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Flaming Lips - American Head

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This just gets better with every listening. There's more in it every time. It must have been written with a dude from the future. See  Janet Axelrud's First Draft for a Short Film .  See the album here . Riding the Fun Work Train in Cochabamba,...  Madness:  See?  Maybe being some particular Christian is  what causes all the problems?  Me thinking about Jeremy Narby's book The Cosmic Serpent .  Subscribe to  The Flaming Lips . 

Janet Axelrud's First Draft for a Short Film

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Working title:  If I Love a Little Harder    She writes: When videoing yourself improv dancing lends itself to an artsy film.  This is draft 1. I'm not sold on all the words and titles I chose but I do like this version. It's good enough. It makes me want to dance all over again. Its slow. It asks me to pause. Subscribe to Curious Wandering Souls .  This set me off on a new musical trajectory that feels life-changing:  Subscribe to Anita Lane .  Subscribe to  Lateleigh .  Subscribe to Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds .  I met Lana Del Rey on my Birthday in 2020: That was directed and filmed by her sister Chuck, I think, and it all seemed like a wide-open invitation to collaborate . I tried, I really did, and I think I did OK , all told. And it definitely did me a lot of good, self-esteem-wise! I want to connect these two superficially quite different views of human consciousness. One is the Western Philosophical tradition and the other is t...

Dana Scott on Lattice Fixpoint Semantics and Gopal Gupta on Logic, Co-induction and Infinite Computation

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Dana Scott gave this talk in 2023, celebrating seventy years of saying absolutely everything .  cf   HRH King Charles III Celebrating Fifty Years of Saying The Same Damned Thing Over and Over Again  (that's called "iterating on the bottom", according to Larry Paulson.)   Subscribe to  Topos Institute . Gopal Gupta gave this talk on July 25, 2018. See  Emily Riehl and Terrence Tau on The Future of Mathematics . Mike Gordon was thinking about these things in February 2017. See  Daniel Tubbenhauer on Computational Science . 43:38 Discussion with Yuri Gurevich about the Category theory of this mechanism. Reminds me of something Robin Milner once told me: "You have to know some Category theory because whenever you make something they always want to know what Category it is." In this case the Category theorists were so happy to have something concrete they could actually get their hands on that they did all the Category theory for him!  51:53 An...

Juan Browne With Some Advice for Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu

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Dave Domminney Fowler Coding Guitar Sounds in C

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See  David Domminney Fowler explaining Digital Filters : Subscribe to Computerphile .

Glenn Diesen interview with Lawrence Wilkerson

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I wasn't going to post anything that might get any attention for the fruitcake war criminals,...  but here goes: Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired Colonel in the US Army and the former Chief of Staff to the US Secretary of State. See  James Hillman on Changing the Object of Our Desire .  Subscribe to Prof. Glenn Diesen . 

James Hillman on Changing the Object of Our Desire

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This was an interview conducted in 2006. It's a total joy to listen to. He died on October 27, 2011. See  Robert Bly - A Thousand Years of Joy . Stop your stupid fucking wars!  Subscribe to Tree+ . 

Billboard Interview with Laura Pausini

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She talks about her latest song,... Mariposa Tecknicolor See  Yo Canto 2  for the album.  Resta in Ascolto (21 December 2012) I don't think she's ever played in Bolivia. Subscribe to Billboard Latin and Laura Pausini . 

Simons Foundation interview with Margaret Wright

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Merge/upload from an UX-unfriendly page with Vimeo player on simonsfoundation.org . All rights on this video belong to Simons Foundation. 00:00:00​ Highlights 00:03:53​ Early Years in California, Arizona and Choosing Stanford 00:10:39​ Faculty at Stanford in Mathematics and the New Computer Science 00:14:49​ First Job at GTE Sylvania 00:20:20​ Faculty in Math and Computer Science at Stanford 00:25:11​ Work in England 00:28:36​ Back to Stanford 00:31:24​ Operations Research at Stanford 00:38:53​ Is Linear Programming Polynomial Time? 00:44:33​ Karmarkar’s Algorithm 00:49:48​ Creating Algorithms and Writing Software 01:00:13​ Working at Bell Labs: a Liberating Experience 01:03:05​ Bell Labs Nostalgia and Moving to Courant 01:09:12​ Being Department Chair at the Courant Institute 01:13:39​ Girls and Computer Science 01:17:09​ Committees and SIAM 01:25:03​ Advisory committees and the NAS 01:39:09​ Editing SIAM journals 01:43:44​ Applications That Work 01:47:51​ Accomplishments and Progress...