Re: [FRIAM] the end of the pandemic

Perhaps some data (from the last years that I could find) would put the 'anthropologists' argument in perspective? 2017-now US Population about 320 million. *US Suicides* *2017* 14.0 per 100,000 Total: *47,173* *US Motor Vehicle Fatalities* *2018* 11.18 per 100,000 Total: *36,5

[FRIAM] Economics 101?

Meanwhile, during this pandemic/economic crisis, where has all the money gone? The people laid off don't have it, their employers don't have, their laid off customers don't have it. Landlords and mortgage holders probably don't have it because their clients are not making the payments like they

Re: [FRIAM] Economics 101?

could, in effect, monetize transactions within the family. N Nicholas Thompson Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology Clark University thompnicks...@gmail.com https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ -Original Message----- From: Friam On Behalf Of Robert J. Cordingley Sent: Tues

[FRIAM] Babel was Re: OK. That's funny.

So I visited the Library of Babel site. Fascinating and potentially a productivity sink for the rest of the day for FRIAM types. Searching coherent English phrases, such as that last sentence, successfully found ~10^29 possible exact matches. Now the statistics don't worry my so much as how doe

Re: [FRIAM] flu versus COVID

All So... I have to suggest to the locals, see 350santafe.org , everyone else see 350.org for a local chapter. There's a lot of work to do and lots of skill and expertise required. Lurking Robert On 9/13/20 12:29 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: Dave wri

Re: [FRIAM] Trump as a victim

Trump is A Problem. The system that put him there is The Problem. It'll still be there after November regardless. RJC PS I read Mary Trump's book and felt sorry for him. That lasted about 10 seconds. R On 10/7/20 5:04 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: I think of him as a wounded hippo and I don't l

Re: [FRIAM] election eve

FWIW and then similarly someone came up with: /*It's those with insight who must make the concessions*/. (which sucks). On "half the country is batshit crazy" - to be generous a big percentage of voters were struggling making a living or making ends meet, raising kids, making payments, etc.,

[FRIAM] What if he refuses to concede?

You have to watch this Ted Talk if you don't know. It gets messy. https://youtu.be/WZWRhLW7Y8w -- Cirrillian Web Design & Development Santa Fe, NM http://cirrillian.com 281-989-6272 (cell) - . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Frid

Re: [FRIAM] Biden beats Trump

BTW, I worry smiling Pompeo wasn't in denial he was predicting a 'smooth transition to a second term'. Meanwhile, PBS is showing the Rise of the Nazis see https://www.pbs.org/show/rise-nazis/. It took 4 years for the Nazis to destroy democracy. -Robert C On 11/11/20 4:11 PM, David Eric Smit

Re: [FRIAM] incitement

So textually analyze "will no one rid me of this turbulent priest "! Your last sentiment if widely held is scary indeed. Acquitting is being absolved of the crime.  As others have pointed out what would a president

Re: [FRIAM] Acronyms

I think you're discussing initialisms not acronyms. Laser, scuba and Nasa are acronyms. TLA is a TLI On 1/26/21 9:33 AM, Barry MacKichan wrote: Clearly a context-sensitive TLA. On 26 Jan 2021, at 11:24, Frank Wimberly wrote: Three Mile Island, of course. - . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .

Re: [FRIAM] What is Wealth for?

Steve If you are taking a poll... For starters on what wealth might mean economically, it might be useful to understand the cost of living and purchasing power by country .  Is 'wealthy' some factor based on a ratio of income over cost of living?

Re: [FRIAM] What is Wealth for?

my can be equated with the markets, etc.   How much terror and suffering is enough to make one doubt ones definition of wealth? *From:* Friam mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com>> *On Behalf Of *Robert J. Cordingley *Sent:* Saturday,

Re: [FRIAM] Whew!

Let me throw some things into this mix Some estimates (SFNewMexican ) suggest in total over $3.12 million was spent by both sides on the campaign

Re: [FRIAM] Whew!

Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Whew! Ya gotta love the City Different: Inline image 1 The small print: Inline image 2 On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 11:37 AM, Robert J. Cordingley mailto:rob...@cirrillian.com>> wrote: Let me throw some things into th

Re: [FRIAM] Whew!

. *From:*Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Robert J. Cordingley *Sent:* Sunday, May 07, 2017 1:50 PM *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Whew! Taxes bypassed? Probably not so. See https://www.abqjournal.com/962831/amazon-to

Re: [FRIAM] Five Predictions as Cities Learn to Address Wireless Health Risks

re: RFR exposure: Did anyone notice in the linked paper that the control rats probability of survival was lower than the exposed rats? /At the end of the 2-year study, survival was lower in the control group of m

[FRIAM] Greek Crisis & Philosophy

As part of my continuing search for understanding how the world works and the role of philosophy... 1st question: It's been pointed out in a recent Washington Post article

Re: [FRIAM] Greek Crisis & Philosophy

It used to bug my British parents that Germany's factories got rebuilt out of the Marshall Plan deal while Britain's, that were also heavily bombed, didn't. Think of the impact that must have had on the economic competitiveness of the two countries for a long time. However, as a means to avoid

Re: [FRIAM] Amphibians of Colorado - Reptiles and Amphibians of Colorado

To build on Gary's suggestions there's a review of DIY Websites at http://www.websitebuilderexpert.com/diy-website-builder/. Comparisons from September 4 this year include Wix, Squarespace, Weebly, Jindo, GoDaddy and IM Creator, but none are free. WordPress.com is free a

Re: [FRIAM] Amphibians of Colorado - Reptiles and Amphibians of Colorado

A correction: Wix, Weebly, Jimdo, IM Creator do have free plans see the comparison chart at http://www.websitebuilderexpert.com/website-builders-comparison-chart/ Thanks Robert On 9/11/15 12:14 PM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote: To build on Gary's suggestions there's a review of DIY W

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Amphibians of Colorado - Reptiles and Amphibians of Colorado

At the risk of perhaps stating the obvious, WordPress.com (which hosts sites with some limitations) is different from wordpress.org which provides documentation, resources and know how primarily for developers to host their own WordPress site with no limitations and with access to the core code

Re: [FRIAM] Hosting Service

Hi Owen, Most hosting companies will offer a VPS which will give you total control of the *nix platform. Costs more but you can install whatever you want including your own versions of PHP and MySQL for example. Shared hosting accounts don't allow that but suspect you know this. Here's a rep

Re: [FRIAM] go programs

Here's the link for match 4 (of 5) that AlphaGo resigned. Score now stands at 3:1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCALyQRN3hw Post match press conference starts around 5:45:10 - a big news event in Korea. Robert C On 3/13/16 8:00 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: I've been watching parts of the ma

Re: [FRIAM] go programs

train itself". FYI the final match 5 is on Monday Mar 14 9:00 pm Mountain Time - Tuesday Mar 15 04:00 GMT Robert C On 3/13/16 9:03 AM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote: Here's the link for match 4 (of 5) that AlphaGo resigned. Score now stands at 3:1. https://www.youtube.com/w

Re: [FRIAM] go programs

There were stories during the expert systems episode in the 80's that some experts when debriefed in an attempt to identify their rules went on to lose faith in their own expertise and to resign from the field. Other anecdotes talked about how some experts weren't capable of expressing their ex

Re: [FRIAM] go programs

Access, for a fee, to the original Jan, 2016 Nature article on AlpahGo is at http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v529/n7587/full/nature16961.html. The freely available abstract says it uses deep neural networks ('value networks' and 'policy networks'), tree search and Monte Carlo algorithms.

[FRIAM] [ SPAM ] Re: Here's to the 1%!

