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A spooky space movie for Halloween: Subscribe to Dust . Maybe someone who understands Einstein's theory of General Relativity can explain it. 

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25:59 On that fiduciary Quantum Measurement, see  Aumann's Agreement Theorem is Fifty Years Old . See Richard Healey’s SEP article  Quantum-Bayesian and Pragmatist Views of Quantum Theory . See also Mermin's 2018 paper  Making better sense of quantum mechanics . Fuch’s Tenets of QBism paper is perhaps this one: Notwithstanding Bohr, the Reasons for QBism . I looked this up after yesterday’s marathon:  Alison Gopnik - The Evolution of Human Intelligences . Subscribe to Christopher Fuchs .

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This is really interesting. See  Empowerment Gain as Causal Learning, Causal Learning as Empowerment Gain: A bridge between Bayesian causal hypothesis testing and reinforcement learning. Subscribe to Hopkins Natural Philosophy Forum . It explains what’s going on here: Subscribe to Julia Programming Language . And Chris Fields has some ideas about where these sorts of behaviours came from, physiologically: 13:10 On the psychological arrow of time, see  Carlo Rovelli Trying to Explain the Thermal Time Hypothesis to A General Audience . 41:23  on Geometric Phase, which is the idea that "We experience the actions of a high-dimensional environment on a low-dimensional boundary, so there has to be a many-one mapping from paths in the environment to paths on the boundary." 1:19:22 Great question about the dinosaurs and paleoscopy! David Mermin's 2018 paper is  Making better sense of quantum mechanics : We still lack any consensus about what one is actually talking about ...

Though published only in 1996 this book is available from the Internet Archive:  https://ia801202.us.archive.org/6/items/DemonHauntedWorld_carlSagan/Sagan_-_The_Demon-Haunted_World___Science_as_a_candle_in_the_dark.pdf It seems to have been a response to the New Age mysticism that sold a lot of books and VHS video tapes in the 1990s. See  Carlo Rovelli Trying to Explain the Thermal Time Hypothesis to A General Audience . See also  Science That Sounds Like Sci-Fi and Sci-Fi That Sounds Like Science . Subscribe to Tibees . Two years later Hilary Putnam gave this talk on non-scientific knowledge: Subscribe to Philosophy Overdose .

Where you get to see the keyboard logic, … See part 3 here:  CuriousMarc - The MMD-1 Micro Designer . Subscribe to CuriousMarc .

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There is an ontological model for spacetime which is based on the Cauchy model of the elastic continuum .   See Chantal Roth's web page:  https://elastic-universe.org/ . Subscribe to HyperComplex Seminar .  Manfried Fauber has done related work: Subscribe to Fetzer Franklin Fund . See Mark Snoswell's Spinlab software:  https://chavascience.com/en/spinlab   Subscribe to Mark Snoswell . I heard about this from the DemystifySci Podcast:   Subscribe to DemystifySci Podcast .

Whatever you do, don't look up  Von Neumann algebra  because it will spoil the illusion. See  Von Neumann Algebra Automorphisms and Time-Thermodynamics Relation in General Covariant Quantum Theories  by Alain Connes and Carlo Rovelli. See also  Information is Physical: Cross-Perspective Links in Relational Quantum Mechanics  by Emily Adlam and Carlo Rovelli and  What Kind of Relationality does Quantum Mechanics Exhibit?  by Emily Adlam. Subscribe to Quanta Magazine .  

He is a former Executive Director at the IMF (from April 2007 to June 2015) and one of the founders of the NDB . He talks about China's SCO Development Bank and why they might be doing this. Subscribe to Think BRICS . He's a fan of Robert Frost:    Subscribe to  Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr. President elect Rodrigo Paz is getting a lot of criticism from the left for going straight to the USA to find a way out of the country's economic problems. On the other hand, Evo Morales' administration didn't take any significant steps toward decoupling the economy from the dollar either, they were relying on selling as much of the country's natural resources as they thought they needed, which wasn't nearly enough, because they were unable to develop those resources to the level where the income stream was sustainable. Subscribe to Bolivia Info Ninawa . Sean Foo on what countries like Indonesia with significant US trade surpluses are doing with bonds 1:50 (as mentioned ab...

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Just sayin’  Why are you so incompetent? There’s a systemic problem, isn’t there? What could it be?

Caltech must've been watching Angela Collier's videos, and they got jealous.  Subscribe to Caltech .

This is a follow-up from  Spanish Cities Preparing to Cook  and  Americans Doing Real Science . Stakeholder data-sharing seems to be an issue. Subscribe to Center for Liveable Cities . Maybe the top-down approach is just broken? Bottom-up worked for some parts of Tucson, AZ, I guess because the people doing the work didn't get paid for it. Tucson and Singapore are both cities, but they're not exactly the same sort of city. See  https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/ . Subscribe to  Brad Lancaster .

