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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:
/... //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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
701 - 721 of 721 matches
Mail list logo