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Zainab Ali - Recursion Schemes from First Principles

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This is about a paper published in 1991:  Functional programming with bananas, lenses, envelopes and barbed wire  by Erik Meijer, Maarten Fokkinga & Ross Paterson. Other references to articles and papers by Milewski , Wadler and Gibbons at 32:48 . I also came across this paper by Wadler:  The Girard-Reynolds Isomorphism . I wish I had known about this, it would have saved me several years of work! Mike Gordon presumably didn't know about it either: see Emily Riehl and Terrence Tau on The Future of Mathematics . Subscribe to  Lambda World .

Lykke Li - Lucky Again

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She has a new album. See  Lykke Li Inks With Neon Gold Records, New Album ‘The Afterparty’ Due in May . Subscribe to Lykke Li . 

Jorge Diaz on Heisenberg's Über quantentheoretische Umdeutung kinematischer und mechanischer Beziehungen

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This is so different to the story you get from most introductory textbooks. See  Angela Collier and Gabriele Carcassi on Physics Textbooks . Here's his video on the ground state:   And here's his video on how Planck produced his black-body radiation curve formula: Subscribe to Dr Jorge S. Diaz .

Aircraft Design

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  Subscribe to German Science Guy . There is a company that have been developing parametrised CAD software for this sort of thing. See  https://www.ntop.com/  and  The Plane That Will Change Travel Forever, ...  Subscribe to  nTop .

Channel 4 Ways to Change the World - Clara Mattei

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She doesn't think telecommunications is important. I guess WhatsApp works fine for her and her friends. See  On The State of the World . Subscribe to Channel 4 .

Angela Collier and Gabriele Carcassi on Physics Textbooks

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Subscribe to Angela Collier . Griffith's exercises are interesting. Her summary was definitely vastly more insightful than the AI one. Gabriele Carcassi on what an introduction to quantum mechanics could look like: it would start by pointing out that classical statistical mechanics is incompatible with the Third Law of Thermodynamics , ... They have a paper published yesterday on this: see  Gabriele Carcassi, Manuele Landini and Christine A Aidala,  Classical mechanics as the high-entropy limit of quantum mechanics   Phys. Scr . 101 065105. Subscribe to Gabriele Carcassi . See also  Curt Jaimungal Interview With Robert Spekkens  and  Vitaly Vanchurin on Thermodynamics of Machine Learning . Last night I listened to Janet talking about time and Quantum Mechanics. What she said was really interesting: that superposition states might only be superposition states because the time-keeping machinery is independent of the observer's time.  See  Gabriele ...

On The State of the World

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People like Richard Murphy and Chris Hedges who think they know the state of the world by listening to the BBC and watching YouTube are misguided. That's not the state of the world, that's a mechanism for creating consensus about the state of the world, and it is a damaging one. There are much better ways to create consensus but people are so busy worrying about the state of the world they don't have any cognitive capacity to think about alternatives. It's a self-sustaining storm of nonsense. The sad fact is that we are collectively incapable of doing anything that does not generate a financial profit for someone. See  HRH King Charles III Celebrating Fifty Years of Saying The Same Damned Thing Over and Over Again .  I spent almost two years in Britain and nobody wanted to talk to me me about this. A nation of castle-dwelling shop-keepers. Reposting this because I found a video that says it much better:  Subscribe to Kyla Scanlon . Chris Hedges doesn't get it: Subsc...

How to Make AI Successful, ...

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 Redefine success, ... Subscribe to  Awesome Coding . 

Piplantri in Rajasthan, India

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As well as this ecological aspect, there is also a financial one where the parents of the child and the village invest money in a deposit account,   according to Wikipedia .  See the series on Vimeo: HOPE! We are In Time . Subscribe to Hope .

Neil Young - Big Crime

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They say this is the first time they played this song at a sound check in Chicago. They have an album coming out called 'As Time Explosions'. At least, that's how YouTube AI thinks the video description should be translated: Aquí está la primera vez que tocamos Big Crime: de la prueba de sonido en Chicago. Álbum 'As Time Explosions'. See As Time Explodes .   Subscribe to Neil Young .