David Conner

what's the likelihood of controlling a system where hawke's processes are significant s.t. that it's stationary or at least has "steerable drift?" is it possible to estimate level of effort/control required? effects on society & culture? #accelerationism arxiv.org/html/2405.1052…

@mathemetica These are legitimately fascinating, esp when trying determine whether that earthquake is really “the big one”

Seismic moment tensor components and their corresponding beachball diagrams. The six independent orthonormal basis tensors (normalized so that the Frobenius norm ‖M‖_F = 1) are displayed together with their beachball representations. Black areas indicate positive (compressional/upward) P-wave first motion; white areas indicate negative (dilatational/downward) first motion. The left column shows one complete set of basis elements; the right column shows the orthogonal complement (including sign flips for selected components). All matrices are symmetric 3×3.

@vaxryy …あれ？

wikipedia editors back at it debating whether to delete the hyprland page 2 nanoseconds after someone brought it back

Though I guess I’d be pretty horrified if he argued for anything else.

Pope Leo is correct for the wrong reasons: "lowering the threshold for resorting to violence, transforming defense into threat prediction and thus reducing victims to data" The price of destruction is falling far faster than the cost of defense… globally bbc.com/news/articles/…

It requires a lot of self-consciousness and community consciousness. That doesn’t emerge spontaneously in a uniformly distributed way. People avoid complexity and this requires thinking about role specialization in a different way.

So there’s a name for this? #NeoDistributism Wall Street won’t really like it, but it does focus on real value creation. It’s kinda libertarian. It’s not something that can run on autopilot, like our current culture driven by mass media programming youtu.be/cgqcbuLNAYM?si…

@mathemetica Not as interesting as the proof that it’s the only such function

Derivative of an exponential function: eˣ

@star_stufff Then why do they hate complex numbers?

@lu_blacktron @mcmilleeee @noisyb0y1

@aionfork @mcmilleeee @noisyb0y1 cool thing is you can work with CERN data completely offline. Its all local, you never need ping their servers or anything 😄 so no risk they'll start messing with you or taunting you if you play with it 😂

AN OXFORD STUDENT IS RUNNING A PARTICLE SIMULATION WITH REAL PEOPLE'S NAMES AND CLAIMS CERN IS TAUNTING HIM THROUGH THE CODE Thousands of particles on a black screen - each one labeled with a real person's name - moving according to the laws of physics in real time and he is completely convinced this is not a simulation but a personal message from CERN directed at him specifically. Particle simulation with collision detection, velocity vectors and brownian motion - technically flawless code that tracks every particle individually and renders trajectories at 60 fps. CERN operates a 17km collider that accelerates protons to 99.9999991% the speed of light and generates a petabyte of data every single day - and apparently found the time to encode Oxford student names into a simulation. The code is real. The physics is correct. The conclusions are a separate conversation.

@pmarca A close minded society or city doesn’t really have the “valence” for anything except obedient ignorance.

@pmarca A mostly unconscious society can’t really figure out how to integrate people who don’t fit in. So they have to figure it out why they’re discarded. It’s kinda ridiculous how “happy” someone can be bc they shop at Target instead of Walmart… until they’re prompted to think.

The case against introspection in a single photo.

@Zeussed @yacineMTB I got robbed of the opportunity to ever work … so no taxman ever stole a penny

@yacineMTB They owe me. They better pay up.

Taxes suck so bad man. I hate them. I would be so much further ahead if I wasn't constantly robbed by the government that rules over me

@uwu_underground Infinite sequences of tokens…

The funniest part of cybersecurity’s future is watching companies feed their private data, code, workflow, and customer context into Claude or ChatGPT, then act shocked when it outpaces them and they start layoffs Huge 'leopard ate my face and is still billing me monthly' vibes

What happens when you take a polynomial and keep changing its coefficients every frame? You get a resonant root field in the complex plane where clusters, arcs and outer flares form, dissolve, and reappear as the system evolves in time.

@Leonardaisfunny “WiPePo became aware…” You’re the ones that are obsessed with identity. I’m like just trying to figure out how to exist at all. Like as an individual.

White people became aware that they are the real minority and argued for their protected status on that basis. (Assuming they'd be entitled for the same protections afforded the browns.) The genociders instead pivoted to affirming the browns’ hegemony based on their “global majority” status. So now you see it’s only ever been about one thing: they hate White people and they want you to die. You cannot appeal to their arguments or their empathy for your right to exist. Those aren’t for you. You will only earn the right to your own life and nation at the tip of a sword.

@lu_blacktron @mcmilleeee @noisyb0y1 They process a ton of data at CERN. I can’t imagine that it would be easy

@aionfork @mcmilleeee @noisyb0y1 You can add magnetic fields and electrical fields but if you want more exotic stuff you'd need do some heavylifting to interlace GEANT4 data with data from other scientific simulators. Theory stuff like tachyons can't be simulated this way as all data comes from real experiments.

@lu_blacktron @mcmilleeee @noisyb0y1 It’s difficult to balance these avant-garde simulations. They don’t have a strong basis for equilibrium, so you can’t usually leverage it. There are a lot of ways in which equilibrium could break down. It happens in econophysics So that’s typically necessary for the aesthetics.

@aionfork @mcmilleeee @noisyb0y1 Technically you could do anything! 😄 i could add metadata to make each particle be a spinning cat 😸 but such things depart from science, more an art project than useful science. Typically particles are organised in tracks listing each collision where particle deposited energy.

@pmarca Where was the domestic influence to counter foreign influence? Isn’t that what people were voting for: to have leaders worth entrusting with power? If you have power you have to learn when to use it, when to 無為 and when to push back… There are times you are obligated to act

The Trump election was blamed on foreign influence. Tech employee activism was blamed on foreign influence. Campus riots were blamed on foreign influence. Now anti-datacenter activism is being blamed on foreign influence. All cope.