Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] Dimensionality reduced term names.

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > > Specifically, if the data set has highly correlated features such as sq. > ft. of a house, and the number of floors, a dimensionality reduction > algorithm is very likely to find high correlation with # floors and sq. ft. > of the house, a

Re: [FRIAM] Activity over holidays?

Not without an existing valid license in some jurisdiction. -- rec -- On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Richard Harris > wrote: > >> >> I believe Gary said that he, like me, has lost his licence by moving >> overseas and not being able

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

It's flagged as possibly not from you in the gmail web interface. -- rec -- On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Dale Schumacher wrote: > Interesting! I'm not on this list, and I use a direct gmail address > (from the web gui presently), so this is a sort-of test to see if my > email is flagged.

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

, Owen Densmore wrote: > > > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > >> It's flagged as possibly not from you in the gmail web interface. >> >> -- rec -- >> >> > And Minimalist, with

Re: [FRIAM] American Airlines Gets FAA Approval to Use iPad During All Phases of Flight

Why worry? They've probably been flying with Windows machines in the cockpit for years. -- rec -- On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote: > One small problem: what happens when the ipad crashes? The techie in > me is well aware of what happens when a OS crashes I don't think >

[FRIAM] hacker space

Some mornings I feel like I woke up in a science fiction novel, -- rec -- Sent to you by Roger via Google Reader: Hackers Plan Space Satellites to Combat Censorship via ACM TechNews on 1/4/12 BBC News A

Re: [FRIAM] Further SOPA/PIPA

According to http://sopaopera.org/NM/ both our senators and our congressman support SOPA and PIP. -- rec -- On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Victoria Hughes wrote: > Voting on SOPA is January 24th. Here's an accessible article The Problem > with SOPA (And How to Stop It) | > Copyblogger

[FRIAM] preprint from Stu Kauffman

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1201.2069v1 why biology isn't just physics, -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

Re: [FRIAM] Complex Numbers .. the end of the line?

http://geocalc.clas.asu.edu/pdf/OerstedMedalLecture.pdf -- rec -- On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > Integers, Rationals, Reals .. these scalars seemed to be enough for quite > a while. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division all seemed to do > well in that domain.

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Re: Friam Digest, Vol 104, Issue 9

I was torturing myself yesterday listening to Spanish instructional material in my car. The tapes spent a lot of time presenting minimal contrasts between vowels in different contexts, between consonants, or between alternative stresses. I can hear some of the contrasts quite clearly, I can hear

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Re: Friam Digest, Vol 104, Issue 9

> people, let me know. > > ** ** > > Nick > > ** ** > > *From:* friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On > Behalf Of *Roger Critchlow > *Sent:* Monday, February 13, 2012 12:04 PM > > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Comp

[FRIAM] theory and practice of psychology

Andrew Gelman blogs http://andrewgelman.com/2012/02/false-positive-psychology about a paper which explains how to not torture your experimental data until it confesses a false positive result, including a worked example which falsely concludes that certain songs can change the age of the listener.

Re: [FRIAM] MediaShift . Special Series: Cutting the Cord to Cable TV | PBS

Owen -- The station finder at http://www.tvfool.com says that an address close to yours, picked off google maps, has line of sight to 27 TV broadcast transmitters, 20 of them digital stations which can have multiple channels multiplexed. -- rec -- =

Re: [FRIAM] MediaShift . Special Series: Cutting the Cord to Cable TV | PBS

gt;-- Owen > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > >> Owen -- >> >> The station finder at http://www.tvfool.com says that an address close >> to yours, picked off google maps, has line of sight to 27 TV broadcast >> transmitte

Re: [FRIAM] MediaShift . Special Series: Cutting the Cord to Cable TV | PBS

good at receiving the carrier signals. > > Robert C > > > On 2/25/12 12:04 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > > Yes. I have a pair of passive rabbit ears hanging on the wall of the > bedroom and the TV is getting 16-20 digital channels from 6-7 UHF > transmitters, depending

