Re: [FRIAM] Windows Resource Monitor

Nick What flavour/version of Windows are you running and how much RAM do you have installed?. Try Ctr-Alt-Del and see if a Task Manager pops up. If so, click on "Processes". On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Joshua Thorp wrote: > Nick it sounds like you are on the right track. > > I would look at

Re: [FRIAM] Massive, Indifferent, Brooding Silence

We call it chip-on-glass, and it actually improves the reliability of the device. When thiese devices first came out they used a Hitachi processor/IC. Then some Koreans made a clone (shifted around some control words), then the Chinese made their clone ICs (more control word shifts and incompatibil

Re: [FRIAM] Massive, Indifferent, Brooding Silence

Steve Being a devotee of ancient computing devices myself, I was responding to Doug's TRS-80 ascii comment here's what a 16x2 LCD module looks like http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hN2n9HggfCw/T2TOHEMIAsI/AAc/LrJ6uy2cNrs/s1600/lcd162b-yhy.jpg These critters are so ubiquitous that you fail to se

Re: [FRIAM] Massive, Indifferent, Brooding Silence

A sundial only works consistently (sort of) between the tropics. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > I prefer the sundial, myself. > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. Jo

Re: [FRIAM] Massive, Indifferent, Brooding Silence

Just to update fellow FRIAMers. The most common standard display device in the world today is the 16x2 character LCD display. The vast majority of installations use it in 4 bit mode. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:08 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > As a courtesy to our old-fashioned (to put it politely)

Re: [FRIAM] How to avoid shootings

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanding_bullet "Invented" in India. Outlawed 22-2 with Britain and the USofA in favour at the Hague Convention. On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Robert J. Cordingley < rob...@cirrillian.com> wrote: > Plus > reports

Re: [FRIAM] Hacking Phones In China

My advice for your friends would be to get a local Chinese person to buy a USD$ 40 Chinese phone/tablet for them which would give them googlemaps. On 10/13/12, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > > Dear FRIAM, > > I thought, at the very minimum, this might amuse some of you, and that, at > the maximum, s

Re: [FRIAM] Expanding the Debate

are your courts dealing with it. http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/cases/USA.htm On 10/6/12, Prof David West wrote: > Small nit --- > > On Sat, Oct 6, 2012, at 12:29 AM, Sarbajit Roy wrote: > >> Apparently the LDS / Mormons use the same method. > > You are correct only in

Re: [FRIAM] Expanding the Debate

1) I am a "pure" ("acharya") Brahmin. This means that we marry endogamously to ensure that chromosomes like Genghis Khan's do not enter our genetic code,. 2) Previously we followed our own variation of Genghis Khan genetic propagation by the practice of "Kulinism". This allows a dominant gene (ini

Re: [FRIAM] Expanding the Debate

Only 1 in 200 men are descended from Genghis Khan. http://www.cell.com/AJHG/retrieve/pii/S0002929707605874 I am not. Your premise about "splitting the vote" is fallacious. 1) Nothing you, Joe or this mailing list does is going to affect the outcome on Nov 6. 2) A "vote" by its very definition in

Re: [FRIAM] Expanding the Debate

resist. > > > On 10/5/12 10:15 AM, Sarbajit Roy wrote: >> Sorry for the blank e-mail. >> >> Historically it seems that "dynastic succession" gives the >> longest stable political systems to enable "nation building". >> >> On 10/5/12,

Re: [FRIAM] Expanding the Debate

Sorry for the blank e-mail. Historically it seems that "dynastic succession" gives the longest stable political systems to enable "nation building". On 10/5/12, Joseph Spinden wrote: > > For those interested in voting systems, towards the end of the book the > authors suggest alternate voting re

Re: [FRIAM] Expanding the Debate

On 10/5/12, Joseph Spinden wrote: > I read the books listed in the reverse of the order in which I listed > them. Perhaps because of that, I think the order of relevance is also > increasing. > > In particular, the authors of IEWTIL (rhymes with "futile") explain why > they believe a third party

Re: [FRIAM] attachment

redfish.com] On > Behalf > Of Sarbajit Roy > Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 9:18 AM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] attachment > > Dear Nick > > There's no illusion of separateness. > "You" ARE separate

Re: [FRIAM] attachment

is unfair. > > Anyway, thanks for the correction. > > Nick > > -Original Message- > From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On > Behalf > Of Sarbajit Roy > Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 11:12 AM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity

