I fried my network adapter, so I will have no network connectivity at least
until friday. Possibly, longer if it turns out to be a software problem.
Didn't want anybody to think I didn't love them. If you need to talk, best
to call me at 413-477-6602. God knows I don't have anything else to do.
wrote:
>
> My domain has expired this week too and my email account stopped to work,
> but I was able to renew it. Hope you are online again soon!
>
> -J.
>
>
> Original message
> From: Nicholas Thompson
>
> Date: 9/7/21 19:46 (GMT+01:00)
> To
Ugh. I was making fun of myself. If everything is stigmergy then the word
has no interesting use.
I am in danger of confusing it with niche construction. The concept
offers an alternative to Lamarckian mechanisms for an organism to direct
its own evolution. It's like the inheritance of acqu
*From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Nicholas Thompson
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 19, 2021 8:34 PM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam@redfish.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] stygmergy, CA's, and [biological] development
>
>
>
> Ugh. I was ma
Nifty!
On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 7:40 PM Jon Zingale wrote:
> If I could make the world as pure
> And strange as what I see
> I'd put you in the mirror
> I put in front of me
> I put in front of me
>
> Linger on your pale blue eyes
>
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Frank,
Still need help. Given events 1, 2, and 3, 3 has been screen off by 2 from
1, if the probability that 3 occurs given that 2 has occurred is equal to
the probability that 3 occurs given that both 2 and one have occurred.
As I understand mathematics this equality requires that the probabili
Hi, Bruce,
I finally found this. Email grief. Sorry to be so slow in answering.
Nick Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
Clark University
thompnicks...@gmail.com
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
*From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Bruce Simon
*Sent:* Wednesday,
ww.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2
>
> Phone (505) 670-9918
>
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 9:14 PM Nicholas Thompson
> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Bruce,
>>
>>
>>
>> I finally found this. Email grief. Sorry to be so slow in answering.
>>
erates no criticism and critics are "excommunicated" with prejudice.
>
> I would like to think of myself as someone interested in growing heritage
> tomatoes in my garden and marveling at the differences in taste and texture
> and finding very deep value from the use of them
Hi Jon, I am sitting outside at a Ohori‘s. Chris tells me that there’s some
sort of giant fork cook up that’s going to happen around six or maybe seven and
then we all should come. Not the kind of thing I could talk Kenny into I don’t
think but it might be fun to bring the kid to. They all smell
Let me take one more step in this analysis. Psychologists like to analyze
things in 2 x 2 tables so what about the 2 x 2 table that relates the intensive
extensive distinction in the aggregate emerging distinction. The upper left so
is easy so let’s begin there. It seems to me that aggregate pr
refers to two
quite different concepts so we have not a 2 x 2 table but a 2 x 2 x 2 cube.
Sent from my Dumb Phone
On Mar 25, 2022, at 5:41 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Let me take one more step in this analysis. Psychologists like to analyze
things in 2 x 2 tables so what about the 2 x 2
Hi Jon, that’s a pretty interesting dialogue. Do you happen to know what
heteroscedasticity is? It is a condition in which the variances of the sub
groups cannot be assumed to arise from a single population of her answers hence
it is improper to do an analysis of variance in which the subjects t
I am still without a computer, but will try to dictate more precisely, because
I am going stir crazy not being able to communicate with friam. There is a huge
literature in philosophy and cognitive science in which scientists ask people
to make inferences and then fall over themselves laughing
ch exploring how the participants understood
the question. Whether my interpretation is right or wrong, we should not be
in the position of speculating blindly.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 6:39 PM Nicholas Thompson wrote:
>
> I am still without a computer, but will try to dictate more precisely,
Hi Russ, it’s Nick I don’t have a computer at the moment, so I will be
mercifully short thanks for the heads up concerning the Wilson article. I will
try and find a way to read it. In the meantime if you have a ready I would love
to know how they handle the problem of inheritance from one group
During my exile from my computer I have spent much of the time reading the same
seven pages of sobers Primer on probability.
I have discovered, by deploying my English major algebra, that the ratio
between the probability of the hypothesis given the evidence and the likelihood
of the evidence gi
Has anybody questioned St. John’s about this matter?
Speaking as the groups only octogenarian, I think I will wait and see how many
septuagenarians die before I start participating again on Friday. Nick
Sent from my Dumb Phone
On Apr 11, 2022, at 1:11 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
I'll start t
Dictating:
I want to clarify a muddle I have introduced into our conversations about
natural selection. The middle I’ve introduced is in naming the statistical
conditions under which natural selection as possible. I have called this
condition “additivity a variance“. After a long conversation
Wow David. Them are some quotations! Thanks for them. Still dictating. Won’t
say more.
Nick
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On Apr 30, 2022, at 5:44 PM, Prof David West wrote:
From Iain McGilchrist, The Matter of Things, vol I, Our Brains, Our Delusions,
and the Unmaking of the World. (Top 5 most
least we have activity of something, here. I
won’t say more because the dictation function on this iPhone is particularly
sucky today. So you guys are all using your thumbs and not dictating, right?
Nick
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On Apr 28, 2022, at 9:57 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Dictating
Is there anything in the draft Scalia decision that would prevent states from
mandating a one child policy? I.e. Mandating sterilization after one birth.
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Thanks for these comments, JOCHEN.
I think Garfield’s point was that there is nothing but experience, So the
problem is, what is the special character of experiences to which we apply the
label real.
Nick
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On May 31, 2022, at 4:00 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
Interesting
Dave, I think I disagree. Not all experiences have a character of being real.
Only those that are confirm or subsequent experiences.
Sent from my Dumb Phone
On May 31, 2022, at 8:27 PM, Prof David West wrote:
At the risk of becoming a poster boy for glen's comments about cult maintenance
an
Is a rogue wave more than a black swan?
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Begin forwarded message:
From: National Geographic
Date: June 3, 2022 at 2:50:07 PM EDT
To: nthomp...@clarku.edu
Subject: [EXT] It’s terrifying. What explains a rogue wave?
Reply-To: "n...@email.nationalgeographic.com"
THE ORI
It’s Steve Bannon, Frank. Steve Bannon is out to get us all! out to blunt the
pointed head of every liberal he can find. How he gets me to run off the road
while getting you to slice off your finger while getting John to fall down a
flight of stairs is a mystery yet to be discovered. But it sure
Southeast USA? Or NM?
Sent from my Dumb Phone
On Aug 15, 2022, at 12:15 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
What I wrote here ^ doesn't make sense.
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Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
Santa Fe, NM 87505
505 670-9918
Santa Fe, NM
On Sun, Aug 14, 2022, 10:00 PM Frank Wimberly wrote:
> In this
For what it’s worth, I’ll be on between 1030 and 11 your time. Thanks for doing
this, Frank
N
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On Aug 24, 2022, at 8:27 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
I will start the Zoom meeting a little before 10am Mountain Time tomorrow.
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Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
Sa
I am at the moment living in a remote colony of rich peoples shacks, Hence no
Internet.
But I like the question so well I am forwarding it to the list. I will get back
to you when I do not have to thumb my answer.
N
Sent from my Dumb Phone
On Aug 30, 2022, at 11:27 AM, Eric Charles
wrote:
Let me in
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Jack at about 10:30 NM time.
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On Thu, Sep 1, 2022, 11:20 AM Nicholas Thompson wrote:
> Let me in
>
>
> Sent from m
Oh gosh pls say more. Are there images in motion? Astounding. N
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On Nov 30, 2022, at 7:50 PM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
One is as wide as the distance between Naples and NYC. winds can reach 220
miles per hour. The yellow measures around 9 degrees and the dark red reac
Today is the shortest afternoon of the year. Tomorrow, the afternoons will
start getting longer by a few msec. Unclear whether this is because the
sun is setting later or noon is occurring earlier, but we'll take it.
Welcome to Spring, 2023!
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x27;s, went
> to see my vintage 1941 new house, and drove through the earliest dusk of
> the year to my airbnb in Mesilla. Feel like crap, but I am already
> improving as the trauma of 7 hours in airline seats recedes into the past.
>
> -- rec --
>
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 9:
I am holding the meeting open for another half an hour or so in case
anybody wants to rant a rant. Not feeling very ranty myself today.
I know.
