Re: [FRIAM] new studies confirm existence galaxies almost-no-dark-matter

last year: > > https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/5-ways-to-make-a-galaxy-with-no-dark-matter-7ed6fe6c9889 > >> On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 3:14 AM Eric Smith > <mailto:desm...@santafe.edu>> wrote: >> >>In a way, this result is the one that could have been e

Re: [FRIAM] da foist pictures of a black hole

Indeed, Gil, I was just on the piont of writing to the list, because I was surprised at no traffic on this stunner. There is a photomontage I would love to have, which I think doesn’t exist yet, but now can. Full M87 in the visible: http://hubblesite.org/image/2391/gallery (which I guess is ab

Re: [FRIAM] da foist pictures of a black hole

Nick > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > Clark University > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > -Original Message- > From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Eric Smith > Sent:

Re: [FRIAM] da foist pictures of a black hole

> > Clark University > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > -Original Message- > From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Eric Smith > Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2019 3:31 AM > To: The Friday Mo

Re: [FRIAM] Everything she knows...

> On Apr 16, 2019, at 9:23 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > > do you deny that there exists something that you worship or are you saying > that there are no people who worship nothing? I am tempted to write that in > predicate calculus. and this is why I have stayed on FRIAM over all these yea

Re: [FRIAM] All hail confirmation bias!

Here is a nice example, of that onus accepted and handled clearly. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature07749 Topic is the accretionary dependency structure in the large subunit of the ribosome. In particular, see Fig. 2, which my image-page on chrome is showing me at this URL (don’t know if t

Re: [FRIAM] All hail confirmation bias!

the earlier stages), one gets a qualitative impression of clines, which luckily it is possible to attach to quantities in a few features. All best, Eric > > On 4/24/19 4:51 PM, Eric Smith wrote: >> Here is a nice example, of that onus accepted and handled clearly. >> h

Re: [FRIAM] A Question For Tomorrow

> I was in a forum with a bunch of physicists last year many of whom were > wedded to the notion that nature was determined by things beyond experience > that we would never know. That's both a tautology AND an oxymoron. I think this requires care. Never wanting to defend the positions of pe

Re: [FRIAM] Archangel Michael's Message For You

So, being technically only semi-literate, here is the main response I have to the spam-ocean in which we now all seem to be adrift. As for Michael below, I cannot imagine anyone would deliberately follow up anything like this, except bored people who click on a link to see what kind of entertai

Re: [FRIAM] capitalism vs. individualism

Good thread; far more than I can process. But… (from Glen’s anecdote) > This episode challenged my understanding of infrastructure. I don't think > Renee's alone in this. I've heard people complain of the tiniest things about > their public trans trips ... someone smacking their food ... someon

Re: [FRIAM] capitalism vs. individualism

Very very sorry Glen You said “as a people”. There was no need for my reply. E > On Nov 12, 2019, at 10:04 AM, Eric Smith wrote: > > Good thread; far more than I can process. > > But… (from Glen’s anecdote) > >> This episode challenged my understanding of infra

Re: [FRIAM] IT is Not Sustainable

Hi Nick, There probably are many such studies that people on this list will know of from deeper traditions in Computer Science, but the one I happen to know about is solo work by David Ackley of UNM. He did a study of the replacement statistics of C libraries in open-source software, explicitl

Re: [FRIAM] description - explanation - metaphor - model

I am relieved you brought up the Truth/Power bundling, Glen, because I wanted to but was too much of a coward to do it. There is a style of speech that I hear often, which goes something like “It doesn’t matter what so-and-so says, or thinks he means. He is just claiming he owns truth, but I k

Re: [FRIAM] the arc of ai (was Re: Whew!)

I guess a measure of how life-like it is, is how much you are waiting for the robot to haul off and smack the guy with the hockey stick. Some kind of mirror neuron thing, maybe. > On May 9, 2017, at 12:06 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > Glen writes: > > "At some point, wouldn't we enter David

Re: [FRIAM] Any non-biological complex systems?

duce thunderstorms at the micro level. But there's many ways to skin a > hurricane :-) > > Some would say the micro level air particles and air cell components which I > would model as finite state machines (agents with a lower case "a") are > systems in their own right

Re: [FRIAM] Any non-biological complex systems?