[FRIAM] outrage quantified

Finding the criminals who hid their crimes in the fog of war, with statistics http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/02/27/the_body_counter?page=full The deployment of capture-tag-recapture population estimation is particularly satisfying. -- rec -- =

Re: [FRIAM] Peter Lissaman

I'll miss him, too. I wonder how his analysis of crow wing dynamics for flight in turbulent air turned out? -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsub

Re: [FRIAM] Peter Lissaman

t, say swallows or buzzards. > > ** ** > > Nick > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On > Behalf Of *Roger Critchlow > *Sent:* Monday, March 12, 2012 7:38 PM > > *To:* The Friday Morning

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

I did and enjoyed it a great deal. Thought about throwing some free floating intuitions into this discussion, but it's already littered with them. -- rec -- 2012/4/11 Victoria Hughes > Ditto and right back atcha. > Incidentally, did anyone else on this list attend Rebecca Goldstein's talk > on

[FRIAM] evolving neural networks

http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/04/04/rspb.2012.0206 has made quite a splash in the news. The high levels of intelligence seen in humans, other primates, certain cetaceans and birds remain a major puzzle for evolutionary biologists, anthropologists and psychologists. It

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

I don't think it's hyperbolic, it's the business model: convert a piece the collective human intellect into property, collect rents, parlay a piece of the action into enough money to change the laws of property to protect your rents. -- rec -- 2012/4/17 glen e. p. ropella > Joseph Spinden wrot

Re: [FRIAM] re virtual library

I think the problem is speculation in intellectual property, ie looking at the potential windfall from owning a monopoly on a popular meme versus the horatio-alger story of the hard work of authors and publishers being fairly rewarded. The base issue is that all the ways you can use ownership of m

Re: [FRIAM] Adventure iPhone Repair via iCracked!

2012/5/10 Steve Smith > > Do you have any tricks? I tried tweezers but heaven help you if they > "pinch" sending the screw across the room! They're all the size of a > period at the end of this sentence. > > I hit the vision wall myself a few years ago... I've not had an eye test, > but what w

Re: [FRIAM] Adventure iPhone Repair via iCracked!

Now we need the mad engineer portrait of you in it. -- rec -- On May 12, 2012 6:08 PM, "Owen Densmore" wrote: > Just FYI: I bought these for my next projects: > > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015IN8J6 > Donegan DA-5 OptiVisor Headband Magnifier, 2.5x Magnification, 8" Focal > Length > > >

Re: [FRIAM] preprint from Stu Kauffman

2012/5/21 Owen Densmore > Either of you finish the paper? Comments? > >-- Owen > > No, I can't seem to read anything these days. But the paper on the neural networks evolving strategies to play the prisoners' dilemma with each other was very much a comment. The fitness of an inherited stra

Re: [FRIAM] atmospherics

Nick -- N2 weighs 28 gm/mole, O2 weighs 32 gm/mole, Ar weighs 40 gm/mole, CO2 weighs 44 gm/mole, and H2O weighs 18 gm/mole. Why would anyone expect the lighter components of a mixture to fall down more than the heavier ones? If anything, you'd expect the heavier ones to concentrate toward the bo

[FRIAM] tornado

Fabio Carerra reports the second tornado of his life in his neighborhood of Venice, with a picture album. http://venice2point0.blogspot.com/2012/06/retornado.html -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30

Re: [FRIAM] The Lost Land

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Steve Smith wrote: > I am not sure that "few people share this view anymore" regarding divine > rights or maybe more to the point, "manifest destiny" or "might makes > right". I agree that in spirit most of us are on that page together, but > in practice we ma

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: iClarified - Apple News - Samsung Found Guilty of Copying Apple, Ordered to Pay Over $1 Billion in Damages

There is some discussion on groklaw about this verdict and some interviews given by jury members. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2012082510525390 Some pretty entertaining questions. -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group l

