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Eugenia Cheng - The Joy of Abstraction

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Category Theory in Life Subscribe to Lambda World . Exciting! Here's a code for 20% off for *pre-orders* of "The Joy of Abstraction" through the @CambridgeUP website https://t.co/b3EJpWEQ5w - code is JOY20, should make it $20.76 if I've used my calculator correctly. (Or £16 in the UK.) (I did that one in my head!) Out in Oct! pic.twitter.com/ux81iKAunc — Dr Eugenia Cheng --no advice please-- (@DrEugeniaCheng) July 29, 2022 Chicago people! I will be signing books at the @sandmeyersbooks table at the @PrintersRowFest on Sunday Sept 11, 1pm to 2pm. Hope to see you there! — Dr Eugenia Cheng --no advice please-- (@DrEugeniaCheng) August 30, 2022

Regreening The Desert With John D. Liu

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David Lynch's Weather Report

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Jade on Science and Society (and The Guardian's Story?)

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It's about the different ideas that the people at Imperial College and The Karolinska Institute had about how to handle "the pandemic". See  Jade on Science & Society  and  Sci-Fi Short - The Guardian's Tale . Subscribe to UpAndAtom .

Dependent Types and Parametric Polymorphic Types

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I just ran across these notes Turing made in response to some communication from Max Newman :  See  Ian Grant's Weather Report agosto 08, 2022  in particular the second part: And there's some text to explain it: see  https://prooftoys.org/ian-grant/hm/  in particular, page 7 of the tutorial: See  Archive Centre King's College . I was triggered by thinking about the dependent Types in Idris: see  Marco Perone - Fun With Categories . Subscribe to Lambda World .

Sci-Fi Short - The Guardian's Tale

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Chrissie Mayr's Mayr in The Morning

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Just finished Livestreaming with her dog Muffin! She'll be in Austin, TX on September 8 at Cap City Comedy. Book here:  https://www.capcitycomedy.com/shows/175236 . Subscribe to Chrissie Mayr .

Ian Grant's Weather Report 8/31/22

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The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis A. M. Turing, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, Vol. 237, No. 641. (Aug. 14, 1952), pp. 37-72. See also  Ian Grant's Weather Report julio 25, 2022 . Robert K. Logan, What Is Information?: Why Is It Relativistic and What Is Its Relationship to Materiality, Meaning and Organization , in https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information 15 January 2012  15. Human Language, Culture, Technology, Science, Economics and Governance as Forms of Propagating Organization “I take informatics to mean the technologies of information as well as the biological, social, linguistic and cultural changes that initiate, accompany, and complicate their development [6]”. Katherine Hayles’ quote indicates that there is a link between biological, cultural and linguistic information. It was also noted in POE that language and culture like living organisms also propagate their organization and hence their information. ...

What Happened to Flying Wings?

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Wooow! ❤️💕 See  Ian Grant's Weather Report julio 25, 2022 . 9:22 It was inherently unstable and needed an autopilot assist that was beyond the available tech at the time. Subscribe to Mustard .

Academy of Ideas - How To Stop Wasting Your Life: Carl Jung as Therapist

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Nosewheel Man

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Trent Palmer - Kitfox So Safe it Will Barely Kill You

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Kieran Borovac - Why Mass is A Seven Dimensional Vector

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Austin watched this last night around the time I recorded this note :  Rocky II . See the spreadsheet  Matrix Unit Conversions . Subscribe to Kieran Borovac .

Dan Gryder - Five Fatal GA Crashes in Seven Days

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I got another Chicago School ad on this, ... See  Commercial - Niki Terranova at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology . See  Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash : The accident report records that the aircraft was both owned and operated by L & J Company, but the lease to Lynyrd Skynyrd’s production company specified that Lynyrd Skynyrd was the operator and therefore was responsible for regulatory compliance (including managing the flight crew). The flight crew were employed by a third party, and the lease period was three weeks. The report records the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as taking legal action against L & J Company in relation to the operator responsibility, and the analysis section concludes by asking, "How does the system in such a case protect a lessee who is uninformed either by design, by inadvertence, or by his own carelessness? Billing! I wonder how that works in the offshore industry? See  Ian Grant's Weather Report 8/26/22 . Subscribe to...

David Lynch's Weather Report

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Rocky II

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The other day Carolina gave me 50 pesos at the traffic lights opposite McDonald's... Today I finally felt I could justify spending another 50 pesos on a "Rocky" see:  Jucebox Tecate, B.C.mayo 09, 2022  (That post is a festival of typos!) and Navajo Traditional Teachings on Clan Structures . May 9 is my brother's birthday.  See  Mexican Control Systems Supremacy  and other references to quarters and duke-boxers, ... Rocky II - Final Round Subscribe to The Rocky Guy . I hate boxing! See Navajo Traditional Teachings on Clan Structures and my weather report today: See the video description: Robert K. Logan, What Is Information?: Why Is It Relativistic and What Is Its Relationship to Materiality, Meaning and Organization , in https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information 15 January 2012  Etymology, From latin through French: 1386 by Chaucer: “Whanne Melibee hadde herd the grete skiles and resons of Dame Prudence, and hire wise informacions and techynges.” Not ...

