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Jeremy Howard on Using AI

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His commentary sounds unusually sensible. Though that no longer seemed to be the case by about six minutes in, ...  Subscribe to Machine Learning Street Talk .  See also these two: Terrence Tao formalising a proof in Lean using Claude Code Subscribe to Terrence Tao .  Jaques Carette on Formalising Category Theory in Agda Subscribe to Topos Institute .  My thoughts last night from my hospital bed: Syntax, Semantics and Syllables Minds, Brains and Communications

US Military Weaponising Jesus

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See  https://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/  and  MS NOW’s Ali Velshi Covers MRFF in Superb Segment on the Dangerous Infusion of Religion into the Iran War by Commanders Pushing End-Times Prophecy .  I made this before I saw that:  See The History Guy on Warfarin. It was discovered in 1944 in  Coumarin , a chemical appearing in sweet clover hay after an innoculation with mould.  Subscribe to The History Guy .  Then see  Flaming Lips - American Head  and  Glenn Diesen Interview With Ted Postol .  Subscribe to DemocracyNow!   Academy of Ideas on Selective Totalitarianism Subscribe to Academy of Ideas .  The Onion :

Glenn Diesen Interview With Ted Postol

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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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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+ .