Re: [FRIAM] self-care

2022-06-30 Thread Frank Wimberly
I'm hoping that there is an overwhelming response by young people to vote Democrat in the upcoming elections. Traditionally young people haven't voted in the numbers you'd expect. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, Jun 30, 2022, 6:41

Re: [FRIAM] Covid

2022-06-30 Thread Frank Wimberly
Sorry about that, Ed. All OK here. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, Jun 30, 2022, 11:44 AM George Duncan wrote: > Such encouragement! But true, of course. > > George Duncan > Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon

[FRIAM] Zoom Friam on June 30

2022-06-29 Thread Frank Wimberly
I will start the meeting at about 10:00 am MDT tomorrow. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe /

Re: [FRIAM] A* and emulatoin

2022-06-27 Thread Frank Wimberly
x) simply return similar infinitely differentiable functions; or themselves. A function f: R^n -> R^m gemeralize these ideas. As for dimensions, read about differentials, exterior derivatives, 1-forms etc. That probably doesn't help much. Frank -- Frank Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz Santa

[FRIAM] Please join Zoom meeting in progress I started sooner than I thought I would

2022-06-23 Thread Frank Wimberly
Stephen Guerin, Simtable is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Virtual FRIAM - recurring Time: This is a recurring meeting Meet anytime Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/255049879 Meeting ID: 255 049 879 One tap mobile +16699006833,,255049879# US (San Jose)

[FRIAM] 6/23 Zoom Friam

2022-06-22 Thread Frank Wimberly
I will begin the Zoom meeting tomorrow at about 9:30 MDT (11:30 EDT). It will still be active an hour later than that for those who prefer to come later. Frank -- Frank Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Research: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2

Re: [FRIAM] Fríam Attendance

2022-06-18 Thread Frank Wimberly
n 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 > surely is Steve Bannon’s fault. > > N > > Sent from my Dumb Phone > > On Jun 17, 2022,

Re: [FRIAM] Fríam Attendance

2022-06-17 Thread Frank Wimberly
ng to participate in Virtual > Friam. But last Friday evening i decided to schlep a table downstairs to > the basement. I arrived before it did. I have a shattered left tibia and > am still in the hospital in Ames. I only had to be ambulanced to Des > Moines instead of Denver for

Re: [FRIAM] Fríam Attendance

2022-06-17 Thread Frank Wimberly
e ambulanced to Des > Moines instead of Denver for surgery. I'll sign in when i can. > > John > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 8:37 PM Frank Wimberly > wrote: > >> This week there were about five total attendees at the virtual meeting >> on Thursday but not necessaril

Re: [FRIAM] Google Engineer Thinks AI Bot Has Become Sentient

2022-06-13 Thread Frank Wimberly
The other day I asked, "Alexa, why does Jeff Bridges look older than I do even though he's several years younger?" I was thinking she'll never give a reasonable answer to that. She said, "In his latest film Jeff Bridges was made to look older using CGI." I don't think that's evidence of

Re: [FRIAM] Cultural Evolution Redux

2022-06-13 Thread Frank Wimberly
My New Mexico memoir sold about 100 copies but it has that advantage of being less than 100 pages. I only lost about $500 on the project. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Jun 13, 2022, 3:26 PM glen wrote: > Hey now! I've skimmed

Re: [FRIAM] Kissing Kissinger

2022-06-11 Thread Frank Wimberly
In 1978 as I was about to leave Pittsburgh for a job at Bell Labs my wife and I were staying with with Scott and Penny Fahlman since our furniture was on a moving van. Scott was an AI hotshot who had recently arrived at Carnegie Mellon. I was typing the final revision of my numerical analysis

Re: [FRIAM] Baruch Spinoza

2022-06-11 Thread Frank Wimberly
Steve, Spinoza has ancestors in common with Spanish (and New Mexican) people named Espinoza or Espinosa. Will Durant said he had the clearest knowledge of God of any philosopher. I suppose that was knowledge of the third kind. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505

[FRIAM] Fríam Attendance

2022-06-10 Thread Frank Wimberly
This week there were about five total attendees at the virtual meeting on Thursday but not necessarily present at the same. At the in-person meeting at St John's there were also five attending but they all were there for the whole meeting. At the latter we discussed the impact of the pandemic

[FRIAM] Thursday Zoom Meeting

2022-06-08 Thread Frank Wimberly
Tomorrow I have to leave for Albuquerque at 10:30am MDT to pick up my grandson after his trip to California with his other grandparents. I hope someone who is willing to become the host joins the meeting before 10:30. Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505

Re: [FRIAM] AOL 3.0!

