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Ha! Excellent. All we need is a way to continually measure the neural correlates to psychopathy and stick the devices to a 2-arm cohort. -- ⛧ glen On May 11, 2016 6:08 PM, "Marcus Daniels" wrote: > > If an apophany is arises from abnormal overfitting of environmental

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...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 3:05 PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Tagged "Get off my lawn!" Very nice! I wish I were a bit more able to stockpile either cash or attention. I'm a bit too impulsive for either. I do make an attempt at logg

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Very nice! I wish I were a bit more able to stockpile either cash or attention. I'm a bit too impulsive for either. I do make an attempt at logging "ideas worth pursuing". I even prioritize them to some extent. But my process has always depended on "more than one motivation" to pursue

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" [*] Yes, many of us can successfully "jockey" from one role to another as our skills shift from "fast reflexes" to "wisdom of age". But even the most successful jockeys eventually fade away." If anything I'm more breadth oriented than I used to be. It's more a like a cash flow thing. I

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OK. But that doesn't change the fact that "have to" is too strong. It would be better phrased "Most of us want to stay on top of things." In the end, of course, as we get old and fade away[*], we simply cannot keep up with things, which leads to complaining about how the world is

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16 9:42 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Tagged "Get off my lawn!" On 05/11/2016 06:45 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Most us have to stay on top of things, though. Hopefully, though, it is not > the onl

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On 05/11/2016 06:45 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Most us have to stay on top of things, though. Hopefully, though, it is not > the only thing. I wonder about the use of the word "have". A particular person with whom I'm currently forced to interact, keeps his nose stuck in his phone and ear

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9:34 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Tagged "Get off my lawn!" Yes, I agree. I was going to be cantankerous and respond with something about imperfect closure and the "openness" of all processes. But th

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Yes, I agree. I was going to be cantankerous and respond with something about imperfect closure and the "openness" of all processes. But this article brings me back to a steady irritant: Are our smartphones afflicting us all with symptoms of ADHD?

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TCL/Tk, eh? Minsky is an graphically-based open-source dynamical systems simulator I've mostly written using TCL/Tk that weighs in around 10K lines. I've often fantasised about porting it to a different toolkit, one that supports web browsers, and/or tablets. Qt being one possibility. Remind me

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I've done a completely "off my lawn" thing over the past few weeks. Playing Mahjong solitaire on Ubuntu is one of my vices, but I don't like the way the supplied program works in many ways. At least twice I've downloaded the source for gnome-mahjongg and looked at it until my eyes started

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...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen Sent: Monday, May 09, 2016 5:00 PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Tagged "Get off my lawn!" You're dancing around the fundamental point: Can abstraction layers be closures? And that's the essence of complexity theory, the study of what and how

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You're dancing around the fundamental point: Can abstraction layers be closures? And that's the essence of complexity theory, the study of what and how some thing is reducible to the inner layers (or what and how expands to the outer layers). Can you really understand Go just by knowing the

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"So, I'm glad it's all peek these days. It means we're builing shoulders on which later generations stand. The opposite situation would be _sad_, say if everyone had to learn quantum mechanics just to add numbers together ... or if everyone had to know how to surface mount with a hot plate in

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There is (at least in me) an ongoing brawl between (at least) 2 homunculi: the one that embraces novel situations where I have zero knowledge or control and have to "live in the present" versus the one that embraces knowledge and control. As I age, the latter usually has the upper hand.

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through the current Harvard CS-50 curriculum and, no, SICP it ain’t. From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Roger Critchlow Sent: Monday, May 09, 2016 1:30 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Tagged "

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I think it's pretty funny. The singularity happened before the millennium, when our libraries outgrew our ability to thoroughly test or understand them. In mere decades the artificial universe, starting from nothing, had become as mysterious as reality. -- rec -- On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 3:18

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In the words of the (in)famous Ross Perot, "Now, that's just sad." On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 1:57 PM, glen wrote: > > Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP > > http://www.posteriorscience.net/?p=206_mid=0e370a=em-prog-na-na-newsltr_20160507 > > -- > ⛧ glen > >

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Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP http://www.posteriorscience.net/?p=206_mid=0e370a=em-prog-na-na-newsltr_20160507 -- ⛧ glen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's