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Pretending to be People
S2E66 - Jackfruit Frog Island: And Then We Just Walk Home (with Scott Dorward)

Pretending to be People

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2025 79:57


Welcome to the end. Will Fletch figure out why his crush ran away? Will The Jackalope Kid become an American hero? Will Abbadon Skimpole find the secret of eternal life? Will P.P. Heaviside experiment on more humans? Probably! This episode features Scott Dorward from The Good Friends of Jackson Elias. Support the show on Patreon. Share our promo video everywhere. Buy some merch at the Contention General Store. Follow along on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Find other listeners on Discord and Reddit. Soundtrack by WAAAVV. Wolf played "The Missouri State University Fight Song" by The Missouri State University Pride Band.

The Wrong Cat Died
From The Vault: Colin Cunliffe, Skimbleshanks in the 2016 Broadway Revival

The Wrong Cat Died

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2025 66:23


From The Vault: Originally released on March 9, 2021, this was Episode 37 with Colin Cunliffe who was Skimbleshanks in the 2016 Broadway Revival of CATS. "We have a lot to talk about Mike because I listened to your Skimble..." This episode features Colin Cunliffe who played Skimbleshanks in the 2016 Broadway revival. Hear Colin break down all of the things I got wrong in Episode 11 about Skimbleshanks and his experience with the musical. Plus, hear Colin give the first Heaviside argument for Victoria! Check out Colin on Instagram: @colin_hollis_shannon Produced by: Alan Seales & Broadway Podcast Network Social Media: @TheWrongCatDied Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pretending to be People
S2E65 - Jackfruit Frog Island: Now the Real Work Begins (with Scott Dorward)

Pretending to be People

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 27, 2024 61:45


P.P. Heaviside, Fletch, Abbadon Skimpole, and The Jackalope Kid make landfall on Jackfruit Frog Island. This episode features Scott Dorward from The Good Friends of Jackson Elias. Support the show on Patreon. Share our promo video everywhere. Buy some merch at the Contention General Store. Follow along on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Find other listeners on Discord and Reddit. Soundtrack by WAAAVV. Wolf played "The Missouri State University Fight Song" by The Missouri State University Pride Band.

Small Spark Theory: a marginal gains approach to new business and marketing
EP89: Agency lessons from an ultra-runner | Clair Heaviside | Serotonin

Small Spark Theory: a marginal gains approach to new business and marketing

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2024


Small Spark Theory has always been about a mindset. When I started this podcast back in 2017 I wanted to harness the marginal gains thinking that was and still is, so prevalent in elite sport and apply it to an altogether different kind of winning – agency new business. So when I heard Serotonin Co-Founder […] The post EP89: Agency lessons from an ultra-runner | Clair Heaviside | Serotonin appeared first on Gunpowder Consulting.

The Mouse and Me
Jess LeProtto - Part 1

The Mouse and Me

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2023 46:46


Jess LeProtto's incredible voice, energy, razor sharp dance technique, and jaw-dropping jumps and turns have earned him a place in the Great White Way spotlight. He started singing and dancing at age 5, and performed in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular in Nashville as a kid. He went on to get his BFA in Musical Theatre from Pace University and shuffle ball changed his way into the company of The Boy From Oz, where he made his Broadway debut in 2003 followed by Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and Bye Bye Birdie.  He played the role of Buttons in the original Broadway cast of Disney's Newsies, and it was that show that truly solidified his Broadway veteran status. Fun fact - Jess is the logo for the US national tour of Newsies. If you do a search for "Newsies US tour poster," you'll see him! Other Broadway credits include On the Town, the revival of CATS where he played Mungojerrie, Hello, Dolly!, Carousel, and is currently in A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical, where he performs 8 shows a week and also serves as the dance captain. You can also see Jess's work on film and television where he recently played A-Rab in Steven Spielberg's “West Side Story” for 20th Century Fox, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Studios. He was also in Isn't It Romantic, Smash, Law & Order: SVU, One Life to Live, MTV's “Video Music Awards," and in 2011, he made it to the Top 8 on "So You Think You Can Dance!” Please welcome - a man who galloped as a waiter on the town while carrying the banner to the Heaviside layer where he's making a beautiful noise (see what we did there?) - Scott's pal, Jess LeProtto! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themouseandme/support

Foundations of Amateur Radio
Jumping into the unknown ...

Foundations of Amateur Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2023 6:29


Foundations of Amateur Radio If you walk into your radio shack and switch on a light, the result is instantaneous, one moment it's dark, the next it's not. What if I told you that as immediate as it appears, there is actually a small delay between you closing the circuit and the light coming on. Likely the distance between your switch and your light is less than say 10 meters, so the delay is likely to be less than 33 nanoseconds, not something you'd notice unless you're out to measure it. What if your light switch is 3,200 km away? That's the length of the first transatlantic telegraph cable in 1858. Let's start with the notion that between the action of closing a switch, or applying a voltage at one end of the cable and it being seen at the other end takes time. If we ignore the wire for a moment, pretending that both ends are separated by vacuum, then the delay between the two ends is just over 10 milliseconds because that's how long it takes travelling at the speed of light. One of the effects of using a cable is that it slows things down. In case you're curious, the so-called Velocity Factor describes by how much. A common Velocity Factor of 66 would slow this down by 66%. This means that there is a time when there is voltage at one end and no voltage at the other. There are a few other significant and frequency dependent things going on, we'll get to them, but before we go any further, it's important to consider a couple of related issues. Ohm's Law, which describes the relationship between voltage, current and resistance in an electrical circuit was first introduced in 1827 by Georg Ohm in his book: "The Galvanic Chain, Mathematically Worked Out". Initially, his work was not well received and his rival, Professor of Physics Georg Friedrich Pohl went so far as to describe it as "an unmistakable failure", convincing the German Minister for Education that "a physicist who professed such heresies was unworthy to teach science." Although today Ohm's Law is part and parcel of being an amateur, it wasn't until 1841 that the Royal Society in London recognised the significance of his discovery, awarding the Society's oldest and most prestigious award, the Copley Medal, in recognition for "researches into the laws of electric currents". I'll point out that Ohm only received recognition because his work was changing the way people were starting to build electrical engines and word of mouth eventually pressured the Royal Society into the formal recognition he deserved. I also mentioned the speed of light in relation to the delay between applying a voltage and it being seen at the other end, but it wasn't until 1862 when James Clerk Maxwell published a series of papers called "On Physical Lines of Force" that light speed was actually derived when he combined electricity and magnetism and proved that light was an electromagnetic wave, and that there were other "invisible" waves, which Heinrich Rudolph Hertz discovered as radio waves in 1888. How we understand transmission lines today went through a similar discovery process. Your radio is typically connected to an antenna using a length of coaxial cable, which is a description for the shape the cable has, but the nature of the cable, what it does, is what's known as a transmission line. If you looked at the submarine telegraph cable of 1858, you'd recognise it as coaxial cable, but at the time there wasn't much knowledge about conductance, capacitance, resistance and inductance, let alone frequency dependencies. James Clerk Maxwell's equations weren't fully formed until 1865, seven years after the first transatlantic telegraph cable was commissioned and the telegraph equations didn't exist until 1876, 18 years after the first telegram between the UK and the USA. In 1854 physicist William Thomson, was asked for his opinion on some experiments by Michael Faraday who had demonstrated that the construction of the transatlantic telegraph cable would limit the rate or bandwidth at which messages could be sent. Today we know William Thomson as the First Lord Kelvin, yes, the one we named the temperature scale after. Mr. Thomson was a prolific scientist from a very young age. Over a month, using the analogy with the heat transfer theory of Joseph Fourier, Thomson proposed "The Law of Squares", an initial explanation for why signals sent across undersea cables appeared to be smeared across time, also known as dispersion of the signal, to such an extent that dits and dahs started to overlap, requiring the operator to slow down in order for their message to be readable at the other end and as a result, message speed for the first cable was measured in minutes per word, rather than words per minute. Today we know this phenomenon as intersymbol interference. It wasn't until 1876 that Oliver Heaviside discovered how to counter this phenomenon using loading coils based on his description of what we now call the Heaviside condition where you can, at least mathematically, create a telegraph cable without dispersion. It was Heaviside's transmission line model that first demonstrated frequency dependencies and this model can be applied to anything from low frequency power lines, audio frequency telephone lines, and radio frequency transmission lines. Thomson worked out that, against the general consensus of the day, doubling the line would actually quadruple the delay needed. It turns out that the length of the line was so significant that the second cable laid in 1865, 560 km shorter, outperformed the original cable by almost ten times, even though it was almost identical in construction, providing physical proof of Thomson's work. It has been said that the 1858 transatlantic telegraph cable was the scientific equivalent of landing man on the Moon. I'm not sure if that adequately explains just how far into the unknown we jumped. Perhaps if we blindfolded Neil Armstrong whilst he was landing the Eagle... I'm Onno VK6FLAB