2022-06-07 Thread Frank Wimberly
I had a CMU Andrew account. You're all pikers. Long live AFS. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Tue, Jun 7, 2022, 9:41 AM Steve Smith wrote: > > Glen wrote: > > > Just yesterday, I saw an email post to a math forum from someone with

[FRIAM] These women might be able to tolerate Friam

2022-06-05 Thread Frank Wimberly
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/05/books/review/metaphysical-animals-clare-mac-cumhaill-rachael-wiseman.html?smid=url-share -- Frank Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Research: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2

[FRIAM] Thursday Zoom Meeting

2022-06-01 Thread Frank Wimberly
Reminder: the Zoom meeting will begin tomorrow shortly before 10:30am MDT http://bit.ly/virtualfriam Is the link --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity

Re: [FRIAM] Sig

2022-06-01 Thread Frank Wimberly
ed + carriage return between them. > > On 6/1/22 10:43, Frank Wimberly wrote: > > Can someone fix the signature file. The bitly link is concatenated with > "unsubscribe ". > > > > > > --- > > Frank C. Wimberly > > 140 Calle Ojo

[FRIAM] Sig

2022-06-01 Thread Frank Wimberly
Can someone fix the signature file. The bitly link is concatenated with "unsubscribe ". --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays

Re: [FRIAM] Web 3 is going great!

2022-05-30 Thread Frank Wimberly
I have too many subscriptions but there's this from the source https://blog.mollywhite.net/predatory-community/ --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, May 30, 2022, 4:53 AM Roger Critchlow wrote: >

Re: [FRIAM] @Frank

2022-05-23 Thread Frank Wimberly
-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, May 23, 2022, 5:44 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > Here's one that gets all 5* ratings on Amazon. I'm flexible. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > > On Mon, May 23,

Re: [FRIAM] @Frank

2022-05-23 Thread Frank Wimberly
Here's one that gets all 5* ratings on Amazon. I'm flexible. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, May 23, 2022, 5:03 PM Jon Zingale wrote: > Thanks for the offer. Possibly? > My first-year topology teacher wrote a pretty good book on

Re: [FRIAM] oversight

2022-05-22 Thread Frank Wimberly
>I am feeling intellectually lonely Maybe we should form a new group to read about homotopy theory. Our last reading group ended with Hywel's death so the prospect causes me a little anxiety. Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On

[FRIAM] Zoom URL

2022-05-18 Thread Frank Wimberly
Here's the address http://bit.ly/virtualfriam --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, May 18, 2022, 9:25 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > > > > > The Thursday morning Zoom Friam meeting will begin shortly before 10:30. >&

[FRIAM] Reminder

2022-05-18 Thread Frank Wimberly
The Thursday morning Zoom Friam meeting will begin shortly before 10:30. > The link is below in the signature below and contains bit.ly > > I hope to see you then. > > Frank > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > -. --- - / ...- .-

Re: [FRIAM] quotes and questions

2022-05-17 Thread Frank Wimberly
Like --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Tue, May 17, 2022, 2:44 PM Merle Lefkoff wrote: > Western academics are mired in a culture of critique. It has severe > limitations. > > On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 8:55 AM glen wrote: > >> Right.

Re: [FRIAM] quotes and questions

2022-05-16 Thread Frank Wimberly
I find Gabriel's poetry not poetry. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, May 16, 2022, 3:39 PM Steve Smith wrote: > > On 5/15/22 10:42 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > If you are right then deep fakes, online or in meat space, will fail.