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: iClarified - Apple News - Samsung Found Guilty of Copying Apple, Ordered to Pay Over $1 Billion in Damages

The plot thickens: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120828225612963 The jury foreman describes (in a youtubed interview) his solution to the "prior art" problems which consumed the first day of jury deliberations: the prior art didn't run on the same processor as Apple's art, so it cou

[FRIAM] if (biology paper) then (28% fewer citations per math equation per page)

We knew biologists were math averse, but now it's been quantified: http://www.pnas.org/content/109/29/11735 "The duo recommends that researchers use equations sparingly in their main article text to ensure that their ideas reach a wide audience." I haven't read past the abstract since the arti

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

And she removed the bumper-sticker from her web-site after the interview with the journalist from Forbes. Incredible but true, some people start ignorant and become less so. -- rec -- On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > First things first: the bumper sticker. It is, sadly

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

The Fixation of Belief, Charles S. Peirce, Popular Science Monthly, November 1877. http://www.peirce.org/writings/p107.html I was going to paraphrase another part of this, but looking at it again I realize my feeble bowdlerization wouldn't do it justice. [Emphasis added] Let the will of the sta

[FRIAM] Is my government too big?

This graph shows the government employees in the US, all levels of government, divided by the population of the US. http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/fredgraph.png?graph_id=87170 Color me surprised. The government/capita has been 0.0725+/-0.0025 since 1982. Variation in the last digit,

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

Qué viva el simposio! On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Victoria Hughes wrote: > Absolutely to Steve, and whiskey and a talk about all this. I would LOVE > to. > Just tell me the time and place. > > Tory > > > > On Sep 14, 2012, at 12:33 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > > Victoria, > > I was speaking

Re: [FRIAM] Is my government too big?

I asked how 300 million people settled on 0.0725 government employees/capita for 30 years and continued arguing the whole time about whether the government was getting too big. Did they not know that the size of the government/capita had stabilized? Did they not understand that the number of teac

Re: [FRIAM] Is my government too big?

On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 8:24 AM, ERIC P. CHARLES wrote: > Roger, > Two points: > 1) Being a third party kind of guy, with no particular loyalty for or > against Obama (though keeping a healthy fear of Romney), I share Owen's > frustration at Obama's inability/unwillingness to clearly articulate h

Re: [FRIAM] Is my government too big?

On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 8:24 AM, ERIC P. CHARLES wrote: > Roger, > Two points: > > 2) I don't think anyone has a problem with the government scaling in > needed ways to the population. Yes, as cities get bigger, they need more > police officers, firemen, etc. When people complain about "the growt

[FRIAM] just faith

Reading http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/sep/27/philosopher-defends-religion/ was a rather odd experience this week, mixed in with Sam Bacile, the Salafists, the zombies, and whatever. The review is by a non-believer (Thomas Nagel) who finds the book, written by a believer (Alvin Plan

Re: [FRIAM] just faith

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:41 PM, ERIC P. CHARLES wrote: > Sarbajit, > Trying to make things succinct, I think the argument Nick is trying to > make goes something like this: > > To act a certain way in a certain situation *is *to "have a belief." > Thus, our lives are full of beliefs, which are

Re: [FRIAM] Faith

Policing the content of parental guidance given to children would be even more fun than policing the uploads to YouTube. I'd say focus on making child protective services do the job it's already supposed to be doing, which is already one of the most difficult ones any one has thought up. -- rec -

Re: [FRIAM] just faith

http://xianblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/img_2244.jpg FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

Re: [FRIAM] faith

I believe it was this letter, but I don't feel like spending the $18 that Macmillan wants to let me look at it. *Nature* 289, 344 (29 January 1981); doi:10.1038/289344e0, Motorbike safety, G. K. MCGINTY, Redhill, Surrey, UK The author analyzed the change in angular size of a single headlight trav

