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Julie Nolke - I Want A Divorce feat. Ryan George and Whitney Avalon

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Psychic Powers Always Give You A Little Nosebleed Subscribe to  Ryan George . Aquaman Pitch Meeting Subscribe to Pitch Meeting   singular . I guess that's because it's all the same shit movie. Wow, Whitney Avalon can really sing! Whitney Avalon and Garrett Clayton  The Ocean Will be Mine .  Feat Ursula not herself, yet. Subscribe to Julie Nolke .

Liberapay, Stripe, Patreon, PayPal, Lloyds Bank, Gather

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It's all complete garbage! What a joke! See  https://www.gathercampaigns.com/who-we-are  and  Trip to Richemonde . Five minutes later:

Trip to Richemonde

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See  Virginia Woolf  and  Kew Gardens . I was wondering where this was filmed: David Gilmour - Sonnet 18 (William Shakespeare) See Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare . Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st; Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:    So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,    So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Something went wrong and I ended up pasting this link: See  https://www.clientearth.org/ . My friend Isabel said that the good thing about having money is that you can...

Solène Rapenne

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Her blog, on  Dataswamp , is full of uncannily useful advice:  https://dataswamp.org/~solene/ . You can support her at  https://dataswamp.org/~solene/page-donate.html , and the OpenBSD foundation who run the server hosting it:  OpenBSD Foundation . I think we need a lattice or three do this "money" thing automatically: For more on these mysterious processes of attraction and repulsion see  Terence Tao and Richard Feynman  and  Why Does Light Behave Like Particles?  Spoiler: it's because the ecosystems arent rich enough. See  On Finding Your People September 05, 2020 . Apologies for my appearance in those videos, but it's because I'd been living on the streets for five years and then some mad bastards started a fake pandemic. Anoushka Shankar and Company: Calling Radio Moscow, ... ( 39:33 ) on the "seeing of somebody from peru" see  Drinking Coca Tea Drug Test Results. What You should know in 2022. . There's a bipolar field agent here try...

Why Does Light Behave Like Particles?

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From Richard Feynman's book QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter   But why are the detectors where they are? Here is air behaving like particles: Unfortunately my computer algebra system isn't well-enough developed  to show you the maths behind this, yet. See  The Action Lab - Ulexite (How Does Television Stone Work?)  and  Sabine Hossenfelder on The Origin of Life . I was looking for a post where I mentioned Maxwell's earlier work on a vortex picture of electromagnetism but I can't find it. Instead, here's  Terence Tao and Richard Feynman  and  Prof. Shamik Gupta - From Fireflies to Power Grids: The Physics of Spontaneous Synchronization . And there's a madman in Ireland somewhere with a pile of python code and electronic circuits that do synchronised oscillation and he is using path integrals to describe this. It was a bit much for me to take in at the time but he could be onto something.

David Luke - Psychedelics, Altered States and Transpersonal Psychology

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This is not quite as costly as a one year MSc Computer Science course st St. Andrews, Hopefuly some other coca-chewers will be doing it, ... See  https://www.aleftrust.org/professional-certificates/certificate-psychedelics-altered-states-and-transpersonal-psychology/

{Numb, Comput}erphile - Mike Pound and Tom Crawford "What's The Best Hash Function to Use"

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Can you do an iterated hash function which distributes the collisions in some optimal manner? It would be a kind of tree of hash tables with a possibly different hash function operating at each level. See  FM-index  and  Wavelet Tree . It might be interesting to consider Boolean Expression Diagrams to compute hashes: see  Steve Bagley and David Brailsford on Data Compression  and  Weird Stuff . Abstractly, a hash function is a mapping f from a vector space V of bits onto a binary scalar {0.1} where f ( v ) = 0 means "The vecor v of bits is in the table" and f ( v ) = 1 means "The vector v is not in the table." Another way to think about this is that the hash function is a two-coloring of a graph which, for an n  dimensional vector space is the set of vertices of an n  dimensional (hyper) cube. Think of the coordinates of the vertices on  n  orthogonal axes: if it's a unit cube with one vertex at the origin then the vertices are each ...

The Action Lab - Ulexite (How Does Television Stone Work?)

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A piece of  Ulexite  is like a bunch of fiber-optic cores made into a grid and it has different refractive indices in different directions of polarization. See also  Iceland spar  or optical calcite which is a planar version of Ulexite and is birefringent and also piezo-electric . Many people can percieve effects of polarization entopically. See  Haidinger's brush  which may be a phenomenon related to that which Vincent van Gogh saw in the shimmering halo around lights which he depicted in  The Night Café . 1:04 I can't figure out what he's doing with his phone screen there. Maybe he has a bit of polaroid in front of the camera? But that doesn't explain the pattern that it leaves behind. That's weird! The wave optics simulator is at  https://phydemo.app/ray-optics/simulator/ . It's quite good fun. It only 2D so it doesn't do these crystals though, just mirrors and a 'beam splitter' which would be something like a Nicol prism . A more ...

I'm Drowning in My Own Sh*t Here

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I am trying to resurrect my work I did in Bolivia on using Standard ML to dynamically specify and compile its own basis library functions. Part of this involves 15,000 lines of auto-generated code. I was reading David MacQueen's story about  Luca Cardelli and the Early Evolution of ML  where he writes "Luca called his compiler versions “Poses” adopting a terminology from dance." I wish I had kept a copy of an e-mail I once sent, about twenty years ago now, to the FOM list replying to John McCarthy 's post about communicating with extra-terrestrial aliens using mathematics. It was about abstract representations of mathematics, and what we could reasonably expect the aliens to understand about our mathematics (see Sci-Movie Movie - UFO (2018) ). I thought it would look like a wild dance, the sort of thing you'd see if an alien landed on your lawn and did a wild dance in front of you.  Martin Davis (whose parents were from Łódź, Poland, I have just discovered) reje...

Ice

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From Feynman's book QED The Strange Theory of Light and Matter. Because the theory of quantum mechanics could explain all of chemistry and the various properties of substances, it was a tremendous success. But still there was the problem of the interaction of light and matter. That is, Maxwell's theory of electricity and magnetism had to be changed to be in accord with the new principles of quantum mechanics that had been developed. So a new theory, the quantum theory of the interaction of light and matter, which is called by the horrible name of "quantum electrodynamics," was finally developed by a number of physicists in 1929. But the theory was troubled. If you calculated something roughly, it would give a reasonable answer. But if you tried to compute it more accurately, you would find that the the correction you thought was going to be small (the next term in a series, for example) was in fact very large--in fact it was infinity! So it turned out that you couldn...