Re: [FRIAM] Can current AI beat humans at doing science?

I think one of the shortcomings of machine learning is that it can learn but has no insight. A recent lesson about this comes from David Heinemeier Hansson, who reported that Apple Card gave him a credit limit 20x that of his wife. They live in a community property state, file a joint tax retu

Re: [FRIAM] philosophers

Nick, have you given names to your thumbs? On 16 Aug 2021, at 13:53, thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote: Two Ughs. I am inventing a new rating system: Ughs v Hugs. Ambrose Bierce gets Two Ughs. n Nick Thompson thompnicks...@gmail.com

Re: [FRIAM] Kill it!

If there are really ‘fashion police’ they will squash it. Really, red with black stripes and dots! —Barry On 24 Aug 2021, at 10:44, uǝlƃ ☤>$ wrote: ‘Kill it!’ US officials advise no mercy for lanternfly summer invasion Am I so wrong to root for the bad guy? ... such a good lookin' bug. --

Re: [FRIAM] Can empirical discoveries be mathematical?

Well, your discovery was certainly empirical. The explanation is mathematical, having to do what you can do with an oriented surface. BTW, did you take a picture when you put it on upside down? I can visualize a couple of ways you could have done that, but if you weren’t doing hand stands the

Re: [FRIAM] Can empirical discoveries be mathematical?

That’s good — it means you didn’t put your legs through the sleeves. Sent from my iPad > On Sep 3, 2021, at 8:39 PM, thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote: > > No. I never managed upside down - . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9

Re: [FRIAM] Can empirical discoveries be mathematical?

Briefly, and in my opinion, mathematics can only make claims like ‘if A is true then B is true’. To say B is true, you must also say A is true. Eventually you have to go back to the beginning of the deductive chain, and the truth of the initial statement is inductive, not deductive or mathemati

Re: [FRIAM] gen'fur

When I was (much) younger, I tended strongly to the nurture side of the nature vs nurture divide. My wife and I raised four kids, two from her previous marriage, one that we are responsible for, and one biracial adopted son. So, four kids, three fathers, and two mothers. It did not take long t

Re: [FRIAM] the end of the pandemic

My email client keeps track of conversations, so if message A today is a reply to message B from a year ago, the top of my inbox shows message B with a disclosure triangle. Clicking it will show message B — the next part of the conversation. In Friam, almost every message gets responses, so the

Re: [FRIAM] the end of the pandemic

MailMate on the Mac. https://freron.com —Barry On 13 Sep 2021, at 10:31, Gary Schiltz wrote: What email client and platform are you using? On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 8:37 AM Barry MacKichan < barry.mackic...@mackichan.com> wrote: My email client keeps track of conversations, so if mes

Re: [FRIAM] in the interest of consistency

Masks are unneeded for those with their heads up their *sses. On 17 Sep 2021, at 1:53, Marcus Daniels wrote: In the interest of consistency: No vaccination then no hemorrhoid medication! https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/hospital-staff-must-swear-off-tylenol-tums-to-get-religious-vac

Re: [FRIAM] Great Circle

In the northern hemisphere a great circle route between two points with the same latitude will be north of the parallel, so if the latitudes are close, the great circle will arch above the straight line (for most map projections that keep “parallels” parallel). A gnomonic projection of the world

Re: [FRIAM] Great Circle

In November 1994 I was on a sailing trip down the Chilean islands. Local time was an hour *later* than NY time. I think part of that was that Chile was on daylight savings time. I once flew from Seattle to LA to get on a flight to Beijing. That flight took us back over Seattle, Anchorage, and t

Re: [FRIAM] do you answer those phone calls?