Re: [FRIAM] attachment

ot propound > anything .. etc., right? You will never attain peace as long as you > see > Russ as a YOU. > > Right? > > N > > -Original Message- > From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On > Behalf > Of Sarbajit Roy >

Re: [FRIAM] attachment

Your post is contaminated/deluded by the repeated use of "I". As long as "you" are "attached" to your "I"-ness you cannot propound anything valid beyond the delusion of your "self". http://www.ourpathtogod.com/bhagavadgita/chapter2.html "One who abandons all desires, and becomes free from longin

Re: [FRIAM] DEBATE about Religion and Atheism - modeling

> merely the means by which a correct action expresses itself are you > truly non-attached and free from acquiring yet more Karma. > > I stand ready to be corrected by those more knowledgeable. > > And how this affects compressible/non-compressible I haven't a clue. > >

Re: [FRIAM] DEBATE about Religion and Atheism - modeling

Attachment / de-attachment / non-attachment etc are distractions from the 2 paths A) The path of self knowledge for people on the threshhold of enlightenment. B) The path of selfless service for the others. I can't really "explain" these things because of language and societal differences. Most

Re: [FRIAM] DEBATE about Religion and Atheism - modeling

ighing of choices between the Dharmic Law (kill / harm nobody) versus the inferior Niti (Penal) Law (slay all offenders on sight). Gita 1:30, 2:31 etc. So DUTY would probably be compressible. I am an ant, so I'm duty bound to pick up every speck of sugar I can find and convey it back to

Re: [FRIAM] DEBATE about Religion and Atheism - modeling

While agreeing that this version of the Golden Rule is somewhat more "evolved", I don't exactly recall this variant as especially being from the Gita. On 9/28/12, Prof David West wrote: > Expected that Sarbaijit might have mentioned this - the Gita has a > variant of the golden rule that I like m

Re: [FRIAM] WAS faith; IS NOW: Societal degeneracy?

"> If the united states government were willing to spend the same >sort of control to suppress gangs in your neighbor hood as it is to >suppress gfngs in Afganistan, I imagine they could clean things >up pretty quick." {Alien View] The US Govt is exporting its neighborhood gangs to Afghanistan, an

Re: [FRIAM] faith

in a person at the same time with respect to the same > proposition? > > > Nick > > -Original Message- > From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On > Behalf > Of Sarbajit Roy > Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 9:37 PM > To: The Frida

Re: [FRIAM] faith

It would take the inverse form Faith is absolute acceptance whereas Belief is limited/conditional acceptance. So Russ may have belief in X without having faith in it. eg. "Russ believes that his old and broken down motorcycle "can" take him from A to B, but he doesn't have faith that it "will""

Re: [FRIAM] Faith

how the Fed can fix the economy: ssrn.com/abstract=1977688* > * Google voice: 747-*999-5105 > Google+: plus.google.com/114865618166480775623/ > * vita: *sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ > CS Wiki <http://cs.calstatela.edu/wiki/> and the courses I teach > *___

Re: [FRIAM] Faith

Buddhism may not have "a God" but Buddhism belief has "gods" who are superior beings existing at various planes of existence. Their gods, called "Devas", apparently exist at the highest plane of existence well above humans, and animals, and various beings condemned in past lives to inhabit hell (th

Re: [FRIAM] Faith

Dear Russ I appreciate your feedback. As I mentioned to Nick, our religion is Protestant in form and derives its "ideological" basis from the ancient "Hindu" coda of Vedas and Upanishads (which are called Vedanta .. or the summation of the Vedas"). I hasten to mention here that the term "Hindu" i

Re: [FRIAM] Cognition and Calculus, WAS: faith, zombies, and crazy people

wrt > My history of modern philosophy is TERRIBLE but it seems to me that > Descartes’s notion that a mind is the sort of thing that can be seen > veridically only by the mind-holder leads to the calculus. Was my high > school math teacher (who was also the football coach) correct to tell me >

Re: [FRIAM] faith, zombies, and crazy people

found 1 chapter in this book online http://www.sci.osaka-cu.ac.jp/~kawauchi/MindRelations.pdf qv. http://www.sci.osaka-cu.ac.jp/~kawauchi/index.html On 9/21/12, glen e. p. ropella wrote: > Yep. I've already broached the subject with my county library. Their > criteria center around whether the

