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"@WKCosmo

The first rule of string cosmology club is that nobody has the faintest idea what the rules of string cosmology club are"

Water is heavy. Anyone who packed a gear knows that. Human body is heavy (per volume) bcz we too are mostly water. A watermellon is reeally heavy also known for its extremely high water content (I remember reading water hold perc better than a sponge)

UK elecs are short and sweet. Good.

"US hits Iran’s biggest airline and shipping group with sanctions" -- ft.com

Some motherfuckers are aaalways trying to ice skate uphill.

"There are still those who think batteries are a viable storage solution"

ARTIFICIAL ISLAND!

"Denmark is moving forward with plans to build an artificial island tying in power from offshore wind farms of up to 10 gigawatts (GW) of capacity, more than enough to supply all households ...

[It] .. has set aside 65 million crowns to research how the energy coming into the hub can be stored or converted into renewable hydrogen as all the power generated will not just be used by domestic customers" -- Reuters

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A new hydrogen city bus that uses the same fuel cell stack as the Toyota Mirai will be tested on roads in Portugal next year.

Toyota said it has delivered and integrated its first fuel cell stack into Portuguese bus engineering and production company CaetanoBus’ H2.City Gold, which was presented at Busworld 2019 in Brussels.

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Chris Joss - Wrong Alley Street #music

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The Japanese are not messing around đŸ‘đŸ‘đŸ‡ŻđŸ‡”

"The 8,000-tonne Hydrogen Frontier rolled down the slipway from the Kawasaki Heavy Industries yard in Kobe on Wednesday morning, marking the first stage in a pilot project in which hydrogen produced from coal in Australia, liquefied at -253C, will be shipped to Japan"

When I Get Home - Jenny Kerr #music

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"@diff_eq

'I find it unsatisfactory to 'classify' PDEs: this is possible in two variables, but creates the false impression that there is some kind of general and useful classification scheme available in general.' -- L. Evans"

Actress from SGate having trouble with TWTR.

.. on some issues. This is key. They did not go haywire on everything bcz on pro-corp, cartel politics they agree.

The issues they went further right have certain characteristic - stuff that used to be secondary, easy-to-agree-on issues, like guns, now is not. Reagan was pro-gun control (this is the guy who made money holding a gun and shooting people on screen for entertainment remember), but now no Rep will touch it. Or the issue have been mostly decided and safely out of legislative harms way, like abortion. SCOTUS dropped the hammer in 1973 and abortion became legal, hence this "issue-non-issue" is now something u can safely jump up and down about, "differentiating" youself, wout causing undue damage (surely u can hem and haw and cut from this corner, that corner, but still, it is mostly decided).

Ironically some of the issue-non-issues now became real issues because of neglect - that's what you get for faux divisions - even tiny problems can grow and metastasize.

"Dems acting like Reps pushed Reps further right ..."

Nomads. Yep.

"Muhammad, is born in a merchant family in Mecca. His clan is prosperous and influential, but his father dies before he is born and his mother dies when the boy is only six. Entrusted to a Bedouin nurse, Muhammad spends much of his childhood among nomads, accompanying the caravans on Arabia's main trade route through Mecca"

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Tosca - Have Some Fun (Urbs Big City Mix) #music

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"@zerohedge

'Fed May Need Swap Lines, QE4 to Ease Funding Woes: Credit Suisse'

This is just getting better by the day. And all so hedge funds can keep their 10x leverage and Dimon can buyback JPM stock"

It is - and I was kidding. BJ is 100% English, in fact comically so, they say every streotypical wart ppl assoc with Englanders is in this guy.

"You said Boris J is a tigger bcz of his distant heritage. Isn't that not a contradiction w culture code"

Reading too much pol inflammatory content - I was like "oh yea, what a snowflake" - turns out there is a company called Snowflake đŸ˜¶

"Snowflake CEO on taking company public ... "

"@diff_eq

The first thing people did with early electronic computers was numerically solve differential equations"

@rafaelshimunov

Listen to that time @BernieSanders even refused @ChiliPeppers money, holding even them to his policy against big donors.

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I'd look at the experience of Postmodernists - they started with the QM Uncertainty Principle and now they are in lala land, ultra-subjective, and worse, anti-science.

I wouldn't base any philosophy on Bohr; his science is basically a lack of one (which some modern day weirdos turned into an accepted absurdism, extreme relativism). Philosophy and hard sciences are intertwined, and if philosophers follow these effers they'll fall off a cliff never to come back. Watch out.

Yeah - this is exactly a fitting response from the founder of Quantum Mechanics. It "works", let's not care about the deeper issues. He probably used that horseshoe to make exactly that point, as a gag. Let's not forget there were huge fights about QM and its lack of ontology back in the day, and Bohr was fighting for hearts and minds. They won, but even tho a majority of scientists have been fed the morphine and cannot think clearly anymore, a few brains still continue to do so.

