elected village dunce

“Imagine “ what John Lennon’s pronouns would have been ..

@keysmashbandit E.T. Jaynes spoke of this.

I don't know anything about Statistics, but I do not much care for when you guys draw a straight line through a near radially symmetric cloud of points. A lot of my opinions are based on this

@tomer_stern @questionableway Econ majors are so endearing. Smart enough to run a linear regression, not quite smart enough to notice the thing they’re modeling isn’t linear.

@questionableway Come on they’re obviously a strong correlation

“very high iq (makes >$500k/yr)” is an indicator of moral and cultural rot

@0x44_ @77razr Unfortunately I don’t think you are capable of grasping either ends of the argument. As you were.

@immunetozoloft @77razr Acoustics 100% affect how something sounds, bouncing more etc the more dense, and that's their whole claim, but y'all are talking SOUND, I'm talking about the fact that more notes divide equally into 1Hz w/ 432, affecting harmonics in rhythm, which is important to MUSIC.

@0x44_ @77razr Yeah I read them, hence my preemptive addenda. I recommend reading the textbook titled Fundamentals of Acoustics. Best of luck with your studies.

@0x44_ @77razr The book has entire treatments on Fourier decompositions of waveforms, convolutions, orthogonal functions… how about this: derive the equation for the cymatics of the OP image in an expansion of Bessel functions. Then tell me what happens as you change the density of the medium.

Yikes man. I bet that works on people who don't know basic calc. and trig, but while that's a great book, it's literally just acoustics. Interesting for making equipment, and understanding how sound interacts, but not a single chapter is relevant, which unfortunately makes me think you didn't understand or even read the book. Either way, I'm not even sure I'd be able to say one is better, because the music I program at the numeric level is using digital chips that can't be aligned perfectly to them to test, but I guarantee I could hear the difference if I could.

@immunetozoloft @77razr Maybe read my other replies, because I'm way ahead of you.

I 100% hate that 432hz believers never know anything about music

@0x44_ @77razr You realize that the measurement of time in seconds (and inversely: Hz) is a completely arbitrary unit, right? And Re: symmetry and harmony— a singular number alone does not encode any harmony at all. Only ratios matter, and the ratios are the same regardless of the units.

@77razr I know a thing or two about music, and I'm not saying 432Hz is magical or anything like the conspirators, but I do think it's a more symmetrical number.

@liquiditygoblin Following in the hopes that you will produce a digital vaccine to protect us from the slop

In an effort to try stop seeing so much slop I've been trying to train my own AI detection model. Found something incredibly interesting. for the most part LLM generated text and human written text are linearly separable.

@AndrewBylerPA @ThornySpider @constans Thank you for sharing your story!

@immunetozoloft @ThornySpider @constans Please reread what I wrote

The best explanation I’ve heard for this is that it’s because we have SO MANY top physicists that none of them can be “the famous one”

@AndrewBylerPA @ThornySpider @constans You said in the previous comment that they hired you to fix the leak. Now you’re saying you didn’t fix it? I’m having trouble following. Is there a point you are trying to make, or just sharing an anecdote?

@immunetozoloft @ThornySpider @constans They didn’t actually fix the leak. The never let the job go to construction. Their facility is still falling apart (this is the part where they store nuclear waste).

@AndrewBylerPA @ThornySpider @constans I’m not sure why you’re arguing towards exactly. Yes—you did the job they hired you to do? They built a particle collider. You fixed the leak. If you wish to provide evidence that you are smarter than every physicist, the first step would be building your own collider, I guess.

@immunetozoloft @ThornySpider @constans No, they hired me to fix the damage that had rendered the facility unusable.

@AndrewBylerPA @ThornySpider @constans They were curious. Presumably that’s why they hired you.

@ThornySpider @constans Usually people are curious about *why* their ceiling is leaking and causing millions of dollars of damage to their particle accelerator and resolving the root cause.

@castleb0y Thinking of a girl I went on a few dates with years ago whose apartment was perpetually covered wall to wall with Jack skellingtons in various forms

My only opinion on the dinergoth article is that the term i came up with for it some time ago, halloween-american, is much better

@Shirinsmit Unprotected sex

What is extremely unhygienic but everyone seems to do it anyway???

@sn0oozey Tfw only a shadow

Listening to The Cleaners from Venus and The Velvet Underground on your way home from a college bar on a Saturday night like a stupid asshole

@igetsoinspired Beetlejuice

Cats will walk across your laptop and activate keyboard shortcuts you never even knew existed

@hotchipandlie_ It’s genuinely horrifying.

My most woke belief is that I think taxidermy is unnatural and kinda sadistic towards the animal

@RennanBarkana @cosmicfibretion An “interesting wrinkle” as opposed to a breakthrough would seem to be a matter of opinion, then. As a side note, I think we should celebrate interdisciplinary efforts. The deep gamma-ray sky à la Fermi-LAT was unveiled with detectors designed by particle physicists, after all.

@immunetozoloft @cosmicfibretion Neutrino oscillations were discovered by combining particle physics and astrophysics. In any case, this provided an interesting wrinkle on the SM. It hasn’t led to a breakthrough in particle physics.

It feels like I’ve awoken in the Twilight Zone. There’s an abundance of new data in cosmology and astrophysics and it just keeps on flowing with brilliant new experiments. That’s not stagnation!

@RennanBarkana @cosmicfibretion Neutrino oscillations directly contradicted the Standard Model (massless neutrinos). What would qualify as “surprising,” if not that?

@cosmicfibretion To clarify, I was referring to particle physics, which has had no surprising experimental discovery in 50 years. Yes, cosmology (my field) has had a golden age, but it remains to be seen whether astrophysics can make a discovery that leads to a particle physics breakthrough.

@shmergan Both of the best MDs I’ve had were people who decided to go to medical school in their 30s. I also had a friend I met on my midnight walks in Texas who started law school at 33. In her 70s now, she is very successful and funds a small animal foster shelter

Is it okay to start questioning my career choices and consider changing my whole life at 30 years old