Re: [FRIAM] Separate Vacations This Summer

Arlo, Arlo, More grist for your mill: There is a chess site called Tactics Trainer (at chess.com). It presents you with rated, timed tactics problems. You are rated on the basis of how quickly you solve the problems and how highly rated the problems are and the problems are rated o

Re: [FRIAM] Separate Vacations This Summer

> > I am rapidly becoming envious of a "generation" (there I said it) who will > have the option of saying "everything I know, I learned from XKCD". I'm > already guilty of imagining that "everything I know, I learned from > Wikipedia". Wikipedia having it's own feeling of being self-generating.

Re: [FRIAM] Cell phone turns 40

Glen - It is always assumed (at least by me) that (at least my own) anecdotal observations are not just at risk of selective attention, confirmation bias and motivated reasoning, etc. but almost *defined* by it. This might seem like a huge admission or dismissal of my elaborate offerings and

Re: [FRIAM] Cell phone turns 40

Steve Smith wrote at 04/29/2013 01:59 PM: > It is always assumed (at least by me) that (at least my own) anecdotal > observations are not just at risk of selective attention, confirmation > bias and motivated reasoning, etc. but almost *defined* by it. This > might seem like a huge admission or

Re: [FRIAM] Cell phone turns 40

Glen - It also seems (anecdotally) true that parents try to give *their* children what *they* didn't have... again leading to an oscillation in many dimensions with a time constant of roughly the age of reproduction. I often wonder how much of this is perceived oscillation versus actual oscillat

Re: [FRIAM] Separate Vacations This Summer

Arlo sed: My knowledge about how I conceive of 'tautology' is currently limited to XKCD and the ensuing discussion [particularly here ]

Re: [FRIAM] Cell phone turns 40

Nicholas Thompson wrote at 04/29/2013 12:57 PM: > The behaviors that we identify with “intent” tend to > occur in the context of justification, whereas the behaviors we identify > with “behavior” tend to occur in the context of action. I'm not so sure. Generally, I like and agree with your perspe

Re: [FRIAM] Cell phone turns 40

Just to further bend this thread: Glen Wrote all seem to have fairly stark differences between what they say they teach their children and what they actually teach their children. The issues run the gamut of everything from racism, to diet, to work ethic, and money management. Between any p

Re: [FRIAM] Cell phone turns 40

Steve Smith wrote at 04/28/2013 05:50 PM: > The second argument is that while > generations in the sense of a labeled X, Y, Z or "greatest" is a bit > trite and seems contrived, there is often (maybe more historically than > contemporarily) a natural oscillation between parent and child. The old >

Re: [FRIAM] Killing vs. Letting Die (was Re: Google Reader and More: Google Abandoning of Apps/Services)

[still going through old drafts] I agree that killing is for most intents/purposes the same as letting die since trying to ascertain a difference between the two is trying to find the 'natural' state of whatever is being killed/let die, and that is often very hard if not impossible to establish. I

[FRIAM] sage on Fedora 19

Hi, The Sage math package is now available for Fedora 19 (Alpha). I know a lot of you are Mac dorks, but there is always hope. :-) (In the interim, I'll try fill Doug's spot for abrasive comments like that.) sudo yum install sagemath Marcus ===

Re: [FRIAM] Separate Vacations This Summer

> > Get a tan, have some pina coladas and come back rested and ready. rAmen. I subscribed to the Discuss list at about the same time as I subscribed to another list, that of the Aerican Empire (there is a strong sense of community there, and a lot of noisy signal). A year or so ago we had the mos