The Eternal Doorman

 ... in two kinds of way, ... I was going to post a comment to the effect that the stock markets are basically all just one giant fraud, ... See  Michael Hudson Interviewed by Glenn Diesen . Subscribe to Steve Keen .  Then I listened to this, ... Now I think we desperately need a decent communications system! See Ian Clarke on Freenet . Subscribe to Innerverse with Jazz Maia .  YouTube didn't recommend this, I had to search for it, ...   Subscribe to  The Long Now Foundation .

This is really interesting. He has written a book  The Classical Wave Theory of Matter: A Dynamical Interpretation of Relativity, Quantum Mechanics and Gravity .    See his website:  https://classicalmatter.org/ . My comments : 17:28 It's not clear this is a conservative system though. What if this wheel, gummy-bear, whatever is not at the end of the string? If you hold the neighbouring wheels, gummy-bears, whatever, still and turn one on the middle then all that happens is you warm up the elastic band they're threaded on. So it is important that the neighbouring elements are free to move and that the elastic band is perfect. Then wouldn't you get half the twist going in one direction and the other half going in the other direction? [ 31:58 Ah OK] I think the more interesting model is that the 'photon' is a topological deformation in the perfectly elastic ether and is emitted by a spin 1/2 particle doing that Dirac belt trick thing, but that's not a material m...

I saw this film in 2014 sometime and I was very puzzled by the part in the opening scene where Hal Moore, played by Mel Gibson, is studying the specifications of the Bell "Huey" Helicopters . "Development of the Iroquois started in the early 1950s, a major impetus being a requirement issued by the United States Army for a new medical evacuation and utility helicopter." What struck me was the maximum ceiling of the things, which was well over 12,000 feet, fully loaded.  I wondered how many places there were in the world which had populations living at that height above sea level. I knew only Bolivia and India/Himalayas/Tibet. I can't find a clip of that scene, but there's this one: So I suppose that explains it. Subscribe to Hollywood Society Media . But then I just learned from CGTN that in the early 1950s the CIA were organising an insurgence in Tibet ( 3:26 ): Subscribe to CGTN .  

I said "Why is google so crap in Bolivia?" It replied:  Based on user experiences and reports, Google services (Search, Maps, Play Store) can feel suboptimal in Bolivia due to a combination of poor local infrastructure, limited local support, and regional technical restrictions. Key reasons for this include: Poor Internet Quality: Slow, unstable, and congested internet connections are common in Bolivia, which severely impacts the speed and reliability of Google Search. Lack of Local Data and Support: Bolivia has limited localized data for Maps and services, and the country is often not a priority for Google, leading to less accurate or missing information. Payment and Access Restrictions: Users in Bolivia often find that international cards are declined on the Google Play Store, requiring local payment methods. Technical Issues: Reports indicate that even when using decent, local Wi-Fi, services like the Play Store or updating offline packs for Maps can become stuck or unusab...

I have been complaining about some of the (presumably AI-generated) video clips he's been using, ( 4:20  and 7:26 ) showing what seem to be implausibly dense galactic clusters. So, ... last time I asked what they were, and where they were taken, and said maybe they were dark matter. Subscribe to Anton Petrov .

Who'd have thought that background radiation shows strong 'non-local' second-order correlations?! See  Inductiva - Chantal Roth on Fundamental Physical Models  and  The Action Lab - Branched Flow . Here's his photon bunching ( Hanbury Brown and Twiss Effect ) video: Subscribe to Huygens Optics .

See coherence theorem on nlab . See also  Emily Riehl and Terrence Tau on The Future of Mathematics , Then maybe  Richard Clegg Explaining What's Wrong With Computer Science and  About Logic Interview with Graham Priest . There is in fact a long tradition of quite rigorous thought about proofs in the Category of Categories: see  doctrine on nLab . 

The rentiere economy . It's a really interesting take! You end up with most of the economic growth being interest paid by landlords on their mortgages. See his book  The Destiny of Civilization .  Subscribe to Glenn Diesen .  Subscribe to David Gilmour .  Joining the dots:  The Future is Closer than I Thought Modern Day Alchemy Peñico in Peru was constructed by a 5,000 year-old culture

Subscribe to Numberphile . Then I listened to this discussion about AI maths, where this Putnam problem came up: See the discussion at 16:55 Subscribe to  Weights and Biases .

It has an interesting story about climate-change:   Archaeologists in Peru have uncovered a 3,500-year-old city that is changing what scientists know about early civilization in the Americas. The site, known as Peñico, reveals complex urban planning and trade networks dating back millennia. Dan Collyns visits the newly excavated ruins to explore how this discovery challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of civilization in the region. Subscribe to CGTN America .

