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Re: Friam Digest, Vol 127, Issue 1

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Greetings my fellow technomancers
I have but one thing to say about the state of tech these days:

None of it works.

When it does I'd rather go skinning dipping in a pool of boiling  hot lava. Possible followed by a solid roll in salt-
That's the degree to wich the stuff around me the day to day stuff I attempt to do, just basics has me wondering:

Waht the fork are some people on in technology: before you write it off as vex'd densmore the younger I shall give you the context  of a bunch of stuff--I leave you you to make your own judgement.

For all values of N-the stuff is getting damn close to NP hard.
That is NOT a good thing

For example: today, while, just TRYING to  read good book (beyonders), after having spent damn neer all night tracking down what the fork is wrong with the cable modem, since  it has to work and work well in about a month.
(still doesn't work than "web serfing"- I'll get to that in a second):

I Hit a wall about a month ago maybe less: I was just trying to get directions to the happy-pill doc from 411..same time as two junk callers called at, the exact same time, the damn phone crashed--that same week, it become crystal my HD is failing (on my winderz box) since it's been used, and loved non stop 24/7 wear and tear were going to kick in.
Sprung for a external drive. hook it up- it works (mostly)
 grab a cloner. some is ok some not much.
-No clear way to clean install winderz.
-No straitforward way to uninstall anything (windows and Mac)
-Half the webpage has turned into a giant advertisement.
-Neigh impossibel to get quality help on OS forums-
-Amazon help is dodgy
I can not get anything vaguely resemling consistant cell coverage- but that's not new for santa fe (lots of hills'n stuff):
-compatibility between company a and company bs product (when they do the same thing) is dodgy or non existant

-ComCast basicly has a monoply and are basicly scum when it comes to small print: On my online acount section there's a about a 3point font size that says (in short): we can change the channels, and speeds, or put a data limit on your acount-without telling you.
bringing me back to one of my long growing--things: I don't expect grade 5 service on new years eve while pointing crashplan to my trial acount. I do how ever take extreme exception when "anne" from god knows where tell me: " Oh there's "minor" action on your account due to high data traphic'
(in practice that meens f'n slow unreliable speed)


WHile I don't have a clue when the techindustry when insane. I do know that I'm only one Rural technomancer. To the limited degree there's such a thing as a calling, It'd seem someone needs to bring sanity to that sector
"And force shall set me free"












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   1. Re: Where was I when this was happening? (Steve Smith)
   2. What is Research Gate Good For? (Nick Thompson)


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Steve Smith <[hidden email]>
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[hidden email]>
Cc: 
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 12:10:17 -0700
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Where was I when this was happening?
On 12/30/13 2:39 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
ResearchGate is a startup from Berlin, they try to make a Facebook for scientists. Bill Gates has invested in the company, as far as I know. 

This looks a lot like our own Marko Rodriguez's (now-defunct) startup "Knowledge Reef"...  I don't believe Marko is on our mail list (Marko?) but I'm pretty sure he still lives just down the road from me.   Josh or Stephen may know?

While his core interest is in Graph theory/modeling/DBs and the Web of Data, etc... Knowledge Reef was originally Conceived to cover a lot of the space that ResearchGate is trying to now... perhaps if Gates had invested in K-Reef?

Marko's Titan, Faunus, TinkerPop are all interesting tools to check out if you are in the graph DB/Analytics business.

-J.

Sent from Android


-------- Original message --------
From: Nick Thompson
Date:30/12/2013 07:41 (GMT+01:00)
To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Where was I when this was happening?

Roger,

 

Thanks for your response.  I do remember the Gower thing, and found it quite inspiring at the time, but I think I separated it from the Darrell Issa thing.  Gawd that man is a plague. 

 

As to the broader issue,  have you had any truck with Research Gate? I ignored it for a while, and then got lured in by its promise of making publications available.  Is Research Gate possibly a way to break the grip of publishers?   I wouldn’t mind if the amounts they charge were in any way proportional to the effort they put in, but 30 bucks for a glimpse of an article concerning which they have done nothing, is just absurd.   RG is trying to get people to archive their own stuff with them, so when the publishers begin suing, they will have to sue a lot of people and the individuals suits won’t be worth much.  Damages very hard to prove.  It’s kind of the reverse of a class action suit.

