Podcasts about discontinuities

Welcome back to part three of 'Leading the Revolution' with the legendary Gary Hamel. In this episode of The Innovation Show, Gary and host Aiden dive deep into two key chapters from Gary's books, exploring the principle of learning to be your own seer and the critical distinction between imagination and prediction in innovation. They discuss the importance of psychological safety in fostering creativity within companies and why many organizations fail to imagine the future. Gary shares his insights on developing foresight, the role of contrarianism in innovation, and the necessity of building a foundation of unconventional, differentiated insights for genuine innovation. He also emphasizes the importance of stepping outside the insular corporate environment to seek out underappreciated trends, frustrations customers face, and the deeper, broader questions around societal changes. Packed with practical exercises and real-world examples, this episode offers valuable takeaways for individuals and companies alike aiming to break free from conventional thinking and lead the charge in their industries.   00:00 Introduction and Welcome 00:25 The Importance of Being Your Own Seer 02:23 Imagination and Foresight in Innovation 06:12 The Role of Discontinuities in Innovation 08:11 The Need for Organizational Foresight 09:42 Building a Foundation of New Insights 18:18 Challenges in Allocating Resources for Innovation 25:15 The Importance of Transcendent Themes 29:15 Understanding Deeper Changes in Society 31:24 Impact of Connectivity on Society 32:19 Customer Frustration and Business Opportunities 33:37 Reinventing Education and Knowledge Consumption 34:42 Identifying and Addressing Industry Dogmas 41:20 Empowering Employees for Innovation 46:41 Distinguishing Form from Function in Business 49:07 Encouraging Radical New Possibilities 55:43 Conclusion and Future Topics

Today, you'll learn about a record-breaking deep drill into the Earth's mantle, the new science behind the ancient Chinese diagnostic practice of tongue examination, and how a new discovery at Stonehenge is opening up yet more mysteries. Mantle Drill “Geologists drill 1.2 km into rare rocks from Earth's mantle.” by Michael Irving. 2024. “Internal Structure of Earth: Crust, Mantle & Core, Discontinuities.” Rau's IAS. 2024. “Earth's layers: Exploring our planet inside and out.” by Daisy Dobrijevic. 2023. “A long section of serpentinized depleted mantle peridotite.” by C. Johan Lissenberg, et al. Tongue Exam “Say ‘aah' and get a diagnosis on the spot: is this the future of health?” University of South Australia. 2024. “Tongue Disease Prediction Based on Machine Learning Algorithms.” by Ali Raad Hassoon, et al. 2024. Stonehenge Discovery “Stonehenge's Strangest Rock Came From 500 Miles Away.” by Meghan Bartels. 2024. “A Scottish provenance for the Altar Stone of Stonehenge.” by Anthony J. I. Clarke, et al. 2024. Follow Curiosity Daily on your favorite podcast app to get smarter with Calli and Nate — for free! Still curious? Get exclusive science shows, nature documentaries, and more real-life entertainment on discovery+! Go to https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity to start your 7-day free trial. discovery+ is currently only available for US subscribers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur, executive, and one of the greatest tech investors of all time, with early stakes in something like 40 billion-plus dollar companies: AirBnB, Anduril, Coinbase, Figma, Flexport, Instacart, Notion, OpenDoor, Pinterest, Square, Stripe… I could really go on. He's now managing a new billion dollar venture fund, for which he's the sole investor. Elad is also the co-founder of 2 companies: Color Genomics, a company providing genetic testing, software and clinical services for large-scale health programs – and before that, Mixer Labs, a company building location infrastructure for mobile devices that was acquired by Twitter. He worked as a VP at Twitter and also started the mobile team at Google. 0:00 - Intro 6:11 - Blank Slates and Decaying Institutions 8:16 - Western Pessimism and Agendas of Abundance vs Scarcity 12:30 - The Long Boom: Is Innovation Speeding Up? 16:26 - Are Startups Founder Limited or Market Limited? 19:26 - EIR Syndrome and Choosing the Right Market 21:41 - What Makes for a Good Investor, Operator and Entrepreneur? 24:05 - Positives and Negatives of Investing and Operating 26:17 - The Brand Value of Individuals vs Institutions 28:05 - Competing with Massive Firms 30:33 - Market-Driven Investing 33:23 - Starting Companies as Surfing Waves 36:09 - Age of Accomplishment and The Deferral of Adulthood 42:15 - What to Say Yes To 44:21 - Defense Tech and Complacency 49:25 - Private Markets and The Future of Venture 52:11 - Discontinuities in AI 53:49 - On Google 55:16 - LLM Oligopoly and Long-Term Scenarios for AI 1:00:41 - AGI and Sleeping 3 Hours a Night 1:03:19 - AI Doomerism 1:06:05 - The Deterioration of Speed 1:09:27 - Bureaucracy and the State of Nuclear 1:12:52 - Generosity and the Culture of Silicon Valley 1:15:19 - What Should More People Be Thinking About?

