A couple of facts that relate to some of the points raised. I was following a car that had a bumper sticker that said, "Eat the Rich".
A man paid $50 million for a penthouse (5 story) in Manhattan. He committed suicide when he couldn't sell it for $35 million. His wife wanted to live where she could have horses. If anyone cares i can tell you who he was. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Tue, May 4, 2021, 3:42 PM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah, I agree. But as the miscommunication about the dimension of > simplices vs. orthogonal dimensionality seems to indicate, reduction need > not imply linearity, and if reduction is used iteratively to discover > interestingness, that provenance/method/algorithm need not be lost (1st > order Markovian). A practical example might be > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection_pursuit > > Like abstraction <-> concretization, there's de-objectification that's > part of a complete skill set. Competent objectifiers retain enough history > to at least approximate the starting point. > > On 5/4/21 1:37 PM, jon zingale wrote: > > """ > > Reduction is a triumph if it captures what you're looking for. > > """ > > > > When reductions capture what one is looking for then the resulting > > categories > > make for powerful rhetoric. IMO, it is exactly that reductions to crisp > > objects > > capture what *some* want, while obfuscating the desired objects of > others, > > that > > makes the whole reduction-objectification game so insidious in practice > (a > > kind > > of conceptual imperialism?). Sometimes objects can be presented with such > > clarity > > and precision that it becomes difficult to imagine any others, to > dislodge > > unproductive beliefs or practices, or to remember that the objects are > > fantastic > > shorthands. > > -- > ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >
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