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Sophie Maclean and Brady Haran on Schur Numbers

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It’s a small number that required petabytes of data to find. See  Sabine Hossenfelder on Ultrafinitism in Physics . Subscribe to Numberphile .

Another Curt Jaimungal Interview With Roger Penrose

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This is the third one!  My comments: 35:03 The idea that "the collapse of the wave function" is connected with time is what Carlo Rovelli calls the thermal-time hypothesis isn't it? So any measurement event is the tick of a clock, with a before and an after, which has to be recorded in some low entropy macroscopic state which in turn sets up the boundary conditions for the subsequent unitary evolution of the "quantum state". So the light-cone structure we abstract from all these macroscopic records of measurement events is the large-scale cosmological structure. What's the problem? 37:32 Wait, didn't he say a physicalist was someone who believes that nothing that goes on in the human mind violates physical law? That does not mean that everything that happens in the human mind is somehow caused by known physical laws, because physical law may not be complete, .... oh wait, ... that's what Penrose doesn't like about quantum mechanics, its incomp...

Kayleigh on Sundaland

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This is a nice thing to think about Hairy Rhinocerouses and Flying Lemurs. Oh yes, and Hobbits too. See  The Great American Biotic Interchange . Join her Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/HistoryWithKayleigh . Subscribe to History with Kayleigh .

Angela Collier on Dr Faust

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It was a folk-tale . I didn’t realise that. I thought it was the idea of Johann Wolfgang Von Göthe . See Dorothy Thompson 's 1941 piece in Harper's entitled  Who Goes Nazi?  and Orwell's  Notes on Nationalism  which is thought by many to explain the motivation behind his novel 1984 . Subscribe to Angela Collier  (DJ). Subscribe to  Music Video Vault . Granny does your dog bite?   Subscribe to Charlie Daniels Band . YouTube has got the pattern, ... There's a making of series:   Subscribe to Niraj Pancholi .

Asianometry on Thermal Runway in the Semiconductor Industry

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So when they got their hands on enough GPUs they could make smaller mask features on hotter chips, ... and why doesn't anyone want to figure out how to write software properly? Subscribe to Asianometry .

Two Videos About Supervolcanoes

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One is Yellowstone, ... Subscribe to GEO GIRL . The other is Campi Flegrei near Pozzuoli: Subscribe to On The Pulse with Silki .

Spaghoshi - Interview With Richard Anderson, Diné Medicine Man, UFO Investigator and Vietnam Veteran

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Sabine Hossenfelder on Ultrafinitism in Physics

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My comment: Wow, just when I’d given up on you you did an interesting video. About 10^100 not existing: maybe they mean something like the sense that the number three does not exist in arithmetic modulo 3. What I mean is that there might be some categorical sense that 10^100 is isomorphic to some other finite number less than that. But since I don’t know the context of this I can’t tell anything about it. Maybe I should do a Brilliant course in information theory? See  Gabriele Carcassi on The Correspondence Between Quantum and Classical Mechanics . Subscribe to Sabine Hossenfelder . Reminding me about this brilliant talk by Doron Zeilberger: Subscribe to Harry Crane . He has some radical ideas about what constitutes proof too. The thing is that if you drop universal quantification over infinite sets then you replace it with functional dependence and you can have a consistency-preserving system that’s not complete, but gets you a nice constructive foundation that can safely be ela...

Physicists Reproducing Experiments

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They have some kind of educational outreach program going on. See  The Challenge of Quantum Reality . What if the kids ask to see that cathode after the experiment? See  DemystifySci Podcast on Cathode Rays  and  Gabriele Carcassi on The Correspondence Between Quantum and Classical Mechanics . Subscribe to PI .