Brent E. Boling shares his journey into welding and inspection, emphasizing the importance of mentors and continuous learning in the industry. The conversation covers topics such as the tight-knit welding community, the need for proper training and understanding of codes and procedures, the challenges of misinformation, and the role of inspection in ensuring quality and safety. The most common discontinuities encountered in inspections are undersized welds, undercut, and overlap. The importance of proper weld sizing and the use of fillet weld gauges are highlighted. In this conversation, Brent E. Boling and Jason discuss various topics related to welding and inspection. They cover the importance of proper weld discontinuities, the use of mock-ups and soapstone marking for welders, the significance of welder certifications, the role of inspectors in ensuring compliance with AWS and contract documents, the challenges faced by inspectors in enforcing standards, the need for photographs on welder certifications, the importance of proper weld procedures, the impact of rod ovens on welding quality, the benefits of getting involved in AWS committees, and the value of student memberships and student chapters.   For more information on how you can get involved with AWS or to become a memeber Click Here 

Refutation of Darwinism & Confirmation of Intelligent Design. Fossil Discontinuities - Gunter Bechly The fossil record is dominated by abrupt appearances of new body plans and new groups of organisms. This conflicts with the gradualistic prediction of Darwinian Evolution. Here 18 explosive origins in the history of life are described, demonstrating that the famous Cambrian Explosion is far from being the exception to the rule. Also the fossil record establishes only very brief windows of time for the origin of complex new features, which creates a ubiquitous waiting time problem for the origin and fixation of the required coordinated mutations. This refutes the viability of the Neo-Darwinian evolutionary process as the single conceivable naturalistic or mechanistic explanation for biological origins, and thus confirms Intelligent Design as the only reasonable alternative. - See more at www.FOCLonline.org FOCLID 9055   Watch this presentation at- https://youtu.be/M7w5QGqcnNs?si=qiq0Pxuv6AHKCST1 FOCLOnline 82.4K subscribers 23,879 views Oct 11, 2018 Chapters Intro 0:00   Gaps of Evidence? 1:48   Incompleteness of the Fossil Record? 2:47   The Origin of Life 5:10   Late Heavy Bombardment 5:40   Origin of Photosynthesis 7:11   Avalon Explosion 8:08   Cambrian Explosion 10:08 For the best resource for shows on Intelligent Design visit-  Discovery Science The Discovery Science News Channel is the official Youtube channel of Discovery Institute's Center for Science & Culture. The CSC is the institutional hub for scientists, educators, and inquiring minds who think that nature supplies compelling evidence of intelligent design. The CSC supports research, sponsors educational programs, defends free speech, and produce articles, books, and multimedia content. For more information visit https://www.discovery.org/id/ http://www.evolutionnews.org/ http://www.intelligentdesign.org/ Follow us on Facebook and Twitter: Twitter: @discoverycsc Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/discoverycsc/ Visit other Youtube channels connected to the Center for Science & Culture Discovery Institute:    / discoveryinstitute   Dr. Stephen C. Meyer:    / drstephenmeyer   The Magician's Twin - CS Lewis & Evolution:    / cslewisweb   Darwin's Heretic - Alfred Russel Wallace:    / alfredrwallaceid     For many websites regarding Intelligent Design visit- Intelligent Design Resources https://intelligentdesign.org/resources/  

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 Cosmic scale forces seem impossible to unify with the invisible quantum universe. Perhaps the key is buried in the past. Sail through the annals of physics with us as we sit down with Dr. Alexander Unzicker, a lively and incisive German theoretical physicist and author. In this long-form podcast, pry open the deep history of physics, with a special focus on elastic theories of the enigmatic luminiferous aether. Tune in for a unique perspective that bridges the past and present, unlocking the secrets of our scientific heritage with an eye for what comes next. Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub Sign up for a yearly Patreon membership for discounted conference tickets: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB (00:00) Go! (00:00:17) Introduction (00:10:46) The day the aether died (00:22:55) Mathematics of deformation mirror mathematics of particle physics (00:36:23) Particles as self-propagating defects (00:45:48) Material visualizations of electricity and magnetism (00:56:07) Discontinuities as a definition of matter (01:06:35) Crystalline deformations as information carriers (01:17:12) Incompressibility and the stiffness of spacetime (01:32:15) Is the speed of light a constant of the universe? (01:41:07) Closing thoughts #PhysicsRevolution, #TimelessScience, #QuantumMysteries, #PhysicsLegacy, #EinsteinianEra, #AstroHistory, #CosmicWonders, #TheoreticalInsights, #ScienceUnveiled, #MindBlownPhysics. Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Bright on Buddhism - Violence - What constitutes violence in Buddhism? How does the conception of violence change over time? According to the Buddhist scriptures, what ought to be done about violence? Content warning - This episode contains descriptions of violence and killing. Listener discretion is advised. Resources: Barbaro, Paolo (2010), "Buddhism and Violence". In: Jeffrey Ian Ross (ed.), Religion and Violence: an Encyclopedia of Faith and Conflict from Antiquity to the Present, vol. 1, M. E. Sharpe, ISBN 9780765620484;Bodhi, Bhikkhu (2010), The Noble Eightfold Path: The Way to the End of Suffering, Buddhist Publication Society, ISBN 9789552401169; Harris, Elizabeth J. (1994), Violence and Disruption in Society A Study of early Buddhist Texts, Buddhist Publication Society; Jerryson, Michael; Juergensmeyer, Mark (2010), Buddhist Warfare, New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-539483-2; Jerryson, Michael K. (2011), Buddhist Fury: Religion and Violence in Southern Thailand, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-979324-2; Kalupahana, David J. (1992), A History of Buddhist Philosophy: Continuities and Discontinuities, University of Hawaii Press, ISBN 978-0-8248-1402-1; Knaster, Mirka (2010), Living This Life Fully, Shambhala Publications, ISBN 9780834822542; Mishra, Pankaj (2010), An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World, Macmillan Publishers, ISBN 9781429933636 Do you have a question about Buddhism that you'd like us to discuss? Let us know by finding us on email or social media! https://linktr.ee/brightonbuddhism Credits: Nick Bright: Script, Cover Art, Music, Voice of Hearer, Co-Host Proven Paradox: Editing, mixing and mastering, social media, Voice of Hermit, Co-Host --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brightonbuddhism/message

