Re: [FRIAM] Political tangents

f 'capitalist democracy' into an oxymoron." On 01/03/2017 10:25 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > I was following you with the blood, but if they need fresh minds and, due to > their sabotage of the health care act, they get widespread microcephaly (say) > from their pool o

Re: [FRIAM] What should we do?

"The early stages of this make me think of cancers. The reason they are so difficult to deal with is that, for the most part, the cell populations are not completely disintegrated and non-functional. Most of their systems still function very robustly, which seems to be the cause of different

Re: [FRIAM] Political tangents

y need the human commodity while they're young (for blood or labor). To people like Thiel, old people who haven't established their ongoing worth to society need to be mitigated and dealt with as efficiently as possible. On January 2, 2017 10:47:42 AM PST, Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.c

Re: [FRIAM] What should we do?

Eric writes: "I wish there were still many Indians alive who had experienced living through the (Mohandas) Gandhi years. What was it like to coordinate hundreds of millions of people so that, when the institutions were getting unwanted control signals, they could, in a widely distributed

Re: [FRIAM] Political tangents

w more Aaronsons and Harris'. And you can't (yet) do that with herds of robots. On 01/03/2017 09:35 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > As a technologist, I object to the crudeness of the strategy. If the blood > thing really works, figure out why and engineer an resource efficient > alternative tr

Re: [FRIAM] Trump, truth, and politics: Why do we still think Trump is acting with respect to the truth?

y more important issues that could be covered by the news. --- Eric P. Charles, Ph.D. Supervisory Survey Statistician U.S. Marine Corps On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 12:21 PM, Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com<mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: “Even if the intelligence c

Re: [FRIAM] Trump, truth, and politics: Why do we still think Trump is acting with respect to the truth?

Eric writes: “Are we really going to get four years of the media trying to treat everything Trumps says as if it is a factual claim he deeply believes?” It is relevant if his supporters believe his actions come from core values that are in line with theirs. Is his drama `hyperbole truth’

Re: [FRIAM] scraping a web site

Once you’ve got all the files (like below) Microsoft Word can import HTML files. Editors designed to HTML editing (e.g. Kompozer) will often have a “Open from web” option such that you can just type the URL. If you really want systematic scraping, look at libraries like Beautifulsoup

Re: [FRIAM] Hope or Despair

Which decisions, exactly? From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2017 10:09 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Hope or Despair All those who were outside the set of

Re: [FRIAM] Hope or Despair

“The only solution to the problem of fake news that neither misdiagnoses the problem nor overpowers the elites is to completely rethink the fundamentals of digital capitalism. We need to make online advertising – and its destructive click-and-share drive – less central to how we live, work and

Re: [FRIAM] Hope or Despair

Owen writes: "Any threatened Rape and Pillage will likely just cause another economic implosion which we survived pretty well." For certain definitions of "we". In that spirit, let's return to the chemotherapy example, or consider fluctuations in deer population as a function of hunting

Re: [FRIAM] What do we do Now?

From a population perspective, inequality in education isn’t necessarily bad if what is really happening is that entropy of skill sets is maximized. (For one thing, it presumes that there are experts in every crevice and nuance of expertise, and that those individuals would rather be teachers

Re: [FRIAM] Political tangents

If the Affordable Care Act is repealed, then perhaps the demographics that tend to have big families will be afraid to have children due to Zika as they won't be able to afford the vaccine? And in turn their voting base will collapse? Exciting biology research funding opportunities by

Re: [FRIAM] What should we do?

When people like this start shifting gears in such a self-serving way, it is not a good sign.

Re: [FRIAM] What should we do?

Nick writes: "Because part of what I was looking for from this inquiry was somebody to FOLLOW in the next four years. But is that avoidable. Isn't concerted action what we will need?" Systems that involve having somebody to follow are systems that can be surveilled and controlled. If

Re: [FRIAM] Trump, truth, and politics: Why do we still think Trump is acting with respect to the truth?

Well, I wasn’t talking about Putin. I’m talking about Thiel’s remark: "[..] our education culminates with the knowledge that the broader education of the body politic has become a fool’s errand." Whether Trump is really legitimate (in a deep way) or not isn’t just a question of undisturbed

Re: [FRIAM] Trump, truth, and politics: Why do we still think Trump is acting with respect to the truth?

