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minor update. probably last for the year. I think the main family has moved. I did see another chick briefly, but stopped seeing it sooner than I think it could have developed to a fledgling. (Can adults fly their chicks elsewhere?) I saw a couple swallows just now leave, but couldn't tell if they were using the nest or just the shade

Just needed a place to put this:
On Free Will and QM
14 July 2018
The question of free will in the face of deterministic laws of physics sometimes brings up quantum mechanics and the so-called uncertainty principle as a away to escape the strictures of a mechanistic theory. I think such an appeal is not necessary though. In fact, an effective free will can be achieved through information hiding and the limits of computation. First, to say a system, A, has free will means that, at any point in time, there is no observer which can simulate A faster than A can evolve in real time. Note that A can be a classically deterministic system: if the evolution of A's subset of the universe is as fast as possible or if all the observers must lack sufficient information about A to simulate it faster than A can evolve, then A can still have free will.
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brains is complicated

Every once in a while, I just remember that we have humans continuously living and working in space and think how effing cool that is.

I missed this initially. I think I heard a short statement about this on NPR, but I didn't really process it until I listened to the Houston We Have a Podcast episode about it.
#NASA #Mars #CHAPEA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEa88ZZWAEQ

pretty cool song. heard it a few times before I really appreciated it, but it's one of my radio favorites of the past year

The Lone Bellow - Honey
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O35z3ac7qfE

I know there was a bit of mockery about those massive screens they use to replace glass doors in the freezer aisles of some stores back when they were first introduced, but I saw them in person recently and they're actually... still a really dumb idea. It's so dumb.