Re: [FRIAM] New information on COVID-19

I found it credible. We're adding a pulse oximeter to the kit. There was another report, https://meaww.com/six-austrian-divers-permanently-damaged-lungs-recovery-mild-coronavirus-covid-19. scuba divers recovered from mild covid infection and ended up with lungs so damaged that it is not safe for

Re: [FRIAM] New information on COVID-19

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 8:32 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > > I wonder if any of those cell phone pulsimeters could be upgraded to > oximeters with some calibration? > There are a bunch of cell phone pulse oximeter apps that use the cell phone flash and camera, but I don't get

Re: [FRIAM] New information on COVID-19y bb

ng, > because by then it might be too late. Do you all have colds? I suppose, > given that it takes Amazon six weeks to get one, you are wise to get a jump > on it. > > Nick > > Nicholas Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > Clark University >

Re: [FRIAM] In Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine, an Oxford Group Leaps Ahead - The New York Times

They have a leg up because they already tested a close relative of their vaccine for safety. That's the first step in clinical trials, to prove that you do no harm. So they've modified that already tested vaccine for the current pandemic and they're ready to go directly to efficacy trials. -- re

Re: [FRIAM] New information on COVID-19

covered well, 2 are still critical, and 1 was transferred to another hospital. That's a good preliminary result. -- rec -- On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 11:40 AM Roger Critchlow wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 8:32 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > >> >> I wonder if an

Re: [FRIAM] New information on COVID-19

Thank you, Frank, I stand corrected. -- rec -- On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 10:50 AM Frank Wimberly wrote: > Roger, > > It's Coumadin not Heparin that's used as rat poison. I've taken both. > Thank God, I'm not a rat in that sense. > > On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 8

Re: [FRIAM] Positively selected mutations

I think the implication is that there is a wave of more infectious covid building right now, just when everyone was looking for a chance to catch their breathand regroup. -- rec -- On Tue, May 5, 2020, 11:47 AM uǝlƃ ☣ wrote: > Thanks! So, is the implication that even after we get some one vacc

Re: [FRIAM] Positively selected mutations

ugh Europe and North America. -- rec -- On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 2:49 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > I think the implication is that there is a wave of more infectious covid > building right now, just when everyone was looking for a chance to catch > their breathand regroup. > > -- rec --

Re: [FRIAM] Warring Darwinians for Glen, Steve

http://www.humansnotinvited.com/ -- rec -- On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 5:08 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > Oh, you SAY you do. Someday we’ll get Neuralink hardware on you and then > WE WILL SEE. > > > > *From: *Friam on behalf of Frank Wimberly < > wimber...@gmail.com> > *Reply-To: *The Friday Mornin

Re: [FRIAM] What Is the Real Coronavirus Toll in Each State? - The New York Times

I read something in the past week that argued the red counties in the battleground states were showing a very bad trendline, that the rates of infection looked ready to surge, but I haven't been able to find the original source again. It was a University researcher who was tracking county statisti

Re: [FRIAM] What Is the Real Coronavirus Toll in Each State? - The New York Times

> > Hall County is a county located in the north central portion of the U.S. > state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 179,684. The > county seat is Gainesville. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/coronavirus-us-cases-deaths/ provides maps of deaths and cas

[FRIAM] Meanwhile, back on the troll farms

Looks like a concerted effort to discredit the ICL Covid simulation for lack of adequate unit testing, all in a github issue: https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/issues/165 Oh, of course, retract all policies based on it, too. via https://news.ycombinator.com/ -- rec -- .-. .- -. -.. --- --

Re: [FRIAM] Meanwhile, back on the troll farms

It's already happened more than once. People, acting as if they cared about the code have taken over existing projects when the current developer loses interest. Then they modify the code so it does something evil in addition to its original purpose, say stealing bitcoin wallet credentials. Other

Re: [FRIAM] Meanwhile, back on the troll farms

Jon -- I agree, they could work to fix the software problem, but they're not interested in fixing the software problem. I think their intention is to gamergate the corona virus, spreading FUD about expert opinion. With due respect to Marcus, I do think they're trolls, they think that all of real

Re: [FRIAM] (no subject)

