Re: [FRIAM] Open AI

This Washington Post article brings up some interesting issues. For instance, I didn't know that Altman considered Thiel a mentor. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/22/sam-altman-fired-y-combinator-paul-graham/ -- rec -- On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 6:38 AM Pietro Terna wrote: >

Re: [FRIAM] Off the wall question about turbulence

Seems to me that if the design of household drains was sensitive to turbulence, someone would have figured out how to fix it in the 19th century. -- rec -- -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Caf

Re: [FRIAM] Working for the Military Institute of Technology Causes Cognitive Dissonance

On the subject of cognitive dissonance, and working for large research institutions https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/ai-priority-disputes.html in which Jürgen Schmidhuber complains that LeCun, Bengio, and Hinton claim to have invented modern AI when they were actually mostly reinventing, impro

Re: [FRIAM] Working for the Military Institute of Technology Causes Cognitive Dissonance

I see I missed this on HackerNews yesterday, the comments cover a range of positions. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38642651 -- rec -- On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 12:48 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > On the subject of cognitive dissonance, and working for large research > instit

Re: [FRIAM] The last Lighthouse Keeper in America

On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 8:51 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > [...] > > Really hoping the machines can take over soon. > > > I just yesterday finished rereading all the Iain M Banks "Culture" novels in the Boston Public Library e-collection, seven between Halloween and Christmas. The "Culture" is a sp

Re: [FRIAM] Slow AI

Das Kapital is our most successful experiment in artificial life, but it's still feral and no one has the least clue how to domesticate it, and the grey goo we're constructing is a mass of collateralized debt instruments. -- rec -- On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 11:03 AM Steve Smith wrote: > > https:

Re: [FRIAM] Slow AI

From: Roger Critchlow Date: Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:10 AM Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Next Dictator To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group I keep thinking that the next big dictator isn't new. Das Kapital is an artificial life form which by a process of natural selection pu

[FRIAM] Teach a quadrotor to fly with 18 seconds of simulation on a MacBook Pro

This article probably deserves more critical attention than I've given it, but it's published in IEEE Spectrum: https://spectrum.ieee.org/drone-quadrotor they have videos on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRD43ZA1D-4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYtPG_HmBd8 source code o

Re: [FRIAM] The problems of interdisciplinary research

Yeah, it seems like the premise of the cartoon, or maybe Jochen's interpretation, was that people have limited scopes of application, and the average scope of application doesn't include interdisciplinary research. But there are people who have larger scope and have a lot of fun doing interdiscipli

Re: [FRIAM] The lies of Trump and ecDNA

I went looking for depressing news in 1924, you know, lying politicians and cancerous social movements: April 1 - Adolf Hitler is sentenced to 5 years in Landsberg Prison

Re: [FRIAM] Sleep trackers

I wore the cheapest fitness tracker I could find on Amazon, an Amazfit, for a while. It believed it could distinguish all the phases of my sleep and give me a colorful chart of my night every morning. The charts appeared reasonable but there was never anything I could do about it, the tracker's o

Re: [FRIAM] the inequities of uniquity

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/ Twenty years of Not Even Wrong, an anniversary blog post. -- rec -- On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 8:48 AM glen wrote: > [...] > And "unusual" is even worse. Both tokens require one to describe the > context, domain, or universe within which the discussi

Re: [FRIAM] death by ubiquity

but the "dark side" of the moon is sunlit for half of every month? On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 11:33 AM glen wrote: > Bandwidth might be a problem. But the dark side of the moon seems like an > option ... assuming you can negotiate with the aliens that live over there. > The best thing about coral i

Re: [FRIAM] Meeting Location

Hey, I just got dropped off at downtown sub, anyone give me a ride? --rec-- On Fri, Mar 29, 2024, 9:07 AM Frank Wimberly wrote: > Everything is open but it's the way into the building is different. Walk > clockwise around all the cyclone fencing. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Fe

[FRIAM] A hundred words for swindle

Talking with John Zingale at Friam about conniving chatbots, I remembered this essay from 2009, https://elf.org/etc/swindle.html, which starts from real estate speculators in early US history and gets to the deplorable state of the internet. -- rec -- -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ..

