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Xenon
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Reddit huffing community is where one finds beauty in this life
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Midwits are always so serious about everything
High IQ people are silly and whimsical
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should we grow brainless human bodies and rent them to computers?
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@ArcaneStudy Quite the opposite. That I acknowledge the Truth of the Matter and yet still Persist demonstrates endurance and solidity.
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It’s just bleak and violent misery at every level down to the subatomic. And what a stupid looking thing that is too. Now I know how space aliens must feel as they watch us.
The Scientific Lens@LensScientific
Despite being just one cell, Lacrymaria olor is a formidable predator that hunts and consumes other microorganisms. 📽: James Weiss
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germanium based hardware ReLU activation 👀
Llorens MRC@Llorens_MRC
@tubechip404 I found rectification in pyrite, but a little, and only at a few points. With zincite it was easier, but the shape was unusual. Polarized silicon carbide also worked. With metallic germanium it was automatic, very easy; I even built a contact diode that still works years later.
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This is the legendary Lorenz attractor; the butterfly of chaos theory in glorious 3D!
Equations that birthed the butterfly effect:
dx/dt = 10(y−x)
dy/dt = x(28−z)−y
dz/dt = xy−(8/3)z
Tell me your craziest real-life “butterfly effect” moment?
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Honestly, well deserved. The amount of value created in the world through Linux far exceeds this
Pirat_Nation 🔴@Pirat_Nation
Linus Tech Tips has bought a private jet valued at around 5 million dollars. It was previously owned by the UAE government and has gold-plated sinks and ashtrays. Linus calls it a zero-dollar plane because of the recent expensive engine work and full service inspection that returned it to like-new condition.
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this is a based visual 👌 explains a lot
Cosmos Archive@cosmosarcive
A regular lightbulb isn’t “incoherent”; it just depends on how fast you look. At, 10⁻¹⁶ s → you see clean EM waves 10⁻¹⁴ s → perfect interference patterns 10⁻⁶ s → classic messy bulb light Coherence isn’t a property of source; it’s timescale.
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@cosmosarcive also could be other phenomena:
1) charge (small scale)
2) magnetism (mid scale, orthogonal)
3) gravity (large scale)
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A regular lightbulb isn’t “incoherent”; it just depends on how fast you look.
At,
10⁻¹⁶ s → you see clean EM waves
10⁻¹⁴ s → perfect interference patterns
10⁻⁶ s → classic messy bulb light
Coherence isn’t a property of source; it’s timescale.
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@jaimeojedas @anirbanbandyo says a lot about double slit and other experiments
also quantum computation possible at home 👌
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That’s a clear way to frame the role of timescale.
If coherence depends on timescale, it raises the question of whether those regimes are dynamically sustainable, not just observable.
The same structure may appear coherent or not depending on whether the system can keep pace with the relevant timescales.
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Now think if I have a camera that looks into 3 time domains at a time, say three cameras or even more, then what? You have complete picture not just classical but quantum.
Cosmos Archive@cosmosarcive
A regular lightbulb isn’t “incoherent”; it just depends on how fast you look. At, 10⁻¹⁶ s → you see clean EM waves 10⁻¹⁴ s → perfect interference patterns 10⁻⁶ s → classic messy bulb light Coherence isn’t a property of source; it’s timescale.
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Watch hydrogen atom wavefunctions smoothly transition between quantum states (n,l,m)
This is the actual probability density of finding the electron; not just static orbitals, but the real quantum dance as it morphs between energy levels.
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@austinc3301 @peonyenjoyer @bouguereau_stan @niko_kukushkin yes, they map but don’t explain
op asked “why” does that happen
todays tl got this hit video, explains a lot scale, topology and speed is everything
Cosmos Archive@cosmosarcive
A regular lightbulb isn’t “incoherent”; it just depends on how fast you look. At, 10⁻¹⁶ s → you see clean EM waves 10⁻¹⁴ s → perfect interference patterns 10⁻⁶ s → classic messy bulb light Coherence isn’t a property of source; it’s timescale.
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@peonyenjoyer @vertinski @bouguereau_stan @niko_kukushkin All of physics is math tools. Math tools are just abstractions to easily and compactly describe reality. Probabilities do map to something real!
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I wish someone showed this to me in 8th grade chemistry, electron orbitals would have made a lot more sense
The Scientific Lens@LensScientific
Harmonic oscillation in a levitated water drop Ultrasonic standing waves levitate a water droplet and flatten it into a disk. Modulating the sound at its resonance frequency excites harmonic shape modes creating rotating "star drops"
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If you're an autist you spot patterns, and it's very easy to spot sociopaths. As economic conditions get more difficult, we tend to breed more sociopaths/psychopaths. In our evolutionary past, these traits helped us survive some really horrible circumstances, predation, etc.
However, it ain't fun to be on the receiving end because the current batch of midwits socios watched Game of Thrones and thought it would be fun to start f*cking over everyone they could get their hands on for sport, or because they missed a cue and assume you're out to fuck them over. It's actually troubling because this pattern suggests that as things have gotten much harder, the younger ones will be the most viscous.
Make enough money that you don't have to deal with any of them, socially or most especially in a "work environment" where you can't really just bounce without the financial means.
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at google this was known as "buying the gnome". there's like a billion tweets about this already but basically the story goes back in like 2005 or something they were building out their shopping search system, and it was working pretty well. except for the fact that if you searched for sneakers, the top result was a garden gnome. engineers were going crazy trying to fix the ranking bug, but eventually someone noticed that the gnome listing was on ebay, and there was only one of them, and it cost like $50. so they just bought the gnome and suddenly the listing was gone, problem solved. why bother fixing software issues when you can just change the world to fit your software instead?
Tenobrus@tenobrus
if you're about to release a model that you know has the ability to reveal zerodays in every commonly used open source project you could delay release for a few years or spend another ten billion on alignment RL. or you could just secretly fix all the zerodays yourself first.
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@nullbotto @austinc3301 @niko_kukushkin big facts.
they just use circular logic to “explain” phenomena.
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@austinc3301 @niko_kukushkin "defined by probability density" is the most gooberific ontology possible
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@austinc3301 @bouguereau_stan @niko_kukushkin “probabilities” is just a math tool. this still doesn’t explain anything.
also, the probabilities are there because the thing *is* moving really fast + in additional dimension (that’s the complex part)
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Short answer: because time evolution has to preserve probabilities, and the only way to evolve something without changing its magnitude is to rotate it in the complex plane. Energy is just the rate of that rotation (E = ℏω). The i in the Schrödinger equation is what makes it a rotation instead of a growth/decay.
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