Right, https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-blame - Show what revision and author last modified each line of a file -- rec -- On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 5:19 PM Jon Zingale wrote: > Roger, > > You say, "It's already happened more than once. People, acting as if > they cared about the code have taken o

Re: [FRIAM] (no subject)

itation before the bugs are identified. All it takes for > that is money and/or extortion. > > > > *From: *Friam on behalf of Roger Critchlow < > r...@elf.org> > *Reply-To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Date: *T

Re: [FRIAM] Meanwhile, back on the troll farms

Oh, goodness, looks like there are some real reasons to be dubious about the ICL corona virus simulation, https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/05/08/so-the-real-scandal-is-why-did-anyone-ever-listen-to-this-guy/ -- rec -- On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 4:45 PM Steven A Smith wrote: > > The fol

Re: [FRIAM] tapeworms

Where's my ivermectin? On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 1:48 PM Steve Smith wrote: > well found/shared... > > On 2/20/22 8:12 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > Whether the effect is the Fox News viewer, or golfers at the local > > country club, I think the cause must be tapeworms! > > > > https://www.theatla

[FRIAM] hypergraphs

There's a little news burp about hypergraphs in this month's CACM, mostly about how hard they are, except when they reduce to graphs, and that the NSF is funding some research efforts. CACM, MARCH 2022, VOL . 65, NO. 3, DOI:10.1145/3510550 Chris Edwards, A Group Effort, Researchers look for new in

Re: [FRIAM] hypergraphs

s 325-354, and discovered the applications of consecutive ones to sequencing contig assembly and chip circuit floor planning. -- rec -- On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 12:02 PM David Eric Smith wrote: > Thank you for this, Roger, > > Very good to have. > > Eric > > > > On Feb 24,

[FRIAM] war footing

I'm thinking that a way to escalate our response to Putin, without actually fighting him, is to build a "green war machine". Start a crash project to research, develop, and deliver the technology to liberate our european allies from their energy dependencies on russian oil and gas. And everyone e

[FRIAM] Researchers verify relationship between rate of a nonequilibrium process and the rate at which it creates entropy

https://phys.org/news/2022-02-rsearchers-relationship-nonequilibrium-entropy.html .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinf

Re: [FRIAM] Enamine

I found Mearshimer's argument a persuasive point of view. What else has the US done that might make other countries anxious? Engineered regime changes in Iran and Chile, supported failed regime changes in Cuba and Nicaragua, fought wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, intervened in Panama, Grena

Re: [FRIAM] Enamine

rope > and Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Americas during the > US-NATO/Soviet-Union struggles, they seem damaging in similar ways and > degrees to what the US was the main actor doing in many places during the > unipolar era. So it is not obvious to me that the rise of Chin

Re: [FRIAM] Z

Yes to all of Costa-Gavras, from Wiki His accounts of corruption propagated, in their essence, by European and > American powers (*Z *, *State > of Siege * and *Missing >

Re: [FRIAM] Lost in thought

Good catch Jochen, I really like the title. Late to the party, I started reading "The Dawn of Everything" this week. -- rec -- On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 6:43 AM Jochen Fromm wrote: > Just bought "Lost in thought" from Zena Hitz for the next vacation. Looks > like an interesting book. Zena teach

[FRIAM] complex adaptive mechanics

https://www.quantamagazine.org/before-brains-mechanics-may-have-ruled-animal-behavior-20220316/ had to pop up a few times before I paid attention. *Tricoplax adhaerens* is a multicellular organism which coordinates multicellular motility through mechanical interactions between cilia. https://arxi

Re: [FRIAM] speculative marketing

I read the cryptosplaination in the NYTimes this weekend, and it almost made sense, then this. Isn't there something thermodynamically fishy about a scheme that so directly converts capital into ROI? Bits, and electricity in; bits, waste heat, and profit out; it's almost as if someone made up a

Re: [FRIAM] speculative marketing

e excess power. > > > > > https://www.montereyherald.com/2021/08/19/worlds-largest-energy-storage-system-completes-phase-ii-in-moss-landing/ > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Roger Critchlow > *Sent:* Monday, March 21, 2022 11:01 AM > *To:* The Friday Morning