Thanks for this Marcus, > One could imagine coupling a physical simulation to a search procedure for > functional behaviors like memories and doorways. The detection > combinatorics would be challenging, assuming the physical simulation were > possible at sufficient fidelity, but perhaps cou

Re: [FRIAM] the Skeptical Meme

> Their desperation and rage just comes from a feeling that they can't > confront, that they just don't have much to offer. > > Marcus Reading this, I feel like you could found a new generation of something that is like existentialist philosophy but equally-well political theory. It is not

Re: [FRIAM] The World Turned Upside Down (and what to do about it)

There may be collaborators who would be eager to help in such a project: http://kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com/ Eric > On Sep 15, 2017, at 8:49 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > I wonder if a Trump-like candidate bot could be built using a genetic program > and some natural language processing c

Re: [FRIAM] Doxastic logic - Wikipedia

Somehow I imagine that Nick means to say there are costly signals in this game — that motor action is thicker than conversation or reflection. If I am walking across a snowfield that I know to be filled with crevasses, and I know I can’t tell which snow holds weight and which doesn’t, my movemen

Re: [FRIAM] Doxastic logic - Wikipedia

rsity > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > -Original Message- > From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Eric Smith > Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2017 4:44 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group

Re: [FRIAM] I could say their's a bit of a gravity to this finding

Hi Gillian, I totally share your enthusiasm for all this. I have been following LIGO since it was a garage project up in some basement labs in Caltech in the early 80s, and the requirements seemed so far beyond the technology of the time that it was hard to know whether it would ever succeed.

Re: [FRIAM] Fairness in the genetic/developmental system

Nick, hi, The idea that it would be a consequence of selection on development, to tend to modularize the relation between genetic material and traits, is I think favorably viewed. I mention this in reply to the boldface last sentence in your abstract. Beanbagness of gene-trait correspondences

Re: [FRIAM] Grad Student Tax

This is straightforward, Owen, Just keep in mind that _everything_ is done with one motive: to get points with the Mob, so that they will keep you installed to give money to the oligarchs. They have no other agenda, and don’t care about anything else. All the rest is just part of the public s

[FRIAM] Fwd: Grad Students Would Be Hit By Massive Tax Hike Under House GOP Plan : NPR

Piece in NPR that somebody else forwarded to me: > https://www.npr.org/2017/11/14/563879136/house-gop-tax-plan-would-hit-grad-students-with-massive-tax-hike > > I have to wonder, contra my

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Grad Students Would Be Hit By Massive Tax Hike Under House GOP Plan : NPR

> > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > Clark University > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Eric Smith > Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 5:38 AM >

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Grad Students Would Be Hit By Massive Tax Hike Under House GOP Plan : NPR

ur Republican. But who > knows? > > > https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/disliking-congress-as-a-whole-and-as-individuals/ > > On 11/21/2017 04:38 AM, Eric Smith wrote: >> I wonder if the relevant committees, too cowardly to fight t in the open, >> are looking f

Re: [FRIAM] Climate Change

I agree with both Glen and Jillian, this is more on the right tack. It’s not about stupidity. It’s about a kind of character degeneracy further down, and a certain kind of vileness that becomes possible at that level. I would add one thing to Jill’s and Glen’s emphasis (attention trolling),

Re: [FRIAM] Climate Change

f the IPCC that unless we reduce CO2 emissions we are heading for > disaster is challenged? > > On 29 December 2017 at 20:25, Eric Smith wrote: > I agree with both Glen and Jillian, > > this is more on the right tack. It’s not about stupidity. It’s about a kind > of char

Re: [FRIAM] Climate Change

Sorry; it would have helped if I had spelled your name correctly the first time. Hurry is not of God, Eric > On Dec 29, 2017, at 12:18 PM, Eric Smith wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > By all means. I do not intend either aggression or even disrespect toward > anybody who will

Re: [FRIAM] "self-organization"

