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

2021-10-28 Thread Jon Zingale
Cool. It seems that some of the work on the connection between bond graphs and operads was fleshed out by Coya, here: "Circuits, Bond Graphs, and Signal-Flow Diagrams: A Categorical Perspective" https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.08290.pdf supported by work, here: "A Compositional Framework for Bond Gra

[FRIAM] (no subject)

2021-10-29 Thread Jon Zingale
"*Why does HR assume I even want a **safe space?"* *One can always ask. Plain text is always at least one of the interpretations.* .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfri

Re: [FRIAM] we are lost

2021-10-30 Thread Jon Zingale
""" I was asking what categories, eg monads, comonads, all these abstractions on the abstractions of mathematics, want, since that might help me understand how they see their purpose... """ I am unsure how to approach such a question. What I can respond to, wrt categories (mathematics), is the que

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

2021-10-30 Thread Jon Zingale
It some searching, but I found the paper where I first got a sense about operads. I hope that you also find it useful: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.08304.pdf In particular, at the top of page 4 are a collection of diagrams depicting composition in categories, monoidal categories, traced monoidal cat

Re: [FRIAM] Unrecognized Thinkers

2021-10-31 Thread Jon Zingale
"Digitalization dematerializes mind." That's good. As far as who would be on my list? Terry Tekushan. I used to build these amplifiers for him: https://6moons.com/audioreviews/westernreserve/westernreserve.html Unrecognized for sure, but one can find traces of him online: https://myemail.const

Re: [FRIAM] Unrecognized Thinkers

2021-10-31 Thread Jon Zingale
And who would be on Terry's list? I used to have a clearer idea of 5 or 6 thinkers, but now I can only remember Edwin Howard Armstrong. .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtua

Re: [FRIAM] Unrecognized Thinkers

2021-10-31 Thread Jon Zingale
"Ok, I’ll bite. Can’t digital effects mimic tube amplifiers, even by brand?" I will have to think about what your question is. My mentioning of a personal mentor was mostly an attempt to clarify what was meant by "unrecognized" while also acknowledging a mentor, an impressive thinker, and a wonder

Re: [FRIAM] Unrecognized Thinkers

2021-10-31 Thread Jon Zingale
"Memes can spread as if they are amplified, for instance the stupid 'Let's Go, Brandon' meme or the dull 'OK Boomer' reply." Well, it certainly is your thread to bend. My feeling is that corrosion and destruction can often arise as part of a creative process. Age demographics in politics in the Un

Re: [FRIAM] Unrecognized Thinkers

2021-10-31 Thread Jon Zingale
"Why pursue an old way of doing things, if the new way of doing things (solid state) can do it more accurately, with more control, and at less expense?" These discussions, to my observation, mostly turn into *in principle* discussions. We could flood the list with the benefits of one technology or

Re: [FRIAM] Corrosive memes [ was: Unrecognized Thinkers ]

2021-10-31 Thread Jon Zingale
"Francis Fukuyama would say it is a sign of political decay." Sign is the operative word. This week there was quite a lot of smoke in the Sangre De Cristos. Each generation and (sub-)culture has its own non-constructive, destructive and divisive messaging. There are many programs where it is not w

[FRIAM] Looking for an algorithm

2021-11-03 Thread Jon Zingale
Hey all, Given a square matrix over Z2, how do I find whether or not it is the tensor product of two simpler square matrices? Are there well-known algorithms for deciding this as well as for finding what matrices the original *can be* factored into? [*] Because it is obvious that such factorizati

Re: [FRIAM] Looking for an algorithm

2021-11-03 Thread Jon Zingale
Maybe? As I understand what is typically called matrix decomposition, and tensor decomposition, is something more akin to SVD. I haven't been able to bridge the gap between the two ideas, though it might be my own lack. Anyway, thanks for looking. .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --

Re: [FRIAM] Looking for an algorithm

2021-11-03 Thread Jon Zingale
Ok, I can almost see a connection now. My coworker sent me this stack exchange post: https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/91651/nearest-kronecker-product This led me to this Springer article: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-015-8196-7_17 and this ScienceDirect artic

