Re: [FRIAM] Starlink

ested that > by accepting his service I was implicitely endorsing the idea that whomever > landed on Mars first got to commercialize it. I wish I could find that > fine print again or some reference to it, maybe I made it up? Oh, yeh, > then he said "we will coup anyone we want&q

Re: [FRIAM] Starlink

lage roads back from the main roads. It looks >> like fiber will be within a hundred yards of almost every driveway. >> >> We have the option of upgrading to 2 gigabit service, and lord knows what >> we could do bonding together three different providers 😉. >> >&

Re: [FRIAM] Starlink

e-4811-a3e9-1b055d44914d > -- > *From:* Friam on behalf of Gary Schiltz < > g...@naturesvisualarts.com> > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 11, 2024 8:50 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *S

Re: [FRIAM] Starlink

I have Starlink here in Ecuador and am very happy with it. But here it is only $45 a month and $120 there. On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 10:21 PM Gillian Densmore wrote: > What are folks's thoughts on this? for the atrocious choices of > conned-cast or...nothing? or are there finally ISP's that aren'

Re: [FRIAM] Passing of Carl Tollander

I'm so sorry to hear this. I knew Carl when we both worked for BiosGroup (2000-2001) and would see him occasionally over the next decade at Friam and WedTech. He was such an instantly likeable guy, soft spoken and sincere. On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 2:22 PM Tom Johnson wrote: > Some of you will reme

Re: [FRIAM] I need some guidance about US corruption law and procedures

I was thinking more along the lines of Putin's friendly black hats making up some dirt to help get Putin's B*tch Donnie re-coronated. Call me a liberal conspiracy theorist if you like. On Mon, Aug 5, 2024 at 8:59 AM Nicholas Thompson wrote: > > Are we sure Sarbargit has not been hacked? this has

Re: [FRIAM] Writing and Civilization and AI, oh my!

There were certainly indigenous peoples who were quite civilized, with defended borders, and even functioning inter-tribal treaties, and to my understanding, survived long periods of time with no written language. It does, however, seem to me that they couldn't have developed complex mathematical o

Re: [FRIAM] tolerance of intolerance

ng as hard as he could, birthing and > raising two children (who are American Citizens by birth, aka "anchor > babies") and now some grandchildren. He doesn't openly worry or grouse, > but I could feel the relief when his permanent residence status (and that > of his wife

Re: [FRIAM] tolerance of intolerance

Well, as a theoretical matter, it's hard to say what would happen if Biden were to try to knock off Trump. I can't in my wildest dreams imagine that killing a political opponent would be considered to be an official act of the president. As a practical matter? No chance he would do more than fantas

Re: [FRIAM] Come please

Tangential question. How do people communicate electronically these days? Here in Ecuador, land lines are gone except in the cities. Text messages are almost never used, and I think the USA must be about the only country that still uses them. Email for anything official. No postal service - it went

Re: [FRIAM] Some brands of digital electric meters wildly inaccurate on nonlinear loads, and NM may get them soon!

Similar cost structure here in Ecuador as you describe for India. On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 2:55 PM Sarbajit Roy wrote: > Some observations > > We consumers fought for and got the following rights > > 1`The right to get the utility meters inspected by an independent agency > for approx US$3 per in

Re: [FRIAM] Some brands of digital electric meters wildly inaccurate on nonlinear loads, and NM may get them soon!

Must be heavily subsidized? On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 10:03 AM Sarbajit Roy wrote: > Sorry, a correction. I paid US$ 15 (not 150) for consuming 3,600 units. > > > Sarbajit Roy > > On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 8:31 PM Sarbajit Roy wrote: > >> Hi Bruno >> >> Smart meters were mandated in New Delhi Indi

Re: [FRIAM] Off the wall question about turbulence

The snake would change the flow, making the experiment meaningless. Is that why you can’t see the value of a qbit without changing it? or something like that in the quantum realm? On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 9:02 AM glen wrote: > … > > You could also get one of those fancy snakes with a camera on th

Re: [FRIAM] Watch "The Most Important Idea in Physics: The Principle of Least Action - Ask a Spaceman!" on YouTube

“hairball heterarchy of metaphor“ Now there’s a Wikipedia article in need of writing. On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 9:14 AM glen wrote: > Yeah, Sutter triggered me when he said "but you don't have to worry about > that if you don't know what an integral is". I mean ... maybe? This stuff > is like hero