This place is only five hours by road from Bogotá. See  https://osoandino.org/ . Subscribe to Animalogic .

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The Great American Biotic Interchange (commonly abbreviated as GABI), also known as the Great American Interchange and the Great American Faunal Interchange, was an important late Cenozoic paleozoogeographic biotic interchange event in which land and freshwater fauna migrated from North America to South America via Central America and vice versa, as the volcanic Isthmus of Panama rose up from the sea floor, forming a land bridge between the previously separated continents. Although earlier dispersals had occurred, probably over water, the migration accelerated dramatically about 2.7 million years (Ma) ago during the Piacenzian age. Dr Ascanio Rincón on the fossilized birds and mammals founds in Venezuelan tar pits: 27:41 The famous scimitar-toothed tiger Homotherium !  Subscribe to  Paleo Venezuela .   Subscribe to Rachel Blevins .

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See her 2018 paper  Spooky Action at a Temporal Distance .  See also this recent interview:   Emily Adlam on Her Book "Saving Science from Quantum Mechanics" . Subscribe to TEDx Talks . 

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The Itaipu Dam is the third largest hydroelectric power station in the world. It was built in the 1980s with Brazilian investment. “Of the twenty generator units currently installed, ten generate at 50 Hz for Paraguay and ten generate at 60 Hz for Brazil. Since the output capacity of the Paraguayan generators far exceeds the load in Paraguay, most of their production is exported directly to the Brazilian side …” See  How Uruguay achieved energy sovereignty .

Another adventure in the J.A. Wheeler Archive. See  Amanda Gefter on John Wheeler and Peter Putnam .    This is a 50 minute talk, with a 40 minute Q&A, which you will understand once you've heard the talk!!! 38:31 On Moore's Law and how it was used:   Earlier she talked about the idea that was current on the seventies that the future of war would be in economics. Japan was the threat, even though Weeler et al had just blown them up with nuclear bombs. Subscribe to Institute for Advanced Studies .

See Saving Science from Quantum Mechanics: The Epistemology of the Measurement Problem by Emily Adlam: The quantum measurement problem refers to a collection of unresolved questions about what happens during the measurement of a quantum system. The measurement problem must be solved in order for us to understand what kind of underlying reality could be compatible with the mathematical formalism of quantum mechanics. The existing literature on the measurement problem typically views the problem through the lens of ontology and metaphysics. Adlam reconceptualizes the quantum measurement problem as a problem of epistemology, and in doing so presents a novel perspective on the issue, offering a new approach to finding valid solutions. Once we understand the importance of epistemology to the measurement problem, it becomes clear that several popular proposals have epistemic flaws which threaten their viability as solutions. This reframing helps clear the field so we can see where future re...

Turns out they’re not as much of a thing as you might’ve thought! This might be a plan for another Action Lab video, … This was a clip from an interview with Max Fomitchev-Zamilov: Subscribe to DemistifySci Podcast .

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They also did another retrospective on the vaccines with Dr Claire Craig whose book Expired you can get on Amazon. Subscribe to Dr John Campbell . And in case you wonder about the safety of vaccines, the UK ONS released statistics on mortality by vaccination status and it really doesn’t look good: See  All-cause mortality according to COVID-19 vaccination status: An analysis of the UK office for National statistics public data  by Marco Alessandria, Giovanni Malatesta, Giovanni Di Palmo,Marco Cosentino and Alberto Donzelli. Subscribe to Merogenomics .

YouTube staff don’t even know what does this!! That’s hilarious. AI is dangerous, and it’s so mundane. Banal, even. Is that the AI’s fault? I don’t think so. Subscribe to Anton Petrov on Patreon .

Sean Stone is the son of Oliver Stone. He should  make a movie about technology and surveillance and hire some researchers who actually know something about it. Subscribe to Kim Iversen .

Compare and contrast! See  Science That Sounds Like Sci-Fi and Sci-Fi That Sounds Like Science . Now see if you can tell which of these people are Democrats and which are Republicans. See  Desert Farming in Texas and Arizona . Subscribe to Grow Tree Organics . Subscribe to Sean Overton DUSTUPS and Symbiosis TX . Subscribe to Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't . 40:14 It's actually a sad story, but you don't feel that too much because he's so enthusiastic.  See  https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/  and  https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/sun-shade-harvesting/  especially this page:  Transform the topography of hot, draining, dysfunctional, landscapes into cool, water-harvesting, functional landscapes . His book is available in Spanish too:  Cosecha de agua de lluvia para zonas áridas y más allá, Volumen 1 (NEW 2025) . Subscribe to Brad Lancaster .

