I was looking for a (null space) model of when and why a post occurs. Like why a person would reach for the remote and change the TV station. It may have nothing to do with the coherence or silliness of any particular programming. Like going out for a cup of coffee or a smoke.
From: Friam <[email protected]> on behalf of jofr <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 7:58 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] What is FRIAM and is it still alive You mean a "credit model" depending on correspondence length and authorship time? GitHub has a statistics page for repositories which shows who has committed the most lines in what timeframe. And some open source frameworks like Ruby on Rails list their most active contributors https://contributors.rubyonrails.org ChatGPT says about you Marcus that you are the most active poster by a substantial margin. You win clearly in this category. Nick and Glen are funnier according to ChatGPT though. ChatGPT is particularly fond of the Nick's post "All those who think Steve was wrong raise your hands" and Glen's post "Say it again … Say it again in a different way … Again … Again, damnit!" -J. -------- Original message -------- From: Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> Date: 8/12/26 4:28 PM (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] What is FRIAM and is it still alive Correspondence length and apparent authorship time that follows the distribution of a compile/link cycle or system integration test suite execution duration? From: Friam <[email protected]> on behalf of [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 4:50 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] What is FRIAM and is it still alive ChatGPT proposed these two laws: FRIAM's First Law: We take difficult philosophical problems and worry them to death until someone produces either a profound insight, a completely insane hypothesis, or a phrase like "quantum woo". FRIAM's Second Law: If a theory is suspiciously elegant, somebody on the list will throw a shoe at it. The reason I have asked ChatGPT and Gemini is I am writing a new self-published book, and the first chapter is about FRIAM. Their summaries are surprisingly good. I asked them to find funny anecdotes in the FRIAM archives and they found a post from Nick that said "OK friammers, All those who think Steve was wrong raise your hands" :-) If you do NOT want to be mentioned in the chapter because it is too much quantum woo for you then please let me know or raise your hand. Will share a draft in a few days. -J. .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam <https://bit.ly/virtualfriam> to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com <http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ <http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/> archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ <https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ <http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/>
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