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Open Problem in Voting Theory, published by Scott Garrabrant on October 17, 2022 on LessWrong. In the previous post, I presented the concept of a maximal lottery-lottery as follows: We start with a finite set of candidates C and a distribution V∈Δ(C[0,1]) on utility functions on C. Given lottery-lotteries A,B∈Δ(Δ(C)), we say that A dominates B if PA∼A,B∼B,v∼V(v(A)>v(B))≥PA∼A,B∼B,v∼V(v(B)>v(A)). A maximal lottery-lottery is an M∈Δ(Δ(C)) such that for all other L∈Δ(Δ(C)), M dominates L. Conjecture: For any C and V, there always exists a maximal lottery-lottery. We discussed how we can construct a powerful and elegant new voting system, if only we can guarantee that a maximal lottery-lottery exists. However it is an open problem whether or not they exist. In this post, I will discuss a few different angles of attacking this conjecture. An Infinite Game First, consider the following partial result: Theorem: Let D be any nonempty finite subset of Δ(C). Then, there exists an M∈Δ(D) such that for all other L∈Δ(D), M dominates L. Proof: Consider the following symmetric two-player zero-sum game between Alice and Bob: Alice chooses an A∈D, and Bob chooses a B∈D. Alice gets utility equal to Pv∼V(v(A)>v(B))−Pv∼V(v(B)>v(A)), and Bob gets the negative of this utility. This game must have a Nash equilibrium, and in this Nash equilibrium, Alice must play a mixed strategy M∈Δ(D). Since this is a Nash equilibrium in a symmetric zero-sum game, Alice must get at least 0 utility in expectation, no matter what L∈Δ(D) Bob plays. Alice getting at least 0 utility in expectation is exactly saying that M dominates L. □ This proof is valid (you can check the details), so why doesn't it generalize to infinite subsets D, and in particular D=Δ(C)? The problem is that games with infinitely many options need not have Nash equilibria. For example consider the game where Alice and Bob each choose a natural number, and whoever chooses the larger number wins. Fortunately, often in cases like this, you can get past finiteness assumptions by instead using compactness assumptions, and Δ(C) is compact. Indeed, games with a compact option space and continuous utility functions always have mixed strategy equilibria. Unfortunately, the game we constructed does not have a continuous utility function! This is easy to see, because if V assigns probability 1 to a single utility function v, if v(A)>v(B), then Alice wins and gets utility 1, but as we continuously move around A, we can discontinuously jump to the game being a tie, and then to Bob winning. Fortunately, there are a bunch of papers analyzing situations like this. Discontinuities like this show up a bunch in auctions, which also have an infinite compact option space and discontinuous utilities, resulting from discontinuities in who wins the auction. Unfortunately, Sam Eisenstat and I spent a while looking through a bunch of papers like this, and failed to find anything that we could apply. Several things looked like they might be able to work, but everything we tried ultimately turned out to be a dead end. A Limit of Finite Games The above partial result is actually pretty practically useful on its own. Even if maximal lottery-lotteries do not exist, you can always just take D=Dn to be the set of all lotteries that assign each candidate a probability that is a multiple of 1nfor some large natural number n. Because of this, practically speaking, we can use the maximal lottery-lotteries voting system today, without ever proving the conjecture! Further, we can consider what happens as we send n to infinity. If there is an odd number of voters that each have a utility function in general position, we will always get a unique distribution on Mn∈Δ(Dn) that dominates all other distributions on Dn, and we can look at what happens to Mn as n goes to infinity. Hop...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Open Problem in Voting Theory, published by Scott Garrabrant on October 17, 2022 on LessWrong. In the previous post, I presented the concept of a maximal lottery-lottery as follows: We start with a finite set of candidates C and a distribution V∈Δ(C[0,1]) on utility functions on C. Given lottery-lotteries A,B∈Δ(Δ(C)), we say that A dominates B if PA∼A,B∼B,v∼V(v(A)>v(B))≥PA∼A,B∼B,v∼V(v(B)>v(A)). A maximal lottery-lottery is an M∈Δ(Δ(C)) such that for all other L∈Δ(Δ(C)), M dominates L. Conjecture: For any C and V, there always exists a maximal lottery-lottery. We discussed how we can construct a powerful and elegant new voting system, if only we can guarantee that a maximal lottery-lottery exists. However it is an open problem whether or not they exist. In this post, I will discuss a few different angles of attacking this conjecture. An Infinite Game First, consider the following partial result: Theorem: Let D be any nonempty finite subset of Δ(C). Then, there exists an M∈Δ(D) such that for all other L∈Δ(D), M dominates L. Proof: Consider the following symmetric two-player zero-sum game between Alice and Bob: Alice chooses an A∈D, and Bob chooses a B∈D. Alice gets utility equal to Pv∼V(v(A)>v(B))−Pv∼V(v(B)>v(A)), and Bob gets the negative of this utility. This game must have a Nash equilibrium, and in this Nash equilibrium, Alice must play a mixed strategy M∈Δ(D). Since this is a Nash equilibrium in a symmetric zero-sum game, Alice must get at least 0 utility in expectation, no matter what L∈Δ(D) Bob plays. Alice getting at least 0 utility in expectation is exactly saying that M dominates L. □ This proof is valid (you can check the details), so why doesn't it generalize to infinite subsets D, and in particular D=Δ(C)? The problem is that games with infinitely many options need not have Nash equilibria. For example consider the game where Alice and Bob each choose a natural number, and whoever chooses the larger number wins. Fortunately, often in cases like this, you can get past finiteness assumptions by instead using compactness assumptions, and Δ(C) is compact. Indeed, games with a compact option space and continuous utility functions always have mixed strategy equilibria. Unfortunately, the game we constructed does not have a continuous utility function! This is easy to see, because if V assigns probability 1 to a single utility function v, if v(A)>v(B), then Alice wins and gets utility 1, but as we continuously move around A, we can discontinuously jump to the game being a tie, and then to Bob winning. Fortunately, there are a bunch of papers analyzing situations like this. Discontinuities like this show up a bunch in auctions, which also have an infinite compact option space and discontinuous utilities, resulting from discontinuities in who wins the auction. Unfortunately, Sam Eisenstat and I spent a while looking through a bunch of papers like this, and failed to find anything that we could apply. Several things looked like they might be able to work, but everything we tried ultimately turned out to be a dead end. A Limit of Finite Games The above partial result is actually pretty practically useful on its own. Even if maximal lottery-lotteries do not exist, you can always just take D=Dn to be the set of all lotteries that assign each candidate a probability that is a multiple of 1nfor some large natural number n. Because of this, practically speaking, we can use the maximal lottery-lotteries voting system today, without ever proving the conjecture! Further, we can consider what happens as we send n to infinity. If there is an odd number of voters that each have a utility function in general position, we will always get a unique distribution on Mn∈Δ(Dn) that dominates all other distributions on Dn, and we can look at what happens to Mn as n goes to infinity. Hop...