Re: [FRIAM] quotes and questions

2022-05-13 Thread Frank Wimberly
I didn't say anything. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Fri, May 13, 2022, 6:33 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > If one wants to translate subjective experience into a narrative, or > compare & contrast experiences, then negotiating some

[FRIAM] Reminder

2022-05-11 Thread Frank Wimberly
The Thursday morning Zoom Friam meeting will begin shortly before 10:30. The link is below in the signature below and contains bit.ly I hope to see you then. Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- ---

Re: [FRIAM] (no subject)

2022-05-08 Thread Frank Wimberly
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Frank Wimberly > *Sent:* Sunday, May 8, 2022 8:29 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] (no subject) > > > > Was

Re: [FRIAM] (no subject)

2022-05-08 Thread Frank Wimberly
Wasn't it Alito? That would doom Social Security. Also people would be outraged. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, May 8, 2022, 7:14 PM Nicholas Thompson wrote: > Is there anything in the draft Scalia decision that would prevent

[FRIAM] Thursday Friam

2022-05-08 Thread Frank Wimberly
How would it work to change the time of the Thursday meeting to 10:30am MDT? A number of regulars don't arrive until that time anyway and a conflict has emerged for me at 9:00. Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM -. --- - / ...- .- .-..

Re: [FRIAM] Mea Maxima culpa

2022-05-04 Thread Frank Wimberly
I would change "predict" to "estimate". I am not a dictator. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, May 4, 2022, 12:39 PM Nicholas Thompson wrote: > Perhaps not so culpa, After all > > When main effects predominate, in an analysis of

Re: [FRIAM] Mea Maxima culpa

2022-04-28 Thread Frank Wimberly
NOT VALID MORSE CODE Very funny. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, Apr 28, 2022, 9:58 PM Nicholas Thompson wrote: > > Dictating: > > I want to clarify a muddle I have introduced into our conversations about > natural selection.

Re: [FRIAM] those annoying vegetarians

2022-04-28 Thread Frank Wimberly
Time to eat my vegetarian lunch: flour tortilla, hummus, banana, chocolate. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, Apr 28, 2022, 11:45 AM Prof David West wrote: > > About 2 weeks ago, Jenny-O culled 6 million turkeys. They herd them

[FRIAM] Reminder

2022-04-26 Thread Frank Wimberly
Online Friam occurs Thursdays at 9:00 am MDT and in person Friam at the same time at St John's coffee shop on Fridays. Last week attendance was light at both. Stephen wonders if a presentation/discussion would be appealing for part of the Thursday meeting. Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle

Re: [FRIAM] Lancet article on how well countries appear to have protected and appear to have reported

2022-04-26 Thread Frank Wimberly
Note the mention of racial differences in Vitamin D deficiency. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Apr 25, 2022, 11:19 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > Interesting latitude is a predictive variable.. > >

Re: [FRIAM] Roswell, Aliens, FBI and SFI

2022-04-25 Thread Frank Wimberly
Is that the book in which they were going up the Mogollón rim on horseback and with pack horses and the trail got narrower and narrower until they decided they were on the wrong trail? The horses couldn't turn around so they had to back down. That stimulated my fear or heights. --- Frank C.

Re: [FRIAM] A million year old driving assistant

2022-04-24 Thread Frank Wimberly
That makes sense to me, Jochen. Our X3 has the same feature and I found it helpful on a recent trip. My M240 doesn't have it. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, Apr 24, 2022, 12:32 PM Jochen Fromm wrote: > I am reading at the

Re: [FRIAM] Wilson and Snower on Economics

2022-04-22 Thread Frank Wimberly
I once asked an esteemed philosopher what an esteemed female philosopher was working on lately and he answered, "Generating incoherences as usual." --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Fri, Apr 22, 2022, 2:41 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: >

Re: [FRIAM] humor

2022-04-14 Thread Frank Wimberly
 --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 8:19 PM Prof David West wrote: > some on the list might find the attached humorous. > > dave > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM

Re: [FRIAM] Virtual FRIAM moving to Thursdays. FRIAM will be in person on Fridays

2022-04-11 Thread Frank Wimberly
I hope it's the reverse. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Apr 11, 2022, 6:57 PM Stephen Guerin wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 11, 2022, 5:51 PM Edward Angel wrote: > >> It’s much kinder number in hexidecimal. >> > > > 50 is the new 80

Re: [FRIAM] Virtual FRIAM moving to Thursdays. FRIAM will be in person on Fridays

2022-04-11 Thread Frank Wimberly
I'll start the virtual FRIAM at the usual 9:00am on Thursday. I hope some local people attend too. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Apr 11, 2022, 11:49 AM Stephen Guerin wrote: > We will resume in-person FRIAM at St John's on

