Category: The Why

the J-word

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tensions in translation . The doctors office always filled with tensions people nervous people in need people with knowledge people with anxiety .

Unshared side words. Shades of Shannon . confused interpretation one is very serious, anxious; the other, attempting to include more than the routine ..to expand their interactions…

‘give me just a minute …’

‘ahhh, the J- word ‘ to which Jeffery responds

‘yes, Jeffery Haswirt..’ mistaking what “J” means.

He failed the puzzle the very puzzled that AI fails… Not a math problem but a problem about words and partial words. The

riddle of life .

feta cheese and rice

see, Ong

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neither Shannon nor Wood explain, even though I would’ve used them both to extend this comment beyond example and into explanation ..

several weeks ago amongst the AI community a riddle was passed around that AIs failed . The riddle was about a car wash. it didn’t involve math , but of course the , inference engines used math in their attempt at solution . A week later follow up experiment on the riddle included human respondents : a third of them got the wrong answer ,likely not using math ,instead just using the shared meaning of words. their culture made them stumble just as the AI culture made them stumble .

THIS IS NOT THE PROBLEM:

Two trains approach each other on a straight track of length dd at speeds v1v1 and v2v2. A bird starts at one train, flies to the other at vbvb, turns around, flies back, and so on until the trains meet. How far does the bird fly?

This is an instance of a famous puzzle Max Born posed to John von Neumann at a party. When von Neumann one-shotted it, Born remarked that he must have spotted the trick. Von Neumann replied: “What trick? All I did was sum the geometric series

is this the party to whom I am speaking

Why Didn’t You Make Dye Transfers

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Everybody loved dye transfer. Nobody made them. Why? This century, this time span one and all bemoan the death of a friend they never knew. Never even visited.

  • supplies were a phone call away
  • documentation was available free, or for minimal charges
  • workshops were held at getaway photo shops.
  • several colleges held courses
  • trade schools were in major cities, or by mail-order

A simple enough question . with likely very few answers — honest, introspective responses.

The obvious response: there aren’t any materials . What about when there were — why didn’t you buy the Efke film? Assuming you were an adult in 1990, why didn’t you buy Kodak dye transfer material ?

And for those of you who did buy the materials: why didn’t you use them ?

Continuing along this expansion, for those of you who bought Materials and took a workshop, why didn’t you use dye transfer as your print process?

If you were drawn to dye transfer enough to buy the materials and take the training, why didn’t you expand your skills and become a die transfer printer?

Why do people buy beyond use : compulsion vs obsession. The ownership vs the authorship. Do they believe themselves stewards?

Catalog prices for some Dye Transfer supplies. These are the retailer list price. Labs paid much less.

Consider: Giffen vs Veblen goods. The professional depended on the supplies. The hobbyist didn’t. 1981 was a break year for Kodak’s process. By 1986, the decision had been made to let the process run out the clock. During this time, the larger labs had a decreasing dye transfer business. It was maintained as a prestige factor attracting interest but resulting in few projects. Small specialist labs grew in the eighties; even the best known added other processes to their sales brochure. “Now, the finest Black and White from the finest Color Lab.” — 1987 —

Kodak chose not to license, nor sell the process[ 1981,2] . Wonder why? In their final run of product, the only supply sold completely was Tanning developer. Nope, not even all the matrix film was sold. Not even the Pan Matrix. So it goes…. much of the film and paper was held in store for years.

and then it was recycled. The Fotokemika branded Efke matrix film also saw few buyers.

Maybe there is a market for the Coffee Mug, the Trucker Hat, the Film Vest… not the film… Sell the tchotchke, maybe the tattoo, no need for the mats and blanks.