Nice spring day here in Santa fe.
n
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No. Spring! Something about hope in our darkest hours. N
On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 12:41 PM Gillian Densmore
wrote:
> spring? do you meen winter?
>
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 12:25 PM Nicholas Thompson
> wrote:
>
>> I am holding the meeting open for another half an hour or
Oh gosh. I should have something to say about this note the use of modal
language
(}8-(]
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On Dec 8, 2022, at 7:45 PM, Prof David West wrote:
I missed this morning's vFriam, but had I attended I would have raised the
following questions for discussions. Perhaps the l
I think it's a human. No selfrespecting bot could write that badly.
n
On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 11:09 PM Tom Johnson wrote:
>
> https://www.facebook.com/5722102/posts/pfbid0D8i4GuCUJeRsDJjM1JJtfkDYDMCb7Y7RdK2EoyVhRuctg9z2fhvpo1bB2WAxGBzcl/?sfnsn=mo&mibextid=ijjfgs
>
> ===
>
Sorry. I had an early morning dentist appointment that finished me off for
the day.
N
On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 12:34 PM Frank Wimberly wrote:
> This morning we were there from 9:00 to 11:00 MST. Sorry we missed you.
>
> ---
> Frank C. Wimberly
> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
> Santa Fe, NM 87505
>
> 505
*The relation between the believed in and the True is the relation between
a limited function and its limit. {a vector, and the thing toward which the
vector points?] Ultimately the observations that the function models
determine** the limit, but the limit is not determined by any particular
obs
To my uneducated eye, this seemed like one of Jon’s problems.Sent from my Dumb PhoneOn Jan 7, 2023, at 6:23 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:This answer seems reasonable to me. I worked on Project Talent during 1967 which had some similar goals and data. Seehttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Talen
is allowed to “fluctuate”, as we
> would say in statistics of sample estimators. The representation scheme
> itself, and our capacities to perceive through it, are all things we seek
> to bring into some convergence toward a “faithful representation” of “what
> is the case”.
>
Aw crap! The shortish answer that I meant to send had all sorts of junk appended! Sorry. Will resend soon. [blush] Sent from my Dumb PhoneOn Jan 12, 2023, at 8:54 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:Dear EricS, Glen, and anybody else who is following. Thank you so much for pitching in. As I have
, Jan 15, 2023 at 4:09 PM Nicholas Thompson
wrote:
> Aw crap! The shortish answer that I meant to send had all sorts of junk
> appended! Sorry. Will resend soon. [blush]
>
> Sent from my Dumb Phone
>
> On Jan 12, 2023, at 8:54 PM, Nicholas Thompson
> wrote:
>
>
>
I am finding what Mail.google does to messages so confusing that I am gong
to try to simplify here.
EricS writes
*My liking of the analogy of sample estimators and underlying values
*Ii.e.values
on which the estimations converge--NST*] **is that, if one felt that were a
valid analogy to a speci
David,
Thank you David for helping me think. I don't know about anybody else, but
your questions certainly tend to my edification. I am going to take them
for coffee and try to answer them, if only for my self.
You are VERY, VERY kind.
NIck
On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 8:46 AM Prof David West wrot
to friam
Dear David and other helpful persons,
Thanks again for your help here. Man! Do I look forward to your definitive
work on experience! All this cogitation is exhausting me.
Your comment that I might dismiss your questions has an edge that I didn’t
see when you first made it. There is,
?
Nick
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Sorry, Dave. Will miss you. You have been my most faithful recent
companion in my quest for windmills to topple. As for your double take, I
probably used the wrong initials. I was thinking about the AI thing which,
I gather, Bing is now employing to get us all advice on how to cure our
lumbago, w
got an extra 2 years of life out of my iPhone 8.
>
> --
> Kasra “Kaz” Manavi, PhD
> Director of Research & Communications, Simtable
> (505) 450-9560 k...@simtable.com
> http://www.simtable.com
>
> On Feb 13, 2023, at 3:06 PM, N
associations among experiences... their experiences, not ours.
n
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 6:14 PM Nicholas Thompson
wrote:
> Sorry, Dave. Will miss you. You have been my most faithful recent
> companion in my quest for windmills to topple. As for your double take, I
> probably used
A category.