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] tomorrow at 2nd St

2022-04-07 Thread Frank Wimberly
__ > Wedtech mailing list > wedt...@redfish.com > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/wedtech_redfish.com > -- Frank Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Research: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -

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

2022-04-04 Thread Frank Wimberly
Carl Tollander once told me that he saw an article about automated programming with the title, "Do What I Meant Not What I Said. No Not That!" Did I get that right, Carl? --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Apr 4, 2022, 11:57 AM Prof

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

2022-04-02 Thread Frank Wimberly
Here is my answer that EricS referred to: I'm not sure if this addresses one of your questions but there are many instances where "to be" is used in English and "to have" is used in Spanish. "He is fourteen years old" and "El tiene catorce años". "I am afraid" and "Yo tengo miedo". French is

Re: [FRIAM] Ordinary logic

2022-04-01 Thread Frank Wimberly
Formal logic is not a god but exists independently of nervous systems. A -> B <-> -B -> -A --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Fri, Apr 1, 2022, 9:57 AM Nicholas Thompson wrote: > Isn’t it the case that, in some sense, the subjects

Re: [FRIAM] Ordinary logic

2022-03-30 Thread Frank Wimberly
I think the subjects were thinking about which statement conveys more information rather than which is more probable. Dumb subjects. They should have taken more math. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 4:39 PM Nicholas

[FRIAM] Layers

2022-03-30 Thread Frank Wimberly
A current CMU dissertation defense: PhD Candidate: Shaojie Bai *Title: **Equilibrium Approaches to Modern Deep Learning* Abstract: Deep learning (DL) has become one of the most successful and widely-adopted methods in modern artificial intelligence. Accompanying these successes are also

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

2022-03-30 Thread Frank Wimberly
As a numerical analyst one of the problems I worked on (pre PhD) was accident scenarios in nuclear power plants. We didn't have full accident data to validate the models but we reached conclusions like the "water hammer" accident in which a pipe containing superheated water burst would stress the

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

2022-03-25 Thread Frank Wimberly
*From the web:* *Intensive properties do not depend on the quantity of matter*. Examples include density, state of matter, and temperature. Extensive properties do depend on sample size. Examples include volume, mass, and size.Dec 4, 2019 How is any of those variables emergent. --- Frank C.

Re: [FRIAM] redfish?

2022-03-22 Thread Frank Wimberly
In this context, if I remember correctly, "Redfish" is a Brand of TP in China. Stephen lived there for several years and when he needed a name for his organization he decided to use the English translation of that brand name. Stephen will correct me if I'm wrong. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle

Re: [FRIAM] International firm to invest $254M in ABQ hydrogen factory -- ABQ Journal

2022-03-12 Thread Frank Wimberly
Frank Wimberly wrote: > In California during the summer they have had rolling blackouts or > brownouts. In the Bay Area I think they have had nuclear Naval vessels > connect to the grid to help. Naval reactors are small compared to power > plant reactors but I guess even a litt

Re: [FRIAM] International firm to invest $254M in ABQ hydrogen factory -- ABQ Journal

2022-03-12 Thread Frank Wimberly
In California during the summer they have had rolling blackouts or brownouts. In the Bay Area I think they have had nuclear Naval vessels connect to the grid to help. Naval reactors are small compared to power plant reactors but I guess even a little bit helps. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: International firm to invest $254M in ABQ hydrogen factory -- ABQ Journal

2022-03-11 Thread Frank Wimberly
rference when >> hydrogen combines with oxygen in the stratosphere to form water vapor, >> which also contributes to climate change. Finally, the entire process of >> hydrogen production, transport, distribution, storage and use is affected >> by common leaks that release gas into

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: International firm to invest $254M in ABQ hydrogen factory -- ABQ Journal

2022-03-11 Thread Frank Wimberly
problems among many, and it also seems to be under-reported and not > well understood by people looking for easy answers. > > Like you, dear Frank. > > > <https://twitter.com/yanes68> > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 8:57 PM Frank Wimberly > wrote: > >>

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: International firm to invest $254M in ABQ hydrogen factory -- ABQ Journal

2022-03-10 Thread Frank Wimberly
I am a former pilot. I think this is an excellent idea. Don't confuse hydrogen with hydrogen bombs. Burning hydrogen produces water, not CO2. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, Mar 10, 2022, 8:53 PM Merle Lefkoff wrote: > I need

