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A derivative is linearisation, and differential calculus is essentially linear algebra, ...  See  Freya Holmér - Why Can't You Multiply Vectors?  and  Freya Holmér on Continuity of Splines . See also the MIT OCW page:  Matrix Calculus For Machine Learning And Beyond  (Alan Edelman, Steven G. Johnson) Subscribe to The Julia Programming Language . Alan Edelman talking about expressing mathematics as computer code. The idea is that you can use computer languages to communicate mathematical ideas precisely to other people. See my comments about functional programming languages here:  https://prooftoys.org/ian-grant/hm/ Subscribe to TEDx Talks .

See Some Rambling on Order Theory and Logic  yesterday. See Daniel Tubbenhauer's Magma in A Nutshell (#3) talk he posted yesterday. Then later in the afternoon: See the video description: ... the battery in my phone ran flat. I was going on to say that it was a conversation with Ebbe Ellsborg that was the reason I was thinking about morphisms and categories when I made this representation framework. See also these Wikipedia pages: Automorphism   Group automorphism Group isomorphism problem Automorphism group See John Baez's Octonions :  The Fano plane The [much simpler] Cayley-Dickson Construction On Automorphisms, see Hurwitz's Automorphisms Theorem   And that is the reason why the answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is 42 , according to Baez, and I believe him!

This is a followup to yesterday's rambling:  Freya Holmér - Why Can't You Multiply Vectors? See  The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll  (just below the photograph of George Macdonald and his daughter Lilly ): In November he gave a lecture at a meeting of the Ashmolean Society on "Where does the Day begin?" The problem, which was one he was very fond of propounding, may be thus stated: If a man could travel round the world so fast that the sun would be always directly above his head, and if he were to start travelling at midday on Tuesday, then in twenty-four hours he would return to his original point of departure, and would find that the day was now called Wednesday—at what point of his journey would the day change its name? The difficulty of answering this apparently simple question has cast a gloom over many a pleasant party. See  Partially ordered group : In  abstract algebra , a  partially ordered group  is a  group  ( G , +) equipped wi...

Wow, this is a good one. What a man! See  Terry Davis - "What do you use Internet Explorer for?" Subscribe to lmao .

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She explains why the enormous development cost of the RP1 bridge is worthwhile for Raspberry Pi, ... But I'd still be interested to hear where the costs were. Maybe membership of the PCI consortium is pro rata in the number of units you're likely to sell? Then she explains how they had to update the software installation instructions on the many hundreds of projects they maintain. Debian changed the way the Python installer works. Now it won't allow system-wide python code libraries to be installed without using the official Debian package manager. She also shows how to to navigate the half a million plus connectors listed on the DigiKey website, ... OMG, what an industry! Subscribe to Adafruit and see  https://www.adafruit.com/ .

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A couple of weeks ago they banned me from making comments for 12 hours because I had put too many links in my video descriptions. I guess this was their problem: That's, in one month, 10% of all the views in total over the past three years: But I wonder what it was people were looking at? These are the most popular posts on my blog over this period:

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I found this very thought-provoking. There's a Brilliant course Calculus in A Nutshell , I think, which gives the traditional "rigourous" treatment of this. This video makes a great accompaniment. Subscribe to Mathologer . See  Aristotle on The Continuum : Aristotle's so-called "Minor Works" though most often attributed to people other than Aristotle himself, are all very interesting. See  Aristotle Minor Works - On Colours - On Things Heard - Physiognomics - On Plants - On Marvellous Things Heard - Mechanical Problems - On Indivisible Lines - The Situations and Names of  Winds - On Melissus, Xenophanes and Gorgias .

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This is really, really interesting. There's a lot here, not just for vintage software buffs. Goes back to Alan Kay ( Smalltalk and The cuneiform tablets of 2015  available from https://archive.org/details/tr2015004_cuneiform ). "Smalltalk was made portable by having each “bag of bits,” called an “image,” that constituted an entire system also carry the microcode for each machine Smalltalk was to run on El . When an image was brought to a particular machine, the appropriate microcode was extracted and executed to create a Smalltalk virtual machine. All the rest of the “bag of bits” was completely machine independent." Even relatively modern systems like Moscow ML end up shipping compiled bytecode with the source. Kay continues: " This led to the somewhat interesting conclusion that one could store media as a “process” if the system that created it were carried along, and if the “microcode” for the system were also supplied. " and " Furthermore, if the “micr...

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It was just a joke, but maybe there's some truth in it. See  After Skool - PANSPERMIA - Did Life Begin on Earth? Are Mushrooms USING US to Get to Space? These are some thoughts I had on computer architecture whilst looking at fungi in the woods here in North London. The discussion I refer to is this one:  Raspberry Pi - Introducing RP1: The silicon driving Raspberry Pi 5, designed in-house at Raspberry Pi . Web Of Life Trailer: Subscribe to Merlin Sheldrake . And a followup a few days later, ... See also  Talking About Computation  and  Prativha Raut on Natural Intelligence . Some thoughts after I first posted this:

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I don't know how hard this is compute, but this is the sort of idea that is behind the "web of influence" I described here:  Louis Rossmann on Sovereign Identity and Media Platforms . See  https://www.datastax.com/ .

He is hopefully going to be able to do a video explaining this algorithm. It's in Bojan Mohar's paper  A Linear Time Algorithm for Embedding Graphs in an Arbitrary Surface . See also Wendy Myrvold and William Kocay  Errors in graph embedding algorithms  and I. S. Filotti, Gary L. Miller and John Reif  On determining the genus of a graph in O(v^O(g)) steps (Preliminary Report) . Subscribe to VisualMath .