Re: [FRIAM] A hundred words for swindle

The web apps were originally done while I was in Boston, I like the idea of web pages which can be downloaded and installed on your phone, or tablet, or laptop to provide entertainment while trapped in airplane mode. change.elf.org - the iching in multiple translations which install lazily, once

[FRIAM] Entropy, irreversibility and inference at the foundations of statistical physics

My google news feed is generally infuriating, but then it redeems itself by finding something like this: Jonathan Asher Pachter, Ying-Jen Yang, and Ken A. Dill, https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-024-00720-5, in Nature Reviews Physics. Statistical physics relates the properties of macroscale

[FRIAM] new math of complexity

Speaking of emergence, any takes on Phillip Ball's article in Quanta? https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-new-math-of-how-large-scale-order-emerges-20240610/ I really liked his summary of the current non-explanations for emergence, but I haven't had time to read further. -- rec -- -. --- - / ...-

Re: [FRIAM] new math of complexity

ch of a president or party leader or > priest has bigger consequences or not? It is at least as complicated as > calculating a path integral in Quantum Field Theory. > > > What might be possible is to calculate a probability how a group behavior > changes depending how frequent a rule is

[FRIAM] new directions at the michael levin lab

Interesting post on hackernews today. Michael Levin is arguing that a video puzzle game, Baba Is You (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Is_You or https://hempuli.com/baba/), is good preparation for working in his lab. What’s cool about this puzzle game (besides the fact that it’s challenging > a

Re: [FRIAM] new directions at the michael levin lab

ginally relevant as most of what my parents/grandparents >> tried to pack me up were both sage and ill-advised at the same time... >> >> I'll be passing this down a generation or two... >> >> >> >> On 6/16/24 9:35 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: >> >&

Re: [FRIAM] Haboob in southern NM / Mexico

We had a couple of power glitches, a high wind warning, and a severe storm warning all between 6 and 7 pm. The sky went apocalyptic for a while. The clouds had been massing east of the Organs earlier. No haboob warning, but the high wind warning was pushed to SMS and included the usual cautions

Re: [FRIAM] New Mexican's Sunday's story on education proficiency

This was kind of enlightening, too, on hackernews yesterday, in the vein of 'Dude, what happened to liberalism?' https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/the-marketplace-of-misleading-ideas >From a marketplace of ideas to a marketplace of rationalizations is such a small shift, like one of those

Re: [FRIAM] New Mexican's Sunday's story on education proficiency

The Murky Pond - I think that's the correct pragmatist metaphor for the world and our lives in it. My mother's parents owned a farm on the eastern shore of Maryland, a traditional summer retreat from DC or NYC. The farm, Leecote, had a roller coaster dirt drive that wound from the improved road t

Re: [FRIAM] Self-Consciousness, experience and metaphysics

Andrew Gelman's blog had a post this morning about his sister's research into the acquisition of reasoning. https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/07/24/this-ones-important-looking-beyond-the-obvious-essentialism-and-abstraction-as-central-to-our-reasoning-and-beliefs/ Children begin organi

[FRIAM] deep fake elon

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/08/14/technology/elon-musk-ai-deepfake-scam.html Sorry for the paywalled link, but the story is just hilarious. It appears that the best conspiracy theory of all is that rich people make money by secret tricks, because if you make a deep fake Elon promisin

Re: [FRIAM] This makes me think of this list...

https://www.noemamag.com/exploring-the-boundaries-of-consciousness/ Whaddya know, its on topic. -- rec -- On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 2:11 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > Claude remarks: > > > > << Good Soldier Švejk might respond to questions about consciousness and > information determinism with a se

Re: [FRIAM] This makes me think of this list...

This one was teased by: “ I can feel the neurons in my brain struggling and striving. Yes, I can feel it. Now you think I’m crazy.” Anne Carson has Parkinson’s https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n16/anne-carson/gloves-on This and the link to noema both came from https://www.aldaily.com/, Arts

Re: [FRIAM] on government

There's no system of governance that hasn't been corrupted. They're all the worst forms of governance ever invented, except for the alternative of dealing with a group of self-selected fellow citizens under no system of governance whatsoever. -- rec -- -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. .

Re: [FRIAM] affinity for chatbots

Then there's https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/sep/09/the-big-idea-how-the-protege-effect-can-help-you-learn-almost-anything which is about the benefits of teaching anyone, but the author chose to teach a chatbot. Irene countered with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debuggin

Re: [FRIAM] affinity for chatbots

The Agile versus Waterfall contrast sounds like a variation of Exploration versus Exploitation. I'm glad nuclear decommissioning isn't running Reinforcement Learning, that could lead to some very unfortunate explorations. It's odd to hear Residual Bias spoken of as something that should eventuall

Re: [FRIAM] DOH!