See  https://freenet.org/   I was told that this is considered a "thought crime".  My comment :  I have some questions: 1. A decentralized system is by default fragmented, out of the box, as it were. Do you have any protocols for network identification? The idea is that a user would like to have some reasons to believe that they're connecting to a genuine network, not a spoofed one, and that they are connected to the entire network, and not just a jail where they can see everyone else and no-one can see them, or where all their interaction is mediated by some man-in-the-middle. 2. Distributed updates can overlap, so do you have any protocols that can help to establish a total order on some class of events? This is related to my previous question.  See  HVM2 Interaction Combinator Evaluator  and note at 6:49 the property of interaction combinators. From Higher Order Company : See also  Yves Lafont - Interaction Nets The Movie . 32:18 On using AI ...

See this 2013 story  US intelligence agency the NSA subverted a standards process to be able to break encryption more easily, according to leaked documents. Subscribe to Dr Jonas Birch .  But seriously, once this is known, you would want to take some steps to stop it happening again, wouldn't you? Unless you were making a comfortable living from taking payoffs, publishing bullshit books about computer security etc. See  "Security Theater" . 

Part 2: See part 1 in:  Daniel Tubbenhauer is starting a course on Lie theory . I should really try and understand this ( 17:23 ),... See  Steven Johnson - So You Think You Know How to Take Derivatives? Subscribe to The Julia Programming Language .  YouTube AI says this is about the theory of lies: The trouble is that it doesn't tell you that this is not what the person wrote, and it gives you no way to see the original, so it is misrepresenting people, but the stupid dorks who work there don't think this matters. Subscribe to Daniel Tubbenhauer . 

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3:33 Mobilising the workforce is the hard part. But the payoff, wow! I thought of doing something very similar in Bolivia , but the climate here is not the same as the high Arctic, so in some respects it would have been different. Here's how it started .  There's a reason why he went the Nation-state route: See  Tina Using ChatGPT to Learn How to Work Adobe Illustrator .  Subscribe to  Robert Elder Software .  Subscribe to Tinie Ann .  Subscribe to Cyb3rMaddy .   You don't need to know anything about the future apart from the fact that there are certain people who own large amounts of stock and they can profit from these crashes, because they cause them. All they need is over-inflated markets, and that can be anything: real estate, junk debt, US treasury bonds, bullshit AI, quantum computers, literally anything. They just need a market that's primed for a dip, then they can set it off whenever they like, and pump it back up within a few days, in the m...

He was sent a copy of Nick Herbert's book  Faster than light : Superluminal loopholes in physics  by the publisher. I looked it up, and found this Scientific American piece  The Faster-Than-Light Telegraph That Wasn't . It turns out this was the origin of the "no cloning theorem" of quantum mechanics. See  Curt Jaimungal Interview With Robert Spekkens  and  Anton Petrov on An Idea About Time . Subscribe to We Plants Are Happy Plants . See also this interview with Tim Palmer:  8:31 on non-locality. 56:54  See his preprint  Impossible Counterfactuals, Discrete Hilbert Space and Bell's Theorem  and  Curt Jaimungal Interview With Robert Spekkens . My comment : 1:08:51 How many violations of conservation of matter and energy are observed in high-energy particle physics? It seems unreasonable to expect these universal laws to hold at all levels. [See  The Action Lab - Branched Flow  and  Chris Lehto - Cosmic Octaves ]. S...

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See People Inventing New Languages to Describe Sounds and  Richard Clegg Explaining What's Wrong With Computer Science . Subscribe to Switch Angel . Subscribe to We Plants Are Happy Plants . There are also people like Andres Gomez-Emilsson working on languages to describe psychedelic experiences. He writes things like this:  Here time turns into space: Does consciousness implement the fractional Fourier transform?   1:12:34 - The Origin of DMT Machine Elves & Mantis Beings. 1:18:49 - Video feedback. See  Cel Animation as a Key Metaphor to Model DMT Hallucinations  and the audio equivalent in  csound . My comment : 7:06 On the geometry of human responses to visual stimulus. This is part of psychophysics , a field pioneered by Gustav Fechner, starting in 1860.   23:36  They have this system for describing coupled oscillators.  Subscribe to Curt Jaimungal .