Re: [FRIAM] Looking for an algorithm

2021-11-03 Thread Jon Zingale
Yep. That is what I am talking about. Getting a copy of Van Loan and Golub's classic "Maxtrix Computations" was long overdue, but I finally did it. Between that and the papers cited in my post before, I hope to get a better sense of the problem. .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. ---

Re: [FRIAM] Looking for an algorithm

2021-11-04 Thread Jon Zingale
Thanks to everyone who helped pitch in on this. I was happy to finally track down a pdf of Van Loan & Pitsianis [1993]. As stated in this other article on "Automated Kronecker Product Approximation"[KoPA]: "This was introduced in the matrix computation literature as the nearest Kronecker product p

Re: [FRIAM] Looking for an algorithm

2021-11-04 Thread Jon Zingale
Yeah, that direction (multiplying) is the more well tread direction. It is the inverse problem (division) that I am surprised to see so little written on. Have you run across much literature on it? .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity

Re: [FRIAM] Looking for an algorithm

2021-11-04 Thread Jon Zingale
"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 page

Re: [FRIAM] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/technology/pamela-mccorduck-dead.html [eom]

2021-11-05 Thread Jon Zingale
The Futures Of Women: Scenarios For The Twenty-first Century - Pamela McCorduck, Nancy Ramsey https://www.buckstar.nl/jp/958mp16118z/ .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtual

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

2021-11-07 Thread Jon Zingale
"And I even know David Spivak, and know some of his work with Brendan Fong." Cool. He and I knew each other briefly when he was at the University of Oregon. Around the time David was learning topos theory, he, my buddy Ralf (who was in the math grad program there at the time) and I worked through

Re: [FRIAM] lurking

2021-11-08 Thread Jon Zingale
In my local Go club, I sit at just about average rank, fluctuating wildly between 5 and 3 kyu. That said, there is a lot that is exciting for me about Go and winning (as well as losing) at Go. Along the lines of Steve's observation, there is an adage that another of our group likes to recount relat

[FRIAM] The danger of a single story

2021-11-09 Thread Jon Zingale
A TED talk with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on scoping, classification, and "the danger of a single story": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg&ab_channel=TED .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a

Re: [FRIAM] The danger of a single story

2021-11-10 Thread Jon Zingale
""" The fact that such distance (euclidean as well as non-euclidean as well as network) is a heuristic for "otherness" seems very much implicit in life itself, most familiarly among visual creatures, less so for audio, and even less so for chemical (smell/taste) and least for tactile (if I am not t

Re: [FRIAM] The danger of a single story

2021-11-10 Thread Jon Zingale
""" I argued, like with the Necker cube, you can't do both at the same time. Jon questioned that ... implying disagreement. """ My disagreement is mostly with the suggestion that I either hold one phase of the Necker cube or the other, I am unsure how to express my perspective on *becoming other*.

Re: [FRIAM] The danger of a single story

2021-11-10 Thread Jon Zingale
""" For lack of a better (or more ironic, since Euler went blind) dichotomy lever, the operational conception might be called Lagrangian and the latter Eulerian. From a Lagrangian perspective any point in an open ball is infinitely far from the outer bound as long as our operations are functions of

Re: [FRIAM] The danger of a single story

2021-11-10 Thread Jon Zingale
I don't suppose that the existence of p-adic completion, via equivalence classes of Cauchy-sequences, helps matters. Such a step moves the graph- theoretic talk back in the direction of space-theoretic talk, along with the arrival of derivatives and a meaningful way of doing calculus. What such a s

Re: [FRIAM] "chilling effect"

2021-11-11 Thread Jon Zingale
"Chilling Effect", now that's good epiphenomena. By that, I suppose I mean that "chilling effect" is more general than a simple gag or restraining order, it aims to inhibit or dissuade behavior. The content of chilling seems to live in the question of "why should a legal system dissuade or inhibit

