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Anton Petrov on the Evolution of Sight

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See my comment : 13:54 That "burst of evolutionary innovation" was also when qualia like colour evolved, ... As well as evolving predator-prey relationships there were plants evolving coloured flowers and fruit that changed colour when it was ripe which meant that birds and animals could see it, and birds whose plumage became coloured because their mates could see it, and finally people who hunted the birds and animals etc, etc, .... I wonder what new qualia trilobites evolved?  Subscribe to Anton Petrov . 

VeloCity Startup Accelerator for Undergraduates

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See Stuff That Used to Happen in Ontario  and  Financial Viability of Livestreaming v. Outdoor Living .  Subscribe to Robert Elder .  Subscribe to Startup Canada . On taking over the TVs: See  https://fcast.org/   Subscribe to FUTO .

Freya Holmér Reading a Computer Graphics Paper

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See Geodesics in Heat: A New Approach to Computing Distance Based on Heat Flow by  Keenan Crane, Clarisse Weischedel, and Max Wardetzky. This turned up at a crucial point: See  Richard MacNeal. 1949. The Solution of Partial Differential Equations by means of Electrical Networks. Ph.D. Dissertation. Caltech. Right after  Simplicial complex . The material in this thesis is the result of a year's experience in the solution of problems on the Caltech Electric Analog Computer. Although much work has been done elsewhere, the solution of partial differential equations is a relatively new field for the Caltech Computer. It is natural that such an undertaking should initiate points of view and techniques that differ from those of other investigators., This thesis contains the development of certain ideas that have been useful to the author in the solution of problems on the computer. In Part I, finite difference methods are treated with reference to problems with one space varia...

Clara Mattei on Institutions and Economics

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Subscribe to  FREE .  Gonzako Chavez Alvarez needs to hear this, I think:  Subscribe to  Gonzalo Chavez Alvarez .  This was posted April 7, 2026: Subscribe to  Hazel Thayer .  Well, what about solar-steam-punk-techno-anarcho-syndacalism? That's when you all live in land-restoration, permaculture forest-gardening communities and manage your collective investment using recycled technology to build financial systems whose reserve currency is land under indigenous management:  Subscribe to  Spagoshi .  Then when you finally get some livestock you can measure your wealth in head of bison: Subscribe to  Smithsonian .  In the mid-1800s, a cultural belief known as “manifest destiny” dictated that white settlers were the rightful owners of the entire North American continent – even though Native Americans had inhabited the land for centuries. In order to clear that land for white settlers, the US Army engaged in violent scorched-earth t...

Financial Viability of Livestreaming v. Outdoor Living

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Subscribe to  Robert Elder Software . Subscribe to  Dr Hilary Agro . 20:22 See these projects:  ParPolity: Political Vision for a Good Society A new economic system for the 21st Century   28:08  "If you're watching this video you can likely afford a roof over your head and groceries,...  or you live in Canada."  My comment : What a brilliant video! Thank you. Unfortunately the tech oligarchs are very likely wrong about AI and none of them seem to know how you could actually develop technology that really works. The answer as you say is teaching, and they're not interested in that because it needs good communications which is awkward.  Subscribe to  Hazel is Online . Subscribe to  Angela Collier .  My comment : So I got half an hour in and I realise way too late that I am now committed to a 3.75 hour Israeli settlement with the Palestinians in Gaza. Sorry, I let my autosuggestion finish that sentence. I just wanted to see why it gu...

Amazing Interview Afshin Rattansi did with John Bolton

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Janet Axelrud on the Soul

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See her Substack piece  Rice On A Flat Plate - A Metaphor for Trust . Subscribe to  Curious Wandering Souls . Here's the audiobook Janet was listening to:  YouTube demonetized him. You can support him at  https://buymeacoffee.com/nolanreads . Subscribe to  Nolan Reads .  Her balloon and the sun metaphor reminded me of L'homme est le seul oiseau qui porte sa cage by Claude Weiss: Subscribe to  Dust .  On the importance of words, again this made me think of this talk and the paper on  Emerging dynamic regimes and tipping points from finite empirical principles  by Sergio Cobo-López, Matthew Witt, Forest L. Rohwer and Antoni Luque. Verbal communication seems to set the scale of observations of the participants, so that their reality is shared. Without that common web of verbal communications each person lives in their own private world of experience, which can become to be like a cage.  Think about the ancient rites associated with s...

Plum Village - Young Scientists: The Future is Now

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Subscribe to Plum Village .  The answer to the AI question at 1:14:37 reminded me of this thesis: Subscribe to  Santa Fe Institute . 

Olive Badger on Ford's Really Stupid Idea

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It makes me nauseous to think that there are people out there that are this dumb. One more reason why we need to stop using their money. Boycott, Divest and Sanction! See  Olive Badger on Car "Kill Switches"  and  Olive Badger on Fucked-up Economics . Then  Crisis in Perception - An Example of a Common Problem  and  Nima Alkhorshid talking with Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson .  Subscribe to  Olive Badger .