Fossil Discontinuities A Refutation of Darwinism and Confirmation of Intelligent Design

QuantSpeak host, Dan Tudball is joined by Dr. Laura Ballotta to discuss the initial challenges of trying to bring financial risk and insurance risk together and the massive opportunities for cross-pollination between both fields in the post-pandemic markets.

One way to look at the structures and processes of a social-ecological system is through “discontinuities,” which are gaps between clusters of system components. Discontinuity theory identifies patterns at different spatial and temporal scales in a system, which can be used to match system components to the resources and the scale(s) those components are operating at, with research and management implications. We take a look at discontinuity theory through a study of animal sizes in ecosystems, which is how many of the ideas about discontinuities first arose in the scientific literature. We also examine proposed management applications for discontinuity theory. Funding support from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Center for Great Plains Studies, https://www.unl.edu/plains/welcome Check out our educational modules: https://passel2.unl.edu/view/community/70ffd07aff59 Contact Us: whrapodcast@gmail.com Council for Resilience Education website: cre.unl.edu References: Angeler, D.G., Allen, C.R., Barichievy, C., Eason, T.,... 2016. Management applications of discontinuity theory. Journal of Applied Ecology, 53, 688-698. Cusick, D. 2021, July 20. Cities pledge more green space to combat urban heat. Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cities-pledge-more-green-space-to-combat-urban-heat/ Hilden, N. 2021, Aug. 3. Future space travel might require mushrooms. Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-travels-most-surprising-future-ingredient-mushrooms/ Holling, C.S. 1992. Cross-scale morphology, geometry, and dynamics of ecosystems. Ecological Monographs, 62(4), 447-502. Flavelle, C. 2021, Aug. 5. Biden announces record amount of climate resilience funding. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/05/climate/FEMA-disaster-money-climate.html Nash, K.L., Allen, C.R., Angeler, D.G., Barichievy, C., Eason, T., Garmestani, A.S. et al. 2014. Discontinuities, cross-scale patterns and the organization of ecosystems. Ecology, 95, 654–667. Music licensed from www.purple-planet.com