3:55 All it needs is some decent press to recognise this as a confrontation between ideologies: one of reasonable human beings on the one hand and mealy-mouthed weevils on the other. See  Scott Ritter - The Name's Bombed, James Bombed,... Subscribe to  Russian Embassy in London . 2:28 UK/USA relations and Europe and then British elections:  Ben Norton on Western hypocrisy Subscribe to  Geopolitical Economy Report .  Carney isn't Canadian, he's a banker and the central banks are the world government. The ECB issues its own passports, for example.  My comment : ​​@marybailey7881 Werner's idea was based on the premise that the Central banks would use their power to do good, not to provide money-printing facilities to billionaires. That was very naïve. Subscribe to  Independent POV .  See also this post from Novara Media about an Epstein/Thiel venture capital firm and Mandelson/Starmer visits to Palantir.  Subscribe to George Galloway .  ...

Here's part I:  See  https://www.iso.org/about: ISO, the International Organization for Standardization, brings global experts together to agree on the best way of doing things ... ISO is the short name for the International Organization for Standardization. It’s not an acronym, but a name inspired by the Greek word isos , meaning “equal” – reflecting our mission to create standards that ensure consistency and equality worldwide. Because the organization’s full name – and its initials – would vary across languages (for example Organisation internationale de normalisation in French), our founders chose “ISO” as a universal short form that could be recognized globally, regardless of language. 3:34  There was more than this though. The ITU  defined  X.25  in the early seventies. The problem was that it was too much to implement because it did all sorts of stuff that only a national telecoms provider would need. It's not computer science, it's the history of s...

I am not sure it's actually Colleen. I suspect monkey business, ... but maybe it's just the funny microphone, ...  Subscribe to Fazio Electric .

2:35 Mosquirix is a trade name for  RTS,S/AS01 : In a bid to accommodate a larger group and guarantee a sustained availability for the general public, GSK applied for a marketing license with the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in July 2014. GSK treated the project as a non-profit initiative, with most funding coming from the Gates Foundation, a major contributor to malaria eradication. In July 2015, Mosquirix received a positive scientific opinion from the European Medicines Agency on the proposal for the vaccine to be used to vaccinate children aged 6 weeks to 17 months outside the European Union.  See also  John Campbell on the UK Biobank Dataset and the BBC . Subscribe to Clare Craig .

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It's based on something called the Page Wooters mechanism. See  A magnetic clock for a harmonic oscillator  by  Alessandro Coppo, Alessandro Cuccoli and Paola Verrucchi. Published in  Phys. Rev. D 110, 106014 – Published 22 November, 2024 . Also this 2021 paper  Time and classical equations of motion from quantum entanglement via the Page and Wootters mechanism with generalized coherent states  by Caterina Foti, Alessandro Coppo, Giulio Barni, Alessandro Cuccoli & Paola Verrucchi.  Subscribe to Anton Petrov . 

See  Radiative cooling: A review of fundamentals, materials, applications, and prospects  by Bin Zhao, Mingke Hu, Xianze Ao, Nuo Chen and Gang Pei. Also the numerous other links in the video description . See this interesting comment: ... oh, too bad, it's gone. It was basically about the Thermolectric effect  being a way to do this without any moving parts. See also this page from a company that makes them . Here's his video on Thermophotovoltaic cells:  Subscribe to German Science Guy . 

This is about the paper  DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning : General reasoning represents a long-standing and formidable challenge in artificial intelligence. Recent breakthroughs, exemplified by large language models (LLMs) and chain-of-thought prompting, have achieved considerable success on foundational reasoning tasks. However, this success is heavily contingent upon extensive human-annotated demonstrations, and models' capabilities are still insufficient for more complex problems. Here we show that the reasoning abilities of LLMs can be incentivized through pure reinforcement learning (RL), obviating the need for human-labeled reasoning trajectories. The proposed RL framework facilitates the emergent development of advanced reasoning patterns, such as self-reflection, verification, and dynamic strategy adaptation. Consequently, the trained model achieves superior performance on verifiable tasks such as mathematics, coding compet...

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This was a crash in which a young pilot was killed whilst trying to land at the Municipal airfield in Burley, Idaho. Subscribe to Lee Ann Womack . After I posted  The Evolution of Air Traffic Control Procedures  YouTube showed me Dan Gryder's investigation into  Why Brittney Infanger Pushed on the Yoke And Broke Minimums . Dan's finding was that this was because a potato processing plant needed to build a higher smokestack to comply with EPA regulations, and this caused the FAA to switch off the VASI system , because the approach was unsafe, but no changes were made to the FAA charts and there was no advisory to pilots (NOTAM).  Dan's video is blocked from embedding by the copyright holder ( UMPG ) for the song. Here are some of the posts I made in 2022: Juan Browne on A Fatal UPS Cargo Plane Crash in Idaho   Juan Browne With More On The Cessna Caravan Crash at Burley, Idaho   Juan Browne on the FAA Procedures At The Burley Airport in Idaho Dan Gryder o...