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

I think the trap of essentialism is that there exist contexts where it works, and works magnificently, but in most contexts it's nothing but pet rattlesnakes, often being waved around with no caution at all. And I suppose the back side of the trap is that we have an innate essentialist heuristic w

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

On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 4:13 PM glen wrote: > On 3/30/22 11:24, Roger Critchlow wrote: > > Thermodynamic state functions as derivatives with respect to entropy are > all over JW Gibb's On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances. It is > the point. PW Bridgman&#x

Re: [FRIAM] Ordinary logic

Hey, I posted the arxiv papers for the mechanically coupled complex adaptive organism a few weeks ago, no nervous system required for a multicellular predator to pounce on a patch of algae, nervous systems are entirely optional. -- rec -- On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 5:11 PM Steve Smith wrote: > > th

Re: [FRIAM] Wilson and Snower on Economics

Russ -- Thanks for posting this, and coming back with the link to the "Making Of ..." paper. I don't know if I have the cognitive bandwidth to slog through the full paper, but I wholeheartedly approve of their intent. So DSW repeats the conclusion of his paper with E O Wilson, “Rethinking the Th

Re: [FRIAM] **TODAY April 7 4p Second Street Brewery ** Re: tomorrow at 2nd St

Cheers to all those present and absent, -- rec -- On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 4:19 PM Stephen Guerin wrote: > well played photo, Glenn. Cheers! > > On Thu, Apr 7, 2022, 1:59 PM glen wrote: > >> Cheers! >> >> On 4/7/22 12:38, Stephen Guerin wrote: >> > Merle, >> > >> > We're going to 2nd Street Brew

[FRIAM] Selective cultural processes generate adaptive heuristics

Science week before last, mixed in with the telomere-to-telomere human genome, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo0713 discusses Thompson *et al.* (*3* > ) describe > taking an experimental approach to the question of how opp

Re: [FRIAM] Selective cultural processes generate adaptive heuristics

This japanese toddlers put me in mind of Ten Meter Tower https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU2AvkKA4kM. Is he going to jump? Is she climbing back down? -- rec -- On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 4:48 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > If there is something essential about turnover, then it seems like the > rat

[FRIAM] A new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine

https://news.mit.edu/2022/thermal-heat-engine-0413 Thermophotovoltaic, converts 1900-2400C source photons to electricity at >40% efficiency. -- rec -- .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC

Re: [FRIAM] A new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine

ving parts is as > efficient as a steam turbine > > > > That would be good for a concentrated solar array. Do you have any idea > how it works? > > > Cody Smith > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 10:43 AM Roger Critchlow wrote: > > https://news.m

Re: [FRIAM] Wilson and Snower on Economics

https://aeon.co/essays/why-are-women-philosophers-often-erased-from-collective-memory The most prominent is an elegantly analytic book concerning the role of > metaphors in scientific thinking: *Models and Analogies in **Science* > (1963). > > Hesse’s book was ahead of its time. It also is out

Re: [FRIAM] Wilson and Snower on Economics

from the Internet Archive > https://archive.org/search.php?query=mary%20b.%20hesse > > On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 2:41 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > >> >> https://aeon.co/essays/why-are-women-philosophers-often-erased-from-collective-memory >> >> The most

Re: [FRIAM] Wilson and Snower on Economics

I found another source for Models and Analogies in Science at https://www.scribd.com/document/356957348/Mary-B-Hesse-Models-and-Analogies-in-Science -- rec -- On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 5:28 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > Ah, nice to know, again, something google doesn't find. > > (Irr

Re: [FRIAM] Whether Shannon or Nyquist, I don't know if I can be clear...

