Re: [FRIAM] Can current AI beat humans at doing science?

The AlphaFold paper is pre-released at the Nature url Pieter provided in the original post. Here's the pdf https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03819-2_reference.pdf, and it's supplementary information https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41586-021-03819-2/MediaObjects/41

[FRIAM] MAGAcoin

I'd tail end this onto the Freedom Phone non-discussion, but ... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jul/22/magacoin-pro-trump-cryptocurrency-attracts-over-1000-people-to-sign-up For a while, you didn't even need to buy the mailing list for these rubes, you could just read it off the web

Re: [FRIAM] off-label technologies, exaptatiion and exponential technological growth.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/delta-variant-most-prevalent/2021/08/08/d1017f0e-f558-11eb-9068-bf463c8c74de_story.html T On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 1:52 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > Nice. But I think my favorite on that list has got to be Rumination > Disorder. Such a surprise at a dinner p

Re: [FRIAM] ivermectin, nope

Pieter -- I looked over the links you listed. They seem to claim that withdrawl of ivermectin caused the spike in Covid cases in India, and also that administering ivermectin caused the end of the spike in Covid cases.Both of these claims are sort of hard to evaluate, since I don't see any ev

Re: [FRIAM] ivermectin, nope

of its efficacy would also be a comfort to the patients and the medical staff in that situation. A placebo can be better than nothing, a placebo with a bogus story behind it can be even better. -- rec -- -- rec -- On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 12:37 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > Pieter -- &g

Re: [FRIAM] argh

And how did I miss this? https://science.sciencemag.org/content/373/6556/745 Richard Charles “Dick” Lewontin died at age 92 on 4 July, 3 days after Mary Jane, his wife of 73 years. -- rec -- On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 1:23 PM uǝlƃ ☤>$ wrote: > How did I miss this? > > UT Austin Mourns Death of Wo

Re: [FRIAM] vax v unvax

The Israeli data turned up in Andrew Gelman's blog today https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/08/18/coronavirus-and-simpsons-paradox-oldsters-are-more-likely-to-be-vaccinated-and-more-likely-to-have-severe-infections-so-you-need-to-adjust-for-age-when-comparing-vaccinated-and-unvaccinated-p

Re: [FRIAM] vax v unvax

ting are, of >> course, summary statistics. So: >> >> You said: >> >> Next the statistics police will be telling us how to use the data! >> >> >> How about: >> >> Next the statistics police will be telling us how to use the statistics! &g

Re: [FRIAM] "ZAMM"

Searching "Zen and the art of" as a title in the Boston Public Library yields 101 results. There are two ecopies of ZAMM with 18 holds queued, could take as much as 18 weeks to reach the head of the queue. Eugen Herrigel's Zen in the Art of Archery has this comment from a library patron: First I

Re: [FRIAM] vax v unvax

low a cite), and can’t >>>> explain them in-line (too long; people don’t want to read all that). >>>> Complain complain complain. >>>> >>>> Interesting thing is that the particular “data” we are getting are, of >>>> course, summary statistics.

Re: [FRIAM] vax v unvax

On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 10:15 AM uǝlƃ ☤>$ wrote: > Excellent. Thanks for the Gelman and Morris explanations. > > As for paying for a couple of days off for Tami, she's only here for ~3 > hours every 2 weeks. So, it's unclear how to go about giving her 2 days > off... I'd gladly pay her $100 or so

Re: [FRIAM] Medical treatments for some or for all

Who knew? The Regeneron antibody treatments for Covid-19 are available and approved as a treatment or for prophylaxis. It also sounds like they're free. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/covid-monoclonal-abbott/2021/08/19/a39a0b5e-0029-11ec-a664-4f6de3e17ff0_story.html -- rec -- On Fri, A

Re: [FRIAM] ivermectin, nope

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/21/mississippi-ivermectin-covid-surge-livestock/ State Epidemiologist Paul Byers warned that “at least 70 percent of the > recent calls” to poison > control have been related to the ingestion of ivermectin “purchased at > livestock supply centers.”