Re: [FRIAM] Faith

Nick I'm glad you brought up a) Laws b) Protestant ideas in the context of faith. AND That you are still trying to define your beliefs.. I claim with some degree of certainty that at least 90% of the worlds religions don't set down precisely and completely their "Laws" in the form of "Rules"/ Bel

Re: [FRIAM] faith, zombies, and crazy people

Thompson wrote: > Robots do lip service quite handily. > > "We value your call." > > Nick > > -Original Message- > From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On > Behalf > Of Sarbajit Roy > Sent: Wednesday, September 19,

Re: [FRIAM] faith, zombies, and crazy people

Glen: (aside) In addition to my "faith" hat, I also have a "designer/manufacturer of programmable logic controller" hat. To design an artificial life form (android / zombie ...) capable of successfully passing among humans in a religious (faith) setting you would probably need tons of "memory" (o

Re: [FRIAM] faith, zombies, and crazy people

>We need a sequence of actions that might actually cause a person to "have >faith". 2 examples. a) way cults work, and b) ways a magnet works. In a (religious) cult, the newbies are first encouraged to join in on simple actions like clapping. This is a psychological device to get them to partic

Re: [FRIAM] faith, zombies, and crazy people

astern Orthodox understanding because it is the basis of faith and works and the understanding of not separating the two. The importance of praxis, in the sense of action, is indicated in the dictum of Saint Maximus the Confessor: "Theology without action is the theology of demons."[3]" On 9/

Re: [FRIAM] faith, zombies, and crazy people

Dear Glen You've confused me even more now. So I'll just come to your last para "> I don't want "want" to be involved. 8^) I'm trying to simplify the > discussion down to an actionable point. Which is why I'll ask again: > If faith is a collection of actions, what actions constitute faith?" Pr

Re: [FRIAM] just faith

Like Glen (Ropella) I too intuit that there is no such absolute as "fact". >From this review, it seems that Mr. Platinga's system is based on "warranted" facts .. and he has previously published a 3 part series on what warranted facts.are. Mr Platinga's system seems similar to an Indic system cal

Re: [FRIAM] just faith

ng about it. A third is the idea that Things Have Causes. These > are all certainly elements of metaphysics, but are they religion? > > > > > > Nick > > > > > > I think that this way of being > > -Original Message- > From: friam-boun...@redfish

Re: [FRIAM] just faith

Dear Steve 3 quick interjections. 1) You will never find an ":Adi Dharmist" (??) knocking at your door, bugging you at an airport or selling / dumping you literature. Adi Dharm does not proselytise .. period. My own occasional statements on this mailing list are only to test whether "your" models

Re: [FRIAM] just faith

Hi Russ The question doesn't differ The answer(s) may. Our own answer (or belief) is that the answer (to the question) is so beyond the comprehension of mere mortals that its "unknowable". ie. "There is universal law "dharma" to explain everything but we can never know all of it. ... (and God doe

Re: [FRIAM] just faith

theism as a religion. When push comes to shove, are we > atheists any the less religious, in the very broadest senses of that term? > In what ways? > > Nick > > -----Original Message- > From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On > Behalf >

Re: [FRIAM] just faith

Platinga's view is fairly well aligned with the beliefs of my own faith even though our "God" may be different. We all develop our own models of reality, apparently the trick is to ensure that these models are robust enough accommodate everybody else's gremlins, devils, zombies, or maulvis and stil

Re: [FRIAM] Is my government too big?

Why are we having this discussion ? You folks have a President who knows and operates on the Heisenberg Principle. >His desire to hear the case raises the obvious question: Why didn’t he just >make it >himself? “It’s the Heisenberg principle,” he says. “Me asking the >question changes >the answe

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: America and the Middle East: Murder in Libya | The Economist

Dear Doug You're quite right, and there is a huge disconnect. Nobody on this thread / list is examining the Great Satan who provoked all of this. "One nation under GOD" ? "In God we trust" ?? "God bless America" ??? Whats going on in the Middle East now is just another episode of the long runni

Re: [FRIAM] The Lost Land

shameless plug for this book http://transbooks.com/cata/lus02.html for Lost Lands a little further south. On 8/19/12, Steve Smith wrote: > Yes Tory, thanks for the correction to iaia.edu ! > > And thanks also to Pamela for noting my omission of the Anglo takeover > of Hispanic (but no longer Span