This is a pretty cool place to be, intellectually, I mean. I hope Lori gets to see this.   Subscribe to Anton Petrov . Elle's Sci-Fi Book Club have been reading Solaris by Stanislaw Lem . Next up is Contact by Carl Sagan . See  Angela Collier Building A Radio Telescope in Her Back Yard . Subscribe to Elle Cordova . This was the last video she posted: I got to see that whole thing first-hand and it was really fucking weird!!!   Subscribe to TheResident .

Intel 8080 CPU. I need to watch again to understand how that this display works. Part 1 Subscribe to CuriousMarc .

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Some stuff that just showed up. Why is YouTube’s recommendation algorithm so keyed-in to shit like this? See  New US Foreign Policy Objectives in Latin America

Hang on to your petro-dollar partners because your economy depends on them. See Michael Hudson 's blog post  Managed Democracy?   Subscribe to France 24 . POV Interview with José Rafael Vilar , who's a real bundle of laughs! Maybe he's just having a bad day. Subscribe to Unitel Bolivia . NO es desdolarización: la verdadera razón por la que los BRICS están creando nuevos sistemas de pago. 3:41 Cómo Sudáfrica se está liberando de la dependencia económica occidental mediante la autonomía estratégica. También ( 26:00) El arma secreta de Sudáfrica: Por qué es el cuarto socio comercial más importante de África.   Subscribe to Think BRICS .  Subscribe to SAIIA . Back to the DEA and lethal kinetic engagement:  When Obama and Brennan were doing this sort of thing from the West Wing of the White House, sometimes the people on the receiving end of drone strikes were previous associates of Brennan in his role at the CIA. Subscribe to Glenn Greenwald .   Subscrib...

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This is a brilliant talk, but you have to listen right through to the end. Nothing she says, at least in the first ten minutes of this talk, is actually inherent in digital representation. That it is the case is true, but it’s not necessarily the case. It’s just that we don’t have well enough educated people designing the systems. Talks like this will help, though, as long as people realise that there are ways to use digital technology that make it possible to preserve privacy, even though they could also be used to authenticate identity. See also this article she wrote in The Conversation:  Carissa Véliz, filósofa: “Muchos adolescentes ni siquiera alcanzan a imaginar cómo es vivir con privacidad” . Subscribe to TEDx Talks . Blaise Agüera y Arcas Is Google’s CTO of Technology & Society. He is too busy telling everyone what life is to bother with tedious stuff like privacy and totalitarianism. Subscribe to Machine Learning Street Talk .

Que actualmente es docente investigador de la Carrera de Ingeniería en Producción y Comercialización Agropecuaria. Vér Natalia Aparicio interview with Environmental Economist Stasiek Czaplicki  y  Natalia Aparicio on la Agricultura Familiar and the Comité Municipal de Seguridad Alimentaria de La Paz . Suscribete á Prisma Agropequaria TVU . YouTube doesn’t even try to transcribe Aymara or Quechua. Subscribe to Radio San Gabriel Bolivia . In Colombia this regenerative agriculture project is seven times more productive than the conventional methods and it improves the land and the ecosystem: Subscribe to Hope .

See his Patreon page for more about the Ravel software:  https://www.patreon.com/cw/Ravelation . See his web site for details on his course  https://www.stevekeen.com/ See also  Asianometry - Australia’s Forgotten Electronics Giant  and  Richard Murphy and Steve Keen Rethinking Money . Subscribe to Reinvent Money and Steve Keen .

This is what Perú and Bolivia are heading for too. See  Natalia Aparicio on la Agricultura Familiar and the Comité Municipal de Seguridad Alimentaria de La Paz Subscribe to Kim Iversen . GrowTree Organics restoring Arizona desert, … see  https://www.patreon.com/GreenGuardians … getting it ready for beavers! Subscribe to Decryptify . Can’t people invest money in land futures or something? Subscribe to  Kim Iversen . Subscribe to Richard Perkins .

See also this interview with Andy Brawley , formerly of Silanna Semiconductor for an amazing story about planning and communications. Subscribe to Asianometry .

Carl Jung built himself a castle in Switzerland so that he could look within! Subscribe to Academy of Ideas . Subscribe to Science Fiction with Damien Walter .

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With support from Harvard University Herbarium:  New Publication - Scientific distinctions between coca and cocaine support policy reform . Published in Science:  https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeb2948 . I heard about this from this recent interview with Evo Morales .  This was a result of the Wisdom of the Leaf Summit organised by the McKenna Academy. See  McKenna Academy - Wisdom of the Leaf Coca Summit .   Subscribe to McKenna Academy .

