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Network (1975)

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I'd never heard of this until 5 minutes ago. I reckon John Gage found a copy of this movie whilst he was browsing through the "Sale" box at his local video rental store sometime in 1984 and came up with the slogan "The Network is The Computer". It was all a ploy to get Larry Ellison to buy Sun in 2009 because he was the Chosen One,....  Subscribe to  Pedro Palatnik .  See  Olive Badger on Software  and Audrey Henson on Oracle and Healthcare Data . Subscribe to  Tech Impact Report . 

Defensive Security in the Movies

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Subscribe to  PD TV . Subscribe to  Paramount Plus .  Subscribe to  The Guardian .  Maybe I over-interpreted the compliance reference, but,...  What do you think?  Delve accused of misleading customers with ‘fake compliance’ . Subscribe to  Defensive Podcasts . See  Olive Badger on Software . 

Rachel Blevins talking to Elijah Magnier

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My comment : If you Google Elijah Magnier then the search prompt offers you "Elijah Magnier Internet Personality" I noticed the same with Patrick Henningsen. Magnier has decades of experience covering conflicts in the ME. I guess that's why he's just an Internet personality not a proper TV personality. See also this comment : And this comment : And this one : My other  comment : Interesting. That explains quite well the pile of BS that C. W. Lemoine posted on his YT a few hours ago. He says he doesn't want to go to jail. If you look up CSAR then you don't read about operations like this. See his video below.  Subscribe to  Rachel Blevins . He writes books and reviews films, like Critical Drinker does,... but with combat experience.  My comment : 3:48 "One of C-130s allegedly got stuck, and they sent in another C-130, to pick everyone up, and then they scuttled the two C-130s and MH-6s and brought the wizzo home safely." On foot then, or did they sti...

Panagis Polykretis on Problems in Medical Publishing

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This is beautifully presented in the Church of St. Bartholomew on Monte Oliveto in Florence . See his Substack page  Only relentless determination gets dissenting data published in peer-reviewed journals .  See the commentary here  https://www.oncotarget.com/article/28829/text  and the paper Exploring the potential link between mRNA COVID-19 vaccinations and cancer: A case report with a review of haematopoietic malignancies with insights into pathogenic mechanisms  here  https://www.oncotarget.com/article/28827/text/ . See also  Clare Craig and John Campbell on her new book Spiked  and  Audrey Henson on Oracle and Healthcare Data  and links therein. Yes, you do need to read them all and listen to what people say in the videos, otherwise you won't understand what you are reading here right now.  So, Computer Science departments at even minor Universities, try just a little bit harder please ! And  Happy Easter Everyone .  ...

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  Audrey Henson on Oracle and Healthcare Data  and  One of My Co-conspirators is Being Oppressed by the Deep State .  Subscribe to  Olive Badger .  Here's an example of what people are doing with AI "coding tools": Refactoring all the SQL queries in an application to use a different interface. Subscr...

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 .