Re: [FRIAM] My charity is more effective than your charity!

2015-07-08 Thread Nick Thompson
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2015 11:57 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] My charity is more effe

Re: [FRIAM] My charity is more effective than your charity!

2015-07-08 Thread Marcus Daniels
"I want to warn you all (speaking of 3d modeling) that I have been for years (as Steve G. will testify) trying to get somebody to do 3D visualizations of the interaction of air masses, particularly in the region around and just east of the Sangres, where cold dry Canadian air masses slosh down

Re: [FRIAM] My charity is more effective than your charity!

2015-07-08 Thread Nick Thompson
From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ep ropella Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2015 10:40 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] My charity is more effective than your charity! On 07/07/2015 07:06 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > OsiriX

Re: [FRIAM] My charity is more effective than your charity!

2015-07-08 Thread Marcus Daniels
- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ep ropella Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2015 8:40 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] My charity is more effective than your charity! On 07/07/2015 07:06 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Osiri

Re: [FRIAM] My charity is more effective than your charity!

2015-07-08 Thread glen ep ropella
On 07/07/2015 07:06 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > OsiriX is good for MRIs (DICOM files). MIALite is a segmentation plugin for > it that works. Some of the OsiriX plugins have bitrot and crash the > browser. Give your GPU something [cough] useful to do other than [cough] > gaming.Don't kn

Re: [FRIAM] My charity is more effective than your charity!

2015-07-07 Thread Steve Smith
Tuesday, July 07, 2015 4:36 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] My charity is more effective than your charity! On 07/07/2015 02:47 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: I think your thorax is at least a 4D object! Since I get copies of all the images on CD, I&#x

Re: [FRIAM] My charity is more effective than your charity!

2015-07-07 Thread Marcus Daniels
ve to write that.. -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 4:36 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] My charity is more effective than your charity! On 07/07/2015 02:47 PM, M

Re: [FRIAM] My charity is more effective than your charity!

2015-07-07 Thread glen
On 07/07/2015 02:47 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: I think your thorax is at least a 4D object! Since I get copies of all the images on CD, I've thought about doing a 3D animation. It might be a bit difficult to interpolate between scans. But surely there are established methods for doing it. I

Re: [FRIAM] My charity is more effective than your charity!

2015-07-07 Thread Marcus Daniels
"We went to dinner at a friend's place on the 4th. I explained how happy my oncologist and my research nurse were that a few of my periaortic lymph nodes had shrunk by a miniscule amount between the last scan (6 months ago) and this latest one. And I (again) floated my skepticism, which is bas

[FRIAM] My charity is more effective than your charity!

2015-07-07 Thread glen
The Logic of Effective Altruism http://bostonreview.net/forum/peter-singer-logic-effective-altruism This seems like a nice addition to recent arguments here on friam re: usefulness, the ontology of ideas, import of philosophy, the existence of the One True Truth, etc. "Effective Altruism"