Seems the question revolves around societies' morals. Jesse Prinz (a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York) writing in Philosophy Now suggests that societies do not converge on

[FRIAM] [ SPAM ] Re: Anyone from England

From an ol-ex-pat... I listened to BBC World Service live on my iPhone app with mounting surprise as the returns showed the Leave solidifying their gains. I agree Cameron gambled and lost. I can sympathize with some resentment towards the 'faceless' bureaucrats in Brussels making fine-grained

Re: [FRIAM] Understanding you-folks

My question is then what do Analog Computers do and how do they fit into Nick's exploration? As I recall they have no procedures but do produce 'answers' without computation as we commonly know it these days. They probably have an 'accept state' t

Re: [FRIAM] Window Blinds

Hi Owen We have some kind of honeycomb blinds from Coronado too - there's one 'cell' that extends across the full width. We have no reason not to recommend Coronado, they came out to measure and everything fits great. I have my own repair kit to replace broken cords - bought online. It's pre

Re: [FRIAM] Window Blinds

Hi Robert, Any link to your repair kit ? Joe On 7/17/16 10:10 PM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote: Hi Owen We have some kind of honeycomb blinds from Coronado too - there's one 'cell' that extends across the full width. We have no reason not to recommend Coronado, they came out t

Re: [FRIAM] Model of induction

Based on https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce/#dia - it looks like abduction (AAA-2) to me - ie developing an educated guess as to which might be the winning wheel. Enough funds should find it with some degree of certainty but that may be a different question and should use different stati

Re: [FRIAM] Model of induction

ng to live with to get somewhere in reasoning. All best, Eric On Dec 12, 2016, at 12:44 PM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote: Based on https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce/#dia - it looks like abduction (AAA-2) to me - ie developing an educated guess as to which might be the winning wheel. Enough fu

Re: [FRIAM] scraping a web site

Hi Nick Your old Earthlink site seems to comprise just about ten 'pages' of content, with many of those pages (Published Works) listing many bibliographic citations, each with a link to an image and further link to a pdf document. Grabbing all the content manually is perhaps tedious but doabl

Re: [FRIAM] scraping a web site

Hi Glen So I'm curious, what tools did you use to do Nick's migration? Thanks, Robert On 1/4/17 10:28 AM, glen ep ropella wrote: Hey Nick, I went ahead and downloaded your page(s) and put it up here: http://agent-based-modeling.com/ntnd/nickthompson/naturaldesigns/index.html Let me know

Re: [FRIAM] The year ahead

“Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.” ― Aristotle, The Philosophy of Aristotle and from Psychology Today a build and an argument to get control of the media too: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-power-rest/201303/give-us-kid-till-shes-7-and-well-have-her-life T

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

Aren't you now talking about different reasoning models/tasks: Classification Diagnosis Hypothetical Reasoning Bayesian Fuzzy logic etc. On the other hand I've always felt the medical community named too many diseases and conditions after their symptoms usually in a hi-falutin format rather th

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

The Washington Post has an interesting essay from a Venezuelan on what to do and mostly what not to do. https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/01/27/in-venezuela-we-couldnt-stop-chavez-dont-make-the-same-mistakes-we-did Robert C On 1/28/17 11:21 AM, Nick Thompson wrote: Ok S

Re: [FRIAM] AI advance

You can find go players in Santa Fe, NM by visiting the http://santafegoclub.org website and attending their meets and any teaching sessions. For other places see the AGA at http://usgo.org or the EGF at http://www.eurogofed.org/ AlphaGo went on to beet Korean top player Lee Seedol 4-1 in Marc

Re: [FRIAM] AI advance

So once AI machines are allowed to start designing themselves with at least the goal for increasing performance, how long have we got? (It doesn't matter whether we (ie the US) allow that or some other resourceful, perhaps military, organization does it.) Didn't Hawking fear runaway AI as a big

Re: [FRIAM] on the obustness of globalism

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." - possibly paraphrased from a 1935 Sinclair Lewis novel. On 2/2/17 11:23 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: *“*Where are our shared values?” Once imposed, they will be our shared values. http://thehill.com/homenews

Re: [FRIAM] Naïve physics question

Seems like from a thermodynamics question you can first think of having two identical systems with identical energy inputs. Unless one of the systems is capable of storing energy in some form differently from the other the equilibrium temperatures should be the same. Now CFBs emit more of the