Re: [FRIAM] "chilling effect"

2021-11-12 Thread Jon Zingale
""" How is it epi? In both the SLAPP case and the SB8 case, it's a directly targeted effect. """ I can see that I was being too clumsy. In the SLAPP case and the SB8 case chilling is pretty straightforward, but in the case I linked[☃] (which jumps to a highlighted section "Chilling effects on Wiki

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

2021-11-12 Thread Jon Zingale
"这就是你想让我说的吗? 我们现在可以在中国推出我们的软件吗?" 是的,你做得很好。尝一口香港。 .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC

[FRIAM] From Fanny Hensel to Shor's algorithm

2021-11-14 Thread Jon Zingale
Today's Google doodle honors the pianist Fanny Hensel. I got to wondering what if any relation she might have to Kurt Hensel. It turns out that she was his grandmother. This got me thinking about a different kind of genealogy, that of ideas. To what extent is Shor's algorithm a direct decedent of p

Re: [FRIAM] From Fanny Hensel to Shor's algorithm

2021-11-14 Thread Jon Zingale
This Wikipedia article section on psuedoforests does a pretty good job of getting at the kind of problem I am interested in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoforest#Graphs_of_functions It also does a good job of connecting the problem to Pollard's Rho, Cellular Automata, birthday paradoxes, and

[FRIAM] Wizards[⚣]?

2021-11-15 Thread Jon Zingale
Nick is always making reference to wizards-this and wizards-that, but where are all of the *mother fucking sorcerers*[☿]? [⚣] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv3DedNXN4o&list=PLJSMFXYSojXotCa_NrjYM54ICmSmmCygg&ab_channel=timtimfed [☿] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mother%20fucki

Re: [FRIAM] Wizards[⚣]?

2021-11-16 Thread Jon Zingale
""" Your clips were fun, but I am dead serious about you guys being wizards. There is something in your way of thinking which the rest of us don’t understand. I think it’s closely related to a development/organismic/ dynamic way of thinking that keeps struggling for a hearing in psychology. """ I

Re: [FRIAM] Wizards[⚣]?

2021-11-17 Thread Jon Zingale
""" Oh, for instance: I tried to get development psychologist to think about the implication of Wolfram’s patterns. They just weren’t interested.Where’s the soul? """ The first thing that crosses my mind is constructor theory and that got me wondering about support from the life-level com

Re: [FRIAM] P Zombie Couches

2021-11-19 Thread Jon Zingale
I am not entirely sure I get the argument, though I suppose I get what is at stake. The argument reveals itself as a *hanami* argument in that *dualism* stands to gain a lot from the argument's acceptance and stands to lose little to nothing from the argument's rejection. The Wikipedia explanation

Re: [FRIAM] WAS: P Zombie Couches

2021-11-20 Thread Jon Zingale
"As an experience-monist, I believe either that all worlds are possible or no worlds are possible. Also, as an experience-monist (but not as a behaviorist) I am allowed to experience the world in a variety of ways, as present, as past, as future, as fantasy, as dreams, and, as possible, or impossib

Re: [FRIAM] WAS: P Zombie Couches

2021-11-21 Thread Jon Zingale
That water is H20 gets at my confusion. While this is a classic example of an a posteriori truth, the stability of truths like these form categories that couldn't have been any other way. I feel that your follow up questions get at this nicely: """ Would we say something like: Sure, but then it wo

[FRIAM] Abel Prize 2021

2021-12-09 Thread Jon Zingale
A couple of months ago, I posted an accessible Numberphile episode on Zero-Knowledge Protocols with Avi Wigderson. This year he shares the Abel prize with László Lovász whose work on graph limits for large networks is rather worth looking at for those interested in computationally tractable approac

Re: [FRIAM] So who needs math?

