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Documentary About Bolivia

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Made by Patly Productions around 2010, I think. See  http://www.patlyproductions.com/pages/catalogue.php?lang=en&vusurterre=36 . It features the opening of the airstrip at Mapiri .  Subscribe to Free Documentary .

YouTux - The Great Tech Lie

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Trio Mandili - Sad iknebi?

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Bitluni - 160 Core Risc-V Cluster on an M.2 Card

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Computing SHA256 hashes at 820 KH/s draws 4 Watts, ... ( 13:42 ) but he has some problem with the serial I/O ( 13:01 ) that I don't understand. Maybe it's with the Windows driver? Here's his video about using the Nanjing Qinheng CH382 PCIe serial interface chip on an M.2 board to make an LED matrix: CH382 is a PCI-Express bus converter chip, which converts PCIE bus to dual serial ports and printer port, including two asynchronous serial ports compatible with 16C550 or 16C750, and one EPP/ECP enhanced bidirectional parallel port. The asynchronous serial port provides a transceiver with independent 256-byte FIFO buffer, supports communication baud rate up to 8Mbps and can be used for RS232 serial port expansion of PCIE bus, PCIE high-speed serial port with automatic hardware flow control, serial ports networking, RS485 communication, parallel/printer port expansion, etc.    See  https://github.com/bitluni/Mdot2Matrix . Subscribe to Bitluni . 

Ball Lightning Caught on Camera in Alberta

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Toby on Why Her Book Isn't Available on Amazon

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You can order a signed copy from https://tibees.com . See the full explanation on  Toby Hendy has Published Her Book: A Guide to Making Friends in the Fourth Dimension .  Subscribe to Tibees . 

Another Sub-project Inspired by the 2PI502

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The Raspberry PI Pico has some UART interfaces that you can use to do asynchronous serial communications using three or five wires. These are based on the ARM PrimeCell UART and are quite capable of running at 2Mbps, so good enough for processing a stereo CD Digital Audio  stream, which needs just 1,411,200 bps, over a USB 2.0 connection. The Pico UARTs have 32 character Tx/Rx FIFOs which can be directly connected to DMA channels . The Pico has 12 DMA channels and the Pico 2 has 16.  There is an example of using DMA channels to transfer a packet stream over a UART . The notable thing here is that, because the hardware does almost all of the work, the amount of programming necessary is minimal: all that is involved is setting up some registers to configure the UART and the two DMA channels. I was surprised that there is no library for running an error-corrected session layer over such a link. The FreeRTOS library provides no such facility, and it will be awkward to implement ...

John Baez on Symmetric Monoidal Categories A Rosetta Stone and Noson S. Yanofsky on Diagonalization, Fixed Points, and Self-reference

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Talk given at Topos Institute Finding the Right Abstractions Summit, 2021:   22:54 on Open Systems, See Jenann Ismael - Laplace meets Godel: How Self reference Foils Prediction : Subscribe to Topos Institute . Yanofsky is an excellent lecturer  42:06 See Paulo Santos' talk on Yablo's Paradox .  See these two papers: N.S. Yanofsky  A Universal Approach to Self-Referential Paradoxes F. William Lawvere Diagonal arguments and cartesian closed categories with author commentary .  Subscribe to  Weizsäcker-Zentrum Universität Tübingen . This lecture by John Baez was just one of several really interesting talks:     In particular Evan Patterson's short introduction to Categorical Logic: At 17:48 there is a an interesting slide mentioning Bicartesian Closed Categories , which I'd never heard of: A bicartesian closed category is a cartesian closed category with finite coproducts. ... Note that a bicartesian closed category is bicartesian (that i...

Bolivia’s Cholita skaters ImillaSkate fight for gender equality and indigenous pride with clothing

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When I was passing through Paris on the Metro last year I saw a poster of a photograph of two skateboarders in La Paz, I think. It was an exhibition of pictures by an American photographer. It was really beautiful. Subscribe to Nowness .