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if on a winters night a traveler
if on a winters night a traveler

“The Arab geographers of the Middle Ages, in their descriptions of the harbor of Alexandria, recall the column that stood on the island of Pharos, surmounted by a steel mirror in which, from an immense distance, the ships proceeding off Cyprus and Constantinople and all the lands of the Romans can be seen. Concentrating the rays, curved mirrors can catch an image of the whole. “God Himself, who cannot be seen either by the body or by the soul,” Porphyry writes, “allows himself to be contemplated in a mirror.” Together with the centrifugal radiation that projects my image along all the dimensions of space, I would like these pages also to render the opposite movement, through which I receive from the mirrors images that direct sight cannot embrace. From mirror to mirror—this is what I happen to dream of—the totality of things, the whole, the entire universe, divine wisdom could concentrate their luminous rays into a single mirror. Or perhaps the knowledge of everything is buried in the soul, and a system of mirrors that would multiply my image to infinity and reflect its essence in a single image would then reveal to me the soul of the universe, which is hidden in mine.”

— If On A Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino

·up.raindrop.io·
if on a winters night a traveler
Big Hero 6 (2014) - IMDb
Big Hero 6 (2014) - IMDb
Big Hero 6: Directed by Don Hall, Chris Williams. With Scott Adsit, Ryan Potter, Daniel Henney, T.J. Miller. A special bond develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who together team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes.
·m.imdb.com·
Big Hero 6 (2014) - IMDb
Science Banana on Twitter
Science Banana on Twitter
School gets a bad rap but it’s actually really impressive - juvenile human brains are constantly learning from any available context and the fact that school manages to halt this process is an engineering feat on par with stopping a lava flow
·twitter.com·
Science Banana on Twitter
Philip Glass - Opening (from Glassworks)
Philip Glass - Opening (from Glassworks)
Video I shot from my old apartment overlooking Downtown Los Angeles on a rainy day, set to Philip Glass's Opening to Glassworks.
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Philip Glass - Opening (from Glassworks)
Undercooled by Ryuichi Sakamoto
Undercooled by Ryuichi Sakamoto
Video collage on my first visit to Japan with scenes filmed at the streets of Tokyo and Fukuoka. The sound is Ryuichi Sakamoto's "Undercooled" track from "CHASM" album.
·youtube.com·
Undercooled by Ryuichi Sakamoto
いしわたり淳治 & 砂原良徳 + やくしまるえつこ「神様のいうとおり」(2010)
いしわたり淳治 & 砂原良徳 + やくしまるえつこ「神様のいうとおり」(2010)
いしわたり淳治 & 砂原良徳 + やくしまるえつこ「神様のいうとおり」(2010)from the single “神様のいうとおり”directed by Masashi Kawamura & Takuya Hosogane“神様のいうとおり ”streaming https://kmu.lnk.to/827y... architectural drawings
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いしわたり淳治 & 砂原良徳 + やくしまるえつこ「神様のいうとおり」(2010)
Juice it or lose it - a talk by Martin Jonasson & Petri Purho
Juice it or lose it - a talk by Martin Jonasson & Petri Purho
Try the game here: http://grapefrukt.com/f/games/juicy-breakout/ (ESC for menu)Fork us on github: https://github.com/grapefrukt/juicy-breakout"A juicy game f...
·youtube.com·
Juice it or lose it - a talk by Martin Jonasson & Petri Purho
scott on Twitter
scott on Twitter
absorbing. everything. whomwhomwhomwhomwhom pic.twitter.com/IJ3qHMj1oQ— scott (@jonsson_scott) March 18, 2023
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scott on Twitter
Sarah Constantin on Twitter
Sarah Constantin on Twitter
How do you feel about learning or entering fields/industries where the state of the art is very advanced, there are lots of good tools, and the average professional is is highly sophisticated?— Sarah Constantin (@s_r_constantin) March 17, 2023
·twitter.com·
Sarah Constantin on Twitter
Alt-J (∆) - Taro
Alt-J (∆) - Taro
video edited by: https://twitter.com/DavidDBurkhart https://www.facebook.com/daviddeanburkhart For more good music, follow me on spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/daviddeanburkhart I have a playlist called "Compact Cassette" that I update and change weekly (a regularly modified rotation, kind of like a radio station) From the album "An Awesome Wave." Footage is from the beautiful 1988 film "Powaqqatsi: Life in Transformation." Lyrics: Indochina, Capa jumps Jeep, two feet creep up the road To photo, to record meat lumps and war, They advance as does his chance -- very yellow white flash. A violent wrench grips mass, rips light, tears limbs like rags, Burst so high finally Capa lands, Mine is a watery pit. Painless with immense distance From medic from colleague, friend, enemy, foe, him five yards from his leg, From you Taro. Do not spray into eyes -- I have sprayed you into my eyes. 3:10 pm, Capa pends death, quivers, last rattles, last chokes All colours and cares glaze to grey, shrivelled and stricken to dots, Left hand grasps what the body grasps not -- le photographe est mort. 3.1415, alive no longer my amour, faded for home May of '54 Doors open like arms my love, Painless with a great closeness To Capa, to Capa Capa dark after nothing, re-united with his leg and with you, Taro. Do not spray into eyes -- I have sprayed you into my eyes. Hey Taro! For more Alt-J: http://altjband.com/ http://soundcloud.com/alt-j https://www.facebook.com/altJ.band
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Alt-J (∆) - Taro
Born in a Void (2016)
Born in a Void (2016)
