Re: [FRIAM] /Topic Latent in: Latent Topics was: enough sleep?

2019-04-12 Thread glen∈ℂ
On 4/11/19 2:38 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: I find this kind of evidence unsatisfactory.How people act as individuals or in groups says nothing about how an AI might function as individuals or in groups. It's merely an inventory of flaws and idiosyncrasies of our species. Well, of course

Re: [FRIAM] keyboard and hard drive recommendations wanted.

2019-04-12 Thread Barry MacKichan
Late to the conversation, but here’s my 2 cents: The best keyboard I’ve used is the Das keyboard for the Mac. Mine has cherry brown switches; the cherry blue are a bit noisier. The aural feedback helps my typing. It has all the Mac keys I need, and also the Windows keys, a necessity since I us

Re: [FRIAM] keyboard and hard drive recommendations wanted.

2019-04-12 Thread Marcus Daniels
I have a Das keyboard too, one of those with no key labels. ☺ Btw, the new Cascade Lake machines are out now and offer Optane memory modules. I think this could be transformative in computational science -- open-ended persistent memory that is byte-addressable. From: Friam on behalf of Barry

Re: [FRIAM] Thorstein Veblen?

2019-04-12 Thread Barry MacKichan
Personal notes, off topic. Thorstein Veblen wrote Theory of the Leisure Class and, I believe, originated the phrase “conspicuous consumption”. For the mathematicians out there, Thorstein’s brother (I think. Considering the age of these recollections he might have been a cousin) was Oswald Veb

Re: [FRIAM] Thorstein Veblen?

2019-04-12 Thread Marcus Daniels
Barry writes: "I mention this only as another bit of evidence that the world is smaller than you think." It's big but compresses remarkably well. It matters whether we are counting classes or instances. Marcus FRIAM Applied Comp

Re: [FRIAM] keyboard and hard drive recommendations wanted.

2019-04-12 Thread Gary Schiltz
In my experience upgrading laptops, double is an understatement. 5-10x often. On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 9:46 AM Barry MacKichan < barry.mackic...@mackichan.com> wrote: > Late to the conversation, but here’s my 2 cents: > > The best keyboard I’ve used is the Das keyboard for the Mac. Mine has > cher

Re: [FRIAM] keyboard and hard drive recommendations wanted.

2019-04-12 Thread Gillian Densmore
Thanks! After I tanked out harder than I thought I might yesterday, and needing to wind down some was browsing reddit to see how do-able it is to fix either one: turns out not all that do able. Short of the long is that Das Keyboard, Apple Keyboards, and a new to me company called red dragon for me

Re: [FRIAM] keyboard and hard drive recommendations wanted.

2019-04-12 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 11:32:15AM -0600, Gillian Densmore wrote: > Thanks! After I tanked out harder than I thought I might yesterday, and > needing > to wind down some was browsing reddit to see how do-able it is to fix either > one: turns out not all that do able. Short of the long is that Das