Re: [FRIAM] Best Cormac McCarthy novels

I read perhaps two thirds of Blood Meridian a few years ago. My memory is a little hazy about it now, but I just remember it feeling a little "disjointed", and quite bloody and violent (unnecessarily so, IMO). I might give it another go someday. Meanwhile, perhaps I'll try reading The Crossing on F

Re: [FRIAM] Google Bard

lay of your site may vary depending on your specific settings. On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 12:01 PM Gary Schiltz wrote: > > I haven't signed up for ChatGPT or similar, so I tried Google Bard to > get an answer to a practical question to do with WordPress > development. I knew that the

[FRIAM] Google Bard

I haven't signed up for ChatGPT or similar, so I tried Google Bard to get an answer to a practical question to do with WordPress development. I knew that the answer that it gave me was incorrect, and said so. Here is an abridged version of the second conversation: Gary: I asked Google Bard the fol

Re: [FRIAM] selective optimism

What David said. On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 8:49 AM Prof David West wrote: > The opinion of an "advanced layman." > > I claim the status because my Computer Science MS was in AI. My first > professional publication was in *AI Magazine*, then the journal of record > for the discipline. I have appeare

Re: [FRIAM] Cory Doctorow on AI hype vs Crypto Hype

I love the graphic! I've had the misfortune of twice jumping on that roller coaster just before the Peak of Inflated Expectation - once for the AI boom/bust of the mid 1980s and once for the dotcom boom/bust of the late 1990s. Jumped on too late to make a killing, but didn't get too badly damaged b

Re: [FRIAM] Anyone on Friam know Linux capabilities on Pentium PCs ?

Just my opinion, but I believe Linux is generally well suited for any server task. Especially on older and slower hardware On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 11:42 AM Sarbajit Roy wrote: > Hi Friamers > > Can any guide me if a Pentium PC server at 1,.5 GhZ with 4 GB RAM on a > Linux version is capable of d

Re: [FRIAM] AI Musings

A... looking more closely, Grant wrote CxO not QxO. Google quickly enlightened me on the former. Sorry for the noise. On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 2:19 PM Gary Schiltz wrote: > > I must admit my ignorance here, not aided in the least by a cursory > Google search: What is QxO? > >

Re: [FRIAM] AI Musings

I must admit my ignorance here, not aided in the least by a cursory Google search: What is QxO? On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 10:59 AM Grant Holland wrote: > > Frank, > > I'm wondering why no-one seems to raise the specter that AI could start > replacing management personnel. And I’m including CxO’s h

Re: [FRIAM] a little help from my friends

Though I'm a pretty rusty, out of practice programmer, I certainly echo Frank's response pointing to readability. Not just the code itself, but also (mainly?) in the documentation of the software artefact, a straightforward diagram and discussion of how it fits into an overall architecture. Complet

Re: [FRIAM] [EXT] News Alert: Most young men are single. Most young women are not.

A few really do want our species to go extinct, but many believe that we are already overpopulated and need to level off or reduce population. I lean only slightly toward the latter. On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 12:51 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > Agreed. But if we don't construct any new ones and the

Re: [FRIAM] unrest in SoAm & Global ideological/sociopolitical/economic alignment...

ion and science may > also support the hypothesis that back then, Latin American countries had a > big potential for convergence. Argentina, for example, was thought to be so > promising that it could join the innovators’ club (Castaldi et al., > 2008(16)). Then, what happened during

Re: [FRIAM] unrest in SoAm & Global ideological/sociopolitical/economic alignment...

Despite living here in the middle of the world, I'm afraid I don't give these ideas enogh serious thought these days. I interact mostly with people who are retired and avoid deep political thought, and with locals who don't have the education or experience to see much beyond the local community. I

Re: [FRIAM] new thermal tech

Amusing indeed (the PV magazine article). The pump “reportedly produces 3 kW to 4 kW of heat for every kilowatt of power it consumes”. Say what? On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 8:28 AM Roger Critchlow wrote: > > I was amused to see an announcement of a thermoacoustic heat pump the other > day: > > >

Re: [FRIAM] vFriam on Thursday

I keep meaning to attend but seem to always be busy. I promise to try next Thursday. On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 12:20 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > As of 10:15 no one has arrived. Last week Barry attended for about an > hour. Jack came briefly. Nick arrived after the others had left. I made > him

