# redundancy — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover redundancy. Page: Feed: --- ## [Baldywood: Ranking "The Odyssey" among Nolan's films // "What Should I Stream Tonight?" // "Reddit? Did It!" // Actor Redundancy of the Week // Reader feedback](https://baldbryan.substack.com/p/baldywood-ranking-the-odyssey-among) _2026-07-24 · Hooray for Baldywood!_ "Remember, his taste sucks..." ## [Baldywood: RIP Sam Neill // "What Should I Stream Tonight?" // "Reddit? Did It!" // Actor Redundancy of the Week // Reader feedback](https://baldbryan.substack.com/p/baldywood-rip-sam-neill-what-should) _2026-07-17 · Hooray for Baldywood!_ "Remember, his taste sucks..." ## [Baldywood: PROTEST! // "What Should I Stream Tonight?" // "Reddit? Did It!" // Actor Redundancy of the Week // Reader feedback](https://baldbryan.substack.com/p/baldywood-protest-what-should-i-stream) _2026-07-10 · Hooray for Baldywood!_ "Remember, his taste sucks..." ## [Baldywood: In theaters now: "Toy Story 5" // "What Should I Stream Tonight?" // "Reddit? Did It!" // Actor Redundancy of the Week // Reader feedback](https://baldbryan.substack.com/p/baldywood-in-theaters-now-toy-story) _2026-06-26 · Hooray for Baldywood!_ "Remember, his taste sucks..." ## [Symmetrized states in quantum theory: not from “redundancy of description” but from specific physics](https://transactionalinterpretation.org/2026/06/20/symmetrized-states-in-quantum-theory-not-from-redundancy-of-description-but-from-specific-physics/) _2026-06-21 · rekastner · Transactional Interpretation_ Updated 7/8/26: The published version can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/28/7/777 The orthodox debate on state symmetrization in QM is, in my view, divorced from the actual physics involved. I attempt to rectify this situation in my recent publication (accepted in Entropy, Special Issue: “Quantum Mereologies and Quantum Inspired Set Theories and Logics.). Briefly, a ‘symmetrized …… ## [Baldywood: A Father's Day edition of "What Should I Stream Tonight?" // "Reddit? Did It!" // Actor Redundancy of the Week // Reader feedback](https://baldbryan.substack.com/p/baldywood-a-fathers-day-edition-of-018) _2026-06-19 · Hooray for Baldywood!_ "Remember, his taste sucks..." ## [Baldywood: Father's Day Gift Guide // "What Should I Stream Tonight?" // "Reddit? Did It!" // Actor Redundancy of the Week // Reader feedback](https://baldbryan.substack.com/p/baldywood-fathers-day-gift-guide) _2026-06-12 · Hooray for Baldywood!_ "Remember, his taste sucks..." ## [Baldywood: A fun new documentary for "What Should I Stream Tonight?" // "Reddit? Did It!" // Actor Redundancy of the Week // Reader feedback](https://baldbryan.substack.com/p/baldywood-a-fun-new-documentary-for) _2026-06-05 · Hooray for Baldywood!_ "Remember, his taste sucks..." ## [Baldywood: A very special episode of Baldywood // "What Should I Stream Tonight?" // "Reddit? Did It!" // Actor Redundancy of the Week // Reader feedback](https://baldbryan.substack.com/p/baldywood-a-very-special-episode) _2026-05-29 · Hooray for Baldywood!_ "Remember, his taste sucks..." ## [Baldywood: A great and fun movie for the whole family in theaters now // "What Should I Stream Tonight?" // "Reddit? Did It!" // Actor Redundancy of the Week // Reader feedback](https://baldbryan.substack.com/p/baldywood-a-great-and-fun-movie-for) _2026-05-15 · Hooray for Baldywood!_ "Remember, his taste sucks..." ## [Watch chovy live code (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/1b0RzEAZrLxT) _2026-05-15 · **Sponsored**_ Join Mosh Coding streams with collaborative screen sharing and remote control, open source. ## [Baldywood: "What Should I Stream Tonight?" // "Reddit? Did It!" // Actor Redundancy of the Week // Reader feedback](https://baldbryan.substack.com/p/baldywood-what-should-i-stream-tonight-fd1) _2026-05-08 · Hooray for Baldywood!_ "Remember, his taste sucks..." ## [Maxwell’s Demon: Defeated by Quantum Mechanics](https://transactionalinterpretation.org/2026/05/06/maxwells-demon-defeated-by-quantum-mechanics/) _2026-05-07 · rekastner · Transactional Interpretation_ This is an invited contribution to Comprehensive Philosophy of Science, Elsevier (2026). I point out that a neglected principle of quantum mechanics provides a decisive defeat of the notorious “Maxwell’s Demon.” Comments welcome! ABSTRACT. This work provides an overview of key historical developments in the for- mulation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, focusing on … Continue reading Maxwell’s… ## [Baldywood: The funniest movie I've seen in years in "What Should I Stream Tonight?" // "Reddit? Did It!" // Actor Redundancy of the Week // Reader feedback](https://baldbryan.substack.com/p/baldywood-the-funniest-movie-ive) _2026-05-01 · Hooray for Baldywood!