Re: [FRIAM] nonduality -- the religion "stripped and plain, " "of simplicity and scope, " as H.G. Wells described it in 1923, for new world religion and education to unify and civilize world: Wayne Fe

Dear Rich Quote: "The overriding powers that hitherto in the individual soul and in the community have struggled and prevailed against the ferocious, base, and individual impulses that divide us from one another, have been the powers of religion and education." Some Advaita schools would veer to

Re: [FRIAM] re alternative medicine

Dear Glen Insofar as Ayurvedic medicines go, these would be good starting points. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1297513/ http://www.ccimindia.org/ Informally, Ayurvedic ("herbal") medicine works for low level (common) ailments but perhaps not at the efficiency / success levels of a

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: The disappearing virtual library - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

Dear Earthlings of the United Federation What kind of society do you live in where in a population of 300 million people and speaking only about 3 or 4 languages you have print runs of 50-100 for educational books costing US$200 each ? On my planet we have solved the problem through Section 32A o

Re: [FRIAM] Physicists continue work to abolish time as fourth dimension of space, Amrit Sorli and Davide Fiscaletti, founders of the Space Life Institute in Slovenia, Physics Essays 2012.04.03: Rich

Hi Rich, And WHO has published this research ? And WHO are these people (and what do they have to do with "Meditation EHAN")? And WHY must we put up with half baked pseudo-science ? Sarbajit PS: I am asking this because "Physics Essays" (as per their website) seems to have their most "Recent Publ

Re: [FRIAM] So, *Are* We Alone?

ved here from Texas. On her own report, she sat up the > entire subsequent night, facing her door in an armchair, with a loaded > shotgun across her knee. "I have a right to defend myself," she said. > > Anyway, Please forgive my besottedness. I have been using an awful lot

Re: [FRIAM] So, *Are* We Alone?

Dear Nick I'm rather surprised to learn from you that "the notion of settled legal opinion" is an American Institution brought about by induction. By this reasoning almost everything that are "uniquely" American useful things - apple pie, Thanksgiving turkey etc can be ascribed to induction in add

Re: [FRIAM] So, *Are* We Alone?

'Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people.' Hydrogen sulfide is another gas entirely. On 4/5/12, Douglas Roberts wrote: > I guess I must have spoiled your game somewhat by turning out to be barely > lukewarm regarding the charms of induction, NIck. > > Well,

Re: [FRIAM] online privacy (again)

Turn off Javascript,.disable Java. In Firefox, Tools > Options > Content On 4/4/12, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > So. In short. Has everybody BUT me gone to some toggle in Google and in > Firefox and in I.E. and done something like “turn off tracking”. Is the > peril anything worse that when I a

Re: [FRIAM] So, *Are* We Alone?

e able to live > places humans cant or won't > > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:27 AM, Sarbajit Roy wrote: > >> Thanks for reminding me about this book. I'd read it many years ago >> (when I still knew maths) as an online PDF, which luckily I had still >> ke

Re: [FRIAM] So, *Are* We Alone?

Thanks for reminding me about this book. I'd read it many years ago (when I still knew maths) as an online PDF, which luckily I had still kept saved somewhere. Could anyone on this list update me if a "Quantum Copernican Principle" *referred to in Chapter 7 (?) "Quantum mechanics and the Anthropic

Re: [FRIAM] So, *Are* We Alone?

Dear Owen As we are agreed that this is not a religious thing, may I enquire if you have examined Vedic Cosmology for some answers. I want to stress that the Vedas are ancient Indian texts with their own integrity independent of various Indian religions which claim (and distort) them, and the orde

Re: [FRIAM] So, *Are* We Alone?

t problematic, for obvious reasons which we maybe don't want to > dwell on here. > > --Doug > > On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Sarbajit Roy wrote: > >> Dear Doug >> >> What is taught in Sunday School is the problem with the "Christian" >>

Re: [FRIAM] So, *Are* We Alone?

Dear Doug What is taught in Sunday School is the problem with the "Christian" religion which for the most part seems based on gospels, unprovable historical events and parables etc. The ancient Eastern religions Dave mentioned don't have that problem insofar as their core beliefs are concerned F

Re: [FRIAM] So, *Are* We Alone?