I caught the cat sitting on the bathroom counter watching the faucet drip the other day. -- rec -- On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 10:40 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Nick writes: > > "It seems to me that in the discussion we are having, the word > "entertainment" cannot go undefined. How do you tell the

Re: [FRIAM] speculative Q

I think the issue with that last 20% of user facing software is that it's very expensive to run the marketing campaigns to persuade users that "it's really, really good" when in fact it sucks, especially when your competitors are working very hard at marketing their own brands of sucky user interfa

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] 'Playing' Versioned Source Repositories

Look at gitk, unless you're actually looking for an animation of the tree of files and directories over time. Though tk might be a good choice for doing that, too, if Ben Bederson's Pad++ is still working. -- rec -- On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 8:52 PM, Arlo Barnes wrote: > So Etherpad

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: How brand-new words are spreading across America

So business people are anti-union not because unions interfere with the running of their own businesses, but because unions interfere with their ruining of other peoples businesses? I think we could get a whole new freakonomics franchise out of this. -- rec -- On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Dav

[FRIAM] upgrade those stingrays

So it always seemed sort of stupid that the Stingray cell tower masqueraders only collected meta data, since they had to handle all the payload packets to get the metadata anyway. Oh, an upgraded Stingray that captures all payloads of cell terminals that connect to it is called a "dirt box" and th

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] cell phones options-

Then there's the new Motorola Force, http://www.androidauthority.com/motorola-moto-x-force-launching-december-628-640424/, reported to have a shatterproof screen, but not for a while yet. But with claims like that, everybody would be wanting to test your phone's powers, ... -- rec -- On Tue, Sep

Re: [FRIAM] the next phone

I wonder, too. It seems that we've entered the age where the cloud backed AI's compete for our attention from phone, tablet, and PC. There is Siri, Google Now, and Cortana, and now there are announcements of Duer (from Baidu) and M (from Facebook) in the past day. The Guardian notes that Echo (f

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Meat

speaking of crash and burn, you all caught the PNAS early release today, http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/10/28/1512482112.abstract?sid=6a257104-4e5a-45e0-ad64-03d3b03c8f43, anticipating 3m sea rise in the next 60 years, and no sign of anything to be done at this point? -- rec -- On Mon, N

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Meat

-- On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > speaking of crash and burn, you all caught the PNAS early release today, > http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/10/28/1512482112.abstract?sid=6a257104-4e5a-45e0-ad64-03d3b03c8f43, > anticipating 3m sea rise in the next 60 years, an

[FRIAM] book sale in santa fe, sunday, december 5

My personal library, accumulated over 40 years and moved from coast to coast to coast to continental divide, is being downsized for a life in a smaller volume. As a result the majority will soon be boxed up for donation to the Santa Fe Public Library. I will be happy to part with any of these tre

Re: [FRIAM] book sale in santa fe, sunday, december 6

Correction, the one day book sale is tomorrow, Sunday, December 6, 2015 -- rec -- On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > My personal library, accumulated over 40 years and moved from coast to > coast to coast to continental divide, is being downsized for a lif

Re: [FRIAM] book sale in santa fe, sunday, december 6

- rec -- On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 2:29 PM, glen wrote: > > I wish I were there! I bet you have a few treasures. > > On 12/05/2015 12:56 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > > Correction, the one day book sale is tomorrow, Sunday, December 6, 2015 > > > > -- rec -- > > &

Re: [FRIAM] book sale in santa fe, sunday, december 5

heveled pile to disheveled pile > helps to maintain memory traces. Don’t do it! > > > > Nick > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > > Clark University > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ &

Re: [FRIAM] bubbles

you scared everybody away anyway, two customers, 14 books sold out of 49 boxes. still got chemistry and Lysenko for you, ... -- rec -- On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Nick Thompson wrote: > Ok, so the grandkids are messing about with bubbles. When two bubbles of > equal size conjoin, the “mem

Re: [FRIAM] Physicists and Philosophers Debate the Boundaries of Science | Quanta Magazine

That will be quite a trick: Bayes' theorem is named after Rev. Thomas Bayes > (/ˈbeɪz/ > ; 1701–1761), who > first[*citation needed > *] showed

[FRIAM] same difference

http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/3983 -- rec -- 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

Re: [FRIAM] same difference

> > > N > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > > Clark University > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > > *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Roger >

[FRIAM] catch a gravitational wave press conference

This morning at 10:30 eastern, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyo4DFr4D4I www.nature.com has posted a live feed link, too, revisionists there are arguing who actually deserves credit for predicting gravitational waves. -- rec -- FRIAM

Re: [FRIAM] Weeds of pragmatism: Subjectivity and intimacy

This turned up in my Quora feed a few minutes ago: What is the most effective way to see a person's true personality?

