The Eternal Doorman

3:16 They invented Synchronous Media Transport! 😀 See  Time Travel in Programming Land  and  Jeff Geerling and his Time Project .  Subscribe to  media.ccc.de

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15:30 Slowing down time! Subscribe to Curious Marc . 

44:34 Teaching needs to evolve quite a bit!  57:11 On Galileo's compass and gauge theories. 1:06:47 On compressed sensing see  Terence Tao on AI in Mathematics .  Subscribe to Brian Keating . 

I was just wondering about WebAssembly and what it could be used for, and I found this video made by Google in October 2024. This is so wrong I don't know what to say. It's all concrete on concrete on concrete. If you write software like this you will only accumulate unnecessary complexity inexorably. Doesn't anybody care where that will lead? Is that just someone else's problem? Always?  Subscribe to Chromedevs .  This was prompted by my listening to this Hackaday podcast: Subscribe to Hackaday .  The reason I looked this up was that I wanted to see what I could do with WebAssembly that would fit in with the idea of building composable modular processing and communication streams. For example, there are various "operating systems" around such as Home Assistant OS and Robot OS which are basically just frameworks for plugging modules together, and programs like FFmpeg  which probably should have been designed like that, but weren't. To me all of these thi...

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It's an idea that's in the air,... See  Janet Axelrud Explaining Her New Business  and  The Pollock-Krasner House 2025 . She talked last week about enthusiasm , and I had never thought about the Greek roots of that word before.  See also  FCast at the FUTO Christmas Party .  Subscribe to Joaquina Revollo . 

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They're cousins and she is making a documentary about Terence McKenna. See  It's Going to Get Weirder: The Terence McKenna Story - A Feature Documentary . See also  Dennis Mackenna Talking With Graham St. John  and this panel from December 11 on his biography  Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna : See the Terence McKenna archive project and support it financially at  https://www.terencemckenna.com/donate . Subscribe to McKenna Academy .  See  https://www.seanchaistudio.com/  and subscribe to  Seanchai Studio .  Subscribe to Ken Goffman a.k.a R. U. Sirius . 

See her post this afternoon : Subscribe to Curious Wandering Souls .  That reminded me of this curious advertisement for the FotoKem nextLAB® dailies system, featuring Noriko Miyakawa: Subscribe to FotoKem . Noriko Miyakawa was the animator on David Lynch's strange and frightening film Pozar: Subscribe to David Lynch Theater . 

It's really interesting. See  Category Theory and the Ontology of Sunyata  by Venkata Rayudu Posina and Sisir Roy and  Richard Southwell on Coxeter Groups .  47:21 He talks about the category CAT being mind-like. See  Another Excellent Talk on HoTT by Steve Awodey  and the idea that category theory is "the abstract algebra of functions". I think this is the reason why the category of categories seems mind-like, from the perspective of functionalism. See  Hilary Putnam - Philosophy And Our Mental Life .  1:16:36  On reasons for being and being from nothing, Lawvere had a category-theoretic answer: see  Urs Schreiber on Hegel’s Logic and Category Theory .  See also  Two Views of Consciousness and Personality .  Subscribe to Richard Southwell . 

The YouTube app on Android won't let me read the original French video description. It forces the AI auto-translation. Did these people not read the Bible or something?  Subscribe to  Boulangerie Pas à Pas . 

Interesting question at the end about roots,...  She has a blog: www.katika-kuehnreich.com . Subscribe to media.ccc.de . 

23:00 He thinks it's just that people who think they're in positions of power are ignorant, but how can anyone be that stupid and not be held to account for it? It's not just the people "at the top," it's everyone who goes along with the charade, and most do so just because it's the path of least resistance.  40:33 Community Land Trusts are what the central banks should be buying.  50:31 On altering local climate: it's possible on even quite small scales.  55:02 On economics again and the need to naturalize the [global] economy.  1:05:50 Water gardens project in Sussex/Kent. See  The Eco Oasis where nature and innovation meet .  See  Growtree Organics Restoring Arizona's Groundwater  and  Karen Hao on AI . Subscribe to  Commensalist .  Stacy Malkan of US Right to Know:  https://usrtk.org/ And on companies' rights to color fruit loops how they know best:  Subscribe to Kim Iversen . 

They are really inspiring. See Water in West Texas, Arizona and Hidalgo . See their Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/cw/GreenGuardians . See also  John Liu on The Real Economic Foundation .  Subscribe to Growtree Organics .  Sean Overton is doing something similar in West Texas, but he's drilling a well!  Support the well:  https://www.customink.com/fundraising/dustupstexas  and/or join the project:  https://dustupsranch.com/membership-yt174730 . Cholla: Subscribe to Dustups . 

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She is a really remarkable woman! See also  Janet Axelrud Reading from her book Growing Wings  and  Two Views of Consciousness and Personality .  Subscribe to Architect of Ideas . 

