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Video: Quantum Computation simulations using Mathematica and Free Quantum Computing Add On

This calculations are available at:   http://homepage.cem.itesm.mx/lgomez/quantum/v7phase.pdf

Shor's Factoring Algorithm is very important because it showed that a Quantum Computer will be more efficient than a normal computer when solving some important, practical problems (Factorization is important in the secure transmision of electronic data, like credit card numbers). This video shows briefly how Shor's algorithm can be simulated in Mathematica using the free Quantum add-on. Quantum is available at:  http://homepage.cem.itesm.mx/lgomez/quantum/

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By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Video: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

An interesting documentary.  It is chock full of liberal bug a boos!  That part is funny.   Wikipedia entry.
—- YT video went AWOL

  • Stiglitz is always an idiot
  • Why are all the anti capitalist / pro government documentaries narrated by Michael Palin?
  • It is deceptive to say the video is about "the rise of the machines" – its not.  Its about humans and the way they use their tools
  • why do liberals always resist the idea of self emergent properties?
  • So let me understand this more. This is all a conservative conspiracy that we can use mathematical models to predict nature. That of course brings to mind the Great Global Warming Swindle. But is not that the religion of the left?
  • Why is it liberals who contend to believe in evolution are the ones who reject WE are machines? It would seem they would be the ones who would most easily accept the concept.
    We ARE machines. The system consisted of machines – us – before computers and after computers. I find it a running theme that liberals do not understand machines. They are fundamentally unable to grasp hard sciences in general. They like the soft sciences where it is hard to put a number on something. That allows them to interpret anything any way they like. It for this reason I prefer the machines over liberals.
  • Its always the "liberals" who aggitate agains replacing government as it is presently constituted!  They always seem to fear free minds

  • …. they fear free minds

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Video: Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions – Series on the evolutionary origins of emotion

 

See Academic Earth  for more.  There are various lectures from MIT, Harvard.

The rest of the series

 

LECTURE DESCRIPTION

This class is an introduction to the evolutionary analysis of human emotions, how they work, why they exist, and what they communicate. In particular, this lecture discusses three interesting case studies, that of happiness (e.g., smiling), fear and the emotions we feel towards our relatives. Finally, this lecture ends with a brief discussion of babies' emotional responses to their caregivers.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

What do your dreams mean? Do men and women differ in the nature and intensity of their sexual desires? Can apes learn sign language? Why can't we tickle ourselves? This course tries to answer these questions and many others, providing a comprehensive overview of the scientific study of thought and behavior. It explores topics such as perception, communication, learning,memory, decision-making, religion, persuasion, love, lust, hunger, art, fiction, and dreams. We will look at how these aspects of the mind develop in children, how they differ across people, how they are wired-up in the brain, and how they break down due to illness and injury.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Video: Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

Liaquat Ahamad discusses the financial crisis of 2009 versus 1929.

Liaquat Ahamed discusses his book, Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, and covers the 2009 financial crisis.

The date of this talk is June 9, 2009  so he may have spoken too soon when he said we have averted a depression.   USA debt just hit annual GDP number.  That is a bad sign.  Real unemployment is still north of 16%.  That said his talk includes interesting economic history of the Federal Reserve and gold standard.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago