tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post5442029541083803294..comments2024-02-23T01:30:06.101-08:00Comments on Early Warning: Thursday LinksStuart Stanifordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182839827506265860noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-54508900426000336342013-05-27T20:26:16.583-07:002013-05-27T20:26:16.583-07:00Link (partial) to the 1948 Time article. http://ww...Link (partial) to the 1948 Time article. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,886484,00.html Three decades later while studying the effect of the Bunker Hunt silver fiasco on the quality of x-ray images (some companies attempted to reduce the silver content of film) I was surprised to find that that the Wiener spectrum was from the same Wiener. ----The film quality silver problem largely disappeared with the later development of digital radiography<br />http://eprints.utm.my/882/1/JT34C5.pdf Robert Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02389684132175725284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-20721198504690901992013-05-27T10:35:42.795-07:002013-05-27T10:35:42.795-07:00Wiener's words are lucid and amazingly prescie...Wiener's words are lucid and amazingly prescient. His statement, "..if we can do anything in a clear and intelligible way, we can do it by machine." makes me wonder what of significance we humans do not do in a clear and intelligible way but nevertheless do. Some things come to mind immediately - fall in love, laugh, write a song or a poem. Are these behaviors fundamentally different from things we do "in a clear and intelligible way" ? The answer is not clear and intelligible, to me anyway. Mike Aucotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05692592170835103639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-2964401689846259662013-05-25T18:16:42.535-07:002013-05-25T18:16:42.535-07:00Time Magazine had an excellent science column when...Time Magazine had an excellent science column when I was growing up. I read about Wiener in 1948. Was enthralled. His next book - The Human Use of Human Beings - was less mathematical and more political Robert Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02389684132175725284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-15825814926469024062013-05-23T11:37:04.518-07:002013-05-23T11:37:04.518-07:00With regards to Markit's Chinese PMI - there w...With regards to Markit's Chinese PMI - there was a 7% drop in the Nikkei yesterday; US indices fell today before recovering and WTI went from $97 to $93 in three days (right before Memorial Day weekend of all weekends).Luke The Debtorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07527422933669490001noreply@blogger.com