@quantumheartcafe Please chime in here, as this seems to be an interest of yours. 
This was posted by @AMcD 8 days ago on her Roger Bacon/Voynich Manuscript/NSA thread: Roger Bacon's Voynich Manuscript - Mary D'Imperio and the NSA
Um, could this be related?
Unraveling Khipu: The Inca Knot Language
The Incas were technologically advanced but never invented a system of written language. Turns out, they encoded more in textiles than we could have imagined possible.
Beginning uncharted territory here (this is an immense learning curve for me) . . .
Exploring this concept of Khipu/Quipu in the context of what seems to be an apparent (and quite prominent) presence of pretzel and knot symbolism in TV/film/literature . . .
It also shows up saliently in the cryptosphere . . .
Moving forward in this interrogation, keep in mind potentially related symbolism related to salt, thirst, water (primary water?), photonics, acoustics, and faith/religion.
Pretzel-speak referenced here on the forum thus far (forgive me for cutting/pasting errors):
In the image below (a screenshot I took from the video above), I see the imprinting of hearts, ears (acoustics), and even pretzels/knots — see the full video above for much better (and prominent) pretzel/knot imagery (refer to my other thread on PRETZELS: Little Demon – Episode 7 “Satan’s Lot” ~ Soulbound Tokens? - #16 by AMcD):
Seinfeld…these pretzels are making me thirsty…
These pretzels are making me thirsty - Seinfeld
@AMcD Watching it back . . . I actually remember that scene . . . I do not find it funny. Maybe I did the first time around?
It went viral - weirdly. We still say it at home at random times … definitely imprinting.
This is a really interesting synchronicity with pretzels because my mom bought a big bag of them a few days ago and I ate a few before coming onto the discourse forum. Another show that featured pretzels is the Simpsons, and it was a whole episode where Marge tries to start a Pretzel franchise, and it features the mob.
This clip also shows the association with Pretzels and baseball, I know if you are familiar with Michael Wann, he has the youtube channel called the Susquehanna Alchemist, and he did an presentation on baseball and it’s relationship with the entity Baal. I watched it a year ago, I haven’t been listening to his recent stuff though.
From the 40th Parallel - Episode 11.11Baal Consciousness and False Realities
@Stephers I haven’t watch Little Demons, I did just watch a few clips and it reminds me of the movie ‘Devil’s Advocate’ which is another movie that Keenu Reeves stars in, as well as Al Pacino. I watched it recently, and it has a similar feel to Little Demons.
Knotty language referenced on the forum thus far (apologies if I missed some, and for being inept in cutting/pasting on this platform – you will have to click on various links for elaboration):
Yes it reminds me of the trefoil knot and I have started searching for relationships between the trefoil knot and water. Irvine Lab in U Chicago has an interesting clip of a trefoil knots in water.
trefoil knot in water reconnecting
The evolution of a trefoil vortex knot in water captured in 3D, featuring a detailed depiction of a reconnection event.http://irvinelab.uchicago.edu/gallery…
The graphic for syllogism also reminds me of the water molecule and that is what encouraged me to look up the relationship between the Trefoil Knot and water.
I just watched this presentation called ‘Not Knot’ and it talks about how knots in math will have compliments ‘not a knot’ and studying compliments tells mathematicians what type of knot they are looking at
The thumb nail for the radio reminds me of the cover art for the textbook William Thurston wrote.
Three-Dimensional Geometry and Topology, Volume 1: (PMS-35): Thurston, William…
Three-Dimensional Geometry and Topology, Volume 1: (PMS-35): Thurston, William P., Levy, Silvio: 9780691083049: Books - Amazon.ca
It also reminds me of the battle room in Ender’s game, which also has a number of diamonds, which the children used for cover.