Our phone service here (in N. Carolina) includes caller id by voice — which is generated by a text-to-voice program that hilariously garbles the text. It seems like state of the art circa 1990. Back when there were humans on the line (usually trying to pump stocks), I’d say hello and then care

[FRIAM] Fwd: A cartoon from The New Yorker

Some amusement for the morning.  —Barry .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscri

Re: [FRIAM] Geometrical Mechanics

I think it looks interesting as well as something I’ve always wanted to understand better. Count me in. Wow! It is a trip down memory lane. The summer of 1960 I was at an NSF summer institute on mathematics in Corvallis, OR. Raphael Zahler, the note-taker for these lectures, was there. So, lik

Re: [FRIAM] Geometrical Mechanics

Yeah, sounds like a good excuse. Go with that one. —Barry On 13 Oct 2021, at 18:12, Frank Wimberly wrote: > I suspect Marc Raibert handed it to me and said, "Read this" so I took it > without seeing the "do not remove" stamp. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505

Re: [FRIAM] Cartoon

Facebook? What’s Facebook? On 15 Oct 2021, at 10:19, Marcus Daniels wrote: > I will navigate paywalls. Facebook, that is a bridge too far! > > On Oct 15, 2021, at 7:14 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > >  > https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10209886140188090&id=1771160841 > > > --- > Frank

[FRIAM] The unvaccinated

Zeynep Tufekci had a column in the NY Times that agrees with Glen’s (oops! I mean s‚uǝlƃ) position in the discussion yesterday. It makes it more understandable why many have resisted vaccinations. (I hope it is not behind a paywall.) https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/opinion/covid-vaccines-un

[FRIAM] Opinion | The Unvaccinated May Not Be Who You Think - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/opinion/covid-vaccines-unvaccinated.html?searchResultPosition=1 .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.co

Re: [FRIAM] The unvaccinated

I tried again. This time I used the sharing icon on the NYT website. On 16 Oct 2021, at 14:52, Jon Zingale wrote: > Barry, > > It is behind a payway. Would you summarize? > > https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/opinion/covid-vaccines-unvaccinated.html > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--..

Re: [FRIAM] Heart Rate

The author Isabel Wilkerson wrote two books which I’ve read in the last year or two. The second one was “Caste, The Origins of our Discontents.” In it, she looks at castes in three countries: India, the US, and Germany. She notes the extent to which the Nazis, once they had control of the gover

Re: [FRIAM] Breakfast in Santa Fe

A year or so after we moved from Las Cruces to Seattle, when our son was 17m we heard that one of our son’s Las Cruces friends had died. He and a friend were sitting on a couch playing with a gun and what happened is what you probably expected. —Barry On 22 Oct 2021, at 18:52, thompnicks...@g

Re: [FRIAM] Thread Bust: WAS: stygmergy, CA's, and [biological] development

You might want to try https://www.wolfram.com/language/. This could work since the “programming” needed is minima (given that you have the interpretating program). See also https://www.wolfram.com/language/11/new-visualization-domains/plot-cellular-automata.html. There seem to be free versions

Re: [FRIAM] stygmergy, CA's, and [biological] development

> > On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 5:00 PM Frank Wimberly > wrote: > I want to clarify what a dual space is. The domain of dual.space can be mapped to any other domain :-) ___ stephen.gue...@simtable.com CEO, Simtable http://www.s

Re: [FRIAM] stygmergy, CA's, and [biological] development

(Sorry about the previous message that got sent before I wrote it) On 25 Oct 2021, at 11:36, Barry MacKichan wrote: > The domain of dual.space can be mapped to any other domain :-) Is this a theorem, or a koan? —Ba

Re: [FRIAM] stygmergy, CA's, and [biological] development

Aha! I think the exercise here was to come up with a categorical statement. —Barry On 25 Oct 2021, at 10:19, Marcus Daniels wrote: It is hard to find the motivation to invest much in category theory when the practical considerations are left as an exercise to the reader. .-- .- -. - / .- -.-

Re: [FRIAM] The Insurrection Index

This map, like many others, is pretty much a map showing the population of each state. Using color to give #insurrectionists/population would be better, but even this still improperly gives relative importance to the states with large areas. Dave named the two states that are formerly independ

Re: [FRIAM] keyboard and hard drive recommendations wanted.

