Gordon Fogus

HOLY SHIT! THE JIG IS UP!

“You can’t call yourself a Christian and deny health care to the sick. You can’t call yourself a Christian and cut food stamps for the poor. You can’t call yourself a Christian and reject the stranger seeking asylum.”

few hundred THz spectrum is very cold at our room temperature, that's one major reason why laser cooling works, but it's usually done on small things. TIL if you do it right, you could cool down a big block of crystals with lasers, to sub 100 K from RT, all solid-state! however, cooling power is only 100 mW with a 50 W laser... the best cooling results also need 22 passes, and the alignment is done in air with much lower laser power otherwise the crystal would get cooled too much and get condensation 😂 i wonder why did they not make a cavity for the pump light with the crystal inside, but a non-resonant folded delay line instead

The "need" for women's chess is fairly simple to explain. Women comprise about 8% of chess players, meaning there are at least 12 men for every woman competing. And when you're "selecting" amazing individuals near the tails of any competence distribution, it's not the averages you care about - it's the exceptional individuals. And the reality is that simply through greater participation, men throw about 12x as many people at the problem, and so the odds are that the top players will be male. And they are, no surprise to the math. Now, if you NEVER saw exceptional women, it would be different. But women have been ranked as high as 2735, which is ludicrously high. So they exist; they're just very rare by comparison, as you would expect. If the roles were reversed (by a factor of 144x, mind you), it's pretty easy to conclude women would then be on top. In other words, it tells you very little about the comparative distributions of male vs female geniuses when the populations are of massively different sizes. This is my daughter, who just beat me yesterday. I'm not rated, but she must be pretty good :-)

Fahrenheit is superior to Celsius and I’m tired of pretending this is a debate. Fahrenheit feels like temperature was designed by an human being who walks outside, feels the air, and says, “Yeah, that makes sense.” Zero is freezing. 100 is brutally hot. 70 is comfortable. 80 is warm. The numbers feel like what they are describing. Celsius feels like it was designed by a committee of people who hate joy and want every conversation about the weather to sound like a chemistry lab. “It’s 22 degrees outside.” What does that even mean to a normal person? Am I wearing shorts? Am I grabbing a jacket? Nobody knows. You need a conversion chart and a government employee standing next to you explaining the vibes. Fahrenheit gives you range. That’s the point. It gives you more numbers for the temperatures human beings actually live in. You can feel the difference between 68, 72, 76, and 80. Those numbers matter. Fahrenheit lets you describe the world with more precision without having to break into decimals like a lunatic. And here’s the other thing... Celsius is connected to the metric cult energy that came out of the French Revolution. And the French Revolution was evil. Both of the Revolution were to rip out tradition, faith, monarchy, hierarchy, the Church, the calendar, the clock, and anything that reminded man he was not God. CELSIUS IS INHERENTLY EVIL So yes, Celsius may be useful if you’re boiling water in a lab. Congratulations. But Fahrenheit is for living LIFE because Fahrenheit is for walking outside and instantly knowing what kind of day you’re about to have. 100 means hot. 70 means beautiful. Zero means don’t go outside unless you have a death wish. That’s a real system.

The ASUS Ascent GX10 (DGX Spark) is currently going for $3982 for the 1TB version. I own one and it’s been working great. Any variant of the DGX Spark should perform really well, and you can mix different ones together in a cluster — it works flawlessly.