (Author) https://smile.amazon.com/Peter-Lax-Mathematician-Illustrated-Memoir/dp/1470417081/

Re: [FRIAM] Rotary Cell Phone (Description and Build)

That same violin player invented his own instrument called *The Horrible Snoddlewinsch* . After sawing in half an oil drum, he welded the front of a bathtub to it and some miscellaneous rebar. He then stretched strings o

Re: [FRIAM] Another Abel prize interview

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Re: [FRIAM] Another Abel prize interview

I first met Peter Lax when I was a grad student, He and my PhD advisor were good friends and he was visiting our group at USC. It turned out that Peter and I went to the same high school in NY, something he never forgot. I think it was when I was visiting my parents a little later that Peter inv

Re: [FRIAM] Another Abel prize interview

I was volunteering in the public schools tutoring math. Went to a meeting of tutors, met Reuben, and began a long friendship. When I mentioned Reuben at work, one of my colleagues said that he took a math course from Reuben, and what he remembered most was Reuben's enthusiasm. On Thu, Jan 21, 20

[FRIAM] exploiting the uncanny valley...

I wonder how much lead time went into making this series of fakes wandering the uncanny valley between shallow and deep fake? Na Na Na Na, Goodbye - Kimmel This class of "magic" will be for the current children growing up what the elders here

Re: [FRIAM] exploiting the uncanny valley...

I can't help but wonder if this is related to sentiments like Justine's rejection of "natural" interfaces and conceptions of [ab|mis]use? My first bad reaction to machine/software was when I tried to play one of the Dark Souls games for the first time.

Re: [FRIAM] exploiting the uncanny valley...

>From a naive glance, there appears a misleading duality, that of approaching the valley from one side or the other. For instance, the use of puppets to bring the non-human closer to the human: Jim Henson's work, the dancing figures in Kimmel's piece, the neural net fake exemplified by "Nixon's mo

[FRIAM] books, again

So, I'm down an arbitrary rabbit hole again. This one spun off by my LOUMFW and other attempts to characterize belief in terms of motor control. And it leads me to this paper: ht

Re: [FRIAM] exploiting the uncanny valley...

Not about UV, but more along the lines of Kimmel's video: https://counter.social/system/media_attachments/files/000/726/335/original/b164ce96f368c5f8.mp4?1611268526 On 1/21/21 10:13 AM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote: > I can't help but wonder if this is related to sentiments like Justine's > rejection of "natu

Re: [FRIAM] exploiting the uncanny valley...

My peeve of late is with people that talk about latent low dimensional representations as if it were a given that they exist and are generally valid to use. Of course, these animations hold most variables constant about their subjects and change some coarse or local geometry. They are not gen

Re: [FRIAM] exploiting the uncanny valley...

I think the low dim representations do exist, but are social constructions [⛧]. Dark Souls is interesting because it gave rise to the "souls-like" genre. I think part of the reason the DS games were labeled notoriously hard is because the representation did not exist as an intersubjective thing.

Re: [FRIAM] exploiting the uncanny valley...

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