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On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 10:23 AM Steve Smith wrote:
> Might I offer some terminology reframing, or at least ask for some
> additional explication?
>
>1. I think "behaviours" would be all Nick's
Our family rule was, "Don't name anything you aren't ready to take to the
vet."
On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 10:47 AM Steve Smith wrote:
> This may be something of a "punt" but I tripped over an essay on BCS's
> OOO a few weeks ago and I've been wanting to introduce it into the
> conversation. I wo
>
>
> Original message ----
> From: Nicholas Thompson
> Date: 2/16/23 10:22 AM (GMT+01:00)
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
>
> Cc: Mike Bybee
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Thuram still happening?
>
> DISCUSS: If we were Martians sent
The Martians would be experiencing the animals without the lens of human
categories. I guess the question is, Would they even come up with the
category of experience. I think they would because, as Nicholas Thompson
said in his excellent article in WIRED magazine, every biological system
Last time I checked, the average number of attached males has to equal the average number of attached females, unless, of course, females, feel attached to men who don’t feel attached.Sent from my Dumb PhoneBegin forwarded message:From: The Hill Date: February 22, 2023 at 7:01:34 AM MSTTo: nthomp..
Ach! Frank. Sorry. I got here late even for me, and now I pretty much
have to go for a dentist appointment.
this is only going to get worse for me net week when ten oclock becomes
eleven oclock.
With the onslaught of Daylight Saving Time in mind, perhaps we could ask
the list, if Thuam could oc
However, it's important to remember that there are also important differences between a large language model and human consciousness. While a large language model can generate text that may seem to flow like a stream of consciousness, it does not have the same kind of subjective experience that hum
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Ahh. found it in Gmail. Outlook is failing me.
mine was a bit of a hail mary. I wanted to point out to you the possible
contradiction between Deleuze and the notion that a tree could repeat
itself.
N
On Sun, May 9, 2021 at 11:24 AM jon zingale wrote:
> Wonderful read, thanks for that. I lik
Hi. Dave. A perennial problem. To the extent that the population of interest is
the same as the population sampled, the problem is alleviated.
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And what is "creativity"? Did I miss that in the abstract.
On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 11:17 AM glen wrote:
>
> Creativity Enhancement Methods for Adults: A Meta-Analysis
> https://repository.essex.ac.uk/34344/
>
> > Abstract
> >
> > This meta-analysis synthesizes 332 effect sizes of various meth
Hey, Dave! Congratulations!!!
On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 8:09 AM Prof David West
wrote:
> I am keynoting the International Conference on Code Quality on April 22.
> It will be speculative and philosophical, but I would like to know "code
> quality" might mean, is taken for granted to mean, to prof
Phellow Phriammers,
After having my phone completely tied up by robocalls during some medical
troubles, I put out cold hard cash for the CPR Call Blocker recommended by
my carrier. I have now blocked 70 numbers, and new ones come in daily,
although the rate has substantially decreased. I have t
gill, thanks for the warning. Be assured that I don't any more. Just
press the big red button. NIck
On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 12:47 PM Nicholas Thompson
wrote:
> Phellow Phriammers,
>
> After having my phone completely tied up by robocalls during some medical
> troubles, I
obody leaves a message.
>
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> Frank C. Wimberly
> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
> Santa Fe, NM 87505
>
> 505 670-9918
> Santa Fe, NM
>
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2023, 12:47 PM Nicholas Thompson
> wrote:
>
>> Phellow Phriammers,
>>
>> After having my phone com
Any thoughts? My wife’s Mac and my cell phone are both able to connect to the
Internet. My computer is able to put in the modem. I have run the Microsoft
troubleshoot protocol three times without success. Trouble chooser suggest it
might be a firewall problem. I I have McAfee.
Sent from my Dumb
Frank,
So is sex, if you think about it. Yet, .