Re: [FRIAM] Subjectivity and intimacy (lost in the weeks?)

There's an article in this weekend's issue of the NYTimes Sunday Magazine about what Google has learned about how groups work and fail to work. One of the test instruments used presents pictures of peoples' eyes and asks what the people are feeling. Ah, the "Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test".

Re: [FRIAM] Subjectivity and intimacy (lost in the weeks?)

By all means, read the article, but it was the idea of reading feelings in pictures of eyes that seemed apropos to the ongoing discussion. I thought it was clear that Google already knew how to hire productive individuals, the question was why they, reliably productive individuals, made such unpre

[FRIAM] subjectivity and brain scans

In today's issue of Science, http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6277/1074 Goal-directed human behaviors are driven by motives. Motives are, however, purely mental constructs that are not directly observable. Here, we show that the brain’s functional network architecture captures information

[FRIAM] go programs

I've been watching parts of the match between Lee Sedol and Alpha Go on the youtube deepmind channel. It's quite good, they start off with a discussion of the previous game, give running commentary during the game, and audibly gasp when the progress of the game shocks them. The post match press c

Re: [FRIAM] go programs

are. Work >> <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0950705196819204> to >> address this problem has been underway since the 90's. Perhaps others here >> can provide an update? >> >> Robert C >> >> On 3/13/16 8:45 AM, Marcus Daniels

[FRIAM] IMSI catchers

Lovely article this, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-10/what-happens-when-the-surveillance-state-becomes-an-affordable-gadget. The LTE network was supposed to be secure against IMSI catchers like StingRays and DirtBoxes, then Harris figured out how to knock the phone back to a 2G con

Re: [FRIAM] Weekend Tweet Of The Week

él no tiene nada -- rec -- On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 9:02 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > I love to collect odd tweets. Here's this weeks nifty: > > Lecturing Professor: "a double negative forms a positive but in no > language does a double-positive express a negative" > Kid ..."Yeah, Right" > > ​ >

Re: [FRIAM] Here's to the 1%!

Thanks, Marcus, now we know how to get things sorted out here on FRIAM, -- rec -- On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 10:54 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > http://goo.gl/OcUVLV > > > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 a

Re: [FRIAM] Tagged "Get off my lawn!"

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 PM,

Re: [FRIAM] Tagged "Get off my lawn!"

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 bleedin

Re: [FRIAM] The Unbearable Asymmetry of Bullshit | Quillette

There was a great sound bite from Mark Cuban to the effect that Trump is that guy who goes into a bar and will say whatever it takes to get laid. -- rec -- On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 1:09 PM, glen ⛧ wrote: > > I find the executive actions (EPA, immigration, title 9, etc.) > interesting. If we ass

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

"Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers." -- David Parnas Which is even funnier now than it was in 70's or 80's when first said, because artificial flowers have become more and more amazing over the decades. -- rec -- On Sun, Jun 5, 20

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

https://medium.com/utopia-for-realists/why-do-the-poor-make-such-poor-decisions-f05d84c44f1a was interesting, vis a vis what happens when you just give poor people money. -- rec -- On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > I suspect a universal basic income is a requirement for pe

[FRIAM] credibility by association

>From Science 12 Aug 2016:: A decade ago, it seemed as though every other neuroscience paper in > high-profile journals featured multiple multicolored images of brain scans. > In some cases, readers—many of whom were psychologists who had written > papers on the same topic—pointed out that the pi

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

yuval harari on a similar question http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/50bb4830-6a4c-11e6-ae5b-a7cc5dd5a28c.html#axzz4ITEeTSei excerpted from his new book, I think. -- rec -- On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 7:24 PM, Pamela McCorduck wrote: > So agree. We are *so* far from certain on this one. > > > On Aug 26, 20

Re: [FRIAM] Wi-Fi speeds could triple and range double thanks to MIT breakthrough | ZDNet

The last author on the article, Dina Katabi ( http://people.csail.mit.edu/dina/), is a Syrian, a MacArthur Fellow (2013), and "the Andrew & Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, [...] the leader of NETMIT resear