Re: [FRIAM] Eternal questions

Then Cory Doctorow ponders the other eternal question: is this all bullshit? https://doctorow.medium.com/machine-learnings-crumbling-foundations-bd11efa22b0 -- rec -- On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 3:18 AM Jochen Fromm wrote: > "In today’s AI universe, all the eternal questions (about intentionality,

Re: [FRIAM] Eternal questions

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mental-phenomena-dont-map-into-the-brain-as-expected-20210824/ A quanta article titled The Brain Doesn’t Think the Way You Think It Does Joseph LeDoux > is a > neuroscientist at NYU known for his pi

Re: [FRIAM] "All [persons] are created equal"

We can act as if all people were created equal and work to remove the inequalities, or we can act as if inequalities are intrinsic to all worlds containing people and enjoy exploiting the vulnerable, or we can take a blended stance, or maybe there's yet another pole to the dialectic. I''ve been wa

Re: [FRIAM] Epic

What I love is that youtube directed me to @davie504's channel of asynchronous bass guitar battles. -- rec -- On Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 10:17 AM Eric Charles < eric.phillip.char...@gmail.com> wrote: > I love this guy! > > He had a couple good covers with TV preachers, but I think I really > starte

Re: [FRIAM] Weighted Ensemble

This sounds like an algorithm for parallel protein folding that I ranted about a long time ago. Start with some collection of conformations; perform many different molecular dynamics simulations from your starting points in parallel; continue with the most promising subset. As molecular dynamics

Re: [FRIAM] Weighted Ensemble

rns up (via $ grep -i folding > $(grep -li protein $(grep -l "From: [\"]*Roger Critchlow[\"]* " > *))) I found nothing if I include "parallel" in the and. If you have other > keywords, maybe it'll be more apparent. (Header still includes Google. So > it

Re: [FRIAM] Weighted Ensemble

There is also an implementation of weighted ensembles in julia, last updated 8 days ago. https://github.com/gideonsimpson/WeightedEnsemble.jl juliahub.com sells julia instances in the cloud, the first few are free. -- rec -- On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 3:22 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > No

Re: [FRIAM] Liberal "othering" or statement of fact?

I don't know, there are many reasons why a pharmaceutical company might fail. One of the most spectacular is illustrated by googling "glycoRNA". So, a whole class of biological compounds, short RNA sequences decorated with glycans (also known as polysaccharides), first suspected to exist in 2019

Re: [FRIAM] Liberal dilemmas

SEPTEMBER 2ND 2021 *The Economist* this week Highlights from the latest issue [image: The Economist]

Re: [FRIAM] What are you reading?

Agency, by William Gibson, yesterday, The Kingdoms, by Natasha Pulley, currently, The Ministry for the Future, by Kim Stanley Robinson, next. -- rec -- On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 5:55 AM Jochen Fromm wrote: > What novel are you reading at the moment? I am reading "Tenochtitlan: The > Last Battl

Re: [FRIAM] Calling Bullshit

All the detached opinions are in one pdf document, the url's refer to pages within the pdf, just open any one of the (detached opinion) links and scroll to the beginning of the document. -- rec -- On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 1:49 PM uǝlƃ ☤>$ wrote: > I can't find the majority opinion. This page im

[FRIAM] hot streaks

Open access at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25477-8 Across a range of creative domains, individual careers are characterized by hot streaks, which are bursts of high-impact works clustered together in close succession. Yet it remains unclear if there are any regularities underlying t

[FRIAM] vive la ondelette

Ingrid Daubechies profiled, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/14/magazine/ingrid-daubechies.html, Duke's counter to Cambridge committed to making women 30% of the math faculty. -- rec -- - . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30

Re: [FRIAM] Could this possibly be true?

Pieter - The initial safety and efficacy report was published in the New England Journal of Medicine at the end of 2020, https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2034577, it has smoother language and inline graphics. It also has fewer deaths in the treatment group than in the control group, bu

Re: [FRIAM] Could this possibly be true?