Then there is the figure eight knot, and that looks a lot like the logo for Meta and Pretzels
Figure-eight knot
The figure-eight knot or figure-of-eight knot is a type of stopper knot. It is very important in both sailing and rock climbing as a method of stopping ropes from running out of retaining devices. Like the overhand knot, which will jam under strain, often requiring the rope to be cut, the figure-eight will also jam, but is usually more easily undone than the overhand knot. The figure-eight or figure-of-eight knot is also called (in books) the Flemish knot. The name figure-of-eight knot appears i…
Continuing down this knotty path . . . with some Khipu/Quipu additions . . . (As of now, I do not yet know what will come of this knot exploration; however, it seems it may offer a crucial piece to the puzzle we are constructing, as members of the Wrench in the Gears Working Group.)
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Andrzej Stasiak, Associate Professor
Andrzej Stasiak received his PhD in 1981 from the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. From 1981 to 1989 he was a postdoctoral fellow and research associate in the laboratory of Prof. Theodor Koller at the Institute for Cell Biology, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland. In 1989 he joined UNIL and worked till 2007 in the Laboratory of Ultrastructural Analysis directed by Prof. Jacques Dubochet. In 2007 he joined the Center for Integrative Genomics as Maître d’Enseignement et de Recherche. In 2015, for his research in computational biology, the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) gave him the status of SIB group leader. In 2016 he was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor.
The main interest of our group is directed towards understanding underlying physical causes and biological mechanisms responsible for the spatial organization of genomes, starting with arrangements of DNA in phage capsids and ending with interphase chromosomes of higher eukaryotes. We are especially interested in the mechanism of formation of topologically associated domains (TADs) in eukaryotic chromosomes. We also study effects of such topological constraints as supercoiling and knotting on the properties of DNA molecules and chromatin fibers. We are also interested in the mechanism of folding and function of knotted proteins. Numerical simulations constitute the main method applied by our group.
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Khipu 2023 will take place March 6-10 at the Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay. The primary goals of the event are:
- To offer training in advanced machine learning topics, such as deep learning and reinforcement learning.
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In the hopes of inspiring wide and diverse participation, there will be no registration fees for accepted students and Khipu will provide financial assistance for travel expenses to select applicants. The event format is largely inspired by the success of our friends at the Deep Learning Indaba. We are very thankful to our sponsors and speakers for their invaluable support.
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KHIPU Networks is a privately owned award winning international Cyber Security Company delivering a wide range of network, wireless and security solutions, technologies and services across multiple sectors. Founded in 2005, KHIPU Networks’ ethos has always been to work in partnership with customers, to understand their environments and challenges so that we can design and deploy ‘Best of Breed’ solutions that enable them to meet their strategic goals.
KHIPU Networks expanded to Africa in 2012 and have an office in Mauritius and two offices in South Africa which includes a Security Operations Centre (SOC) to increase the reach and functionality of our managed services, specifically our Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) focus.
KHIPU’s main focusses as a business are:
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Kipu Quantum is a German quantum computing startup that currently works in stealth mode. We design quantum computing products that fulfil customer needs and/or solve real problems at different business scales. We operate at the intersection between customer use cases, quantum hardware, and quantum algorithms, which we develop in-houses. Kipu Quantum engages in the challenge of providing industrial quantum advantage sooner than competing approaches.
How is Kipu different?
Its unique technological approaches allow to solve industry-relevant problems while slashing requied physical qubit numbers down by several order of magnitude. Already starting from several hundred qubits, i.e. already during the current NISQ (Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum) era of quantum hardware development, commercial usefulness can be achieved for suitable application domains.
Novel algorithmic compression methods and unique hardware-software co-design capabilities allow to arrive at the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Advantage (NISQA) paradigm invented by Prof. Solano in the near-term future. Implementations of this paradigm will lead to practical usefulness of application-specific quantum computers, challenging or outperforming classical – i.e. non-quantum – high-performance computer systems at a fraction of the costs.
In contrast, conventional approaches requiring huge qubits counts typically numbering in the millions and elaborate qubit error-correction capabilities. Both of these requirements are far beyond the reach of current scientific and engineering capabilities, i.e. they can at best only emerge many years after NISQA will have established itself.