Re: [FRIAM] speaking of analytics

See the result of the AI judged beauty contest? Apparently the training set needed more curation. Very teachable moment. -- rec -- On Sep 8, 2016 7:10 PM, "Marcus Daniels" wrote: > Racial profiling is a single dimensional predictor. It's bad because it > is regressive, not because race is a

[FRIAM] ah, spelling

So this review was intriguing me, the sources of American Philosophy, excavated from the library of William Earnest Hocking, but subtitled "A Love Story" as is appropriate since it happens in New England. But then Charles Sanders Peirce enters the story, only to become Pierce in the very next sent

Re: [FRIAM] THREAD BENDING ALERT: Was "Is Bezos a Bozo?" IS NOW"Reading Email exchanges chronologically"

Nick -- Look at https://storify.com/ -- rec -- On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 10:03 PM, Nick Thompson wrote: > Dear everybody, > > > > On several occasions, this one included, I have gotten involved in email > exchanges on FRIAM and elsewhere that were so good that I wanted to save > them in chronolo

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

Aren't the libbies constitutionally required to disdain funding from the government? Seems like they should disdain elections, too, hold out for victory by acclamation? -- rec -- On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 2:28 PM, ┣glen┫ wrote: > On 11/04/2016 09:53 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > http://www.slate

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

> > > > Nick > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > > Clark University > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > > *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Rog

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

rs. Clinton emails. Trump uses > campaign donations to enrich his own businesses. Clinton emails. Trump says > laziness is an inherent trait in black people. Clinton emails. > > Frank Wimberly > Phone (505) 670-9918 > > > > On Nov 4, 2016 5:31 PM, "Nick Thompson"

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

Welp, just sitting around shaking my head this morning, think I'll take out the trash. -- rec -- On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 6:38 AM, Steven A Smith wrote: > Marcus - > > It would appear that your fears were more founded than I could have > imagined. > > It would also seem that I was standing in th

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

Maine apparently legalized cannabis, too, though too close to call through the night. -- rec -- On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > OTOH: California, Massachusetts and Nevada legalized marijuana. > > > FRIAM Applie

Re: [FRIAM] Stop Calling People "Low Information Voters" | Quillette

On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 2:56 PM, glen ☣ wrote: > > We could try a parallax approach, though ... divide the whole into parts > by multiple (different) methods (state, county, demographic, ...) and use > something akin to Kullback-Leibler to constrain a set of "common models", > perhaps in the conte

Re: [FRIAM] Stop Calling People "Low Information Voters" | Quillette

https://medium.com/@Richard_Florida/the-most-disruptive-transformation-in-history-80a50ef89b4d#.7grm8x0r1 On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/opinion/sunday/why-blue- > states-are-the-real-tea-party.html?&moduleDetail=section- > news-0&action

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

I was amused to hear a heckler yelling about false dichotomy toward the end of the video. Haidt wanted a clean vote between christian university, truth university, and social justice university, so he didn't open the ballot to poll for none of the above. And it's also amusing to consider that the

[FRIAM] power posers in the university of truth

Enter the power pose, the proposition that standing up straight will give you the super powers to overcome adversity, except that no one can replicate the original experiment, the primary author has disavowed the publication, yet the primary advocate is making millions off the idea. When-Big-Ideas

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

because universities do pursue truth. And perhaps it just > turns out that the left is more true than the right. > > On 12/05/2016 06:58 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > >> And it's also amusing to consider that the bulk of his complaint is that >> there is a disparity in re

Re: [FRIAM] power posers in the university of truth

- On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > Are Falsehoods the new Truthy? > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Joe Spinden wrote: > >> Love it. >> >> On 12/6/16 9:41 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: >> >> Enter the power pose, the proposition that

Re: [FRIAM] Model of induction

Seems like the abduction step would be assuming that there are loaded wheels before you have any empirical evidence. A wheel could be fat-tailed, tending to longer runs, without being biased toward any particular numbers. There would be an incentive to bet on a run continuing, but no particular n

Re: [FRIAM] Model of induction

You have left the model for the untainted computers unspecified, but let's say that they are producing uniform pseudo-random numbers over some interval, like 0 .. 1. Then your question becomes how do we distinguish the tainted computers, which are only simulating a uniform distribution? This prob

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: In Memoriam: Thomas C. Schelling

Ah, the mortality is getting thick. My high school buddy Aaron had a fatal massive heart attack in August. My sister-in-law Mimi succumbed to cancer on October 30 while I was flying back from visiting her and my brother. Dave Weininger, master of chemical information, passed away on November 2. C

