Re: [FRIAM] Great Circle

Close: https://www.airmilescalculator.com/distance/clt-to-hnl/ ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home)

Re: [FRIAM] Position Available

The upper Colorado and Green above Cataract Canyon were navigable in the 1800’s and 1900’s between Moab and Green River. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New M

Re: [FRIAM] Great Circle

.com <mailto:stephen.gue...@simtable.com> >> CEO, Simtable http://www.simtable.com <http://www.simtable.com/> >> 1600 Lena St #D1, Santa Fe, NM 87505 >> office: (505)995-0206 mobile: (505)577-5828 >> twitter: @simtable >> z <http://zoom.com/j/5055775828>oom.s

Re: [FRIAM] we are lost

Reasonableness is in the eye of the beholder. I doubt many Democrats would consider their economic and social positions reasonable. Getting primaried is an issue for all of them. Kinzinger is out. Cheney is in an enormous flight to get reniminated and Romney has to contend with far right opposi

Re: [FRIAM] My plan to disrupt education

I think the definition of Hispanic-serving is based on the percentage of Hispanic students which is very high at Highlands. The first year I was at UNM, a colleague and I went to career day at Highlands. Because Highlands lacked an Engineering program, we thought it would be an excellent opport

Re: [FRIAM] My plan to disrupt education

36 (home) edward.an...@gmail.com <mailto:edward.an...@gmail.com> > 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel > <http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel> > > > > On Oct 30, 2021, at 11:14 AM, Frank Wimberly <mailto:wimber...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >

Re: [FRIAM] Looking for an algorithm

I remember from my days doing systems and controls that the Kronecker product arises when you extend 1D methods for linear-quadradic problems to 2D. I actually used it in my thesis. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS La

Re: [FRIAM] Looking for an algorithm

There are some references to using tensor products to solve potential equations that go back to 1964. They involve inverting (division?) of a tensor product matrix. I had some of this in my thesis (1968) and is also on the book I wrote that came our around 1972. I only have one copy left (its pa

Re: [FRIAM] Call blockers

We get nomobobo for free from Comcast on our landline. It works real well with known numbers in their database and with numbers we add. We still get a lot of calls that use false local numbers that nomorobo can’t really block. We don’t add these numbers to the nomorobo database since they are ge

Re: [FRIAM] Application of robo-pigeon in ethological studies of bird flocks

We were in Taiwan during their first truly democratic election. The U.S. media was filled with dire predictions of imminent war. The reality was that no one in Taiwan was worried about an attack. China and Taiwan, in spite of the rhetoric, were deeply coupled economically and war would be disast

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: NO LANL IN SANTA FE! Wednesday, 12; 00 outside SF City Hall; bring friends

Although I totally agree with Merle on the moral issues, I doubt we are going to change any minds on this list. I would like to comment on some of the economic and scientific issues. Over the 40 years I’ve been here, I’ve worked with the labs in open areas (visualization, remediation, non-proli

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: NO LANL IN SANTA FE! Wednesday, 12; 00 outside SF City Hall; bring friends

The issue in NM and other poor places around the world is not the debate about whether people should or should not have children but what to do about the children who exist. Do we really want to hold the children responsible for the” sins" of their parents? It seems we who have benefited either

Re: [FRIAM] Papers on asymptomatic transmission and serology

This weekend I received an email from a good friend in NZ. Unlike the U.S, NZ spent the last two months preparing for what is happening now. For example, the schools spent a lot of time preparing teachers to be able to teach effectively on line. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Di

Re: [FRIAM] Papers on asymptomatic transmission and serology

> Clark University > thompnicks...@gmail.com <mailto:thompnicks...@gmail.com> > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/> > > > From: Friam mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com>> On > Behalf Of Edward Angel >

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] New information on COVID-19

We’ve had two life-threatening incidents, one trekking in Nepal and the other in a remote part of Sri Lanka, where the availability of a pulse oximeter made all the difference. We now routinely check our oxygenation with one. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research

Re: [FRIAM] New information on COVID-19y bb

The point is that if you check your blood oxygen level you might catch the problem before it is so bad that you have to be put on a ventilator and probably won’t survive. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professo

Re: [FRIAM] Shakira and Plato

No, for you to have a career as sexy singer. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home)