Late to the conversation, but here’s my 2 cents: The best keyboard I’ve used is the Das keyboard for the Mac. Mine has cherry brown switches; the cherry blue are a bit noisier. The aural feedback helps my typing. It has all the Mac keys I need, and also the Windows keys, a necessity since I us

Re: [FRIAM] Thorstein Veblen?

Personal notes, off topic. Thorstein Veblen wrote Theory of the Leisure Class and, I believe, originated the phrase “conspicuous consumption”. For the mathematicians out there, Thorstein’s brother (I think. Considering the age of these recollections he might have been a cousin) was Oswald Veb

Re: [FRIAM] New Mexico Legacy

In one of life’s surprises, one of our daughters sent us something she found through Google (but not ancestor.com), a document about 75 pages long, author currently unknown, that tells stories of my wife’s ancestors back to the late 18th century and ends with her grandparents and their siblings

Re: [FRIAM] New Mexico Legacy

My wife worked for several years at the Rio Grande Archives, in the NMSU library. When asked, I said her job was to read other peoples’ mail. --Barry On 25 Apr 2019, at 19:16, Pamela McCorduck wrote: Your kids, and especially your grandchildren, will so appreciate this kind of memoir. Often,

Re: [FRIAM] Software development time estimates

 Attached is a sketch from my memory of the estimates of the completion of Microsoft Word for Windows made on various dates. The dashed line is where the estimated date of completion equals the year the estimate was mad

Re: [FRIAM] Visual Migraines

The first time I had one of these, I had just heard some horror stories about detached retinas. I made an emergency trip to our ophthalmologist, who reassured me and then said it was really a circulatory problem, and not a retinal problem. So I left we one worry replaced by another. I don’t pe

Re: [FRIAM] Meeting of the Mother Church

I’ve always assumed that the wifi network, polity, doesn’t have the bandwidth. No? --Barry On 2 Jun 2019, at 15:06, Steven A Smith wrote: I can't believe you guys don't just Skype (FaceTime, GoogleHangout, Video IRC, ... ) Nick in on Fridays?  You can set the color balance on your screen so

Re: [FRIAM] Ownership of expired patent

My understanding is the same as Steve’s, but I’d like to add that most of these items can be overridden by other agreements such as NDA, non-compete, etc. or the fine print in the work-for-hite agreement. Usually when I had these agreements with employees, there was a time limit in the contract

[FRIAM] Friday morning

I’m in Santa Fe this week and would like confirmation that Friam is meeting at St Johns tomorrow AM. Thanks. -Barry MacKichan FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubs

Re: [FRIAM] query and observation

FYI: My sister-in-law did not get this message. (Just trying to help ) --Barry On 12 Sep 2019, at 11:45, Nick Thompson wrote: > Ps.  Let me know if you don’t get this message.  (};-\\) > > Nicholas S. Thompson FRIAM Applied Complexity

Re: [FRIAM] My new book

Hmm. Attachments seem to be assassinated by the mail server. Here is a dropbox link. I put the screen grab on my Dropbox. https://www.dropbox.com/s/6449y51ojboaant/Book%20of%20Kells.jpeg?dl=0 --Barry On 21 Oct 2019, at 17:31, Barry MacKichan wrote: Here you go, Nick. The Book of Kells was

[FRIAM] John Steinbeck's Epic Ocean Voyage Rewrote the Rules of Ecology | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian

I haven’t followed this closely, but has anybody mentioned this recent piece from the Smithsonian magazine? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/ship-sent-john-steinbeck-epic-ocean-voyage-may-ride-again-180972847/ Sent from my pocket quantum computer. ==

Re: [FRIAM] MoNA

I’m still stuck on “root mean square”. L 2, Brute? --Barry On 28 Oct 2019, at 12:53, Frank Wimberly wrote: To me "RMS" denotes Richard M. Stallman but that's because I'm old I guess. --- Frank Wimberly My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly M