Answer : Because "we" don't have a "Merkaba antenna" ? On 4/1/12, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > I just had a face to face conversation with own who put his interest in the > second way (see below). > > In which case, the thread ought to be entitled, "So why haven't we heard > from them?" > > THAT s

Re: [FRIAM] Just as a bye-the-way

Thanks, I liked this other one too. http://www.naute.com/jokes/atheist.phtml On 3/24/12, Robert J. Cordingley wrote: > Then there's the story of the Scottish atheist fishing in Lock Ness when > suddenly his boat was tossed in the air. The fisherman gazed in fright > at the Loch Ness Monster ope

Re: [FRIAM] Which programming languages are fastest? | Computer Language Benchmarks Game

>From the link, it seems that C is the fastest programming language by a very wide margin. On 3/19/12, Owen Densmore wrote: > Latest shootout results. > > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all FRIAM Appl

Re: [FRIAM] FW: See this?

ld has half the > genes of each of its parents. > > N > > > -Original Message- > From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf > Of Sarbajit Roy > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 9:33 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coff

Re: [FRIAM] FW: See this?

s for the explanation. I was thinking of genes as hereditary units but > I guess they can also refer to any chemical strings of a certain type. How > about statement (2)? Can't we be more than the sum of our ancestors? > --John > > Fro

Re: [FRIAM] FW: See this?

; "proven" in the nineteenth century.) > > As for (3) and (4), I'm not certain what they mean. Can someone explain them > to me? > > --John > > From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of > Sarba

Re: [FRIAM] FW: See this?

W.r.t to your pointwise comments to John's points. This to me seems a clear case of reinventing the wheel. It also seems that the inventors do not know that the wheel has been invented. Referring to at least 5,000 years of evolved human history http://brahmo.org/brahmoism-genetics-memetics.html Th

Re: [FRIAM] Peter Lissaman

I never met Peter, but his posts to this list often pointed me to exciting concepts to explore. His post on "Slinky Solutions" (Oct 3 2011) was delightfully challenging and prophetic too. "> What a Wonderful World! And how soon some of us leave it!" I suspect Peter's soaring somewhere high now o

Re: [FRIAM] FW: See this?

Here's the download link to a PDF of the New Yorker 05.March.2012 http://uploaded.to/file/1y22zlm1/The_New_Yorker_March_05_2012.pdf Have downloaded it (122 MB) , but can't seem to find the article. Sarbajit On 3/11/12, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > Owen, etc., > > > > Even after having been care

Re: [FRIAM] A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors - YouTube

Here's a swarm of nanodrones playing the James Bond theme. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/us-news-blog/2012/mar/01/flying-robot-quadrotors-ted-video On 2/26/12, Tom Johnson wrote: > For our "fly by night" colleagues. > > A "swarm" of nanodrones flying in formation and navigating through >

Re: [FRIAM] A Good Question - Should the United States join OPEC?

Insane as it sounds, A better question is if the US should first join the OIC (Organisation of Islamic Cooperation) considering that the US has more Muslims (5+ million) than half OIC's member nations. On 2/27/12, Owen Densmore wrote: > Now for something completely different: > > http://www.nytim

Re: [FRIAM] Private note to you- Re: Self publishing

beauty and truth in these > writings, saddens me. > > Thank you for your time- > Victoria > > > Tory Hughes > unusual objects and unique adornments > www.toryhughes.com > www.toryhughes-galleryshop.com > > > > > > > > On Feb 16, 2012, at 3:22 PM

Re: [FRIAM] Self publishing

Dear Russel This may be somewhat Odd-Topic for this list. (apologies) Thanks for mentioning your book, I've located the PDF. Chapter 2 starts with Gospel John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." I wonder if this would compare with a verse from

Re: [FRIAM] Self publishing

I have interests in a niche family publishing business in history / social sciences in India.. But we mainly publish European authors (the Romance langages) in excellent quality in small runs (ie. low thousands) which nobody else handles.. Authors: http://www.transbooks.com/auth.html We publish

Re: [FRIAM] kathy.saunders

Dear Nick Somebody has either hacked / got access to a copy of Peter's email a/c (or contacts). This is routine SPAM. Please ignore it (or contact Peter in some other way to tell him the good news) Sarbajit On 1/28/12, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > Peter, > > I am baffled by your email. And why

Re: [FRIAM] HELP: google analytics

"http://statcounter.com"; is also quite good and you don't get the obvious feeling that our tiny websites are contributing to Google's bloated revenue stream. Sarbajit On 1/18/12, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > Thanks, Grant. I guess I did all that , cuz it's now working. Just asking > you guys