), r*14/22000), > k=22000)) > if( sum(x)<16): > > total_of_tentousand_samples_less_than_16=total_of_tentousand_samples_less_than_16+1 > > print(total_of_tentousand_samples_less_than_16) > > # iteration tally: > # with r=1.5 then total_of_tentousand_samples_less_than_16=105 > # wit

Re: [FRIAM] the cancellation arc

The Chronicle of Higher Education noticed that there have been two massive cancellation protests against fraternities where sexual assaults were reported in the past few months, in Kansas and Nebraska. Is group cancellation better/worse than individual cancellation? Are students at Kansas and Ne

Re: [FRIAM] "Layers of the atmosphere do not mix.""

Notice how that URL is now showing the current clouds on Thursday morning, not the ones that Nick was looking at on Wednesday morning. -- rec -- On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 11:08 AM wrote: > > https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/conus_band.php?sat=G16&band=GEOCOLOR&length=24 > > Notice how the la

Re: [FRIAM] Random Evolutions

I found it amusing that a 1969 article by two New Mexicans faces an ad announcing the cure of Pine Bark Beetle infestations in western mountain forests. -- rec -- On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 9:53 PM Roger Frye wrote: > Wait a minute. I thought this was the Reuben thread, not the wild dream > threa

Re: [FRIAM] Could this possibly be true?

gt;> increase the total (again all causes) death rate with more than a factor >>> of 1.6. >>> >>> My Python program to do this is as follows: >>> >>> import random >>> total_of_tentousand_samples_less_than_16=0 >>> r=1.6 # manually iterate this number until

Re: [FRIAM] the cancellation arc

versions, is > obvious. Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), where you are given some > teachable skills to manage catastrophizing and such, exploits the > relationship between the 'lite' and the 'heavy' versions of any givenn > subject. It works, at least temporarily, for

Re: [FRIAM] hot streaks

ursts" > > https://barabasi.com/book/bursts > > > > On Mon, Sep 13, 2021, 12:16 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > >> Open access at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25477-8 >> >> Across a range of creative domains, individual careers are characteri

Re: [FRIAM] hot streaks

I think it actually all makes sense in a Peircian way. First we thought papers meant proven work, then published papers, then peer reviewed published papers, then peer reviewed published papers with citations, then peer reviewed published papers with citations and no dumpster fires on social meda.

Re: [FRIAM] unplanned [sen|obsol]escence

It's not puritanism, it's poverty, none of the later generations can afford a decent drug habit. -- rec -- .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://r

Re: [FRIAM] hot streaks

gt; > > > > > > n > > > > Nick Thompson > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Roger Critchlow > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 22, 2021 11:59 AM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Com

[FRIAM] ivermectin

via hackernews https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01535-y Two studies showing positive results treating Covid-19 with Ivermectin are both junk, the numbers reported not being consistent with the experiments claimed, one has been withdrawn, the authors of the other are not responding to re

[FRIAM] the autodidactic universe

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.03902.pdf should be good for a few rounds of riffs, hard to believe it hasn't turned up before, but google search says it's not in my mail, via https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a36112655/universe-is-self-learning-algorithm/ , via hackernews -- rec -- .-- .- -

[FRIAM] deep weather

Now the deep learning kids have a model for nowcasting precipitation. https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/29/1036331/deepminds-ai-predicts-almost-exactly-when-and-where-its-going-to-rain/ points to source https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03854-z They build a GAN (Generative Adve

[FRIAM] tl;dr what's facebook hiding?

https://doctorow.medium.com/facebook-thrives-on-criticism-of-disinformation-64b141d7b6c8 I'll give you the punchline: Maybe Facebook’s aggressive suppression of accurate assessments of > disinformation on its platform are driven by a desire to hide how expensive > (and profitable) political adv

Re: [FRIAM] Newborn Heart Rate

category errors or just plain errors? the velocity is the limit of the (change in position divided by the change in time) as the change in time goes to zero, or, as Frank says, a derivative. the velocity is most definitely not the ratio of finite differences in position and time, that would be ta