The Nonlinear Library
LW - Confusing the goal and the path by adamShimi

The Nonlinear Library

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2022 2:20


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: Confusing the goal and the path, published by adamShimi on December 12, 2022 on LessWrong. Say you are working on formulating a new scientific theory. You're not there yet, but you broadly know what you want: a simple theory that powerfully compresses the core phenomenon, and suggests a myriad of new insights. If you're anything like me, at least part of you now pushes for focusing on simplicity from the get go. Let's aim for the simplest description that comes easily, and iterate from that. Did you catch the jump? I started with a constraint on the goal — a simple theory — and automatically transmuted it into a constraint on the path — simple intermediary steps. I confused “Finding a simple theory” with “Finding a simple theory simply”. After first uncovering this in my own reasoning, I now see this pattern crop everywhere: (Well-calibration) I want to be well-calibrated. And it feels like I should thus ensure to only make judgments and claims I'm sure are well-calibrated. Yet if I do that, I'll end up protecting the parts of my model where the confusion and the uncertainty lies, and starving my brain of updates. (Coherence) Another valuable property of mature scientific theories is coherence. And it feels like I should thus ensure that all my intermediary theories are coherent. Yet many examples in the history of science show that incoherent frames and theories can prove key in generating coherent and useful ones: Newton's early calculus, Heaviside's operational calculus, Kekule's structure of benzene, Bohr's atom, Dirac's delta). (Winning) In competitive games (sports, board games, esports), the goal is to win. And it feels like becoming a winner means consistently winning. Yet if I aim to only win, the best course of action avoids stronger opponents and the valuable lessons they can explicitly and implicitly teach. In the language of moral philosophy, this pattern amounts to adding a deontological spin on a consequentialist value. Even though it can prove valuable (in AI alignment for example), doing this unconsciously and automatically leads to problems after problems. For it conjures obstacles that were never there. This post is part of the work done at Conjecture. Thanks to Clem for giving me the words to express this adequately. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.

The Nonlinear Library: LessWrong
LW - Confusing the goal and the path by adamShimi

The Nonlinear Library: LessWrong

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2022 2:20


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: Confusing the goal and the path, published by adamShimi on December 12, 2022 on LessWrong. Say you are working on formulating a new scientific theory. You're not there yet, but you broadly know what you want: a simple theory that powerfully compresses the core phenomenon, and suggests a myriad of new insights. If you're anything like me, at least part of you now pushes for focusing on simplicity from the get go. Let's aim for the simplest description that comes easily, and iterate from that. Did you catch the jump? I started with a constraint on the goal — a simple theory — and automatically transmuted it into a constraint on the path — simple intermediary steps. I confused “Finding a simple theory” with “Finding a simple theory simply”. After first uncovering this in my own reasoning, I now see this pattern crop everywhere: (Well-calibration) I want to be well-calibrated. And it feels like I should thus ensure to only make judgments and claims I'm sure are well-calibrated. Yet if I do that, I'll end up protecting the parts of my model where the confusion and the uncertainty lies, and starving my brain of updates. (Coherence) Another valuable property of mature scientific theories is coherence. And it feels like I should thus ensure that all my intermediary theories are coherent. Yet many examples in the history of science show that incoherent frames and theories can prove key in generating coherent and useful ones: Newton's early calculus, Heaviside's operational calculus, Kekule's structure of benzene, Bohr's atom, Dirac's delta). (Winning) In competitive games (sports, board games, esports), the goal is to win. And it feels like becoming a winner means consistently winning. Yet if I aim to only win, the best course of action avoids stronger opponents and the valuable lessons they can explicitly and implicitly teach. In the language of moral philosophy, this pattern amounts to adding a deontological spin on a consequentialist value. Even though it can prove valuable (in AI alignment for example), doing this unconsciously and automatically leads to problems after problems. For it conjures obstacles that were never there. This post is part of the work done at Conjecture. Thanks to Clem for giving me the words to express this adequately. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.

People's Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos
The Attack from Space A SEQUEL TO ”BEYOND THE HEAVISIDE LAYER”

People's Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2022 21:36


VOL. III, No. 3 CONTENTS SEPTEMBER, 1930   COVER DESIGN Painted in Water-Colors from a Scene in "Marooned Under the Sea." H. W. WESSOLOWSKI   A PROBLEM IN COMMUNICATION MILES J. BREUER, M.D. 293 The Delivery of His Country into the Clutches of a Merciless, Ultra-Modern Religion Can Be Prevented Only by Dr. Hagstrom's Deciphering an Extraordinary Code.     JETTA OF THE LOWLANDS RAY CUMMINGS 310 Fantastic and Sinister Are the Lowlands into Which Philip Grant Descends on His Dangerous Assignment. (Beginning a Three-Part Novel.)     THE TERRIBLE TENTACLES, OF L-472 SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT 332 Commander John Hanson of the Special Patrol Service Records Another of His Thrilling Interplanetary Assignments.     MAROONED UNDER THE SEA PAUL ERNST 346 Three Men Stick Out a Strange and Desperate Adventure Among the Incredible Monsters of the Dark Sea Floor.     THE MURDER MACHINE HUGH B. CAVE 377 Four Lives Lay Helpless Before the Murder Machine, the Uncanny Device by Which Hypnotic Thought Waves Are Filtered Through Men's Minds to Mold Them Into Murdering Tools.     THE ATTACK FROM SPACE CAPTAIN S. P. MEEK 390 From a Far World Came Monstrous Invaders Who Were All the More Terrifying Because Invisible.     EARTH, THE MARAUDER ARTHUR J. BURKS 408 Martian Fire-Balls and the Terrific Moon-Cubes Wreak Tremendous Destruction on Helpless Earth in the Final Death Struggle of the Warring Worlds. (Conclusion.)     THE READERS' CORNER ALL OF US 423 A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories.   Series 16 Nyarlathotep/How to play D&D Athu & Aku-Shin-Kage/D&D Races The Beast & The Black Bull/D&D Classes 1(Barbarian/Bard/Cleric/Duid) The Black Demon & Black Lion/D&D Classes 2(Fighter/Monk/Paladin/Ranger) The Black Man & Black Pharaoh/ Classes 3(Rouge/Sorcerer/Warlock/Wizard) The Black Wind & Bloated Woman/Spellcasting Bringer of Pests & Crawling Mist/Magic Iterms Dark Demon & Dark Destroyer/Monster Types 1(Aberration/Beast/Celestials/Construct) Dark One & Dweller in Darkness/Monster by Type 2(Dragon/Elemental/Fey/Fiend) Eater of Souls & Effigy of Haate/Monster by Type 3(Giant/Humanoid/Magic Monster/Ooze) The Faceless God & The Floating Horror/Monster by Type4 (Plant/Undead) God of the Bloody Tongue & Green Man/Traps & Poison Haunter of the Dark & Horned Man/Conditions & Diseases Howler in he Darkness & The Kruschtya Equation /Equipment, Armor & Weapons Lrogg & Many Legged Goat & The Masked Messanger/Objects & Enviroments Messenger of the Old Ones & Pool of Shadows/The Outer Planes(Upper) Queen in Red & Set/The Outer Planes(Middle) Shugoran & Skeletal Horror/The Outer Planes(Lower) Skinless One & Small Crawler/The Inner Planes Spiraling Worm & Tezcatlipoca/The Astral Plane Thing in the Yellow Mask & Thoth/The Feywild Tick-Tock Man & Wailing Writher/The Shadowfell Nyogtha and Family/The Far Realms Othuyeg/Deities & Demi-Planes The Pallid Mask/D&D Settings Complete HP Lovecraft  Sponsored by: Copper Cow Coffee Vietnamese Pour Over Coffee Donner Musical Instuments Student Instruments  Glarry Guitars Inexpensive Guitars  Golden Goat CBD CBD & Delta 8 Edibles    Share a Sale Get your podcast or website Sponsored Taza Stone Ground Chocolate Podbean Amazon Apple Stitcher Facebook Our Patreon

Black Clock Audio Tales: Audio Books, Science Fiction, Folklore, Gothic Literature, Classic Horror, and the Cthulhu Mythos

