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Angela Collier on AI

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She has to write software at her job. I feel sorry for her. Ah but now we are going to have quantum AI and that's going to redesign everything perfectly from scratch. Seriously. That nice lady from Microsoft said so! All we have to figure out is how you interface a pile of crap (including all other AIs) to the perfect design for the future. Subscribe to Angela Collier . Lunduke - Microsoft Creates a New Form of Quantum Matter to Avoid Fixing Windows How many qubits do you need to play tic-tac-toe? Nine. See e.g.  https://github.com/maddy-tod/tictactoe-roli . If you write an ordinary classical program to play tic-tac-toe then you only need to consider whether the players select corners, edges or the center square, because there are many board states which are just rotations, reflections or transpositions (swapping Xs and Os) of other states. Subscribe to Lunduke . Here's Sabine Hossenfelder recovering from an existential crisis and advertising Brilliant again: Subscribe to Sabi...
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Rachel Phillips Talking With Jon Kim and Ben Dejong About State Geological Surveys

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State Geological Surveys started out as projects but then became institutions. See  https://www.stategeologists.org/ Subscribe to  Geosociety . See  Geochemist Girl on The Origin of Earth's Water . 
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Printing An Underwater Autonomous Vehicle

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It looks like a bottle of Pepsi with fins!  See  https://www.cpsdrone.com/ . Their aim is to build the best underwater drones in the world.  Subscribe to  CPSdrone . I completely understand why they want to do that! See  MBARI - A Day in The Life of an Underwater Robot . MBARI say they need many more to improve survey coverage:  See  Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute .  Subscribe to MBARI . 
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Spitfire Audio - BBC Radiophonic Workshop Library

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Sounds like an argument about the history of electronic music is developing!  Subscribe to Spitfire Audio . Subscribe to Erica Synths . They did an interview too (with really superb recording!):  Subscribe to Spitfire Audio .
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SCP Foundation - Books Are Pasé

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See https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/   Cistercian Numerals And knitting? Maybe ask Thomas Forster? Send your solutions to  https://bleeptrack.de/ or https://blinry.org/operation-mindfuck/ . 22:32 Turing Completeness .  37:39 I looked up Google to see if there was anything on transducers for detecting REM sleep phases , but I didn't find anything. Weird. Subscribe to media.ccc.de .  One Million Checkboxes:  Subscribe to Recurse Centre . One Million Checkboxes and other games:  https://eieio.games/  Subscribe to bleeptrack . Subscribe to Because Science
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Geochemist Girl on The Origin of Earth's Water

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She makes nuclear physics sound interesting!!! And this prompted me to get myself a copy of the amazing 1967 book Physical Geography by R. K. Gresswell : I had a copy of this with me in Bolivia which I bought at a US Embassy staff second-hand book sale in Calacoto in La Paz. Subscribe to GEO GIRL .
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Louis Rossmann on The World Going to Hell in A Shopping Cart

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Amazon are going to prevent people downloading Kindle ebooks which means that you cannot be sure that you are reading the same text you read before on a Kindle. It also means that authors can have their works changed after they were published, even after they have died! See this paywalled story in The Times Roald Dahl ebooks ‘force censored versions on readers’ despite backlash : Puffin announces plans to publish a classic collection as it emerges online libraries are being automatically updated with sensitivity changes. See also this Guardian story Roald Dahl publisher announces unaltered 16-book ‘classics collection’ Series will be released alongside controversially amended versions to leave readers ‘free to choose which version they prefer’. Both of these were from February 2023. It is totally fucked up. There is a yawning chasm between the legislative rights and the actual technology that's being used. See Louis Rossmann is the US FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection an...
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Brian Eno on What Art Does

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He has written a book with Bette Adriaanse: What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory . Subscribe to Faber Books . Here is talking about his calculus. The audio is terrible on this, it makes you feel like your ear has filled with water while you were swimming!  Subscribe to Institute of Art and Ideas .
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Anna Collard & Christine Gordon-Bennett - Zen and The Art of Cognitive Defence

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I failed the first lesson. I couldn't carry on listening after she told the story about how she had to do a cyber-security training course after she clicked a link in a message. See Hannah Lee Duggan and Ntando Mngomezulu on Securing Your Environment . Subscribe to BSides Cape Town .
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Jean Michel Jarre on AI, VR and Music and The Arts

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Jean Michel Jarre just reorganised his Equinoxe Infinity album playlist, so now it goes "Infinity, one, two, three." See  Gigi Young - Demented Mars Madness .  This was from early December 2018: The last clip is a Q&A about VR and it was done in VR. It's not much to look at, but the discussion is interesting. Close Your Eyes Subscribe to Jean-Michel Jarre . Here's a 2015 talk in his studio, about how they made that track:  Subscribe to Music Radar Tech .
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