Re: [FRIAM] Setting up a new PC

The last time I had to do this, I tried the following, and it worked moderately well. For any software that costs me money, I put the software license/serial/unlock code in my password manager (1Password). It helps also to try to make a list of the open-source software I’m using. The new com

Re: [FRIAM] Setting up a new PC

From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Barry MacKichan Sent: Monday, November 11, 2019 10:48 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Setting up a new PC The last time I had to do this, I tried the following, and it worked moderatel

Re: [FRIAM] Chaos Scientist Finds Hidden Financial Risks That Regulators Miss Oxford Professor Doyne Farmer is working with central banks to improve stress testing.

Thanks for the link. This is totally off-topic, but in the chaos of Facebook and Twitter, I believe a small note of appreciation for technology is in order. In the linked article, there is a picture of Farmer lying on a couch in front of his bookshelf. The resolution of web graphics is now hi

Re: [FRIAM] So disjointed

Aha! Maybe the singularity is here, and Google AI spam identifier knows better than humans what communications are really important. --Barry On 18 Nov 2019, at 23:31, Roger Critchlow wrote: I wondered why the discussions on friam had been so incomplete lately. Gmail was storing most of them i

Re: [FRIAM] more praise for FRIAM

I was sorry to read this. I found Paul Ropp to be very interesting, with a viewpoint a bit different from the other Friammers. He will be missed. —Barry On 7 Jan 2020, at 1:22, thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote: Frammers, I just got a note from Marjorie Ropp, wife of the China scholar, Paul

Re: [FRIAM] Comcast blows! who else does legit internet in town.

One of the compensations for moving from Santa Fe, NM to here (near Durham, NC) is that gigabit internet is almost universal, at least in the newer neighborhoods. We had a choice of two fiber connections at the corner of our property. What I’ve discovered is that there are not many sites out t

Re: [FRIAM] friam Winter POTLUCK

There are also my friends from grad school, Alf N, and Continuum. —Barry On 13 Feb 2020, at 19:01, Gary Schiltz wrote: > Cardinal? The only cardinal I know has red feathers and a conical beak made > for cracking seeds. And by the way, it's Ecuador, not Peru. In any case, in > honor of Cardinal S

Re: [FRIAM] friam Winter POTLUCK

it right? Frank On Fri, Feb 14, 2020, 1:14 PM Barry MacKichan wrote: There are also my friends from grad school, Alf N, and Continuum. —Barry On 13 Feb 2020, at 19:01, Gary Schiltz wrote: Cardinal? The only cardinal I know has red feathers and a conical beak made for cracking seeds. And

Re: [FRIAM] Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now - Tomas Pueyo - Medium

Very good article. Our daughter, a microbiologist at Victoria University in Wellington, NZ, recommends following the twitter account of Marc Lipsitch, microbiologist/epdemiologist (https://twitter.com/mlipsitch) at Harvard, for reliable information. —Barry On 12 Mar 2020, at 15:09, thompnicks

[FRIAM] Papers on asymptomatic transmission and serology

In the distributed FRIAM meeting yesterday I mentioned these results, but I thought you might also want to see the commentary with them. This is an email from last week from one of my daughters (Joanna) who is a microbiologist at Victoria University in Wellington, NZ. —Barry Fir

[FRIAM] The covid death rate in the US

Yesterday Jim showed a plot of deaths in Italy that indicated the growth rate was, possibly, falling off some. I just redid my US plot updated with yesterday’s data, and it shows the US rate *accelerating*. The plotted points are definitely curving upward and the doubling time is now 3.0 days.