Re: [FRIAM] Enamine

2022-03-10 Thread Frank Wimberly
been > matched to graduate schools, some of us were talking at lunch. > One of them was going to UCLA. > I asked, “Who’s at UCLA?” > “Yes”, he answered. > > *Sze-tsen Hu wrote a book on Homotopy Theory > > On 9 Mar 2022, at 14:04, Frank Wimberly wrote: > > CNN's h

Re: [FRIAM] Z

2022-03-09 Thread Frank Wimberly
I saw that in Pittsburgh when I was a graduate student. It made a strong impression on me but I hadn't thought of it in years until you mentioned it, Dave. "Votre nom et profesión?" That one, right? --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On

Re: [FRIAM] Enamine

2022-03-09 Thread Frank Wimberly
CNN's headline is WHO confirms Russian attacks on 18 hospitals. That's World Health Organization. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Mar 9, 2022, 11:52 AM Jochen Fromm wrote: > Zelensky is Jewish. There are no Nazis in Ukraine.

Re: [FRIAM] what's the view from Europe?

2022-03-07 Thread Frank Wimberly
The state if the Internet in Russia: https://qz.com/2138398/the-russian-internet-is-a-casualty-of-the-war-with-ukraine/ --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Mar 7, 2022, 4:04 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > There are articles like this

Re: [FRIAM] Patriotic Millionaires

2022-03-07 Thread Frank Wimberly
*think I should support >> girl >> >> scouts, I am not going to give you any money unless everyone else in >> the >> >> neighboorhood is forced to give you money too. Don't ask me to be a >> chump." >> >> >> >> What would we make of that? >> >> &g

Re: [FRIAM] Patriotic Millionaires

2022-03-07 Thread Frank Wimberly
gon, they are distributing money > through a branch in Hungary. > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Frank Wimberly > *Sent:* Monday, March 7, 2022 10:44 AM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Patriotic Millionaire

Re: [FRIAM] Patriotic Millionaires

2022-03-07 Thread Frank Wimberly
rtisements on TV for a few months talking about their > >>> efforts to review content for fake news. They advocated government > >>> regulation. Commonality being that a taxation or regulation impacts > them > >>> and their competitors in the same way, so their effec

Re: [FRIAM] Patriotic Millionaires

2022-03-06 Thread Frank Wimberly
legislatures are lax in > not forcing you to do more of that sort of thing, because you strongly > think that you should do more, but are unwilling to without the government > forcing you to? > > THAT is what the Patriotic Millionaires are doing. > > > > > On Sun, Ma

Re: [FRIAM] Patriotic Millionaires

2022-03-06 Thread Frank Wimberly
I probably shouldn't volunteer to be a case in your argument but... I do make donations to universities and a church. Today my wife and grandson Matthew assembled packages of hygiene products for Ukrainian refugees which included things like towels, toothpaste, toothbrushes, soap, shampoo etc.

Re: [FRIAM] academic freedom

2022-03-05 Thread Frank Wimberly
>there is an existential and unresolvable tension between being individual and not being solitary According to the psychoanalyst Eric Erickson the defining conflict of young adulthood is "intimacy vs isolation". At my age it's "integrity of the ego vs despair". According to Erickson there are

Re: [FRIAM] sex/gender combinatorics: was academic freedom

2022-03-04 Thread Frank Wimberly
A theory that most clinicians would agree with: heterosexuality is a matter of degree. Everyone has some homosexual tendencies. In most people they are very mild. Homophobic people are uncomfortable about this and their defenses are threatened by awareness of homosexuals and homosexuality. So

Re: [FRIAM] academic freedom

2022-03-04 Thread Frank Wimberly
I've only read your message once, Eric, but it made me recall that over 10 years ago my then teenage daughter answered my statement that I might want to move back to California by saying, "I'm down for that." As an annoying person who says, "It is I" I had to ask her what she meant by that. As

Re: [FRIAM] Putin's Yacht

2022-02-26 Thread Frank Wimberly
Canal. The yacht from Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison is >> for instance in France >> >> https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/MUSASHI-IMO-1010131-MMSI-319032600 >> >> >> >> -J. >> >> >> >> >> >> Original message --

[FRIAM] NYTimes.com: ‘Abrupt Changes’: China Caught in a Bind Over Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

2022-02-25 Thread Frank Wimberly
>From The New York Times: ‘Abrupt Changes’: China Caught in a Bind Over Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine This came up in today's meeting. China has presented itself as a defender of sovereign independence. But its reluctance to denounce Russia’s aggression forces it into an awkward position.