Re: [FRIAM] Turning into butter, was RE: faith

I read it, too, probably in a church sponsored day-care in the DC suburbs in the fifties, or at my grandparents' houses. And I remember the restaurant, though I don't remember ever stopping in for a stack. -- rec -- On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > Nick - > > You're the f

Re: [FRIAM] faith

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Steve Smith wrote: > > My father bought a wartime surplus Harley when he returned from WWII, had > a grand good time stripping the military paintjob and repainting it only to > have two scary accidents within a few months (civilian turning left in > front of him,

Re: [FRIAM] DEBATE about Religion and Atheism

Alfredo -- Very interesting listening. One might believe that they are all very reasonable men, until you get to the very end of the video where they listen to Hitch argue that the end of world civilization is imminent unless the Islamic world is reformed of its unacceptable beliefs, a reformatio

Re: [FRIAM] faith

http://www.nature.com has provoked its own discussion on faith. In August: *Sometimes science must give way to religion* http://www.nature.com/news/sometimes-science-must-give-way-to-religion-1.11244 arguing "why it will always be necessary to have ways of understanding our world beyond the scien

Re: [FRIAM] faith

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > Tory - > > Why is the idea of two differing but synergistic approaches so >> challenging to so many on this list? Or are you arguing for the fun of the >> game? >> >> I'm pretty sure both the Monkey and the Weasel are in it for the > endorph

Re: [FRIAM] DEBATE about Religion and Atheism

Yes, that's one way to hear it. But on review, I now hear Dennett attempting to interject, and Hitch allowing that Dawkins disagrees. Also wondering what got edited out, since something did. But start at 1:54:00 and listen to the last three minutes and fourteen seconds, and give me your interpre

Re: [FRIAM] faith

ty. Like gang > conflicts, for example. And religion, for another. Not that there is much > difference, really. > > ** ** > > --Doug > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > &

[FRIAM] dead fish wins igNobel

Like a smell in your refrigerator that won't go away, the fMRI study of empathy in dead salmon, http://www.jsur.org/v1n1p1, has resurfaced again to claim the 2012 igNobel prize for neuroscience. -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group l

[FRIAM] What's in your contact lens case?

http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/10/contact-lens-solution-hosts-giant-virus-ecosystem-of-parasites/ http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/10/10/1208835109 -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at c

Re: [FRIAM] What's in your contact lens case?

ly described Sputnik virophage, a virus that infects > ameba-resistant large DNA viruses (10)." > > ** ** > > Cushlomocree! > > ** ** > > Nick > > ** ** > > *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Roger > Critchlow >

Re: [FRIAM] The Presidential Election

Here's how backward the conservative heart of america beats: http://www.thebaffler.com/past/the_long_con -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubs

Re: [FRIAM] The Presidential Election

I watched an interesting video interview with three British bookies who run online political betting markets the other day. They agreed that there had been concerted attempts to skew the markets to favor Romney, all of which had been eaten alive in short order by bettors happy to take the Obama si

Re: [FRIAM] One State, Two State, Red State, Blue State

The market for congressional control is going strongly toward RepublicanHouseDemocraticSenate (RH_DS). Anyone remember what happened in mid-September? -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at

[FRIAM] Another wacky graph

This graph is from http://www.businessinsider.com/jobs-bushs-first-term-vs-obamas-first-term-2012-11. It compares the fates of private, local govt, and state govt employment under the first four years of GWBush and BHObama, the point being that private employment has recovered more under Obama's f

Re: [FRIAM] One State, Two State, Red State, Blue State

pectations from a Presidential candidate event. -- rec -- On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > The market for congressional control is going strongly toward > RepublicanHouseDemocraticSenate (RH_DS). > > > > Anyone remember what happened

Re: [FRIAM] One State, Two State, Red State, Blue State

lection. Will the Republicans grudgingly become believers in statistical meta-analysis? Or will they try to pass legislation outlawing it? -- rec -- On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > Found an answer to my question: Mitt's 47% deadbeats secret video is > datelined