Kipu Quantum’s solutions deliver value to its clients by providing usefulness through a careful selection, development, and integration of best-of-breed components that make up a turn-key deployment, from the underlying hardware, all the way up to the application software level. Kipu’s tech is largely hardware-agnotic, i.e. compatible with all leading quantum hardware technologies and platforms, such as superconducting qubits, ion traps, cold atoms, NV centers or photonic quantum computing. The company proved its ability to solve big problems on small hardware in several benchmarking studies for use cases such as financial portfolio optimization, protein folding, molecular modeling, combinatorial optimization and factorization.
Kipu is currently testing its technology with customers in the pharmaceutical, chemical, logistics, artificial intelligence, and finance industries.
This positions Kipu Quantum at the nexus of market demand and commercial use cases on one hand, and the whole spectrum of available technical approaches on the other hand.
Application-specific quantum computing since 2011
Our co-founder and Chief Scientist Prof. Dr. Enrique (Kike) Solano has a long track record in the quantum computing space. Since more than a decade, with his first pioneering publications having been published in 2011, he and his global collaborators have been developing the scientific foundation behind our key technology concepts.
Quipu is a technology company focused on building blockchain and distributed
Ledger technology service platforms for the secured Internet/Integration of Things (IoT). Our current platform StreamIoT™ stores device information to securely protect the data, the device authentication and the privacy of information.
Speaking at the event…
Jacobsen is a veteran fintech professional with 35 years of experience in executive management, operations, product development, sales, marketing, including accounting and financial expertise. He has been recognized for his exceptional achievements, including American Express’s Premier Award ‘The Chairman’s Award for Quality’ and the Paybefore™ ‘Award for Best Government-Funded Program’ for the BenefitsDirect Platform. Jacobsen has focused expertise in developing disruptive and award-winning fintech platforms, products, and services.
His background includes a 10-year tenure at American Express, where his work resulted in several patents in the US, Canada and internationally; Jacobsen is also the co-inventor of TicketTRAX for American Express. Following that, he served in executive leadership roles for Total Systems Services (TSYS) and Prepaid Resources, where he led several cross-functional teams responsible for card platform functionality management, new prepaid card products, and processing component development through issuing banks and card program sponsors and marketers for clients such as Walmart, RushCard, MoneyGram and Green Dot.
Jacobsen serves as Founder and President of MET Solutions LLC, and currently serves as Board Member and Advisor for Blocksafe Holdings Inc and Quipu. Jacobsen is also Acting President/COO for Trefoil Technology (Prepaid Resources). Jacobsen earned his bachelor’s from Rutgers University (Accounting and Finance) and attended The Wharton School in a special executive management class program sponsored by American Express. Jacobsen has met the mandate for accountant licensure in the State of NJ and completed Six Sigma Green Belt classes.
Duane Jacobsen
Board Member and Advisor
Quipu
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Duane Jacobsen
CEO Unnapp LLC & Co-Founder Hydra Network
Pine Brook, New Jersey, United States
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-Newark
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Expertise: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Block, Hash, Mining, Altcoins, Cryptocurrency, Wallets, Exchanges, Electronic payments, Payment card, Mobile Payment, Financial Services Industry, Network Branded Prepaid Card Programs, Payments Industry, Debit Card, Payments Products, Issuer, Payment Systems, Transaction Processing, Processors, Contactless, Merchant Processing, Wallet, Licensed Accountant, FinTech, ACH, Payment Solutions, Electronic Bill Payment, Patents, Value Proposition, Risk , Compliance, AML, Six Sigma, Processing platform, Remittance, Global payment, New payment, Card products, Product innovation, New card
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Experience
Chief Executive Officer
Unnapp LLC
Sep 2019 - Present 3 years 2 months
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States
Technology Stack for Decentralized Application Development and Deployment.
Powered by an open-source blockchain network of decentralized apps and smart contracts
Strategic Advisor
Blocksafe Holdings Inc.