Re: [FRIAM] ill-conceived question

Most elder facilities do not require the huge buy in. In NM there are a large number of smaller facilities that can house up to ten people and are much less expensive. There are also larger ones that are pretty good that don’t have a buy in and charge less than 6K/month although are still out of

Re: [FRIAM] Virtual FRIAM moving to Thursdays. FRIAM will be in person on Fridays

It’s much kinder number in hexidecimal. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home)

[FRIAM] Covid

I tested positive for Covid twice yesterday. Fairly mild symptoms: achy and a sore throat. I thought it was an allergy but decided to get tested since we were expecting visitors. I didn’t get the symptoms till Monday evening so there is a fair chance I might have caught it either at FRIAM at S

Re: [FRIAM] All Of Feynman’s Lectures Now Available Online Completely Free

I started at Caltech in 1960, the year before Feynman Physics. Before Feynman took over the course, freshman physics was a terrible course that focused for the first two quarters on mechanics problems with a lot of strings and pulleys. I hated it. Feynman once claimed he started Feynman Physics

Re: [FRIAM] Mike Daly death?

He was there two Fridays ago but we exchanged email last week. Ed Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 21, 2022, at 11:39 PM, George Duncan wrote: > >  > That was what I was trying to remember > > George Duncan > Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University > georgeduncanart.com > Se

Re: [FRIAM] Friday AM

Is there an alternate location if you find it’s closed? Please text or email me if you find it closed in the morning. I can’t get there until after 9:30. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Comp

Re: [FRIAM] Friday AM

You can feel better: 0.7 ** 10 ~= 0.028. That's 40% better, although, it’s hard to believe that the 0.3 per year is constant for 10 years. Or even correct. The charts from real data seem to show the probability of an 80 year old making it to 90 is 30%. Ed ___ Ed Angel Fou

Re: [FRIAM] PSC Tornado Visualization (2008) [720p] - YouTube

Look at Donna Cox’s site at NCSA http://avl.ncsa.illinois.edu/who-we-are/team/donna-cox-director She’s been doing tornado simulations for over 15 years. We worked with her to put the simulation in planetarium dome. It’s much more

Re: [FRIAM] PSC Tornado Visualization (2008) [720p] - YouTube

Also even if they are not like bow ties, quadrilaterals need not be flat. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505

Re: [FRIAM] PSC Tornado Visualization (2008) [720p] - YouTube

The best known tornado simulation has a small anti-cyclone on the side. The narrator describes it as “a rarely see anit-cyclone.” Having asked many time whether it ever has been seen, the answer seems to be “not yet.” Clearly the one in the visualization is an artifact from an imperfect model.

Re: [FRIAM] FRIAM: The Comic Edition: April 2020

Who dod the comic? Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home) an...@cs.unm.edu <

Re: [FRIAM] evaporative cooling

https://www.fieldstudyoftheworld.com/persian-ice-house-how-make-ice-desert/ ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer

Re: [FRIAM] Book publishing advice needed

I’ve been a book author since 1972 and a textbook author since 1989. My computer graphics textbook has been the most popular book in the area for 20 years and just came out in its eighth edition with various editions being available in Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Russian. Sadly, the book busin

Re: [FRIAM] Book publishing advice needed

e > physical card. > > PPS: 8th edition isn't the default choice edition on Amazon or Pearson when > searching. > > > > > On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 3:22 PM Edward Angel <mailto:an...@cs.unm.edu>> wrote: > I’ve been a book author since 1972 and a textbo

Re: [FRIAM] Illegal copies of your book

Yes. libgen is a mirror site for libgen.io that has everything on it. It gets taken down every once in a while. They lost a suit from the publishers but being located in Eastern Europe that doesn’t help. When I first went to the site, it asked me to turn off my add blocker so

Re: [FRIAM] Book publishing advice needed

Publishers are not good guys. One counter example: CRC Press returned the copyright to a couple books in which I had chapters because there weren’t many sales and we were able to put our chapters online. The books had only been out a couple of years. Pearson has violated by contract in a way th

Re: [FRIAM] Book publishing advice needed

t; dished out by your publisher's marketing team to "potential" customers. > > Sarbajit > > On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 2:52 AM Edward Angel <mailto:an...@cs.unm.edu>> wrote: > I’ve been a book author since 1972 and a textbook author since 1989. My > computer grap

