Stewart Brand: Building a home for the Clock of the Long Now
"We want a temporary use permit for the clock, eventually -- 10,000-year temporary use permit."!
https://en.tiny.ted.com/talks/stewart_brand_on_the_long_now
"We want a temporary use permit for the clock, eventually -- 10,000-year temporary use permit."!
https://en.tiny.ted.com/talks/stewart_brand_on_the_long_now
Not long now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjofYotlaY0
Some good stuff in this: tele-presence and the usefulness of not fully autonomous robots.
What an amazing list! Australia's doing fairly well, men not so much...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_superlatives
This one is a fascinating "turns out".
This thing was epic!
Amazing Apollo hardware.
Waking Up Podcast #116 - Sam Harris speaks with Eliezer Yudkowsky about the nature of intelligence, different types of AI, the “alignment problem,” is vs ought, the possibility that future AI might deceive us, the AI arms race, conscious AI, coordination problems, and other topics.
Feynman discusses three equivalent representations of the theory of gravity.
Equivalent representations of physical theories drive the plot in Ted Chiang's Story of Your Life (made into the movie Arrival) (Fermat's principle of least time in that instance).
Excellent metaphor.
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/17/lowest-difficulty-setting-follow-up/
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/23/final-notes-for-lowest-difficulty-setting/
Good interview with Jeff Atwood on CommEngReport with Kim Crayton.
Chris Anderson interviews Linus Torvalds and they discuss Linux, Git and Open Source software.
Towering up above a forest near Moscow is the strange configuration of tubes that were once used as a shockingly powerful lightning machine.
via jwz
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/abandoned-marx-generator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istra_High_Voltage_Research_Center
https://www.rt.com/news/181748-tesla-marx-generator-lightning/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx_generator
A zoo in Ontario, Canada has found that elephants have fun playing in the snow. Cheetahs, on the other hand, aren't so excited.
On Google, innovation and ride-sharing-food-delivery-payment-gateways.
Can't wait to visit this...