Re: [FRIAM] technical notes on fusion announcement

We humans tend to think of such long-term thinking as silly, frivolous mind exercises for the elite educated. I would applaud such thinking. But western civilization has trouble with seven generations, let alone seven million generations. On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 3:21 PM David Eric Smith wrote: >

Re: [FRIAM] Find String in Spreadsheet

Instead of digging into the guts of Excel with Visual Basic, I think it would be about as easy (and maybe more fun) to import the spreadsheet into a database that you could query. If I were to take a first crack at it, I would first export the Excel file to a comma separated values file (CSV file).

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

I get by with a two year old iPhone SE. I also hate typing on glass, but I have a laptop for typing. On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 11:01 AM Gillian Densmore wrote: > > Hello, all looking for phone recommendations. My pixel 4a is 2 years old > feeling closer to 4. > Are there any phones you can get wit

Re: [FRIAM] Portland interruption but my laughable internet keeps going down

Where in Santa Fe do you live? I ask only out of idle curiosity, since I now live 6378 km from Santa Fe (check out the cool earth distance calculator at https://keisan.casio.com/exec/system/1224587128). But having lived in Pecos for 10 years and being in Santa Fe most of those days for work, intern

Re: [FRIAM] dystopian vision(s)

I wonder what proportion of people worldwide, like me, see "urban" places as mainly, at best, necessary evils. Maybe it's mainly an American phenomenon, maybe a bourgeoisie idea for only those who can afford land. On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 8:23 AM glen wrote: > At the top of my LIFO stack of dysto

Re: [FRIAM] "tech" companies suck

I see that 22 years after Y2K, I've already forgotten how to spell millennia, and that the singular is millennium. Maybe I need to write a WhatsApp message to myself as a reminder :-) On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 11:14 AM Gary Schiltz wrote: > Here in Ecuador, group chat is very wi

Re: [FRIAM] "tech" companies suck

Here in Ecuador, group chat is very widespread. Unfortunately (?) it is mostly through informal WhatsApp groups. Email is *so* last millenia, and even FaceBook has mostly given way to Instagram, TikTok, whatever. Yuck. I especially dislike WhatsApp groups because it has even taken over some institu

Re: [FRIAM] stranger than fiction

e mining company of Ecuador, founded under > Rafael Correa's administration and responsible for the over-development and > destruction of indigenous lands." > > > On 7/27/22 09:50, Gary Schiltz wrote: > > Yes, it’s for the birds. The IT infrastructure for the group is a

Re: [FRIAM] stranger than fiction

I should mention that the website is in need of serious updating. On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 11:50 AM Gary Schiltz wrote: > Yes, it’s for the birds. The IT infrastructure for the group is a chaotic > mess. I’m trying to bring a bit of order to the chaos. Both IT wise and > organization w

Re: [FRIAM] stranger than fiction

I volunteer for. mindocloudforest.org On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 10:16 AM Stephen Guerin wrote: > Gary, > > I bet that Microsoft software is for the birds. :-) > > or is your nonprofit dealing with community broadband? > > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2022, 8:42 AM Gary Schiltz >

Re: [FRIAM] stranger than fiction

I am the geek guy for a small nonprofit foundation here in Ecuador and I must say that at least a few software companies are fairly generous with licensing for academic and nonprofit organizations. Microsoft has been particularly helpful. On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 8:48 PM Jon Zingale wrote: > """C

Re: [FRIAM] Birx presentation

I imagine they are, but don’t call me Surely. On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 12:23 PM glen wrote: > This was a good presentation. If I get a minute later today, I'll try to > find the slides. Shirley they're available somewhere? > > https://youtu.be/r7ubPjYHHYQ?t=913 > > -- > ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥ

Re: [FRIAM] Sig

Same for me, Frank. The bit.ly link itself points to the unsubscribe link. On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 1:20 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > When I try to select the link for copying the "un/subscribe" comes with > it. Does anyone else experience this? > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, >

Re: [FRIAM] Thursday Friam

I’ll try to make it some Thursday. That time works for me. Please send the link again. On Sun, May 8, 2022 at 2:23 PM wrote: > Sounds good to me. Soon that’ll be noon, my time. Breakfast. > > > > N > > Nick Thompson > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > >

Re: [FRIAM] The Insurrection Index

I’m in favor of what you describe, David. Good luck getting legislation in the USA passed that would enable that. (sarcasm mode on) Speaking of the word “enable”, I believe the pushback would be that such laws would be enablers by decreasing the risk of taking drugs. The risk makes drugs less appea

Re: [FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!??