Re: [FRIAM] Hope or Despair

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/08/blaming-fake-news-not-the-answer-democracy-crisis -- rec -- On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 10:58 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote: > There's no need for a he/she, Owen. The term has no relevance when > talking about the presidency. > > On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 a

[FRIAM] they're here

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/ 01/10/watch-the-pentagons-new-hive-mind-controlled-drone- swarm-in-action/?utm_term=.85991c34140e maybe Guerin can provide a narration for the video? I'm going to remember that buzzing sound. -- rec -- ==

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

Someone pointed out that Trump never laughs. Not at himself, not at others, not at his own jokes, not at anything. -- rec -- On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 5:32 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > Nick, > > No. "Self" has a technical meaning in psychoanalysis. The tiny baby > experiences the world as self-

Re: [FRIAM] Otra acción hostil

If you go and sign the petition to release Trump's tax returns: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/immediately-release-donald-trumps-full-tax-returns-all-information-needed-verify-emoluments-clause-compliance they will send you an email to verify your signature along with a link that you

[FRIAM] white house petitions no longer counting

It appears that https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/ is no longer counting signatures, someone doesn't want to hear what we think anymore. -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's Colleg

Re: [FRIAM] white house petitions no longer counting

still up. I don't understand. How do you know this? >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 7:43 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: >>> >>>> It appears that https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/ is no longer >>>> counting signatures, someone doesn't want to

[FRIAM] only america first

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=30553&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter The linguists attempt to parse Trump rhetoric, but the real fun comes from the 1940's vintage Dr Seuss cartoons at the end of the article. Then further down in the comments there's Woody Guthrie singing: 'They say

Re: [FRIAM] Nautilus: Investing Is More Luck Than Talent

I started an answer about what Chomsky meant, I think he means that if you choose to align your interests with the property owners, there is no way you can redeem yourself, you are on the side of government protecting the property holders' rights against everyone else, that first, and whatever posi

Re: [FRIAM] How we can make the COUNTRY great again

https://x.company/loon/ -- rec -- On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 8:46 PM, Gary Schiltz wrote: > I don't have much experience with the GEO providers, e.g. Hughes, but I > seem to remember that the minimum latency of about a quarter second round > trip imposed by the speed of light makes them very unple

Re: [FRIAM] How we can make the COUNTRY great again

omeone put their mind to it. I wonder how many other federal commissions might be similarly poised to grind to a halt? -- rec -- On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 9:26 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > https://x.company/loon/ > > -- rec -- > > On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 8:46 PM, Gary Schiltz &

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Your Daily digest for David Pogue

Everybody and her mother wants to be the next battery technology. Pogue's got a whole horse race of candidates in the wings. But the proof is in the pudding, when you can mass produce your technology, and that proof requires years of scaling up. I was impressed with a recent review article in Sc

Re: [FRIAM] AI advance

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Pamela McCorduck wrote: > > > On Jan 31, 2017, at 7:32 AM, Steven A Smith wrote: > > > > > >> " AlphaGo itself isn't scary it's what comes next and so on and how > quickly these advances are progressing that give some great minds cause for > concern." > >> > >>

[FRIAM] free will on the ten meter tower

This documentary https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/opinion/ten-meter-tower.html is great viewing. -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.c

Re: [FRIAM] on the obustness of globalism

If you read the linked article, you'll see that this Mom died several days before the executive order was signed. -- rec -- On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 10:44 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > We just got a lot dumber. > > (Terence Tao? Wow! Didn't know many of us followed him. Fascinating guy.)​ > > Sadly,

Re: [FRIAM] white house petitions no longer counting

And the Post finally weighs in on the subject: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/02/04/no-the-white-house-is-not-freezing-anti-trump-petitions/?utm_term=.61a51998db69 -- rec -- On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > I agree, it looks like it

[FRIAM] poker playing AI

I noticed the poker playing AI winning the tournament recently in the news, but I hadn't noticed until today that the lead researcher was Tuomas Sandholm at CMU, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sandholm/, who was hot into computing mechanisms years ago. Mechanisms being self enforcing contract terms, where

Re: [FRIAM] National Constitution Center

google "bush directive 51" finds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_and_Homeland_Security_Presidential_Directive which discusses the non-classified procedures for maintaining continuity of government in the event of a "catastrophic emergency". There are constitutional questions about

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