Recent content by Lewis Goudy

I suggest "non-Archimedean" because of the analogy with the simplest example of a non-Archimedean ordered field: the reals with zero replaced with a copy of the reals, by analogy with stiction/friction. The infinitesimal field represents the trust norm of the individual, given that money itself...

The only thing in which trust is inherent is money, aka "crystallized trust".

Today I learned that the bond formed by red oak and Titebond III is over twice as strong as that formed by any other domestic (US) wood and any other glue tested: a traditional yellow glue (PVA), a Type I waterproof PVA [Titebond III], a liquid hide glue, a hot hide glue, a slow-set epoxy, and...

The babes on bikes are not seeing a reflected image when they look at my office window, but you are right about relative brightness and contrast having impedance-like characteristics. Suppose my blinds were two in number, with a one inch gap between them, of material whose albedo was zero. They...

I said "optical" in haste but "visual" or perhaps "informational" or "cryptologic" would have been apter in some ways. There seem to be several perspectives of like applicability.

Another example of an "optical diode" is a grid or screen which is close to the eye and distant from the object observed. Even after giving effect to the circumstance that the level of illumination in my office is likely twenty times greater than that of the roadway in front of my house, I can...

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Suggest you get back to me after a glance at Safire's typically workmanlike treatment. http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2004/02/01/2003097080 No Bogart but she was a dead ringer for Lauren Bacall.

I am alive to the sense and purpose of your closing caveat, as well as to the fact that political stuff is at some level both technical and unavoidable. Just as justice delayed is justice denied, so procrastination and temporizing can serve to kick the can down the road long enough that somebody...

>there is some risk involved< I think this is another example of a proxy domain in which the genesis of conflict is ideological disagreement about the nature of risk and how its management ought to addressed (and by whom). Here the radical fundamentalists are those who ignorantly suppose that...

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