Re: [FRIAM] Book publishing advice needed

United Nations. But in the case of copyrights, my own view of what is right > is that the availability for copying of material should ideally be in the > hands of the author. My two cents worth. > > On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 7:11 PM Sarbajit Roy <mailto:sroy...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Re: [FRIAM] Book publishing advice needed

So, if the existence of, contribution to, and use of libgen is an ethical > question, do you think someone who decides they *should* participate in the > project has made a reasonable ethical choice? > > > [†] I still wonder why they never invited us to their GoT parties. >8^

Re: [FRIAM] Book publishing advice needed

and outcomes like libgen are the symptoms. > > > [†] I'm currently (slowly, as usual) reading a nice little book called > "Ignorance" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13574594-ignorance > <https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13574594-ignorance> that makes this

Re: [FRIAM] Pechakucha Santa Fe

When we did these at the SF Complex, part of the fun was that there was no topic and presenters could talk about anything. And they did. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Uni

Re: [FRIAM] square land math question

Why would you call the limit of the increasing smaller squares a “square”? Would you still say it has a dimension of 2? It has no area and no perimeter. In fractal geometry we can create objects with only slightly different constructions that in the limit have a zero area and an infinite perimet

Re: [FRIAM] square land math question

There really does not need to be a difference, Coordinate free geometry is much like vector analysis. You have the equivalent of axioms and I suppose if you so desire you can bring in formal proofs and all the other concepts you like. But what it does for me is give a unified view of linear alge

Re: [FRIAM] albuquerque

It’s not an ABQ problem as much as a Bernalillo sheriff problem. He’s been at odds with the mayor, the council, the governor and the senator for a long time. Among other things he fought body cams for the police. ABQ has long had a serious problem with the police shooting people. A few years ag

Re: [FRIAM] "certain codes of conduct"

Gary, Does temporally past the age of direct involvement imply we’ll be more involved when we’re 80? or 90? Seriously though, I believe a lot can be accomplished by us old farts by being willing to get out of our comfort zones. A few years ago I would have never thought I’d be involved workin

Re: [FRIAM] Abducktion

Literally it says “it pleases me” which is the passive voice leading to the question who is “it?" ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Sa

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

I wrote the following for Reuben Hersh’s memorial. The story is from when Reuben, Vera and I were in the same carpool to UNM. During one of our commutes, Reuben and I were sharing the back seat and Reuben brought up the subject of quaternions. For the mathematician quaternions, which are the ex

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] coding versus music

Going back to Dave’s original post, to me a big part of the issue is what is meant by “coding.” Unfortunately for manys in CS education, coding has come to refer only to the very last step in a complex process; namely, converting a final detailed set of instructions into computer code for a part

Re: [FRIAM] coding versus music

ome later. It may > then be a valuable delusion." > From "Notes to myself on beginning a painting" by Richard Diebenkorn. > "It's that knife-edge of uncertainty where we come alive to our truest > power." Joanna Macy. > > > > > &

Re: [FRIAM] Watching a Moose solve a Maze Re: solving mazes

I used to give this problem to my graphics students. Here’s one 2D version https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fTNJb4hhgR-6LySQspgM9k-J27KwuLpl?usp=sharing It will generate a new maze each time it’s reru

Re: [FRIAM] solving mazes

Constructing a maze by removing walls and finding a path through a maze are very similar and can be done by recursion or backtracking, both of which are equivalent to a mouse leaving his scent along a path and then backing up to a place opening without a scent when it hits a dead end. Ed >

Re: [FRIAM] Dancing Robots

While I was in grad school around 1966, we had a big ARPA (?) grant to build a robotic horse. It was designed to be able to move with any of the possible gaits. The project was not successful because the horse was very heavy and the available motors at the time could not move it fast enough to g

[FRIAM] Fwd: October 13 Talk with ACM A.M. Turing Award Winner Silvio Micali on Algorand and More Efficient Blockchains

Those of you interested in security (e.g. bitcoin and data) might be interested in this webinar next week. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Si

Re: [FRIAM] What is Stopping Poor People From Moving? - The Atlantic

There are a number of things that bother me about the article. First, most (poor) people don’t need a bunch of academics to tell them that a higher wage is an illusion if the cost of living is astronomical. Second, regardless of your philosophical position on affordable housing, as hinted at in

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain

The new Netflix documentary Banking on Bitcoin is pretty interesting and unintentionally perhaps draws you to the worries in the post. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Unive

Re: [FRIAM] Why Paper Jams Persist | The New Yorker

Both Owen and I were in Rochester in the mid 70’s. Owen was a Xerox and I was at the U of Rochester. We were working with the same people but somehow never met. In the early 80’s I did some consulting with National Computing Systems. They made the machines that read and scored standardized test

Re: [FRIAM] the pseudoscience of evolutionary psychology?