Re: [FRIAM] The Presidential Election

A few more months fighting it out in the courts would be just peachy -- :-( -- give me an uncontested victory one way or the other. -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College le

Re: [FRIAM] Auto-Threading Compilers Are Here

My boss sent me the Microsoft Research paper on mutability annotations yesterday, http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/170528/msr-tr-2012-79.pdf I've been writing distributed parallel code in Erlang for several years, now, and the immutability of functional data is absolutely necessary, but not s

Re: [FRIAM] Auto-Threading Compilers Are Here

qued when I read Kellogg's > statement: "Honestly though, I don't think FP is ever going to become > fully mainstream." > > Roger Critchlow wrote at 12/05/2012 01:32 PM: > > My boss sent me the Microsoft Research paper on mutability annotations > > yesterday, >

Re: [FRIAM] How to avoid shootings

I have now supplemented my morning reading with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_massacre_(Australia) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblane_school_massacre. The Dunblane school massacre inspired the Port Arthur perpetrator, resulted in the deaths of a classroom of 5 and 6 year old stud

Re: [FRIAM] How to avoid shootings

playful, creative stuff. It was vanGogh’s > preconscious that did the paintings; it was his unconscious that cut off > his ear. > > ** ** > > You heard it first from me. > > ** ** > > Nick > > ** ** > > *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-boun

Re: [FRIAM] Continuing with the Nexus 4 story

2GB cap? Which plan is that? I just switched my younger daughter to the Googe Voice / T-Mobile $30/month plan: 100-minutes talk, unlimited text, unlimited data with 5GB at 4G speeds, over minutes at $0.10/minute. T-Mobile scared me, I had to drill down a few pages on the website to find the plan

Re: [FRIAM] Continuing with the Nexus 4 story

The Jelly Bean phones have complete data usage accounting. It claims 16MB of mobile data and 230MB of WiFi data in the last 7 days. -- rec -- On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > To the wider list: do you have any idea how much data you actually use? > > I know from both lo

Re: [FRIAM] WAS:: Cliques, public, private. IS: Preserving email correspondence

No, he's saying we're exactly as fascinating as we are, and not a jot more. -- rec -- On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > Marcus, are you trying to suggest that we are not as fascinating as we > think we are? > > > On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Marcus G. Daniels > wrot

Re: [FRIAM] Preserving email correspondence

So, the thread exists in the archives at redfish, or where ever, and will continue to exist there for quite a while. The first tool is one which given a mailing list archive and a thread "subject" extracts the messages posted on the "subject". The second tool would take the raw messages in the th

Re: [FRIAM] "Academics" and other Stereotypes

http://yann.lecun.com/ex/pamphlets/publishing-models.html proposes a new model for publication in computer science. -- rec -- On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > The peer review process itself is flawed. > > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1420798/ > > From th

Re: [FRIAM] "Academics" and other Stereotypes

I expect they'll organize flash semesters where students pursuing similar courses will gather. -- rec -- On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Ron Newman wrote: > Merle, > Perhaps you and I should be talking, comparing notes on what's effective > and what's not. I'm working in visualization for MO

Re: [FRIAM] "Academics" and other Stereotypes

My spin on the MOOC's is that they set teachers free to teach rather than wasting everyone's time posing as authorities dispensing lectures. Most teachers cannot be authorities in all the courses they teach, and very few people are really good lecturers. Though we're doing undergraduate and gradu

Re: [FRIAM] "Academics" and other Stereotypes

Bruce -- I didn't mean to dismiss content expertise altogether. It's impossible to even begin to make sense of a technical subject without some content expertise. And you would hope that people who enjoyed facilitating a subject would continue to deepen their understanding of the subject, and th

Re: [FRIAM] MacBook Memory

I've never had a problem with third party memory for any computer, but I usually buy from crucial.com because they have everything and know what everything needs. -- rec -- On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote: > Does anyone have any experience with Other World Computin