VOL. III, No. 3 CONTENTS SEPTEMBER, 1930   COVER DESIGN Painted in Water-Colors from a Scene in "Marooned Under the Sea." H. W. WESSOLOWSKI   A PROBLEM IN COMMUNICATION MILES J. BREUER, M.D. 293 The Delivery of His Country into the Clutches of a Merciless, Ultra-Modern Religion Can Be Prevented Only by Dr. Hagstrom's Deciphering an Extraordinary Code.     JETTA OF THE LOWLANDS RAY CUMMINGS 310 Fantastic and Sinister Are the Lowlands into Which Philip Grant Descends on His Dangerous Assignment. (Beginning a Three-Part Novel.)     THE TERRIBLE TENTACLES, OF L-472 SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT 332 Commander John Hanson of the Special Patrol Service Records Another of His Thrilling Interplanetary Assignments.     MAROONED UNDER THE SEA PAUL ERNST 346 Three Men Stick Out a Strange and Desperate Adventure Among the Incredible Monsters of the Dark Sea Floor.     THE MURDER MACHINE HUGH B. CAVE 377 Four Lives Lay Helpless Before the Murder Machine, the Uncanny Device by Which Hypnotic Thought Waves Are Filtered Through Men's Minds to Mold Them Into Murdering Tools.     THE ATTACK FROM SPACE CAPTAIN S. P. MEEK 390 From a Far World Came Monstrous Invaders Who Were All the More Terrifying Because Invisible.     EARTH, THE MARAUDER ARTHUR J. BURKS 408 Martian Fire-Balls and the Terrific Moon-Cubes Wreak Tremendous Destruction on Helpless Earth in the Final Death Struggle of the Warring Worlds. (Conclusion.)     THE READERS' CORNER ALL OF US 423 A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories.   Series 16 Nyarlathotep/How to play D&D Athu & Aku-Shin-Kage/D&D Races The Beast & The Black Bull/D&D Classes 1(Barbarian/Bard/Cleric/Duid) The Black Demon & Black Lion/D&D Classes 2(Fighter/Monk/Paladin/Ranger) The Black Man & Black Pharaoh/ Classes 3(Rouge/Sorcerer/Warlock/Wizard) The Black Wind & Bloated Woman/Spellcasting Bringer of Pests & Crawling Mist/Magic Iterms Dark Demon & Dark Destroyer/Monster Types 1(Aberration/Beast/Celestials/Construct) Dark One & Dweller in Darkness/Monster by Type 2(Dragon/Elemental/Fey/Fiend) Eater of Souls & Effigy of Haate/Monster by Type 3(Giant/Humanoid/Magic Monster/Ooze) The Faceless God & The Floating Horror/Monster by Type4 (Plant/Undead) God of the Bloody Tongue & Green Man/Traps & Poison Haunter of the Dark & Horned Man/Conditions & Diseases Howler in he Darkness & The Kruschtya Equation /Equipment, Armor & Weapons Lrogg & Many Legged Goat & The Masked Messanger/Objects & Enviroments Messenger of the Old Ones & Pool of Shadows/The Outer Planes(Upper) Queen in Red & Set/The Outer Planes(Middle) Shugoran & Skeletal Horror/The Outer Planes(Lower) Skinless One & Small Crawler/The Inner Planes Spiraling Worm & Tezcatlipoca/The Astral Plane Thing in the Yellow Mask & Thoth/The Feywild Tick-Tock Man & Wailing Writher/The Shadowfell Nyogtha and Family/The Far Realms Othuyeg/Deities & Demi-Planes The Pallid Mask/D&D Settings Complete HP Lovecraft  Sponsored by: Copper Cow Coffee Vietnamese Pour Over Coffee Donner Musical Instuments Student Instruments  Glarry Guitars Inexpensive Guitars  Golden Goat CBD CBD & Delta 8 Edibles    Share a Sale Get your podcast or website Sponsored Taza Stone Ground Chocolate Podbean Amazon Apple Stitcher Facebook Our Patreon

The Nonlinear Library
EA - Continuity Assumptions by Jan Kulveit

The Nonlinear Library

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2022 7:47


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: Continuity Assumptions, published by Jan Kulveit on June 13, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This post will try to explain what I mean by continuity assumptions (and discontinuity assumptions), and why differences in these are upstream of many disagreements about AI safety. None of this is particularly new, but seemed worth reiterating in the form of a short post. What I mean by continuity Start with a cliff: This is sometimes called the Heaviside step function. This function is actually discontinuous, and so it can represent categorical change. In contrast, this cliff is actually continuous: From a distance or in low resolution, it looks like a step function; it gets really steep. Yet it is fundamentally different. How is this relevant Over the years, I've come to the view that intuitions about whether we live in a "continuous” or "discontinuous” world are one of the few top principal components underlying all disagreements about AI safety. This includes but goes beyond the classical continuous vs. discrete takeoff debates.A lot of models of what can or can't work in AI alignment depends on intuitions about whether to expect "true discontinuities" or just "steep bits". This holds not just in one, but many relevant variables (e.g. the generality of the AI's reasoning, the speed or differentiability of its takeoff). The discrete intuition usually leads to sharp categories like: Before the cliffAfter the cliffNon-general systems. Lack the core of general reasoning, that which allows thought in domains far from training dataGeneral systems. Capabilities generalise farWeak systems - that won't kill you, but also won't help you solve alignmentStrong systems - that would help solve alignment, but unfortunately will kill you by default, if unalignedSystems which may be misaligned, but aren't competently deceptive about it System which is actively modelling you at a level where the deception is beyond your ability to noticeWeak actsPivotal acts.. In Discrete World, empirical trends, alignment techniques, etc usually don't generalise across the categorical boundary. The right is far from the training distribution on the left. Your solutions don't survive the generality cliff, there are no fire alarms - and so on. Note that while assumptions about continuity in different dimensions are in principle not necessarily related, and you could e.g. assume continuity in takeoff and discontinuity in generality - in practice, they seem strongly correlated. Deep cruxes Deep priors over continuity versus discontinuity seem to be a crux which is hard to resolve. My guess is intuitions about continuity/discreteness are actually quite deep-seated: based more on how people do maths, rather than specific observations about the world. In practice, for most researchers, the "intuition" is something like a deep net trained on a whole lifetime of STEM reasoning - they won't update much on individual datapoints, and if they are smart, they are often able to re-interpret observations to be in line with their continuity priors. (As an example, compare Paul Christiano's post on takeoff speeds from 2018, which is heavily about continuity, to the debate between Paul and Eliezer in late 2021. Despite the participants spending years in discussion, progress on bridging the continuous-discrete gap between them seems very limited.) How continuity helps In basically every case, continuity implies the existence of systems "somewhere in between". Systems which are moderately strong: maybe weakly superhuman in some relevant domain and quite general, but at same time maybe still bad with plans on how to kill everyone. Moderately general systems: maybe are able of general reasoning, but in a strongly bounded way Proto-deceptive systems which are bad at deception. The existence of such systems helps us with t...

The Nonlinear Library
AF - Continuity Assumptions by Jan Kulveit

The Nonlinear Library

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2022 7:46


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: Continuity Assumptions, published by Jan Kulveit on June 13, 2022 on The AI Alignment Forum. This post will try to explain what I mean by continuity assumptions (and discontinuity assumptions), and why differences in these are upstream of many disagreements about AI safety. None of this is particularly new, but seemed worth reiterating in the form of a short post. What I mean by continuity Start with a cliff:This is sometimes called the Heaviside step function. This function is actually discontinuous, and so it can represent categorical change. In contrast, this cliff is actually continuous: From a distance or in low resolution, it looks like a step function; it gets really steep. Yet it is fundamentally different. How is this relevant Over the years, I've come to the view that intuitions about whether we live in a "continuous” or "discontinuous” world are one of the few top principal components underlying all disagreements about AI safety. This includes but goes beyond the classical continuous vs. discrete takeoff debates.A lot of models of what can or can't work in AI alignment depends on intuitions about whether to expect "true discontinuities" or just "steep bits". This holds not just in one, but many relevant variables (e.g. the generality of the AI's reasoning, the speed or differentiability of its takeoff). The discrete intuition usually leads to sharp categories like: Before the cliffAfter the cliffNon-general systems. Lack the core of general reasoning, that which allows thought in domains far from training dataGeneral systems. Capabilities generalise farWeak systems - that won't kill you, but also won't help you solve alignmentStrong systems - that would help solve alignment, but unfortunately will kill you by default, if unalignedSystems which may be misaligned, but aren't competently deceptive about it System which is actively modelling you at a level where the deception is beyond your ability to noticeWeak actsPivotal acts.. In Discrete World, empirical trends, alignment techniques, etc usually don't generalise across the categorical boundary. The right is far from the training distribution on the left. Your solutions don't survive the generality cliff, there are no fire alarms - and so on. Note that while assumptions about continuity in different dimensions are in principle not necessarily related, and you could e.g. assume continuity in takeoff and discontinuity in generality - in practice, they seem strongly correlated. Deep cruxes Deep priors over continuity versus discontinuity seem to be a crux which is hard to resolve. My guess is intuitions about continuity/discreteness are actually quite deep-seated: based more on how people do maths, rather than specific observations about the world. In practice, for most researchers, the "intuition" is something like a deep net trained on a whole lifetime of STEM reasoning - they won't update much on individual datapoints, and if they are smart, they are often able to re-interpret observations to be in line with their continuity priors. (As an example, compare Paul Christiano's post on takeoff speeds from 2018, which is heavily about continuity, to the debate between Paul and Eliezer in late 2021. Despite the participants spending years in discussion, progress on bridging the continuous-discrete gap between them seems very limited.) How continuity helps In basically every case, continuity implies the existence of systems "somewhere in between". Systems which are moderately strong: maybe weakly superhuman in some relevant domain and quite general, but at same time maybe still bad with plans on how to kill everyone. Moderately general systems: maybe are able of general reasoning, but in a strongly bounded way Proto-deceptive systems which are bad at deception. The existence of such systems helps us with two fund...

