[FRIAM] the Snarking of the Bandersnatch

[Frank Wimberly]

Maybe all you need to know is GAN means generalized adversarial network.

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Frank C. Wimberly
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On Thu, Jun 4, 2020, 6:13 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh. Gosh! Will somebody please explain the joke to me.
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> I get some of the joke.  I mean the whole joke.
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> Nicholas Thompson
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> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
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> Clark University
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> 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 *Steve Smith
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 4, 2020 6:08 PM
> *To:* friam at redfish.com
> *Subject:* [FRIAM] the Snarking of the Bandersnatch
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> Glen -
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> You have taken good humored sarcasm (Snark*) to "the next level" (another
> modern idiom I am just coming to recognize) here.  It feels like you've
> captured FriAM-at-large pretty well here... or at least the arc of our
> discussions-of-late.   Not only the discussions, but to some extent the
> "nut" of some of them.
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> Your spoof of an idea to ontologize the fruits of our discussions and the
> metaphorize them across domain-specific ontologies comes way too close to
> at least one holy grail of a project or two I've worked on (thus my
> references to a "Faceted Ontology".  I'm not saying your snark is empty,
> nor that the holy grail I refer to was entirely unachievable, mostly just
> appreciating how well you nailed it here, and perhaps (en caricature?)
> captured some of what Nick has been wishing and hoping for...
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> Carry On,
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>  - Steve
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> Ha! And a boon would be we can transform it arbitrarily onto any other
> domain-specific ontology. So, whatever is written about, say, evolutionary
> biology could be mapped ... [cough] metaphored ... into a paper about,
> say, holography! If we can design a GAN to well-fit the maps, then
> whatever "theory" we end up with will provide us with *the* explanation
> of consciousness and solve the hard problem!
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> Man this technology thing is cool. Whatever was I thinking. >8^D
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> On 6/4/20 4:19 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
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> I think there should be a XML-based ontology format to encode our
> *important* conversations as a formal system.   And not mere CSS3, there
> should be a whole XSL pipeline to generate Nick’s book.  Everyone *follow
> the rules* or your e-mails will not validate and *will be rejected* by
> the mail server!
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