_ "Remember, his taste sucks..." ## [Baldywood: In theaters now: “Michael” // "What Should I Stream Tonight?" // "Reddit? Did It!" // Actor Redundancy of the Week // Reader feedback](https://baldbryan.substack.com/p/baldywood-in-theaters-now-michael) _2026-04-24 · Hooray for Baldywood!_ "Remember, his taste sucks..." ## [Baldywood: In theaters now: “The Drama” // "What Should I Stream Tonight?" // "Reddit? Did It!" // Actor Redundancy of the Week // Reader feedback](https://baldbryan.substack.com/p/baldywood-in-theaters-now-the-drama) _2026-04-16 · Hooray for Baldywood!_ "Remember, his taste sucks..." ## [Baldywood: We're Back! // "What Should I Stream Tonight?" // "Reddit? Did It!" // Actor Redundancy of the Week // Reader feedback](https://baldbryan.substack.com/p/baldywood-were-back-what-should-i) _2026-04-10 · Hooray for Baldywood!_ "Remember, his taste sucks..." ## [Baldywood: OMG We won! // "What Should I Stream Tonight?" // "Reddit? Did It!" // Actor Redundancy of the Week // Reader feedback](https://baldbryan.substack.com/p/baldywood-omg-we-won-what-should) _2026-03-27 · Hooray for Baldywood!_ "Remember, his taste sucks..." ## [Baldywood: In theaters now: "Project Hail Mary" // "What Should I Stream Tonight?" // "Reddit? Did It!" // Actor Redundancy of the Week // Reader feedback](https://baldbryan.substack.com/p/baldywood-in-theaters-now-project) _2026-03-20 · Hooray for Baldywood!_ "Remember, his taste sucks..." ## [Baldywood: Dominate your Oscar ballot with these locks // In theaters now: Pixar's "Hoppers" // "What Should I Stream Tonight?" // "Reddit? Did It!" // Actor Redundancy of the Week // Reader feedback](https://baldbryan.substack.com/p/baldywood-dominate-your-oscar-ballot-0fc) _2026-03-13 · Hooray for Baldywood!_ "Remember, his taste sucks..." ## [Baldywood: The first review of my movie! // "What Should I Stream Tonight?" // "Reddit? Did It!" // Actor Redundancy of the Week // Reader feedback](https://baldbryan.substack.com/p/baldywood-what-should-i-stream-tonight-3a3) _2026-03-06 · Hooray for Baldywood!_ "Remember, his taste sucks..." ## [Know before it drops (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/BYdikrSXgvds) _2026-03-06 · **Sponsored**_ Follow a show, artist, genre or rocket and get notified before release ## [Baldywood: In theaters now: "Goat" // "What Should I Stream Tonight?" // "Reddit? Did It!" // Actor Redundancy of the Week // Reader feedback](https://baldbryan.substack.com/p/baldywood-in-theaters-now-goat-what) _2026-02-27 · Hooray for Baldywood!_ "Remember, his taste sucks..." ## [Baldywood: Happy 1-year anniversary to Baldywood! // RIP Robert Duvall // One year of "What Should I Stream Tonight?" // "Reddit? Did It!" // Actor Redundancy of the Week // Reader feedback](https://baldbryan.substack.com/p/baldywood-happy-1-year-anniversary) _2026-02-20 · Hooray for Baldywood!_ "Remember, his taste sucks..." ## [A friendly reminder that quantum theory and general relativity have been unified under RTI (since 2023):](https://transactionalinterpretation.org/2026/01/28/a-friendly-reminder-that-quantum-theory-and-general-relativity-have-been-unified-under-rti-since-2023/) _2026-01-28 · rekastner · Transactional Interpretation_ Transactions Complete Entropic Gravity ## [The Beetle of Which We Can Indeed Speak–just not in classical language](https://transactionalinterpretation.org/2026/01/19/the-beetle-of-which-we-can-indeed-speak-just-not-in-classical-language/) _2026-01-19 · rekastner · Transactional Interpretation_ I was inspired to write this post after seeing a post by Hammurabi Rubio (a guest post for Romaric Jannel) with a fun revisiting of Wittgenstein’s “beetle in the box” metaphor for language: “Suppose everyone had a box with something in it: we call it a ‘beetle’. No one can look into anyone else’s box, … Continue reading The Beetle of Which We Can Indeed Speak–just not in classical language → ## [I’m reblogging this post on the quantum/classical transition from nearly 10 years ago…](https://transactionalinterpretation.org/2026/01/07/im-reblogging-this-post-on-the-quantum-classical-transition-from-nearly-10-years-ago/) _2026-01-08 · rekastner · Transactional Interpretation_ because there seems to be ongoing puzzlement about the quantum/classical divide. Comments welcome. ## [Against “Exchange Degeneracy”: Symmetrized states are demanded by actual physics, not redundancy.](https://transactionalinterpretation.org/2025/12/31/against-exchange-degeneracy-symmetrized-states-are-demanded-by-actual-physics-not-illusory-redundancy/) _2026-01-01 · rekastner · Transactional Interpretation_ This is a draft of my latest work deconstructing the conventional “Received View” of symmetrized states. This convention has relied on an unwarranted assumption of “permutation redundancy” at the expense of real physics. Comments welcome. ## [Fun with the chemical potential: an exploration of the quantum/classical divide](https://transactionalinterpretation.org/2025/11/21/fun-with-the-chemical-potential-an-exploration-of-the-quantum-classical-divide/) _2025-11-22 · rekastner · Transactional Interpretation_ This post offers a paper a wrote a few years ago for a workshop in beautiful Buenos Aires in which we explored the puzzle of distinguishability and indistinguishability in physics. Under what conditions can we consider physical objects distinguishable, and when must we assume they are indistinguishable? It turns out that a somewhat obscure quantity … Continue reading Fun with the chemical… ## [Animation: A Quantum Defeat of Maxwell’s Demon](https://transactionalinterpretation.org/2025/10/22/animation-a-quantum-defeat-of-maxwells-demon/) _2025-10-22 · rekastner · Transactional Interpretation_ This animation is based on my publication Maxwell’s Demon Is Foiled by the Entropy Cost of Measurement, Not Erasure, https://www.mdpi.com/2673-9321/5/2/16 (preprint version: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/25388/) ## [Presentation in 2021: critique of the conventional claim that symmetrized quantum states are about “redundancy of description”](https://transactionalinterpretation.org/2025/09/26/presentation-in-2021-critique-of-the-conventional-claim-that-symmetrized-quantum-states-are-about-redundancy-of-description/) _2025-09-27 · rekastner · Transactional Interpretation_ Subscribe to keep reading Become a paid subscriber to get access to the rest of this post and other exclusive content. 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Why these are the good old days. ## [You Can't Buy The Finish Line (or the Skill to Reach it)](https://hjf.io/you-cant-buy-the-finish-line/) _2025-04-27 · @\_\_hjf · hjf's feed_ Talking about goals isn't enough: you need to actually do the work. ## [We Aren't At Endgame Yet](https://hjf.io/we-arent-at-endgame-yet/) _2025-04-21 · @\_\_hjf · hjf's feed_ The current AI revolution isn't the endgame for software developers: it's actually a force multiplier that makes us more effective. ## [Maxwell’s Demon is Foiled by Measurement, Not By Memory Erasure.](https://transactionalinterpretation.org/2025/03/22/maxwells-demon-is-foiled-by-measurement-not-by-memory-erasure/) _2025-03-23 · rekastner · Transactional Interpretation_ This paper shows that once we take into account that gas molecules are quantum systems, we find that there is an entropy cost to measuring their positions, and that this is what prevents a Maxwell’s Demon from violating the second law of thermodynamics. The tradition of taking “memory erasure” (originated by Bennett and Landauer) as … Continue reading Maxwell’s Demon is Foiled by Measurement, Not… ## [The Parable of the Novice Programmer](https://hjf.io/the-parable-of-the-novice-programmer/) _2025-01-12 · @\_\_hjf · hjf's feed_ How a team of students with zero degrees and spaghetti code outperformed lecturers in Google Hashcode. A lesson in valuing outcomes over perfection. ## [RS Components Redundancies](https://hjf.io/rs-components-redundancies/) _2025-01-03 · @\_\_hjf · hjf's feed_ Reflecting on the redundancies at RS Group—how leadership failed during a tough time, the impact on friendships and teams, and a tribute to the brilliant engineers I was lucky enough to work with. 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