People's Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos
BEYOND THE HEAVISIDE LAYER, part two

People's Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2022 25:11


BEYOND THE HEAVISIDE LAYER CAPT. S. P. MEEK 5 For Eighty Vertical Miles Carpenter and Bond Blasted Their Way—Only to Be Trapped by the Extraordinary Monsters of the Heaviside Layer.     EARTH, THE MARAUDER ARTHUR J. BURKS 18 Out of Her Orbit Sped the Teeming Earth—A Marauding Planet Bent on Starry Conquest. (Beginning a Three-part Novel.)     FROM AN AMBER BLOCK TOM CURRY 50 A Giant Amber Block at Last Gives Up Its Living, Ravenous Prey.     THE TERROR OF AIR-LEVEL SIX HARL VINCENT 62 From Some Far Reach of Leagueless Space Came a Great Pillar of Flame to Lay Waste and Terrorize the Earth. (A Novelet.)     THE FORGOTTEN PLANET SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT 88 The Authentic Account of Why Cosmic Man Damned an Outlaw World to Be, Forever, a Leper of Space.     THE POWER AND THE GLORY CHARLES W. DIFFIN 104 Sadly, Sternly, the Old Professor Reveals to His Brilliant Pupil the Greater Path to Glory.   MURDER MADNESS MURRAY LEINSTER 109 More and More South Americans Are Stricken with the Horrible "Murder Madness" That Lies in the Master's Fearful Poison. And Bell Is Their One Last Hope as He Fights to Stem the Swiftly Rising Tide of a Continent's Utter Enslavement. (Part Three of a Four-part Novel.)   THE READERS' CORNER ALL OF US 134 A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories. Complete HP Lovecraft  Sponsored by: Copper Cow Coffee Vietnamese Pour Over Coffee Donner Musical Instuments Student Instruments  Glarry Guitars Inexpensive Guitars  Golden Goat CBD CBD & Delta 8 Edibles    Share a Sale Get your podcast or website Sponsored Taza Stone Ground Chocolate Podbean Amazon Apple Stitcher Facebook Our Patreon

Black Clock Audio Tales: Audio Books, Science Fiction, Folklore, Gothic Literature, Classic Horror, and the Cthulhu Mythos

BEYOND THE HEAVISIDE LAYER CAPT. S. P. MEEK 5 For Eighty Vertical Miles Carpenter and Bond Blasted Their Way—Only to Be Trapped by the Extraordinary Monsters of the Heaviside Layer.     EARTH, THE MARAUDER ARTHUR J. BURKS 18 Out of Her Orbit Sped the Teeming Earth—A Marauding Planet Bent on Starry Conquest. (Beginning a Three-part Novel.)     FROM AN AMBER BLOCK TOM CURRY 50 A Giant Amber Block at Last Gives Up Its Living, Ravenous Prey.     THE TERROR OF AIR-LEVEL SIX HARL VINCENT 62 From Some Far Reach of Leagueless Space Came a Great Pillar of Flame to Lay Waste and Terrorize the Earth. (A Novelet.)     THE FORGOTTEN PLANET SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT 88 The Authentic Account of Why Cosmic Man Damned an Outlaw World to Be, Forever, a Leper of Space.     THE POWER AND THE GLORY CHARLES W. DIFFIN 104 Sadly, Sternly, the Old Professor Reveals to His Brilliant Pupil the Greater Path to Glory.   MURDER MADNESS MURRAY LEINSTER 109 More and More South Americans Are Stricken with the Horrible "Murder Madness" That Lies in the Master's Fearful Poison. And Bell Is Their One Last Hope as He Fights to Stem the Swiftly Rising Tide of a Continent's Utter Enslavement. (Part Three of a Four-part Novel.)   THE READERS' CORNER ALL OF US 134 A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories. Complete HP Lovecraft  Sponsored by: Copper Cow Coffee Vietnamese Pour Over Coffee Donner Musical Instuments Student Instruments  Glarry Guitars Inexpensive Guitars  Golden Goat CBD CBD & Delta 8 Edibles    Share a Sale Get your podcast or website Sponsored Taza Stone Ground Chocolate Podbean Amazon Apple Stitcher Facebook Our Patreon

People's Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos
BEYOND THE HEAVISIDE LAYER

People's Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2022 27:04


BEYOND THE HEAVISIDE LAYER CAPT. S. P. MEEK 5 For Eighty Vertical Miles Carpenter and Bond Blasted Their Way—Only to Be Trapped by the Extraordinary Monsters of the Heaviside Layer.     EARTH, THE MARAUDER ARTHUR J. BURKS 18 Out of Her Orbit Sped the Teeming Earth—A Marauding Planet Bent on Starry Conquest. (Beginning a Three-part Novel.)     FROM AN AMBER BLOCK TOM CURRY 50 A Giant Amber Block at Last Gives Up Its Living, Ravenous Prey.     THE TERROR OF AIR-LEVEL SIX HARL VINCENT 62 From Some Far Reach of Leagueless Space Came a Great Pillar of Flame to Lay Waste and Terrorize the Earth. (A Novelet.)     THE FORGOTTEN PLANET SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT 88 The Authentic Account of Why Cosmic Man Damned an Outlaw World to Be, Forever, a Leper of Space.     THE POWER AND THE GLORY CHARLES W. DIFFIN 104 Sadly, Sternly, the Old Professor Reveals to His Brilliant Pupil the Greater Path to Glory.   MURDER MADNESS MURRAY LEINSTER 109 More and More South Americans Are Stricken with the Horrible "Murder Madness" That Lies in the Master's Fearful Poison. And Bell Is Their One Last Hope as He Fights to Stem the Swiftly Rising Tide of a Continent's Utter Enslavement. (Part Three of a Four-part Novel.)   THE READERS' CORNER ALL OF US 134 A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories. Complete HP Lovecraft  Sponsored by: Copper Cow Coffee Vietnamese Pour Over Coffee Donner Musical Instuments Student Instruments  Glarry Guitars Inexpensive Guitars  Golden Goat CBD CBD & Delta 8 Edibles    Share a Sale Get your podcast or website Sponsored Taza Stone Ground Chocolate Podbean Amazon Apple Stitcher Facebook Our Patreon

Black Clock Audio Tales: Audio Books, Science Fiction, Folklore, Gothic Literature, Classic Horror, and the Cthulhu Mythos

BEYOND THE HEAVISIDE LAYER CAPT. S. P. MEEK 5 For Eighty Vertical Miles Carpenter and Bond Blasted Their Way—Only to Be Trapped by the Extraordinary Monsters of the Heaviside Layer.     EARTH, THE MARAUDER ARTHUR J. BURKS 18 Out of Her Orbit Sped the Teeming Earth—A Marauding Planet Bent on Starry Conquest. (Beginning a Three-part Novel.)     FROM AN AMBER BLOCK TOM CURRY 50 A Giant Amber Block at Last Gives Up Its Living, Ravenous Prey.     THE TERROR OF AIR-LEVEL SIX HARL VINCENT 62 From Some Far Reach of Leagueless Space Came a Great Pillar of Flame to Lay Waste and Terrorize the Earth. (A Novelet.)     THE FORGOTTEN PLANET SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT 88 The Authentic Account of Why Cosmic Man Damned an Outlaw World to Be, Forever, a Leper of Space.     THE POWER AND THE GLORY CHARLES W. DIFFIN 104 Sadly, Sternly, the Old Professor Reveals to His Brilliant Pupil the Greater Path to Glory.   MURDER MADNESS MURRAY LEINSTER 109 More and More South Americans Are Stricken with the Horrible "Murder Madness" That Lies in the Master's Fearful Poison. And Bell Is Their One Last Hope as He Fights to Stem the Swiftly Rising Tide of a Continent's Utter Enslavement. (Part Three of a Four-part Novel.)   THE READERS' CORNER ALL OF US 134 A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories. Complete HP Lovecraft  Sponsored by: Copper Cow Coffee Vietnamese Pour Over Coffee Donner Musical Instuments Student Instruments  Glarry Guitars Inexpensive Guitars  Golden Goat CBD CBD & Delta 8 Edibles    Share a Sale Get your podcast or website Sponsored Taza Stone Ground Chocolate Podbean Amazon Apple Stitcher Facebook Our Patreon

Yesterday's Sci-Fi
026 The Attack from Space - A Sequel to Beyond the Heaviside Layer

Yesterday's Sci-Fi

Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2022 64:52


From a far world came monstrous invaders who were all the more terrifying because invisible. "The Attack from Space" by Capt. S.P. Meek, Read by Adam Tagarro. This is a sequel to "Beyond the Heaviside Layer", which is episode 025 of Yesterday's Sci-Fi. Licensing and Copyright Information Show Art Photo by Mike Kiev on Unsplash All non-credited music, art, and sound effects featured on this episode are original, created by me. This story is not covered by copyright, as it is in the Public Domain: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29255

Yesterday's Sci-Fi
025 Beyond the Heaviside Layer

Yesterday's Sci-Fi

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2022 48:58


For eighty vertical miles Carpenter and Bond blasted their way—only to be trapped by the extraordinary monsters of the heaviside layer. "Beyond the Heaviside Layer" by Capt. S.P. Meek, Read by Adam Tagarro Licensing and Copyright Information Background music during the story, courtesy of ChristianBodhi on Pixabay (Voyager Probe – Deep Space) Show Art Photo by Martin Jaros on Unsplash All non-credited music, art, and sound effects featured on this episode are original, created by me. This story is not covered by copyright, as it is in the Public Domain: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29198

Conscious Leaders with Ruth Farenga
Clair Heaviside | Hacking into trust

Conscious Leaders with Ruth Farenga

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2022 22:43


Clair has some very clear perspectives on how she manages herself and her thriving marketing agency business, Serotonin, in Manchester. In her previous life, she founded a charity called Odd Arts, which transforms lives through applied theatre, particularly in the criminal justice system. This work in prisons required her to build trust very quickly and she has honed this skill over time. In this interview, we explore trust in its many forms. For Clair it's things like being very grounded. With Clair, you won't hear phrases like the ‘shiny side'. She is very real and brings a refreshing honesty. As a leader, Clair is very connected to her employees and recognises that some need more emotional support than others. She's happy to adapt to their needs. Clair has been through a lot personally, from divorce to being held at gunpoint, and it is these moments–being on the brink physically and emotionally–that provided her the foundation to have the courage to do what she is accomplishing now.

Demystifying Science
What Is Electric Current? - Ivor Catt, Electrical Engineer

Demystifying Science

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2021 129:37


This is the second installment of a multipart series with famed electric heretic Ivor Catt. This time, he is here to tell us the story of the Catt question: where does the instantaneous negative charge on the bottom conductor of a simple circuit come from? A satisfying answer to the question would require us to rewire the common conception of how electrical current moves through a circuit, and so has occupied Ivor for decades. the conversation digs into Catt's question, the potential solution of Heaviside energy current, and the stodgy nature of academic science. Support the podcast by becoming a Patron @DemystifySci ªº¬˚∆≤≥≤≥ https://www.patreon.com/demystifysci ≤≥≤≥∆˚¬ºª Ivor Catt - http://ivorcatt.co.uk Maxwell's original papers on electromagnetism: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstl.1865.0008 ªº¬˚∆≤≥≤≥ Join the mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S​ ≤≥≤≥∆˚¬ºª Check our main channel, @DemystifyingScience for in depth-investigations: https://youtu.be/1OCL5Lq8m6s PODCAST INFO: Blog: http://demystifyingscience.com/blog Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3uhn7J1 Spotify: https://spoti.fi/39IDJBD RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/demystifysci - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/demystifyingscience - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/demystifysci/ MUSIC: -Humans Win: https://www.lancewconrad.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/demystifying-science/support

Lone Star Lawyers
Monday Mentors with Houston Legal Recruiter Anne Heaviside

Lone Star Lawyers

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2021 58:12


Anne Heaviside, a managing director and legal recruiter with ELR in Houston, joins us on today's show. Anne talks about the lateral legal market, work from home policies, and top tips for candidates. Her firm and roleELR Legal is in the Tanglewood area of HoustonSpecializes in 2-10 year lawyers in Texas law firms / mostly Houston / mostly Big Law (AmLaw 200)Got her start practicing law, including at McGlinchy Stafford. She then took over the recruiting role there before stepping out to work as a legal recruiter on the outsideLegal Market Update2019 was good as was the start of 2020COVID put everything on hold until about November 2020November things opened up, especially in the Big Law corporate world (Can you say SPACs?!)Capital MarketsM&APrivate EquityDebt Finance2021 only got hotterBig signing bonuses ($10k-$50k)There are not enough corporate associates in Texas for the demandThe need is new work. Clients have more demand from Big Law firms and there aren't enough 3-6 year associates with the necessary skills.Record number of lateral moves in Houston and DallasPlus new Big Law firms opening up in AustinSeptember hit and those associates have worked between 2000-2800 hours already in 2021 and are no longer taking recruiter calls; they are waiting for their year-end bonus before lateralling at the start of 2022.Real Estate an Executive Comp/Employee Benefits have gotten hotBig Law litigation is cool/slowLitigation boutiques are hiring but they are super picky (think Big Law requirements)Davis Polk raised the first year starting salaries from $190k to $205k and Cravath (the previous trend setter) matched (as have several others now). Has led to some mid/small firms rethink their comp.Big Law v. Small LawCorporate v. LitigationHardly any small/mid corporate firmsNo sign of slowing down in 2022In this market, small/mid associates and in-house lawyers CAN make a move to Big LawWork/Office ArrangementsFlexibility is here to stay (in Big Law)How flexible is the questionAmLaw 50 is still at home in Houston or back in the office by choiceMultiple office firms across the county/internationally have a hard time making different policies for different officesAmLaw 200 will likely move to a 3/2 (three days in the office and two at home)Though new associates will likely be required to be in the office for the training/mentorship/culture/etc.Mid-levels and Senior associates will likely push for even moreSmall firmsWill likely have more variety of policiesMore likely to be in the office than the Big Law firmsChallenges to flex workLack of integration within the firmWhat happens when promotion time comes or the work slows down and layoffs are required? Will the person who has been at home be disadvantaged versus the one who has been in the office?How can we replicate the in-office benefits and experiences that we don't want to lose?Advice to Lawyers On The Lateral MarketThis is not OCI anymoreNot tell me about yourself or what practice to you want to go inThere is a specific need they are looking to fillSo firm needs to understand exact experienceIf you have stellar academics (great grades at a great law school), list that first. Otherwise start with your law firm experience3-6 bullets under each position communicating exactly what you doYour role in what types of deals/casesYou can take out the bullets under internships or clerkships if you need spaceIf you have been practicing for at least 3+ years you need a deal sheetKnow as much about the job you are applying for as possible so you can tailor your experience to the needLitigators definitely need a writing sampleGPA on the resume if it was at least a 3.2 (Big Law still cares even for laterals)Big Law resumes don't need interest sections, but small law firms will often like to see itIf you do have it, make the interests unique, specificFinal ThoughtIf you are going to use a recruiter, look for those who have contacts at the firms you are interested inRecruiters can help navigate some tough conversations and issues that come up (conflicts, negotiating offers, etc.)Once your resume gets submitted to a firm (whether directly or through a recruiter), another recruiter won't be able to help you for at least 6-12 months at that firm. So be mindful.Pros/Cons about using one or multiple recruiters, but one tends to work better for the candidate.Candidates should give thought to whether they want to use a recruiter BEFORE they start doing anything in the process; this allows for any recruiter to best help you.Recruiters can give insight on comp, especially in smaller firms where there isn't a standard scaleRapid Fire QuestionsName one trait/characteristic employers most want to see in an associate: smartWhat habit has been key to your success: consistencyFavorite app/productivity tool: LinkedinWhat would be listed first on the interest line of your resume: Food blogging / foodieFavorite legal movie: Legally Blonde / PodcastThanks again to Anne Heaviside for joining us on today's show!

Source Code
The case for flying cars — and why they're coming sooner than you think

Source Code

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2021 40:42


Sebastian Thrun was one of the early pioneers of the self-driving car, and spent years working at Google and elsewhere to make autonomous vehicles a reality. Then he ditched the industry entirely and went for something even bigger: flying cars.Except, wait, don't call them flying cars. Thrun, now the CEO of Kitty Hawk, calls them “electric vertical takeoff and landing aircrafts,” or eVTOLs for short. (It's not quite as catchy.) But whatever the name, Thrun is betting that they'll be transformative. No more dealing with existing infrastructure and outdated systems, no more worrying about the human driver next to you. He imagines a fully autonomous, fully safe, much more environmentally friendly skyway system that doesn't have to worry about terrestrial matters at all. And he's convinced that's all coming much faster than you might think.Thrun joined the Source Code podcast to talk about the state of flying cars — sorry, eVTOLs — along with his vision for the future, what it'll take to get there, why batteries are the bane of everyone's existence, and whether he's nervous to be the first human passenger inside Kitty Hawk's latest vehicle, Heaviside.For more on the topics discussed in this episode:Sebastian Thrun on TwitterKitty HawkMore info on HeavisideKitty Hawk's New Flying Car Promises a (Near) Silent Flight – WiredWhat Is a Flying Car? — The New York Times

Eigenbros
Eigenbros ep 130 - Introducing Geometric Algebra

Eigenbros

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2021 63:50


Juan & Terence discuss the powerful and modern physics mathematics known as Geometric Algebra. Geometric Algebra (Clifford Algebra) is one of the lesser known mathematics in physics, yet it is very powerful. The geometric product is related to complex numbers, spin, and other aspects of physics.

The Wrong Cat Died
Ep37 - Colin Cunliffe, Skimbleshanks from 2016 Broadway Revival

The Wrong Cat Died

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2021 67:26


"We have a lot to talk about Mike because I listened to your Skimble..." This episode features Colin Cunliffe who played Skimbleshanks in the 2016 Broadway revival. Hear Colin break down all of the things I got wrong in Episode 11 about Skimbleshanks and his experience with the musical. Plus, hear Colin give the first Heaviside argument for Victoria!  Check out Colin on Instagram: @colin_hollis_shannon Check out Colin's The Fete on Instagram: @thefetedance Produced by: Alan Seales & Broadway Podcast Network Instagram & Twitter: @TheWrongCatDied Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nuus
Namibiese dolfynbevolking baie gesond

Nuus

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2021 0:32


Navorsers het bevind die aantal dolfyne wat na raming by die Namibiese eilande se mariene-beskermingsgebied voorkom, ooreenstem met bevolkings in ander soortgelyke streke ondanks verskeie ekologiese uitdagings soos see-ontginning. 'n Navorsingsverslag toon aan die gebied is die tuiste vir ‘n aansienlike bevolking van sowat 1 600 Heaviside se dolfyne en 3 500 vaaldolfyne. Die mede-Direkteur van Sea Search en die Namibiese Dolfynprojek, Tess Gridley, sê navorsers van die Universiteit Stellenbosch het ‘n unieke manier ontwikkel om die diere te tel:

baie heaviside universiteit stellenbosch
Lost in Menstruation
Lost In Menstruation - Podcast 24 - Chat with Becky Heaviside

Lost in Menstruation

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2021 26:53


Comedian Becky chats to us about having a bicornuate uterus, a genetic condition that is something not many people have heard about. We have a giggle chatting about how that affects things and the usual period chit chat. Socials www.facebook.com/thewellwomanproject www.instagram.com/well_woman_project/ www.facebook.com/groups/624269441575506 FB group RED www.youtube.com/channel/UCd4zFxAPAGlxfDVshT7PRNg Intro music www.purple-planet.com/

Steve Forbes: What's Ahead
S3E14: An Eye Toward The Future with Sebastian Thrun

Steve Forbes: What's Ahead

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2020 58:04


For his final interview of 2020, Steve sits down with someone who's always looking toward the future - Sebastian Thrun, CEO of "flying car company" Kitty Hawk Corporation, and chairman and co-founder of the massive online learning hub Udacity. They talk about the importance of access to education, progress made in the field of self-driving cars, and the future of eVTOL technology (flying cars may come sooner than you think!).