[FRIAM] biology, the exceptional science

Or where categories go to die. Everybody knows what a cell is, right? The most abundant human cells by number are red blood cells, which are perfectly good cells, except that they have no cell nucleus. The most abundant human cells by volume would be the voluntary muscle cells, which are perfect

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: What a funny

need a browser add-on that just does the image search and annotates image provenance inline, call it a miscaptcha, could probably identify photoshopped and deepfaked images, too, with a little more effort on the image search backend. Speaking of which, image search could provide a full history of

[FRIAM] new european record for 12 hours of rainfall

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/10/05/italy-record-rainfall-/ 29.2 inches in 12 hours, and a half a million lightning strikes attributed to the storm complex. 36 hour satellite loop https://t.co/YJeZ2soEdE, much convection! -- rec -- .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. -

Re: [FRIAM] Aborted project by Errol Morris for the year 2000

There's an article in Science from last Friday about finding families of bacterial enzymes that take an RNA template and edit DNA where the template matches. The families appear to be related to the enzymes used in CRISPR, and there are lots of them. So where CRISPR was the molecular scissors whi

Re: [FRIAM] Newborn Heart Rate

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353762832_Antenatal_and_perinatal_factors_influencing_neonatal_blood_pressure_a_systematic_review Maternal ethnicity/race. The effect of maternal ethnicity on neonatal BP is uncertain. Schachter et al. found higher DBP in term neonates of African-American m

Re: [FRIAM] Fraud in Research

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Baltimore is pretty good, though you have to wade through his illustrious career to find the Controversies section. In May 2021, Baltimore was quoted in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists > in

Re: [FRIAM] [dis]integrated

As Yogi Berra might have said: all this talk about the ineffable, je ne sais quoi. The way that can be spoken is not the way, because the speaking itself spoils the effect. Chuang Tzu's butcher can carve a beast in one fluid stroke of the knife, but he can't explain how he's doing it; and if he d

Re: [FRIAM] Schwill Rock?

On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 9:22 PM Jon Zingale wrote: > [...] > > That said, I made some effort a few weeks ago (as well as on Friday) to > get a conversation started around what suggestion engines and search > engines could potentially do differently. One promising idea I have been > researching a

Re: [FRIAM] Schwill Rock?

Hmm, when I was in the drug discovery canal, the "descriptors" that you could calculate from a SMILES string were legion. Here's the list for RDKIT, https://www.rdkit.org/docs/GettingStartedInPython.html#list-of-available-descriptors. There are one bunch that depend entirely on the formula and mol

Re: [FRIAM] Schwill Rock?

-based way, as is manifest > here. > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Roger Critchlow > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 12, 2021 2:10 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Schwill Rock? > > > &

Re: [FRIAM] Schwill Rock?

On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 12:55 PM Jon Zingale wrote: > Thanks Roger, Marcus. I am a newbie in this area and so it might be good > for me to ask some potentially obvious questions about SMILES (since they > are used everywhere). > > 1. Is the SMILES isomorphism problem equivalent to the graph isomo

Re: [FRIAM] Schwill Rock?

On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 4:46 PM Jon Zingale wrote: > "*having an atomic *weight allows you to break some degeneracies." > > Thanks Roger. This bit about the atomic weights seems the most interesting > part, the only thing that can save the algorithm from exponential expense. > I still don't have

Re: [FRIAM] Heart Rate

Schrödinger's Meme, a superposition of sincerity and irony, which just gets more indeterminate the longer you look at it, flickering with each new piece of information about the history of the performer or the meme, an endlessly questionable moment of human expression. -- rec -- On Sun, Oct 17, 2

Re: [FRIAM] Heart Rate

endlessly questionable -- rec -- On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 11:12 AM Marcus Daniels wrote: > Wouldn't a postmodernist say that the nouns and verbs in the argument have > different weights and that to the extent there are canonical assignments > for these weights, it reflects arbitrary norms and t

