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so i tried to make sense and when i arrived i was looking for some information leaflets that would help me crack this system and understand it and i found those brochures
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say in the city center there were never actually any lines that showed the
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he's part of this ethnic minority called the greeks
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when we do however make a turn into a side street our mind tends to adjust that turn to a angle
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and when you look at what you've just drawn you realize it does not resemble a street map
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so here's what we did
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any gaps that appeared in the outskirts were filled again
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in this map i'm including each transport mode so rapid transport bus dart tram and the likes
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so as somebody who has pretty close to the world record of total number of hours spent inside an scanner i can tell you that one of the skills that's really important for research is bladder control
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that was a trip
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it's called and it results from damage to a particular part of the brain
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in it was viewed million times
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because that's what you do when your name is yosemite mountain bear
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and if you're wondering about those other spikes those are also fridays
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even in the first seven days there was one parody for every other day of the week
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and if you think that that is weird you should know that there is a three hour version of this that's been viewed four million times
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but now web video has made it so that any of us or any of the creative things that we do can become completely famous in a part of our world's culture
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bear vasquez oh my god
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it's friday friday
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it's been seen nearly million times this year
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and these are not characteristics of old media and they're barely true of the media of today but they will define the entertainment of the future
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people talk to me about the important new skill of making eye contact while you're
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i embody the central paradox
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i say it to remind you that as dumpy as i am it's coming from me it's like hearing a beautiful song from a busted old radio and it's nice of you to keep the radio around the house
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anna smith famously said that there's a literature inside of each of us and three generations later i was part of a project called which set out to capture the stories of ordinary americans by setting up a booth in public spaces
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my mom was freaking out my dad ran around to put out the fire and of course my sister started recording a video
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but i like to say okay let's look at the modern human condition
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it looks like this
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and ed witten unleashed the second revolution
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today the action is really around machine learning
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i said no it's it's penguin shit
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i'm not sure what these people think because i don't speak norsk
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but if you get to play with all those knobs and dials and of course really the controller over there does it all on software you can make some terrific ribs
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now i travel a lot and i change cell phones a lot and the one person who always gets updated on all my cell phones and pagers and everything else is jill because i really don't want to miss the call
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the other interesting thing that i learned about whale sex they curl their toes too
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there's many mysteries these statues
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so this used to be completely smooth
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while i was in easter island comet mcnaught was there also so you get a gratuitous picture of a with a comet
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a is an artificial material which manipulates in this case electromagnetic radiation in a way that you couldn't otherwise
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but are an incredibly exciting field
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it turns out a it's useful and for a geek like me it's fun
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so the jodie foster character here is actually this woman jill tarter and jill has dedicated her life to this
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and so a couple of years back my cofounder and i were teaching university students just like these only the students we were teaching looked a little bit more like this here
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and not only that now they could also understand even on a molecular level inside the machine what is happening to the machines
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never ever think outside the box
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so let me quickly try and tell you why i thought that and how i went about it
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i tell people if it's in the news don't worry about it because by definition news is something that almost never happens
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i could have taken him to new york and he would have died in a day
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it basically never happens
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you've heard in the past several years the world is safer because saddam hussein is not in power
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and it'll depend on where we live whether we live alone or have a family how much cool stuff we have how much we're willing to accept the risk of theft
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we often won't even notice them
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humans and bonobos are the only animals that have sex face when both of them are alive
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all right
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the musicians hate them
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the opera house had provided the wrong instrument
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and of course the question is what are the biggest obstacles before you can go into human clinical trials the biggest obstacles are regulations
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and that's probably the reason why i've chosen to be a functional neurosurgeon
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they really do exist
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unfortunately it's not practice footage because the thinks emergent technology is what happens when a submarine surfaces but we do what we can
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go
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now not you not this talk but that is generally true
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now that's something i fall short of on a daily basis
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we recognize patterns to distinguish noise from signal and especially our name
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many people take refuge in headphones but they turn big public spaces like this shared into millions of tiny little personal sound bubbles
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the nice thing about australians is that they're habitually used to looking at the world upside down
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many of you might not know this but we happen to be celebrating the hundredth year of the introduction of antibiotics into the united states
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chris has asked me to do a short performance and so i'm going to take just this time maybe minutes to do that and hopefully at the end have just a moment to show you a couple of my other projects in video form
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every time you drink a glass of water he points out the odds are that you will imbibe at least one molecule that passed through the bladder of oliver cromwell
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i want to give the name middle world to the medium scaled environment in which we've evolved the ability to take act nothing to do with middle earth middle world
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but when we revert to being human we behave more like basil who we remember thrashed his car to teach it a lesson when it wouldn't start on gourmet night
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personification and the of intentional purpose is such a brilliantly successful way to model humans it's hardly surprising the same modeling software often seizes control when we're trying to think about entities for which it's not appropriate like basil with his car or like millions of deluded people with the universe as a whole
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this means that quantum theory has got to be in some sense true
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we never evolved to navigate in the world of atoms
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in the same way our lives are dominated by gravity but are almost oblivious to the force of surface tension
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but we find real matter comforting only because we've evolved to survive in middle world where matter is a useful fiction
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steve grand points out that you and i are ourselves more like a wave than a permanent thing
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whatever you are therefore you are not the stuff of which you are made
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i don't want you to see what i'm doing up here
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in fact it appeared in a porno comic book which is the slide on the right
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i couldn't deal with the success of furniture i wasn't secure enough as an architect and so i closed it all up and made furniture that nobody would like
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and after we failed i just kept failing
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i got into fish
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and after i got i was really drunk i was asked to do some sketches on napkins
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three weeks later i received a complete set of drawings saying we'd won the competition
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so
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and the next night we had fish
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it was a joke
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the only thing i did was i made it possible for them to turn those blades so you could sail this thing in the canal because i love sailing
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he didn't recommend me by the way
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the health club is fastened to the garage with a c clamp for cleveland
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and then i do it
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we finally settled on a shape that was the proportion of the with the sloping outside walls which the said were crucial to this and later decided they weren't but now we have them
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and so it will be quite a different shape
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and i was asked to do a fish and so i did a snake
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we showed this to the hotel people the other day and they were terrified and said that nobody would come to the ritz carlton anymore because of this fish
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and then i did a law school for loyola in downtown l
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and so the whole idea here was to create that kind of space in downtown in a neighborhood that was difficult to fit into
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so i decided to cut off the head and the tail
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and i'm always drawn to that
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