Re: [FRIAM] Papers on asymptomatic transmission and serology

The case count in New Zealand is at least 100. The early cases were from travelers who had been in Italy and Iran. Then the word went out that citizens needed to come back to NZ, and some cases were among this counter-diaspora. Then a group from a cruise ship went on a tour through Te Papa, a n

Re: [FRIAM] Papers on asymptomatic transmission and serology

/~angel On Mar 23, 2020, at 8:36 AM, Barry MacKichan < barry.mackic...@mackichan.com> wrote: The case count in New Zealand is at least 100. The early cases were from travelers who had been in Italy and Iran. Then the word went out that citizens needed to come back to NZ, and some cases were

Re: [FRIAM] Papers on asymptomatic transmission and serology

) an...@cs.unm.edu <mailto:an...@cs.unm.edu> 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel <http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel> On Mar 23, 2020, at 8:36 AM, Barry MacKichan wrote: The case count in New Zealand is at least 100. The early cases were from travelers who had b

Re: [FRIAM] Papers on asymptomatic transmission and serology

See on the Johns Hopkins site: https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2020-03/covid-19s-stop-gap-solution-until-vaccines-and-antivirals-are-ready On 23 Mar 2020, at 12:15, cody dooderson wrote: @Steve Smith . You mentioned that someone who has become resistant to a virus may be able to donate their

Re: [FRIAM] Choroquine-phosphate Death

Elon Musk had a serious brush with malaria about 20 years ago, and is evidently one of the insistent sources pushing for chloroquine. Sorry, I don’t have references. —Barry On 24 Mar 2020, at 0:42, Steven A Smith wrote: My first reaction to this was:  THANK YOU DEAR LEADER! https://www.buzz

[FRIAM] SAR-CoV-2 and potential drug re-purposing

Our NZ daughter sent us this link and calls the paper a *tour de force*. They have identified 332 high confidence coronavirus and human protein interactions, among which are 67 druggable human proteins or host factors targeted by 69 existing FDA-approved drugs, drugs in clinical trials or precl

Re: [FRIAM] Social Distance tool

Then there’s this https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a31490476/coronavirus-giant-cardboard-donut-guy-social-distancing/ —Barry On 24 Mar 2020, at 19:00, Tom Johnson wrote: Date: March 23, 2020 at 1:31 PM Subject: Social Distancer Welcome to the Social Distancer, my open-code solution.t

Re: [FRIAM] wifi repeaters?!

Another vote for Eero. Three units worked for me when in Santa Fe in a house with some interior adobe walls. Here in NC in a “stick house”, it is probably overkill but still nice. The only downside that I know of for Eero is that it needs internet access for its configuration, so it’s not very

[FRIAM] Good leading indicator and good news

See https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/health/coronavirus-restrictions-fevers.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share Internet-connected fever thermometers indicate that isolation is beginning to work. —Barry FRIAM Applied Complexity Group list

Re: [FRIAM] covid question

I saw in a major media post (I forget which one) a reference to “asymptotic” cases. My ‘guess’ is that these are asymptomatic, but getting closer and closer to symptomatic. —Barry On 1 Apr 2020, at 14:48, Steven A Smith wrote: I believe that "asymptomatic" is a blurry concept in this case.  

[FRIAM] A link giving the state of new drug trials for Covid-19

From our microbiologist daughter. https://www.biospace.com/article/biopharma-update-on-the-novel-coronavirus-april-1/?TrackID=15&fbclid=IwAR3kvnfUKpwOmPOt_q35HXJqvzst2I9le5uKajmEM6nizWjvBejh439zc0Q --Barry -- --- .-. . .-.. --- -.-. -.- ... / --- ..-. / ..-. .-. .. .- -- / ..- -. .. - . FRIAM

Re: [FRIAM] New information on COVID-19

Our microbiologist daughter in New Zealand told us to get a pulse oximeter. She told us on March 31. I ordered from Amazon on April 1. Amazon says it shipped on April 16. We haven’t gotten it yet. We have Amazon Prime, but the order is being fulfilled by another company. In this case, I think A

Re: [FRIAM] ... --- ...

