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Money and Regenerative Agriculture

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See  https://puedeserlahostia.es/  and Hope - It's not Just France and Italy, ... Subscribe to Hope . Tying crop insurance to soil health: See https://www.sage.ag/ .  54:25  What he calls "systems level" is the economic system: the farmer, supply chain, banker, insurer etc., not the actual living system. This is a very low level of regeneration that they support. See  Regenerative Agriculture and Economics  and Beavers Making Money in Arizona . European experiment in carbon removal: Subscribe to  Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food .

Clemens Kupke on Coalgebra

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This is really great: Coalgebras provide a framework for formalising the notion of behaviour of different types of state-based systems. In this talk I am planning to introduce concepts from the theory of coalgebras such as final coalgebras, coinduction and bisimulations. To exemplify what those concepts mean we will focus on the example of finite automata. If time permits I will also use that example to discuss the fruitful interplay between coalgebras and algebras, in which the latter are used to formalise specification languages (or logics) for coalgebras. See  https://msp.cis.strath.ac.uk/msp101.html  and  Emma Tye on Martin-Löf Type Theory (II) . See also  Thomas Kern on String Logics .  See also Relating coalgebraic notions of bisimulation by Sam Staton. Subscribe to  MSP - Strathclyde . 

Janet Akselrud Reading from her Book "This book is not for reading, and I mean it. I’m not trying to get you to read the book by telling you not to read it. This is a piece of art. An act of rebellion. An act of using something in a way it was not intended."

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She really is stellar! My comment : 18:03 Oh, I did that once and it got a bit out of hand!   See  https://giftsfromyoungerme.substack.com/  and  This book is not for reading, and I mean it. I’m not trying to get you to read the book by telling you not to read it. This is a piece of art. An act of rebellion. An act of using something in a way it was not intended. See also  Janet Akselrud's Wandering Mind  and  Janet Guerilla Marketing Rebellion in NYC . Subscribe to Curious Wandering Souls .  Lori has been quiet, but she does show up every now and then , ... her book is  I, Human  and I thought she was working on a sequel, ...  Subscribe to  The Resident .

Johannes Jaeger - Make Biologists Think Again — Why Technology Alone Won't Help Us Understand Life

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See  https://www.johannesjaeger.eu/blog  and  Why TAME is lame ... 35:23  He says we need an actionable theory of what an organism is and why it can do things a machine cannot. It would do just to accurately characterise what a machine actually is. You can read some of the emerging book here, but see  https://www.expandingpossibilities.org . See  John Searle's Chinese Room Argument  and  John Searle - Syntax is Observer-Relative .  See also  Charlotte Moser on Saddle-node Bifurcation . His series of 48 lectures "Beyond Networks" is here .  Subscribe to  Johannes Jaeger . 

Douglas Goodwin on the work of Mark S. Mayzner

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See Further preliminary findings on some effects of very fast sequential input rates on perception  (1967) by M. S. Mayzner, M. E. Tresselt, A. J. Adrignolo & A. Cohen. This has a lot of applications to secure communications. There are probably a lot of effects like this which could be combined to create displays that are only intelligible to a small percentage of the people who look at them. If you use a multi-party distributed computation to generate sequences to drive the displays then you have the basis for a secure interconnect. For example you could have public displays which display different information depending upon the filter through which they are viewed. Similarly with sounds.  Douglas Goodwin's web page: https://cairn.com/  in particular:  https://cairn.com/news/new-article-on-color-for-the-conversation . Subscribe to Hackaday . 