Hi Nick, I will speak only for myself: This is another of those unfortunate terms, like Emergence, which is used by a variety of people in a variety of contexts to — they intend — refer to any ones among a variety of ideas that certainly are not operationally all the same, even if some of them

Re: [FRIAM] merging with the mob

> The truth (as in the eventual consensus after years of haggling) will be > "everything in moderation, including moderation". Being trapped by an > entraining pattern is good, as long as it's not permanent. My preferred way to say this, for many years now, has been “Some things in moderation”

Re: [FRIAM] more on tissue-size population dynamics

sounds truly disgusting. Nutella was bad enough. Now add a salty yeasty goo to hazelnut, chocolate, added lactose, and intense sugar, and ... Ooohh! > On Jan 27, 2018, at 12:01 PM, Steven A Smith wrote: > > I hear there have been some altercations where Australians carrying armloads > of Ve

Re: [FRIAM] Diesel OK?

Steve, hi, Two quick questions since this brings back things I was curious about as a child: > > Higher MPG > higher energy density per liter of fuel > higher compression engine (more efficient) > leaner combustion at idle or under low load I seem to remember this as being associated with higher

Re: [FRIAM] Diesel OK?

Thank you Frank and Steve, both, > On Mar 31, 2018, at 3:33 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > > My petrol car has a 12.2 to 1 compression ratio and sparkplugs. Boy, I was way off. Thank you. Eric > > > Frank Wimberly > > www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly > > https://www.researchgate.ne

Re: [FRIAM] What is an object?

Nick, how could you! (about to get myself in trouble again for thinking I remember something that is probably wrong) > Here’s another story. Years ago my 1970’s era Troy Bilt tiller began to fail > and I took it to a Guy. The Guy said, yes I can rebuild your engine, pretty > much like new.

Re: [FRIAM] What is an object?

> On Jul 19, 2018, at 5:26 PM, uǝlƃ ☣ wrote: > > "the validator of our senses can only be our senses" waaay oversimplifies the > set of experiences. If there were only 1 type of experience, then you'd be > right. But there are (at least) many types of experience. And 1 experience > of one

Re: [FRIAM] looking for a word

Glen, I haven’t followed this thread closely enough to have a good sense of what you are after, so apologies if this is off point. When you first asked, and hadn’t talked yet about specifically tree-like networks, I was thinking that the converging end could borrow the term “coalescent” from p

Re: [FRIAM] looking for a word

of flow. > > And this idea of divying up the space carries with it some sort of agency, > functionality, or purpose beyond the more objective terms like plexus or > plenum, which could be engineered or natural. Divied up how? Why? What is > being optimized by tree branching,

Re: [FRIAM] On old question

> I am not at all sure where this leaves us with “natural programming.” As you > point out, my concept of natural may be complete at odds with yours. Mine > grows out of the following analogy: Artificial selection : natural selection > : : artificial design : natural design. If artificial d

Re: [FRIAM] On old question

s/ > > > -Original Message- > From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Eric Smith > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2018 5:30 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] On old question > > > I am

Re: [FRIAM] Formalizing the concept of design

king for. Many applied problems in complexity like ant > algorithms using dual pheromone fields, level-set methods, and route search > on a road network using simultaneous floodflill from both origins and > destinations might be considered least action path selection. I make the > claim

Re: [FRIAM] Abduction

Eric and Nick et al. May I ask a question as someone who wonders about this topic as a “general knowledge” user but without a commitment to try to do serious work in it? I often, in a hope of staying oriented in the complicated world, try to think of how many of the informally used language con

Re: [FRIAM] Abduction

Thanks for this Glen, To your points below: I don’t want to sound like I am propounding some totalizing system, or even the position that one exists, much less that I could say what it is. I am very strongly on the side of heterarchy, and I fully concur with the arguments you put behind the p

Re: [FRIAM] 2019 - The end of Trumpism

Steve, I wonder if there is a game theory problem to be worked on here. Referring to your statement: >> Arrow's Impossibility is real but no more significant IMO than the >> real-world ambiguities and paradoxes introduced by practical realities such >> as voter suppression and fraud, system

