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

I think you should *build* a video game based on your thorax... or a projection of it's 4D-ness... and uses Dr. Seuss's "Lorax" as a theme for the narrative! OsiriX is good for MRIs (DICOM files). MIALite is a segmentation plugin for it that works. Some of the OsiriX plugins have bitrot an

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

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 know about segment tracking over time. Might have to w

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: DOH!

Another example of something that is unambiguously a game, due to the competitive and puzzle-like nature it has, and is also (perhaps unrelatedly) useful, due to the research potential of it, is Foldit . -Arlo James Barnes

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'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!

"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!

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"

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: DOH!

I would postulate that, especially in the last 200 years, communication has been a significant or, possibly, most significant agent of change in terms of violence. Even in the prestate societies (whatever that means), some if not most people would not see a violent death or the results - 500 pe

Re: [FRIAM] Games!

http://www.onlinecolleges.net/50-great-sites-for-serious-educational-games/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/danieltack/2013/09/12/serious-games-and-the-future-of-education/ Curt On Jul 7, 2015 12:38 PM, "Gillian Densmore" wrote: > @Cody As to video games, I submit they're somewhat useful or at

Re: [FRIAM] DOH!

@Cody As to video games, I submit they're somewhat useful or at least can be depending on what you consider useful of course. SimCity (for example), EverQuest(was is/was) believe it or not used in Leadership, and Project Management courses-basicly build a city and what do you do when something goes

Re: [FRIAM] Greek Crisis & Philosophy

If Greece is unmoored from the Eurozone, there's still NATO. The sharp end of the stick on that isn't Germany. From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Pamela McCorduck Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 10:13 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [

Re: [FRIAM] Greek Crisis & Philosophy

It used to bug my British parents that Germany's factories got rebuilt out of the Marshall Plan deal while Britain's, that were also heavily bombed, didn't. Think of the impact that must have had on the economic competitiveness of the two countries for a long time. However, as a means to avoid

Re: [FRIAM] Greek Crisis & Philosophy

as a Growing Economy - Official http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150707/1024309291.html -- glen ep ropella -- 971-255-2847 FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe

Re: [FRIAM] Greek Crisis & Philosophy

Post World War II Germany was horrible for a couple of years with exactly the kinds of problems you mention, Nick: penicillin could only be had on the black market (i.e., from unscrupulous GIs); food was scarce; labor was mostly women moving bricks from bombed buildings by hand (die Trummelfraue

Re: [FRIAM] DOH!

Yup, one of the arguments in the list of reasons-gaming-is-good TED talks was that they can be engaging as an educational tool. But you're clearly just trying to horrify me now.:-) -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen Sent: Tuesday, July

Re: [FRIAM] DOH!

Heh, as if the argument weren't absurd enough already, there's this: Is Facebook the next frontier for online learning? http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2015/is-facebook-the-next-frontier-for-online-learning/ I try to avoid facebook, despite my omnivorism. But "when in Rome"... -- ⇒⇐ glen

Re: [FRIAM] Greek Crisis & Philosophy

Hi All, The argument that the relation of Greece, Spain, and Italy, and to some extent France, to Germany and Holland within the EU is analogous to that of the southern-agrarian states to the northern-industrial states in the US since the revolutionary war is one that I remember first seeing by