Well, I can talk about it, but I don't class this as thinking really. See  Magma (algebra)  for a definition of groupoids. See  Magma - Computer Algebra System  and  https://prooftoys.org/ian-grant/hm/ . And I have just learned something really interesting about prooftoys from a github repo where it is said that the proof assistant is based on an implementation (called Q0 ) of Church's Simple Theory of Types by Professor Peter Andrews (CMU Emeretus). You can read about the ETPS (Educational Theorem Proving System) in  ETPS: A System to Help Students Write Formal Proofs .

Magma has an interesting business model. See  Magma - Computer Algebra System . See elm - A delightful language for reliable web applications . Subscribe to Strange Loop .

This is an interesting project at the University of Sydney. It's a typed programming language for calculating constructions in abstract algebra. See  http://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/magma/  and Daniel Tubbenhauer's lectures (which are public, I believe, see  https://sites.google.com/view/magma-mondays/ ). You can use Magma on-line at  http://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/calc/  and there's a nice little 10-page introduction to the system at  http://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/magma/pdf/first.pdf . The term  magma is apparently another name for groupoid which is the most general abstract algebraic structure consisting of a set closed under a single binary operator. Magma does type inference and the types include the algebraic structures of the elements, so for example Type(Sqrt(-1)); yields FldComElt . Subscribe to VisualMath .

Oh dear! It's waist-deep! I wonder whether they have the same poor land-management that they have in the north? Once soil becomes depleted of organic matter it loses it's ability to soak up rainfall and the result is flooding and then droughts in the dry season. And there is a story here about the highly dubious local elections in Primorsky Krai . Subscribe to Natasha's Adventures .

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I managed to use my Mexican SIM in the states for a few months, but there was no US provider who could sell me a SIM that would work in that phone. Now it seems Samsung are in on it. Subscribe to Louis Rossmann .

I think her sounds fitted the games. But why people like playing those games, ... that says something about the real world, I reckon. I have no idea what it says though. Subscribe to Emily Hopkinson .

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16:42 People talking about RP1 and PCIe priority. That bus is so complicated that you lose the ability to do real-time guarantees.. Maybe I'm wrong, but I am not a member of the PCI Consortium, so I don't have access to the specifications. Subscribe to Raspberry Pi .

See  Maki Kato Talking About Verifiable Credentials at VCF East  and  my comment : This is cool. There are a lot of different ways to go forward from here too. One is to be able to handle credit for content creators. Everyone who uses social media, even if they are not themselves content creators, is doing useful work just by paying attention to content creators and integrating the different expressions of ideas that those content creators produce. A system which identifies content creators at a level above the particular platform they use is an essential component of any system that does this. The higher-level system that can be built on top of this identification produces a kind of web of influence, with currents of ideas of that circulate and are developed within it. These vector flows of influence are the basis for any proper system of recommendation which can provide a rational basis for recommending new sources of content, and one that is not so easily subverted by ...

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They started an investment juggernaught that they can't stop, ... so they had to go on with "the programme", ... See  Andrew Bridgen MP on Trends in Excess Deaths  and Joel Smalley's Substack piece:  COVID-19: the virus is the government You get what you vote for.  (But did anyone actually vote for Boris Johnson? I suppose I should look it up some time.) Subscribe to Dr John Campbell .

I concur. I didn't make it as far as the public gallery, so I didn't realise it was behind a glass screen. Presumably that's to foil abseiling lesbian counterattacks? See  Andrew Bridgen MP on Trends in Excess Deaths .

This is interesting. See  Hackaday Podcast . It's hard to know from that discussion what aspects of that 50 GFlops image pipeline are programmable and what are fixed by the hardware. I can imagine all sorts of applications where you would want stuff-processing very different from ordinary video/still imaging. For example a large array of wide angle sky cameras to image pockets of atmospheric moisture, clouds, aircraft, drones, incoming asteroids and space junk. Subscribe to Raspberry Pi . See the video description for links.

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April 14, 2023. I remember thinking "That's interesting!" when I first saw this, ... You might wonder, as I did, what the "sov" in did:sov means:  https://sovrin.org/ . 36:00  "That hard drive and the S100 bus, ..." 43:12 "Question on attestation, ..." I would be interested in a system where one could apply Aumann's Agreement Theorem to the attestors. So the space of subjects becomes a network of attestations. That network would have different aspects that would emerge naturally from the grass-roots consensus that Aumann's theorem proves will emerge. This could be a substitute for election of officials to offices by public vote. Offices and the people who hold them would simply emerge from all the ongoing economic activity. See Stuart Kauffman on which laws of Nature are fundamental below. See also one of my better weather reports:  Ian Grant's Weather Report 7/17/22  and look at what Ian Hubert, Freya Holmér and the people behin...

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 I've never heard anyone talk about photography like this before. See  Hiroshi Sugimoto 11 Oct 2023 –⁠ 7 Jan 2024 . 今日も素敵な1日を〜☀️ pic.twitter.com/u5FcCDtJFy — 檜山沙耶 (@sayahiyama_1027) October 18, 2023

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This is great. You can scan your street and let the children redesign it on a gaming platform, adding trees and painting the houses. Then you could use projectors to paint the actual houses in the night-time and all go outside and talk about how you can make it actually happen. See  Sci-Fi Series - Dynamo Dream. Episode 1: Salad Mug . See  https://www.openspace.ai/get-a-demo . The results, ... Episode 2: Episode 3 is not to be underestimated either, ... See  Coca Politics in Bolivia  and  Lana Del Rey - Art Deco and A Change of Latitude . Subscribe to  Ian Hubert.

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Requesting that anyone who has any information about plans at any time to spy-on or harm Julian Assange to step forward and speak up now. It is only a lack of evidence before the courts that keeps the extradition case live. See  Roger Waters After Visiting Julian Assange in Belmarsh Prison Two Weeks Ago Subscribe to Don't Extradite Julian Assange .