Unicode group Runic Runic Letter Short-Twig-Ar A, Runic Letter Fehu Feoh Fe F, Runic Letter Tiwaz Tir Tyr T, … —Barry On 18 Feb 2022, at 14:30, Frank Wimberly wrote: ROK runestone? --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Fri, Feb 18, 202

Re: [FRIAM] ... --- ...

Wikipedia in order to distract us from our work? If so, then it worked. ;P "In memory of Vámóðr stand these runes" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B6k_runestone#Unicode ċ̖̗̇̂̂̂̃ ŏ̤̮̈ d̤̥̣̈̊̇ ẙ̊̊ On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 2:06 PM Barry MacKichan <

Re: [FRIAM] tapeworms

I’m guessing that the strategy doesn’t work when your colony is virtual, so, no, I won’t be going out to lick bird poop. —Barry On 20 Feb 2022, at 23:10, Roger Critchlow wrote: Where's my ivermectin? On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 1:48 PM Steve Smith wrote: well found/shared... On 2/20/22 8:12 A

Re: [FRIAM] sanctions schmanctions

Well, Don Jr. said about a decade ago that they no longer needed banks because all the capital they needed came “out of Russsia”. —Barry On 24 Feb 2022, at 12:06, glen wrote: I can't help but wonder what "investments" we have over here. .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -.

Re: [FRIAM] Enamine

WHO’s on first? My last year at Harvard, after all the mathmematics students had been matched to graduate schools, some of us were talking at lunch. One of them was going to UCLA. I asked, “Who’s at UCLA?” “Yes”, he answered. *Sze-tsen Hu wrote a book on Homotopy Theory On 9 Mar 2022, at 14:

Re: [FRIAM] Roswell, Aliens, FBI and SFI

Preston and a friend rode horses from the Mexican border at Rio Pedro to Albuquerque and on to Santa Fe eventually. This is approximately the route that Coronado took in 1540. Some parts of it were in scary-rough mountains. He wrote a book about it: “Cities of Gold: A Journey Across the American

Re: [FRIAM] Roswell, Aliens, FBI and SFI

decided they were on the wrong trail? The horses couldn't turn around so they had to back down. That stimulated my fear or heights. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Apr 25, 2022, 9:44 AM Barry MacKichan wrote: Preston

Re: [FRIAM] (no subject)

Especially if it were retroactive… --Barry On 8 May 2022, at 21:29, Frank Wimberly wrote: Wasn't it Alito? That would doom Social Security. Also people would be outraged. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, May 8, 2022, 7:14 PM

Re: [FRIAM] (no subject)

Wasn’t that the guy who touted curing bubonic plague wtih bleach and bright lights? --Barry On 9 May 2022, at 10:38, glen wrote: Draft Overturning Roe v. Wade Quotes Infamous Witch Trial Judge With Long-Discredited Ideas on Rape https://www.propublica.org/article/abortion-roe-wade-alito-scot

Re: [FRIAM] Thursday Friam

That’s fine in general. I may have to leave early this week. --Barry On 8 May 2022, at 13:44, Frank Wimberly wrote: How would it work to change the time of the Thursday meeting to 10:30am MDT? A number of regulars don't arrive until that time anyway and a conflict has emerged for me at 9:00.

Re: [FRIAM] quotes and questions

Concerning Musk and Twitter, note according to Andy Borowitz (where I turn for news that doesn’t give me a headache), “**Twitter in Chaos After the Elon Musk Who Offered to Buy It Turns Out to Be a Bot** The bid for Twitter is believed to be the largest corporate takeover ever proposed by a

[FRIAM] Programming-related XQCD cartoons

The following amusing list comes from a TeX-related mailing list: https://xkcd.com/292/ https://xkcd.com/844/ https://xkcd.com/1579/ https://xkcd.com/1695/ https://xkcd.com/2054/ https://xkcd.com/2138/ https://xkcd.com/2347/-. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM A