"When a friend saw a horseshoe over the door of Bohr's country cabin, he said in mock astonishment, 'Surely you don't believe in that old superstition!' 'No,' said Bohr, 'but they say it works even if you don't believe in it.'"

True. It can't say "how that exists", it just an algorithmic approach that currently explains the data well. Like, by looking at the result of division, say coming out of an "experiment", they saw (2,2) then 1, then saw (6,3) and 2, they sort of discovered long division, bcz it works well. It is perfectly good algorithm, and it certainly explains a certain aspect, but are not interested in and have no idea on number theory, sets, or functions.

Also see a theory of shadows.

"Quantum Mechanics works (computes) but it has no ontology"

Damn. Many deaths. RIP.

"Former Fed chairman Paul Volcker dies aged 92"

I think this guy has a problem being part of stuff. Maybe that's where his Brexitism largely comes from. I mean at a personal level that's fine, be a loner whatever, but at a nation-scale?

People don't understand, the EU is already a skeletal and very nation centric method of having a union. When I was in Germany my Deutsche Bank card wouldn't even work in Netherland banks. Not a single one. What integration?- This is the least amount of togetherness that is tolerable for Europeans that can project some kind of power and keeps the trade going. That's it.

"@Ferretgrove

NewKip is dead, make way for New NewKip. Farage is the most poisonous politician never elected to Parliament, how do we keep him away from us?"

These are deep issues. I don't think we can do them justice here.

And all this avenue of research contributed to SU(5) which led nowhere.

IDT the holy grail is around symmetry breaking.

Any effort that revolves around this concept will be ignored by mua. If I was handling a grant awarding process, symmetry breaking would get no money. String Theory, no money. Multiverse, no money.

"A common example from physics is of a pencil balanced on its point. It is symmetric, in that while it is balanced on its point, one direction is as good as another. But it is unstable. When the pencil falls, as it inevitably must, it will fall randomly, in one direction or another, breaking the symmetry. Once it has fallen, it is stable, but it no longer manifests the symmetry—although the symmetry is still there in the underlying laws. The laws describe only the space of what possibly may happen; the actual world governed by those laws involves a choice of one realization from many possibilities. This mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking can happen to the symmetries between the particles in nature. When it occurs for the symmetries that, by the gauge principle, give rise to the forces of nature, it leads to the differences in their properties." -- Smolin, Trouble with Physics

Soo... if I approximate f' numerically, and use BFGS I already have derivative-free optimization đŸ€” (Hessian is already approximated). Lit on DFO almost always exclusively talks about trust region mthds.

Haha like a fart in a lift. Nice.

"@LiamMoo70673726

10 out of 10 for the Farage predictions! The reform party😂😂😂??? Come on you have to hand it to the slimy shishter, he's like a fart in a lift! He just seems to lingerđŸ€ą"

RIP 🖖

"Star Trek’s RenĂ© Auberjonois Has Died At 79"

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If I came back from a deserted island after years, I could just update that stats page and I'd know exactly where the econ was.

Non-Farm Payroll YoY change # part of the pattern of the late-cycle. The sharp falls in the graph are obviously recessions. They extended the latest block as far as they could, with laughing gas and cowbell. Mooooarrr... Moooaaarrrr....

"Each block in an account-chain also contains the account-chain’s balance, meaning that one only has to store the latest block and not one’s entire transaction history of blocks (let alone that of the entire network). This lets users use Nano without having to download transaction histories that are monstrous in size (e.g. Bitcoin’s blockchain is ~250 gigabytes in size, as of writing).

As long as the NANO in all account-chains adds up to the NANO balance in Nano’s genesis account-chain, which initially contained all NANO, users can be sure that there isn’t anything suspicious going on, like counterfeiting of NANO.

To make sure that this is the case, each Nano account-chain chooses a Representative to vote on the validity of Nano transactions. Each Representative’s voting weight is the sum of all account-chain NANO balances delegated to it. Since blocks are incredibly small in size, Representatives are able to confirm transactions near instantaneously.

Another thing to note is that since there is no race between miners to add blocks, or groups of transactions, to the blockchain in order to win a block reward, as with networks like Bitcoin, the Nano network uses barely any energy to stay running"

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"Today, Google has eight products with more than a billion users apiece. It knows what you think through its much larger “database of intentions.' It knows where you go in the physical world through its two billion constantly roaming Android phones and its mobile ad app and Google Maps subsidiaries. It knows where you go online through its tracking businesses, and it has information about business ad campaigns through its advertising technology subsidiaries. This provides Google with a God’s-eye view of behavior. Married to this surveillance power is the ability to organize the distribution of information through YouTube, Google Maps, Google search, email, and its own popular browser. As Schmidt put it, 'We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about.'

