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Curt Jaimungal Interviewing Renato Renner

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I've only listened to the first 33 minutes and 32 seconds of this but I'm impressed.  See his paper written with Daniela. Frauchiger:  Quantum theory cannot consistently describe the use of itself .  There is an associated software model available from  https://github.com/jangnur/Quanundrum . See also  Thought experiments in a quantum computer  by Nuriya Nurgalieva, Simon Mathis, Lídia del Rio and Renato Renner. As regards the recursion, I wonder whether impredicative types would make a difference? See the talk by Simon Peyton Jones on impredicativity in System-F and Hindley-Milner type inference in  this post of mine .  See also Jenann Ismael's  A Participatory Universe in the Realist Mode  (2024) and Robert J. Aumann's very short 1976 paper Agreeing to Disagree . See also my post  Jenann Ismael - Laplace meets Godel: How Self reference Foils Prediction .  See also  Gabriele Carcassi - A Simple Explanation of Quantum Mech...

Emily Hopkins Demoing The Pedal They Designed

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It does a bunch of effects! She spent years trying hundreds of pedals on her harp before they did this. See  Emily and Russ Made an Effects Pedal . This covers just the "Normal" sounds,...  Get Parting here: https://bit.ly/45QJtGk ​ Or here: https://bit.ly/3Z6kHhK ​ Subscribe to  Harp Lady . 

Britain's Role in Defensive Bombing of Iran

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2,000 lb JDAM bombs stored in RAF Welford delivered by road and AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapons stored in Italy and flown to RAF Fairford. Then delivered to Iran for defensive strikes.  See this link to donate to Declassified UK  https://secure.declassifieduk.org/page/167716/donate/1?ea.tracking.id=buxp399y . Subscribe to  Declassified UK . 

Audrey Henson on The Future of Publishing

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See her Substack article  The Shy Girl AI Scandal Is Way Worse Than You Think : See the NYT piece (or at least the first three pagraphs of it)  Horror Novel ‘Shy Girl’ Canceled Over Suspected A.I. Use . Then see Thaddeus McIlroy's LinkedIn post  Shy Girl: The Background to the New York Times Story  and his blog  The Future of Publishing . The guy comes across as a total creep. See also this post of mine  Some AI Stories .  Subscribe to  The Drey Dossier .  Thaddeus McIlroy is the author of a book called The AI Revolution in Book Publishing : 26:22 Let's talk about junk books,...  He clearly thinks of himself as a consultant to the publishing/AI industry, but he doesn't have enough tech savvy to realise what the big publishers are probably doing with machine learning:  Kobi Abayomi - All You Need is Music: Streaming, Recommendations and Predictions .  Subscribe to Nord Compo USA . 

Fab Academy Global - I/O Tutorial

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Here ( 21:56 ) I learned about  Charlieplexing : See  Fab Academy - Input Devices  and  Fab Academy - Rebooting the Industrial Revolution .  Subscribe to  Fab Academy . 

Tutte's Spring Theorem

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From 1963, ... See  Tutte embedding .  Subscribe to  aiyopasta . 

Zeke Lunder on the Grography and Geopolitics of Iran and the Persian Gulf and Sal Mercogliano on Shipping

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Einstürzende Neubauten's 46th Anniversary Concert

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See  https://neubauten.org/en/ : How did I Die?  Live at Berlin Tempodrom, 2014 Subscribe to  Einstürzende Neubauten . 

Gabriele Carcassi - A Simple Explanation of Quantum Mechanics

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It's all about penetration and turn-overs (i.e. marketing).  Send him a lot of money:  https://assumptionsofphysics.org/donate/ Subscribe to Gabriele Carcassi .  See  Warwick Powell on War, Energy and the Cunning of Entropy . 

Warwick Powell on War, Energy and the Cunning of Entropy

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He only mentions agriculture once, at 13:39 where he talks about the French  Physiocracy . See  Clara Mattei talking with Costas Lapavitsas  and  Spiritually Depraved, Misery Inducing Landscapes of North America Episode III .  See his book  Thermoeconomics in a Time of Monsters  and his recent substack post  War, Energy and the Cunning of Entropy . Subscribe to Glenn Diesen .  Update: Richard Werner on centralised economic power. There is a thing called "the central bank of central banks"! Subscribe to  The Economic Times .  Jaques Baud sanctioned by EU Subscribe to  Neutrality Studies .  Marjorie Taylor Greene on free press Subscribe to  MTG: Politicalinsider .  Aaron Maté on the IDF and the UK Subscribe to  Judging Freedom .