Three hours and fourty-seven minutes and fourty-nine seconds? When I think of how much I already fail to get done in that amount of time every day….
> On Sep 11, 2025, at 3:07, glen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well done! She's an infinite font of rant. Have you seen her rant about > Picard? https://youtu.be/MdLHKdn0JTY?si=wEEzBJTGP2Jsh4T2 > > On 9/10/25 11:01 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: >> Has she got any other topics she needs to saw at? Maybe the transporters in >> Star Trek don't seem plausible to her? >> Then she fast forwards what was surely an IQ demodulator! >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of glen >> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2025 10:17 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Nick being irritating -- >> I found this entertaining, like all her videos: >> Part 6: You cannot hear radio waves. >> https://youtu.be/0j4_-7rwWjE?si=9XKhErO03LQLPgvp&t=3910 >> I like the genre "noise". But some of my friends who are true fans have some >> perverse tastes in music. E.g. a couple of them *hate* what they call >> "noodling" ... like Joe Satriani or Yngwie Malmsteen ... mostly sounds like >> they're playing scales. They argue that chords and rhythm guitar, as well as >> drums, are way more interesting/entertaining to them. I find that somewhat >> contradictory. It just seems like you can't really be a fan of noise without >> liking noodling, at least when it's appropriate ... not gratuitous. But >> apophenia's a thing. So maybe noise is an ultimate art form, where the >> artist can intend anything she wants without constraining the audience in >> their imputation? >> Composers *think* they're generating these things. But most mathematicians >> are Platonic. Maybe the composers are actually *discovering* music as >> opposed to generating it? >> On 9/10/25 8:57 AM, Steve Smith wrote: >>> >>>> Yes. Thank you. I was beginning to fear i had asked an unfair q. Gpt got >>>> it on the first pass and then went on to say some interesting things about >>>> mathematics and semantics >>> >>> i think questions of this type *are* implicitly "unfair" (whatever that >>> means). Without attributing malice to Nick, it is of the type of question >>> known as "trick", either deliberately misleading gesturing in an arbitrary >>> (mis)direction or simply deliberately obscuring/withholding context which >>> might otherwisemake the question "obvious". >>> >>> I'm not a big fan of the whole domain of "trick questions" generally up to >>> and including highly respected (e.g. NYT) crossword puzzles, "Trivial >>> Pursuit" or "Jeapordy". This might seem odd as I *am* a fan of esoteric >>> knowledge... perhaps just not using it as tool for "getting one over on >>> others" (still not impugning Nick as having intended such). >>> >>> I do appreciate some of the responses here, including Glen's meta-narrative >>> and Nick's tease of "GPT nailed it right away!" though that does have the >>> taste of shaming the rest of us (as if GPT IS one of us?) for not being as >>> broadly trained on obscure facts and patterns as GPT is? >>> >>> Grumbling about "trick questions" aside, Nick's claim of: "interesting >>> things about mathematics and semantics" is compelling to me. I can't help >>> but want to know what that actually grounds out as? >>> >>> I'm wondering if GPT calls this question out as a "category ambiguity" >>> (/ambiguity/ being.a subcategory of /error/)? I could dive in with GPT and >>> discuss these sequences and everyone's guesses, etc... but despite my >>> fascination with LLM-relations I don't want to compound my already >>> over/mis-use and speed the paving of the planet with Data Centers beyond >>> what I'm already doing with GPT. Like noodling (yet) better/more-subtle >>> methods for using natural materials to build an a addition onto my home >>> (just in time for a massive data-center blob to grow, looming over the >>> horizon, inevitably sucking my humble adobe-abode into "the Matrix"? >>> >>> - grumbleSteve > > > -- > ¡sıɹƎ ןıɐH ⊥ ɐןןǝdoɹ ǝ uǝןƃ > Ἐν τῷ ἄλλοις αἴλουροι τὰς ἐχθροὺς ὀξύνονται, ἐγὼ τοὺς φίλους μου ὀξύνομαι ἵνα > σῶμαι αὐτούς. > > > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... > --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fbit.ly%2fvirtualfriam&c=E,1,9e1RWihkcvIaDJfX-Iyoh5wb2-f4-Li0EIOZhL3MY8HaqU9mhOE0jrKqEWmk9Cg34SbQLqjMRLj66jtqmCnNSO1Bfy9HzUIw0Zyn5EeuznNWpKhM47WEkEFmYHY,&typo=1 > to (un)subscribe > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fredfish.com%2fmailman%2flistinfo%2ffriam_redfish.com&c=E,1,R02rcNlNMV5g4b9E8xsIlH64swQG0x-TvOcQWBjKEjef6oetqAdn9O9N1L55daMTNPBQpyqIvCSUMl6VDzxqFJyxJBbPMpDy1Ofrk0St&typo=1 > FRIAM-COMIC > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffriam-comic.blogspot.com%2f&c=E,1,VeEVWlmBq7Ag22qhfEjilY41AAqxJUklMM5ZZldTrmzVmX16oapL94M2g3HELht71REulUqhsJJ-WN8EeGDT1_zouPb2frEdBYzllQdLtmk,&typo=1 > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fredfish.com%2fpipermail%2ffriam_redfish.com%2f&c=E,1,bBQiu33HrQkGwcuoIb_mzBWb_MIf6O7fWd5KhokNCBCRYoFdJwRajFnMUuKrbGbkj1Zk1Cawsc4Z2kfzTNkedElRbBOCVnIvdetscg4QVftY&typo=1 > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. 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