2021-12-11 Thread Jon Zingale
FWIW, I mostly think of mathematics as living somewhere between fine art and liberal art. To the extent that mathematical structures are things, I enjoy comparing them, finding analogies between them, and describing the world with them. I prefer to leave *answers* to the scientists and instead cont

Re: [FRIAM] (no subject)

2021-12-12 Thread Jon Zingale
'Stating that there is a single answer to a math problem is "white" and therefore "racist."' Of course, there *is* only a single answer (Elon) and that is for whitey to be on the moon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nzoPopQ7V0&ab_channel=reelblack .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.

[FRIAM] (no subject)

2021-12-13 Thread Jon Zingale
"Has been present since I encountered it, I think in the Norton Anthology, Jeez, how long ago? End of college? Early grad school?" """ Some folks are born made to wave the flag They're red, white and blue And when the band plays "Hail to the Chief" They point the *canon* at you, Lord """ I can im

Re: [FRIAM] Issue #2

2021-12-21 Thread Jon Zingale
Glen, I appreciate the diagram too, especially the link: http://www.advantagemathclinic.com/ .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mail

[FRIAM] Training your value network

2022-01-30 Thread Jon Zingale
You know, because talking shit about AI and the hype around AI are equally boring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDcls1gMCxA&ab_channel=AndrewJackson Here is a pretty good explanation of AlphaGo's value network from the perspective of an amateur 5 dan at the Seattle go club. .-- .- -. - / .- -.

Re: [FRIAM] Training your value network

2022-02-01 Thread Jon Zingale
Yeah, there were a couple of things that struck me as either interesting or telling about the video. There is a novelty regarding the lack of editing, the unselfconsciousness of the audience, and the humility with which the project of *being* a value network was approached. The video is a welcome r

[FRIAM] quickening

2019-09-12 Thread Jon Zingale
With few apologize, I have not been contributing very much as of late. The last few months have offered new opportunities for work, meditations on new life, and a whole lot of commutative ring theory / algebraic geometry. Sometime soon, I hope to meet with my friend Ashley (an ex-Johnnie) whom it

Re: [FRIAM] quickening

2019-09-13 Thread Jon Zingale
Thanks Steve! Playing in a D&D campaign with a small group of thoughtful individuals is a lot of fun. My upbringing tended to over-emphasize technical subjects at the expense of more humanistic and social fields. In many ways, this experience has been doing a lot to develop my inner theater kid.

Re: [FRIAM] Unmediated perception - sheldrake

2019-09-17 Thread Jon Zingale
Nick, `Signs all the way down` ... hmm. Such a theory strikes me as necessarily objective, in the sense that: 1) there is nothing that signs ultimately refer to, signs are not produced through reflection about the world. 2) that the corresponding system of signs is to be taken as the privileged f

Re: [FRIAM] 1. Is the Equal Sign Overrated? Mathematicians Hash It Out | WIRED (Tom Johnson)

2019-10-14 Thread Jon Zingale
Thanks Tom. It is exciting to see topos theory finding a place in the sun. When I was participating in Dan Freed's TQFT seminars at the University of Texas, we worked through one of Jacob's papers. Despite the seemingly all-pervasive mistrust of category theory (let alone topos theory), these semi

Re: [FRIAM] My new book

2019-10-21 Thread Jon Zingale
Cool! To celebrate your new book I submit this image I rendered over the weekend. I trained a neural net on an image from the Book of Kells and then had it reconstruct a picture of some mushrooms in the Sangre De Christos: [image: mushroomOfKells.jpg] ==

Re: [FRIAM] My new book

2019-10-22 Thread Jon Zingale
My apologize for the missing image. Here is a link to Mushrooms Of Kells . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe h

Re: [FRIAM] How does that style transfer work?

