Re: [FRIAM] FW: A PolyMath by any other name...

Thanks, Glen. I am particularly glad for your good humor because I have so valued your comments on some of what I have published. Keep close a colleague who will read what you write. There is no greater friend an academic can have. Nick Nicholas Thompson Emeritus Professor of Ethology a

Re: [FRIAM] FW: A PolyMath by any other name...

You have *nothing* to apologize for. As Steve hinted, I suspect most, if not all, of us cringe a bit when reading our own stuff (or even hearing our own voice: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/dec/18/adam-driver-walk-out-interview-npr-fresh-air-voice). I have 3 stories explicitly related t

Re: [FRIAM] A PolyMath by any other name...

Oh. My. God. That was funny. I like cats. And, in March 2013, anyway, I'm free of toxoplasma gondii ... another benefit of being diagnosed with cancer! I get to claim that my like for cats has some other source. On 12/30/19 2:20 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > https://vimeo.com/69181785 >

Re: [FRIAM] A PolyMath by any other name...

https://vimeo.com/69181785 [https://www.bing.com/th?id=OVP.HIDBnQltACgoH5Vl6wxhtQEsCo&pid=Api] Eyeo2013 Ignite #12 - Kevin Slavin Toxoplasmosis vimeo.com From: Friam on behalf of Roger Critchlow Sent: Monda

Re: [FRIAM] A PolyMath by any other name...

Oh Nick!  Let me "chastise" you again .   This was so far from trash (your original observation, my "chastisement", and your polite but unnecessary "apology").   I was, of course, friendly-teasing you about your use of the term "bored" while trying to acknowledge that PolyBores abound (esp. on thi

Re: [FRIAM] A PolyMath by any other name...

I see I replied to the wrong strand of the thread, this was Glen's contribution to which I was replying. On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 9:01 AM glen wrote: > On 08/11/2015 08:36 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > > I'm surprised *anything* bores the living crap out of you! > > What's not so boring is that Nick's

Re: [FRIAM] Celeste Kidd - How to Know

If you're deviant and you know it, clap your hands! The sub-fact I liked, which might be in the Daxxy paper, is that people are very good at evaluating their certainty with respect to facts about the physical environment, but that same feeling of certainty is all over the place respecting the meta

Re: [FRIAM] A PolyMath by any other name...

OUCH! The person who said the internet is forever sure knew a thing. Why we need to resurrect these posts, in particular, is unclear to me. Suffice it to say, I cannot recreate the context in which I would say such nasty things so nastily. But the evidence that I did is overwhelming. So

Re: [FRIAM] Celeste Kidd - How to Know

Ha! "There's a fun sub-result, which is, if you have a very deviant concept ... if you have a very weirdo concept that other people don't share, you're actually much more likely to be aware that you have a deviant concept." At least I *know* I'm a deviant. On 12/29/19 8:43 AM, Roger Critchlow

Re: [FRIAM] A PolyMath by any other name...

No I meant Bruce Simon. He works for a company that makes devices that treat depression and migraines by stimulating the vagus nerve electrically. Frsnk --- Frank Wimberly My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly My scientific publications: https:/

Re: [FRIAM] A PolyMath by any other name...

I believe that Bruce (if you mean Sherwood) went AWOL from this list, expatriating to WedTech when it was formed (5 or more years ago?), along with a few others.  I heard rumors of a contingent getting overly tired of our endless philosophical maunderings here, in favor of a more "actionable" set o

Re: [FRIAM] A PolyMath by any other name...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/psychedelic-drugs-lsd-active-agent-in-magic-mushrooms-to-treat-addiction-depression-anxiety-60-minutes-2019-12-29/ From: Friam on behalf of Roger Critchlow Sent: Monday, December 30, 2019 2:04 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Comple

Re: [FRIAM] A PolyMath by any other name...

Bruce, do you receive this list? --- Frank Wimberly My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly My scientific publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 Phone (505) 670-9918 On Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 2:04 PM Roger Critchlow wrote:

Re: [FRIAM] A PolyMath by any other name...

Okay, resurrecting this four plus year old discussion because it matched a search for vagus. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5807379/#B20 reports that electrical stimulation of the outer ear can stimulate the vagus nerve and has positive results for treating depression. It's hitting

Re: [FRIAM] postmodern methods

For what it's worth, Cosma Shalizi once wrote in a paper, "Wimberly et al. raise an important issue...", which had to do with lack of sychronization of cells in a sample when trying to apply algorithms to infer genetic regulatory net works. As for whether science offers a monolithic royal road to

[FRIAM] postmodern methods

Because I failed to precisely satisfy what I inferred from EricS's post [†], I've engaged in a little self-criticism regarding what I thought when Dave wrote the phrase "postmodern methods". My intro to postmodernism was from Umberto Eco, who circumscribed postmodernism nicely in the following 2