While I’m not particularly a big fan of Bezos the cowboy billionaire, I do like Amazon the marketplace. Lots of small and large retailers offering goods from all over the world (okay, China) with buyers’ ability to comment on and rate the products. With a behemoth at least sort of standing behind t

Re: [FRIAM] Windows 11 and X

That’s pretty darn cool. On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 9:50 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > In case anyone is forced to use Windows: I do believe Microsoft finally > figured out a nice way to handle X11 with WSL2 in Windows 11. > > Ubuntu can be installed from the Microsoft Store and when the terminal is >

Re: [FRIAM] Unrecognized Thinkers

I vote to induct Nick into the Friam Hall of Fame (INFame?) On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 11:56 AM wrote: > Ahem. Speaking as the “Dean” (oldest surviving member) of this > distinguished mostly geriatric community, I think respect goes both ways, > or it goes nowhere. So, those of us who seek to comm

Re: [FRIAM] we are lost

I have to agree with you, Nick. If we as a species are to survive, we've got to stop this reversion back to our pre-civilized roots. I'm not really a bleeding-heart liberal, but I do want to evolve beyond survival of the fittest. On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 1:30 PM wrote: > Ok, So, Marcus, > > > > >

Re: [FRIAM] What can or can't (shouldn't) be said on FriAM...

Is that quote by Cormac McCarthy? One of his novels? On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 9:55 PM Jon Zingale wrote: > """ > So, Jon, and all of you other ex-perts, Is it the case, or not? I can see > that it might be the case for those of you who, unlike me, MIGHT become > massively important to others lat

Re: [FRIAM] In Case Those Links Didn't Work

A skill that many never seem to outgrow. On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 1:26 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > Yeah, among other things they can all put their feet in their mouths. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, >

Re: [FRIAM] Breakfast in Santa Fe

Jochen - I'm sorry that you feel as unsafe as you say about guns in the USA. My own feeling, based on living in the States from birth until age 49 (13 years ago), is that the danger and direct impact on society from firearms is much exaggerated by the news media. Like so many issues of our time, ou

Re: [FRIAM] Heart Rate

I don't know Jon, except from a single VFriam during the peak of the pandemic last year. I really hope that he meant that as some sort of a joke, though even that would be in very, very bad taste. If he was serious, then I would say "shame on you". At the ripe young age of 63 years, I've begun to r

Re: [FRIAM] A pretty cellular automata video

I frankly can't imagine our "species" (Homo faber) surviving our own short sightedness long enough to make it to posthumanism. I suspect that Homo sapiens will survive the environmental apocalypse to come, but that the majority of our highly interdependent society will quickly fall apart. IMHO. On

Re: [FRIAM] Masks

Piggybacking on Gillian's question, are N95 masks commonly available in the USA? I've never seen one in Ecuador, but the KN-95 (Chinese version) have come down in price from initially around $2 each to around $0.25 each. On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 3:00 PM Gillian Densmore wrote: > What masks does e

Re: [FRIAM] Can a robot have a soul?

Great Searle videos. I knew his name, but had never listened to him. On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 3:57 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > We are just stuff and stuff can be simulated.. on quantum computers if > necessary. > > > On Sep 18, 2021, at 1:45 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote: > > > >  > > I have watched Jo

Re: [FRIAM] the end of the pandemic

. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > <https://www.google.com/maps/search/140+Calle+Ojo+Feliz,++Santa+Fe,+NM+87505?entry=gmail&source=g> > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > <https://www.google.com/maps/search/140+Calle+Ojo+Feliz,++Santa+Fe,+NM+87505?entry=gmail&am

Re: [FRIAM] the end of the pandemic

Maybe I missed something, but what prompted you to dig up a 16 month old comment from Marcus to respond to? On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 3:29 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > Pollyanna! (ironic) > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, >

Re: [FRIAM] aversive learning

That idea (not Dave, but the idea that someone who might be in fact a bot) reminds me of one or more trolls that used to, and maybe still do, hang out on comp.lang.lisp under a variety of pseudonyms. On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 10:26 AM Marcus Daniels wrote: > I’m already convinced Dave is bot. I kn

Re: [FRIAM] Kill it!