Re: [FRIAM] MacBook Memory

On, and their 8Gbyte kit for my Lenovo i7 is $49.99. -- rec -- On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > I've never had a problem with third party memory for any computer, but I > usually buy from crucial.com because they have everything and know what > ev

Re: [FRIAM] passwords, again

If you can't remember where all your accounts are, why bother to have memorable passwords for them? There was a consolidated stolen password file going around at some point in the last year -- that or a clever password harvester -- you type your password into a web page and it tells you if the pas

Re: [FRIAM] Massive, Indifferent, Brooding Silence

The interface to the bog standard LCD display can use either 8 or 4 bits parallel, which only changes the number of outs you need to do to fill the line buffer, which has an 8 bit byte for each character The 8 bit character ROM often has fascinating character sets in the high half depending on wh

Re: [FRIAM] Massive, Indifferent, Brooding Silence

keeps me on FRIAM. > > --Doug > > > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > >> The interface to the bog standard LCD display can use either 8 or 4 bits >> parallel, which only changes the number of outs you need to do to fill the >> line buffer

Re: [FRIAM] Two (and more) Cultures

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Steve Smith wrote: > > > Bruce's experience supporting a relatively small but significant toolset > for a broad audience is also valid. The broadest audience for his type of > work is naturally the largest installed base (Windows by a factor of 4?). > I take him

Re: [FRIAM] E-reading device

I do some reading on a lenovo convertible tablet, but it is really too heavy to hold in my hands. It is big enough for journal pdfs, but if the chart does not fit, too bad, scrolling is no substitute for unfolding. I do most reading on my phone. My daughter is starting to carry books on her phon

Re: [FRIAM] E-reading device

The page interface is a pain. When I lose my place in a fat ebook, it is very hard to find it again. I think they need to keep an infinite stack of bookmarks for each page visited, so I can scroll back and forth through my history. That would let me find my place after accidentally scrolling a ~

Re: [FRIAM] Wow. 6 whole days without a Nexus 4 post.

Doug -- So your complaint at this point, now that you've rooted and installed a custom ROM, is that the phone can't do WiFi and Bluetooth at the same time? WiFi and Bluetooth both use the same frequencies (2.1 GHz unregulated band) and I've seen specs where they're implemented in the same radio,

Re: [FRIAM] Wow. 6 whole days without a Nexus 4 post.

Now that I think on it some more, there's really no reason that a radio should not be able to receive and transmit WiFi and Bluetooth at the same time. It's a little trickier than doing one at a time, but the tricks are in the software, or in the DSP hardware part of the radio. There are a whole

Re: [FRIAM] pentalobe screwdriver?

I have a 60 bit mini screw driver set, I'll bring it to 2nd st tomorrow. -- rec -- On Mar 5, 2013 5:28 PM, "Joshua Thorp" wrote: > Anyone in Santa Fe have a pentalobe screwdriver for the mac book air? > > I think I need to do some surgery on mine, and I'm stuck at the first > step… > > --joshua

Re: [FRIAM] The Professors' Big Stage

I had roughly equal numbers of lectures and tutorial sessions at Reed for two years, almost entirely tutorials from then on. Math was entirely taught in tutorial sessions. All tutorials were led by professors or advanced undergraduates. All lecture courses had a tutorial component. Most of the

Re: [FRIAM] The Professors’ Big Stage

Here's the MIT News version of the conference Friedman attended, http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/edx-summit-0306.html, via ACM TechNews. -- rec -- On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Barry MacKichan < barry.mackic...@mackichan.com> wrote: > … Coming in at the tail of this (I have my mail progra

Re: [FRIAM] Friam Mail Llatency (Warning technical)

ts within the time stamps, some of which >> may point to problems (friam bounces for example and possible >> spam/authentication notations), but for now I'm only interested to see >> if other folks see delays in the outgoing hostgo server. If so we can >> submit a hostg

Re: [FRIAM] Google Reader and More: Google Abandoning of Apps/Services

Funny. Going back to Hamming's lectures, again, in one of the early ones he lays out the case that scientific knowledge is growing exponentially, that most scientific researchers who ever lived are alive now, and that keeping current is "a very awkward problem" both personally and institutionally.

