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Sabine Hossenfelder on Physics Funding in Academia

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Her app is here: https://quizwithit.com/ Subscribe to Sabine Hossenfelder . Even Roger Penrose is up against it, and he got to lecture at Cambridge, once back in 1999 and last week, but he said he got a very cool reception. See Curt Jaimungal Talking With Roger Penrose . 34:37 Cool to see a diagram of first cohomology .   41:16 Those damned generating functions again!  45:52 Why don't people just call them what they are: formal coincidents. They are the same class of mathematical objects as Umbral Calculus . See also Edward Frenkel's magic calculator in Peter Voit and Edward Frenkel on Unification in Physics and Mathematics . 46:42 Maybe Joan Lazenby could explain 5D Conformal Projective GA to him? That might help. This gets us back to old-school physics die-hards who don't want to learn new notation. They say things like "I would be rather sceptical of the Hestenes book as rather doubt it contains anything essentially new." (I just cut and pasted that fro

Polly Jean Harvey on World Wars

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She's counted the lies on my piece of paper:  Andrej Bauer's "Five Stages of Accepting Constructive Mathematics" . Now I'm going to be court-marshalled: Subscribe to  Preston Loyola

Julia Buenaventura on AMLO's Letter to the King of Spain [D'pain?], and ...

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... wow, it's very hard to concentrate on what she's saying when she has her hair up like this, ...  I'm going to have to watch it again, once I've improved my Spanish vocab a bit. Subscribe to Julia Buenaventura .

Shannon Medisky on Becoming a Writer and Goth Egg on Becoming an Egg

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She's talking here about becoming a published writer who earns a living through writing . If you just want to write, on the other hand, then write, but beware, .... And here's Emily Hopkins confronting Goth Egg. As if Goth Egg was something to be wary of! Maybe she is. She seems a bit edgy. Subscribe to  Shannon Medisky  and Emily Hopkins . For what I mean about getting back into logic, see  Daniel Tubbenhauer on Algebraic Geometry and Edward Frenkel on The Langlands Program ...  and  Andrej Bauer's "Five Stages of Accepting Constructive Mathematics" . See  https://www.emilyharpist.com/about  and  David Lynch Presents The Interview Project - Tommy Holliday . Lana Del Rey - High by The Beach Subscribe to Lana Del Rey . Pink Floyd - Keep Talking Subscribe to Pink Floyd . See  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Magneto  for more on music technology. Pink Floyd - High Hopes See the first episode of the Lost Art of Conversation podcast for the story of the genesis of

Andrej Bauer's "Five Stages of Accepting Constructive Mathematics"

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I remember how much this cheered me up when I first saw it: Subscribe to IAS . 1. Denial, ... 2. Anger, ... See Daniel Tubbenhauer on Algebraic Geometry and Edward Frenkel on The Langlands Program ...   3. Bargaining, ... 4. Depression, ... See  Plan 9 From Bell Labs and The Console Message Processor . Conway's Game Of Life, in Conway's Fractran(416 fractions) Just somebody I share a desk with:  see Norman Wildberger's Box Arithmetic . Subscribe to Davine Lu Linvega . 5. Acceptance: Does John Conway hate his Game of Life? 6. Death: Conway on Life, Death and The Monster: 7. ... On the Monster Group, and the other 25 Sporadic Simple Groups: Subscribe to Numberphile . Life in Life     Life in Life in Life Subscribe to Philip Bradbury . A Universal Turing Machine in Conway's Game of Life : Subscribe to The Commuator . Carol Wood on The Infinitesimal Monad Part II Carol Wood was a student of Abraham Robinson . ... [who] became known for his approach of using the

SciFi Short - Date Night

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Wow! That's a bit sad, ... Subscribe to AFK .

David Lynch Presents - Interview Project: Tommy Holliday

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Nominative determinism, anyone? See Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Magneto . Subscribe to The Interview Project .