Navajo Traditional Teachings on Clan Structures

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Chrissie Mayr Live With Royce Lopez

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Jade on Science & Society

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Ian Grant's Weather Report 8/29/22

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The guy is a woman! Chapter six of N. Katherine Hayles book How We Became Posthuman https://beforebefore.net/136c/s16/media/hayles6.pdf Maturana concluded that perception is not fundamentally representational. He argued that to speak of an objectively existing world is misleading, for the very idea of a world implies a realm that preexists its construction by an observer. Certainly there is something "out there," which for lack of a better term we can call "reality." But it comes into existence for us, and for all living creatures, only through interactive processes determined solely by the organism's own organization. "No description of an absolute reality is possible," he and Varela wrote in Autopoiesis and Cognition, for such a description "would require an interaction with the absolute to be described, but the representation that would arise from such an interaction would necessarily be determined by the autopoietic organization of the observ...

SimpCast 40 - With Nick Rickeita

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Talking about crazy stuff sick adults put kids through, and it's apparently legal! Chrissie's dream about her fiancée Frank, ... He had sex with an escort six times and then came on the wall! Subscribe to Chrissie Mayr .

Slow Morning Reading The News With Chrissie Mayr

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See this UK Daily Mail piece  Trump suggests FBI could have PLANTED evidence during 10-hour long 'power flex' raid at Mar-a-Largo because his team were blocked from watching - and DOJ 'wanted security cameras turned OFF': Melania wardrobe was 'ransacked'  By Katelyn Caralle, U.S. Political Reporter and Harriet Alexander. But plant is a term used in control theory. See  Gerald Jay Sussman on The Legacy of Computers  for more on what a power flex could be in the context of electrons and elections. Subscribe to Chrissie Mayr . John Searle on Consciousness, Electrons and Elections: Subscribe to TEDxTalks .

Sabine Hossenfelder - Did The Big Bang Really Happen?

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If it didn't then that doesn't mean the research was a waste of time. See  Gerald Jay Sussman on The Legacy of Computers  especially from 29:21 , ignore the comment about the lousy chalk in South Africa, that gets fixed later, and my comments  Ian Grant's Weather Report 8/28/22 . Subscribe to Sabine Hossenfelder .

2022 Belgian Grand Prix Race Highlights

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Some amazing close calls in the first few laps, ... Subscribe to Formula 1.

Lana Del Rey Changing My Life Again, ...

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See  https://www.reddit.com/r/lanadelrey/comments/wyolfl/a_pic_of_lana_from_august_2nd_when_she_celebrated/ ❤️💕 Duke is Jennifer Nicholson 's son, and she's Jack Nicholson's daughter, ... She's also a fashion designer:  Jennifer Nicholson - New York Fashion Designer : "I always traveled with my father (Jack Nicholson) on location, so when we wound up in London on the set of The Shining (1980), I had to make do to with local style - which was rather bland - so I just gave my things a new twist and I did just fine." (As a child and teen.) I've always loved the notion of the upscale beach vibe. I was a surfer chick with style and always loved to mix and match special pieces to design my own look. Subscribe to MovieClips . Fuck it I love you & the greatest: Subscribe to Lana Del Rey . See  Mexican Control Systems Supremacy  and  Anti-Tempest Software and Pulp Fiction . East Coast vibes again, ... ❤️ This is post number 8,665 on this blog, ... [Actually, i...

Ian Grant's Weather Report 8/28/22

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Come back here later for links, ... For the stuff I wrote about Pontryagin see  Measuring Ignorance . See the Cambridge dictionary entry for  like the cat that got the cream (idiom)  and yesterday's Riding The Fun Work Train With A Cat And A Dog : See also  Ian Grant's Weather Report 8/27/22  and this photo I took this morning of my COCINARTE experience and David Lynch's Weather Report today : See  Mexican Control Systems Supremacy .

Mexican Control Systems Supremacy

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Last night at CEART Tecate, ... See Brian Douglas on Transfer Functions:

Reading The Papers

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Sci-Fi Short - Tom

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Biologist Jeremy Griffith on The Human Condition

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I have only heard the first few minutes so far but it sounds like it's well with listening to the whole thing. It made me think of Alexander Luria's book  The Nature of Human Conflicts - or Emotion, Conflict, and Will: An Objective Study of Disorganisation and Control of Human Behaviour. New York: Liveright Publishers, 1932.  Maybe also  Chiara Christian And Human Design  and my weather report today, which I have not yet had time to upload. See  https://www.humancondition.com/ . Subscribe to WTM .

