Economics
Video: Milton Friedmans Free to Choose
Milton Friedman is inspiring. This is the first episode of Free to Choose. You will see the rest of the 10 episodes listed to the right side. Friedman's questioners in the post presentation look like naive amateurs in contrast.
America's freedom and prosperity derive from the combination of the idea of human liberty in America's Declaration of Independence with the idea of economic freedom in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. Friedman explains how markets and voluntary exchange organize activity and enable people to improve their lives. He also explains the price system. Friedman visits Hong Kong, U.S. and Scotland.
Episode #1
- Friedman: When you have more government the industrialists take it over
- Galvin: I think there are good people running this society – Ouch how naive!
- We need to see much more of the invisible hands!
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Quantum-Mechanics
Double Quantum dots and electron spin control
The terminology makes it appear as if he is talking about a FET with source, drain and gate.
A lecture explaining Double Quantum Dots during the 2011 Undergraduate School on Experimental Quantum Information Processing (USEQIP) at the Institute for Quantum Computing.
Series of USEQIP 2011 series of videos
For more:
http://iqc.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/useqip2011
iqc.uwaterloo.ca
www.facebook.com/QuantumIQC
Twitter: @QuantumIQC
Physics
Video: Erann Gats explanation of quantum entanglement, measurement and interpretations
Using transmissive polarized sheets
Polarizer material experiment @ see 15:00 to 16:00 into the video below
—– 0 deg | —- 90 deg | = nothing comes out.
—– 45 deg | —– 0 deg | —– 90 deg | = ~nothing comes out. I am calling the leakage "0"
—– 0 deg | —– 90 deg | —– 45 deg | = ~nothing comes out.
—– 0 deg | —– 45 deg | —– 90 deg | = 1/4 intensity
1/4 intensity is due to electric field vector being diminished 2 times by square root of 2. Electric field is thus 1/2 and intensity will be the square of this at a value of 1/4.
Later in the talk Garrett uses a polarization rotator. This takes the output of one orthogonal polarizer and spins it 90 degrees so that it aligns with the second polarizer giving no relative loss to a single sheet of polarizer material. A single sheet of course has a loss of 1/2 when fed with unpolarized light. See image below.
David Mermin's "Stuff Left Behind" in terms of Von Neuman entropy.
It is highly recommend you watch David Mermin's "Stuff Left Behind" presentation before you watch this presentation. Mermin's work is like chapter 1 and this is like chapter 2.
Ron Garrett aka Erann Gat quantum video on quantum mechanics. It helps make quantum mechanics more clear by using very accessible experiments that use light as the test subject.
Research Links
- David Mermin's "Stuff Left Behind" presentation
- Erann Gat Website
- Ron-Garret-QM – local copy in case removes PDF version of the presentation done in 2001
- Quantum Eraser Experiment
- Double Slit Quantum Eraser – Walborn et al –
- Wikipedia: Von Neumann Entropy
- Local Copy: Quantum Mechanics of Measurement N. J. Cerf, C. Adami – Original location
- Quantum Entanglement of Photons demonstrated in relatively low cost set up – The presentation included here has simple explaination and experimental setup.
- Boojums All the Way Through is a collection of essays that presents the dilemma of communicating modern physics to both physicists and nonphysicists
- Home Made Quantum Eraser Experiment Using Laser 2 Slits Polarizer Material
- Two Slit Experiment with Quantum Eraser Realized with RF Components
Von Neumann Entropy
Where lambda are eigenvalues of the system. Very similar to Shannon entropy but I suppose with complex values.
Notes
- The polarizer experiments that he shows are quite interesting.
- This presentation builds on David Mermin presentation is like a second chapter to that
- The 3 particle correlation shown near the end is the David Mermin "Stuff Left Behind" presentation
Video
Video: On Company Business – an account of CIA activities
Please note all liberals. You want big government? You get this with it. There is no way to pick fly shit out of black pepper. You want one you get the other and there is no way to separate one from the other.
On company business playlist on youtube
Note that the claims Agee was worked in the employ of other forces is not completely off base as can be divined from with wikipedia entry.
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Video: Intro to Quantum Computing – Michele Mosca – USEQIP 2011
Prof. Michele Mosca, deputy director of the Institute for Quantum Computing, delivers an introduction to quantum information processing during the 2011 Undergraduate School on Quantum Information Processing (USEQIP). Notes tries to make the transition from classical computing to quantum computing by minimizing the theoretic differences between the two. He Read more…
Video
Video: Steven Levitt – Why do crack dealers still live with their moms?
Freakonomics author Steven Levitt presents new data on the finances of drug dealing. Contrary to popular myth, he says, being a street-corner crack dealer isnt lucrative: It pays below minimum wage. And your boss can kill you.
Video
Video: Micro Men – The Story of Clive Sinclair et al
The British start of the computer boom. This is the 2009 damatization.
Clive Sinclair, the anatomy of an inventor (1989).
— video went AWOL
See time mark 23:45 – Will it be adopted by businessmen or only used by trannies down in the park?
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Video: The Iceman Confessions of a Mafia Hitman
Richard Kuklinski killed remorsely but yet was a loving family man. I have often thought he was the inspiration for the character Tony Soprano. You will see in the video in some photos you would swear it was James Gandolfini.
Up Close and Personal with a Killer
When I was finally admitted into the bowels of Trenton State Prison in New Jersey’s capital to interview multiple murderer Richard Kuklinski, a.k.a. “the Iceman,” it wasn’t at all what I had expected. My assumption was that it would be like the movies. We’d be separated by a shatter-proof glass barrier. We’d communicate through telephone handsets. There would be guards all around watching our every move. But I couldn’t have been more wrong. Clarice Starling had more protection when she visited Dr. Hannibal “the Cannibal” Lector in The Silence of the Lambs. At least she had bars. And frankly, as a killer, Lector was downright crude compared to the stealth and skullduggery of the Iceman. Lector liked to bite; Kuklinski preferred a cyanide solution administered from a nasal spray bottle. A surprise spritz to the face usually produced a shocked inhalation from the victim, who as a result would die in under a minute. And unless the body was found right away and a savvy medical examiner knew what to look for, the poison would go undetected because cyanide naturally dissipates in the body after two hours. But cyanide was only one of the things I was thinking about on the morning of January 16, 1992, when I arrived for my date with the Iceman.