2019-10-23 Thread Jon Zingale
Cody, I really have no idea. The site that I signed up for is called Deep Dream Generator , and it supposedly exists to give users hands on experience with image generation with neural nets. It is setup like the typical social media site, allowing users to make thei

Re: [FRIAM] Chaos Scientist Finds Hidden Financial Risks That

2019-11-13 Thread Jon Zingale
That is a fun past time: Steppenwolf Wittenstein's Vienna Being and Time Memoirs of a geisha The complete guide to Asperger's syndrome to name a few. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's C

Re: [FRIAM] Friday Dec 27 Venue

2019-12-23 Thread Jon Zingale
Frank, Meeting at Saveur sounds good to me. Jon FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: htt

Re: [FRIAM] IT is Not Sustainable

2019-12-25 Thread Jon Zingale
Nick, Dick Goddard and his woolly bears couldn't have said it better! Jon FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com

Re: [FRIAM] Abduction and Introspection

2020-01-25 Thread Jon Zingale
Perhaps along with manipulate and observe could be predict. Presently, I am making my way through two books on predictive processing. 1) Surfing Uncertainty, by Andy Clark 2) Extended Consciousness and Predictive Processing, by M. Kirchhoff and J. Kiverstein Phenomenal consciousness either arisin

Re: [FRIAM] Abduction and Introspection

2020-01-25 Thread Jon Zingale
As an addendum to my previous comment above, I suppose introspection to be understood in terms of querying one's own nervous system. Perhaps, to introspect is to attempt to simulate patterns of sensory input, stimulating the nervous system into returning its predictions. ===

[FRIAM] Curmudgeons Unite!

2020-02-06 Thread Jon Zingale
It is unfair perhaps for me to comment. I don't imagine having a horse in the race. However, I would like to draw attention to the idea of critical application software and its place in our culture since the Apollo missions. Applications with respect to military drones, nuclear power plants, hospit

Re: [FRIAM] Curmudgeons Unite!

2020-02-07 Thread Jon Zingale
My intention in drawing attention to critical application development is an attempt to deepen the discussion around 'apps' and rhetoric. In the discussions around app usage in the democratic primaries, the target appears to be the vulnerability which exists today because programmers today are a bun

Re: [FRIAM] Curmudgeons Unite!

2020-02-08 Thread Jon Zingale
Dave, While I agree that there are likely to be many systemic reasons for this electoral failure, I am unwilling to go so far as to claim that the design of a critical application voting app belongs to the class of impossible tasks. Maybe a little flippantly and without dragging this entire post

Re: [FRIAM] friam Winter Party

2020-02-13 Thread Jon Zingale
Sarah and I will be there. I am looking forward to meeting some of you in person. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfis

Re: [FRIAM] friam Winter Party

2020-02-16 Thread Jon Zingale
The party was a very good time. Thank you George and Sherry for hosting. It's not every night that I can get such an enjoyable discussion about Hamiltonians and coupled oscillators! I look forward to the next one. Jon & Sarah FRIAM Appli

Re: [FRIAM] Outbreak Simulation

2020-03-20 Thread Jon Zingale
At home, we are discussing the effect of the virus and the effect of social distancing on individuals that rely on soup kitchens. What strategies can Friam produce for feeding these people that is consistent with the social distancing strategy? For bonus points, please justify posted strategies wit

Re: [FRIAM] Outbreak Simulation

2020-03-21 Thread Jon Zingale
Although kind of a silly simulation, and since we are offering simulations up, here is one that I wrote for the Santa Fe Institute last year: https://jonzingale.github.io/explorables/epidemics/epidemics.html Jon FRIAM Applied Complexity

Re: [FRIAM] talk about rabbit holes ...

2020-03-27 Thread Jon Zingale
Glen, It is kind of funny to me, and yet should not surprise me, that an individual was motivated to write a theorem prover in R. OTOH, every attempt I have ever made to get Agda to work for me has required sandboxing my Haskell environments and switching to an emacs editor, so hey. Still, the pro

Re: [FRIAM] talk about rabbit holes ...

2020-03-27 Thread Jon Zingale
Marcus, Mostly, I bring up the issue of defining the quantifiers via functors for the academic challenge of it, but also thank you for looking up the singletons library. Getting under the hood of that library will likely have some beautiful code and likely a couple of balls-of-mud. Generally, I am

[FRIAM] talk about rabbit holes ...