Re: [FRIAM] Abduction

Hi Eric: > On Dec 30, 2018, at 9:33 PM, Eric Charles > wrote: > > "The role of “reality” in those constructions is often an uninterpreted > shorthand for the fact that I am willing to act without too much doubt in > certain ways, using my attention and worry on other things than > second-gue

Re: [FRIAM] Motives - Was Abduction

An article on this that found enjoyable was the following: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/why-the-russian-influence-campaign-remains-so-hard-to-understand There are a key set of areas, where I often think the bulk of the commentariat go off on tangents and distractions, and Masha

Re: [FRIAM] Motives - Was Abduction

Marcus wrote: Trump is a denial of service attack. I love this. There must be some T-shirt opportunity in it. One might be able to make enough money selling them at an appropriate conference to live independently for a year, and do the work one likes without writing grant proposals, which

Re: [FRIAM] models, reality, etc.

A person who works in data compression, randomness, or statistical mechanics might try to frame a description that is as operational and contains as much structural resolution in it as possible, by drawing language from the sectors of behavior and observation that are as robustly disambiguatable

Re: [FRIAM] new studies confirm existence galaxies almost-no-dark-matter

Hi Glen and Gil, What you have below, Glen, is right I think. To begin with the summary, and put the TLDR afterward, it looks like these diffuse-galaxy results say that gravity stays a clean theory, and we need to identify the origin and nature of dark matter as a separate thing. While a har

Re: [FRIAM] the Monty Hall problem

Wow. Old terminator. New terminator. > On Aug 10, 2023, at 12:15 PM, Stephen Guerin > wrote: > > I think this might be a more concise explanation: > > Switching wins if you initially pick a goat (2/3 chance) and loses if you > pick the car (1/3 chance), so the win probability with switching

Re: [FRIAM] Why the Mystery of Consciousness Is Deeper Than We Thought

Nick sed: > So, what facts of the matter convince you that one or more languages are > essential for meta awareess. Or is it elf-evident You could do as the linguists do and look for minimal pairs: The obvious low-hanging fruit is sleeping/awake. Everybody knows that one and uses it, and pro

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

This feels incomplete to me in a fundamental way. I am sure I will say the next thing badly, so will stay short. I understand what “truth” is as a Boolean value propagated by rules within a formal system. For me to participate in the use of the tokens and rules of the formal system — includ

Re: [FRIAM] Interesting Link

ow to make magic with > metadata, not because his primitive male brain is more altruistic. And > outlier economist Richard Smith has just published his dynamite book on the > end of capitalism as a theory cum ideology. > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 4:37 PM, David Eric Smith wrote

Re: [FRIAM] Subjectivity and intimacy (lost in the weeks?)

Larding also > Nick: If you had the figure in front of you, what you do? You would rotate > it in your hands. > > Russ: If the figure were in front of me and I rotate it, I also look at and > observe it. Rotating it with my eyes closed or in the dark of while looking > somewhere else doesn't

Re: [FRIAM] enablors vs disruptors

This feels to me like our current-generation’s endorsement of essentially what Schumpeter termed (+/- my usual mistakes in transcription) “gales of creative destruction”. My more conservative farmer friends in Kentucky and Illinois regard Schumpeter as The Devil, delighting in the hardship of o

Re: [FRIAM] Eric's book link: The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth: The Emergence of the Fourth Geosphere

;The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth: The Emergence of the Fourth >> Geosphere" by Eric Smith, Harold J. Morowitz. >> >> Start reading it for free: http://amzn.to/2dGBsKs >> >> >> >> >> ===

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

> Begin forwarded message: > > From: friam-ow...@redfish.com > Subject: what other subject is there this morning > Date: November 9, 2016 at 9:15:37 AM EST > To: desm...@elsi.jp > > Your email addresss was not recognized as a subscriber to the FRIAM > list. It's possible you are subscribed unde

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

Sorry Friam. I sent this before from the wrong address, and then I foolishly forwarded the bounce, which had been reformatted and partly chopped up. This was what it looked like the firs time. E > I think what this all is about is the power of resentment. > > I think the engine underneath

