[FRIAM] Model, Metaphor, Analogy

[Roger Critchlow]

Alaska Air was fine, I rescheduled from the red-eye flight to the late
evening arrival.

The word I was groping after to describe the character -- or lack of
character -- of pattern matchers was:
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op·por·tun·is·tic
ˌäpərt(y)o͞oˈnistik/
*adjective*

   1. exploiting chances offered by immediate circumstances without
   reference to a general plan or moral principle.
   "the change was cynical and opportunistic"
   - ECOLOGY
      (of a plant or animal) able to spread quickly in a previously
      unexploited habitat.
      - MEDICINE
      (of a microorganism or an infection caused by it) rarely affecting
      patients except in unusual circumstances, typically when the
immune system
      is depressed.

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The latest issue of Science is a special issue on AI in scientific
research.  This article, http://science.sciencemag.org/content/357/6346/22,
is about making deep neural nets interpretable.

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On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 5:41 PM, Steven A Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:

> It is almost time (in geologic as well as seasonal scales) to take the
> polar route!   Count the bears along the way?
>
> Or maybe the Drumpf can be talked into cutting a wide canal from the great
> lakes at the 49th parallel to keep those "unsavory furriners out of our
> Great 'Murrica Agin!"
>
> I think it might be as easy to build a moat as a wall of the magnitude he
> want(ed)s across the southern border?
>
> And then Roger could SAIL to WA (hard to tack in a canal and that tunnel
> under the Canadian Rockies would be pretty much wind-free I think?).
>
>
>
> On 6/11/17 12:20 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
>
> Via Cape Horn or the Panama Canal?
>
>
> Frank Wimberly
> Phone (505) 670-9918
>
> On Jun 11, 2017 11:36 AM, "Roger Critchlow" <rec at elf.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Steven A Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> PS>  Do you EVER visit SFe?  I haven't cracked a single book I bought
>>> when you were leaving... I have friends and colleagues dying and downsizing
>>> so fast that my own damn library is growing faster than I can even shelve
>>> properly.   Bastards!
>>>
>>
>> Heh, need google book scanner machine for father's day, hurry!
>>
>> I thought of one of the books that I parted from when I was writing this,
>> but I can't remember its title or author.  I just scanned through the 992
>> results of searching "learning" at mitpress.mit.edu and didn't find it,
>>
>> I haven't visited Santa Fe since I left.  Making a second trip to
>> Washington state in a few weeks.
>>
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