Re: [FRIAM] Programming-related XQCD cartoons

26 May 2022, at 11:44, Barry MacKichan wrote: The following amusing list comes from a TeX-related mailing list: https://xkcd.com/292/ https://xkcd.com/844/ https://xkcd.com/1579/ https://xkcd.com/1695/ https://xkcd.com/2054/ https://xkcd.com/2138/ https://xkcd.com/2347

Re: [FRIAM] it's boring

This prompts me to propose, with tongue slightly in cheek, the *Weak Turing Test*, which consists of a remote observer trying to distinguish between a computer and Donald Trump. It doesn’t require any deep analysis on the part of the computer, just a database of grievances. —Barry On 20 Jun 2

Re: [FRIAM] Birx presentation

My first thought, which passed quickly, is the Glen dictated the message. Which got me asking if he used voice recognition to write “ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙ ꙮ”. I know you can do it in Dragon, but I’m not so sure Siri is bright enough for the task. —Barry On 23 Jun 2022, a

Re: [FRIAM] Birx presentation

Dragon has a dialog for new vocabulary. I pasted “ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙ ꙮ” into it and entered “grass elephant” for the spoken trigger, and then spoke “this is a test new line grass elephant” and got this: This is a test ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙

Re: [FRIAM] Zoom Friam on June 30

Well, it’s Friday in New Zealand. —Barry On 30 Jun 2022, at 11:56, George Duncan wrote: You mean THUAM? George Duncan Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University georgeduncanart.com See posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram Land: (505) 983-6895 Mobile: (505) 469-4671 My a

Re: [FRIAM] Covid

There is a lot of talk and some evidence that negative tests are not reliable (presumably this means not as reliable as they used to be). —Barry On 30 Jun 2022, at 13:23, George Duncan wrote: Ed, Sorry to hear that test result. Having been at FRIAM, I just took the test, as did my wife She

Re: [FRIAM] Exoplanet Archive

I think the first image is stunning. I’ve known about gravitational lensing for probably 50 years, but I always thought it would be rare. Not so, apparently. This image seems to contain quite a few dramatic examples of it. —Barry On 11 Jul 2022, at 22:53, Marcus Daniels wrote: In case anyon

Re: [FRIAM] The Starship and the Canoe

I read “The Starship and the Canoe” quite a long time ago, and I read a book (Baidarka) by George Dyson shortly after we moved to Seattle in 1988. I met him many years later. The director of the Institute for Advanced Study was visiting Seattle, and there was a get-together at Charles Simonyi

Re: [FRIAM] Eero wifi just not connecting

Are you using the Eero app (I have it on iPhone and iPad, but I’m sure there’s an Android version)? IIRC, you can reset everything and then follow the app instructions. One of the Eeros has to have a connection to your internet modem, so probably it has to be a wired connection. —Barry On 9 N

Re: [FRIAM] technical notes on fusion announcement

I am a long-time environmentalist (I think I joined the Wilderness Society in the early 60’s) and I opposed fission power plants because of safety issues and because of the long-lived waste products. My feeling is that even if you make the probability of a screw-up very low, given 10,000 yearsm

Re: [FRIAM] [off topic] Bank of america problems

One more bank story. About 35 years ago, 1987 I think, we were owed $40,000 by a German company that had developed a keyboard with programmable LCD symbols in the keys. We had a word processor for mathematics which allowed the user to design new characters. We handled the display and printing o

[FRIAM] ChatGPT is not very smart...

or is obsessed with four-letter words. From an email from another group. Paragraphs with an initial capital are ChatGPT’s responses. The others are input: Chat GPT dialog, courtesy of Paul Ginsparg: “how many states in the united states have four letter names? “There are actually two states

[FRIAM] Whisper, a speech-to-text prrogram based on GPT-3

I downloaded Whisper and tried it out. I fed it a 20-minute screencast I did about 10 years ago. There are about four levels you can choose which trade accuracy for speed. I tried the recommended level, down one from the highest. After a substantial wait, I got the results. First, the input di

Re: [FRIAM] Magic Harry Potter mirrors or more?