That was great. The disney bits, the historical photos and videos, the expert commentaries, and the re-enacted interview all worked really well. I think I have never been less annoyed by a technical topic regurgitated for popular consumption. -- rec -- On Sun, May 8, 2022 at 11:49 PM Jon Zingal

Re: [FRIAM] quotes and questions

On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 1:33 PM Steve Smith wrote: > [ ... ] > And while Glen aptly notes that "Flow is for Squares, man", it is also > apt that "It's Hip to be Square!" and I personally don't think > "Turbulent Flow" is an oxymoron. > how to get into the turbulent flow zone? https://en.wiki

Re: [FRIAM] quotes and questions

But Zeno is always between wheres, and it takes forever to list the digits of any split-instant. -- rec -- On Thu, May 12, 2022, 2:25 PM Steve Smith wrote: > > Zingale wrote: > > """Negation is a stupid concept, perhaps the most Evil human invention ... > maybe 2nd only to religion""" > > Tota

Re: [FRIAM] oversight

I've been drawn back into Umberto Eco's *The Prague Cemetery*. The original document of racial replacement theory is *The Protocols of the Elders of Zion*, a forgery produced in the 19th century at the behest of the secret service of a European country that no longer exists and may even have been

[FRIAM] Phillip Ball reporting on causality in complex systems

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25433880-300-an-intriguing-rethink-of-cause-and-effect-could-shake-up-biology/ > An intriguing rethink of cause and effect could shake up biology > Some scientists insist that the cause of all things exists at the most > fundamental level, even in complex sys

[FRIAM] Phillip Ball reporting on the reinvention of thermodynamics

https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-trace-the-rise-in-entropy-to-quantum-information-20220526/ No paywall here. Suppose you could get classical thermodynamic entropy as a consequence of quantum entanglement? -- rec -- -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIA

Re: [FRIAM] Web 3 is going great!

The longer-form, less sarcastic thoughts on web3 are also good reading, https://blog.mollywhite.net/blockchain/, though the rate at which things are going great is pretty hilarious. Who knew the future would bring us serial rug-pullers? -- rec -- -- rec -- On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 6:31 PM Marcu

Re: [FRIAM] Web 3 is going great!

ically re-piqued by FileCoin and AR. But the anti-crypto rants are > fantastic. Perfect examples of healthy criticism. This one was a lot of fun: > > Web3.0: A Libertarian Dystopia > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-sNSjS8cq0 > > On 5/27/22 17:02, Roger Critchlow wrote: > >

Re: [FRIAM] Web 3 is going great!

- > >TechScape: They used my identity to flog a doomed cryptocurrency – and >then things got weird > > > https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/01/cryptocurrency-tsuka-alex-hern "In the meantime, the Telegram channel was moving so fast that I could >see history being

Re: [FRIAM] self-care

And they're discussing how to adapt the Texas bounty hunter law for catching people who cross state lines for forbidden practices. -- rec -- On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 3:12 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > I can see it now. Netflix and others won't let me watch when I'm a VPN. > When folks ask the AI

[FRIAM] Experian customer account recovery practice

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/07/experian-you-have-some-explaining-to-do/ -- rec -- -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)sub

[FRIAM] AI etiquette, Marijuana research

Two articles from MIT Tech Review. https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/19/1056176/sonys-racing-ai-destroyed-its-human-competitors-by-being-nice-and-fast/ Training AI drivers for Gran Turismo racing, it turns out that they can learn to physically drive faster than people, but they're too aggr

Re: [FRIAM] All Of Feynman’s Lectures Now Available Online Completely Free

This content isn't available right now When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted. On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 5:45 AM Tom Johnson wrote: > > https://www.facebook.com/1564202305/posts/pfbid026z42fYrezJyiZ

Re: [FRIAM] All Of Feynman’s Lectures Now Available Online Completely Free

Ah, but google finds the complete text at https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/ and the videos on youtube.com -- rec -- On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 9:16 AM Roger Critchlow wrote: > This content isn't available right now > When this happens, it's usually because the owner only

Re: [FRIAM] All Of Feynman’s Lectures Now Available Online Completely Free

Here's a new free book at MIT Press which I'm finding readable. Suggested by hackernews. https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5329/The-Art-of-Abduction >From the Introduction: If you are a linguist, I encourage you to read on because abduction has > been said to be fundamental to determini

Re: [FRIAM] All Of Feynman’s Lectures Now Available Online Completely Free

the pointer. Maybe I missed the whole > document link. But I've assembled the PDFs into 1 file if anyone would like > me to send it to them. > > On 7/24/22 06:12, Roger Critchlow wrote: > > Here's a new free book at MIT Press which I'm finding readable. > Suggest