See  Maria Pando Entrevista con Hidrologo Dr. Ramiro Simon Pillco-Zola . Subscribe to TVU UMSA LP .  Hernán Darío Correa - Mensajes ecólogicos y culturales de los pueblos indígenas de Colombia (1988)   See  https://constitutionnet.org/country/constitutional-history-colombia : In 1991, a reform movement led to the drafting of another constitution. The process began with an attempted reform in 1988 intended to involve the population in the political process and to counter corruption amidst an ongoing civil conflict. The failed1988 reforms instigated a student movement named Todavia podemos salvar Colombia (we can still save Colombia). The students and youths demonstrated on the streets demanding a constitutional assembly to address the ongoing conflict. The movement proposed a constituent assembly for the 1990 elections and held a special ballot called the septima papeleta (Seventh Ballot) during the regular elections. Although the Electoral Counsel did not officiall...

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Unfortunately Blogger won't let me post this as an embedded video. See  https://youtu.be/YuHs-_lbm6Y?si=jqUX1_i5caIpEe7J . Ah no, somebody's just editing the code and adding bugs. See  https://leecamp.locals.com/   Subscribe to Lee Camp .

7:36 A viewer asks how they can know what data is used to compute the count. Also Angélica's question at 23:50 . The fact that there are five copies of each of the summaries from each table does not guarantee that those papers are what are used to compute the final result, because for that you need to know in detail what the software running on the server is doing, and also that that server is in fact the one that is running the software, and not some "man in the middle" that is intercepting the connections. See  Evo Pueblo Bolivia Dirección Nacional - "Hay pruebas 3 mil acatas alteradas computo clandestino, fraude electoral" . Subscribe to Unitel Bolivia . 

I never heard of this before! See  Stochastic computing . See also Brian Gaines' (2019) brief history of stochastic computing:  Origins of Stochastic Computing . See this Nature Communications paper  Thermodynamic computing system for AI applications  by Denis Melanson, Mohammad Abu Khater, Maxwell Aifer, Kaelan Donatella, Max Hunter Gordon, Thomas Ahle, Gavin Crooks, Antonio J. Martinez, Faris Sbahi & Patrick J. Coles. Also  Lattice Random Walk Discretisations of Stochastic Differential Equations  by Samuel Duffield, Maxwell Aifer, Denis Melanson, Zach Belateche & Patrick J. Coles. Subscribe to Anastasi in Tech .

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This is why the diesel shortage is so crippling, and it has been an obvious Achilles heel since 2010. See  https://cmsa-lpz.bo/  and  DW Transport Technology Interview with Rubén Collao on agroforestry development There was some noise-cancelling tech that was struggling with the background music! And YouTube embedded player doesn’t let you choose whether you want the original soundtrack or the AI one. That’s misrepresentation. Subscribe to Natalia Aparicio .

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The Monroe Doctrine in 202 years old. Subscribe to Glen Diesen .

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Telegram is implemented as a library providing an API for the clients. See  Barbara Liskov - Oral History Project Interview . They claim to have a quarter of a million developers involved. Subscribe to Cangjie Language .

This is just Part I. I guess there are only so many times you can say "two state solution" on a zoom call from Israel to Canada.   See Curt Jaimungal Intervew with Jenann Ismael . Interview last year with Avshalom Elitzur: Subscribe to  Curt Jaimungal . Lecture given by Aharanov in August 2025  Subscribe to Institute for Quantum Studies .

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It seems as if the land is like a sponge which can absorb more water when it's wet than than when it's dry. So to restart the system all that is needed is to temporarily divert water into the dry areas. They did this by using a simple siphon. In subsequent years the same area retained water all through the dry season. See  La Emprendadora de Alto Milluni  and  Maria Pando Entrevista con Hidrologo Dr. Ramiro Simon Pillco-Zola . In the same area there were extensive irrigation systems in the valley Llaqtaqolloy, Huancavelica that were maintained by the Inka: See also  MapBiomas Bolivia  and  The Last Tropical Glaciers are Disappearing Rapidly . Subscribe to Francisco Arango (Musuq Pacha) . 

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El era coordinador del estudio UMSA  Planificación y Desarrollo de los recursos hidricos en la cuenca de los lagos Poopo y Uru-uru, Oruro, Bolivia . Subscribe to Cabildeo Digital . La serie documental muestra el testimonio y lucha de cuatro comunidades urbanas y rurales afectadas por la contaminación de la  Cuenca Katari - Lago Titicaca: Alto Milluni y Puente Seque en El Alto; Alto Puchukollo en Laja y Tiquipa en Chojasivi, Pucarani.  Realizado por el Colectivo Left Hand Rotation de Portugal e IIADI por medio de un proceso participativo con las comunidades en la construcción del guion, la toma de imágenes y la edición final:   Subscribe to  IIADIoficial .