[FRIAM] Fractals/Chaos/Manifolds

OK, why are mathematical manifolds called that? It seems such a weird and out of place term. I've tried to find out without success. Robert C -- Cirrillian Web Design & Development Santa Fe, NM http://cirrillian.com 281-989-6272 (cell) Member Design Corps of Santa Fe ===

Re: [FRIAM] Fractals/Chaos/Manifolds

In one German dictionary I found /mannigfaltigkeit/ translates to /variousness/ which seems pretty obtuse but indicates it may have less to do with the original entymology of /manifold/ (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/manifold Entymology 1). Per Dean's pdf, perhaps it's a made up usage inspired

[FRIAM] Blockchain Questions

From The Verge* with my emphases; 'Like blockchain technologies, this information will be *write-only*...' - funny! 'Blockchain entities like Bitcoin are distributed among lots of different players require a lot of power (computing and literal) to compile and check — *as much as a small coun

[FRIAM] Broadband in NM

Does anyone local have any ideas/insight why the NM governor vetoed the LOCAL GOV'T BROADBAND INFRASTRUCTURE SB24 bill? Sour grapes? See http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=d1faf3c75d2ac5da75ced6dd5&id=130117cfbe&e=0bf456e615 "The bill passed the Senate by a vote of 37-1 and passed una

Re: [FRIAM] Dumb Experiment

May be you saw this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmINGWsyWX0 Enjoy, Robert On 3/24/17 9:49 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: Me: OK Google, speak to Alexa Google: Alexa, will you be my friend? Alexa: Sure, I'm always happy to make new friends. They must have anticipated that someone would try

Re: [FRIAM] re-use achieved!

I wonder how much of today's success is a result of advances in onboard computing power and advanced sensor and control technologies. I'd imagine a big chunk. Any suggestions? Thanks, Robert C On 3/30/17 8:20 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: Wow. Just Wow. First second flight. Ever. EVER! On Thu, M

Re: [FRIAM] Teckies and the Pols!

A PBS series "How Art Made the World" is being rebroadcast in Houston and reminds us in a recent episode of "the persuasive power of art". (http://www.pbs.org/howartmadetheworld/episodes/persuasion/) So politicians don't just exploit Science and Engineering to gather and wield power they als

[FRIAM] A small piece of computing history

For a story and an old B&W news reel item about the first real(?) computer, see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7465115.stm Thanks Robert C FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's Co

Re: [FRIAM] RANT: Acronyms

M2c (My two cents)... We should stick with: acronyms are words (names, see all the other -onyms) made from initials e.g. Scuba, while intialisms are strings (not recognized as words) made from initials e.g. FDIC. In either case, first usage should be spelled out unless it has reached the verna

Re: [FRIAM] Physics world, astronomy issue

I filled in all the fields (skipping the optionals gave me the invalid session cookie message) and it started to download a 14+ MB pdf file with a pretty picture on the cover of some astronomist. Since this essentially locked up my laptop and my copy of Firefox I had to kill it at 750kb. Othe

Re: [FRIAM] vol 69, issue 14 - organic gardening

In the NOVA PBS show, after lots of field investigations it was all tied to the fruiting of the local bamboo forest in North East India. The rat population exploded every 48 yrs (sic) - the cycle of bamboo fruiting. (Interesting side story - the investigating middle-aged biologist thought he w

Re: [FRIAM] (no subject)

We used to eat swedes (aka rutabaga) when I grew up in England. Roasted it seems it was a little like sweet potatoes. On the original (?) pasty see Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_pasty another mining connection. Robert C Gary Schiltz wrote: You haven't lived until you've eate

Re: [FRIAM] What is friam REALLY about?

Lettuce all turnip and root for FRIAM at the next meat. (four) Robert C (Can they get any worse? - But wait it can't be that bad, there was a NYT Op-ed 'Puns for the Ages' yesterday.) Ted Carmichael wrote: You mean the true nature of FRIAM is emerging organically? (three) On Sun, Mar 29, 2009

Re: [FRIAM] Invitation to Conversation/Discussion/Debate

I agree with glen about the need for some explanation. It's possible I would put my own spin on what is right or wrong with current reward systems based on my own prejudices. (I focus reward here purely on the financial.) Recently we saw horror at bailout funds used for bonuses and the result

Re: [FRIAM] Emergent behavior, or scripted?