Culling is easy, and they are delicious! Kung Pao Meow! On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 10:23 AM Marcus Daniels wrote: > I have seen what happens when ferals proliferate. Out in the country it > is common to have a few non-domesticated cats around, but they can > proliferate amongst households. Look

Re: [FRIAM] Kill it!

By the subject, I thought this would be about the Taliban. On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 9:45 AM uǝlƃ ☤>$ wrote: > > ‘Kill it!’ US officials advise no mercy for lanternfly summer invasion > > https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/24/pennsylvania-lanternfly-summer-invasion > > Am I so wrong

Re: [FRIAM] Medical treatments for some or for all

Is it right? Is it right that I can eat steak and some can’t afford enough rice and beans? The world is grossly unfair I’m sure I’m not the only one who struggles with the unfairness of the world. The question is what to do about it. How much social disruption would occur from a governor dying in

Re: [FRIAM] vax v unvax

Glen, that has to be the comment of the day winner. Well said! On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 9:07 AM uǝlƃ ☤>$ wrote: > I appreciate that. But while I'm taking her and her ideas seriously, > discussing them calmly while holding a cup of coffee, people who hold those > very same ideas are carrying AR-15

Re: [FRIAM] "ZAMM"

It’s one I’ve always intended to read, but somehow never got around to it. I’d be interested, but need to read it soon. On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 8:46 PM wrote: > Colleagues, > > > > I wonder if Pirsig’s *Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance *was a > thing for any of you, and if you would be

Re: [FRIAM] Moral collapse and state failure

I don’t know who Larry Elder is, but I believe he is incorrect. The right wing of today in the USA believes, or at least says, that liberals are both misguided and really, really bad people. God told them so. On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 1:40 AM Pieter Steenekamp wrote: > Steve, > > Your "The Wrong (f

Re: [FRIAM] Holochain technology

I remember seeing a Smalltalk implementation that allows running code to be suspended, sent over the wire to another VM, and continue where it left off. It may have been Squeak, I’m not sure. On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 5:51 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > Yes, mobile code and distributed computing. It i

Re: [FRIAM] The Dream of Florida

I don't know what you like to do to relax, so my recommendation may be completely off base for you. For me, Florida is too crowded to enjoy. I don't know California well enough to comment intelligently, other than to say that given its size, it is practically its own country in so many ways. I pers

Re: [FRIAM] Anticipate wildfires using machine learning

I couldn't have said it better myself. Fires are very much a part of dry land ecosystems. The only reason they are "catastrophic" is that they have been suppressed in the US for the last century or so. On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 12:32 PM cody dooderson wrote: > I might be entering into this convers

Re: [FRIAM] Wildfires and Climate Change

As much as my wife and I loved NM, fires and the accompanying smoky air were a large factor in our decision to move to the cloud forest. Pure, clean, oxygenated air all day 365 days of the year. On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 9:40 AM Marcus Daniels wrote: > HEPA air filters in every room.. > > > > *Fro

Re: [FRIAM] The case for universal basic income UBI

Interesting that you should send this (I haven't had a chance to look at it much yet). Someone just sent a link to something rather similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_Without_Growth. On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 2:01 AM Pieter Steenekamp < piet...@randcontrols.co.za> wrote: > Finance 4.

Re: [FRIAM] The case for universal basic income UBI

A very insightful and humane comment, David. On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 8:50 AM Prof David West wrote: > I find anthropology to be fascinating because it is complex, > interpretative, dynamic, highly contextual, and, ultimately anecdotal. "The > ways of humans" are not reducible to formulae, rules,

Re: [FRIAM] Morphogenisis

First of all, it's just a metaphor (ducking, the shoe barely missing my head) :-) Second of all, that description of animal development sure sounds to me like "following a script". On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 2:23 PM wrote: > This struck me: > > > > When animals develop, they don’t follow a script.

