“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“lmao" said Gandalf, “well it has.”
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“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“lmao" said Gandalf, “well it has.”
Gathering the world's most insecure and neurotic people, telling them that 1 in 3 of them can have a job doing what they love, and whether you are in that blesséd third depends on whether you have an ill defined underlying property of merit. Then giving them all Twitter accounts.
Chapeau to Kevin, Alex, Alfredo, David, and Andy on a beautiful dialogue between theoretical physicists and LLMs. openai.com/index/new-re...
Tell me about it
A black and white photo of Chien-Shiung Wu standing behind the beam line of her apparatus. She is wearing a white lab coat and smiling at the camera.
Chien-Shiung Wu, who obtained experimental proof of parity violation in weak nuclear decay, was born #OTD in 1912.
Her 1956 experiment involving the decay of Cobalt-60 confirmed that the weak interaction does not respect what many had assumed was a fundamental symmetry of nature. 🧪 👩🔬 ⚛️
Science rules.
🔥🚨BREAKING NEWS: Spanish Scientists Have Officially Cured Pancreatic Cancer in Rats. This is groundbreaking.
Progress in fundamental physics is often slow. The Oxford Calculators understood the motion of objects whose velocity changes at a constant rate back in 1335, yet it took centuries for Galileo to recover and further develop these insights.
Patience! Enjoy the slow unfolding of mysteries.
Canada Prime Minster Mark Carney’s full Davos speech:
Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.
I guess the fact that people can confuse narcissism with self-confidence, and self-confidence with competence (they are of course not the same), plays a role
It's true there were a few tight offsides that disfavoured Racing, but I think in general the referees were ok (although I am a Barça supporter so I probably have a biased view on this). But I loved how Racing fought and they could have perfectly won. I hope they come back to Primera
It was an amazing game!
Absolutely true.
One of my favorite movies! Did you like it?
What a leader looks like.
Macron hits the right notes again.
Can a single mathematical edxpression capture the whole spectrum of shapes that can exist? An attempt towards the "super formula" was made in this paper by Johan Gielis, revealing a novel and powerful way to study universal natural forms & phenomena. @manlius.bsky.social @jordipinero.bsky.social
Why does life explore so few of the forms it could possibly take? Using fractal descriptors, this #scienceadvances paper shows that Earth’s biosphere clusters around simple shapes, reflecting deep evolutionary constraints. @artemyte.bsky.social @manlius.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
Unfortunately, it pretty much works this way... But I would still encourage researchers to follow their nose and work on what they personally find most interesting, at their own risk. To me it still feels like the best approach
Cogratulations!
Hollywood even made an apocalyptic movie called Greenland, not sure how appealing this is to them tho... ;)
It would definitely be a huge loss for hep-th to lose a researcher like you. I am sure you will find a way to bring and use your talent and knowledge where you are more valued, while enjoying it
It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.
It’s about oil and regime change.
And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
Are bacterial spores some kind of travelling neurons? In this @science.org paper the authors show that B. subtilis spores can integrate environmental signals over time and remember transient nutrient pulses. @koseskalab.bsky.social @drmichaellevin.bsky.social www.kaitokikuchi.com/assets/pdf/K...
Our history has taught us that there is no freedom of speech without freedom of information. And freedom of information exists where there is respect for pluralism.
There will be no freedom of speech if citizens' freedom of information is sacrificed to defend some tech oligarchs.
Immaturity masquerading as strength is the defining personal characteristic of our age.
To my knowledge, theoretical physicists in general are extremely skeptical about the possible relevance that quantum effects can play on consciousness, with only a very small subset taking the idea seriously. I had no idea this line of thought was actually influential...
I wasn't aware of the reference, thanks so much!!