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

ct is there this morning > > If it's any consolation, I waded through your entire bounce-formatted post, > it was that good. > > On Wednesday, November 9, 2016, Eric Smith wrote: > Sorry Friam. I sent this before from the wrong address, and then I foolishly > fo

Re: [FRIAM] Stop Calling People "Low Information Voters" | Quillette

Roger, hi, It isn’t a databse of local governments, but there is such an effort for local NGOs which grow out of thoroughly-understood problems, and which have non-nonsense urgent motives to solve the problems. Paul Hawken has a book summarizing part of this, and I believe there is a database

Re: [FRIAM] Stop Calling People "Low Information Voters" | Quillette

This seems right to me, Pamela, It also seems appropriate to learn the history of Weimar better, and I don’t know very much about it. A key point seems to be that the Germans didn’t suddenly wake up in the 1930s and decide to adopt a totalitarian state and exterminate millions of people, drivi

Re: [FRIAM] Model of induction

Hi Robert, I worry about mixing technical and informal claims, and making it hard for people with different backgrounds to track which level the conversation is operating at. You said: > A long run is itself a data point and the premise in red (below) is false. and the premise in red (I am n

Re: [FRIAM] Nautilus: Investing Is More Luck Than Talent

Robert and Marcus, good morning, Robert, your original thread is a fine one, and I sort-of know Moshe Levy, though not closely. The thread deserves orders of magnitude more and better attention than I can give it, so apologies in advance for shallowness in the following, or failing to make ful

Re: [FRIAM] [SPAM] Re: [[Narcissism Again]again]

Thank you for forwarding this Owen, I didn’t receive the original. > So. Let me just share one thought. I have said a hundred times that I think > the great achievement of the Right in my life time has been to problematize > (Ugh!) the Deweyan consensus of the 1950’s One of the elements of t

Re: [FRIAM] [SPAM] Re: [[Narcissism Again]again]

made by individuals > from a "marginalized" group, cannot possibly be compatible with Dewey's > approach. > > > > > > > --- > Eric P. Charles, Ph.D. > Supervisory Survey Statistician > U.S. Marine Corps > > On

Re: [FRIAM] Trump's wall is a wimp.

We could make it like a kind of habitrail! Big above-ground people-pipelines to give people in the west-coast corridor access to Canada and Mexico, and to connect the various metropolises. > On Jan 30, 2017, at 5:54 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > Owen, > > First the Mexico wall. Then a wall

Re: [FRIAM] Globalism in the age of populism? .. & Open Source Software

That sounds to me like a conditional: > We are global because we are elite. If not-elite then not-global. or: elite or not-global or: not (global and not-elite) If that is meant to be true as an expression in propositional calculus then there is no conversation to be had. A mean, small-min

Re: [FRIAM] The true crisis is still to come

Hi Glen, Regarding the Thomas Gold book, I have been urged not to take it seriously by geologists I trust. I also do not have the expertise to enable an informed opinion of my own. They seem to suggest, however, that Gold purposely ignores (a lot of) evidence that works in favor of the conventio

Re: [FRIAM] In Praise of Doubt, and ...

Well, I shouldn't even poke my head above the weeds in this one, because this thread has way too much energy for me, but I just couldn't resist. Think of this as a prosodic rather than a semantic reply... I think we are reaching the heart of the problem with human nature. We want to be

Re: [FRIAM] RANT: Acronyms

You are funny Nick, I was just going to write "thank you Robert", after vowing that I would never stick my head up out of the weeds on this thread. I think, though, that an acronym cannot merely be anything to which a pronunciation can be attached. It is supposed to a thing constructed like a re

Re: [FRIAM] A question for the emergentists among you

Nick, hi, I can't really summon the energy to be part of the emergence thread, but for this particular post, you may wish to keep an eye on publications coming out from Flack, deWaal, Krakauer, and collaborators including Ay and deDeo, on primate interactions. They have some very strong analysis

Re: [FRIAM] A question for the emergentists among you

s for monkeys as well as apes. N Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu) http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ [Original Message] From: Eric Smith To: ; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee

Re: [FRIAM] Health care [was Sources of Innovation]

Nick et al., A thought on rights, not well-formed. It comes from reading some of Dan Dennett's work on free will and causation, and wondering how I would frame the terms differently if I were not drawing on the long philosophical tradition in discussing this subject, but rather from the

Re: [FRIAM] Why are there theorems?