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

This excellent blog post about planaria and their insane regenerative abilities turned up on hackernews barely two weeks ago, https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=10007 -- rec -- On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 3:42 PM uǝlƃ ☤>$ wrote: > Yes, some types of CA can be stygmergic. The separation between th

[FRIAM] we are lost

I'm 3d printing so I googled up dodecahedron to find a set of coordinates. Google told me that people also ask: What is the purpose of the dodecahedron? So, not only do we attribute teleology to inanimate objects, weather, animals, and people, but also to the platonic solids. Which probably l

Re: [FRIAM] we are lost

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, given that I was already being asked about the purpose of a platonic solid. I hadn't thought about the prehistoric mod

Re: [FRIAM] Looking for an algorithm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-rank_approximation, https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-meaning-of-low-rank-matrix -- rec -- On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 6:43 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > Usually by the tensor product of two matrices peopleean the Kronecker > product. Is that what you mean? > > --- >

Re: [FRIAM] Wizards[⚣]?

Cmon, man, it gets where it gets as a result of going one way or another at any number of intermediate decision points. Remember the sticklebacks? Two freshwater phenotypes, shallow water and deep water forms. They look different, feed differently, live in different parts of the lake, and are rep

Re: [FRIAM] Has anybody been lookiung at covid numbers

It was only a few weeks ago that the news was wondering if the end of the pandemic was nigh, and now Austria is locking down, and, oh, look at the pretty map: https://www.usatoday.com/storytelling/coronavirus-reopening-america-map/. Massachusetts: The number of confirmed new cases is *growing*, w

Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality

I went to elementary school with a guy, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Hamer, whose wikipedia bio describes research in the the genetic basis of sexual orientation that he did at NIH in the 1990's. -- rec -- On Sun, Jan 9, 2022 at 5:15 AM Jochen Fromm wrote: > This topic is a minefield, bec

[FRIAM] trump coin

I misheard someone talking about an echosystem the other day, which was actually an ecosystem, but the name has stuck in my head. I imagine it as a multidimensional spin glass where each site can tune its receivers and transmitters to particular dimensions of the spin state. https://www.nytimes.c

Re: [FRIAM] trump coin

du/nthompson/ > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Roger Critchlow > *Sent:* Friday, January 28, 2022 12:27 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > Friam@redfish.com> > *Subject:* [FRIAM] trump coin > > > > I misheard someone ta

Re: [FRIAM] Another Stunning Hydrogen Development - Retake Our Democracy

Sure, it's hydrogen made from cheap natural gas, using a cheap process, resulting in a significant component of methane and other carb-anes, which means it isn't nearly the clean fuel which the labelling might lead you to believe. Unregulated markets do that kind of s**t. If you buy propane regul

Re: [FRIAM] Another Stunning Hydrogen Development - Retake Our Democracy

Okay, I was sort of wrong, the greyness comes from CO2 emissions and energy costs assuming the process does exactly what it claims at 100% efficiency. It's probably also dirty hydrogen, contaminated with feedstock and byproducts, because 100% efficiency in petroleum engineering has never been a pri

Re: [FRIAM] Android phones

My phone for the past few years has been the Moto X4, which is a good Android One phone that's nearing end of life. My daughter complained at first about Motorola bloatware, but apparently that's cleared up. I never notiiced it. It's listing for $149-199 this week according to google, works fine

[FRIAM] More on levels of sequence organization

This just turned up on hacker news: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/622803v1 [...] To this end we use unsupervised learning to train a deep contextual > language model on 86 billion amino acids across 250 million sequences > spanning evolutionary diversity. The resulting model maps raw

Re: [FRIAM] More on levels of sequence organization

ktail to improve > stamina, fight off cancer, etc. etc. > > > > Marcus > > > > *From: *Friam on behalf of Roger Critchlow < > r...@elf.org> > *Reply-To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > Friam@redfish.com> > *Date: *Tuesday, Apr

