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on arXiv cond-mat is the largest of the physics subsections in terms of current daily submissions astro and quant-ph next

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@tritlo @SandyofCthulhu 'cuz!

@SandyofCthulhu Love the Sagas! Fun fact: that "wisest man in Iceland" is my direct male-line ancestor, ~35 generations back

Vikings didn't have Christianity forced on them. They chose it because Odin betrayed them. The Icelandic sagas are mostly concerned with bloody feuds (they're great by the way - read some). In one of them, the Icelanders noticed that some of the murders were not starting to be about whether people were Christian or Pagan. So they got together at a Thing (look it up) and decided they had to get rid of this cause of dissension. Either they ALL had to go back to Pagan or they ALL had to become Christian. They went to the wisest man in Iceland, who was a Pagan, and said he had to decide for the whole island. He went off on his own to ponder the question for three days. When he returned, he said everyone had to be Christian, and he was baptized too. From then on, the Icelandic sagas only recorded murders for more important reasons than religion. (Illo from Njall's saga which is amazeballs.)

@steinly0 OK, absolutely nobody but a few weirdos.

There is a fundamental disconnect between STEM and humanities/philosophy in that STEM by its nature does not value the wisdom of the ancients in any special way. We understand a lot more about Einstein's theories than Einstein did, because we have had a century to find deeper, simpler, and clearer ways to think about the physics. Contemporary scientists by and large are not confused about the things that Einstein was confused about, we are confused about new things, that Einstein barely imagined.

@SandyofCthulhu also had one of the greatest theological rebuttals in open debate ever

moving out of The House into The City... tech.cornell.edu/arxiv/

so arXiv is doing a thing...

@WKCosmo @surneik Admit it. You love West Side Story!

@surneik Well, I don't want to read a "modern presentation" of Shakespeare. I want Shakespeare.

@WKCosmo Ahem Went through a quaternion phase after stumbling across a book on it by some Finnish author whose name I forget… that was in high school though. Fun. Provided some insights. Did mostly not use. Although helpful in understanding regularization in n-body dynamics.

Maxwell formulated electromagnetism using quaternions, using eight equations. Absolutely nobody uses Maxwell's version of the "Maxwell Equations" any more, we use Heaviside's vector version.

@martinmbauer I'll take it...

That would finance a collider around the Moon

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zOMG someones are going to try to vibe code NAG and IMSL into some rando trendy language...

interesting

@getjonwithit Dude That whole thread could have been like a dozen tokens

So I think it's becoming increasingly clear that efficiency and losslessness, across both compression and decompression, together represent four potential axes along which we can begin to parameterize the space of possible (intelligent) minds. But what are the others? (12/12)

I think one of the conclusions we should draw from the tremendous success of LLMs is how much of human knowledge and society exists at very low levels of Kolmogorov complexity. We are entering an era where the minimal representation of a human cultural artifact... (1/12)

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