[FRIAM] PSC Tornado Visualization (2008) [720p] - YouTube

[Frank Wimberly]

Marcus's comment reminds me of Bruce Sherwood's comment that people solve
differential equations because they don't have computers.

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On Wed, May 13, 2020, 9:40 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Old Philosophical Joke:
>
>
>
> Deep in a remote valley lived a tribe that had never been in contact with
> the modern world … except for one monastery which corresponded with
> Greenwich village to get the sunrise tables.  The monks would get up 15
> minutes early and sound a bell, which the villagers believed was the cause
> of the sun rising.  It was said, “The monks awakened the sun from his
> slumbers.”  Because of this belief, offerings of every kind were left by
> the village on the steps of the monastery, and the monks grew fat and
> happy.
>
>
>
> In the course of the annual correspondence to get the new sunrise tables
> from Greenwich, one of the British scientists questioned the morality of
> the scam the monks were running.  The monks responded, “As long as they get
> their sunrise on time, who cares?”
>
>
>
> I care.
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>
>
> Another old Philosophical Joke:
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>
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> A man who claimed to be able to fly, announced on his facebook page that
> he was going to demonstrate his skill by jumping off the top balcony of a
> residential tower.  Psychologists were stationed at each balcony below with
> stop watches and clipboards to document his behavior during his “flight”.
> As he went by each successive balcony he was heard to say, “So far, so
> good.”
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>
>
> His widow cared.
>
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>
> Your query, Marcus, highlights the difference between philosophical
> pragmatism and the vernacular kind.
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>
> Nick
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> Nicholas Thompson
>
> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
>
> Clark University
>
> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
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> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Marcus Daniels
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 13, 2020 9:23 PM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] PSC Tornado Visualization (2008) [720p] - YouTube
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> Nick writes:
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> “The result looks so much like iconic tornado vids that we wannabee
> tornado chasers idolize that one suspects that the video was back
> constructed from that film, rather than developing organically from the
> physics.”
>
> Suppose the equations were extracted, or the behavior re-generated, from a
> deep neural net (or whatever automated machine learning thing), but
> nonetheless were predictive of other tornados.    One might reasonably ask,
> “Who cares?”
>
> Marcus
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