Nicole Masters - Why Humans can be a Keystone Species

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37:52  See her book Keystone: How Outliers Are Rewriting the Human Ecological Story . It's more than wildly possible that human populations over the last 10,000 years were actually responsible for the stability of the earth's climate during that time. See Regenerative Agriculture and Economics and Leave Curious and Keep it Wild Collaboration . My comment : This is great to hear. You should know though that YouTube is not recommending your videos to people who are interested in economics and regenerative agriculture. I don't think YouTube is your friend!  I have been using YouTube for over a decade, and I have watched thousands of videos about regenerative agriculture, economics and ecology, and it was only as a result of a Google search that I found this video. But YouTube recommends thousands of utterly irrelevant videos that I don't watch. YouTube is a disgrace! Subscribe to  Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food .

Regenerative Agriculture and Economics

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Here's an example of Sea Otters in California: there is some sweet spot where minimal human intervention can bring back an ecosystem. See  Beavers Making Money in Arizona . Subscribe to Leave Curious . 22:47 Bauré Flood-plain Aquaculture in Bolivia.  34:29 Haíłzaqv herring and kelp farming in Canada.  Subscribe to Climate Cleanup . We need to get better at scheduling volcanic activity too: Subscribe to GEO GIRL . Invest in Google and degenerative AI instead: Subscribe to Lena Petrova . See Curtis Webber - Arizona Flooding: The Last Video You Need to Watch About It .

Mikael Gromov - Probability, Symmetry and Linearity

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21:05 He says the idea of quantizing energy in Plank's black-body radiation formula actually came from Boltzmann . 1:01:24  He says mathematics can never escape from arbitrary consequences of some definite representation ( 1:05:27).   1:12:47 On measure spaces not being spaces. See Joel Hamkins interviewed on About Logic and the Radon-Nikodym theorem . 18:05 Entropy and systems: See the full set of six lectures here . See also Mikhail Gromov on Mathematical Description of Biological Structures .    Subscribe to IHES . 

Curtis Webber - Arizona Flooding: The Last Video You Need to Watch About It

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My comment : This is really interesting, but to claim that it's the last video anyone needs to watch about it sounds ridiculous. Are you really going to exhaust the whole topic in fifteen minutes? Or do you just mean watching videos is a waste of time in general. You might be right in that case. [ 13:21 "All that water flowing through Phoenix wasn't wasted, some of it will soak into the ground and refill the aquifer". That's what your next video about the flooding in Arizona should be about, getting yourself an education!]   See Beavers Making Money in Arizona .  Subscribe to  Curtis Webber . Same idea: but it's not wasted, ... some of it will soak in downstream, ... This project sounds like it's half a dozen people and some AI to handle the contractors. Subscribe to Salt River Project .  On refilling aquifers, see Robert Mace - Texas Springs Are Drying Up  and John Liu on The Real Economic Foundation . You need to do this over the catchment of the rivers...

Instituto Geológico y Minero de España y el congreso Geológico Internacional de 1926

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Dimitri Lascaris' 8 Hours in Paris Yesterday

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See  Bonfire Night in France  and  Dimitri Lascaris in Paris and Grenoble . I don't agree with what he says ( 12:09 ) about public demonstrations, unless you completely redefine resistance and militancy to mean fundamentally changing the economic structure of the society in which you live. See Realpolitik in Spain and Professional Gasbagging Everywhere Else  and Beavers Making Money in Arizona . 51:34 See  2:18:38  on the AP live feed.  See Macron Cancelled Public Demonstrations .  Subscribe to Reason2Resist . Subscribe Science and Nonduality .

Charlotte Moser on Saddle-node Bifurcation

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Nonlinear models: My comment : It was interesting how unresolved processes show up as noise. The first-order system has a discontinuous evolution at the tipping point, but presumably the first-order system is just an approximation to a higher-order system where those unresolved processes show up as a continuous evolution in a higher-dimensional phase space. I guess the maths for this sort of transition is much more complicated though. Subscribe to Charlotte Moser .  There is a whole course on Non-linear dynamics and chaos by Shane Ross. He mentions ( 2:50 ) discontinuities in phase-space topology on either side of a bifurcation point:   See  Collaborative Mathematics .   Here's some more on phase space topology: Subscribe to Dr Shane Ross . Catastrophes, and Other Theories of Form – Beyond Networks: The Evolution of Living Systems Subscribe to  Johannes Jaeger .  See also  Mike Harms on Physical Models of Biological Processes . 

