Category: meaning

Structured- circles

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What you know, more tines than you know, is limited by the circles you keep. So, when something unknown enters the den of static amateurs, see: snobby-hobby] does it rouse… if so, what? Or, is the response a shrugish ‘so what’ The science that color emulsion response measurement changes… at the least, too late in my lab career, it explained the failure points of ‘neutral’ separation systems across emulsion brands… Seems big to me..

The stuff that fills in the lines…



“His account of the development of science held that science enjoys periods of stable growth punctuated by revisionary revolutions. To this thesis, Kuhn added the controversial ‘incommensurability thesis’, that theories from differing periods suffer from certain deep kinds of failure of comparability.” plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/

— https://www.columbia.edu/cu/tract/projects/complexity-theory/kuhn-the-structure-of-scien.pdf

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“The operations and measurements that a scientist undertakes in the laboratory are not “the given” of experience but rather “the collected with difficulty”. They are not what the scientist sees—at least not before his research is well advanced and his attention focused. Rather, they are concrete indices to the content of more elementary perceptions, and as such they are selected for the close scrutiny of normal research only because they promise opportunity for the fruitful elaboration of an accepted paradigm. Far more clearly than the immediate experience from which they in part derive, operations and measurements are paradigm-determined. Science does not deal in all possible laboratory manipulations. Instead, it selects those relevant to the juxtaposition of a paradigm with the immediate experience that that paradigm has partially determined. As a result, scientists with different paradigms engage in different concrete laboratory manipulations.”

—Kuhn (1962, p. 216)

possibly a change from subjective to objective definitions of color response .. this is foundational enough that all fields that relied on prior definitions can update their processes of analysis and synthesis of color .

>> Finding a new paradigm 

One day, Roxana was researching mathematical models of color perception, when a paper put her on a discovery path that lasted several years, marked by periods of excitement and fear, she says.

  1. I read a 1963 David MacAdam paper and noticed that the phenomenon that he observed (diminishing returns) was in conflict with the Riemannian model. Since that paper was 50 years old, I assumed everyone knew that.
  2. For about a year, I searched for a paper or book that would state the fact explicitly and could not find one. I started to wonder if nobody had noticed the contradiction but thought it was absurd and I was just being too full of myself.
  3. Then one day on my search, I came across the 1979 MacAdam paper (where he writes that there is no reason to question the Riemannian model) and thought: Well, if not even the guy who discovered diminishing returns sees the contradiction, maybe it is indeed true that nobody has…
  4. So, we decided to write the paper. But I totally expected that one of the reviewers or one of the readers would point out the place where the contradiction had been stated, and that we had just not been able to find it. But, well, so far so good…

>> Roxana now believes perceived hue is a “pure and logical phenomenon” without learned classification, cultural bias or personal preference. ….

Roxana’s team found that Schrödinger had stopped short before completing his mission because he used the “neutral axis” as a reference point without defining it. The neutral axis is the central, achromatic line of grays connecting black to white in 3D color space, serving as the foundation for measuring color saturation and hue.

“The 2022 discovery allowed us to define hue, saturation and lightness purely geometrically for the first time,” she says. “That was Schrödinger’s big goal, but it was not possible in a Riemannian space.” RCS..

THE OLD. PRIOR FOUNDATIONS USED TO BUILD

D. B. Judd, Contributions to Color Science (Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, 1979), vol. 545.
D. L. MacAdam, Judd’s contributions to color metrics and evaluation of color differences. Color Res. Appl. 4, 177–193 (1979).

NOTE: MacAdam was a key researcher on color charts, illiminants, etc.

— https://doi.org/10.1002/col.5080060110

i’m always surprised, but frequently find that the failures in a hobby space lack curiosity about the subject; and I suspect that they also failed in their work space for the same reason .. they thought they knew more than they did and they were not curious enough to doubt them self .. [hence my calling them vBulls, or snobby-hobbiests

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

winterizing AI

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Since last November I have been aggressively reading about and testing AI systems in familiar topics. in the months since November I’ve read ,on average, seven articles a day … These have resulted in several static pages along with a dozen draft posts ..time for a marker..

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.H.P. Lovecraft – The Call of Cthulhu

THIS

the types of queries i’ve posed are about details of silicon valley as business and social model. additionally, i have asked for code snippets. these they provide readily… even being able to translate cross languges, with one suprising failure: mistaking dartmouth basic as the DART language.

none of the models correctly answered chem questions from this bank of texts.

photochem old standard:

  • Glafkides, P., “Photographic Chemistry”, 
  • James, T. H., “The Theory Of The Photographic Process”, 
  • Neblette, C.B., “Photography:Its Principles And Practices”,
  • Nietz, A. H., “The Theory of Development”,
  • The Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. 3rd edition and 4th edition. Volume #6, Color photography
  • Haist ”Modem Photographic Processing” 

software engineers have been able to engineer an assistant . And it delivers conversation as though it were in a Sand Hill meeting . The enthusiasm amongst the programming and SWE community is increasingly joyous … they will be able to eliminate low level jobs .. They also Believe they will be able to eliminate all of those jobs that they never understood and never liked .. HR and marketing ..

it can code because the compiler error checks .. those fields without intermediate verification systems are subject to failure of vocabulary — it sounds good..

AI is right now the child of Silicon Valley– The silicon valley of the internet age — electrons on clouds. Fantasy of the 40s …

The avalanche has occurred … clawbots drive mac mini sales… 3 weeks agp the claw popped onto swe dashboatds.

AI winter watch: 11.25 -> 2.26

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