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Covid-Lancet-PART-2 (002).doc

Here is one reason to be interested: much of the world is still months, maybe years, away from getting access to vaccines. My adopted country of Ecuador as a case in point. On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 12:52 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > This does not seem interesting to me. The vaccines have been demon

Re: [FRIAM] The case for universal basic income UBI

It's hard to imagine UBI in the United States, when you (we, before I left) can't even get a universal health care system. On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 6:47 PM Gillian Densmore wrote: > We have a globe getting pimp slapped by a virus. People getting shit > canned for no other reason than breathing. WA

Re: [FRIAM] something serious from something silly

Cool conversation about octopus. While not scientific, I really enjoyed the move “My Octopus Teacher”. Insightful and thought provoking. On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 9:02 AM Prof David West wrote: > Octopi probably do "see" the ground behind them. They have more neurons in > their skin than in their b

Re: [FRIAM] for the marketeers amongst us

I suspect, to use an open source software aphorism, you are speaking of "free as in beer" and Glen is speaking of "free as in freedom". On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 5:04 PM Pieter Steenekamp < piet...@randcontrols.co.za> wrote: > * "But a contract-governed market isn't any more "free" than a regulated

Re: [FRIAM] A Theory of (Almost) Everything - IEEE Spectrum

Neither. We have an overpopulation (of Homo sapiens) problem. On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 12:17 PM wrote: > Merle, and all, > > > > A naïve question: Do we have an energy supply problem or do we have an > energy distribution problem? For starters, let there be a solar collector > on the roof of e

Re: [FRIAM] Dancing Robots

anta Fe, NM > > On Sat, Apr 3, 2021, 9:50 AM Gary Schiltz > wrote: > >> Serious question, since I didn't make it to vfriam yesterday. With the >> advances in CGI these days, I don't know if this is computer generated or >> real. Which is it? >> >>

Re: [FRIAM] Dancing Robots

Serious question, since I didn't make it to vfriam yesterday. With the advances in CGI these days, I don't know if this is computer generated or real. Which is it? On Sat, Apr 3, 2021 at 10:02 AM Frank Wimberly wrote: > For those who haven't seen the video that was mentioned in yesterday's > mee

Re: [FRIAM] Friday Fodder

I don’t know Eric, but I had hoped that his fingers had just inadvertently slipped when he was trying to type “Nick”. Otherwise, he should be ashamed. On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 12:10 PM wrote: > Dear Eric, > > > > Use your words! Tell me how you FEEL! (};-)] > > > > N > > > > Nick Thompson > > t

Re: [FRIAM] I am accepting wagers

Thanks for bringing some more reality into this discussion. I’ve never been a CIO, but having been a software engineer in the real world for 25 years, it triggers something in me when someone dismissively claims that a small group of developers / hackers could turn out software for a gargantuan use

Re: [FRIAM] I am accepting wagers

Rather tangential, but I wonder what percent of people in the USA are computer literate? Here in the "third world" (Ecuador), many, many people who use the internet almost constantly have never touched a "computer". For them, a computer is an Android phone. On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 6:35 PM Barry Ma

Re: [FRIAM] I am accepting wagers

I don't agree with your premise that someone on this list could build the website over a weekend. I do agree with the wager, that the federal government will hire some large contracting firm and spend millions of dollars, and it will still suck. I have the feeling that that is simply the nature of

Re: [FRIAM] Message to the non-posting 95%

Nick says: “There followed an eerie silence. Scientist strained at their earphones to ear, examined their screens for any anomalous squiggle. Finally, the director sighed, ‘I guess there is no life in outer space.’” That sounds like an interesting beginning or ending to a scifi novel. Is it, or d

Re: [FRIAM] it's world logic day!

I would have thought that most members of FRIAM, when speaking of logic, are referring to the mathematical and/or computational concept of propositional logic, which has little if anything to do with a human dimension. You know, modus ponens, modus tollens, etc. Logic in that sense would exist even

Re: [FRIAM] patriot hackers, again

I agree with what you're saying, Marcus. I haven't seen any kind of empirical studies, but my gut feeling is that mobs reinforce people's willingness to be violent, and that willingness to participate in violent acts, and the level of violence exhibited, grows exponentially with mob size. If you ca

Re: [FRIAM] Fallback in barbarism

I don't understand the lack of security around the Capitol building. I'll bet that if 100+ BLM protesters had tried to get into the White House, the results would have been very different, with multiple people being killed or at least incapicated before even reaching the walls. If someone had actua

