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My HP laser printer stopped working last week, basically it stopped feeding paper, it would feed it in and then spit it back out. I tried to fix it myself using tips online but couldn’t do it and was contemplating getting a new printer but decided to try and fix it first. I called a shop in...
Luigi Guarino
We’re moving house so this might be the last post for a while. See you on the other side. In the meantime, enjoy this bunch of papers on different applications of spatial analysis to agricultural biodiversity and associated topics. Addressing global hotspots of drought-related crop production...
Luigi Guarino
Dietary diversity, food security, and development projects in low- and middle-income contexts: Findings from 24 countries. Development projects are most effective at improving dietary diversity and food security when they bring together agriculture, nutrition and local communities. Enhancing...
Adactio: Links
An excellent interview! From deleted government records to disappearing music, our digital culture can be erased overnight. The Internet Archive’s Mark Graham and Chris Freeland explain what it will take to save it. adactio.com/links/22660
Luigi Guarino
It’s a great pleasure to help Jeremy’s latest newsletter amplify the work of the Culinary Breeding Network. There’s other interesting stuff in there, so check it out. A very different approach to adding value to plant varieties can be found at the Culinary Breeding Network. They unite plant...
Luigi Guarino
Do you work in a national genebanks? If so, you might want to take a survey on your “molecular characterisation capacity, infrastructure, policy environment, and interest in future DSI collaboration with CGIAR.”
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Figure: Dual Tomographic CompressionPerformance, Süzen, 2025.PreambleRandomness is elusive and its probably one of the outstanding concepts for human scientific endeavour, along with gravity. Kolmogorov complexity, appears to be so novel in trying to answering "what is randomness?". The idea that...
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Preamble Bekenstein's Information (Wikipedia)Black holes are not too esoteric anymore after LIGO's success and successful imaging efforts. Their entropy behaves much different than the entropy of an ordinary matter. This leads to incredible discovery of so called holographic principle. The...
Bryan Vartabedian
I’ve been thinking about AI-generated writing and how it’s changing things. One thing that swims in my head: How do you define yourself in an age of AI-generated material? Let’s do a thought experiment involving doctors on LinkedIn. Consider a scenario where each one of the tens of thousands of...
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Rebel Wisdom Podcast Transcript – Interview with Jordan Hall
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“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb Research Question: “How can we improve the way we work together on hard problems?” How parents behave changes how kids behave. … Continue reading →
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(PMM = Picturing Mental Models. A “mental model” is a way to think about something) I have three pictures I use for a practical “theory of mind”: 1) A Junction Box The brain is like a junction box, it links … Continue reading →
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Getting from “Oh no!” to “Aha!” to “Done!” “To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things everyday.” -Lao Tzu The Rules:1) Define Terms2) Make Choices The LFP system is designed for one purpose: to link information … Continue reading →
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Updated: December 29, 2021 “If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together.” -African Proverb I believe happiness comes from growth (learning new things) and collaboration (working hard with others). I believe to … Continue reading →
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19 OCT Onlyness – gathering and incorporating ideas / information Blueprint – Unity of effort [Team of Teams] 31 AUG As FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver wrote, “There is a lot of ‘the pendulum is swinging away from Biden’ speculation based on rather little … Continue reading →
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Layer 1 – 1 Bodies 2 Brains 3 Tribes Bodies Bodies Layer 2 – 1.1 Health 1.2 Fitness 1.1 Health Working Definition: How well the body works. Health Level 3 – 1.1.1 Food 1.1.2 Stress 1.1.3 Recovery Health Level 4 … Continue reading →
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Notes on tech https://singularityhub.com/2020/07/29/what-if-cars-could-read-and-react-to-your-emotions-soon-they-will/
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/different-wavelengths-science-finds-hummingbirds-see-ultraviolet-light-invisible-to-humans-11594688179