TapirCast
#68. Bilim Tarihi Serimize Bir Önsöz (Bilim Tarihi Serisi B2) - 08/11/2020

TapirCast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2020 89:21


Bilim Tarihi serimizin yeni bölümü ile karşınızdayız. Bu bölümümüzün kaydı, aslında, pandemi sürecinden önce Tapir Lab.'da alınmış olup, hepimizin karşılaştığı problemlerden ötürü günümüze ötelenmesi gerekmiştir. Doç. Dr. Serhan Yarkan ve Halil Said Cankurtaran'ın yer aldığı TapirCast'in bu bölümünde, Bilim Tarihi serimizi hazırlamamızdaki motivasyon ve amaçlara değinilip, içeriğin oluşturulması ve aktarımı sürecinde izleyeceğimiz metotlar, yine bilim, teknoloji, mühendislik ve matematik alanlarında ortaya konulan gelişmelere değinilerek açıklanmıştır. Bölümümüzün normalden uzun olmasının sebebi, serimize bir önsöz olarak hazırlamış olmamızdır. Keyifli dinlemeler! Bölüm içerisinde Richard Hamming, C.E. Shannon, John Tukey, William Shockley, Santiago Ramòn y Cajal, Bernoulli, Herschel, Newton, Leibniz, Gauss, Heaviside, Faraday, Maxwell, Fraunhofer, Ramanujan, Darwin, Einstein, Niels Bohr, Donald Knuth, McLuhan, Baudrillard, James Murray ve daha pek çok bilim insanı ve düşünüre değinilmiştir. Richard Hamming, ``You and Your Research'': https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html Bell Labs.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs Santiago Ramòn y Cajal: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1906/cajal/biographical/ İskenderiye'de öldürülen filozof, matematikçi, astronom - Hypatia: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hypatia/ Tapir Lab. GitHub: @TapirLab, https://www.github.com/tapirlab Tapir Lab. Instagram: @tapirlab, https://www.instagram.com/tapirlab/ Tapir Lab. Twitter: @tapirlab, https://www.twitter.com/tapirlab Tapir Lab.: http://www.tapirlab.com

STRUCK: An Aerospace Engineering & Lightning Protection Show
EP31 – Will the Kittyhawk Heaviside EVTOL Actually Reach the Market? Plus Blue Force Technologies & VoltAero Cassio Hybrid Design

STRUCK: An Aerospace Engineering & Lightning Protection Show

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2020 35:18


The Kittyhawk Heaviside EVTOL aircraft is impressive, and has been flying recently and making headlines. But with an engineering team that is very small, will they actually have the staff to get it to market? Blue Force Technologies is a leader in carbon fiber, and they have some techniques that seem to be pushing the industry to new limits. We also discuss the VoltAero Cassio hybrid electric aircraft, Airbus deliveries surging and a commercial airliner caught in a terrible hailstorm that shattered the windshield. Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverter strips. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Transcript: EP31 - Will the Kittyhawk Heaviside EVTOL Actually Reach the Market? Plus Blue Force Composites New Carbon Fiber Molding Techniques You're listening to the struck podcast I'm Dan Blewett I'm Allen hall and here on struck we talk about everything aviation aerospace engineering and lightning protection all right welcome back to the struck podcast this is episode 31. on today's show in our news segment we're going to chat a little bit about airbus so they've got uh an increase in deliveries this past month month which is uh great to see number two a really scary moment a hail storm uh cracked a windshield of a recent flight and we're gonna talk a little bit about covet and the odds of getting it uh on a flight so it seems like it's actually quite low which i think all of us or a few of us would have predicted many many months ago when we're you know still in the grips of the uncertainty of it all but some new data is pretty interesting suggesting that you're pretty unlikely to catch on a flight in our engineering segment we'll talk about blue force composites some of the interesting work that blue force technologies is doing and we're going to talk about the VoltAero Cassio which is a quirky hybrid electric aircraft and then lastly in our EVTOL segment we're going to talk about the Kittyhawk Heaviside which is flying and they're kind of making some waves recently but I think Allen's got some strong views here on the overall scope of the EVTOL certification process and whether some of these companies are actually going to make it to the finish line so Allen let's start with airbus deliveries are up this makes you excited i'm sure yeah it's good to see some airplanes being delivered for once uh airbus sold about 57 airplanes in september uh i'm sure exactly 57 - 57 it's an easy number to remember uh that they're probably clinking the shame champagne glasses and toulouse because that is a decent number that's the highest number it's been all year and i think they're hoping that it continues to rise uh that's in comparison to Boeing's 11 aircraft sold in september so there's a five to one difference between Boeing and airbus which i'm sure makes Toulouse excited to hear that uh but it does i think that the bigger picture here is that aircraft sales and deliveries are not so much sales but deliveries are starting to happen and there's a small but growing demand for aircraft i think that will continue as we start to come on the back side of COVID even though it doesn't feel like it i think uh for the most part there is a big uh positive change in covet and with vaccines coming relatively soon i think we're gonna be looking forward and hopefully some of these airlines are looking forward to and start picking up some airplanes because when the demand hits people will gonna go on vacation i i don't know how they're not gonna go on vacation after being stuck in their homes for literally a year i think there's gonna be a lot of travel once everybody feels comfortable they're gonna get out and they're gonna spend some money and the airlines want to be ready for that yeah well it says the bulk of the delivery so 43 of the 57 were a320s which is narrow body yep but question for you i know very little about ...

HR in 15
EPISODE 14: Managing your Reputation with Katherine Heaviside, President of Epoch 5 Public Relations

HR in 15

Play Episode Play 52 sec Highlight Listen Later Aug 5, 2020 16:54


Katherine Heaviside, Founder and President of Epoch 5 Public Relations joins us for part two of our conversation on how to manage your company’s reputation in these tumultuous times. Her extensive experience in PR provides clarity in navigating the terrain of modern day business. In today’s episode, we take a deep dive into PR considerations of current issues like COVID 19 and Black Lives Matter, as well as the current landscape of communication – namely the speed at which information, good and bad, spreads on social media. Episode Highlights: Hear the story of a one-minute video that destroyed a business and its owner’s livelihood – and how to be positive and proactive with your online content. Our guest explains, “If you handle these crises correctly, you can come out stronger, and if you mishandle them, your competition will take more of your market share.” Learn how to respond internally and externally if your company faces an accusation or a perception problem. Episode quote: “You can’t be crisis free, but you can be crisis prepared.” — Katherine Heaviside Have Questions? PrestigePEOis always available to help you navigate these uncertain times with regard to Human Resources, Employee Benefits and Payroll Management. Call Us Today at 888-PEO-PEO1 or contact us at prestigepeo.com Katherine Heavisidewas named one of Long Island’s “Top Influentials” by Long Island Business News. She is a leader in public relations — having counseled hundreds of clients throughout the New York Metropolitan area. An expert communicator and strategist, she forges strong relationships with media, businesses, foundations, and more. A variety of tri-state industries benefit from Katherine’s proactive representation and strategic counsel. You can contact her directly at kheaviside@epoch5.com. Epoch 5 is the leading Long Island public relations firm because we are highly successful at creating positive exposure for our clients, both on Long Island and throughout the tristate area. For many clients, we also play a key role in helping to protect or regain their reputations after controversial or crisis situations. In short, we are known for our expert counsel, the quality of our work, our strategic planning and positioning, and our excellent client service.

HR in 15
EPISODE 13: Crisis Communication Strategy with Katherine Heaviside, President of Epoch 5 Public Relations

HR in 15

Play Episode Play 40 sec Highlight Listen Later Aug 4, 2020 17:16


Katherine Heaviside, President and Founder of Epoch 5 Public Relations, talks to Eric from a distinctly human PR perspective. about the importance of communication, and about how the means and impact of communication are changing in today’s world. In today’s episode, we explore that impact. On one hand, misinformation can ruin a company’s image in minutes. On the other hand, the right action can lead to a positive image for your company and greater success in its community. Episode Highlights -- We discuss: How PR communication shifted in recent years. It now largely takes place between employers and employees – as such relationships are a growing part of your company’s image. How “doing the right thing at the right time” can lead to make your company a positive force in its community, and increase market share. What goes into a Crisis Management Plan, and how can it set your company up to do the right thing at the right time? “Clear and inspiring communication is really essential to moving people to a better place.” — Katherine Heaviside --------- Have Questions? PrestigePEOis always available to help you navigate these uncertain times with regard to Human Resources, Employee Benefits and Payroll Management. Call Us Today at 888-PEO-PEO1 or contact us at prestigepeo.com Katherine Heavisidewas named one of Long Island’s “Top Influentials” by Long Island Business News. She is a leader in the field of public relations — having provided counsel to hundreds of clients throughout the New York Metropolitan area. An expert communicator and strategist, she forges strong relationships with media, businesses, foundations, associations, and community and government leaders. From health care to real estate to energy, tri-state industries benefit from Katherine’s proactive representation and strategic counsel. Epoch 5is the leading Long Island public relations firm because we are highly successful at creating positive exposure for our clients, both on Long Island and throughout the tristate area. For many clients, we also play a key role in helping to protect or regain their reputations after controversial or crisis situations. In short, we are known for our expert counsel, the quality of our work, our strategic planning and positioning, and our excellent client service.