Re: [FRIAM] Fallback in barbarism

I would say that it is possible because it is allowed. The American mythos has always emphasized the individual over the collective society, freedom (with responsibility in theory, but usually lacking) from government interference, and generally a distrust of government in general. There is a very

Re: [FRIAM] Discovery of 'cryptic species' shows Earth is even more biologically diverse | Wildlife | The Guardian

When I studied biology at university back in the 1970s, my recollection is that most biologists in those days thought of species as an interbreeding population of individuals. Over the years, I've seen this definition give way more and more to defining species by genetic differences alone. Though I

Re: [FRIAM] Christmas Day

I may be able to make it. Is it at 9am MST? On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 10:44 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > I'm more interested in whether anyone wants to meet then because I have to > start the meeting. If that happens I will stay in the meeting for a > reasonable amount of time. > > Frank > > On Sa

Re: [FRIAM] 5 agencies compromised

Kind of makes you wonder if the "deep state" conspiracy theories have a bit of merit. On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 3:29 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > I do wonder what work will look like after most of the small businesses > fail. > > "Didn't respond to police presence" -> "Didn't listen to the boss." >

Re: [FRIAM] Please change the damned thread

For what it's worth, Frank, it's hard for me to even imagine you being abusive to anyone, let alone a friend like Nick. On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 2:45 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > This is not about lumbago but may not be of general interest. Please read > a little and then stop if it is not a topic

Re: [FRIAM] frivolous question

I had to Google it as well, and won’t give the answer. Just a minor correction (pun intended) - the product was not the brand “Wite-Out”, but was a competitor. Cool trivia. On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 12:35 PM Prof David West wrote: > In 1967 this band was on tour and Jimi Hendrix was the opening act

Re: [FRIAM] Uncanny Valley was: Biden beats Trump

Speaking of Owen, did he just decide there was insufficient signal to noise ratio? On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 12:00 PM Steve Smith wrote: > On 11/11/20 8:57 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > > > How do the names of these threads get changed? > > I changed this one manually... I simply edited the Subject

Re: [FRIAM] election eve

I think the rural vs urban split is one of the main factors. Rural people tend to be a lot more independent, less educated, and perhaps by a bit of an inferiority complex, more prone to denying science (think climate change and the Paris Accord). I also believe we Americans have a sense of entitlem

Re: [FRIAM] election eve

The version I have heard is "If you aren't liberal when you're young, you don't have a heart. If you aren't conservative when you're old, you don't have a brain." On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 4:16 PM Steve Smith wrote: > I appreciate this point of view. In 2016 it seems like there was a lot > of rhet

Re: [FRIAM] election eve

What source indicated those numbers? On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 12:09 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > Biden has got a 270 vs. 267 last time I checked, assuming he can’t take > Pennsylvania. > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Gary Schiltz > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 4, 202

Re: [FRIAM] election eve

Nick, I was rather wondering the same thing myself. Frank, please toss us a thread-thin lifeline to help buoy the spirits of us bleeding heart liberals haha. Is your optimism somehow based on the number of uncounted mail-in ballots? On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 11:33 AM wrote: > Frank, > > > > I am ju

Re: [FRIAM] numbers

For me, neither is scary. It contributes to my personal policy of avoiding densely populated areas. On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 11:01 AM Prof David West wrote: > Which is scarier? > > -- 41 out of 50 states show an increase in COVID cases. > -- 105 out of 3,141 counties show an increase in COVID

Re: [FRIAM] high turnout and tight races?

Arghhh, I meant to write that I’ve warmed to the idea of mandatory voting, not warned. The perils of typing on a phone. On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 9:40 PM Gary Schiltz wrote: > I think that Republicans make up way less than half of the population, but > the people who are traditionall

Re: [FRIAM] high turnout and tight races?

I think that Republicans make up way less than half of the population, but the people who are traditionally less inclined to vote, would vote Democrat if they voted. This is responsible for Republicans lately getting very slightly over half the votes cast. I further believe that most of the newly

Re: [FRIAM] Political compass teest

.com >> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Political compass teest >> >> >> >> Econ left/right: -0.88 >> >> Social Lib/Auth: -6.1 >> >> >> >> davew >> >> NOT a Libertarian >> >> >> >> On Sat, Oct 10, 2020, at 5:56 PM, thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> D

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