Consider Subscribing for my Emails
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Just this morning I sent the following note to subscribers of my irregular
e-news. I try and send something out each month, but of late it has become
mor...
Week Notes 23-21
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A pretty standard week, except that it started with a day where Y was at
home (due to her teachers have a training day). This week I Got invited for
an int...
Engines of oligarchy: with Hugh Pope
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One of my favourite podcasts with journalist, scholar and gentleman Hugh
Pope. Hugh has just brought to publication a book written by his father in
1990. B...
Self-defence economics vs military economics
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Yesterday, I gave a presentation to the Canberra Security Economics
Network. Central point: *Self-defence is special, military expenditure is
not* Spelling...
Friday Squid Blogging: Online Cephalopod Course
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Atlas Obscura has a five-part online course on cephalopods, taught by squid
biologist Dr. Sarah McAnulty.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to t...
The Sacred Shaped Hole in Our Hearts
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There is a God–shaped vacuum in the heart of each man, which cannot be
satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator, made known
through Jesus...
The Arc of Time: Pro-Creditor History
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“Origins of debt: Michael Hudson reveals how financial oligarchies in
Greece & Rome shaped our world,” Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy Report,
May 25, 2...
Democratic Inputs to AI
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Our nonprofit organization, OpenAI, Inc., is launching a program to award
ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting up a democratic process
for de...
The Legacy of 1968 – panel discussion
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A panel discussion on the Legacy of 1968, and how Marxism was transformed
by the radical decade of the 1960s. By The Platypus Affiliated
SocietyFollow When...
The bias we swim in
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However progressive we like to think we are, our society still has a
massive problem with gender bias. Chatbots hold a mirror up to the data we
train them ...
The Failing Blame-Based Model of Spirituality
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It is noteworthy that the top five most populous global religions
incorporate a philosophical aspect focused on guiding individuals or
humanity as a whole ...
Symmetric Spaces and the Tenfold Way
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I’m giving a talk in Nicohl Furey’s series Algebra, Particles and Quantum
Theory on Monday May 15, 2023, at 17:00 UTC or 10:00 for me here in
California: S...
The bumpy road ahead for the world economy
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The path ahead looks very bumpy. The US is likely to be kicked out of its
role as global hegemon. Rival countries may choose to attack the US with
nuclear ...
Visiting UMich Again
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[image: A 10,000 foot view of a big and small cloud, hovering over
Michigan, creating a shadow on the plains.]The clouds break, but
shadows remain.
One of...
40 Inspirational Paulo Coelho Quotes On Success
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A s 1. “It takes huge effort to free yourself from memory.” Paulo Coelho
2. “No one can lie, no one can hide anything when he looks directly into
someone’s...
Too Big to Challenge?
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I find it deeply disturbing that the tech industry represents 9% of the
U.S. GDP and only five Big Tech companies account for 25% of the S&P 500.
Prior to ...
The Winner’s Edge
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A lot of otherwise talented people are too pessimistic to actually do
anything. They are paralyzed by risks that don’t exist and greatly
exaggerate them ...
Climate Tech Checklist
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Cross posted from blog.terraformindustries.com. Over the last 18 months
developing our clean natural gas technology, we’ve developed some
heuristics to hel...
What Will Transformers Transform?
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Generative Pre-trained Transformer models (GPTs) are now all the rage and
have inspired op-eds being written by everyone from Henry Kissinger (WSJ)
to Noam...
COSN 2023 Resources
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The Case Against Innovation Resources Working with Dr. Stager Gary Stager’s
bio Gary Stager’s recent books Constructing Modern Knowledge 2023 summer
inst...
UnconsciousModel
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This is a graph of the exponential growth (note the logarithmic ordinate)
of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT taken from here.
As I type these...
What is ChatGPT?
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ChatGPT is a large-scale language model developed by OpenAI. It uses a deep
learning algorithm called a transformer network to generate human-like
response...
A history of the Voyager mission
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It’s rare to find an amateur documentarian that’s really good. I think this
is one of those cases. I was really interested watching “NASA’s Voyager
Mission...
Helion Needs You
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Helion has been progressing even faster than I expected and is on pace in
2024 to 1) demonstrate Q > 1 fusion and 2) resolve all questions needed to
desi...
AP CSA
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After 20 years in education at my local elementary school, I have a new
position in the fall at my local high school. I will be their Digital
Learning Spec...
My Formula Fun Car
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I was a Cub Scout in elementary school and participated in several pinewood
derby competions: I even won a third place trophy with one of my designs
and ...
How will the .gov bubble end?
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For the last year, I’ve been referring to being in a .gov bubble—that a
current western economic predicament has similarities to the .com bubble of
2000 al...
Improving FreeDV 2020
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It’s been a few years since FreeDV 2020 was released. On-air experience
suggests FreeDV 2020 is less robust to low SNR and fading than the 700x
modes, whic...
Should Psychology PhD Programs Require the GRE?
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Some colleges are no longer requiring that applicants submit SAT scores (or
they’re making them optional) because scores correlate with parental income
and...
December 13th 2021
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Running Santa! A STEAMJunk project to download and make. Turn the handle
and make the Santa run! All those parcels need delivering, quick!
#STEAMJunk #auto...
Teaching with Amazon Alexa
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Alexa is a voice-activated, cloud-based virtual assistant, similar to Siri
on Apple devices, or Google Assistant. Alexa is an umbrella name for the
cloud-b...
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