Re: [FRIAM] More on levels of sequence organization

th extra space or time > costs). Am I reading your statement right? > > On 5/2/19 12:02 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > > But they don't actually extract the levels of organization from the > model. They take the levels of organization as known facts and construct > observat

[FRIAM] Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613489/magic-the-gathering-is-officially-the-worlds-most-complex-game/ https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09828 -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's Co

Re: [FRIAM] starlink trail

I saw no satellites last night. It was still light at 9PM and there were some clouds passing. calsky.com has fixed the links on their front page to the leading and trailing satellites. -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv

[FRIAM] a problem in how we think, not just in how we act

It's funny that this should show up twice on my desktop the same day as Frank's rant. https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/09/13/deterministic-thinking-dichotomania -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays

Re: [FRIAM] Re Rant

a proponent, in human affairs, of both/and rather than either/or > propositions. In math I use the law of the excluded middle, however. > > > > Frank > > --- > Frank Wimberly > > My memoir: > https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly > > My sc

Re: [FRIAM] Unmediated perception - sheldrake

Read a blog post at https://stratechery.com/2019/day-two-to-one-day/ yesterday which was examining Amazon's balance of harvesting (twiddling the search engine to maximize Amazon's profits) versus investing (putting up $800 million to achieve single day deliveries) against the stated Bezos principle

Re: [FRIAM] Unmediated perception - sheldrake

t; > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > > Clark University > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > > *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Roger > Critchlow > *Sent:* Wednes

[FRIAM] people figuring out WTF

Canadian researchers have decided, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/havana-syndrome-neurotoxin-enqu-te-1.5288609, that the mysterious affliction which affected US and Canadian diplomats and family members in Havana was overenthusiastic application of pesticides in response to mosquitoes carrying Zika

Re: [FRIAM] Optimization problem

You can splice together conduit pieces with set screw couplers. They're cheap, stable under compression loads, only require a screwdriver to operate, and produce no toxic gases. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Halex-3-4-in-Electrical-Metallic-Tube-EMT-Set-Screw-Coupling-25-Pack-62807B/202288563 -- r

Re: [FRIAM] Scott’s Supreme Quantum Supremacy FAQ!

Most clarifying. On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 2:55 PM glen wrote: > https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4317 > -- > glen > > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe

[FRIAM] So disjointed

I wondered why the discussions on friam had been so incomplete lately. Gmail was storing most of them in my spam folder, 32 threads spam canned in 30 days. -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe

[FRIAM] Would send to Nick

https://www.bookforum.com/print/2604/the-unending-quest-to-explain-consciousness-23772 But my phone doesn't have his revised email address. An entertaining review from a Prof in the town where I grew up, dear old Montclair, NJ. -- rec -- ==

[FRIAM] Universal and Accessible Entropy Estimation Using a Compression Algorithm

What is the relationship between physical entropy and information? Well, according to this, https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.178102, also available as a preprint, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.10164.pdf, and the press release from Tel Aviv University turning up here and t

[FRIAM] Celeste Kidd - How to Know

This talk was mentioned on hacker news this week and inspired my babbling at Saveur this morning. https://slideslive.com/38921495/how-to-know. The talk was delivered at Neural IPS on December 9 and discusses recent research on how people come to believe they know something. This paper https://ww

Re: [FRIAM] Celeste Kidd - How to Know

g video (TV, > Movies, Clips, attendant advertising) and social media (FB/Insta/Twit...) > the understanding and tools are already in place to significantly > manipulate public opinion. Based on my anecdotal experience about people's > *certainty*, this article is very on-point.

Re: [FRIAM] A PolyMath by any other name...

Okay, resurrecting this four plus year old discussion because it matched a search for vagus. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5807379/#B20 reports that electrical stimulation of the outer ear can stimulate the vagus nerve and has positive results for treating depression. It's hitting

Re: [FRIAM] Celeste Kidd - How to Know

; share, you're actually much more likely to be aware that you have a deviant > concept." > > At least I *know* I'm a deviant. > > > On 12/29/19 8:43 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > > I thought she was arguing that very mechanisms that google, facebook, > twitte

Re: [FRIAM] A PolyMath by any other name...