I get it! Railway stations are emergent phenomena of terpsichorean cultures. Robert C Pamela McCorduck wrote: Another such video exists that took place at the Liverpool Street station in London. But this one tells all about the rehearsals of the principals, how it was set up, how the profession

Re: [FRIAM] Free seminar on ArcGIS tools in U.S.

Here's a better location URL http://www.esri.com/events/seminars/webmaps/locations/locations.html Robert C Tom Johnson wrote: FYI, gang. Hey, the price is right, should you be interested in mapping. I'll be driving down from Santa Fe, should anyone want to car pool. -Tom Johnson (t..

Re: [FRIAM] Obama on nuclear energy

When it comes to climate control, climate change, global warming, glacier melting etc., why do we never hear from the elephant in the room - population and birth control? If the worst things, as we've been told, for carbon footprint are homes, vehicles and food production (cows in particular a

[FRIAM] Methane Hydrates and global warming models

Methane Hydrates are slightly less of a worry for global warming: http://www.isa.org/Content/ContentGroups/News/2009/April39/Ancient_methane_emissions_not_from_seafloor.htm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_hydrates But a factor that must be extremely difficult to include in any model. Robe

[FRIAM] The Cern Rap

You may have seen this; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM Robert C FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

Re: [FRIAM] CIFellows Project Launched

Perhaps of interest to some on this list. Robert C Dear Colleague: The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and the Computing Research Association (CRA), with funding from the National Science Foundation, announce an opportunity for new PhD graduates in computer science and close

Re: [FRIAM] Online university

The Open University is based in the UK so as with other UK academic institutions it has the .ac.uk 'domain'. See http://www.open.ac.uk/ Thanks Robert Alfredo Covaleda wrote: Gary, Maybe you are right, but look that Open University, for example, haven't got edu domain. We'll look forward t

Re: [FRIAM] consciousness

Based on my experience with AI/Expert Systems using Inference Engines I think one of the problems is deciding what 'knowing' means. Let's start with this axiom: Data (D), Information (I) and Knowledge (K) are different things. "451 deg F" is data (perhaps from a sensor) "The temperature of m

[FRIAM] Goldman Sachs owns your government

An interesting tho' provocative article about the current and past financial crises that some on this list might find interesting. At least it seems G-S has a better model than the other guys especially since (it's claimed) they get to write the rules. See: http://www.rollingstone.com/politi

Re: [FRIAM] Where?

It was my understanding from last Friday that there were going to be St.J events for the next 2 weeks as well, ie tomorrow and next week. So I think it's Downtown Sub. Robert C Owen Densmore wrote: Downtown Sub? .. or St John's? -- Owen ===

[FRIAM] Roundabouts: not for the timid

Following a brief discussion last Friday on roundabouts, here's the Google Map/Satellite image of what's known as the 'Magic Roundabout' in Hemel Hempstead (not Newport Pagnell as I thought but I was right it is six sided). http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=hemel+hemp

Re: [FRIAM] Roundabouts: not for the timid

-- Robert On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Robert J. Cordingley mailto:rob...@cirrillian.com>> wrote: Following a brief discussion last Friday on roundabouts, here's the Google Map/Satellite image of what's known as the 'Magic Roundabout' in Hemel Hempste

Re: [FRIAM] Roundabouts: not for the timid

It's because early US experience gave priority to traffic entering the circle (like the French may still do - Priorité â droit) instead of giving priority to traffic in the circle (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_circles ) Note: driving on the left and priority on the right gives prio

Re: [FRIAM] Facebook: OK, now what!?

And I'd also like to sail the sea in a sieve because it's cheap. FB, TW, BS, PBW, etc are froth on that sea. (But perhaps here is the big picture: Non Sequitur .) Just look at the deteriorati

Re: [FRIAM] Game theorists hope to solve world's crises

FWIW "Doubt is the antidote to fanaticism" but I don't recall who wrote it in the NYT. So I guess fanatic = wacko. Robert C glen e. p. ropella wrote: Quoting Russ Abbott circa 09-12-02 01:18 PM: Glen, do you distinguish between perceptions/[perspectives, models and scientific theories?

