Typos fixed. Original version. Followup. Re: Developing a Metaphysics for Physics From: kirby urner <kirby.urner@xxxxxxxxx> To: math4wisdom@xxxxxxxxx Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2023 09:25:16 -0700 Hi Andrius — We overlap in our interest in using our Newtonian heritage, in terms of units, of time, distance, mass etc. …

More World Game Playing — When I journey in Central Oregon, as I’ve been doing lately, I’m looking for ways to make university life encompass farming as well as global travel. That first part is not hard; Oregon State University (OSU) is an “ag school” to some degree, a place to learn agriculture. Sometimes you’re…

Carol Reilley was born April 21 1929 in Chico, California. Her dad, Thomas Dewey Reilley was a Linotype operator for various newspapers; they moved around. Her mother: Margaret Golden, and the genealogist in our family. She attended Garfield High in Seattle, and much later in life received a lifetime achievement…

What PR genius decided what the AIs do is “hallucinate” when they generate random, sometimes plausible sounding, fluff? If AIs can hallucinate, then they can certainly compete in other psychological dimensions. Nice sleight of hand! Just bypass the whole debate. Now they dream stuff up, so they’re dreamers now eh? …

I am aware of the theory that the Biden administration is in cahoots with the Russians in seeking the demilitarization of Ukraine. Dangling the mirage of a military victory against Russia, by feeding Ukrainian fantasies of military superiority, is what it took to inspire an all out assault with lots…

We’ve known for a long time, here in the Silicon Forest, that high school maths (using the UK’s plural form) needs to converge with coding, as in computer programming. Below, we see what that looks like learning Julia: Allen B. Downey, a co-author of Think Julia, is likewise an author…

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I think what the word “quadrays” has over “tetrays” is its close association with the word “quadrant”. Those groomed to be hypercross dogmatists (starting with “space is 3D”) aren’t used to imagining dividing space into four symmetrically identical sectors, by means of four “fences” defined by any pair of quadrays. …

When I set myself the challenge of “steering clear of oppositional states” what comes to mind is Work in the P.D. Ouspensky sense, as…