I see I replied to the wrong strand of the thread, this was Glen's contribution to which I was replying. On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 9:01 AM glen wrote: > On 08/11/2015 08:36 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > > I'm surprised *anything* bores the living crap out of you! > > What's not so boring is that Nick's

Re: [FRIAM] Celeste Kidd - How to Know

#x27;s a counter > intuitive result lurking. According to (1), my certainty about your concept > of "cup" should be just as inaccurate as my certainty about your concept of > "centroid". But according to (2), the former should be more accurate than > the latter. What

[FRIAM] career choices as combinatoric search

So, as if it weren't already hard enough to figure out what to learn to do, where to do the learning, and where to go to practice it, here comes the need to maximize your value according to the abilities of your potential co-workers. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/12/eaax3370 via hacke

Re: [FRIAM] career choices as combinatoric search

re not multi-disciplinary. >> >> >> >> In the world of software, you can find this notion in the writings of >> Constantine and Lockwood, 70s and 80s, Naur, 80s, Kay 90s, Beck 2000, and >> more. >> >> >> >> Moreover, to be an effecti

Re: [FRIAM] Celeste Kidd - How to Know

ence", Popular Science Monthly, 1877 and > 1878, reprinted in Chance Love and Logic > (1923).] Back to Popular Science again! -- rec -- On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 11:43 AM Roger Critchlow wrote: > I thought she was arguing that very mechanisms that google, facebook, > twitter, etc. ar

Re: [FRIAM] A longer response to Dave's question

Ah, but is transcendence abduction? As in: "Take me away from all this practicial (google helpfully auto-corrected to practical) nit picking, for a while just show me how things might be." When does the image of the snake biting its tail become the hypothesis that benzene is a cyclic molecule?

Re: [FRIAM] Outbreak Simulation

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03/20/emily-landon-coronavirus/ On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 8:54 AM Gillian Densmore wrote: > Mmm. Well. That is true our medical system is a fragile mess as is. My > concern that I realize is a pretty unpopular opinion is a total lack of > perspective. One

[FRIAM] a game changer, wait, what game?

Rand Paul discovered this morning that he has an asymptomatic covid-19 infection, he's been working long hours in the senate all week. -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College

Re: [FRIAM] wifi repeaters?!

Every time I've tried to improve my WiFi, I've ended up with just a new WiFi router that worked much better. If you can only find your current WiFi router for sale as used on the internet, it's probably well past time to replace it. They have really improved over the years. -- rec -- On Wed, Ma

Re: [FRIAM] Coronavirus New Mexico numbers.xlsx

The column you added appears to be State-County. Maybe you grabbed the wrong spreadsheet? -- rec -- On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 8:17 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > The column I added indicates that the derivative is increasing. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > > On Sun, Mar

Re: [FRIAM] basis for prediction — forked from the tail end of anthropological observtions

I've watched people leave red to port on their returns, and some even get away with it. -- rec -- On Sun, Apr 19, 2020, 12:09 PM Nicholas Thompson wrote: > Hi, Dave n all, > > "Outlook" has collapsed leaving me in gmail, which I don't understand.. > So forgive me if... etc. > > The thunder ligh

Re: [FRIAM] Judea Pearl: Book of Why

UCSF has something like this, https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-17/chan-zuckerberg-biohub-is-ready-for-coronavirus-tests-to-come -- rec -- On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 1:40 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > Dave writes: > > < Marcus said, "Imagine if everyone had full genome sequencing an

Re: [FRIAM] whackadoodles go mainstream!

I found the assertion weak that the simple presence of these previously unreported sequence features (the binding domain ACE2 specificity, the (I think) detaching spike adaptation of the glycan collar) in wild type populations is evidence against purposeful engineering. Maybe the glimmer of a natu

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