mixxio — podcast diario de tecnología
¿Cuántos accidentes evitarán los coches autónomos?

mixxio — podcast diario de tecnología

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2020 15:46


Patrocinador: Huawei te invita a participar otro año en su gran concurso de fotografía internacional. Tienes hasta el 31 de julio para entrar en sus seis categorías. Los premios son muy, muy golosos. Respuesta: no se sabe. / Patinetes autónomos / Patinetes en rebajas / Drones que van en autobús / Studio Ghibli se apunta al CGI / Derrame masivo en Rusia  ¿Cuántos accidentes evitarán los coches autónomos? Un estudio de aseguradoras dividió los accidentes mortales en cinco categorías, con la conclusión de que vehículos totalmente autónomos solo evitarían el 34%, relacionados con distracciones o conductores en mal estado.  El lobby de conducción autónoma PAVE, asegura que la cifra real sería más alta: un 72%, porque podrían evitar también accidentes por exceso de velocidad y maniobras ilegales.  En realidad, la cifra es imposible de saber. Hay factores externos que no se pueden estimar: colisiones inevitables, problemas de asfalto, ataques directos, fallos en sensores, etc.  El escenario perfecto para cero muertes es ciencia ficción. Necesitaríamos carreteras en perfecta condición, ningún humano al volante, y sensores y software infalibles.  Los patinetes autónomos de Tortoise ya en las calles. Después de muchas bromas y promesas, se han aliado con Go X para ponerlos en las calles de Atlanta. Una vez usados, se aparcan correctamente o vuelven a la base para cargarse.  Uber muestra su algoritmo que predice lo que pasará en la carretera. Evalúa los movimientos de peatones, coches y ciclistas a la vista del coche para evaluar cuál será su posición en el futuro.  Idea para mejorar el reparto en drones: que vayan en autobús. Académicos de Stanford idean un método que permitiría que los drones de reparto analicen las rutas de transporte público para subirse a su techo y ahorrar batería.  Kitty Hawk abandona su “moto voladora”. La compañía dice que ha aprendido todo lo que tenía que aprender con los prototipos, y se centrarán en el micro-avión eléctrico Heaviside.  Madrid y Lisboa se apuntan a la micromobilidad. Las dos capitales ibéricas darán ayudas para comprar patinetes eléctricos (150 € Madrid, 100 € Lisboa), bicicletas eléctricas (500 € Madrid y 350 € Lisboa), bicis de carga (500 € Lisboa) y motos eléctricas (750 € Madrid). — Valencia también.  Studio Ghibli desvela que su próxima película estará animada por ordenador. Dirigida por Miyazaki hijo, será la primera vez que el estudio deje la animación manual. Aya to Majo se estrenará en la televisión japonesa sin planes para llegar al cine de momento.  Goro Miyazaki ya hizo una serie anime CGI hace unos años. Quizá el estilo vaya por estas vías. No es de Ghibli, aunque el estudio colaboró en su creación.  Google Chrome ya tiene la función para resaltar texto. Funcionará añadiendo un parámetro especial en las URL, donde se incluye la parte de texto a resaltar, que quedará en amarillo chillón. No está en los estándares W3C.  Microsoft Edge basado en Chromium ha sido activado en la última actualización de Windows 10. Imagino que habrá un repunte de su uso.  Twitter saca pecho en medio del caos global.La aplicación consigue 2 millones de instalaciones nuevas en dos días, y consigue un repunte de popularidad entre nuevos usuarios.  Signal también cada día más popular con aumento masivo en los rankings de descargas, y una excelente nueva función que permite tapar las caras de las personas que salen en la foto con un solo click.  Derrame masivo de combustible en Rusia. 21.000 toneladas de diésel procedentes de una central eléctrica han inundado los ríos de Norilsk, en la Siberia ártica. Las máquinas no dan a basto para retener un desastre calificado del nivel del Exxon Valdez.  Interesante herramienta para retratos robots realistas. Utiliza aprendizaje automático para completar cómo puede ser la cara de una persona en tiempo real con unos simples trazos (vídeo).  PhotoRoom elimina los fondos de cualquier foto con un click. No es una técnica que funcione siempre con un máximo de calidad, pero seguro que le puedes sacar provecho. Solo en iPhone, en breve en Android y web. — Me preocupa la privacidad.  Telegram mejora con editor de vídeo que acompaña a mejoras del editor rápido de fotos, más funciones chulas como añadir pegatinas animadas a las fotos y para organizar las carpetas.  Dropbox tiene una nueva app para gestionar contraseñas. De momento está en beta privada para Android, y seguramente acabe siendo añadida como exclusiva para los abonados al plan Premium.  Google cerrará Google+ por cuarta vez. Google+ cerró en 2018, pero seguía activa en G-Suite para usuarios de pago para quienes quisieran una “red social interna”. El 6 julio desaparece y será sustituida por Currents para todos, que es una versión limitada de lo que hacía G+. ¿Quieres colaborar con el programa? Colabora en Patreon Colabora en Ko-Fi (PayPal) ---- Ahora también tenemos un grupo de Telegram para oyentes: https://t.me/joinchat/AF0lVBd8RkeEM4DL-8qYfw ---- Sigue la publicación en: Newsletter diaria: http://newsletter.mixx.io Twitter: http://twitter.com/mixx_io o sigue a Álex directamente en: http://twitter.com/somospostpc Envíame un email: alex@barredo.es Telegram: https://t.me/mixx_io Web: https://mixx.io

The Daily Crunch – Spoken Edition
Kitty Hawk ends Flyer program, shifts focus to once-secret autonomous aircraft

The Daily Crunch – Spoken Edition

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2020 5:33


Kitty Hawk is shutting down its Flyer program, the aviation startup's inaugural moonshot to develop an ultralight electric flying car designed for anyone to use. The company, backed by Google co-founder Larry Page and led by Sebastian Thrun, said it's now focused on scaling up Heaviside, a sleeker, more capable (once secret) electric aircraft that […]

Tech Breakfast Podcast
Kity Hawk Heaviside - SpaceX updates - Moon base!

Tech Breakfast Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2020 37:04


- Kity Hawk Heaviside - SpaceX lands the same rocket for the 5th time - Moon base! - France's contact tracing app - Stolen iPhones - New Galactic Center Adventure in Virtual Reality - Tesla now top selling car in California

CaseyDigital Podcast
#13: Clair Heaviside - Company Culture and Channeling Creativity

CaseyDigital Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2020 57:55


I interviewed Co-Founder of The Light Agency, Clair Heaviside, on how she has grown to be a female agency founder and driving company culture. Clair talks us through her diverse creative background and starting up the Light Agency with business partner Dom Carter. Topics we covered: Starting out in an unconventional way through the Odd Arts Charity which is a global drama group who work with people to build confidence and get people to express themselves. How Clair has become part of the creative industry and working with a mix of creativity from performing arts and artists to traditional creative design. Approaching work with clients with the right agency values and culture, you can have great ideas and make money with the right values. Working in a more conscious agency environment. Sustainable and conscious brands are great but there is a flip side where people are creating purpose branding which is misleading to consumers in campaigns. Saying yes to things and taking opportunities. Learning about yourself and how other great businesses are ran. Clair realising that “It’s only marketing, no one has died.” Having the big job isn’t easy but growing the Light Agency with Dom Carter is going well and they are looking to grow in the future. Company culture and work life balance is really important to Clair and she goes into detail about how she see’s the ideal culture. Gaining tangible results from creating a high performing company culture. Representation and a supporting environment to help people from different backgrounds grow in future. “Coming into to work should feel like double art on a Friday and not double maths on a Monday” Gaining inspiration from Karl Barker, Nick Morgan, Rich Whitehouse, Paul Irwin, Ali Hanan, Cindy Gallop, Sandy Lindsay MBE. Walking dogs in Disley and getting headspace away from the mayhem of the city centre Quote from Jack Kerouac: "Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain." Links and resources: Clair Heaviside on LinkedIn @clairheavy on Twitter The Light Agency Brene brown Ted Talk about The Power Of Vulnerability Unf*ck your brain podcast by Kara Loewentheil Work like woman book by Mary Portas We hope you enjoy the episode and if you have any questions please email caseydigital@gmail.com Connect with the host, Paul Casey: @caseydigital on Instagram Paul Casey on LinkedIn @casey_digital on Twitter

PodCats
Do You Know How to Go to the Heaviside Layer?

PodCats

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2020 71:57


In order to answer the main questions of Cats — why was this made? How was this made? Whose idea was it to make Sir Ian McKellen lap up milk from a saucer? — we have to first answer the question: what, exactly, is Cats? Join us for the premiere episode of Cats where we discuss the plot and answer such burning questions as: who is God Cat? Is Skimbleshanks a sociopath? And how is Idris Elba similar to El Chapo?