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To what extent is the political instability witnessed in Libya since 2011 an inheritance of the ousted regime of Mu'ammar al-Gaddafi, which ruled the country for over four decades? In his new article in Middle East Law and Governance, "Of Conflict and Collapse: Rethinking State Formation in Post-Gaddafi Libya," Emadeddin Badi of the Atlantic Council and Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime discusses these connections.  Using this article as the basis of their conversation, Professor Jacob Mundy of Colgate University and Badi attempt to contextualized much of what is seen coming out of Libya today in terms of historical forces present within the Libyan polity and the powerful contingencies that have produces significant ruptures within the socio-economic orders that long governed day-to-day realities in Libya under its unique blend of an increasingly centralized security states and a post-populist corporatist regime from 1969 to 2011. Above all, Badi focuses our attention on the external shock of repeated outside interventions that have generated new dynamics within Libya, occasioning new political forms and horizons while ossifying and reinforcing others.   Emadeddin Badi is a Libyan researcher and consultant that specializes in governance, post-conflict stabilization, hybrid security and peacebuilding. He currently works as Senior Analyst at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime and as Advisor for Libya at the Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (DCAF). He is also Non-resident Senior Fellow with the Middle East Program at the Atlantic Council, where he focuses primarily on U.S. and European policies towards Libya. Previously, he was a Non-resident Scholar at the Countering Terrorism and Extremism Program at the Middle East Institute and a Policy Fellow at the European University Institute. Badi holds a Bachelors degree in Business and Economics from the University of Essex, a bachelors in French language from the https://uot.edu.ly/ in Libya, as well as a Masters degree in Violence, Conflict and Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies. He is fluent in English, French and Arabic.   Jacob Mundy, Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Colgate University, conducted this interview on March 11, 2021. This podcast is part of the "Supporting Critical Research and Strengthening Scholarly Capacity in Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia" project organized by the Centre d'Études Maghrébines à Tunis (CEMAT) and the Centre d'Études Maghrébines en Algérie (CEMA), and funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Prof. Mundy heads the contemporary Libya studies research unit, of which Badi is a member.   Posted by: Hayet Lansari, Librarian, Outreach Coordinator, Content Curator (CEMA).

Thank you for listening to episode 230 of the Welding Tips and Tricks Podcast!  For this week's episode we're talking about common defects and discontinuities seen in welds.  This chat was sparked from a post Roy put up on Instagram of a Lack of Fusion in one of his test pieces.  There are many reasons why you might get one of these defects we talk about in this episode and this is a very deep topic.  We hope this episode sparks something within you to do some testing and see if you're getting any common defects in your welds that you might not know of.  Thank you for all the support and have a great week!  Enjoy!    This episode is sponsored by ISOTunes.com   If you're liking what you hear please leave us a comment and rating on whatever podcast platform you're listening from.  It's always great to hear what our listeners think.  Plus, the more positive ratings we get the higher the podcast gets ranked which will make it seen for more future listeners.  Thanks!     Welding Tips and Tricks Podcast Patreon Page    We also would like to take a moment and thank those who support the show on Patreon. Each Patron helps keep the show going and allows us to publish each and every week. If you would like to support the show, in any dollar amount, head over to www.patreon.com/weldingtipsandtrickspodcast. Everyone there is greatly appreciated. This months top supporters of the show are RoboVent, Veteran Welding Co, Rick's Welding Service, David Doherty, L&N Welding, H4 Fab Works, Marcus Hansen, Scott Tasso, Anthony Chrisomalis, Unobtainium Welding, Andy Katanic, S&S Metal Fabrication, CAD-2-Fab, Weldworks LLC, Jacob B Schaeffer, Smith Industries, CR Fabrication, Kenny Miksch, Danny Vallee, Ryan Shelley.     Where Can You Find the Welding Tips and Tricks Forum?   Welding Tips and Tricks Forum   Where can you find Us?   You can email Welding Tips and Tricks Podcast directly at WeldingTipsandTricksPodcast@gmail.com.     We would really like to hear your thoughts about this podcast and what would make it better for you, the listener.  Please leave us any questions that you would like to hear about welding, or questions you'd like to know about ourselves and future guests.     Give us a Call   You can also now call and leave us a voicemail!   (915)308-7024     How to reach us individually      Jody Collier           http://www.weldingtipsandtricks.com/                              Welding Tips and Tricks on Youtube                              @Weldmonger on Instagram                     Jonathan Lewis     http://www.superiorweldandfab.com/                              @Superiorwelding on Instagram                              Superiorwelding on Youtube                          Roy Crumrine        http://www.crummywelding.com/                              @CrummyWelding on Instagram     Interested in weld purging equipment as discussed in this show? Head over to superiorweldandfabsupply.com to check out our complete selection of weld purging tools to help you make those perfect welds.   Where can you find a Tig Finger?   You can find Tig fingers and other great welding supplies, like stubby gas lens kits, here at this link http://weldmongerstore.com/.  All of which are great tools to have in your job toolbox and also your home shop box.     This Podcast has been brought to you by Welders for Welders so that you can listen to Welders talk about Welding while you're Welding!

Dr. Edwin Vieira explains how the Second Amendment, taken in context with the militia clauses of the Constitution, can put an end to modern gun control, while also putting an end to the COVID19 lockdowns.  The COVID19 pandemic has revealed gaps in the promise of self-government yet the Constitution already has the solutions. The authorities already exist in the ‘supreme law of the land’ and by revitalizing local institutions, deemed necessary to the security of a free state, people and communities can decentralize political control so as to put an end to the creeping tyranny at the federal and state levels while simultaneously protecting the right to keep and bear arms. This is a comprehensive, legal solution for restoring liberty, to ourselves and our posterity. Yet self-government active civic engagement, not reliance upon politicians, bureaucrats, and technocrats.  Show notes: www.everydaysamurai.life/47 Tactical pens: https://go.everydaysamurai.life/pen