Jan 2021 - Present1 year 10 months
Cheyenne, Wyoming Area
Blockchain for the Integration of Things
Acting President, COO, Principal Consultant and Advisor
Trefoil Technology LLC - Prepaid Resources LLC
Nov 2007 - Present 15 years
New Jersey
TREFOIL TECHNOLOGY - Trefoil’s award-winning applications – Direct Deposit Manager. Clients also have the opportunity to develop their own built-to-purpose integrated payment applications that can easily and securely switch between multitudes of third party services. I
PREPAID RESOURCES - Prepaid Resources was formed in early 2007 by a group of independent prepaid debit card industry pioneers instrumental in developing and managing many of today’s leading solutions.
President, Principle Consultant & Founder
MET Solutions LLC
Jan 2007 - Present 15 years 10 months
Greater New York City Area
MET Solutions LLC - Brands: Everything Prepaid Debit,
Payment Industry Consulting Services focused on filling the financial & operational knowledge gap. Expertise across both acquiring and issuer ecosystems: merchant services, prepaid card program finances, management and the underlying technology.
Treasurer, Board of Managers
Woodland Cemetery Company
Jan 2012 - Present 10 years 10 months
Newark, New Jersey
Woodland Cemetery Company, Newark NJ
Founded 1855
Chief Financial Officer
Blocksafe Holdings Inc.
Apr 2018 - Oct 20187 months
Cheyenne, Wyoming Area
DECENTRALIZED BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK FOR SENSOR BASED SYSTEMS
Head Product, Operations and Disruption, SVP
BLADE
Apr 2014 - Apr 2018 4 years 1 month
New Jersey
Our Mission is to become the world’s leading alternative payments processing platform by integrating blockchain technologies to legacy payment rails. Blade makes legacy payment rails forward-compatible and interoperable with the blockchain. It’s the easiest way for digital currency companies to enable real-currency payments both online and offline and it’ll become the fastest and most efficient way to handle traditional card (and phone) payments & settlement. Spending currency, regardless of…
Advisor, Board of Directors
NAC Global Technologies, Inc.
Jan 2009 - Feb 2015 6 years 2 months
Jacksonville, Florida Area
NAC Global Technologies, Inc. is an emerging growth company We development, manufacture and bring to market critical technologies to meet key national and global needs. The company currently operates in the robotics, automation, energy, defense, and medical industries.
http://www.nacglobaltechnologies.com
Vice President
TSYS
2004 - 2007 3 years
Product & Technology Development
Vice President
TSYS Prepaid Inc.
2003 - 2007 4 years
Product and Processing Platform Development Leadership. TSYS purchased Clarity Payment Solutions - VP Product Development at Clarity 2003-2004
Director, Global Prepaid Distribution Implementation
American Express
1993 - 2003 10 years
Product Development and Implementation Leadership across Global Distribution Channels
CFO & CEO
Stevens Travel Management & Insight Data
1984 - 1993 9 years
Financial & Data Management - Technology Development
Education
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-Newark
BS Accounting and Finance
1977 - 1980
Stephen Ministries
Leader - Teacher Stephen Ministries LeaderCertified Teacher
2013 - 2013
Clifton High School
High School DiplomaCollege/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program
1972 - 1976
Licenses & Certifications
Internet of Things: Business Implications and Opportunities
MIT Sloan School of Management
Issued Dec 2019
Credential ID 14290800
Patents
Issued August 4, 2005United States2005/0256750 A1
An automated method and system for refunding the unused portion of an electronic ticket are provided. In accordance with the method, an aging period is set and is added to the scheduled departure date of the issued ticket. If the scheduled departure date plus the aging date is earlier than the current date, a determination is made as to whether the ticket has been used. If the ticket has not been used, the residual value of the ticket is calculated and a refund is issued.
United States
A system and method are provided which provide the ability for third parties such as account issuers, for example, to easily initiate direct deposit enrollments on behalf of accountholders