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: Fwd: You just went to the Google homepage. What actually happened?

Yeah, wood is great, except almost everywhere that depended on it ended up with none within wood gathering radius. The story is if you look at early photos of Santa Fe, the hills seem strangely denuded compared to the present. -- rec -- On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Parks, Raymond wrote: >

Re: [FRIAM] Google Voice

The free US long distance service associated with Google Voice is a "bonus feature" that's been extended each year, but could go to a paid model any year now. -- rec -- On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > One could argue that Google Voice has become a core service, like e

[FRIAM] beyond reductionism twice

http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.5684 Stu Kauffman on the varieties of laws and entailments. -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listi

Re: [FRIAM] Google Reader and More: Google Abandoning of Apps/Services

I think the Yahoo purchase of Summly and hire of it's 17 year old owner came across as a distinctly google-reader aspected acquisition. -- rec -- On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > We're not the only ones interested: > > http://www.somebits.com/weblog/culture/preparing-for

Re: [FRIAM] Redfish presentation at SFI yesterday

Must be a slow news day. The story made the front page of the Albuquerque Journal North today, too. Congratulations. -- rec -- On 8/19/06, Owen Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cool! > > It was really delightful to have Tom Cova, Redfish/FRIAM, SFI, the > Santa Fe Police, Fire, and City C

Re: [FRIAM] Whitespace

My $0.02 is that it should be irrelevant, the language should be stored as an Abstract Syntax Tree and pretty printed into whatever whitespace decorated format the current programmer finds most interpretible, perhaps borrowing some formatting quirks from the principal author of the code as an ident

Re: [FRIAM] R tutorial for idiots.

Nick --Try this one:http://www.cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Verzani-SimpleR.pdf-- rec -- On 9/17/06, Nicholas Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Robert,This URL came up empty for me.www.cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/*Verzani*-*SimpleR*.pdfAny thoughts nick ==

Re: [FRIAM] Desktop & Laptop Coordination

unison has always been good to me when synchronizing between Windows and Linux, http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/, and I see it's available for OSX, too.  But the problem is always getting a bit tired of waiting for the synchronization to complete when I'm in a hurry, so I don't do it.  I'

[FRIAM] Moons calendar in javascript and svg

I've just finished reprogramming a lunar calendar that was my first big programming project as an undergraduate back in the 70's. Back then it was FORTRAN on punched cards driving a Calcomp drum plotter. The new version (http://elf.org/moons) is programmed in javascript and produces an SVG graphic

Re: [FRIAM] Moons calendar in javascript and svg

TECTED]> wrote: > that's awesome! > > can SVG be animated dependably in JavaScript with that kind of sophistication? > > On 10/30/06, Roger Critchlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've just finished reprogramming a lunar calendar that was my first > >

Re: [FRIAM] Moons calendar in javascript and svg

ROTECTED]> wrote: > Not in the sense of an actual continuation? > > On 10/30/06, Roger Critchlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, there's a whole chunk of the SVG spec devoted to animation > > without any scripting at all. I haven't gotten into that yet. &

Re: [FRIAM] for things that work backwards, think backwards!

On the subject of critical mass, you should look at John Miller's articles about standing ovations. It's a lovely simple model of growth of something from a smattering of individual responses into a mass behavior. -- rec -- On 11/1/06, Phil Henshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As I began to

Re: [FRIAM] (no subject)

The discovery channel, http://discoverychannel.ca/mercury, is reported to be planning a live telecast. -- rec -- On 11/7/06, Nicholas Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > Does anybody know where we can get a live feed of Mercury transiting the > sun, this weds. > > Nick > Nicholas S. Th

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