Re: [FRIAM] FUCK PASSWORDS - Blog - December 2011 - veekun: fuzzy notepad

If somebody hacked your email account, it would ASSIST them for the following things 1) They would know many "secret" things about you / your knowledge 2) They could request / authenticate a PIN reset. 3) They could request a replacement credit card to be sent to another address under their contro

Re: [FRIAM] Mary Yugo lays out how a typical new energy device scam works: Rich Murray 2011.11.11

">You think people are too sophisticated to give money to scammers? You >must read different news articles than I do." http://www.blongerbros.com/gang/rag.asp On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Rich Murray wrote: > Mary Yugo lays out how a typical new energy device scam works: Rich Murray > 201

Re: [FRIAM] 99%, occupyWallStreet, Santa Fe, etc.

Hi "360 a week (before tax). Ouch." is roughly what an average productive worker (and his large extended family) in a LDC survives on for a YEAR. It seems to me that a bunch of very rich nations led by the USA have gotten together and decided to "interfere" (citing human rights etc.) in the affai

Re: [FRIAM] [Vo]:OT - Sunday's Sermon: Peace-Of-MInd

Just out of curiosity, how many religions (or scientists) explicitly acknowledge the Singularity conception ? My own one does. [ http://brahmo.org/true-brahmo-principles.html ] On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 6:00 AM, Marcos wrote: > Sounds like you're talking about the Singularity: That non-dual thing

Re: [FRIAM] India unveils world's cheapest tablet

This "tablet" is a complete fraud. Every 6 months the concerned Minister (equivalent to your Secretary) keeps pulling such rabbits out of his (subsidy) hat. On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Alfredo Covaleda wrote: > India unveils world's cheapest tablet computer > http://www.latimes.com/news/na

Re: [FRIAM] Google Correlate

There is either something seriously flawed with the G-corr tool or something flawed with the underlying data. . For instance if "gateway bible" has the highest correlation with "ibuprofen" then we could expect that the reverse would be true. I suspect the tool is OK but the data is off (or require

Re: [FRIAM] Academic papers are hidden from the public. Here’s some direct action. ? Bad Science

Thanks for saying this. As a non-academic without access to JSTOR, its so frustrating when a google search throws up relevant academic papers in JSTOR or similar databases, and I can't read them. H.. as an "Indian (forrmer) hacker" lets see what can be done to strike a blow for hactivism. Sa

Re: [FRIAM] Draw - Google Correlate

This is a neat tool. Now netizens get limited reverse access to Google's privacy violations. On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Tom Johnson wrote: > You will never have trouble fitting your data analysis results to SOMETHING > ever again. > -tj > Search by Drawing > > Draw an interesting curve, the

Re: [FRIAM] Just FYI - This message may not have been sent by:

As posted previously, I suspect the problem is "milan.hostgo.com" which seems to be forwarding the FRIAM / Redfish mails, and which triggers red flags in gmail. On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Alfredo Covaleda wrote: > > Interesting to see how these smart guys from google resemble dogs barking

Re: [FRIAM] Deafening silence re downgrade -

Its very well known that (Equity) Markets are often schizophrenic (oscillating between manic optimism and pessimism). This is a very good time to make money by taking advantage of volatility (and assuming unsystematic risk). PS: Is there negative schizophrenia too ? On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:04

Re: [FRIAM] Ongoing cell-phone threads, esp T-Mobile

n pain, we are but pawns in the game. It is a > deeply painful thing to be a US citizen who understands tech from the bottom > up. > > -- Owen > > > On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Sarbajit Roy wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I'm hugely amazed by yo

Re: [FRIAM] Ongoing cell-phone threads, esp T-Mobile

Hi I'm hugely amazed by your post. Being involved in telecom regulatory matters (as a citizen stakeholder) in my country. I'm surprised that consumers in yours tolerate such nonsense. Just to provide some reference points In India: The average postpaid mobile commitment cost is about US$3 per mo

Re: [FRIAM] Google+ Circles and Social Networks

Dear List Owners Gmail has recently started reporting that many mails from this list (and this topic in particluar) "may not be from whom it appears to be / report phishing". On analyzing the email headers it seems the locus of the problem is "milan.hostgo.com" which is either used by the FRIAM ma

Re: [FRIAM] Google+ Circles and Social Networks

Yet another nail in privacy's coffin. Who ELSE do you know ? http://www.consciousape.com/news/google-bankrolled-by-the-cia/ http://english.pravda.ru/world/asia/14-01-2010/111657-google_china-0/ On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:26 AM, Jochen Fromm wrote: > Is anyone on Google+ already? I think it is de