Re: [FRIAM] All Of Feynman’s Lectures Now Available Online Completely Free

nse. IDK. Maybe I'm just > old. > > On 7/25/22 14:38, Roger Critchlow wrote: > > Glen -- > > > > Glad to facilitate. There is no whole document pdf link that I could > find. I figure they just supplied the output files from TeX. The next step >

[FRIAM] Isness: Using Multi-Person VR to Design Peak Mystical-Type Experiences Comparable to Psychedelics

https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00940 This must be on some topic around here. Originally picked up from https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/06/1056727/vr-virtual-reality-psychedelics-transcendence/, which is paywalled. The original arxiv posting is 20 years old, but the work was just published i

Re: [FRIAM] Isness: Using Multi-Person VR to Design Peak Mystical-Type Experiences Comparable to Psychedelics

ExPoMo? On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 2:58 PM Steve Smith wrote: > I could (almost) claim that I don't understand a word of what you wrote > here. ("I don't even know what you just said). It has the earmarks of a (n > un) natural text generator working with a fairly rarified "gamer/fanboi" > lexicon?

Re: [FRIAM] Advice sought: data compromise

I got a "data security incident notification" in the mail from the "Professional Finance Company, Inc." of Livonia, Michigan that offered me an account with "Cyberscout" to monitor my online credit. That sounded so sketchy, that I ignored it. It turns out to be entirely true, one of the largest d

Re: [FRIAM] "tech" companies suck

I've lately run into two mentions of "group chat" as the organizing principle of social media for the day. You keep different groups for different purposes, and you don't let social media into the chat. I think Friam actually functions as a group chat, aside from google scanning everything. But

Re: [FRIAM] Jack Cowan / Visual Hallucinations and structure of Visual Cortex (was Re: dystopian vision(s))

No compliment so cleverly crafted that it cannot be twisted into an insult. It seems like misinformation, whether our con-specifics are purposefully lying to us or just being so badly informed that they're not even right twice a day, is the actual human condition. So the massive nervous system pa

Re: [FRIAM] Uber in Santa Fe

Fun fact, uber was asking for a 50% markup over the cost of a yellow cab at Logan Airport the other evening, bute we only found out when we took the cab. -- rec -- On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 10:58 PM Tom Johnson wrote: > It's still here. Our house cleaner used it yesterday mid-morning. > >

Re: [FRIAM] Still more faking it till you make it

In a similar vein, this article showed up on hackernews last week https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fraud/ though a fraudulent credit card transaction has an irate customer generating negative feedback, where a badly edited journal merely pollutes the commons. -- rec -- On W

[FRIAM] monte carlo geometry processing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZbuKOxH71o Via hackernews. How to evaluate partial differential equations without building a finite element mesh of the domain, as inspired by monte carlo ray tracing. Very high quality math/computation video presentation. By Keenan Crane, CMU, 2022-08-29. The n

[FRIAM] DeepMind matrix multiplication

Open access https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05172-4 Found faster ways to multiply matrices by gamifying the algorithm search space. As summarized in https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/10/05/1060717/deepmind-uses-its-game-playing-ai-to-best-a-50-year-old-record-in-computer-science/

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Black holes may hide an odd secret about our universe

You're following too much click bait, follow only healthy links to substantial content and you'll be fine. -- rec -- On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 3:20 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > What a depressing article. I'm not sure why. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > >

Re: [FRIAM] cable modem?

wirecutter says motorola MB7621 for 600Mb plans, netgear CM500 for up to 300Mb plans, and motorola MB8600 for gigabit plans. I use the 600Mb recommended modem for my 300Mb comcast service on the theory that I get to use channels which 300Mb modems cannot see, so I have less resource contention int

Re: [FRIAM] phones with keyboards, or a keyboard you can buy for a phone?