[FRIAM] Putin's Yacht

2022-02-25 Thread Frank Wimberly
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10505803/On-board-Putins-73million-superyacht-spotted-sailing-German-shipyard.html £73 million is pretty close to $100 million. Maybe they should have a race. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM .--

Re: [FRIAM] sanctions schmanctions

2022-02-24 Thread Frank Wimberly
When I was in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon in the early eighties a group of academics arrived from the Netherlands to attend a presentation about the status of our projects. We were in a typical meeting room. As the meeting began the guests all took out their lighters and cigarettes

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

2022-02-18 Thread Frank Wimberly
ROK runestone? --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Fri, Feb 18, 2022, 11:35 AM Jon Zingale wrote: > ᛆᚠᛏᚢᛆᛘᚢᚦᛌᛏᚭᚿᛏᛆᚱᚢᚿᛆᛧᚦᛆᛧ ᛭ ¶ ᚿᚢᛆᚱᛁᚿᚠᛆᚦᛁᚠᛆᚦᛁᛧᛆᚠᛐᚠᛆᛁᚴᛁᚭᚿᛌᚢᚿᚢ ¶ > ᛌᛆᚴᚢᛘᚢᚴᛘᛁᚿᛁᚦᛆᛐᚽᚢᛆᚱᛁᛆᛧᚢᛆᛚᚱᛆᚢᛓᛆᛧᚢᛆᛧᛁᚿᛐᚢᛆᛧ ¶ >

Re: [FRIAM] Alien Crash Site, Complexity, Future Fossils and Jim Rutt Podcasts

2022-02-17 Thread Frank Wimberly
"Can you imagine being surrounded by people oohing and awing over your every carefully constructed sentence? Nobody could resist that stroking." Do you remember the film "Being There"? Of course Chance the Gardener was oblivious and not attracted to the stroking. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle

Re: [FRIAM] by any means necessary

2022-02-15 Thread Frank Wimberly
Oh good. Let's replace universities with trucker blockades. The broadly focused activities at UC Davis consist of many narrowly focused projects. Non sequitur: when I graduated from high school I applied to only two universities: UC Davis and one other. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo

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

2022-02-15 Thread Frank Wimberly
Right genre. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 8:46 AM Jon Zingale wrote: > "delasestrellasdelcielotengoquebajartedosunaesparasaludarte" > > <3 Frankie Reyes > > >

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

2022-02-14 Thread Frank Wimberly
delasestrellasdelcielotengoquebajartedosunaesparasaludarte Not code. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Feb 14, 2022, 6:18 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > [image: char(90)][image: char(79)][image: char(33)][image: char(89)][image: >

[FRIAM] International Friendship

2022-02-14 Thread Frank Wimberly
Our ten year old grandson probably plays video games too much. However, this has benefits. He accesses the games by using a platform called Steam. I haven't used it but in enables communication among players. There's a boy named Lázaro who's about the same age with whom he's been playing for

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

2022-02-10 Thread Frank Wimberly
: > .-.. ..- -.-. -.- -.-- / -- .- -. .-.-.- / - --- ... . / .-- . .-. . > / - . / - .. -- . ... -.-.-- > > > > Nick Thompson > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Frank Wimberly > *Sent:* Thursday, February 10, 2022 10:32 AM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee

[FRIAM] ... --- ...

2022-02-10 Thread Frank Wimberly
../-.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - ./ -.-. --- -. ... - .- -. - .-.. -.-- --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays

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

2022-02-07 Thread Frank Wimberly
Sorry. I didn't go to the breeze website. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Feb 7, 2022, 11:05 AM Frank Wimberly wrote: > How do you compress the air? Any method I can think of uses energy. From > what source? >

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

2022-02-07 Thread Frank Wimberly
How do you compress the air? Any method I can think of uses energy. From what source? Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Feb 7, 2022, 10:57 AM Michael Orshan wrote: > Hi. I'm a reader more than a contributor, but the

Re: [FRIAM] Double Master Function (was Re: bad covid story)