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Magneto

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I was listening to David Gilmour talking about how the technology in the eighties changed the way they made music and I thought of this, which I saw for the first time when I was sitting on the street in Cochabamba, with a mobile phone and headphones finding out what ten years had left behind: See Pink Floyd - The Lost Art of Conversation . Subscribe to Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds . The Wild God Tour was in Oberhausen a few nights ago, ... Frogs , O Wow Wow and Oh no, he really mussed up that first piano bit in Jubilee Street! They did From Her to Eternity and Tupelo as well. Then Red Right Hand with an extra motherfucker! Then The Mercy Seat and Pa pa Won't Leave You Henry. and then Into My Arms and the audience are great in the chorus! Subscribe to Rhetormusic . Then I found this: KINGDOM IN THE SKY: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Live at Hanging Rock   Subscribe to ABC Arts .

Pink Floyd - The Lost Art of Conversation

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Here it is, from 4 years ago: Subscribe to Pink Floyd .

Who is Martin Roelphs? ... and Chris Doran?

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Well, I tought he was the guy who did this fantastic lecture on Geometric Algebra for GAME2023. See  Martin Roelphs on Projective Geometric Algebra . But then I asked Google, and ... well. Mileage varies! I knew who Chris Doran was. He's the guy who invented Global Illumination. I thought he was about twenty eight though! Subscribe to Howest DAE . Don't mind me. I'm just getting up before my zone is called . It's an old habit of mine. See  Daniel Tubbenhauer on Algebraic Geometry and Edward Frenkel on The Langlands Program ... This is post number 11111 on this blog . No, not 1111, and not 31, it's a decimal number , yes : eleven thousand, one hundred and eleven!

Julie Nolke - People Who Get Up Before Their Zone is Called

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It happens in all walks of life. See Daniel Tubbenhauer on Algebraic Geometry and Edward Frenkel on The Langlands Program ... Would you rather be stuck in the woods with a bear, or a man? Subscribe to Julie Nolke .

Daniel Tubbenhauer on Algebraic Geometry and Edward Frenkel on The Langlands Program ...

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... and the Analytic Langlands Program. See Analytic Langlands correspondence for PGL(2) on P^1 with parabolic structures over local fields . I've just kind of got the point of this whole thing, and I think what I'm supposed to be studying is algebraic geometric algebra and geometric algebraic geometry , and showing that they are really the same thing! Here's Daniel's Playlist giving an overview of the subject: Subscribe to Visual Maths . Here's Edward Frenkel's part II discussion with Curt Jaimungal on The Langlands Program .  See Part I here: Peter Voit and Edward Frenkel on Unification in Physics and Mathematics . See also Curt Jaimungal Talking With Roger Penrose . 34:52 On the ability to make good mistakes. This puzzled me for a long time. I first came across the phenomenon in the story about Jacques Herbrand who wrote a paper called "On the consistency of arithmetic"  which was published posthumously because he died in a climbing accid

Joan Armatrading - I'm Not Moving

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This reminds me of that dream I had the other night, ... Subscribe to Joan Armatrading  and BBC Music .

Plan 9 From Bell Labs and The Console Message Processor

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I went for a walk and talked about some things I've been thinking about today. This was about BBC Basic, C Compilers and the Feertech MicroBeast.  See Taylor and Amy Build The Feertech MicroBeast for a link to Dr Volker Berthelmann's Compilers page. See this ABug Zoom talk by Richard Russell on BBC Basic SDL: See https://github.com/rtrussell/BBCSDL . Subscribe to ABug . Then I remembered to talk about Plan 9 From Bell Labs: Nerdearla - Entrevista con Ken Thompson . Then I remembered something I had thought about in Cochabamba, and now I realise that it actually handles the problem of partitioning sharing permissions quite nicely. The idea is that you share stuff by constructing fixpoints which allows you to flexibly manage those intersectional unions that we talked about in the comments to the Radical Networks video Speculative Network Topologies: Modeling Futurity which still has only 148 views. Why? Subscribe to Adjy Leak . Then I remembered my one-dimensional fractal