(expressions of ignorance to follow:) I wonder in all this whether there is anything interesting to be said by looking at the relation of syntax to semantics in mathematics, perhaps not in the sense of "applying" language, but rather in the sense of recognizing that mathematics shares syntactic el

Re: [FRIAM] Gravity as an emergent phenomenon

Hi Glen, I believe it's also called a "wedge product". Mike Spivak's tiny but frustrating but elegant book Calculus on Manifolds, if I remember correctly, defines these things and explains what they mean in geometric terms. Eric On Jul 13, 2010, at 7:30 PM, glen e. p. ropella wrote:

Re: [FRIAM] FRIAMer /. alert

uestion. Many thanks, Eric On Sep 6, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote: Eric Smith is one of the authors, he is on this list as well, right? Congratulations, Eric ;-) -J. - Original Message - From: "Marcus G. Daniels" > To: "The Friday Morning Applied Com

Re: [FRIAM] Name this spider

Tyler, There is a nice word for your sensation, if you are willing to think of them as ants instead of spiders. Formication, from Latin Formica meaning ant, same root as formic acid, the main ingredient in most ant stings (the harmless one; it is the trace-level proteins that cause the persisten

Re: [FRIAM] Economy vs. ecology, er

Tory, wonderful post, and as far as I can understand, spot-on in all respects, A few things to add to Jochen's comments, as sources for thought: The acts that organisms take, merely in the course of living from one day to the next, tend to be under-emphasized in relation to the acts of rep

Re: [FRIAM] Daphnia's jeans

I should be quiet because this is not my area. But the evo-devo people around me seem very often to say that, in the domain of large multicellular organisms, much of the change between species comes from altering regulatory pathways and systems, not generally from altering (numbers of) genes, or t

Re: [FRIAM] A question for your Roboteers out there

Nick, hi, Been meaning to send this for a couple of days. There is a paper on the role of models in control theory, which is perhaps profound or perhaps a tautology (Mike Spivak comments that the two naturally go together): Conant, Roger C. and W. Ross Ashby. 1970. Every Good Regulator of a Sy

Re: [FRIAM] Apocalypse in Japan

Jochen and everybody, hi, I don't know if it has already been covered on this thread, and I understand that the following comment is not central to the main theme. But to group Chernobyl with other reactor failures has one element that is potentially problematic. Chernobyl was a carbon-

Re: [FRIAM] Apocalypse in Japan

Hi Saul, Another thing I realized I wished I had added as a caveat in last night's post. There is also the issue of fast versus slow neutrons as triggers to fission. The role of the moderator is to slow neutrons so that they can be captured by materials that need slow neutrons to fission, of whi

Re: [FRIAM] The Brown Underside of Green Technologies WAS: RE: vol 93, issue 22

Nick, hi, No boxing of ears. Your use of externalities is right on, and in the spirit of the economists' use of that term in relation to "competition". Both, in this construction, are terms of art. When ordinary people say "competition", perhaps we think of rugby, Go, or Odyssean deception in o

Re: [FRIAM] Quote of the week

Steve, I promised myself I wouldn't do this, speaking of too long and don't read and all. But do you know how powerful you are, just by being superhumanly articulate? With one line, emphasizing knowing versus understanding, you directed the whole stream into a conversation about information the

Re: [FRIAM] symmetry breaking

Nick, hi, This time I really, really am under the gun and have no business answering. But you are not being foolish. You are pushing correctly on a set of statements that are not a principle. As Steve and Peter and others have said, the only way to properly handle this is actually to work out a

Re: [FRIAM] symmetry breaking

Oops! I need to make an emendation: It was Roger Critchlow who sent all the Dill papers whenever-it-was, perhaps a year ago. I remain equally grateful, this time to the right person. Many thanks, Eric FRIAM Applied Complexity Group