“Even if the intelligence community had iron clad proof, that everyone could understand and believe beyond a reasonable doubt (which they don't), it would only heighten questions about the legitimacy of Trump's win. At this point, that wouldn't be a win for Trump, or the country.” For some

Re: [FRIAM] scraping a web site

https://ipfs.io/, https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs<https://ipfs.io/,%20https:/github.com/ipfs/ipfs>>. But I'm just too lazy. For the record, I told Nick I'll host it until he figures out what he wants to do long-term. On 01/04/2017 12:33 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Glen, is this like a `

Re: [FRIAM] scraping a web site

Glen, is this like a `free’ signup to Hulu, right? Cancel now, or expect an invoice? From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Nick Thompson Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2017 11:05 AM To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' Subject: Re:

Re: [FRIAM] HyperFace

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1872497314001732 -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ? Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2017 1:50 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: [FRIAM]

Re: [FRIAM] HyperFace

<friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] HyperFace Very nice. Now when you go to update your Facebook profile picture, a little needle will pop out of your phone to prick your finger, sequence the dna, run the algorithm, and update with your predicted face! On 01/04/2017 12:58 PM,

Re: [FRIAM] What do we do Now?

Alfredo writes: “He has already achieved a lose of confidence and respectful from the «friendly world» with respect to USA, and I am sure it is a factor when people make consume decisions (my next pair of shoes will not be wolverine brand).” Yes, Bremmer neglected to mention “4 – Laughing Stock

Re: [FRIAM] The year ahead

Gary writes: “From the standpoint of this on-the-fence liberal, it would be nice to have the luxury to be able to see the "other side" as being evil, so that I wouldn't care how they feel. The problem for me is that I can't, since many of the people I grew up with, including nearly all of my

Re: [FRIAM] What should we do?

ganizations like alt-right which grow extremely fast. -Jochen ---- Original message From: Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com> Date: 1/5/17 20:18 (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] What s

Re: [FRIAM] Truth vs. Social Justice on college campuses

rophes in order to find a more global optimum. But just because that's reasonable, doesn't mean it's inevitable. On 12/06/2016 06:51 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > If we assume that there will be a distribution of productivities for each > person adding to the group, how does the

[FRIAM] re-use achieved!

http://www.spacex.com/webcast FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/

Re: [FRIAM] Dumb Experiment

Alexa isn’t much of assistant, but I am impressed with the new Fire TV stick. Pretty much all premium content is available now through apps, and even DirecTV itself, and most other stuff is free with Amazon Prime. Does anyone in the Santa Fe area use fixed wireless internet (e.g. NMsurf)?

Re: [FRIAM] Dumb Experiment

Steve writes: "I had to prune some trees and mount my antenna 30 feet from my house (on an adobe wall) to get a good shot, their installation techs were typically under-informed but *did* have a good process that worked in spite of their limited model of how their own gear worked (or not)."

Re: [FRIAM] !RE: A million tech jobs unfilled

Eric writes: “Polymaths would presumably be more crucial to a personnel-strapped organization.” I’d discriminate between polymaths and generalists. Generalists are able to move from field to field and contribute in significant ways. Polymaths don’t need to specialize because they just don’t

Re: [FRIAM] organizations

Roger writes: “I don't get it, is it detailed technical planning or dog fighting? Or some kind of mixed martial art?” Imagine you work in team made of up of unmotivated, uninterested or untalented individuals. Assume it is impossible to fire or move them out of the way. They mainly want

Re: [FRIAM] organizations

“It's fun, too, to wander around github figuring out who 18F is, what they do, and why they might make an issue of how they want to work together with each other and their clients.” Heh. I think a bot generated their pages from a dictionary of agile-speak. Marcus

Re: [FRIAM] organizations

scrum. (Life is usually going to give you lemmings.) -- rec -- On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 12:11 AM, Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com<mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: “It's fun, too, to wander around github figuring out who 18F is, what they do, and why they might make an issu

Re: [FRIAM] !RE: A million tech jobs unfilled

in sociological group formation?" How do/can we customize corporations to better suit our needs and abilities; even more particularly, how do we move away from buzzword matching and ham-handed HR departments? On 03/15/2017 11:08 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > If you accept the assumption

Re: [FRIAM] !RE: A million tech jobs unfilled

Steve writes: "Following your own principle (if I understand you correctly) of diversity, every organization needs a few polymaths, but too many and it is likely to lose coherence?" Polymaths attract people that want to be better and do good work. These people and those that work with them

Re: [FRIAM] organizations

complicated than necessary. So you organize as a team of lemmings and crowd source the design to death. When life gives you lemmings, scrum. (Life is usually going to give you lemmings.) -- rec -- On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 12:11 AM, Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com<mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.