Dr. Edwin Vieira explains how the Second Amendment, taken in context with the militia clauses of the Constitution, can put an end to modern gun control, while also putting an end to the COVID19 lockdowns.  The COVID19 pandemic has revealed gaps in the promise of self-government yet the Constitution already has the solutions. The authorities already exist in the ‘supreme law of the land’ and by revitalizing local institutions, deemed necessary to the security of a free state, people and communities can decentralize political control so as to put an end to the creeping tyranny at the federal and state levels while simultaneously protecting the right to keep and bear arms. This is a comprehensive, legal solution for restoring liberty, to ourselves and our posterity. Yet self-government active civic engagement, not reliance upon politicians, bureaucrats, and technocrats.  Show notes: www.everydaysamurai.life/47 Tactical pens: https://go.everydaysamurai.life/pen

Faithless Brewing, Episode 68: Transmogrify, See the Truth, Discontinuity By all accounts, 2020 has been a Very Long Year. It keeps twisting and dragging us into unexpected places, each more disturbing than the last. And somehow, it is only August. So it can't really be called surprising when, for inexplicable reasons, a Modern deck called "Titan Vial" is somehow causing the price of Elvish Reclaimer to spike on Magic Online, while in Pioneer noted hall of famers are earnestly debating the proper build of a deck that contains a playset of Bolas's Citadel. Who can explain it? Does it even need to be explained? It's just been that kind of year. Late August can sometimes be the doldrums of competitive Magic, as Standard awaits rotation and the summer Core Set has mostly played itself out. We are lucky, at least, that M21 is a set with a very long tail: plenty of interesting cards can still spark the brewer's imagination for at least a decklist or two, if not quite rising to the level of commanding a full episode deep dive. We tackle some intriguing ones this week as we probe the far reaches of the M21 spoiler: Transmogrify, See the Truth, and Discontinuity. What will we discover? Only the leagues will tell! Titan Vial by fpawluszmtg Flashback: The White Episode Soul Speakers: 3-2 leagueBasri Bots: unplayableMardu Nine Lives: 3-2 leagueChonky Capridor: 3-2 league  Brew Session: M21 Potpourri Jeskai Inspiring TransmogrifyIzzet See the TruthBant Lotus Discontinuity Contact Us Like our show? Come support us on Patreon and join our brewing community!  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/faithlessbrewing Twitter: @FaithlessMTG Email: faithless.brewing@gmail.com Homepage: faithlessbrewing.podbean.com  

Faithless Brewing, Episode 68: Transmogrify, See the Truth, Discontinuity By all accounts, 2020 has been a Very Long Year. It keeps twisting and dragging us into unexpected places, each more disturbing than the last. And somehow, it is only August. So it can't really be called surprising when, for inexplicable reasons, a Modern deck called "Titan Vial" is somehow causing the price of Elvish Reclaimer to spike on Magic Online, while in Pioneer noted hall of famers are earnestly debating the proper build of a deck that contains a playset of Bolas's Citadel. Who can explain it? Does it even need to be explained? It's just been that kind of year. Late August can sometimes be the doldrums of competitive Magic, as Standard awaits rotation and the summer Core Set has mostly played itself out. We are lucky, at least, that M21 is a set with a very long tail: plenty of interesting cards can still spark the brewer's imagination for at least a decklist or two, if not quite rising to the level of commanding a full episode deep dive. We tackle some intriguing ones this week as we probe the far reaches of the M21 spoiler: Transmogrify, See the Truth, and Discontinuity. What will we discover? Only the leagues will tell! Titan Vial by fpawluszmtg Flashback: The White Episode Soul Speakers: 3-2 leagueBasri Bots: unplayableMardu Nine Lives: 3-2 leagueChonky Capridor: 3-2 league  Brew Session: M21 Potpourri Jeskai Inspiring TransmogrifyIzzet See the TruthBant Lotus Discontinuity Contact Us Like our show? Come support us on Patreon and join our brewing community!  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/faithlessbrewing Twitter: @FaithlessMTG Email: faithless.brewing@gmail.com Homepage: faithlessbrewing.podbean.com  

Faithless Brewing, Episode 68: Transmogrify, See the Truth, Discontinuity By all accounts, 2020 has been a Very Long Year. It keeps twisting and dragging us into unexpected places, each more disturbing than the last. And somehow, it is only August. So it can't really be called surprising when, for inexplicable reasons, a Modern deck called "Titan Vial" is somehow causing the price of Elvish Reclaimer to spike on Magic Online, while in Pioneer noted hall of famers are earnestly debating the proper build of a deck that contains a playset of Bolas's Citadel. Who can explain it? Does it even need to be explained? It's just been that kind of year. Late August can sometimes be the doldrums of competitive Magic, as Standard awaits rotation and the summer Core Set has mostly played itself out. We are lucky, at least, that M21 is a set with a very long tail: plenty of interesting cards can still spark the brewer's imagination for at least a decklist or two, if not quite rising to the level of commanding a full episode deep dive. We tackle some intriguing ones this week as we probe the far reaches of the M21 spoiler: Transmogrify, See the Truth, and Discontinuity. What will we discover? Only the leagues will tell! Titan Vial by fpawluszmtg Flashback: The White Episode Soul Speakers: 3-2 leagueBasri Bots: unplayableMardu Nine Lives: 3-2 leagueChonky Capridor: 3-2 league  Brew Session: M21 Potpourri Jeskai Inspiring TransmogrifyIzzet See the TruthBant Lotus Discontinuity Contact Us Like our show? Come support us on Patreon and join our brewing community! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/faithlessbrewingTwitter: @FaithlessMTGEmail: faithless.brewing@gmail.comHomepage: faithlessbrewing.podbean.com 