[FRIAM] 48 core chips

What could you do with a 48 core chip in your computer: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Intel-Shows-Off-48Core-Chip-604865/?kc=EWKNLENT12042009STR1 ? Robert C FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at

Re: [FRIAM] Rethinking artificial intelligence

Didn't it take an algorithm (an Inference Engine) to process the heuristics? Also show me some silicon that doesn't use an algorithm somewhere. So do you suppose the Mind Machine Project is a way to break free of this computing/algorithmic model? Robert C Pamela McCorduck wrote: Most of ear

Re: [FRIAM] A little Proof, Dr Thurston! It aint Elementary!

I think this is him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thurston Thanks Robert C plissa...@comcast.net wrote: Who the Hell is Dr. Thurston? And how does he support his astonishing statement that mathematical proofs are "easier" than programming? I can respond only with my own experience.

Re: [FRIAM] Rethinking artificial intelligence

ale. Has anyone read Penrose's book and can recommend it or not (even tho' it was awarded a prize by the Royal Society)? Robert C Robert J. Cordingley wrote: Didn't it take an algorithm (an Inference Engine) to process the heuristics? Also show me some silicon that doesn't use an

Re: [FRIAM] From Tibet to the edge of The Universe and back in 6:31 video: Rich Murray 2009.12.19

Also, here's the TED talk by George Smoot from May 2008 that includes video presentation of the structure of the universe with dark matter included and where galaxies sit. http://www.ted.com/talks/george_smoot_on_the_design_of_the_universe.html Thanks Robert C Rich Murray wrote: From Tibet t

[FRIAM] On Crowd Sourcing

The dark side of crowd sourcing: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18315 Thanks Robert C FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at htt

Re: [FRIAM] ambiguity and mathematics

I think there's ambiguity here in what is a Mathematician. There's the research mathematician that's trying to find something new to say about the subject, faced with all the prior work, working in a niche that's obtuse to almost all of us. Then there's the teacher of mathematics who insists

Re: [FRIAM] Meaningful announcement, or

Time machines are easy. Just bury something vaguely valuable (with a note) in a safe place no-one can find (at least for a while). When it becomes valuable and found it will fund the needed research to build the machine for you and come back and get you. There was a nice SF story based on th

Re: [FRIAM] iPad

The video looks d*** good too: http://www.apple.com/ipad/ipad-video/ but there's no mention of a phone... darn. Surely someone will add an app for that? Robert C On 1/27/10 10:10 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: I'm surprised at how good the critter seems. My main concern is that it doesn't have a c

Re: [FRIAM] The Go Programming Language

Is there no way to keep 'Go' (n) preserved for the fabulous ancient oriental art! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)) Robert C On 1/28/10 2:08 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: On 1/28/10 1:58 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: I haven't looked lately: how thread-safe are the c++ stl implementati

Re: [FRIAM] The Go Programming Language

e game "weiqi" (Chinese) or "baduk" (Korean). -- rec -- On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Robert J. Cordingley mailto:rob...@cirrillian.com>> wrote: Is there no way to keep 'Go' (n) preserved for the fabulous ancient oriental art! (http://en.wiki

Re: [FRIAM] Air

No sync required: I just have division of purpose. But then I only have an XP laptop and a MacOSX laptop. Thanks Robert PS never had an Air. R On 2/1/10 12:07 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: On Jan 30, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: In thinking about my "device ecology" in the iPad discussi

Re: [FRIAM] Dive Into HTML5

I can confirm Chrome v5.0.307.7 detects on Mac 10.6.2 (but only after it did an auto update), as follows: #1: Geolocation: No. #2: Canvas: Yes #3: Video: All, Produces "Your browser can play both Ogg Theora and H.264 video". #4: Input types: 13 out of 13, Produces "Your browser supports the fo

