[FRIAM] gen'fur

[David Eric Smith]

Aha!  This is why Iceland has the highest per-capita fraction of published authors in the world.  I had assumed it was the weather….

> On Sep 10, 2021, at 2:17 AM, Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:
> 
> That can be screened as well with a large population-wide survey such has been done in the UK or Iceland.
> Of course, it is unlikely that complex behaviors will be governed by isolated mutations, so the task is to look for highly predictive motifs (e.g. regular expressions).  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of u?l? ?>$
> Sent: Thursday, September 9, 2021 10:12 AM
> To: friam at redfish.com
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] gen'fur
> 
> Ha! Now you're trolling. The answer is: "because the sites that generate reading ability (or whatever) *also* generate other 'abilities'", with "abilities" in scare quotes because many abilities are considered bad ... like the ability of a pimply faced white dude to shoot up a church or blow up a federal building.
> 
> In addition to polyphenism, there's robustness. If more than 1 site generates the same functional ability (reading), then do we write them all? ... just one of them? ... a probabilistically predictive handful of them?
> 
> On 9/9/21 10:00 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>> So find the sites that correspond to reading ability, or whatever, and WRITE them.  
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of u?l? ?>$
>> Sent: Thursday, September 9, 2021 9:51 AM
>> To: friam at redfish.com
>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] gen'fur
>> 
>> I was alerted to this article this morning:
>> 
>> Can Progressives Be Convinced That Genetics Matters?
>> https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/can-progressives-be-conv
>> inced-that-genetics-matters
>> 
>> It should delight those amongst us who rant about the "woke". 8^D But it dovetails nicely with the fraught concept of equality in the other thread.
>> 
>> Coincidentally, also on 9/6, the BIAPT announced their early career prize winner Emily McTernan:
>> https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk%2fbiapt-2021-early-care&c=E,1,Je9MVNdO8lpJQOd6fZwUNe-4z5yuFq0upxNIzMBFjmLFh_h5a63ueVVpd8lkEdWeUx5Xx1RaoPg3T5Ph8YlG0558qqHLZD8-DKeBPEC3YYM,&typo=1
>> er-prize-winner-dr-emily-mcternan/
>> 
>> "In her forthcoming monograph, Dr McTernan develops her work on social equality further, to advance a pioneering conceptual account – and robust normative defence – of the phenomenon of ‘taking offence’. Therein, McTernan contends, we should understand taking offence, under appropriate conditions, as a civic virtue rather than a vice, as an emotion that embodies the resistance of social inequalities within a community."
>> 
>> 
>> On 9/8/21 8:06 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>>> From about a cancer rate of 10% (without mutation) to 50% (with) but it depends on the BRCA variant.
>>> 
>>> https://www.cdc.gov/genomics/disease/breast_ovarian_cancer/breast_can
>>> c
>>> er.htm
>>> <https://www.cdc.gov/genomics/disease/breast_ovarian_cancer/breast_ca
>>> n
>>> cer.htm>
>>> 
>>>> On Sep 8, 2021, at 4:07 PM, Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Is the Braca gene that little correlated with breast cancer?
>>>> 
>>>> ---
>>>> Frank C. Wimberly
>>>> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
>>>> Santa Fe, NM 87505
>>>> 
>>>> 505 670-9918
>>>> Santa Fe, NM
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Sep 8, 2021, 4:57 PM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com <mailto:marcus at snoutfarm.com>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>    Yeah, it is hard to get excited about “unusual” variance. Modern 
>>>> classification algorithms like gradient boosting make it possible to 
>>>> predict phenotypes, and to me that is a lot more interesting (and 
>>>> still possible to deconstruct).____
>>>> 
>>>>    __ __
>>>> 
>>>>    *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com <mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com>> *On Behalf Of *Eric Charles
>>>>    *Sent:* Wednesday, September 8, 2021 3:53 PM
>>>>    *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com <mailto:friam at redfish.com>>
>>>>    *Subject:* [FRIAM] gen'fur____
>>>> 
>>>>    __ __
>>>> 
>>>>    Gen'fur this, gen'fur that... and also the realities of biological complexity.... 
>>>>    ____
> 
> 
> --
> ☤>$ uǝlƃ
> 
> - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6  bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fredfish.com%2fmailman%2flistinfo%2ffriam_redfish.com&c=E,1,FPFi_67ujnnrrUOyVZjD6c00o8nWEIO4Gu_OUZ38Xs0a4T1DpBLafuv5pm5dFXyTn0TNzdAVocwF8gtRDPmzb7JVGddtXnkEECc2-aktBmWhEO37popJvuU,&typo=1
> FRIAM-COMIC https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffriam-comic.blogspot.com%2f&c=E,1,SPmpFtRyWXHhwMcsSEpp1zgPqM1KQtxc8co0IbsUvi9o0kA8VmjwtnEXPudoWFLMKWwdnUCqKSUFH8BzGa0nXa82gZPDQEIUVAmMdypMGcKWSWpWbxvat48,&typo=1
> archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
> - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6  bit.ly/virtualfriam
> un/subscribe https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fredfish.com%2fmailman%2flistinfo%2ffriam_redfish.com&c=E,1,W9oEutylN15wwGCuVJ528S5XnqUv-AZpOR90CyAWn2G7yZUfHbX1BQqxD2UtZz7aEThqPVVE-f0ONtyic2xGpdK3QQKVYq_r_nEdZtkusgQ6qD5NpP9Q&typo=1
> FRIAM-COMIC https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffriam-comic.blogspot.com%2f&c=E,1,AEBUcyZDYn2y9X32uZJvn16-o7psychyRoyP64ZOwbD9AG0FNH7T3liipIm0OyXlIe08dbosFtyzSjGknGjEp9y7b7ustWDswfdrA9M_xM1W9MXDSu5DHF_VIA,,&typo=1
> archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/