A being, born in a void, becomes obsessed with it's own reflection. Making of - https://medium.com/@joyybox/making-born-in-a-void-85e43d3376ec Born in a Void…
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Born in a Void (2016)
A Grand Day Out - Wikipedia
A Grand Day Out - Wikipedia
A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit, later marketed as A Grand Day Out, is a 1989 British stop-motion animated short film starring Wallace and Gromit. It was directed, co-written, and animated by Nick Park at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield and Aardman Animations in Bristol.
·en.m.wikipedia.org·
A Grand Day Out - Wikipedia
Youtube duet: Miles Davis improvising on LCD Soundsystem
Youtube duet: Miles Davis improvising on LCD Soundsystem
No editing or other tricks, just 2 youtube videos played at the same time. Follow me here http://www.instagram.com/grespam/ and find here http://www.alessandrogrespan.me other stuff I make at night when I don't sleep. Want to try it yourself? Here's the LCD Soundsystem clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eohHwsplvY And here's the Miles Davis clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-XVlrauLxc Start the Davis clip at :32 on the LCD Soundsystem clip. This video was created in a spontaneous randomly perfect collaboration with my ex flatmate and secret lover Eleonora while we were wasting too much time on the internet, in our living room in Shoreditch, London.
·youtube.com·
Youtube duet: Miles Davis improvising on LCD Soundsystem
ITN framework - EA Forum
ITN framework - EA Forum
The importance, tractability and neglectedness framework, or ITN framework for short, is a framework for estimating the value of allocating marginal resources to solving a problem based on its importance, tractability, and neglectedness. HISTORY The ITN framework was first developed by Holden Karnofsky around 2013 as part of his work for GiveWell Labs (which later became Open Philanthropy).[1] 80,000 Hours later presented its own, quantitative version of the framework.[2]On this version, developed by Owen Cotton-Barratt in late 2014,[3]the three factors are formally defined as follows: * importance = good done / % of a problem solved * tractability = % of a problem solved / % increase in resources * neglectedness = % increase in resources / extra person or dollar When these terms are multiplied, some of the units cancel out, resulting in a quantity denominated in good done per extra person or dollar. Other differences between Karnofsky's model and Cotton-Barratt's are the terminology ("importance, tractability and uncrowdedness" is replaced by "scale, solvability and neglectedness") and the use of problems rather than causes as the main unit of analysis. More recently, in an article introducing the SPC framework, Will MacAskill, Teruji Thomas and Aron Vallinder replace neglectedness with leverage, a factor that describes how the work already being done on a problem affects the cost-effectiveness of additional work. The resulting framework generalizes to problems with constant or increasing returns to additional work, whereas the ITN framework remains appropriate for problems with diminishing, especially logarithmic, returns.[4][5] FURTHER READING 80,000 Hours (2016)Our current list of especially pressing world problems, 80,000 Hours, June. A set of applications of the ITN framework. Dickens, Michael (2016)Evaluation frameworks (or: when importance / neglectedness / tractability doesn't apply), Philosophical Multicore, June 10. A criticism of the ITN frame
·forum.effectivealtruism.org·
ITN framework - EA Forum
Shawn Douglas, UCSF | Nanoscale Instruments for Visualizing Small Proteins
Shawn Douglas, UCSF | Nanoscale Instruments for Visualizing Small Proteins
Foresight Molecular Machines Group Program & apply to join: https://foresight.org/molecular-machines/ This video was recorded at the 2022 Foresight Designing Molecular Machines Workshop. https://foresight.org/molecular-workshop/ Speakers: Shawn Douglas, UCSF Join us: ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/foresightinst ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/foresightinst ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/existentialhope/ ► LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/foresight-institute If you enjoy what we do please support us via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/foresightinstitute. If you’re interested in joining these meetings consider donating through our donation page: https://foresight.org/donate/ Foresight Institute advances technologies for the long-term future of life, focusing on molecular machine nanotechnology, biotechnology, and computer science. Subscribe for videos concerning our programs on Molecular Machines, Biotechnology & Health Extension, Intelligent Cooperation, Neurotech, Space, and Existential Hope.
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Shawn Douglas, UCSF | Nanoscale Instruments for Visualizing Small Proteins
Upgrade your cargo cult for the win | Meta-rationality
Upgrade your cargo cult for the win | Meta-rationality
Richard Feynman derided “cargo cult science” that sticks to fixed systems. Innovation requires an upgrade to fluid, meta-systematic inquiry.
·metarationality.com·
Upgrade your cargo cult for the win | Meta-rationality
Mindstorms
Mindstorms
In this revolutionary book, a renowned computer scientist explains the importance of teaching children the basics of computing and how it can prepare them to...
·basicbooks.com·
Mindstorms
The Precipice
The Precipice
The Precipice: a book about existential risks, longtermism, and the future of humanity.
·theprecipice.com·
The Precipice