Google, Amazon, and Facebook are conglomerates who monopolize ad markets, and have done so through a range of tactics and mergers that were until very recently illegal. And in doing so, they have become governing powers. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, put it this way. 'In a lot of ways,' he said, 'Facebook is more like a government than a traditional company. We have this large community of people, and more than other technology companies we’re really setting policies.'" -- Stoller, Goliath

"@SShackford

Devin Nunes has long supported letting the feds secretly snoop on Americans call records, and he has attacked those who tried to stop it. Now he's reaping the consequences [as in now his personal comm is out on the open, ouch]"

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"While this predominant type of lithium extraction [as in LatAm] requires big up-front investments of capital and expertise, the whole process is less labor intensive than digging up coal or oil. Yet it requires massive amounts of water in some of the driest places on earth, with single companies using as much as 1,700 litres per second. This drain has disrupted ecosystems around the lakes and cut off freshwater access for indigenous communities in the so-called lithium triangle countries of Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile"

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"@DonaldM38768041

A logic professor giving a lecture said, 'A double negative makes a positive statement, but a double positive does not make a negative.'

From the back of the class someone said in a sarcastic tone, 'yeah, yeah'"

"[Near 2016] a gruesome heroin epidemic spread in rural areas, spurred by hopelessness and corruption among pharmaceutical monopolies ... the life span of white men and women without a college education began dropping as suicide, alcoholism, and drug addiction caused a die-off, what policymakers began calling 'deaths of despair.' ....

At the ballot box, Americans voted for change in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2014, and 2016, veering from party to party in a desperate search for someone to address their fears and anxieties" -- Stoller, Goliath

IBM did all that? I thought it was bunch of rabid libertards in a garage..

"In 1980, IBM, wary of being accused of controlling the personal computer business, signed a ​deal with Microsoft to produce an operating system—known as DOS—for its personal computer, and standardized its PC chips on Intel. IBM then transferred enormous programming and technical know-how to both companies, and even protected Intel throughout the 1980s from Japanese competition"

"As with Rockefeller leveraging the network of railroads to monopolize the oil industry, entrepreneurs used the exploding personal computer market to seize monopoly power around key bottlenecks. Spreadsheets, word processors, and operating systems became costly software monopolies" -- Stoller, Goliath

So the aging Ginsburg is no "bulwark" against anything, against Trump, whatever. Maybe it is good she is on her way out, no? With the right lens lota heroes become zeros.

"Clinton also appointed pro-monopoly judges. When Clinton appointed Supreme Court justices, he picked Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Both sailed through the Senate, not because of a tradition of bipartisanship, but because neither worried powerful business interests. Both were adherents of the same basic monopoly-friendly philosophy promoted by the Chicago School. And once on the bench, in 2004, both signed one of the most pro-monopoly opinions in the ​history of the court, one authored by Antonin Scalia. “The mere possession of monopoly power, and the concomitant charging of monopoly prices, is not only not unlawful,” said the court, “it is an important element of the free-market system" -- Stoller, Goliath

"As a candidate, Clinton’s Democratic platform called for a 'Revolution of 1992', capturing the anger of the moment. But the platform was written by Al From, and for the first time since 1880 there was no mention of antitrust or corporate power, despite a decade with the worst financial manipulation America had seen since the 1920s. This revolution would be against government, in government, around government.

When Clinton took office, the Democrats finally had a majority in the House, a majority in the Senate, and the presidency. Clinton not only entrenched Reagan’s antitrust principles into the DOJ by making them bipartisan, but expanded the Reagan revolution more broadly. With the end of the Cold War, Clinton took neoliberalism global" -- Stoller, Goliath

Exactly. So cons in UK even lost that issue-non-issue to chew on (at least US cons still have that), so what are you left with? The European Union.

"Cameron was pro environment"

Hasn't it though? What is Brexit if it isn't cons gone apeshit? Sure the right in UK were always a little off kilter, crackpot-ish, but the latest mess tops them all.

Then if a hard-Brexit does happen, it will be Tony Blair's fault.

"You say Dems acting like Reps caused Reps to go insane. But look at UK, Blair's Third Way did not seem to effect cons"

Bill Bradley. The "challenger" "from the left" against Al Gore during 99 primary.. Those were the days...

"New Democrats saw cooperation between business and government as a compelling alternative to Reaganism, and as a means of addressing international financial problems. Thurow had drawn from Galbraith, who in turn had drawn directly from such Bull Moose thinkers as Walter Lippmann.

