[FRIAM] Entropy and atmospheric potential vorticity

[Frank Wimberly]

And the peacock?  I assume Mrs Roberts took care of them.

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Frank C. Wimberly
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On Fri, May 16, 2025, 5:13 PM Nicholas Thompson <thompnickson2 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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