I found the email with David’s question for me re the Lena image. I don’t think the Lena image had anything significant to do with the decline in the percentage of women going into CS. It was a very limited group of people that actually dealt with or even saw the image. And they were almost all

Re: [FRIAM] the pseudoscience of evolutionary psychology?

quitously... sort of the "Hello World" of CG. But probably nothing about > culinary arts or kitchens or even the British love of Tea is likely to be > significant. > > - Stve > > On 2/24/18 6:57 PM, Edward Angel wrote: >> I found the email with David’s ques

Re: [FRIAM] Chess and Horses

After FRIAM, I remembered the name of the USC Chess Player: Albert Zobrist. He invented Zobrist hashing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zobrist_hashing ) which is fundamental to all chess playing programs. He created the first go program too (https:

[FRIAM] Fwd: input needed- expanding Computer Science education in Santa Fe schools

Please consider filling out the survey, especially if you live in Santa Fe. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 50

Re: [FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers

I would have grabbed the gas station job. I spent a summer working in a warehouse for $1 hour (no benefits too). My boss’ boss, recognizing what I good worker I was, tried to get me to not return to Caltech and keep working in the warehouse. After all, my direct boss was making $60/week after 20

Re: [FRIAM] !RE: A million tech jobs unfilled

One consequence of the present situation that will have long term consequences is even though the amount of research funding in CS is high, universities are having trouble attracting high quality graduate students, the next generation of educators. Although this situation has little to do with t

[FRIAM] Micro:bit event March 8

On March 8 4-6 PM, there will be a community micro:bit event at Meow Wolf, jointly sponsored by Meow Wolf, the Computer Science Alliance and the Santa Fe Alliance for Science. It will bring together students, teachers, parents, hackers and many others including I hopeFRIAM and Wedtech to demo, s

Re: [FRIAM] Few of you ...

Herman Wouk’s brother Victor is credited with being the inventor of the hybrid car. He interviewed me for Caltech when I was a senior in high school. Ed Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, U

Re: [FRIAM] Photos of popped balloon

For two summers while I was an undergrad I worked on a crack propagation project that was using high speed photography to image crack propagation on thin seamless 18” copper cylinders. During the first summer, I made the cylinders by first making solid wax molds that I lathed to the right shape

Re: [FRIAM] Learning about Bayesian Statistics

You might also like Nate Silver’s book “The Signal and the Noise”. It’s almost non technical and has interesting examples of the use and non use of Bayesian reasoning from the house market collapse to evaluating baseball players. Ed Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Tec

Re: [FRIAM] Photos of popped balloon

lking about homology groups. > > --Barry > > On 2 Feb 2019, at 12:56, Tom Johnson wrote: > > How did the melting wax exit the sphere? Probably a hole. So how did you > patch the hole to retain perfect symmetry > T? > > On Fri, Feb 1, 2019, 10:03 PM Edward Angel &

[FRIAM] Microcontroller event at Meow Wolf reminder

The microcontroller event at Meow Wolf is less than two weeks away on March 8. The event started as a microbit event but we’ve expanded it to include all kinds of devices, Some of you indicated that you’d bring a project to demo. The event is open to the public but we expect to have a lot of yo

Re: [FRIAM] IEEE Milestone celebrating computer graphics history at U of Utah

Sadly Frank most of them are younger than us except for Sutherland.Sent from my iPhoneOn Mar 28, 2023, at 7:47 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:Distinguished graybeards.  I got my PhD in 1978.  Am I as old as that guy??---Frank C. Wimberly140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505505 670-9918Santa Fe, NMOn