Beavers Making Money in Arizona

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He needs to raise US$120,000 to do this. See https://maearth.com/planttherain/grow   My comment : Have you heard the expression "Money is the measure of waste" before? What I would like to know is where this US$120,000 you want to raise will end up. Is part of it to dispose of the asphalt you lift up? Think of the money like toxic runoff. What are [you] doing to bioremediate it? Are you expecting people from outside Tucson to contribute? How do you expect people to raise the money to pay for this? Is it OK if they get it from investing in Wall St? Is it OK if they do insider trading to turn that profit?  Subscribe to Brad Lancaster . See Realpolitik in Spain and Professional Gasbagging Everywhere Else . Subscribe to Hope .  Subscribe to  LakASambooodee . If you have the London Stock Exchange backing your scam then you can spend about 30 million dollars on a concrete-lined park in your city centre: Subscribe to DW Planet A . Subscribe to UN-Habitat Youth . Freemasons ...

Bonfire Night in France

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Everyone knows who the crooks are there. See Dimitri Lascaris in Paris and Grenoble . Subscribe to BLAST, Le souffle de l'info . 

Realpolitik in Spain and Professional Gasbagging Everywhere Else

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See https://puedeserlahostia.es/ and  Hope - It's not Just France and Italy, ... Subscribe to Hope . For some reason Richard Wolff never talks about actual value and actual resources, just things like wages, rent control and union contracts and of course the working class .  What about the human skills and actual human knowledge that are needed to do anything at all? Is that all encapsulated in the abstraction "the working class"? I don't think so. 49:14 The value is bullshit! Now you can start mining cryptocurrency if you want, or set up an AI data center .  See Afshin Rattansi interview with James Galbraith . 53:36 Richard Wolff extolling professional gasbagging. This is a load of complete rubbish! Most of the decisions that we need to collectively make are not party-political, they are just based on knowledge. People in Spain know they need to adapt their ways of life to deal with catastrophic droughts, flooding and energy supply failures. It doesn't matter ...

Janet Guerilla Marketing Rebellion in NYC

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It's Tennyson Semantics for practical reason. See  The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll . Subscribe to Curious Wandering Souls .

Trio Mandili - Kalav sheni silamaze

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Get their recordings:  https://georgianarts.com/ . Subscribe to Trio Mandili .

Dimitri Lascaris in Paris and Grenoble

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No protests: see  Macron Cancelled Public Demonstrations . Earlier today he posted this from Place de La Bastille:  Subscribe to Reason2Resist .

Tomas Petricek's Cultures of Programming. 3 - The invention of a programming language

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See  Tomas Petricek's Cultures of Programming - 2. Hackers, engineers, managers, mathematicians and humanists . For more on computation and logic see Thomas Kern on String Logics .  See  https://tomasp.net/cultures/  for more information about the book.  Subscribe to Tomas Petricek .

Mike Harms on Physical Models of Biological Processes

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I was thinking about what Mikhail Gromov was saying about proteins and water in his talks on Mathematical Description of Biological Structures  and also about what Hilary Putnam said about classical materialism in his 1978 talk Philosophy and Our Mental Life 9:22  (see  Thomas Kern on String Logics ). Subscribe to Mike Harms . Then I found this talk Coupled Oscillators, Synchronisation, and Higher-Order Interactions by Christian Bick: 24:57 Phase reduction and higher-order interactions. Higher order here means when there is a coupling that is more than only pair-wise between elements. See  Collaborative Mathematics . Subscribe to Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena . See Searle on Consciousness  and  James Cussen interviewing Cognitive Neuroscientist Peter Tse .  Photonic logic is all about phase too: Subscribe to Huygens Optics .