Re: [FRIAM] organizations

“For ordinary people, with ordinary management, attempting to complete an ordinary software project, let them scrum and they'll do better than they will with an ordinary tyrant micromanaging the project.” It all sounds pretty ordinary. “If you have a heroic software problem and a budget

Re: [FRIAM] organizations

“At some point I saw a skunk about 50 feet in front of me. If I had had a rifle I'd have made a hasty retreat. But instead I aimed carefully and dispatched the skunk. The last days of the wild west.” I once had a hot tub which I used mostly to lower my blood pressure after day (after day)

Re: [FRIAM] !RE: A million tech jobs unfilled

Glen writes: "In the context of this discussion, it strikes me that it might be possible to build a company that is better at bureaucracy than individual humans." If you accept the assumption that the other stuff (e.g. bureaucracy) mostly serves the organization's stated mission, then ok.

Re: [FRIAM] !RE: A million tech jobs unfilled

One thing I'm struck by is how willing some people are to be tasked by relatively ignorant or ineffectual people. My guess is that filtering on GPA optimizes for this. As far as I can tell, the tasked individuals don't perceive that the tasking is getting in the way of their ability to

Re: [FRIAM] !RE: A million tech jobs unfilled

03:39 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > One thing I'm struck by is how willing some people are to be tasked by > relatively ignorant or ineffectual people. My guess is that filtering on > GPA optimizes for this. As far as I can tell, the tasked individuals don't > perceive that the

Re: [FRIAM] !RE: A million tech jobs unfilled

Why would a mindless organization be better than a set of minds that know and care about the domain? I don't have a problem with another constituent that knows about organizational psychology, but that sort of person is not sufficient. -Original Message- From: Friam

Re: [FRIAM] How I made my own VPN server in 15 minutes | TechCrunch

Glen writes: < You don't want others _gaming_ you by using your stuff without your permission and you want to feel like you're a self-made person, so you don't game others by using their stuff. > I figured it was just a habit to purchase a service rather than to participate in the collective,

Re: [FRIAM] How I made my own VPN server in 15 minutes | TechCrunch

"Heh, like a functionally useless act of war without congressional approval" It distances him from Putin, so it is useful to him. And the babies, don't forget about the babies! (Although it was fine was they were washing up on the shore.) Marcus

Re: [FRIAM] How I made my own VPN server in 15 minutes | TechCrunch

ic gadgets highlight that our habitualized infrastructure usage isn't always obvious. On 04/10/2017 11:30 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > I figured it was just a habit to purchase a service rather than to > participate in the collective, or a lack of awareness, or a failure

Re: [FRIAM] How I made my own VPN server in 15 minutes | TechCrunch

Glen writes: < It's pretty exciting/terrifying to imagine "data scientists" being involved in whether or not Trump will remain president ... > As much as I like to see O'Reilly suffer, it is annoying how advertisers turn to social media consultants (and data science) to quantify the anger

Re: [FRIAM] How to install Windows on an external drive | TechConnect

USB 3.1 is really annoying in some ways. For large drives with USB C connectors, adapter cables don’t work, and even those USB 3.1 host adapters (PCI cards) may not work if they have USB-A outputs instead of USB-C. New laptops that have USB-C natively should be ok, and when it works it is

Re: [FRIAM] server problem?

I think you can also lower the resolution to get it through.. From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Frank Wimberly Sent: Friday, March 31, 2017 2:57 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] server problem? I just

Re: [FRIAM] The Photo

Need a Friam-cam like with April the pregnant giraffe. To watch the congregation in their native environment.. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 31, 2017, at 9:57 PM, Frank Wimberly > wrote: Some kind of self selection at work, I think. Frank

Re: [FRIAM] How I made my own VPN server in 15 minutes | TechCrunch

ht up through the counting and shouting that went on through January. We are too often the dreaded "sheeple". Baaahh! On 4/11/17 4:49 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Steve writes: > > < They are popular *because* they are loudmouth jerks with no obvious > t

Re: [FRIAM] How I made my own VPN server in 15 minutes | TechCrunch

Steve writes: < They are popular *because* they are loudmouth jerks with no obvious true moral compass (is that what you mean by scumbag?). > There is a benefit when people that have examined their lives and the world around them lead those that are unable or unwilling to do the same.