They have written a book  Profiteering from Doom: Just follow the money . Their previous book sold over seven thousand copies:  The Death of Science: The retreat from reason in the post-modern world .  Angus Dalgleish   BSc(Hons), MB.BS, MD, FRACP, FRCP, FRCPath, FMedSci is Professor at St George's, University of London and Paul Goddard MD is Professor at University of the West of England, Bristol. Angus Dalgleish was involved in the junior doctors dispute in 1975 when the UK Government put a "D notice" prohibiting the press from publishing the salaries of junior doctors (42:47) . See this story from February 2016 . I suppose this is part of the fucked-up economics story:  Karen Hao on AI .  Subscribe to Dr John Campbell . 

See The Rising Sea: Foundations of Algebraic Geometry by Ravi Vakil and his list of conferences:  https://math.stanford.edu/~vakil/conferences.html . Actually, Princeton University Press have given a free copy to everyone who has a computer with 10 MB of free space on a storage device and the wherewithal to read PDF files! See the link in the video description . The title comes from something Alexander Grothendieck once wrote about cracking hard nuts: " ... La mer s’avance insensiblement et sans bruit, rien ne semble se casser rien ne bouge l’eau est si loin on l’entend à peine... Pourtante lle finit par entourer la substance rétive..." Here's the interview: Subscribe to Math Life Balance . 

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23:29 On using Machine Learning to tackle actual problems.  26:51  One of the things that was going on before stupid chat bots was neurosymbolic AI:  David Cox lecturing on Neurosymbolic AI at MIT in 2020. Then this talk given a few months ago by Jiayuan Mao , also at MIT gives a good idea of how hard it is to make machines that can actually learn things themselves without being trained on huge datasets or by an army of slaves (54:22) .  Subscribe to Scientific American . Actual problems such as how to decide what energy technology to develop: Subscribe to Engineering with Rosie . Reportedly? Yes: Subscribe to More Perfect Union .  Did Elton Musk actually see Transcendence? Subscribe to Transcendent gray goop . Another actual problem we collectively have is that we don't know what money is, even though we let it rule our lives. Maybe some applied machine learning could help with that too? Subscribe to  Prof. Steve Keen .  Instead, ...  Subscribe...

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Suggests that the majority of Covid deaths were caused by Midazolam injections and that were it not for this there would have been little evidence for lethality of the virus and no pandemic.  See  Excess Deaths in the United Kingdom: Midazolam and Euthanasia in the COVID-19 Pandemic :  A major finding of this paper is that the very high excess deaths in 2020 in the UK were due to Midazolam intervention rather than SARS-CoV-2 infections, demonstrating the unreliability of COVID data as evidence of a SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, which was denied the status of a “High Consequence Infectious Disease” by UK Health Security Agency in March 2020.Any claim that COVID vaccination saved lives has little merit, because few lives were threatened by the largely absent SARS-CoV-2 virus in the UK; the spike in so-called COVID deaths in 2020 was actually euthanasia deaths by Midazolam, which remains the dominant causal explanation of the pandemic, overwhelming other factors. Midazolam inje...

It's a collection letters he wrote to Henry Savile Clark who produced stage performances of Alice Wonderland in 1886 and 1888. See  Lewis Carroll and "Alice" on Stage The Savile Clarke Letters .  The Lewis Carroll Society of America's "Show and tell" See the manga series  Rozen Maiden .  See also  A Meeting of the Christ Church Common Room .  Subscribe to The Lewis Carroll Society of North America . 

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I only got as far as 2:42 and I am amazed! [Update: I listened to three hours and now it seems quite plausible!] The Coxeter Diagrams are an alien programming language that creates geometry. See also  nLab on the Coxeter Group .  This is also about the ADE phenomenon of Vladimir Arnold. See  Norman Wildberger and Daniel Tubbenhauer on Formal and Structural Coincidents .  You're expected to have watched this video first:  Subscribe to Richard Southwell .  Norman Wildberger on regular polytopes:  On the ADE thing:  Subscribe to Norman Wildberger . 

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33:48 On her idea of the world being more than human, see  Robinson Erhardt talking with Annaka Harris .  55:06 See  Bioelectrical synchronization of Picea abies during a solar eclipse  by Alessandro Chiolerio, Monica Gagliano et al.   1:02:54 I had no idea that tides affect trees. See, e.g.  Groundwater Responses to Earth Tides: Evaluation of Analytical Solutions Using Numerical Simulation  by Jose M. Bastias Espejo, Gabriel C. Rau and Philipp Blum.  Subscribe to The Wonderstruck Podcast . 

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This is a really great discussion! See  Toby on Four Dimensional Existential Angst and Annaka Harris and Michel Bitbol on Consciousness as a Condition .  She considers whether consciousness can exist without content, and also suggests that being able to share direct experience is/would be a form of communication. My comment: 1:12:23 if that were the case then it would be a primitive instance of the kind of communication she refers to at 1:26:41 . The first two paragraphs of Book 1 of Aristotle's Physics : When the objects of an inquiry, in any department, have principles, conditions, or elements, it is through acquaintance with these that knowledge, that is to say scientific knowledge, is attained. For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements. Plainly therefore in the science of Nature, as in other branches of study, our first task will be to try...