2020-03-27 Thread Jon Zingale
Glen, Marcus, FWIW, I spent the evening sketching out a direction that could be fruitful when writing the quantifiers from the perspective of an adjoint situation. It would be cool if it could be easily extended to doing

Re: [FRIAM] talk about rabbit holes ...

2020-03-28 Thread Jon Zingale
The Basold paper looks really good, I am excited to jump in. Perhaps as a side note, these are really exciting times. How wonderful to see the places modern type theory is seeping its way into the structure and implementation of practical programs. ==

Re: [FRIAM] Coronavirus New Mexico numbers.xlsx

2020-03-30 Thread Jon Zingale
It appears from the code base that covidtracking.com is pulling the data via screenshots and then manually entering the data. Is this possible? Do you think they might want a scraper for that project? FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listse

Re: [FRIAM] Coronavirus New Mexico numbers.xlsx

2020-03-30 Thread Jon Zingale
Semi-auto is a little like half assed. For what would get the data directly to database or even a csv file in 5 lines, there is a whole lot of node infrastructure setup to take screenshots and post to s3 buckets. And for there to be 27 contributors, the project appears like it could use some direct

Re: [FRIAM] Coronavirus New Mexico numbers.xlsx

2020-03-30 Thread Jon Zingale
Glen, Perhaps you are right and I should be more helpful. Here are the 20 lines . Jon FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11

Re: [FRIAM] Coronavirus New Mexico numbers.xlsx

2020-03-30 Thread Jon Zingale
Glen, I imagine, without looking for it explicitly in the code, they find a `best site at the time` for each state, NM for instance: Best current data source for New Mexico. While it may take 15 minutes or so for a programmer to write a scraper for a state, the hours li

Re: [FRIAM] Coronavirus New Mexico numbers.xlsx

2020-03-30 Thread Jon Zingale
Glen, They may have some thoughts on how they would like to integrate scraped data into their platform. I just sent them the code and will wait for a reply. It might be fun to flesh out scrapers for the other 49 :) Jon FRIAM Applied Com

Re: [FRIAM] RedState/BlueState OneState/TwoState

2020-04-08 Thread Jon Zingale
D.E Smith, I have no idea what *feed the morlocks eloi* refers to, but I do love an easter egg, so thanks! Jonathan Zingale ..-. . . -.. / - . / -- --- .-. .-.. --- -.-. -.- ... / . .-.. --- .. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam unsu

Re: [FRIAM] RedState/BlueState OneState/TwoState

2020-04-08 Thread Jon Zingale
ah, sneaky. It's in the footer of all friam posts. Steve, I am now looking in your direction. *The Time Machine*, huh. .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... . ... FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam

Re: [FRIAM] anthropological observations

2020-04-18 Thread Jon Zingale
Eric, Bravo. Sure, maybe TLDR, but a wonderful read anyway. Jon .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... . ... FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam

Re: [FRIAM] At the limits of thought

2020-04-27 Thread Jon Zingale
I like that Sims approaches the problem of AI from the perspective that life is a consequence of the world, that life is the world discovering itself. He specifies a learning semantics (genetic algorithms) and a learning syntax (motivation functions and virtual embodiment in time) for his creations

Re: [FRIAM] Ranked Choice Voting app

2020-05-04 Thread Jon Zingale
Cody, I'm inspired to contribute some thoughts to yours. I feel that whatever *fix* is imagined for voting, we should be prepared to adopt it for a long time. The process of testing out new voting schemes may take a few administrative cycles and may become vulnerable to manipulation or degradatio

Re: [FRIAM] Movement vs. Behavior, and what's in the Black Box

2020-05-05 Thread Jon Zingale
Eric, I love that you brought *Weekend at Bernie's* into the discussion, wow, the 80's. I am not sure we *must* all agree that Bernie or the dead duck or the marionette are *just* moving because we may want to allow for transitions between domains of definition. Of course, we *can* all agree if yo

