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Rachel Blevins at Laguna Beach

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It's her birthday, and this about her journalism career.   See her Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rachelblevins . And she did an interview with Richard Wolff where he talked about wiggle room: See USS Abraham Lincoln crew visits Thailand’s Pattaya, in photos : See also the Newsweek piece: USS Abraham Lincoln Photos Reveal Warship’s Condition As It Makes Port . Subscribe to Rachel Blevins .

Kovalevskaya Top

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See  Kovalevskaya Top at IWF (Göttingen)  and the Wikipedia page:  Lagrange, Euler, and Kovalevskaya tops .  See Mura's series on Sofya Kovalevskaya's autobiography : See  Mura Yakerson's Upcoming Series on Sofya Kovalevskaya .  Subscribe to Math-life Balance .

John Searle on the Logical Structure of Human Civilization

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This is a great lecture. He makes the same jokes he was making in 1998, but he clearly enjoys telling them. See Social Ontology and the Philosophy of Society . It's quite a claim though, that this applies to all of human civilization.  I suppose one could just declare this to be the case in some appropriate context, ... but which one? 46:52 . His answer to the question at 59:06 seems to me to put particles such as protons and electrons fairly squarely into the category of products (i.e. theories) of social institutions: they are produced by people who have machines the development and manufacture of which are funded at least in part by income tax! You need to have been immersed in a very peculiar (I can't say  particular ) culture to have even a vague notion of what a proton or an electron are. Subscribe to Philosophy Overdose .  

Glenn Diesen interview with Jeffrey Sachs

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It's another good one. Lots of history I didn't know and some figures about BRICS representation in terms of economic production and population. See Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr. interviewed by Nima Alkhorshid . 27:34 When the Soviet Union was dissolved Russia took on all of the legal obligations the USSR had entered upon. I presume that included the nuclear agreements which the US backed out of. Subscribe to Glenn Diesen .

Matt Brown on IoT Firmware Reverse-engineering Utilities

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My comment : Oh wow, if you work for one of these companies then watching this is like seeing your underpants being taken off and shown on TV!  See  Sylvain Huet - Bare Metal Made Easy and https://github.com/nmatt0/moria   https://github.com/nmatt0/mithril   More about the tools: Subscribe to Matt Brown .

Petri Krohn - Inside Nvidia’s CMP 170HX e-waste

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They were able to buy these things for around $200 and enable 64GB of HBM2e memory and 200 TFLOPS of FP16 tensor compute on the CMP 170HX. Subscribe to  media.ccc.de

Sylvain Huet - Bare Metal Made Easy

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Not that easy,... See  Programming Paradigms ,  David Evans, Vladimir Kolesnikov and Mike Rosulek - A Pragmatic Introduction to Secure Multi-Party Computation  and  FUTO FUBS .  See  the Hackaday article  and these pages: https://minimacy.net/ https://www.sylvain-huet.com/ If you are interested to know what your 10Gb Ethernet router is doing on the wire, you will need something like  http://fireless.cs.cornell.edu/sonic/faq.php . Subscribe to Hackaday . 

Pupina Plomer on the Feminization of Poverty

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You can get Calibán y la bruja: mujeres, cuerpo y acumulación originaria  by Silvia Federici from the Internet Archive, or in print from Tinta Limón press . She's going on tour soon. See https://linktr.ee/pupinaplomer . Subscribe to Pupina Plomer .

David Evans, Vladimir Kolesnikov and Mike Rosulek - A Pragmatic Introduction to Secure Multi-Party Computation

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See the book at  https://securecomputation.org/ There are some interesting case studies in Chapter 1 . Here's the article by Yehuda Lindell: https://cacm.acm.org/research/secure-multiparty-computation/ See Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr. interviewed by Nima Alkhorshid .  Subscribe to  Association for Computing Machinery . Raspberry Pi are making an effort, albeit a bit of a half-arsed one ( 16:43 ) responding to legislation with 'industry partners': Subscribe to Raspberry Pi .

Dennis Rediscovering an Overcast Stitch Binding Method for Loose Leaf Books

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It's a good technique for binding single sheets rather than folded signatures, for example you could use this to bind full-size output from an ordinary A4/letter laser printer. Here are some improvements to the method:  Subscribe to Four Keys Book Arts .