When I bought back my company about 25 years ago, the mantra for programmers was “Google the error message!” Now ChatGPT will write some of the code for you. The job of programming still requires a lot of knowledge and experience since using ChatGPT-generated code without quality checking is fa

Re: [FRIAM] ChatGPT and William James

I haven’t followed the discussions here carefully, but the question “And we humans are different?” brings up Noam Chomsky’s view in the NYT, gifted here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chatgpt-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=QwaHrmmodXXtHVMT-PXM3n5X5165QgywGnhK8kHA4bQ4YwI

Re: [FRIAM] vectors!

Excellent! All the coronavirus is headed to the Atlantic Ocean, where the Gulf Stream will whisk it away. On 20 May 2020, at 18:09, uǝlƃ ☣ wrote: I don't think I've seen this one before: https://projects.propublica.org/reopening-america/ -- ☣ uǝlƃ -- --- .-. . .-.. --- -.-. -.- ... -..

Re: [FRIAM] Santa Fe Plaza Riot

A lot of the protests are peaceful. If so, perhaps one should set up a table for voter registrations. On 3 Jun 2020, at 8:59, Steve Smith wrote: Looks like the Santa Fe Police and Plaza shop owners got punked: https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/threat-of-riots-on-plaza-sparks-

Re: [FRIAM] In the garden of beasts

I have been struck by some of the photos of the protests around the country (and the world). In a lot of them there are large murals on the sides of buildings with pretty good renderings of George Floyd. These have gone up in a matter of days, and artists are quite good. Long live the fumes of

Re: [FRIAM] journalists

I assume that as people train a machine learning system to select/write articles, there will be another group training a system to game or exploit it. And so on … Pretty much SEO taken to a new level. —Barry On 30 May 2020, at 14:33, Prof David West wrote: I see that MSN is replacing human j

Re: [FRIAM] Oblivion resistant swarm

How did it work out? Did anyone at Ford run with it? On 6 Jun 2020, at 16:08, Frank Wimberly wrote: I developed some ABMs at BiosGroup. That looks interesting and it would be fun to develop. The "Ford Model" that I implemented took more than two weeks and it was written in Java. If had to d

[FRIAM] World wide protests

I was reading the NY Times and saw the aerial photo of the protest in Paris, and read about protests in many other countries. It seems a lot like an immune response to an infection. I hope it doesn’t become a cytokine storm.- . -..-. . ...- --- .-.. ..- - .. --- -. -..-. .-- .. .-.. .-.. -

Re: [FRIAM] Santa Fe Treasure Hunt

The summer we first moved to New Mexico (in 1976, to Las Cruces) we made our first visit to Santa Fe. To prepare a bit, I read a book on New Mexican art. While we were there, we went to the Fenn Gallery, where I saw at least one of the works in the book, and several by artists included in the b

Re: [FRIAM] Tweet from MathType (@MathType)

For example, the identity matrix (all zeroes except for ones on the diagonal) is given by the ith element of the jth row is the Kronecker delta of i and j. —Barry On 8 Jun 2020, at 16:12, Frank Wimberly wrote: Kronecker delta Is trivial. It has two arguments. If they're equal the result

Re: [FRIAM] Free online Springer books

Wow! Maybe now they won’t charge me $50 for each paper I wrote in their journals. —Barry On 16 Jun 2020, at 11:21, Jon Zingale wrote: Sarah found this: https://hnarayanan.github.io/springer-books/?fbclid=IwAR18zfCdyPsMPg2O_pFS81ZRlMwoHMR14DrIZK058-QPLHFGkwLMZmSDa5I#Mathematics%20and%20Statis

Re: [FRIAM] Virus Cases

To add a couple of data points to our anecdotal database: A teenage daughter of one of my daughter’s coworkers has COVID-19. For some sort of comparison, I knew one person who died on 9/11. He was the boss of an ex-son-in-law in a internet financial information startup that folded in the dotco

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