2022-02-02 Thread Frank Wimberly
Thanks, Glen. That makes sense. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Feb 2, 2022, 3:56 PM glen wrote: > r.e. is "recursively enumerable", IIRC. > > On 2/2/22 13:34, Frank Wimberly wrote: > > I wond

Re: [FRIAM] Double Master Function (was Re: bad covid story)

2022-02-02 Thread Frank Wimberly
I wonder what an e. r. relation is. Equivalence relations are reflexive by definition. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Feb 2, 2022, 1:37 PM glen wrote: > No relation at all! I chose that theorem arbitrarily just to distinguish >

[FRIAM] Fwd: New Mexico Legacy

2022-01-29 Thread Frank Wimberly
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Re: [FRIAM] Tomorrow, 12p-2 Stu Kauffman on drums at Museum Hill Cafe, Santa Fe

2022-01-29 Thread Frank Wimberly
Not a cloud to be seen in Santa Fe. 28 F. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sat, Jan 29, 2022, 9:54 AM Marcus Daniels wrote: > This time of year, it is a good idea to check the weather before heading > out for an event. > >

Re: [FRIAM] trump coin

2022-01-28 Thread Frank Wimberly
Batten down the hatches, Roger! --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Fri, Jan 28, 2022, 5:20 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > Yes, indeed, we're hunkering down for a possible all time Boston record > snowfall tomorrow > > * WHAT...Blizzard

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

2022-01-27 Thread Frank Wimberly
, 7:36 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > Nick, > > My daughter says, > > "It is a fourth declension noun like apparatus. The plural is the same as > the singular, I believe." > > Frank > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 >

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

2022-01-26 Thread Frank Wimberly
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Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

2022-01-25 Thread Frank Wimberly
s, they should have drowned the boys. >> >> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 7:27 AM Frank Wimberly >> wrote: >> >>> But >>> >>> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_infanticide_in_China#20th_century >>> >>> --- >>> Frank C.

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

2022-01-25 Thread Frank Wimberly
; > Yes, they should have drowned the boys. > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 7:27 AM Frank Wimberly > wrote: > >> But >> >> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_infanticide_in_China#20th_century >> >> --- >> Frank C. Wimberly >> 140 Calle Ojo

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

2022-01-25 Thread Frank Wimberly
90% reduction in a few > decades. log2(0.1) ~ -3.32, so 1-child gets us to 10% in about 70 years if > a generation is 20 years. But that’s just details. > > Eric > > > > On Jan 24, 2022, at 9:11 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > > Excellent, Marcus. > > Eric, if it's less

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

2022-01-24 Thread Frank Wimberly
Excellent, Marcus. Eric, if it's less than 90% it still would have be significant. Two problems, "God" has tricks for making babies. As for 1 child per couple didn't they "terminate" some babies (not fetuses, feti?), particularly females? My impression is that their population has grown

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

2022-01-24 Thread Frank Wimberly
rios: a SLU using a single LULC map (in 1999) and a DLU > integrating 3 LULC maps (1999, 2009 and 2017). > > Eric > > > On Jan 24, 2022, at 4:48 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > > I read the Seibert and Rees article. It looks like a DLU scenario could > be a blessing. If course

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

2022-01-24 Thread Frank Wimberly
I read the Seibert and Rees article. It looks like a DLU scenario could be a blessing. If course we have no control over that. Who thinks it's possible to reduce the population of the Earth by almost 90% ? --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

2022-01-21 Thread Frank Wimberly
I didn't read the article but that last thing i want are horses. They get hurt, get sick, and they step on your feet. Also, cows are a major source of methane, a greenhouse gas. I suspect horses aren't but still... --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918

Re: [FRIAM] math quote

2022-01-20 Thread Frank Wimberly
First, it's not true that number theory has no applications. But the quote reminds me of G. H. Hardy who wrote a famous book with the title "Pure Mathematics". He allegedly lost interest in his research when applications of it were discovered. Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,

Re: [FRIAM] gene complex for homosexuality

2022-01-13 Thread Frank Wimberly
esses enough to avoid ever having such outcomes. So, it's a thing that > happens sometimes, and it doesn't really affect selection as much as one > might think. It is a pretty neutral outcome that sometimes happens at the > intersection of some really important processes. > > > >

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