Pity you can't just switch your computer keyboard to act as your phone's character input, as if you were swapping the phone in as another screen. Almost any bluetooth keyboard should work, and there are tons of them on amazon if you search "bluetooth mini keyboard", and they're cheap. They're pro

Re: [FRIAM] phones with keyboards, or a keyboard you can buy for a phone?

d it? Do > they even exist? > > On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 4:37 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > >> Pity you can't just switch your computer keyboard to act as your phone's >> character input, as if you were swapping the phone in as another screen. >> >> Almos

[FRIAM] books by cheng and chang

Interesting visit with my old boss/friend today, he mentioned some books of interest, and while looking for them I discovered yet another book. https://www.amazon.com/Joy-Abstraction-Exploration-Category-Theory/dp/1108477224 Eugenia Cheng, The Joy of Abstraction: An Exploration of Math, Category T

Re: [FRIAM] books by cheng and chang

s to scientific questions. These are possibly consequences of being a realisitic realist. -- rec -- On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 9:57 AM glen wrote: > There. I fixed that for you. 8^D > > On 11/1/22 19:36, Roger Critchlow wrote: > > Interesting visit with my old boss/friend today, he

[FRIAM] election day distractions

Just found Adventures of a Mathematician free with Amazon Prime: The warmhearted story of Polish immigrant and mathematician Stan Ulam, who > moved to the U.S. in the 1930s. Stan deals with the difficult losses of > family and friends all while helping to create the hydrogen bomb and the > first

Re: [FRIAM] Getting Verbed...

d beyond), I found this aggregator of alternative >>> recommendations: >>> >> >>> >> https://alternativeto.net/ >>> >> >>> >> which doesn't necessarily solve anything, it just makes it obvious >>> how challenging "t

[FRIAM] The other side of Web 3.0

Since crypto is doing so great this week, here's Sandy Pentland explaining why and how he thinks blockchain is about to take off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbd_QHtLTp0 The lecture is from May this year. The questioning from the Stanford audience is instructive. Interestingly, the immediat

Re: [FRIAM] (not) leaving Twitter

Tsk, so many bad investments, so little time! Binging Sandy Pentland led me to etoro.com, where everybody can see how everybody's portfolios are doing. The front page gives the top crypto traders on the site, who are all around -70% for the past year. But scroll down and you find out that they r

Re: [FRIAM] (not) leaving Twitter

quot;tech" or "life > sciences" but something more refined). > > Does your play with etoro suggest that's possible there? > > On 11/17/22 08:16, Roger Critchlow wrote: > > Tsk, so many bad investments, so little time! > > > > Binging Sandy Pentla

Re: [FRIAM] (not) leaving Twitter

ades CUs (Schools, ???) bop along as > second class players to the big banks (LANB/Enterprise included). > There are two major bank branches (buildings) evident in Los Alamos, > though I couldn't name them). Credit Unions are now offering > Mortgages, they did not last time I took

[FRIAM] collective sheepishness

>From hackernews https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-022-01769-8 corrected link from comments to "Sheep flocks alternate their leader and achieve collective intelligence" The secret sauce of american democracy. -- rec -- -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM A

Re: [FRIAM] collective sheepishness

Hmm, not apparently users of arxiv.org either. Here are the raw videos of sheep in pastures, might be good bedtime watching? https://zenodo.org/record/6905807 In my experience, swarms are following the mouse, or chasing a randomly fleeing agent, or just wandering around randomly, or following so

Re: [FRIAM] election day distractions

i/The_Distinguished_Gentleman >> their's also a classic about presidential candidate >> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ> >> So is this one <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Groove> >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 5:

Re: [FRIAM] First Sign of Spring

And a fine day for my return to New Mexico. Flew into El Paso, drove to Las Cruces, picked up my daughter, had enchiladas verde at Chachi's, went to see my vintage 1941 new house, and drove through the earliest dusk of the year to my airbnb in Mesilla. Feel like crap, but I am already improving a

Re: [FRIAM] First Sign of Spring

Los Cruces On Thu, Dec 8, 2022, 11:29 AM Nicholas Thompson wrote: > And Roger!? Where are you going to fetch up? > > Where is this vintage 1941 House? > > N > > On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 9:14 AM Roger Critchlow wrote: > >> And a fine day for my return to New Mex

Re: [FRIAM] First Sign of Spring

Thanks, Frank, I shouldn't need the reminder. -- rec -- On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 1:37 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > Las Cruces. Feminine noun. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > > On Thu

