Re: [FRIAM] Hope?

2016-10-03 Thread Steven A Smith
no shit sherlock! what a great phrase in an auspicious time? On 10/3/16 5:29 PM, glen ☣ wrote: I liked the point as made by this post: http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/28/debate-nights-biggest-lie-was-told-by-lester-holt/ But even if we admit that the only purpose for the peripheral c

Re: [FRIAM] Hope?

2016-10-03 Thread Steven A Smith
Glen - I love the deep ambiguity and late binding of what you just said here! - Steve On 10/3/16 1:23 PM, glen ☣ wrote: I just optimized our code so that drug moving from the heterogeneous lobule into the well-mixed body compartment are converted from objects to integer counts. That cut exe

Re: [FRIAM] Wisdom of Crowds vs Kenneth Arrow

2016-09-13 Thread Steven A Smith
Glen - I understand that... though it IS my habit to acknowledge the things I agree on to more starkly expose the ones I don't (or at least I try to do that). With a happy side-effect that more people will like you as a result. One day, I'll wish I had spent more effort with the soft styles

Re: [FRIAM] speaking of analytics

2016-09-09 Thread Steven A Smith
N - I read this as "Glen being Glen" which I approve of... ... that doesn't mean you don't get credit for inflicting your own inner vocabulary (or simply the lexicon of your profession?) on us... Some of us appreciate what might otherwise seem idiosyncratic. I had to parse this one very care

Re: [FRIAM] Wisdom of Crowds vs Kenneth Arrow

2016-09-09 Thread Steven A Smith
glen - As usual, I ignore all the places where we agree and emphasize the disagreements ... because life is more fun that way. 8^) I understand that... though it IS my habit to acknowledge the things I agree on to more starkly expose the ones I don't (or at least I try to do that). I'm not

Re: [FRIAM] Wisdom of Crowds vs Kenneth Arrow

2016-09-09 Thread Steven A Smith
Glen - I've found this graph the most interesting rendering of the electoral game: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/upshot/presidential-polls-forecast.html#explore-paths Interesting fault tree (I wanted to say dendogram, but I'm not sure it has all of the properties necessary. I

Re: [FRIAM] Wisdom of Crowds vs Kenneth Arrow

2016-09-09 Thread Steven A Smith
pected! -- Owen On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Steven A Smith <mailto:sasm...@swcp.com>> wrote: I know we try to avoid getting into political discussions here, and that is not what I'm trying t draw you into. Out of my infamous morbid fascination, I *have* been follow

[FRIAM] Wisdom of Crowds vs Kenneth Arrow

2016-09-07 Thread Steven A Smith
I know we try to avoid getting into political discussions here, and that is not what I'm trying t draw you into. Out of my infamous morbid fascination, I *have* been following the presidential campaigns this past year or more and in particular comparing the many running *polls* to the *Iowa El

Re: [FRIAM] Court: Judges Can Consider Predictive Algorithms in Sentencing

2016-08-27 Thread Steven A Smith
Interesting development! Slippery slope at the very least. Seems like this is square between "profiling" and that PK Dick story "Minority Report" On 8/26/16 5:24 PM, Pamela McCorduck wrote: So agree. We are *so* far from certain on this one. On Aug 26, 2016, at 5:11 PM, Tom Johnson

Re: [FRIAM] Seagate has a 60TB solid state drive now | TechCrunch

2016-08-13 Thread Steven A Smith
brings back memories from when I had the pleasure of hearing Feynman's "Plenty of Room at the Bottom" talk at LANL... 1983 I think... turned us on to Drexler's work before it was published as "Engines of Creation". We DO live in interesting times! On 8/13/16 4:26 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:

Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass Shootings

2016-08-01 Thread Steven A Smith
/... //Must be terrifying to someone like Putin. Almost feel sorry for him. Merkel and Clinton to telling him what to do all the time. //J/ /Marcus/ If only we could get Stephen Colbert and Tina Fey on the ballot... and into the oval office... sure we'd have to fill the covet

Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass Shootings

2016-08-01 Thread Steven A Smith
Damn Nick! That is one enormously disarming and persuasive argument! Good luck with your distraction... I have a small clutch of freshly fledged Ravens in my trees acting up right about now... they made me think of you (and your interests, not your nature)! Most if not all of you will be re

Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass Shootings

2016-08-01 Thread Steven A Smith
Gil - I second Glen's statement here. I personally value the fact that I know many people from many walks of life with many modes of apprehending and being in the world. This FriAM/WedTech Crowd is an important part of that (even though I rarely make a showing at either table in person). F

Re: [FRIAM] Can THIS guy be coach or something

2016-07-30 Thread Steven A Smith
The problem with the piece is that it's treats Trump and Clinton as equally bad. That's false symmetry. Au contraire! There is an *implication* of that, but in fact, the rhetoric used is all spot on... it is a piece NOT about the candidates, but about the voters reaction to them. I didn't

Re: [FRIAM] weird malware

2016-07-28 Thread Steven A Smith
Frankly I can't wait until our systems all are as fluxed with symbiotic-ware (what is the benign form of malware) as our own personal biomes... maybe we are already on our way down that road? Does anyone track Stephanie Forrest's computer immune systems? I'm betting we have some evolutionar

Re: [FRIAM] German engineers 3D-printed a camera that’s smaller than a grain of salt

2016-06-30 Thread Steven A Smith
They aren't describing the actual imaging A/D conversion... it i just a lense set coupled with a fiber-optic... capture and reduction is a project left to the student downstream. I'm not clear (and they dont indicate) how they actually get the opticil fidelity from a 3D printer since they ten

Re: [FRIAM] Mobile Vulgis was: Anyone from England

2016-06-27 Thread Steven A Smith
te it, _then_ it might be a good thing. On 06/27/2016 03:09 PM, Steven A Smith wrote: That said, I'm still holding out for a 4-way debate with Bernie as Independent and Gary Johnson as Libertarian. I think the Donald would get shredded on every one of his points by one or all three of the o

[FRIAM] Mobile Vulgis was: Anyone from England

2016-06-27 Thread Steven A Smith
With our own election hoopla, I find myself considering the implications of democracy as we practice it (and perhaps even as we imagine or idealize it). While I am observing said hoopla with my usual "morbid fascination", I am truly disturbed by the possibility that we ARE degenerating to a

Re: [FRIAM] Anyone from England

2016-06-25 Thread Steven A Smith
Our colleagues, Matt and Janire just skyped me up yesterday and were quite concerned about the implications for them... Matt is from the UK, Janire from Spain, and they both attended University in Wales and have been doing good business throughout UK/EU/etc without any friction, thanks to the

Re: [FRIAM] Fascinating article on how AI is driving change in SEO, categories of AI and the Law of Accelerating Returns

2016-06-09 Thread Steven A Smith
Glen - I do believe we *will* and *have been* outdriving our headlights, and it is part of the "manifest destiny" of being human, maybe mammal/warm-blooded/vertibrate/fauna/life? It *might be* a necessary property of evolved life to innovate "grandly"... where "grandly" is a relative term.

Re: [FRIAM] Fascinating article on how AI is driving change in SEO, categories of AI and the Law of Accelerating Returns

2016-06-09 Thread Steven A Smith
On 6/8/16 12:27 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: `` I'm pretty much a luddite myself, or at least "conservative" in the sense of believing that we are outdriving our headlights on many fronts.'' Experiments can be risky but sometimes they pay off.. http://discovermagazine.com/2010/mar/07-dr-drank-b

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