Into the Gridge - A D&D Podcast
Big McLargeArc: Ep. 20 - The Gr'and Opening! (The Shrimp Was The Manager, Pt. 2)

Into the Gridge - A D&D Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2020 62:55


A new adventure begins for our heroes as they ascend the Heaviside layer and this becomes a Cats (2019) podcast. Things start shaking. Big McLargePlot anyone?  Stick around for some exciting announcements at the end of the episode! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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A Ciencia Cierta
Las Ecuaciones de Maxwell. A Ciencia Cierta 7/1/2020

A Ciencia Cierta

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2020 59:07


En 1865 el escocés James Clerk Maxwell publicó un artículo bajo el título "Una teoría dinámica del Campo Electromagnético", donde presentó una teoría completa sobre los fenómenos electromagnéticos. Allí aparecieron por primera vez sus famosas ecuaciones, originalmente 20, aunque posteriormente Heaviside las redujo a 4, que eran capaces de explicar todos los fenómenos electromagnéticos. Este gran avance supuso la aportación más importante de la física desde los trabajos de Newton y entre sus consecuencias se encuentra la revolución de las comunicaciones y supusieron la base a las grandes Teorías de la física del S-XX. Hablamos de todo ello con Alberto Aparici, David Ibáñez y Vicent Picó. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

The Daily Crunch – Spoken Edition
Kitty Hawk reveals its secret project, Heaviside

The Daily Crunch – Spoken Edition

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2019 8:34


Kitty Hawk reveals its secret project, Heaviside The aviation startup has been working on the quiet electric aircraft for two years Sebastian Thrun is waving a device in his hand with an excited, almost gleeful expression on his face as he trots from a makeshift aircraft hangar toward the secret project that Kitty Hawk Corp. has been working on for nearly two years.

The Sidetracked Podcast
The Sidetracked Podcast Episode 527 - Ascension To The Heaviside Layer

The Sidetracked Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2019 130:45


Topics Include: The truth about CATS This Week In Trailers: Jojo Rabbit The Irishman SIDETRACK: The art of de-aging What We've Been Reading: Powers Of X #1 Extermination #1 - 5 Avengers: Lionheart Of Avalon #1 - 5 X-Force: Sex & Violence #1 - 3 Unworthy Thor #1 - 5 Tales of Suspense #100 - 104 Amazing Spider-Man: Worldwide Vol. 5 What We've Been Watching: Avengers: Endgame 30 Rock Robowar Featured Movie Review: Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood Runtime: 2 hours, 11 minutes WARNING: The Sidetracked Podcast contains spoilers and dirty words.

CounterSpin
Oriaku Njoku & Jill Heaviside on Abortion Rights in Georgia and Beyond

CounterSpin

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2019 28:00


Abortions will happen, as they always have. The question is what they'll be like, for whom? If that's your question about the future, it makes sense to talk with the people who are doing the work now -- of support, advocacy and funding to allow women to access safe and affordable abortion care.

Broken-Tailed Dog with Josh Accardo
BTD EP 194 Isabel Heaviside

Broken-Tailed Dog with Josh Accardo

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2018 54:22


Josh Accardo and Lux Suicide have on Model and Performer Isabel Heaviside this week. Isabel is from the bay area and lost her parents at a young age and is in a discovery period in her creative life. She was a kids performer in China and then decide to try nude modeling and is one of the up and coming artists in the field.

Tower Talk Business Radio
Public Relations and Crisis Management with Katherine Heaviside

Tower Talk Business Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2017 28:51


Ray Schwetz and Donyshia Boston-Hill talk public relations and crisis management with Katherine Heaviside, Founder & President of Epoch 5 Public Relations.

Tower Talk Business Radio
Public Relations and Crisis Management with Katherine Heaviside

Tower Talk Business Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2017 28:51


Ray Schwetz and Donyshia Boston-Hill talk public relations and crisis management with Katherine Heaviside, Founder & President of Epoch 5 Public Relations.

CUNY TV's BuildingNY
BuildingNY:NYStories-Katherine Heaviside

CUNY TV's BuildingNY

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2013


Named a NYS "Woman of Distinction" Katherine Heaviside and Michael Stoler talk about Ms. Heaviside's career, and her role as president of Epoch 5, a leading PR firms in the New York area. She talks about crisis management in public relations.

MathsCasts
The heaviside step: function as a switch (MathsCasts)

MathsCasts

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2012 7:17


We introduce the Heaviside step function and show how it can be used to turn other functions on and off at different positions along the t-axis.

MathsCasts
Laplace transform of piecewise-defined functions (MathsCasts)

MathsCasts

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2012 10:25


We investigate the Laplace transform of a function when multiplied by the Heaviside step-function. The 2nd shift theorem is introduced. It is shown how to prepare a function for use with the 2nd shift theorem.

Live and Direct
LD3: Weather

Live and Direct

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2007


Here is my third episode of Live and Direct. This one clocks in at 45:18 long, and 41.5MB big.This show is about weather, specifically of the man-made variety.Here's the playlist of songs:They Might Be Giants - The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent GasThe Weather Girls - It's Raining MenLittle Fluffy Clouds - The OrbHere are some pictures demonstrating atmospheric phenomena that most people would agree are beyond the common understanding of meteorology: holes punched out of clouds: geometric cloud patterns: wave fronts in existing clouds made by scalar weather manipulation (clouds aren't supposed to have r-r-r-ridges): "boiling sky/boiling clouds" - I saw this phenomenon, along with many other people, at the 2005 Common Ground fair in Unity, ME. Check out my gallery of weird weather from 9/25/05. Regretfully those pictures are terribly overexposed, but I have increased the contrast so you might be able to see the "artificial domes" in the cloud bottoms that fair attendees saw that day. Compare the relatively normal clouds in the first picture (taken at about 12:30pm) with the rest of the pictures (taken roughly two hours later).an image of the same phenomenon from Barium BluesI talked about a number of web sites and people in the show, and here are links to some of them:A short list of "starter" sites about weather modification:Scott Stevens' Weather Wars site (some pictures from the site are included below)Tom Bearden's site about weather phenomenaKen Adachi's Educate Yourself, a site featuring many, many interesting, compelling, and far-from-mainstream topics, including chemtrails and weather modification.discussion and hyperbole about chemtrails and weather modification, as well as speculation and very loosely-connected other topics.User-centric forum for discussion of chemtrails and related phenomena. As with the last few sites, your discretion is advised. Many of these sites need to be taken with a rather large grain of salt and with your conspiracy-theory aluminum foil hat firmly on.Sites about the mathematical and scientific background behind scalar weaponry and weather modification technology:a long and interesting essay urging that we re-examine classical electromagnetism in light of comparatively recent discoveries in particle physics, by John Bedini, an alternative energy researcher. [NOTE: as is elaborated there, Lorentz (not Heaviside as I suggested) was responsible for truncating Maxwell's equations into two components: the traditionally used and recognized "Poynting" component, and the neglected and ignored, but potentially more significant "Heaviside" component.]Tom Bearden has an overview of Gabriel Kron's "negative resistor" employed by the Navy's 1930's GE/Stanford University project named the "Network Analyzer" (now postulated to be an overunity energy device). This has, according to Bearden and Bedini, been a serious and long-standing oversight in the physics community, and that, would we recognize Kron's "open path" model in favor of our more limiting "closed-path" model used in classical circuitry and electrical engineering, we would be much further along. [PERSONAL NOTE: it is altogether likely that along with such amateur scientists as Bedini and Bearden, the likes of Tesla, the Russians, and now the US and other governments are using this knowledge. Disclosing this knowledge to the scientific community at large would, however, necessitate a lot of subsequent explaining of their motives for suppressing the knowledge. Alternately, one could speculate that most scientists are not willing to stick their neck too far out against the science orthodoxy ("Never attribute to malice of forethought what can be attributed to ignorance.")]The Revealed Secrets of Classical Electrodynamics, "Generalised Classical Electrodynamicsfor the prediction of scalar field effects" (also linked here), a lengthy and dense, but illuminating scientific paper by Koen van Vlaenderen of the NetherlandsThe Wilhelm Reich Museum, Orgonon, in Rangeley, Maine. They have copies of Reich's books available for purchase and they host an annual conference on Orgonomy (this year's will be from July 29 – August 1, 2007)PORE - Public Orgonomic Research Exchange has current work related to Reich's ideasThe Orgone Biophysical Research Lab is a current, practicing laboratory exploring orgonegoogling Steiner Biodynamics will show some of the similarities between Reich's and Steiner's energy theories. After Steiner's death several people applied biodynamic principles to the atmosphere's behavior with some success.Sites about the politics of weather modification:GovTrack's page about S. 517 [109th]: Weather Modification Research and Development Policy Authorization Act of 2005Weather Modification a Long-Established, Though Secretive, Reality by Mary-Sue Haliburton (I swear that's got to be a pseudonym, else it's timely irony)The Air Force's Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025Tom Bearden's site mentioned above has the following quote (mirrored in an archive of the Defense Department's page) from the former Secretary of Defense, William Cohen, at an April 1997 counterterrorism conference:"Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves… So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations…It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our [counterterrorism] efforts."finally, another Blogger user has posted a concise and informative overview of weather modification.Once again, thanks for listening to my show. I welcome any feedback you have. Keep looking up and don't lose your sense of wonder. Also, feel free to send me pictures of strange weather phenomena that you have witnessed. As Lao Tzu said, "The master observes the world, but trusts his inner vision."