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.07.19.210922v1?rss=1 Authors: Shirhatti, V., Ravishankar, P., Ray, S. Abstract: Gamma oscillations have been hypothesized to play an important role in feature binding, based on the observation that continuous long bars induce stronger gamma in the visual cortex than bars with a small gap. Recently, many studies have shown that natural images, that have discontinuities in several low-level features, do not induce strong gamma oscillations, questioning their role in feature binding. However, the effect of different discontinuities on gamma has not been well studied. To address this, we recorded spikes and local field potential from two monkeys while they were shown gratings with discontinuities in space, orientation, phase or contrast. Gamma, but not spiking activity, drastically reduced with small discontinuities in all cases, suggesting that gamma could be a resonant phenomenon. An excitatory-inhibitory population model with stimulus-tuned recurrent inputs showed such resonant properties. Therefore, gamma could be a signature of excitation-inhibition balance, which gets disrupted due to discontinuities. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info

Dr. Edwin Vieira discusses how medicine and science can be funded without resort to politically manipulated, technocratic bureaucracies. The COVID19 pandemic has revealed gaps in the promise of self-government yet the Constitution already has the solutions. Leveraging existing authorities to revitalized local institutions, deemed necessary to the security of a free state, people and communities can decentralize political control and put an end the creeping tyranny at the federal and state levels while simultaneously protecting Second Amendment rights. This is the solution for those seeking a strategy to restore liberty, yet it, like all self-government, requires active participation. Notes: www.everydaysamurai.life/46 Cornbread CBD: www.everydaysamurai.life/cornbread

Dr. Edwin Vieira discusses how medicine and science can be funded without resort to politically manipulated, technocratic bureaucracies. The COVID19 pandemic has revealed gaps in the promise of self-government yet the Constitution already has the solutions. Leveraging existing authorities to revitalized local institutions, deemed necessary to the security of a free state, people and communities can decentralize political control and put an end the creeping tyranny at the federal and state levels while simultaneously protecting Second Amendment rights. This is the solution for those seeking a strategy to restore liberty, yet it, like all self-government, requires active participation. Notes: www.everydaysamurai.life/46 Cornbread CBD: www.everydaysamurai.life/cornbread

Dr. Edwin Vieira discusses how the policy responses of federal and state officials to COVID19 have exposed the extent technocracy has undermined the republican form of government promised in the United States Constitution, as well as what can be done about it.  Notes: everydaysamurai.life/45 Free Language Learning: everydaysamurai.life/rocket

Dr. Edwin Vieira discusses how the policy responses of federal and state officials to COVID19 have exposed the extent technocracy has undermined the republican form of government promised in the United States Constitution, as well as what can be done about it.  Notes: everydaysamurai.life/45 Free Language Learning: everydaysamurai.life/rocket

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Jesus is the better mediator of a better covenant than Moses. I. Continuities. II. Discontinuities.

Star Trek Origins: Star Trek III. In this episode of Standard Orbit, we start a new series of discussions focusing on the origins of key concepts and events that influenced the franchise for years to come. This week, Star Trek III: The Search For Spock! Star Trek Origins: Star Trek III. In this episode of Standard Orbit, we start a new series of discussions focusing on the origins of key concepts and events that influenced the franchise for years to come. This week, Star Trek III: The Search For Spock! While being one of the more divisive entries in the film franchise, Star Trek III was our introduction to a great many things that went on to form a rich foundation for Star Trek's future series and movies. The Bird-of-Prey, the Excelsior, the depth of Vulcan religion and mind melds, the idea of honor for the Klingons, Earth Space Dock and even Transwarp drive. We discuss them all, and also a couple of things that didn't stick from The Search For Spock. Hosts Ken Tripp and Zach Moore Feature Welcome to Standard Orbit! (00:01:11) New Models/Ship Designs (00:03:52) Bird-of-Prey (00:07:51) Vulcan Culture (00:14:50) Klingon Culture (00:23:27) Transwarp Drive (00:35:30) Discontinuities (00:40:06) Thank You for Listening to Standard Orbit (00:49:42) Production C Bryan Jones (Executive Producer), Ken Tripp (Executive Producer), Matthew Rushing (Executive Producer), Charlynne Schmiedt (Executive Producer), Zach Moore (Editor), Renee Roberts (Associate Producer), Richard Rutledge (Associate Producer), Aaron Harvey (Associate Producer), Richard Marquez (Production Manager) Send us your feedback! Twitter: @trekfm Facebook: http://facebook.com/trekfm Voicemail: http://www.speakpipe.com/trekfm Contact Form: http://www.trek.fm/contact Visit the Trek.fm website at http://trek.fm/ Subscribe in iTunes: http://itunes.com/trekfm Support the Network! Become a Trek.fm Patron on Patreon and help us keep our shows coming to you every week. We have great perks for you at http://patreon.com/trekfm Sponsor Audible is the premiere source for audiobooks with more than 150,000 titles to choose from, and new titles coming every week. From classics to current bestsellers, and even some of the most famous Star Trek books like Prime Directive, Federation, and Spock’s World, Audible has something for everyone.As a Trek.fm listener you can get a free audiobook of your choice along with a 30-day trial to see just how great Audible is. So give it a try today, catch up on all those classic Star Trek books you’ve yet to read or that latest novel from you favorite author and support the network and our programming at the same time! Release Date Monday, September 19, 2016 Duration 53 minutes 51 seconds File Size 61 MB 60,998,066 bytes

