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DemistifySci Podcast - Paradox Lost

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It's their new book  on presale now . Part II coming up:  See my comment to this post : There is a problem with your general thesis to the effect that the only reasonable explanation of a law of force is one which is couched in terms of some material medium. The problem is that physical force as we intuitively perceive it comes ultimately from our own agency acting against a spontaneous physical evolution of a system. So when we are in free fall we experience no force because we are unable to react against it as we do when we stand up on the surface of the earth, for example. But when we are in free fall we can experience inertia as a force if we push another free-falling massive object away from us. So what this amounts to in classical terms is that we interact with a closed deterministic system and in so doing we interfere with its normal spontaneous physical evolution. So what this tells us is that the empirical basis of experimental physics, which includes the agency and...

Jeffrey Sachs on Judge Napolitano's Talk Show

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My comment: See  Clara Mattei on Institutions and Economics .  Subscribe to  Judging Freedom .  My comment : If you only look at capital flows then you will never be able to find any solution to the problems. You have to look at material and energy flows and at the web of dependencies they create and then at how that web would look in a properly functioning (i.e. sustainable) economy. A very important part of this analysis is information, knowledge and the necessary human skills to realise any industry. Economists try to understand all this by abstracting all the details away and then end up talking absolute nonsense about value as if it is measured in US dollars.  We need to build stable systems with convergent dynamics. See  Jenann Ismael - Laplace meets Godel: How Self reference Foils Prediction .  See  Frederic Schuller on Metric and Topological Spaces  and  Tensor Fields and Simplicial Complexes .  Subscribe to  Radhika D...

Tensor Fields and Simplicial Complexes

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Listening to Freya Holmér last night I started to get glimmers of an idea I had long ago about how to represent vector spaces in computational processes using this recursive abstract type :  abstype 'a point = POINT   of {getx :  'a vector,       diff :  'a point -> 'a point,       move :  'a point -> 'a point,       scale : 'a -> 'a point,       proj :  'a point -> 'a} with    fun new i (op +) (op -) (op * ) dot =    let fun self x =  POINT       {getx = x,        move = fn (POINT pr) =>           (self (x + (#getx pr))),        diff = fn (POINT pr) =>          self (x - (#getx pr)),        scale = fn i =>          (self (x * i)),        proj = fn (POINT pr) =>     ...

George Galloway and Crispin Flintoff on the Starmer Rentboy Arsoning Case

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See  Disgusting British Establishment  and  Kim Iversen and Ben Swann on Pizzagate .  Here's his Victory Day monologue: Subscribe to  George Galloway . 

Audrey Henson on the Genesis AI Scam

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She says it's not to support the AI bubble, it's an evil plan to develop targetted bioweapons and stuff. See  Angela Collier on the US Department of Energy AI Scam . Y'all be on your best behavior now, ... see  Audrey Henson on Oracle and Healthcare Data . Subscribe to The Drey Dossier .  

Happy Mother's Day - Even if you aren't from Baja California!

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Frederic Schuller on Metric and Topological Spaces

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1:16:57 On metrics that don't measure and hair-dressers! See  Intransitive dice . See  Tensor Fields and Simplicial Complexes  and  observable in nlab : In physics and in the theory of dynamical systems (deterministic, stochastic, quantum, autonomous, non-autonomous, open, closed, discrete, continuous, with finite or infinite number of degrees of freedom…), an observable is a quantity in some theoretical framework whose value can be measured and observed in principle. Any good theoretical framework of physical phenomena should come with carefully established notion of an observable.  ... See also measurement in nlab : In principle, any interaction between two physical systems is a measurement, whereby each system measures the state of the other. In practice, we break the symmetry by treating one system as the real physical system S of study and the other system as merely a measuring apparatus A with the sole purpose of measuring S. If the properties of A are mo...

The Kitchener Public Library

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See  Queen's Bush : It is known as the location of communities established by Black settlers, many formerly enslaved in the United States, in what would become Canada. Established in 1820 and known as the Queen's Bush Settlement, the community grew to more than 2,000. In the early 1840s, the land on which they lived was surveyed for future sale. Following the survey, many of the Black residents were unable to pay for the land and migrated out of Queen's Bush. Listen to Michel Hudson on his sequel to his book on the future of civilization:  Michael Hudson Interviewed by Glenn Diesen .  Subscribe to  Robert Elder Software .  Subscribe to  Glenn Diesen . 

Angela Collier on the US Department of Energy AI Scam

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My comment : 6:09 Why, it's a department of energy scam of course. Didn't some AI once say intelligence would be something you can get on a metered account, like electricity? Or was that an AI CEO that said that? Or was it a goblin? 29:53 They destroyed science funding but they had to, to save the economy, see. This is how it goes: we have a huge amount of private debt invested in AI companies that have no "revenue model", i.e. they have no conceivable way to actually ever make a profit, because people only use AI because it's free. If you charge any reasonable amount for it (i.e. enough to cover the costs) then nobody will be able to afford to use any AI at all. So these businesses are not viable, but thousands of shadow banks and sovereign wealth funds and goodness knows what else have invested in them. Now the only thing to do is throw more money at it, so you get more institutions dependent on cheap AI and then you charge the smart ones to make the necessary...

Robert Elder at the University of Waterloo Accelerator Center

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Subscribe to Robert Elder Software . This was from March, 2025: Ready to fast-track your startup? The Accelerator Centre's AC:Studio program  offers up to $100,000 in seed funding, personalized one-on-one mentorship, and expert tactical support to help you take your business to the next level.  Eligibility: Early-stage startups with an innovative tech product or process. Support: Mentorship, in-kind hours with industry experts, market research, and more. Results: $40M+ raised, 700+ new jobs created, and $21M+ in revenue generated in 2023 alone! Applications open April 30, 2025. Don’t miss out on the chance to grow your business with AC:Studio’s comprehensive support!   They have this group meeting "She talks tech", ... See  The Non-profit Industry in Kitchener, Ontario . Subscribe to Accelerator Center .