@WKCosmo uh - single gear! and color matched backup ride in the background ... ;-)
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Wolf Wackeroth
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Wolf Wackeroth
@wlfmw
views are my own; retweets =/= agreement
Katılım Mayıs 2011
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Poll: best guess as to how long it will be before somebody uses machine intelligence to create a working theory of quantum gravity.
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@Kaju_Nut Does your scenario imply there be a physical process you can employ to maintain arbitrarily precise clicks?
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Suppose I have invented the world's most powerful clock tech would allow. I claim that time is discrete. The smallest unit is the interval between two clicks of my clock.
But wait. Pedro flies past me in his spaceship at .99999999999999 times the speed of light. 1/n
Pedro Domingos@pmddomingos
All our measurements of space and time are quantized, and yet we still believe they're continuous.
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@WKCosmo Had I been in sales 14 Billion years ago, I'd be filthy rich, and night have prevented 'science' like this.
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What the fuck
New Scientist@newscientist
The idea that everything that exists can be built from the bottom up has long held sway among physicists. Now, a new kind of science is under construction that centres conscious experience – and might unravel the universe’s biggest mysteries #Echobox=1778023692" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newscientist.com/article/252320…
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@WKCosmo Not saying it’s great, but ‘$42B project connected nobody’ sounds as if that money was wasted. not a single federal project, but a long term program focussed on fixed line over satellite, which needs local planning and execution. And starlink proved they didn’t need the subsidy.
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@wlfmw After the legislation founding the Tennessee Valley Authority was passed in 1933, dam construction started within five months. It's coming up on five YEARS, and ... nothing. Had Starlink remained a part of the program, it would already be a good part of the way to completion.
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Meanwhile, the $42 billion Federal broadband project connected exactly zero people as of 2024.
reason.com/2024/06/27/why…
Sawyer Merritt@SawyerMerritt
In 2022, the FCC (under the Biden admin) revoked @Starlink’s $885 million award to provide internet to millions of Americans, saying it wouldn’t hit 100/20 Mbps for 40% of locations by 2025. Today, Ookla officially confirmed that in Q4 2025, Starlink exceeded that, reaching
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@WKCosmo Sounds like it was written to intrigue the causal reader into turning the page. We all have ancient dna fragments left that code for morbid rubbernecking when activated, im sure.
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It's remarkable to me that somebody could write the words "raising her children to detest AI" and not think that this would lead the reader to the conclusion that the person the sentence about is pretty seriously mentally ill.
The New Yorker@NewYorker
Jessica Winter has been raising her children to detest A.I. Then her daughter’s public middle school began receiving Google Chromebooks, which came pre-installed with an all-ages version of Gemini, a suite of A.I. tools. “When my daughter, who is in sixth grade, begins writing an
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My brother used to live across from the railroad tracks on Alder St. in Missoula MT, and he had a black cat named Lawnmower. One night he tailed Lawn on his evening rounds, and discovered that the cat had a cache of rodent corpses piled in a hole in between the tracks that he would go roll in like Scrooge McDuck in a swimming pool full of gold.
Interesting Sciences@amazing13_13
My friend has a cat that caught 27 mice in one night, then arranged them like this all by himself, as if to show off his achievement.
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The joys of measuring G: "Our experiment doesn't even agree with itself."
Francis Villatoro@emulenews
#Metrologia Redetermination of the gravitational constant with the BIPM torsion balance at NIST iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108… "Result does not corroborate either the earlier BIPM value or the current CODATA recommendation."
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@WKCosmo But a deactivated anterior cingulate cortex might be exactly what the speaker preys on
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Girls should bring up the metric signature on a first date.
Not because it self-identifies men who are arrogant, condescending and incapable of entertaining different opinions, but because it’s an accurate measure of compatibility
Rothmus 🏴@Rothmus
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As moving as this photograph is, imagine seeing it in person. It must be transformative.
The White House@WhiteHouse
EARTHSET. April 6, 2026. Humanity, from the other side. First photo from the far side of the Moon. Captured from Orion as Earth dips beyond the lunar horizon. Photo: NASA
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@WKCosmo hallmarks of a strong Virgo influence with a Lyra alignment: confident conclusions, optional evidence
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I don't have to be an expert in astrology to know that astrology is bullshit.
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@WKCosmo didn’t make my brain hurt reading it, so it’s a good thread. I shall cash in the stiff drink portion soon enough!
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If you made it all the way to the end of this thread, you deserve a stiff drink and a back rub. It made my brain hurt to write it. Thank you for reading. /FIN
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This calibration is completely empirical: we don't understand how Type-Ia supernovae work, beyond a qualititative level.
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Me, Alex Vikman, and Justin Khoury discussing superluminal field theories.
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@elonmusk seems like a missed oppty to have one of them explain the double slit exp to ya
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I had dinner once with a top physicist and a top computer scientist and asked what they thought the probability was that we were in a simulation.
They answered simultaneously at 0% and 100% respectively. It was like a double-slit experiment, but with humans.
Interstellar@InterstellarUAP
🚨 Simulation Theory: The Double Slit Experiment proves particles act like waves until observed then they snap into particles. What if our reality only "renders" when we're looking, just like a video game optimizing resources? Check out this episode from The Why Files
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@ESA_Webb Please refer to them by their proper name ‘Submillimeter Anomalous Ultra-Red Object Nodes’.
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🆕 Not long after Webb began its science operations, astronomers started noticing mysterious ‘little red dots’ (LRDs) 🔴 in its data. 1/3
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With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.
— von Neumann
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