Norman Wildberger's Box Arithmetic

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This is a Zero: See Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W . Subscribe to Norman Wildberger's Insights Into Mathematics . For more on physics and computation, see  Nerdearla - Entrevista con Ken Thompson where he talks about the Space-travel program he and Dennis Ritchie wrote, which seems to have been based on Lagrange's Variational Calculus with some clever (dyadic rational?) tricks to control the floating-point integration error build-up, and what they were working on while everyone else in the world was multiplying Unices like bunny rabbits: Plan 9 From Bell Labs :  https://9p.io/plan9/ If all this makes you feel like a dog watching TV, see Daniel Tubbenhauer's Algebraic Geometry Syllabus .

There She Goes My Beautiful World [Beatiful Worl indeed!] (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Covers)

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 Damn, this guy is good! Subscribe to jp888then . These guys too! Subscribe to Nutfield TV .

Question About the Alan Turing Archives at King's College

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This is a communication! That URL is  https://turingarchive.kings.cam.ac.uk/correspondence-amtd/amt-d-2 . See Trip To London & The Centre for Computing History , PhD War Stories Time  and Jade on The Halting Problem .

Daniel Tubbenhauer's Algebraic Geometry Syllabus

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I'm really enjoying this, since his most recent video which is a huge motivational shove to understand why Algebraic Geometry is an interesting thing to learn about: What is Computer Algebra [for]? So you are wondering what varieties are now, ... And then you find out that this dates back to Poincaré in the early 20th Century, when Algebraic Geometry started to really connect with topology: And here is one of the key results: the Zariski "Topology" It seems to me to be linked through the closure processes. See  Kuratowski closure axioms and Terence Tao on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence . Then he suggests going back even earlier to the Coordinate Ring Subscribe to Visual Maths . Let's not forget Norman Wildberger on the CA/AU front: Taking it down to semi-rings: And here is the famous series of lectures on Box Arithmetic . Subscribe to Insights into Mathematics . My gut feeling is that this will turn out to be useful for understanding Quantum Mechanics a

David and Romany Gilmour - Two Points (Live at Circo Massimo, Rome)

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Wow, she looks like she's really enjoying it! I wonder if she knew she was about ten meters tall? Subscribe to Can Uzunyol . Here's another angle Subscribe to GF66 . YouTube thinks this is related, from fifty one years ago:  Françoise Hardy - Message Personnel Subscribe to frenchpop .

PBS Space Time - What If The Universe Did NOT Start With The Big Bang?

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I'm so glad there people who worry about these things on my behalf! See the immortal comment: This is a really important observation. Modern cosmology has shown us how to empathise with dogs! How else could we know what it's like for a dog to watch TV? Subscribe to PBS Space Time .

Nerdearla - Entrevista con Ken Thompson

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12:05 He and Dennis Ritchie wrote a space-travel program, simulating Newtonian dynamics of a spaceship travelling around the Solar System. They had programmed an exponential scaling operator with really interesting properties. That should be taught at school. On TMG in TMG , see  A Short Course in Language and Compiler Development . Subscribe to Nerdearla .

Trip To London & The Centre for Computing History

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This trip to London on Wednesday was ostensibly to hand over documents for my South African passport application. I had an appointment at a centre near Liverpool St. train station at 8.30 so I decided to go a day earlier so that I would easily be able to get there on time. As I had a whole two days in London I tried to set up meetings with people I'd like to talk to. I first asked my daughter if there was anything she would like to do together in London. I also wanted to talk to Sophie MacLean about using formal systems and computation to study analytic number theory and to Philippa Gardner to see what she knows about any practical instances where people are using Pi and Bigraph Calculus for building secure, reliable computer and communications systems. I also wanted to talk to Hannah Fry about how statistics really works when you are using it to predict behaviour of intelligent agents. Unfortunately none of these meetings were possible. I booked a Flixbus ticket from Parkside in C