Song, A (University College London) Thursday 21st April 2016 - 14:15 to 15:30

When Darwin wrote The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, published in 1872, the scientific community was still pondering the question: Do other animals think?  The subsequent prodigious scientific study of animal cognition and behavior has answered this question with an emphatic “yes”!… read more »

Zarnescu, AD (University of Sussex) Tuesday 09 April 2013, 14:00-15:00

Institute of English Studies Mark Burrows (University of Applied Sciences, Bochum) Poetry and Prayer: Continuities & Discontinuities - '"Prayer is the little implement": Poetic Speech and the Gestures of Prayer in Christian Traditions' An int...

Institute of English Studies Mark Burrows (University of Applied Sciences, Bochum) Poetry and Prayer: Continuities & Discontinuities - '"Prayer is the little implement": Poetic Speech and the Gestures of Prayer in Christian Traditions' An int...

Philip Bess

A general feature of tectonic faults is the juxtaposition of materials with dissimilar elastic properties in a variety of contexts and scales. Normal and reverse faults offset vertical stratifications, large strike-slip faults displace different crustal blocks, oceanic and continental crusts at subduction interfaces, and oceanic transforms juxtapose rocks of different ages. Bimaterial interfaces associated with rock damage are present with various degrees of sharpness in typical fault zone structures, and failure along a bimaterial interface can be effective even on microscopic scale of grain boundaries. A first order representation of a geological fault for seismic events is a frictional interface embedded in an elastic body. This study focusses on dynamic effects in the presence of material discontinuities altering dynamics of failure and dynamic rupture propagation on frictional interfaces. When the medium surrounding a fault is heterogeneous, the symmetry of stress is broken up and perturbations of normal stress introduces additional instability potentially generating additional propagation modes of rupture. This study presents three specific numerical investigations of the aforementioned rupture phenomena associated with material contrasts at the fault. A first numerical study (a) investigates 2-D in-plane ruptures in a model consisting of two different half-spaces separated by a low-velocity layer and possible simultaneous slip along multiple faults. This study shows that bimaterial frictional interfaces are attractive trajectories of rupture propagation, and ruptures tend to migrate to material interfaces and becoming self-sustained slip pulses for wide ranges of conditions. In a second numerical study (b), the propagation of a purely material contrast driven rupture mode, that is associated with the so-calledWeertman or Adams-instable pulse, is shown to exist also in the general 3-D case, where there is a mixing of in-plane and anti-plane modes, the bimaterial mechanism acting in the in-plane direction only. Finally, in a further numerical investigation (c) it is demonstrated, that the rupture dynamics and ground motion can be significantly influenced by bimaterial mechanisms of rupture propagation for ranges of parameters. The model studied here comprises heterogeneous initial shear stress on a slip-weakening frictional interfaces separating two dissimilar elastic bodies, a free surface. The discussion focusses on the diversity of existing rupture propagation modes and ground motion. The investigated models and obtained results are motivated and discussed in the context of complementary numerical investigations, theoretical studies of stability analysis, seismological vii observations of earthquakes and aftershock sequences, geological observations of fault zone structures, tomographic studies, and geodetic observations.

Panel IV: The Green Market: Renewing the Environment through Entrepreneurship and Investment Moderator: Jeremy Potash Panelists Robert Collier, Difficulties in Greening China: Why the Clean Tech Revolution Won't Happen without Environmental Re-Regulation Po Chi Wu, Discontinuities & Paradoxes: An Investor's Perspective Chris Raczkowski, Information Scarcity, Market Peculiarities & Decision Making for Sustainable & Clean Tech Investors in China Daniel Spitzer

This paper is a supplement paper to Knorr-Held and Rasser (1999), Discussion Paper 107. "Bayesian Detection of Clusters and Discontinuities in Disease Maps", which describes a novel approach to disease mapping with particular emphasis on the detection of clusters and discontinuities in disease maps. First we investigate several features of the prior by simulations from the clustering model both for the 544 regions of Germany and for the 88 counties of Ohio state. Furthermore the method is applied to various artificial datasets for Ohio with and without spatial patterns. Sensitivity with respect to prior parameters is studied.

An interesting epidemiological problem is the analysis of geographical variation in rates of disease incidence or mortality. One goal of such an analysis is to detect clusters of elevated (or lowered) risk in order to identify unknown risk factors regarding the disease. We propose a nonparametric Bayesian approach for the detection of such clusters based on Green's (1995) reversible jump MCMC methodology. The prior model assumes that geographical regions can be combined in clusters with constant relative risk within a cluster. The number of clusters, the location of the clusters and the risk within each cluster is unknown. This specification can be seen as a change-point problem of variable dimension in irregular, discrete space. We illustrate our method through an analysis of oral cavity cancer mortality rates in Germany and compare the results with those obtained by the commonly used Bayesian disease mapping method of Besag, York and Mollie (1991).