<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">You mean a "credit model" depending on correspondence length and authorship time? GitHub has a statistics page for repositories which shows who has committed the most lines in what timeframe. And some open source frameworks like Ruby on Rails list their most active contributors https://contributors.rubyonrails.org</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">ChatGPT says about you Marcus that you are the most active poster by a substantial margin. You win clearly in this category. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Nick and Glen are funnier according to ChatGPT though. ChatGPT is particularly fond of the Nick's post "All those who think Steve was wrong raise your hands" and Glen's post "<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">Say it again \u2026 Say it again in a different way \u2026 Again \u2026 Again, damnit!"</span></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-J.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Marcus Daniels <marcus@snoutfarm.com> </div><div>Date: 8/12/26 4:28 PM (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> </div><div>Subject: Re: [FRIAM] What is FRIAM and is it still alive </div><div><br></div></div><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Correspondence length and apparent authorship time that follows the distribution of a compile/link cycle or system integration test suite execution duration?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> on behalf of jofr@cas-group.net <jofr@cas-group.net><br><b>Date: </b>Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 4:50\u202fAM<br><b>To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [FRIAM] What is FRIAM and is it still alive</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">ChatGPT proposed these two laws:<br><br>FRIAM's First Law: We take difficult philosophical problems and worry <br>them to death until someone produces either a profound insight, a <br>completely insane hypothesis, or a phrase like "quantum woo".<br><br>FRIAM's Second Law: If a theory is suspiciously elegant, somebody on the <br>list will throw a shoe at it.<br><br>The reason I have asked ChatGPT and Gemini is I am writing a new <br>self-published book, and the first chapter is about FRIAM. Their <br>summaries are surprisingly good. I asked them to find funny anecdotes in <br>the FRIAM archives and they found a post from Nick that said "OK <br>friammers, All those who think Steve was wrong raise your hands" :-)<br><br>If you do NOT want to be mentioned in the chapter because it is too much <br>quantum woo for you then please let me know or raise your hand. Will <br>share a draft in a few days.<br><br>-J.<br><br>.- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-..<br>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<br>Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom <a href="https://bit.ly/virtualfriam">https://bit.ly/virtualfriam</a><br>to (un)subscribe <a href="http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com">http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com</a><br>FRIAM-COMIC <a href="http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/">http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/</a><br>archives: 5/2017 thru present <a href="https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/">https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/</a><br> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 <a href="http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/">http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/</a></span></p></div></div></body></html>