[FRIAM] Entropy and atmospheric potential vorticity

[Nicholas Thompson]

What happened to The parrots?

Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology
Clark University
nthompson at clarku.edu
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson


On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM steve smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:

>
> Frank wrote:
>
> Doug Roberts?
>
>
> Oh, if ever Doug was rolling in his grave. The swirlies and nouggies I
> might have endured if he were still alive.
>
>>
>> NIck
>>
> I'd almost forgotten about Doug's compulsive adolescent snark directed at
> your fascination with vortices.
>
> It makes me wonder what he'd make of the AI phase transition we are in.
> He had (IMO) both progressive and regressive ideas about simulation
> science/tech.
>
> Makes me wonder if there is a mirror/parallel quantity to PV which would
> be Latent Vorticity (LV)
>
>  and is that similar to the torque that people who might roll in their
> grave experience?   Or is it a measure of the rolling they would do if they
> could do rolling?  How much roll would a Doug Roberts roll if Doug Roberts
> could roll (in his grave)?
>
> I won't even suggest someone train up an LLM on all of Doug's posts in
> response to Nick's to create a simulacra to harangue him?
>
>
>
>> --
>> Nicholas S. Thompson
>> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology
>> Clark University
>> nthompson at clarku.edu
>> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson
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