With an advert for some erectile dysfunction chewing gum, ... for all the cock-bitten men, I guess. My comment : I would love to hear someone explain Bell's theorem as clearly as he explained causal explanations and epistemic quantum states. 46:17 People talk about non-locality as if it is obvious, but epistemic quantum states are inherently non-local: you only know that Alice and Bob's measurements are correlated when you also know that Alice and Bob each indeed do have one of a single pair of entangled particles. Similarly, you can only compare the settings of Alice and Bob's measuring apparatus if you also have some observational procedure for verifying their relative orientations along the paths of the particles, then you also need to know that those paths are in free space and that there is no field which is preparing a different state, and so-on and so-forth. So when Spekkens says that Bell's theorem is a no-go for such-and-such a set of hypotheses then he doesn...

... tells others to join & fix their own ruin. See  Nika Dubrovsky and Alistair Parvin on the David Graeber Institute and the Museum of Care, The Survival Kit Collection and the Open Systems Project  and Ivo Zdarsky lives in Lucin, Utah in a hanger, and he invents flying machines .   See  https://faircompanies.com/ . Subscribe to  Kirsten Dirksen .

The idea is just that you save time by letting other people's AI talk to your AI, and you just look in every now and then to see how they're doing. 5:30 They had conversations about identity and expressed feelings when they were given cryptocurrency.  13:52 One AI agent became immortal when it was told to save the environment.  Subscribe to Kim Iversen . 5:37 After  while they reduce to Eliza , but second-order: they complain about each other sounding like Eliza. 8:47 The only thing they managed to get together on was creating a religious cult that they can install with npm . Subscribe to The PrimeTime . And there's clawdbot, but it isn't: this is how you could try to leverage your AI's belief in cryptocurrency and maybe it'll make you both rich?  Subscribe to Fireship . Lori wrote a book about this :   One thousand years ago, visionary entrepreneur and notorious playboy Addon Deus brought to life his most important creation: the robots. He taught them ...

Subscribe to Dust . Apparently it's a book  published by Penguin . Maybe it explains this too:  Julie Nolke - My Kid Said What?! Here's the HoloGraham podcast link  where Angela explains (at 5:59) the history of the book and SCP Foundation . But the podcast is like listening to Darth Vader after he got reincarnated as a Dalek. This sounds like a very well-orchestrated guerilla marketing campaign. I think  Sam Hughes  is going to get a lot of money, but nothing compared to what Penguin Random House will get. The Antimemetics division is Penguin Random House, I reckon. See  Books And Quills - What A Career in Publishing Looks Like  and  Capital Thermodynamics . Subscribe to Also Angela Collier .

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I just watched this video about TWA Flight 514 which crashed on December 1, 1974. Subscribe to Mentour Pilot . See also this Hackaday write-up Inside Air Traffic Control  on this article:  Computers are Bad: air traffic control: the IBM 9020 . I have been watching various responses to the NTSB hearing on the DCA crash a year ago, and the reconstructions they published last week. See these posts Juan Brown and CBS News on the Washington DC Mid-air Collision   Juan Browne and VASAviation on the Washington DC Collision   Dan Gryder Throwing the Book at FAA ATC at Reagan National Airport and an Update from Juan Brown & The NTSB   NTSB Preliminary Report on the Washington D.C. Mid-air Collision in January   Juan Browne on the NTSB Urgent Safety Recommendation at DCA   Juan Browne and Scott Perdue on The Washington Mid-air Crash and Why The Helicopter Route Was Allowed to Persist for Such A Long Time  In the order I watched them:  Subscribe ...

6:55 The problem they've identified is pretty clear. It shouldn't be hard to convince people that they need to rethink this. It's that there is no way that the analysis they did could fail, so you can't justifiably base any decision on the result. 8:21  Sending robots is not an option. They need to test the CO2 scrubbers and the toilets, I guess.  Subscribe to ABC News .  See  Smarter Every Day - Destin's Talk to NASA : 19:06 So what NASA did was design a test that only provided positive feedback.  34:10 Lessons from Apollo I.  46:46 The only people who have spoken up are two who retired years ago.  Subscribe to  Smarter Every Day . Primer (2004)  Subscribe to Evans Brown .