Like Teddy Roosevelt and Galbraith, Thurow preached the abolition of the antitrust laws. All used the same excuse for doing so. “In markets where international trade exists or could exist, national antitrust laws no longer make sense,” wrote Thurow. This was a direct echo of TR’s statement, in accepting the Bull Moose nomination in 1912, that if we “do not allow cooperation, we shall be defeated in the world’s markets.” As Rothenberg pointed out, Bill Bradley, Gary Hart, and Paul Tsongas made the same argument, all proposing to relax antitrust and banking laws" -- Stoller, Goliath

"@DavidIHarrison

Leonardo da Vinci lists 40 books in his possession at age 45.

He was largely self-taught but books were v expensive & relatively scarce - he made lists of books he wanted to get hold of.

You have the world's books & knowledge at yr fingertips to educate u"

Nice 👍

"Next year, Transport for London (TfL) will roll out the hydrogen double deckers across three of its central routes, with ÂŁ12m of funding from the city mayor Sadiq Khan"

Barney Frank too...? The Frank of Dodd-Frank? Sad.

G. Stephanaopopololopopous got his start under Gephart. GS says that later in his career "leftists" like him felt stabbed in the back when Clint said "the era of big gov is over". I guess the surprising thing was that he was surprised.

"A young operative named Al From organized the political operation of the New Democrats. From had worked in the Carter White House. After the Carter debacle, an old Louisiana politician, Gillis Long, recruited From to run the House Democratic Caucus, and they put together something called the “Committee on Party Effectiveness” to bring fresh ideas into the party. This forum included many of the key future leaders of the Democratic Party: Tim Wirth, Dick Gephardt, Al Gore, Geraldine Ferraro, Martin Frost, Les Aspin, Tony Coelho, Barney Frank, and many others" -- Stoller, Goliath

Gordon Gekko character was inspired by Milken

So many of these crypto Reps are intertwined. Bork, Friedman, Clinton, Milken, Rubin... Clint was Bork's student. Rubin proteges went on serving under Obama. Reagan appointed Bork to an appeals court, including to later SC (failed attempt).

"Much of Wall Street got involved, directly or indirectly, with Milken’s network. Robert Rubin, who later became the treasury secretary under Bill Clinton, climbed the ladder at Goldman Sachs as an arbitrageur. His protĂ©gĂ©, Robert Freeman, accused of being part of the Milken-influenced network of traders, eventually pleaded guilty to insider trading" -- Stoller, Goliath

"Business goliaths restructured in the 1980s to take advantage of this new merger wave. The leader was a young and aggressive new CEO at one of the oldest and biggest conglomerates in America, General Electric, the corporation that had financed much of Bork’s research. ​Jack Welch was trained as an engineer, and had made it to the top at GE by selling a new type of plastic. Walter Wriston was on the board of GE, and had helped Welch become CEO.48 Welch made his mark as CEO not by engineering products, but by financial engineering" -- Stoller, Goliath

Earth is very rare... From the large moon whose creation caused to the tilt we needed to the moon itself which due to its size creates tides that allowed life to flourish (in tidal pools) it all sums up to a uniqueness that is hard to come by..

All this contributes to a feeling of weirdness for us. In all our explorations, whereever we went we found more ppl, more life. In space we keep looking and looking there is noone else.

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"Life is so short!". It isn't. There is a huge amt of time. So if u focus and have that inclination anyone can produce an insane amount. Literature, research, buildings whatever.

Peak Civilization

"A banana duct-taped to a wall sold for $120,000 at Miami's Art Basel this week — it may be the most talked-about artwork at this year's event"

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"The reason engineers continue to rely on [physical models] is because today, in 2016, we still do not have the computers or the science to do all the things that physical models can do. 


Hydraulic engineering gets into some of the most complicated math there is. Allegedly when Albert Einstein’s son Hans said he wanted to study how sediment moves underwater, Einstein asked him why he wanted to work on something so complicated"

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A lot of methane in that, isn't there..? Same tech could be used for natgas?

"@fuelcellsworks

ReCarbon, Inc. Receives US$ 7 Million Funding from Doosan Group for Turning Greenhouse Gases into #Hydrogen-Pilot plant in Daegu, South Korea capable of producing #fuelcell grade hydrogen from landfill gas (LFG)"

The New Optimists

Labor has the same good idea..

5G is the new bright shiny object tech oligapoly shakes in front of people to distract them from the democratization of tech which is doable due to lower prices.

Also here

Fugu

A fork of Nano (no mining, fast txn, great) could have new money created in ppls wallets automagically every month, or year. The ecash becomes little inflationary, fine, money base expands, which it should.

Obsessing over "store of value" arg is not useful.. No value lasts forever..

Still a dildo - but there is hope for you yet.

Zak and Chong. Ur compsci code didn't work but I could salvage enough. 👍

Repercussions - Michel Camilo

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