Re: [FRIAM] I am not Unique

Personally, I found that article was terrible. Maybe the New Yorker is the appropriate place as it reminds of many New Yorkers’ attitude about the rest of the world. I’ve spent over 50 years in travel (not tourism) in around 80 countries, lived in four, visited over 20 professionally, trekked

Re: [FRIAM] Man Probes Consciousness: Consciousness Probes Back (was Re: Does Dusty Love Dave, and VV)

The original plan for the IAIA dome was to record stories. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home)

Re: [FRIAM] New Mexican's Sunday's story on education proficiency

The following is hard to believe but true. Last weekend, I was in line at Walgreens. The older woman in front of me gave the cashier a $20 bill for a $13.54 purchase. The young cashier was completely unable to figure out the correct change. After a couple of failed tries, the older woman tried

Re: [FRIAM] Starlink

I’ve never had the problems Gil has experienced with Comcast. I suspect that because Gil lives in an older neighborhood with old and failing infrastructure. We built our house 25 years ago in a new subdivision that required underground utilities. That meant we have cable to the house and we’re o

Re: [FRIAM] ADVISORY: City Will "Flip the Switch" on Gigabit Internet Speeds at 12/14 Special Event

I don’t know if the Qwest lawsuit over the Communications Franchise Ordinance was ever settled. I would think that unless the ordinance was fixed, it will be hard for companies to provide services via this new link. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technolo

Re: [FRIAM] ADVISORY: City Will "Flip the Switch" on Gigabit Internet Speeds at 12/14 Special Event

When I met the (present) mayor, he asked me if I thought the project was just throwing $1M into a hole in the ground. It seems the answer is clear. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer S

[FRIAM] [ SPAM ] Re: Grumble- NM's crappy internet

I now see the brilliance of the City putting $1M to get a connection in the Railyard. As we’re all lined up with our computers waiting a turn to back them up, we’ll want to have coffee, dinner, maybe even shop. We’ll be resurrecting the Railyard. It would be sort of like old paintings of people

Re: [FRIAM] Ting Internet | Crazy fast fiber Internet for US cities

I have a difficult time believing that Ting will decide to come here. Some of the reasons: The pricing is very interesting. Right now I pay about $60/month for 80 mbps downloads and 5-6 mbps uploads. The service has been very reliable. So it sounds good to have the possibility of getting gigab

Re: [FRIAM] Ting Internet | Crazy fast fiber Internet for US cities

gy and Biology > Clark University > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> > > From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com > <mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com>] On Behalf Of Edward Angel >

[FRIAM] Fwd: [1st-mile-nm] Akamai Report

At least we’re tied for 49th; usually we stand alone in 49th place. ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136

Re: [FRIAM] To Be “A Speaker of Words and a Doer of Deeds:” Literature and Leadership | Harvard University

Relevant to what? Certainly not to becoming a film editor. He probably got good advice at the Filmmakers Institute. I have a couple of close friends whose children married aspiring film editors and writers. The great education my friends' children got at the best universities went to supportin

Re: [FRIAM] Fascinating article on how AI is driving change in SEO, categories of AI and the Law of Accelerating Returns

There is a large group of distinguished people including Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, Bill Joy and Martin Rees, who believe that AI is an existential threat and the probability of the human race surviving another 100 years is less than 50/50. Stephen Hawking has said he has no idea what to do ab

Re: [FRIAM] Anyone from England

It’s not a legally binding vote but Cameron has both resigned (as of October) and said he will honor the vote. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 10

[FRIAM] [ SPAM ] Re: ISPs and FCC Republicans celebrate FCC’s court loss on muni broadband | Ars Technica

Not everywhere in NM are things as bad as in SF. I was talking to Barry this morning at FRIAM about City Link (citylinkfiber.com) which offers fiber connectivity in ABQ. They use robots to lay fiber in sewers. Besides gigabit service, as a comparison, 100 Mbs bidirectional to the home is $50/m

Re: [FRIAM] what other subject is there this morning

Even if Congress were willing to get rid of the EC, the constitutional amendment could never get enough states to pass it. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of Ne

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

At the risk of pissing off a lot of my friends, Owen's proposal strikes me as tokenism at its worst. If we elites want to do more than talking to and emailing each other, I’d suggest that we instead spend some of our time doing something to help the sad state of education and the economy in NM.