On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 3:20 PM Frank Wimberly wrote:
> My grandsons' girlfriends (twenty-somethings) say that they think babies
> are disgusting. I hope they change their minds. In any case, what does a
> shortage of babies have to do with
https://wcc.sc.egov.usda.gov/nwcc/view?intervalType=+View+Current+&report=WYGRAPH×eries=Daily&format=plot&sitenum=922&interval=WATERYEARSent from Mail for Windows The Joon Nonsoon continues. N
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Sitting here at the farm, watching the Normandy poplars bend in the Southeast
wind, I am led to wonder why trees don’t make use of wind energy. There must be
a tangible amount of heat generated by the bending of branches. Is there no way
to use that heat for, for instance, convection of fluids
t; imprisonment rooted in the ground. But they never seem so to me. I never
> saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and
> though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering
> forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming l
Thanks Frank. I will look in at some point. N
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 11:58 PM Frank Wimberly wrote:
> Because of a conflict I won't be able to start Thursday's meeting until
> about 10:00 MDT (Santa Fe time). It's possible that Stephen might start it
> earlier but it will definitely start by
Frank, you can add this to your categories of cloud, cumulo-nimbus, cumulus
congestus, cumulus castellatus, cumulo-arboris, and now cumulo-nevis
Actually, if I have my Latin right, it could be known as nix cumulus.
Nick.
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On Sun, Jul 2, 2023 at 10:42 AM Barry MacKichan <
barry.mackic...@mackichan.com> wrote:
> But that was your point, wasn’t it?
>
> On 2 Jul 2023, at 10:40, Barry MacKichan wrote:
>
> Looks like snow to me. Like by our driveway when I was young.
> —Barry
>
> On
when you get to the end. Yeah. Really.
Nick
-- Forwarded message -
From: Frank Wimberly
Date: Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 2:53 PM
Subject: Fwd: Watch "The Most Important Idea in Physics: The Principle of
Least Action - Ask a Spaceman!" on YouTube
To: Nicholas Thompson
-
thematical intuitions might apply, right? Does anyone on
the list have an intuition for why the difference between the energy of
motion and the energy of position should be what guides all motion in the
universe?
Nick
On Sun, Jul 2, 2023 at 12:27 PM Nicholas Thompson
wrote:
> Frank,
>
>
of what is going on here.
But thanks for trying, Frank.
N
N
On Sun, Jul 2, 2023 at 12:27 PM Nicholas Thompson
wrote:
> Frank,
>
> Thanks SO MUCH for forwarding this to me. To any other defrocked english
> majors on Friam, who have listened to these guys blather on about
>
t it as the definitive answer.
> Perhaps someone else has a compelling intuitive explanation? I am open to
> hearing different perspectives.
>
> Moreover, for practical mechanical engineering calculations involving
> forces and motion in the real world, Newtonian physics surpasses the
&g
Diddle I say so?
On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 2:17 AM Stephen Guerin
wrote:
> The Action is the integral of the Lagrangian along the whole path, not
> just a single instant.
>
> On Sun, Jul 2, 2023, 9:12 PM Nicholas Thompson
> wrote:
>
>> So the difference is at a positive ma
The Action is the integral of the Lagrangian along the whole path, not
> just a single instant.
>
> On Sun, Jul 2, 2023, 9:12 PM Nicholas Thompson
> wrote:
>
>> So the difference is at a positive max when the ball hits the ground and
>> at a negative maximum when the ball
: Friam on behalf of Nicholas Thompson
Sent: Saturday, July 1, 2023 3:40 PM
To: Frank Wimberly ; friam@redfish.com
Subject: [EXT] [FRIAM] Cumulus Nevis
Frank, you can add this to your categories of cloud, cumulo-nimbus, cumulus
congestus, cumulus castellatus, cumulo-arboris, and now cumulo
Diane will explain!
Sent from my Dumb Phone
On Jul 3, 2023, at 1:01 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Good idea. Aren’t they the same?
Sent from my Dumb Phone
On Jul 3, 2023, at 12:29 PM, John Kennison wrote:
Hi Nick,
We have been entertaining visitors for the week-end. I did notice that
Dear Colleagues,
Jon Z and Frank have me reading Cormac McCarthy. I have started with his
last book, Stella Maris (?Star of the Sea?). It is the dialogue that each
of us has always wished we had with our psychiatrist . It is witty, often
funny, makes lots of references to Los Alamos, is always
That is indeed a nifty quote, frank. Thanks for posting it.
I spaced out and came late to Thuram. Stephen and had a really
enlightening (for me) conversation..
