Bayes? Rule has been used in AI, genetic studies, translating foreign languages and even cracking the Enigma Code in the Second World War. We find out about Thomas Bayes - the 18th century English statistician and clergyman whose work was largely forgotten until the 20th century.
CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: Wall Street’s Bitcoin Isn’t Your Bitcoin
A reading of Ben Hunt’s latest essay “In Praise of Bitcoin.”
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and NEAR.org.
Ben Hunt is the author of the wildly popular and always provocative “Epsilon Theory.” In his recent essay “In Praise of Bitcoin,” he calls on bitcoiners to rise up and recognize that the “bitcoin” being adopted by Wall Street is an abstraction that comes with unacceptable compromises.
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Dr. Mia Taormina Answers Your COVID-19 Questions
Reset brings on an infectious disease expert for our weekly check-in to provide clarity and answers to your questions, comments and concerns about COVID-19.
Everything Everywhere Daily - The Battle of Thermopylae
In the year 480 BC, one of the most famous battles in history took place on the shore of the Malian Gulf in the Aegean Sea.
Several thousand Greeks held back several hundred thousand Persians, in a battle which is still remembered 2,500 years later.
While the Greeks lost the battle, they did ultimately win the war.
Learn more about the Battle of Thermopylae and the 300 hundred Spartans, on the 300th episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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This Machine Kills - 65. TMK Book Club (Part 1) (patreon teaser)
The TMK Book Club is now in session! We’re discussing the Introduction and Chapter 1 of Autonomous Technology: Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought by Langdon Winner. Follow along with us as we take you on a guided tour of a foundational text in technological politics – one that has greatly influenced our own thinking about these issues and which has, for better and worse, remained extremely relevant today. You can find a free pdf of the whole book here: https://www.ratical.org/ratville/AoS/AutonomousTechnology.pdf
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Audio Poem of the Day - The Pain Reliever
By Carrie Olivia Adams
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe - The Skeptics Guide #825 – May 1 2021
Correcting Lord Kelvin; News Items: Miracle Bleach Peddler Indicted, Michael Collins, Life on Mars, Political Polarization, Brood X; Who's That Noisy, Your Questions and E-mails: Non-Human Intelligence; Science or Fiction
Back Bar - Exactly Approximately 3.2%
A poorly designed law that works and an expertly designed drink that sucks.
When Prohibition was repealed in 1933 American drinkers had a lot of catching up to do. Tastes had changed and big brewers took note, cutting costs and striking ingredients until Americans were left with a low ABV bubbly bread soup that tasted vaguely like something they half-remembered. Flash forward to today and Lite Beer is one of the most well-designed products on the planet, while Americans are still untangling an ungainly patchwork of laws leftover from the bad old prohibition days. It begs the question: what does it mean to make something well? Special guests this week are Garret Oliver of Brooklyn Brewing Co., Brandon Skall of DC Brau and Garrett Peck, author of “The Prohibition Hangover.”
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World Book Club - Louise Penny: Still Life
This month World Book Club talks to acclaimed Canadian writer Louise Penny about the very first in her astonishingly successful series of Inspector Gamache crime novels.
When a much-loved inhabitant of the village of Three Pines in the Eastern Townships of Quebec is found dead in the woods during Thanksgiving, the locals are certain that it was just a tragic hunting accident.
But Chief Inspector Armand Gamache from Montreal suspects foul play and won’t rest until he’s rootled out the darkness at the heart of this seemingly peaceable and bucolic community. His always courteous but also insistent sleuthing gradually brings to light the family secrets and long-held grudges seething under its apparently serene surface.
(Picture: Louise Penny. Photo credit: Jean-Francois Berube.)
CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: Welcome Back, Flippening Narrative
After a good performance from ETH this week, partisans are calling for a flippening yet again.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and NEAR.org.
On this edition of “The Breakdown’s Weekly Recap,” NLW explores:
- Why JPM and Tesla drove the bitcoin story
- Why Ethereans are hot on the call for a “flippening” again
- Why CBDCs are low key one of the most important stories of 2021
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