Re: [FRIAM] How I made my own VPN server in 15 minutes | TechCrunch

I suggest using Tor. https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en [https://www.torproject.org/images/tor-logo.jpg] Tor Project: Overview www.torproject.org Overview. The Tor network is a

Re: [FRIAM] How I made my own VPN server in 15 minutes | TechCrunch

Glen write: < More on topic, it's these signals, these symbols, like which sites to which you encrypt your visits or UDP vs TCP that tell us everything we need to know about you. > I guess if "everything we need to know" is that social behavior measurable over narrow windows of time. If, as

Re: [FRIAM] How I made my own VPN server in 15 minutes | TechCrunch

"But I claim the information is there for anyone who lives a significant portion of their life online." Hmm, well, there are millions of employees of corporations or the government that never reveal anything significant with regard to their non-disclosure agreements. Marcus

Re: [FRIAM] How I made my own VPN server in 15 minutes | TechCrunch

"Simulating a sequential process with multiple parallel processes is hard." The Donald does it all the time. You just have to relax the coherency requirement. Marcus FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at

Re: [FRIAM] How I made my own VPN server in 15 minutes | TechCrunch

"My claim was that it tells us everything we _need_ to know about you." That I'm a likely person to pay two bucks to watch episode-by-episode of Expanse?Or to want a Tesla? Not sure who "we" is? Marcus FRIAM Applied Complexity

Re: [FRIAM] How I made my own VPN server in 15 minutes | TechCrunch

" I suspect 99% of the targeted ads can be avoided with a slow (yearly?, quarterly?) cycle of temporary VPNs running in the cloud (ephemeral IP addresses). Perhaps 90% of it can be avoided just by using HTTPS-Everywhere. " The problem with ongoing privacy measures is that it means going from

Re: [FRIAM] How I made my own VPN server in 15 minutes | TechCrunch

"A profile of an employee deep in the throes of their professional work will tend to capture their profession, not their humanity." If you posit there does exist this humanity as distinct from the organization (but this not clear to me in general), then it is reasonable to think there exists

Re: [FRIAM] the arc of socioeconomics, personal and public: was VPN server

Heh, it amuses and frustrates me the pressure to publish when one could instead do something useful like develop and share code. Those "mental models" scribbled down on paper obviously have less value than tools to solve the general problem (i.e. working through all the boring but necessary

Re: [FRIAM] !RE: A million tech jobs unfilled

Being fit enough to be a soldier isn’t a problem. It’s that at some point we wise-up and stop fighting dumb battles for unworthy causes. I’m a far better programmer now than when I was 20.. This not to say that there aren’t 20 year-olds who are still far better -- just that those folks will

[FRIAM] FW: Partial WebAssembly backend

-Original Message- From: binutils-ow...@sourceware.org [mailto:binutils-ow...@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of Pip Cet Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2017 9:30 AM To: binut...@sourceware.org Subject: Partial WebAssembly backend I'd like to announce a WebAssembly backend for the GNU toolchain

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Partial WebAssembly backend

“The issue is getting the standard libraries converted. C/C++ are go, as I understand it. I think Fortran too!” PGI is supposedly targeting their Fortran compiler to LLVM but it still seems to be slideware. The github address in their slides is from back in November and either it was never

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Partial WebAssembly backend

etting the standard libraries converted. C/C++ are go, as I understand it. I think Fortran too! -- Owen On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 9:40 AM, Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com<mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: -Original Message- From: binutils-ow...@sourceware.org&

Re: [FRIAM] Blockchain Questions

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bitcoin-could-consume-as-much-electricity-as-denmark-by-2020 From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Prof David West Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 2:17 PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Blockchain Questions there is no

Re: [FRIAM] Blockchain Questions

There are large mining facilities in central Washington and Tibet and elsewhere that would have an energy budget like a Facebook facility or supercomputing center. Because mining gets more competitive in time, the power budgets keep going up. For example, running five modern bitcoin miners

Re: [FRIAM] A million tech jobs unfilled

>> I got along well with them in general but one of the young women was >> constantly saying, "What the f*** is this s***?". I have zero patience for this. As if something that is unfamiliar or unexpected is at fault for it.If it were just 'done right' the meaning would be clear to

Re: [FRIAM] A million tech jobs unfilled

Owen writes: “When I was hired breadth of knowledge, and ability to adapt was key. Now it's sorta a form of impatience. I suppose it is because technology has matured so much that you *can* search for more specific skills?” IMO that impatience is a lack of interest in the work itself. How do

Re: [FRIAM] re-use achieved!

fish.com> on behalf of Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 8:20:31 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] re-use achieved! Wow. Just Wow. First second flight. Ever. EVER! On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 4:40 PM, Marcus Da

Re: [FRIAM] New York may require Uber to provide an option to leave a tip | The Economist

Owen writes: “I haven't used Uber yet so not sure how problematic this is. Tipping is often awkward due to ATM's giving out $20s, more than a tip would be. OTOH, drivers might prefer cash to a digital tip to avoid taxes.” Bitcoin? Marcus

Re: [FRIAM] the arc of socioeconomics, personal and public: was VPN server

Vladimyr writes: "If the referents are robustly entrenched in formalism then likely so are the artifacts." I work on source-to-source compilers. There's no real-world referent. Just transformations between representations. Marcus

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Support

Glen writes: " I posit the tendency to trust Trump will correlate with the tendency to prefer oversimplification. [‡] But the same would apply to any chant you might hear at a liberal march/rally. Anyone who enjoys those stupid chants is enjoying oversimplification." People talk about

Re: [FRIAM] the Skeptical Meme

Eric writes: < It is not so far from Nietzche’s notion that “God is dead” creates a problem for people, and they will face a fork in the road in how they try to deal with it. > Yeah, it is probably nothing new that is happening nor a new interpretation. Institutions of various kinds can

Re: [FRIAM] Classes, Complexity, and Functional Programming – Kent C. Dodds – Medium

It is really not a big change from classes. If you already have objects, often all you have to change is that you return them. Object-oriented languages implicitly have the notion of the object as a first argument, so you've got a container to work with. The job of higher level code is to

Re: [FRIAM] Classes, Complexity, and Functional Programming – Kent C. Dodds – Medium

"I conceptually like the ideas behind it, but it takes immutability to more of an extreme than I feel is necessary (e.g. unless you use its software transactional memory constructs, there is no way to re-bind a local variable)." In Haskell, if this is needed, one uses the State Monad.

Re: [FRIAM] The apocalypse

"I suppose firing 4 rockets to land in NK waters? Or sending 4 drones to hover over NK? Shooting down the NK rockets would be risky, showing our hand as to effective antimissile capabilities." The best thing would be to have people in charge that don't freak out at the slightest provocation.

Re: [FRIAM] Classes, Complexity, and Functional Programming – Kent C. Dodds – Medium

ent C. Dodds – Medium On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com<mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: "I know, I know, functional programming is as fun as hitting your head with a brick." It is fun! ​That's great to hear, too much is NOT fun in prog

Re: [FRIAM] Classes, Complexity, and Functional Programming – Kent C. Dodds – Medium

"I know, I know, functional programming is as fun as hitting your head with a brick." It is fun! "It is a bit scary letting go of "central control" Classes provide, very human. I mean, who's *boss*?" The caller is the boss. With FP you know that arguments are all read-only. This gives

Re: [FRIAM] Solar Eclipse!

There's an iPhone app for that, but here's a map. About 3/4 eclipse in Santa Fe. https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/NASA_map_508.pdf From: Friam on behalf of Gillian Densmore

Re: [FRIAM] random v stochastic v indeterminate

convex or even connected. So, (point) mutation alone > may *never* reach some regions, regardless of infinite individuals, infinite > generations, or infinite space and time. > > On 08/12/2017 09:07 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: >> "Can we truly say that the crossover had nothi

Re: [FRIAM] random v stochastic v indeterminate

Glen writes: "Can we truly say that the crossover had nothing to do with the "innovation" ... that it only preserved the innovation and the mutation caused it? A neutral mutation can't be considered an "innovation", right?" A function related by rotation might be a candidate for crossover.

Re: [FRIAM] random v stochastic v indeterminate

ay *never* reach some regions, regardless of infinite individuals, infinite generations, or infinite space and time. On 08/12/2017 09:07 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > "Can we truly say that the crossover had nothing to do with the "innovation" > ... that it only preserved the inno

Re: [FRIAM] the Skeptical Meme

Glen writes: "It took a really long time, which is one of my reasons for rejecting memetics. If ideas were real, then they could change instantaneously." Every day I form hypotheses about how I think this or that experiment or code modification will go, and often I have to confront contrary

Re: [FRIAM] random v stochastic v indeterminate

"To explain why I hate it so much, we can try to think deeply about the nazi that killed the antifa yesterday in Charlottesville and Trump's response to it (blaming all sides)." This side must have been terribly

Re: [FRIAM] the Skeptical Meme

n behalf of gepr ⛧ <geprope...@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2017 9:35:50 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] the Skeptical Meme On August 13, 2017 4:39:47 PM PDT, Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com> wrote: > >Every day I

Re: [FRIAM] the Skeptical Meme

Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] the Skeptical Meme On August 13, 2017 4:39:47 PM PDT, Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com> wrote: > >Every day I form hypotheses about how I think this or that experiment >or code modification will go, and often I have to confront contrary >evidence.