 

Anyway, thanks again for your answer.

 

Nick

 

 

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

From: Friam [[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Roger Critchlow
Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2013 10:57 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Where was I when this was happening?

 

I think that you knew about it, Owen posted back at the beginning of 2012:

 

Timothy Gowers the Fields medalist mathematician has a recent post on Elsevier and a growing movement to boycott their use

 

This includes not submitting to the VERY MANY math journals owned by Elsevier: 

.. or reviewing submissions 

Timothy Gowers' boycott of Elsevier came up on the list before, it was motivated by Elsevier's support for that very bill, you responded on the thread.


That boycott was inspired by the political contributions Elsevier made to buy the passage of the Research Works Act.  Most of the rest of the thread, which you participated in, discussed the costs of publishing without ever mentioning Elsevier's lobbying costs. 

 

-- rec --

 

On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Nick Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote:

JeeeZ.  And to think they almost did this?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Works_Act

 

Did everybody but me know about this? 

 

N

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 


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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Nick Thompson" <[hidden email]>
To: "'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'" <[hidden email]>
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Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 12:34:06 -0700
Subject: [FRIAM] What is Research Gate Good For?

Jochen,

 

I changed the thread for fear of getting flamed for thread-bending.

 

I wonder how malleable and responsive RG is?  If “we” tried to turn it into a venue for review, evaluation, and distribution of research, how would they respond.  I have no interest in another place for people to be vain and stupid, but THAT might be interesting.

 

Nick

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Steve Smith
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2013 12:10 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Where was I when this was happening?

 

On 12/30/13 2:39 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:

ResearchGate is a startup from Berlin, they try to make a Facebook for scientists. Bill Gates has invested in the company, as far as I know. 


This looks a lot like our own Marko Rodriguez's (now-defunct) startup "Knowledge Reef"...  I don't believe Marko is on our mail list (Marko?) but I'm pretty sure he still lives just down the road from me.   Josh or Stephen may know?

While his core interest is in Graph theory/modeling/DBs and the Web of Data, etc... Knowledge Reef was originally Conceived to cover a lot of the space that ResearchGate is trying to now... perhaps if Gates had invested in K-Reef?

Marko's Titan, Faunus, TinkerPop are all interesting tools to check out if you are in the graph DB/Analytics business.

 

-J.

 

Sent from Android

 

-------- Original message --------

From: Nick Thompson

Date:30/12/2013 07:41 (GMT+01:00)

To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'

Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Where was I when this was happening?

 

Roger,

 

Thanks for your response.  I do remember the Gower thing, and found it quite inspiring at the time, but I think I separated it from the Darrell Issa thing.  Gawd that man is a plague. 

 

As to the broader issue,  have you had any truck with Research Gate? I ignored it for a while, and then got lured in by its promise of making publications available.  Is Research Gate possibly a way to break the grip of publishers?   I wouldn’t mind if the amounts they charge were in any way proportional to the effort they put in, but 30 bucks for a glimpse of an article concerning which they have done nothing, is just absurd.   RG is trying to get people to archive their own stuff with them, so when the publishers begin suing, they will have to sue a lot of people and the individuals suits won’t be worth much.  Damages very hard to prove.  It’s kind of the reverse of a class action suit.

 

Anyway, thanks again for your answer.

 

Nick

 

 

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

From: Friam [[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Roger Critchlow
Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2013 10:57 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Where was I when this was happening?

 

I think that you knew about it, Owen posted back at the beginning of 2012:

 

Timothy Gowers the Fields medalist mathematician has a recent post on Elsevier and a growing movement to boycott their use

 

This includes not submitting to the VERY MANY math journals owned by Elsevier: 

.. or reviewing submissions 

Timothy Gowers' boycott of Elsevier came up on the list before, it was motivated by Elsevier's support for that very bill, you responded on the thread.


That boycott was inspired by the political contributions Elsevier made to buy the passage of the Research Works Act.  Most of the rest of the thread, which you participated in, discussed the costs of publishing without ever mentioning Elsevier's lobbying costs. 

 

-- rec --

 

On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Nick Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote:

JeeeZ.  And to think they almost did this?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Works_Act

 

Did everybody but me know about this? 

 

N

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 


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