The Intuition Behind Lagrangian Mechanics

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David Lynch's Weather Report

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Jack Wisdom on Climate and Chaos

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Soul Food Web - Organic Banana Farm Saved

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Apollo 11 LEM Landing

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What's all the horizontal motion? Looks faked to me. I know, because I played this on a Commodore PET and it wasn't like this at all. Subscribe to ABC News . The real deal: Subscribe to vghchannel . See  Ian Grant's Weather Report 8/27/22 .

David Lynch's Weather Report

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Brittany Venti on Dickfishing

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Mercadito Comunitario Kumiai

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Ian Grant's Weather Report 8/27/22

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Extended Kalman Filter for Robust UAV Attitude Estimation We Now Don't Even Know How To Engineer (25:05)   Gerald Jay Sussman on The Legacy of Computers   Relational Semantics subtitled "The Evils of Lego" Norman Wildberger's Five Fingered Gauntlet For Pure Mathematicians   An Ancient Egyptian Measurement Process: On more modern measurement processes, listen to Putnam at 5:14 :

Gerald Jay Sussman on The Legacy of Computers

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On the connection between the linguistic science of geometry and space-time. A public lecture on the Legacy of Computers - Understanding Computer Science given by Gerry Sussman at the African Summer Theory Institute in 2004. Lectures can also be found here: http://www.asti.ac.za/lectures.php Subscribe to Aoflex . On the difference between field theory and circuit theory (in field theory the electrons will get confused 11:09 ) see  Relational Semantics subtitled "The Evils of Lego" . Incidentally, this makes me wonder if there isn't a better meaning for the name "Live Logic" which I never thought of before because I didn't have enough empathy for physical particles, ... At 17:09 Natural Transformations?! See  Ian Grant's Weather Report agosto 07, 2022 . See  The Philosophy of Composition  by Edgar Allan Poe: He concludes that length, "unity of effect" and a logical method are important considerations for good writing. He also makes the asserti...

John Schneider's Tres Leches

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They say they made it in 2016, ... Contains strong language and some other unwholesome stuff, ... I've only watched the first ten minutes, but it's pretty good. The random pizza delivery guy steals the show though. See the story about why Alicia decided they're giving it away, ...  Subscribe to John Schneider Studios .

Brittany Venti on Food Appropriation and Astrology

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British people be like "What do you mean our food is gross?" pic.twitter.com/iBTJMQ9rkA — Brittany Venti ♡⋆˙⊹ (@BrittanyVenti) August 26, 2022 Astrology is bullshit but I believe it — Brittany Venti ♡⋆˙⊹ (@BrittanyVenti) August 26, 2022

John Schneider and Alicia - Cancer: The Cure

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Chrissie Mayr's SimpCast 40 - Simpin on Gin & Juice

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Chatting With Tom and Daisy et al

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Cannondale Leichtbau Frameset

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See  https://www.cannondale.com/... I used to have callouses on my hands from riding my bike, ... See  Ian Grant's Weather Report 8/26/22 . Subscribe to Cannondale . Perfect when public transport is a bit thin on the ground:  Inside Malaysia's Multibillion-dollar megaproject that left a ghost town .

Palki Sharma on European Recession

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Billing problems? See  Ian Grant's Weather Report 8/26/22 . What if the maths you need to understand to be able to build a stable economy turns out to be Russian, ... See  Trailer - The Thirty Nine Steps agosto 08, 2022 . Subscribe to WION .

Ian Grant's Weather Report 8/26/22

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See The Poor Engineer 's Extended Kalman Filter implementation project: ...  and his blog post https://thepoorengineer.com/en/ekf-impl/ Also Martin Pettersson's Masters Thesis Extended Kalman Filter for Robust UAV Attitude Estimation  and  We Now Don't Even Know How To Engineer . Buck 65 - The Neighbor's Dog It's about how to do an interview and how to choose your role models. The answer is: carefully! Subscribe to The Neighbor's Dog . See  Honest Government Ad - UK .

Honest Government Ad - UK

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Subscribe to The Juice Media . Now I understand this: Why is British slander so funny https://t.co/H9TuvIFk9j — Brittany Venti ♡⋆˙⊹ (@BrittanyVenti) August 25, 2022

Ian Grant's Weather Report 8/25/22

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See Terence McKenna on Psychedelic Democracy . See also Uranus will reverse its path in the sky on Wednesday (Aug 24). Here's how to see it  

Terence McKenna on Psychedelic Democracy

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Jade on The Gambler's Fallacy

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See  Ian Grant's Weather Report agosto 12, 2022 . There is some very interesting and detailed discussion going on the comments to Jade's videos. See for example this one : And this one : Subscribe to UpAndAtom .

Frida Boccara - Berceuse pour Luciana

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