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See the book here  and  Toby on Something Special About Three Dimensions . Subscribe to  Assumptions of Physics Research . There's a curious synchrony going on. John Baez is trying to explain why there is this arbitrary phase in the representation of quantum spin states. He's not doing a very convincing job of it, but he is nevertheless producing something quite intelligible: Subscribe to John Baez .

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Here's a clip:   Tarski's theorems were all about formal languages though. I don't see why this argument holds for human beings. But I have not listened to the whole interview ( 1:15:56 ). Subscribe to Curt Jaimungal .

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I don't think that this can solve the problems, but it's really interesting how there can exist such wildly different ideas about what a national economy actually is.  Subscribe to Steve Keen . 

The government have summarily suspended the fuel subsidy overnight, ... See  Conflict : resolution and prevention by John W. Burton  and  https://www.unirbolivia.org/ I'm not convinced that this is the problem. There is plenty of evidence that the economic system produces profit from conflict and so there are economic incentives, artificial though they may be, which need to be properly understood and dealt with. See  Steve Keen on The Importance of Accounting Principles . Here's the interview:  See her interview the day before with Economist Gonzalo Colque: Subscribe to Natalia Aparicio . 

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This lecture was given on December 23rd, 2020 as part of a workshop on Biological Mentality, and the ideas involved have benefited from collaborations with Dr. Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar and Ilexa Yardley. See  Beyond Quantum Theory: A Realist Psychobiological Interpretation of Physical Reality  by  Michael Conrad, D. Home and Brian Josephson. Hermann Staudinger Lecture given by Professor Josephson at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, October 28, 2009. 13:52 I had never heard of the work of Robert Rosen before: Rosen's abstract relational biology approach focuses on a definition of living organisms, and all complex systems, in terms of their internal organization as open systems that cannot be reduced to their interacting components because of the multiple relations between metabolic, replication and repair components that govern the organism's complex biodynamics. George Osborne's thesis is still available online:  The Cognitive Mechanisms Guiding Psychol...

It's a new initiative to develop and promote sustainable tourism in Bolivia. See  https://www.unagrannacion.com/ The talk about Pando reminded me of Percy Harrison Fawcett and that prompted me to look up the film " The Lost City of Z " which was released in September 2016. It was based on David Grann's book , published in 2009. The film rights were bought by Plan B Entertainment even before the book was published. Filming was done in Colombia.  Subscribe to Natalia Aparicio . 

These little cul-de-sac's in the history of mathematics are much more interesting to me than the highways.   Subscribe to Thomas Kern . Bourbaki is apparently not very well-understood by Philosophers of Mathematics:  Subscribe to  Copernicus Center . And Norman Wildberger thinks undergraduate mathematics courses should be better on foundations, and that there are reasons why they aren't! Subscribe to Insights into Mathematics .

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He's at around page 53 of the course text:  Quantum Topology Without Topology . It's a really interesting thing. For applications see  John Baez on Cospans of Finite Sets  and  Toby on Braids and the Golden Ratio .     Subscribe to Daniel Tubbenhauer . 

See  Assumptions of Physics Reading .  In the discussion about where Galilean relativity fails at 53:00 see  Nothing but Relativity, Redux by Joel W. Gannett : Here we show how spacetime transformations consistent with the principle of relativity can be derived without an explicit assumption of the constancy of the speed of light, without gedanken experiments involving light rays, and without an assumption of differentiability, or even continuity, for the spacetime mapping. Subscribe to Assumptions of Physics .  John Wentsworth did an interesting project on 2021. See  the Natural Abstraction Hypothesis project . I don't see that it is particularly to do with AI though.  Subscribe to Topos Institute . 

This also shows up in continued fractions, I think. The golden ratio is the one whose continued fraction approximations are as far away as possible.  Subscribe to Tibees .

A critical analysis of the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry report and Skripal affair presented by Craig Murray, Patrick Henningsen and Tim Norman. See Tim Norman's UK Column piece  The Day of the Skripal . I watched almost an hour of this and it is all so ridiculous that I wonder why they go to so much trouble to draw people's attention to it. There is a much bigger issue here which is that the UK government and establishment media can pretty much say whatever they want and there is no push-back from anyone except a small minority of people who are overwhelmed by the amount of complete crap they have to deal with. It's just a war of attrition. Subscribe to  UK Column .

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This was a particularly interesting chapter. Insight 1.191 is something Landau and Lifshitz didn't realise. See  The Book  and  Toby on The Hardest Soviet Exam and Jade on Non-deterministic Newtonian Mechanics .  Subscribe to Assumptions of Physics . 

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Ironically, this whole thing is really about how to design software for the Internet. See  John Baez on Symmetric Monoidal Categories A Rosetta Stone and Noson S. Yanofsky on Diagonalization, Fixed Points, and Self-reference  and Brendan Fong and David Spivak - Seven Sketches in Compositionality: An Invitation to Applied Category Theory . Somebody please tell Eric Yuan the CEO of Zoom  and the idiots at Google who think the way to allow people to edit text is to open a hidden text widget on an invisible web page and redirect keystroke and pointer movement events to it.  Subscribe to Topos Institute . Subscribe to Angela Collier . 

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