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Olive Badger on Software

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My comment : I think the answer is not to use any software that is written by programmers. That includes LLMs because they just copy software written by human programmers. What you have to do is design algorithms for generating software from formal specifications. I know it sounds boring, but 99% of all the software in use is actually essentially all doing the same thing, just it's not obvious because of all the underlying software dependencies which make it all look different. It would also make software development as cheap as calculating spreadsheets, so this would not be obscenely profitable and people like Larry Ellison wouldn't want it to happen.  See  One of My Co-conspirators is Being Oppressed by the Deep State .  Subscribe to  Olive Badger . 

Happy Easter Everyone

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Zachary Denman on The Crystal Palace

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My comment : Maybe the real miracle was the raising of the funds (£85,000) for building it by public subscription. Apparently it was very successful financially and the profits funded all sorts of things like the Natural History Museum, the V&A and dozens of other enterprises. The Royal Family had more charisma in those days.  Subscribe to  Zachary Denman . See also  Weird Stuff :  Subscribe to  Tibees2 .  Forty years later, a story from Chicago: Subscribe to  Claudy Op den Kamp . 

One of My Co-conspirators is Being Oppressed by the Deep State

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See  The Future is Closer than I Thought .  So he actually has a business plan,... ...  And he's live streaming the development effort.  YouTube is playing along,... It or someone dropped my message about this blog post.  Then it dropped the message about the derp-state I guess it's AI that's censoring. See  https://shopify.robertelder.org/ . cancelled at the age of 16, like so many others since 1962: Subscribe to  ksdreger .  Subscribe to  Samaneri Jayasāra .  So maybe Swift on Security can explain. Subscribe to  Taylor Swift .  Six years after Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? was released,...  Subscribe to VCF .  Subscribe to  Robert Elder . On plumbing, and why plumbers don't answer the phone,...  Subscribe to  Morning Brew .  See  Olive Badger on Software . 

Clare Craig and John Campbell on her new book Spiked

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9:47 Sounds like a message for Hannah Fry : In 2018, Fry presented Contagion! The BBC Four Pandemic, about the possible impact of a flu pandemic, in which she said "we are about to simulate the outbreak of a fatal contagion throughout the UK ... if I can succeed this will save lives when, not if, a real pandemic hits." 13:23 On models and saving lives.  17:50 On the importance of data.  See Clare's books  Spiked and Expired on Amazon.  Subscribe to  Dr John Campbell .

The Action Lab - Rotating Waves and Spherical Harmonics

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This is brilliant. See the paper Rotating waves by Peter H. Ceperley Am. J. Phys. 60, 938–942 (1992). If you get past the commercial, you'll get a great explanation of the meaning of those  spherical harmonics  distributions.  Subscribe to  The Action Lab . 

Ambassador Chas W. Freeman Jr. on Trump's Latest Projectile Vomit Speech

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Chas Freeman is a writer and former Ambassador of the United States to Saudi Arabia.  My comment: 3:43 Oman is "scrupulously neutral"? I guess if hosting bases for British special forces is considered scrupulously neutral, then you're right Ambassador, but I think you're wrong. I think the Brits are in a series of mass zoom calls with God alone knows what shadow secret offshore BS banking scam to figure a way to use the HSBC to rip off the Iranian government. The HSBC you remember doesn't know whether it is headquartered in Shanghai or Canada Street, London. This whole farce is a complete sh!t show! Subscribe to Dialogue Works .  It's only a temporary measure anyway. There are a half a dozen British Civil Engineering Fraudsters itching to get their hands on the fees for designing and building a canal to circumcise the Musandam Peninsula .  Subscribe to MegaBuilds .  See also  French Police Investigating a "mafia" Associated with Freemason's Lod...

Curt Jaimungal Interviewing Renato Renner

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I've only listened to the first 33 minutes and 32 seconds of this but I'm impressed.  See his paper written with Daniela. Frauchiger:  Quantum theory cannot consistently describe the use of itself .  There is an associated software model available from  https://github.com/jangnur/Quanundrum . See also  Thought experiments in a quantum computer  by Nuriya Nurgalieva, Simon Mathis, Lídia del Rio and Renato Renner. As regards the recursion, I wonder whether impredicative types would make a difference? See the talk by Simon Peyton Jones on impredicativity in System-F and Hindley-Milner type inference in  this post of mine .  See also Jenann Ismael's  A Participatory Universe in the Realist Mode  (2024) and Robert J. Aumann's very short 1976 paper Agreeing to Disagree . See also my post  Jenann Ismael - Laplace meets Godel: How Self reference Foils Prediction .  See also  Gabriele Carcassi - A Simple Explanation of Quantum Mech...

Emily Hopkins Demoing The Pedal They Designed

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It does a bunch of effects! She spent years trying hundreds of pedals on her harp before they did this. See  Emily and Russ Made an Effects Pedal . This covers just the "Normal" sounds,...  Get Parting here: https://bit.ly/45QJtGk ​ Or here: https://bit.ly/3Z6kHhK ​ Subscribe to  Harp Lady . 

Britain's Role in Defensive Bombing of Iran

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2,000 lb JDAM bombs stored in RAF Welford delivered by road and AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapons stored in Italy and flown to RAF Fairford. Then delivered to Iran for defensive strikes.  See this link to donate to Declassified UK  https://secure.declassifieduk.org/page/167716/donate/1?ea.tracking.id=buxp399y . Subscribe to  Declassified UK .