Re: [FRIAM] A Little Learning

Hi Everybody, Thank you for each of these. Total apologies for the thing about mantras, which I did not intend as an insult to anybody, because I am keenly aware that several of you have done a lot more to actually solve and understand the system under discussion than I have. Also, I valu

Re: [FRIAM] datum vs. data

Ah, Nick, each choice is buggered no matter which way one turns. That eternal torment seems to be the crucible that makes it impossible for language ever to rest. The voiced-syllable-initial-th at the beginning of this, that, and the other (_not_ "thing") is a characteristic of the function wor

Re: [FRIAM] Understanding the Occupy Movementf

Jochen, hi, For a while I have shown the sense to stay quiet, but let me try to address this one a little, because I can send a file that has some technical papers which I think address some of these points. It seems to me that the 99%/1% paradigm and Occupy are targeted at slightly diffe

Re: [FRIAM] Understanding the Occupy Movementf

Oops, sorry for two posts: To address the specifics of your post, which I meant to do. If social inequality is the main question, then it may be a partisan issue, because there will be a spread of opinions in the society of what is desirable, and at some level of approximation, the adoption

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Re: Friam Digest, Vol 104, Issue 9

Eric, hi, There is a (to me) fun similarity between this sequence you have illustrated, and some pathologies and treatments in rapid auditory processing, in which the workers I know are April Benasich and Paula Tallal (this, from a few years ago). The stopped phonemes, particularly the voice

Re: [FRIAM] Clarifying Induction Threads

I agree, Wow, to Eric Charles's summary. Can I ask, is there any role for finiteness in this discussion? There seem to me to be two places the constraints of being finite enter, and the specific point at which they seem forced by one of the questions that has been asked (Why would you accept t

Re: [FRIAM] Clarifying Induction Threads

le with something on algorithm complexity and description length, and argue that it is "harder" to expect a violation of a long string of repeats, than it is for a short string. But, I look forward to listening to Lee's refutation. All best, Eric On Mar 28, 2012, at 4:06 PM, lrudo...@me

Re: [FRIAM] Clarifying Induction Threads

s -- that would commit these acts. Then we could study the overlap and differences with our own choices, and perhaps update our categories. Interesting, always interesting, Eric On Mar 29, 2012, at 12:29 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > Dear Eric Smith (and other patient people), > > I

Re: [FRIAM] if (biology paper) then (28% fewer citations per math equation per page)

There's potentially an interesting operations research angle here too. If I recite the story correctly, OR started from people tasked to place armor on WWII bombers, to meet the conflicting needs of protection and minimizing weight so they could carry more bombs. As one would expect, they starte

Re: [FRIAM] Wow. 6 whole days without a Nexus 4 post.

Don't mean to thread hijack, but it seems this thread was pretty far gone anyway. I must say that the English phonotactics are really on display here. Googlezon sounds like something big, heavy and vaguely dangerous, a kind of Golem but somewhat clunky and difficult to take seriously, like the

Re: [FRIAM] Googlezon and phonotactics

Hi Steve, thanks, > I do suspect that the EPIC2014 folks chose Googlezon specifically for it's > phonetic reference to Godzilla... Yes, I think so too. > I have tried to follow some of the Neuro Linguistic Programming literature > but got put off by the cultish mind-control factions ther

Re: [FRIAM] The yin and yang of numbers across cultures

except of course that the pi that appears in the Gaussian integral is the angular measure, by which the gaussian on the line reduces to the exponential on the plane. So is it geometric, or is it not? Eric FRIAM Applied Complexity Gr

Re: [FRIAM] Mathematical Search and Regular Expressions

Hi Friam, Returning from music to the question of searching for mathematical expressions. This may be foolish, but what about using a functional programming language, such as Haskell, as a "standard format" for searchable math expressions? It reads enough like math that it wouldn't be very diffi

Re: [FRIAM] FRIAM and causality

Hi Nick, I assume you already know about the work Judea Pearl did to define a notion of causality in the context of inference on Boolean networks? I don't have citations on this, because I only learned about it recently in someone's talk, but I gather it is fairly widely known. Happily it doesn't

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