Re: [FRIAM] Meanwhile, back on the troll farms

2020-05-07 Thread Jon Zingale
Roger, It seems to me that because this is open source software, any individual who wishes to fork the repo and write unit tests can. Doing so would be a kind of verification replicability. That the trolls are attempting to toxify and politicize the very space where the open source community estab

Re: [FRIAM] Meanwhile, back on the troll farms

2020-05-07 Thread Jon Zingale
Marcus, I object that, 'People that love unit tests love not understanding the problem they are solving'. Some of us love unit tests and realize that the problem is not solved by them. Jon .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... . ... FRIAM Applied Complexi

[FRIAM] (no subject)

2020-05-07 Thread Jon Zingale
Roger, You say, "It's already happened more than once. People, acting as if they cared about the code have taken over existing projects when the current developer loses interest. Then they modify the code so it does something evil in addition to its original purpose, say stealing bitcoin wallet

Re: [FRIAM] Meanwhile, back on the troll farms

2020-05-07 Thread Jon Zingale
Roger, I am aware they these agents are not interested in fixing the problem. As a high volume participant on Github, I wish to speak with some authority that the actions these agent pursue betray a misunderstanding of git workflow. The goal it seems is to project the facebook/youtube comments mod

Re: [FRIAM] Meanwhile, back on the troll farms

2020-05-07 Thread Jon Zingale
Roger, You say, "It's already happened more than once. People, acting as if they cared about the code have taken over existing projects when the current developer loses interest. Then they modify the code so it does something evil in addition to its original purpose, say stealing bitcoin wallet

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

2022-02-10 Thread Jon Zingale
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Re: [FRIAM] ... --- ...

2022-02-10 Thread Jon Zingale
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Re: [FRIAM] ... --- ...

2022-02-15 Thread Jon Zingale
"delasestrellasdelcielotengoquebajartedosunaesparasaludarte" <3 Frankie Reyes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylfYwWKzFAs&list=OLAK5uy_m34iYNwPKHV615NMI9OJLnmni-JWgFvFk&index=3&ab_channel=FrankieReyes-Topic .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied

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

2022-02-18 Thread Jon Zingale
ᛆᚠᛏᚢᛆᛘᚢᚦᛌᛏᚭᚿᛏᛆᚱᚢᚿᛆᛧᚦᛆᛧ ᛭ ¶ ᚿᚢᛆᚱᛁᚿᚠᛆᚦᛁᚠᛆᚦᛁᛧᛆᚠᛐᚠᛆᛁᚴᛁᚭᚿᛌᚢᚿᚢ ¶ ᛌᛆᚴᚢᛘᚢᚴᛘᛁᚿᛁᚦᛆᛐᚽᚢᛆᚱᛁᛆᛧᚢᛆᛚᚱᛆᚢᛓᛆᛧᚢᛆᛧᛁᚿᛐᚢᛆᛧ ¶ ᚦᛆᛧᛌᚢᛆᚦᛐᚢᛆᛚᚠᛌᛁᚿᚢᛘᚢᛆᛧᛁᚿᚢᛘᚿᛆᛧᛐᚢᛆᛚᚱᛆᚢᛓᚢ ¶ ᛓᛆᚦᛆᛧᛌᚭᛘᚭᚿᚭᚢᛘᛁᛌᚢᛘᚭᚿᚢᛘ ᛫ ᚦᛆᛐᛌᛆᚴᚢᛘᚭᚿᛆ ¶ ᚱᛐᚽᚢᛆᛧᚠᚢᚱᚿᛁᚢᛆᛚᛐᚢᛘᚭᚿᚢᚱᚦᛁᚠᛁᛆᚱᚢ ¶ ᛘᛁᛧᚽᚱᛆᛁᚦᚴᚢᛐᚢᛘᛆᚢᚴᛐᚢ ¶ ᛘᛁᛧᚭᚿᚢᛓᛌᛆᚴᛆᛧ ¶ ᚱᛆᛁᚦᛁᛆᚢᚱᛁᚴᛧᚽᛁᚿᚦᚢᚱᛘᚢᚦᛁᛌᛐᛁᛚᛁᛧ ¶ ᚠᛚᚢᛐᚿᛆᛌᛐᚱᚭᚿᛐᚢᚽᚱᛆᛁᚦᛘᛆᚱᛆᛧ