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

Nick, at the risk of being shot down by esteemed academics, but one with experience of both universal health care in the UK and the current system in the US for the past 29 yr * Access to decent perhaps basic health care is a human right because we don't want to see suffering in our

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

ldesigns/ <http://home.earthlink.net/%7Enickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe] - Original Message - *From:* Robert J. Cordingley <mailto:rob...@cirrillian.com> *To: *nickthomp...@earthlink.net <mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net&g

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

Glen See http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/ and don't skip the bit that says "disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind". A right isn't a natural consequence... but then I think you jest. Thanks Robert On 2/15/10 8

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

I think you argue *for* the UDHR! It is not a statement of 'what is' but 'what should be'. It provides a common ground of understanding and says quit arguing, this is it, this is where we need to be. It can form a basis for common law if you don't have one in your emerging country, state, et

Re: [FRIAM] Healthcare, Obama and My Volvo Wagon

Interesting article... Those foreign nationals referred to wouldn't change to the US system for all the tea in China. The waiting times claim is over blown too. Dr. supply? 2 things. Med schools and tertiary education in general should be supported by the State, so that it doesn't burden our

Re: [FRIAM] War has been declared

Now I'm wondering, has someone been been trolled here? Anon (oh wait...) On 2/19/10 2:00 PM, glen e. p. ropella wrote: Thus spake Douglas Roberts circa 10-02-19 12:47 PM: Did you wake up on the wrong side of your bunker this morning? No. I just want to know why you sent this stuff t

[FRIAM] Dilbert

If you missed it, see today's strip (Mar 13, 2010): http://www.dilbert.com/ wikipedia isn't much help http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMMI I'm curious, can anyone share a success story with CMMI? Thanks, Robert FRIAM Applied Complexit

[FRIAM] PHP Inference Engine

I've been looking for a PHP/MySQL inference engine capable of providing some rule-based programming behind a web page. There seem to be a few entries in SourceForge tho' I find them somewhat obtuse, lacking in meaningful documentation and hence difficult to evaluate without spending a ton of t

Re: [FRIAM] PHP Inference Engine

ight? http://people.clarkson.edu/~esazonov/neural_fuzzy/loadsway/LoadSway.htm -- Owen On Apr 2, 2010, at 1:27 PM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote: I've been looking for a PHP/MySQL inference engine capable of providing some rule-based programming behind a web page. There seem to be a few

Re: [FRIAM] Note re Pixel video

Pong was there knocking bricks out of a bridge. There are two kinds facing each other across another divide: half the world is digitizing everything while the other half is making it look analog (graphic, visually stunning). Robert C. On 4/9/10 9:08 AM, Steve Smith wrote: Doug is always inv

[FRIAM] Quantum Electrodynamics

Per today's discussion (at our end of the table) here's the link to Richard Feynman's lectures on QED: http://www.vega.org.uk/video/subseries/8 "Chosen by the New Scientist - best on-line videos 2007. A set of four priceless archival science video recordings from the University of Auckland (N

Re: [FRIAM] Beat poet defends the scientific method

Nick Let me try this on(e)... it's because the brain is the physical structure within which our thinking processes occur and collectively those processes we call the 'mind'. I don't see a way to say the same thing or anything remotely parallel, about soul, aura, the Great Unknown and such. I

Re: [FRIAM] Behaviorism [was Beat poet]

we didn't already know, hence they won't tell us much about the mind we didn't already know. Or at least, so sayith some behaviorists, Eric On Sun, May 2, 2010 05:09 PM, *"Robert J. Cordingley" * wrote: Nick Let me try this on(e)... it's because the b

Re: [FRIAM] Beat poet defends the scientific method

k Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu <mailto:nthomp...@clarku.edu>) http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ <http://home.earthlink.net/%7Enickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://www.cusf.org [City Uni

Re: [FRIAM] What would you do

Except I thought that with dark energy, the Big Crunch (required for an Omega Point) has been largely discredited. Robert C On 5/11/10 10:12 PM, Robert Holmes wrote: Easy. Head for the Omega Point . Which of course contains all possible an

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