Re: [FRIAM] Experiment and Interpretation

As opposed to the (a ?) fourth way of simply setting under a boddhi tree and isolating yourself from the world ? Sarbajit On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Nicholas Thompson < nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Dear Peter, > > ** ** > > There are three ways to learn something: read, fiddle

Re: [FRIAM] The Torture Of Gmail

Hi Owen, 1) Try disabling Java / Javascript in your browser settings when you use Gmail, 2) Alternatively, opt for the "basic HTML" version of Gmail (using the "settings" link, or somewhere at the bottom of the page) Sarbajit On 6/10/11, Owen Densmore wrote: > Like many a damn fool, I'm seriou

Re: [FRIAM] The stopping rule

ic > > > > P.S. The case of a single bounded distribution is definitely the hardest > for > > me to think about, a double bounded or unbounded distribution seems much > > more intuitive. Also, the restriction to guess relative to A makes it > harder > > for me t

Re: [FRIAM] The stopping rule

;s worth looking up, e.g., > here<http://www.askamathematician.com/?p=787> > .) > > *-- Russ Abbott* > *_* > *** Professor, Computer Science* > * California State University, Los Angeles* > > * Google voice: 747-*999-5105 &

Re: [FRIAM] The stopping rule

How does knowing the second number establish the range ? Is there any work on this. Sarbajit On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Russ Abbott wrote: > Russell Standish has the right idea. If you knew the range, say the first > number is higher/lower than the third depending on whether the first num

Re: [FRIAM] Gmail love

>"So lets hear your experiences with Gmail and how you like/don't like its features!" The worst problem with Gmail is PRIVACY - you don't have any. You must assume that each and every email which passes through gmail is archived indefinitely (the copyright being with google). - Sarbajit On Sun,

Re: [FRIAM] Financial Scam

> > Say more! > > > > N > > > > PS, I have to say, as a psychologist, I am fascinated by the m.o. Does it > really work to get nasty with people one is trying to seduce? > > > > *From:* friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On >

Re: [FRIAM] Financial Scam

Hi 1) Simply ignore them 2) Do not communicate with these people in any way You should stop receiving emails / texts after about 10 days Sarbajit (a reformed cyber criminal) On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 5:23 AM, Gillian Densmore wrote: > Yeah now the scammer is sending herassing text messages. I do

Re: [FRIAM] What evolves?

Dear Dave I'm not entirely sure that Vedic philosophy extends to ruling out a distinction between living and non-living. For example there is an ancient Vedic verse which states that all life exists to be consumed. Presumably meaning that the end result of the food chain is that we are all dead (n

Re: [FRIAM] Terrorosity and it's Fruits

"*But, to say that it is down to some group of human beings who are simply evil and hateful is equally mindless. They US played a significant part in this monster creation. To my mind, the processes of monster creation is still active. That worries me. That must stop.*" To use a LoTR analogy, I'd

Re: [FRIAM] off topic....., but still

Hi Doug , Would you say the same for Gadaffi's grandchildren too ? Sarbajit Roy अयं निज: परो वेति गणना लघुचेतसाम् । उदारचरितानां तु वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम् ॥ He is mine and he is other, is the thought that narrow minded people have. For noble people, the entire world is family. On Tue,

Re: [FRIAM] Rossi mini reactor 2.5 mo. at 10 kW gives 18 MWh using up 100 gm Ni and 2 gm H, Sven Kullander interview 2011.04.06: Rich Murray 2011.04.07

Dear Rich Considering your enthusiasm for Prof. Rossi's LNER device, please excuse me for asking this question - do you have any formal scientific / technical training / qualifications which I can list ? I am asking this only so as to be able to ask my country's Govt about their knowledge of Ross

Re: [FRIAM] Rossi mini reactor 2.5 mo. at 10 kW gives 18 MWh using up 100 gm Ni and 2 gm H, Sven Kullander interview 2011.04.06: Rich Murray 2011.04.07

In my country (India) we use coins (cupro-nickel). A back of the envelope calculation shows that 100 grms of nickel works out to be under US$ 5 worth of coins assuming a 70::30 Cu:Ni ratio. Leave aside the physics, the economics of the Rossi device don't stand up at current energy prices. On Fri,

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