Re: [FRIAM] Friday AM

There was a hacker news item this morning about maintaining hydration and chronic illness: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-3964(22)00586-2/fulltext those who exceeded 142 mmol/l of serum sodium in middle age got sicker more often later in life. It's the first measureme

[FRIAM] new thermal tech

I was amused to see an announcement of a thermoacoustic heat pump the other day: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/01/02/residential-thermo-acoustic-heat-pump-produces-water-up-to-80-c/ then an ionocaloric refrigerator announcement turns up this morning https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2023/01/03/c

[FRIAM] precision biology

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05563-7 Take your pluripotent human stem cell line, make 25 cell lines with different molecules tagged for fluorescent microscope imaging, run an automated pipeline to grow and gather images, align according to the apical basal axis, express the remainder

Re: [FRIAM] new thermal tech

-and-such, then by running an exemplar Carnot engine in > reverse, you could make a perpetual-motion machine of type-XYZ). But I > never did anything with it that yielded a new calculation, as opposed to > just a restatement of common knowledge. > > Anyway… > > Eric > > >

[FRIAM] A wireless heat engine

This turned up on TheConversation.com which I recently added to my occasionally scanned sources. https://theconversation.com/device-transmits-radio-waves-with-almost-no-power-without-violating-the-laws-of-physics-196271 This sort of invalidates most of my expectations about what communication cha

[FRIAM] LLM's starting to formulate Theories of Mind

This is from hackernews, https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02083. GPT-3 in 2021 had no theory of mind, january 2022 had a seven year old child theory of mind, november 2022 had progressed to a nine year old. -- rec -- -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Compl

Re: [FRIAM] Datasets as Experience

broChatGPT? we told them they needed more diversity in AI development teams. -- rec -- On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 2:52 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > I am a little surprised that gaslighting / mansplaining would be so > prevalent in the media sources used to train chatGPT. Cold-blooded > gaslighting

Re: [FRIAM] ChatGPT knows FRIAM

I'm surprised that Nick didn't get an office at Descartes, too. -- rec -- On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 2:29 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > I am glad that ChatGPT ha promoted me to be CTO of Descartes Labs because > my motto is, "I think therefore I am." > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,

Re: [FRIAM] ChatGPT knows FRIAM

Watched Wolfram's entry in the um6p complexity slam last night. At the end of his talk he argues that the Chat GPT epiphany is evidence that language has shallow computational complexity. We're surprised because we imagined it was deep and irreducible, but we just kept spreading the data and it f

Re: [FRIAM] ChatGPT and William James

This was good, too: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html And microsoft laid off its responsible AI team: https://www.platformer.news/p/microsoft-just-laid-off-one-of-its And your Ring doorbell has just been taken hostage for ransom alo

[FRIAM] sum of atomic spectra == 9000K black body?

Always waking up with hackernews: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/andp.20233 Possible Link between the Distribution of Atomic Spectral Lines and the Radiation–Matter‐Equilibrium in the Early Universe [image: image.png] As the authors say, quoting Asimov, that's funny. -- rec --

Re: [FRIAM] sum of atomic spectra == 9000K black body?

Jon -- It's a mystery to me. I believe they are simply counting the number of spectral lines at each wave number and plotting the histogram. And the link is between the now and the very long ago. And I believe there's no reason to expect this histogram to have any particular distribution at all

[FRIAM] covid themed excel vectored windows malware

https://lifehacker.com/beware-coronavirus-themed-malware-disguised-as-excel-sp-1843613107 An excel spreadsheet promising Johns Hopkins or WHO covid data that takes over your PC. As always, don’t open random emails—it’s a smart practice in general, but > especially if they claim to be from Johns H

Re: [FRIAM] Morse Code

Too perfect a coincidence. https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/tuesday-june-9th-end-near -- rec -- On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 5:37 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > Put that in a Morse code translator and let me know what comes out. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa

Re: [FRIAM] chicken-egg::gumflap-talk

Or to just seize up in place? -- rec -- On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 6:18 PM Steve Smith wrote: > "It's better to wear out, than to rust out" > > > Yep. That's why I recommend calisthenics and yoga for those of you who > > fear death. Strength training with bodyweight only is a good > > compromise.

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