Re: [FRIAM] (amused): Re: Spam solutions

Check out nomorobo.com. It’s free on landlines if the carrier supports it. Small monthly charge for cell phones. We have it since we have a comcast digital phone at home. It captures almost 100% of the robo calls. If one gets through, we can add the number to their data base. Only one every coup

[FRIAM] TEST

Checking if the server has been blacklisted at UNM. Ed ___ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home)

Re: [FRIAM] NSF 2010 Call for Entries

There are all kinds of programs in NSF. You really have to search nsf.gov. Most of the major grants now require some sort of outreach activity. That's what supported the Sys Bio event which was funded by NIH and was the first showing of the winners last year's visualization contest. There is also

Re: [FRIAM] Query about rating agencies/groups

I'd worry about about how to use that number. The prevailing view in both academic departments and industry is that Java is on its way out. For the kinds of things that Java is good at, scripting languages have advanced so much that they are replacing Java. For large scale applications, industry

Re: [FRIAM] Net Neutrality?

I believe a major part of the concern is that a provider can decide to provide better service for some rather than equal service for all. For example, if you use comcast as your provider, you would be affected if Comcast provided their own streaming video at a high QoS while giving Netflix, that

Re: [FRIAM] Semipalatinsk and Los Alamos

We should also take into account the many Sandia scientists and technicians that were part of the Pacific tests. I don't know what has been documented about them but when I first moved to NM in the late 70's. I met a number of them. They all seemed to believe that many of their coworkers ha

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] Fwd: Announcing Cluster GPU Instances for Amazon EC2

Everything I do is GPU based. It's all graphics. Today I turn in the final manuscript for a major revision of my graphics textbook (used in over 200 colleges and universities) that switches everything to using the GPUs instead of CPUs. Cells phones are now using GPU code and WebGL, which is now

Re: [FRIAM] Dissertation Browser | Stanford

Not a very good display since it starts with the traditional silos. Another reference is some work my MS student Brian Wylie did at Sandia as part of his thesis. See http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.10066/abstract Ed __ Ed Angel Chair, Board of Directors, Santa Fe Comple

[FRIAM] Graphics Class at the Complex

A number of you have shown interest in having a course in Computer Graphics at the Complex. I've been working with UNM on it so that those of you who are interested and what credit for the class can do that. So here is what I'm proposing to do. We'll do the equivalent of UNM's CS/EECE 412 Intro

Re: [FRIAM] Graphics Class at the Complex

stinkin' credits) and pay the fees if it will help the course > "make." > > -tom johnson > > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Edward Angel wrote: > A number of you have shown interest in having a course in Computer Graphics > at the Complex. I've bee

[FRIAM] Graphics Class

I've received a lot of positive responses about the class so it looks it's a go. Some of you have asked about scheduling. I'm pretty open as to times and I intend to have a lot of material available on line. Steve Smith has set up a doodle poll so people can put in their preferences. It's at h

[FRIAM] Graphics Class at SFX

I edited the doodle poll with possible times including some late in the day. Please enter your prefered/possible times to meet. We'll probably meet twice a week, at least to start, with the first meeting early in March. http://www.doodle.com/qw535ewa3ux3zxcw42grre5n/admin I've also put together

[FRIAM] Graphics Class

Everything seems to be set for our graphics class. I've set up a google group SFX_Graphics(http://groups.google.com/group/sfx_graphics?hl=en) so from now on all email and announcements about the class should go through there. Anyone can join the group at that url. The class will be taught as

[FRIAM] Graphics Class begins

We'll be doing a first intro graphics class this Wed at noon at the Complex. If any of you are interested but haven't joined the SFX_Graphics google group, please do so now. I think we have enough people signed up so it will be an official UNM class but others can participate as well. Ed __

Re: [FRIAM] Streaming of Ed Angel's OpenGL class at Santa Fe Complex

Any book on Java, OpenGL and Jogl has to be over five years out of date. Jogl was popular for a while because CS students were learning Java as their primary programming language. There was a lot of activity for a while with Sun and Java3D but when that died, it ignited some interest in Jogl. Ho

[FRIAM] Wedtech

Were going to have another wedtech roundtable this Wed at noon that will focus on doing agent based models using modern shader-based OpenGL (versions 3.1 and up, ES 2..0 and WebGL). I'll show some demos and discuss the use of frame buffer objects for rendering to texture and then using double bu

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