Re: [FRIAM] the Skeptical Meme

...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2017 9:18:36 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] the Skeptical Meme On August 13, 2017 11:38:07 PM PDT, Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com> wrote: > >I suspect neural correlates rapidly calibrate

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Re: the Skeptical Meme

ubject: Re: [FRIAM] the Skeptical Meme Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 09:24:17 -0700 From: gⅼеɳ <geprope...@gmail.com> To: Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com> Just to be clear, I don't disagree with some abstraction of "point mutations" on some thing other than a "meme",

Re: [FRIAM] the Skeptical Meme

https://buy.taser.com/taser-bolt/ Roger writes: < The strangest thing I saw today was this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnXBeQwmmrc > http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/08/what_the_alt_left_was_actually_doing_in_charlottesville.html Never thought I'd

Re: [FRIAM] The apocalypse

stuf. On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com<mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: "I suppose firing 4 rockets to land in NK waters? Or sending 4 drones to hover over NK? Shooting down the NK rockets would be risky, showing our hand as to effectiv

Re: [FRIAM] Five Predictions as Cities Learn to Address Wireless Health Risks

With regard to visualizing Wifi fields.. https://jasmcole.com/2014/08/25/helmhurts/ From: Friam on behalf of Tom Johnson Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 2:21:19 PM To: Friam@redfish. com; Steve Ross; George

Re: [FRIAM] Santa Fe's Sugar Tax

< This is, I think, different from the "best of all possible world"... It's more like a rejection of a stable landscape. > I'm sure they'd like that hypothesis once it was explained to them by a leader with a 4th grade vocabulary. (And someone explained it to him.) For people that can't pay

Re: [FRIAM] the arc of socioeconomics, personal and public: was VPN server

"So when the student part of the brain is learning how to sing a song, the tutor part has to tell it whether the song it produced was good or bad and give instructions on how to improve." Like the remarkable generative adversarial networks..

[FRIAM] bah!

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/04/preemies-floating-in-fluid-filled-bags/524181/ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe

Re: [FRIAM] bah!

04/25/2017 09:37 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/04/preemies-floating-i > n-fluid-filled-bags/524181/ Very cool! Being a bastard (http://bastards.org/), myself, I can't help but be jealous of the children of

Re: [FRIAM] bah!

/45505/title/Opinion--A-Mother-s-Microbes/ It'll be simpler to choose before you leave the bag: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/11/opinion/gut-hack.html On 04/26/2017 07:05 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Perhaps the pro-lifer's could pay mothers of unwanted pregnancies to transfer > their work

Re: [FRIAM] bah!

ource formats. The rest of us will hatch > from DIYBio hacked pods in our grand parents' basements or burned-out > warehouses, managed by Raspberry Pis and android. > >> On 04/26/2017 08:02 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: >> I imagine an iPhone app to tune the microbiome e

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I think it is very likely that there will soon be technologies like `neural lace', artificial intelligence, and biotech that can change the balance of power in fundamental ways. One might argue it has already happened, and the latest whitelash was just the last gasp of an obsolete part of our

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Steve writes: < In the example at hand of the Sugar Tax, we have already become unhealthy, obese (well some of us) refined-sugar addicts partly because our genome evolved to be greedy for rich sources of energy and partly because we evolved a consumerist economy which seeks to exploit any and

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I'm suggesting that if the whitelash voters opted to use hypothetical technologies that improved their information processing abilities (neural lace, gene therapy, advanced drugs), they would come to realize they were just pawns in a cynical game of some boring oligarchs and they'd move on to

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Steve writes: "Who are we becoming?" In spite of the Steve Bannon's of the world, whatever the hell we want. Marcus FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe

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< What makes you think the "Whitelash" contingent won't be early adopters (too)? > I hope they will. Give them the ability to participate in a more sophisticated economy. Marcus FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets

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