Well into my second reading of MCarthy's Stella Maris.
N
On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 11:33 AM Frank Wimberly wrote:
> Joe Ramsey, who
Some examples I like to think about:
Waves arrange pebbles on a beach from small to large
A puddle maintains its temperature at 32 degrees as long as it has ice in
it.
The carotid sinus maintains the acidity of the blood by causing us to
breath more oxygen when it gets to acid. (I hope I have t
intuition of what makes an agent.
>
> -- Russ
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 8:06 PM Nicholas Thompson
> wrote:
>
>> Some examples I like to think about:
>>
>> Waves arrange pebbles on a beach from small to large
>>
>> A puddle maintains its temp
at 2:05 PM Nicholas Thompson
wrote:
> Hi, Russ,
>
> I have a non-scientist friend to whom I sometimes show my posts here for
> guidance. I showed him some recent posts and he wrote back, "Wow, Nick!
> You are really swinging for the fences, here!" He and I know that o
Steve,
I am standing by. I will check every fifteen minutes beginning at 12.15
mdt. Thinking a bit more about the lightening situation: From the start,
each "side" has an positive feedback effect on the other. So the effect
of a positive charge in the cloud is to concentrate negative charge
Ok, folks. I apologize to those of you who are fed up with my kitchen
physics, but there has been a bit of a development in that saga that I want
to share with those few of you who aren’t. Years ago, I came home for the
summer with my ears ringing with the notion that structures are formed to
dis
(ecological
> dynamics, physiology versus natural selection in populations, and on and
> on). So, good to have ongoing interest. The amount one has to say to have
> spoken carefully, to figure out what categories are coherent for which to
> try to generate answers, remains striking (at le
In a moment of supreme indolence [and no small amount of arrogance] I took
on the rhetorical challenge of explaining the correct solution of the Monty
Hall problem (switch). I worked at it for several days and now I think it
is perfect.
*The Best Explanation of the Solution of the Monty Hall Pr
he is probably trying to avoid having to give me an expensive
> car.
>
> A mathematical proof requires nothing but cold logic. Finding a proof
> usually requires intuition.
>
> --John
>
> --
> *From:* Friam on behalf of Nicholas Thompson <
Hi, Steve,
Thanks for your observations concerning bad hand writing and early typing
as shaping The Mind, for better or for worse. My handwriting is hopeless.
I cannot even read my own notes. Not sure what it has done to my mind, but
it is something else that we share.
I know I am bending the th
Hi, all,
I was casting about for a podcast on meteorology and stumbled on this guy. I
can’t tell if he’s a total raging loon. he says some interesting things about
the properties of water and then claims that convection is a myth! I could not
find any trace of him on the web except this podcas
orisms was "Water is *WEIRD!"*
*Nick*
On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 12:57 AM Pieter Steenekamp <
piet...@randcontrols.co.za> wrote:
> I listened to the podcast and my opinion is that this guy, James McGinn,
> is a crackpot.
>
> On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 05:28, Nicholas Thompson
Nothing could be more calculated to bring an old pedant out from under his
rock than this thread:
Mine is the use of "incredible" to mean "excellent". As in, "Don't you
think Rachel Maddow is an incredible commentator?" There was an Australian
Philosopher, David Stove, who wrote a book called,
Hey Frank,
On your way to server tomorrow, for future reference, check out Chomp,
which is in the Luna center, along with Ohoris, at the intersection of
Cerrillos and Manhattan. It’s an ugly space and I don’t know what they have
for breakfast, but the coffee is good and there are long tables and I
, Dec 28, 2023, 5:46 PM Nicholas Thompson <thompnicks...@gmail.com> wrote:Hey Frank,On your way to server tomorrow, for future reference, check out Chomp, which is in the Luna center, along with Ohoris, at the intersection of Cerrillos and Manhattan. It’s an ugly space and I don’t know wha
DID people come?Was it OK?
N
On Fri, Jan 5, 2024 at 9:52 AM Frank Wimberly wrote:
> I am at Chomp, Manhattan at Cerrillos I think. Nick suggested that this
> is more comfortable than Saveur. I hope someone gets here soon. I am
> trying to occupy a community table.
>
> It's attached to O'
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