[FRIAM] Artificial Shintelligence

2022-02-18 Thread Jon Zingale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKuPqNslJ7E&ab_channel=ArirangNews .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish

Re: [FRIAM] Artificial Shintelligence

2022-02-18 Thread Jon Zingale
"Since Neuralink treats it subjects so well, he may want to become part of a future AlphaGo portfolio solver?" Yo no se. Ask him? .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfria

[FRIAM] OGS

2022-02-26 Thread Jon Zingale
""" Given the current situation many Ukrainians find themselves in, I am preemptively canceling all recurring charges for anyone with a Ukrainian billing address and issuing refunds as far back as my payment processors will allow. You’ll still retain your supporter status and AI reviews for the for

[FRIAM] Has anyone here studied Nishida Kitaro?

2022-03-01 Thread Jon Zingale
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nishida-kitaro/ I met a ceramicist this week. He pointed me to Nishida. Any thoughts? .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subs

[FRIAM] Enamine

2022-03-07 Thread Jon Zingale
https://enamine.net/news-events/press-releases/1333-the-official-appeal-of-enamine-founder-and-ceo-andrey-tolmachov-to-the-drug-discovery-and-scientific-community .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-1

[FRIAM] Brahms for Ukraine

2022-03-13 Thread Jon Zingale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgzB7sbLcgs&ab_channel=Yo-YoMa .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: We just launched Russian Asset Tracker, most complete database to date

2022-03-23 Thread Jon Zingale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chudnovsky_algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chudnovsky_brothers Ukraine produces *some* firepower. .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtu

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: We just launched Russian Asset Tracker, most complete database to date

2022-03-23 Thread Jon Zingale
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/04/11/capturing-the-unicorn """ They find the animal, appear to kill it, and bring it back to a castle; in the last and most famous panel, “The Unicorn in Captivity,” the unicorn is shown bloody but alive, chained to a tree surrounded by a circular fence, i

[FRIAM] To repeat is rational, but to wander is transcendent

2022-03-24 Thread Jon Zingale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-wandering-domain_theorem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQkZVPU2txg&ab_channel=TheAbelPrize Been thinking about fractals and analytic continuations for recursive algorithms, lately. I would love to read some thoughts. .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -

[FRIAM] Birds do it, monads and their algebras do it...

2022-03-24 Thread Jon Zingale
General truths are beautiful things, but too often they could not be further from the whole story. It is wonderful that every computation under the sun can be computed by a universal Turing machine, but at the end of the day, no one is closer to knowing how best to program one for all occasions, no

Re: [FRIAM] To repeat is rational, but to wander is transcendent

2022-03-28 Thread Jon Zingale
Let me see if I can add some context. One of Nick's obsessions is that of emergence, and in particular, he concerns himself with a possible relationship between emergence and Simpson's paradox. I started to wonder what there is generally to say about the paradox. As a first approximation, I think t

[FRIAM] somewhere on OGS...

2022-03-28 Thread Jon Zingale
https://online-go.com/game/42430513 .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-c

Re: [FRIAM] Greetings!

2022-04-09 Thread Jon Zingale
""" Nice zoom chatting today. So yes, turns out my sculptor friend moved his studio from Shidoni to Cuyamunge six, seven weeks ago -- good catch, thanks. """ Cynthia, Thanks for making it to the meeting. I very much enjoyed chatting with you about period-finding algorithms, the analog nature of q

[FRIAM] fluid codes

2022-04-18 Thread Jon Zingale
They are so beautiful. What things are there to consider when writing fluid codes from first principles? https://dedalus-project.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klntYmQtyE4&ab_channel=APSPhysics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ApSJe4FaLI&ab_channel=turbulenceteam <3 .-- .- -. - / .- -.-.

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