Aiko Kyle

The basic look of Wikipedia really hasn't fundamentally changed in 20 years, which really just goes to show how the ethos of the people behind a platform is always reflected in the UI wikipedia25.org/en/the-first...

It’s February in Colorado… and I just killed a mosquito flying around inside my car… this is not good

This is indeed pretty rad

okay so you're saying we just need to port emacs to run on space telescopes to get these bugs finally fixed? Makes sense, the timelines match up

In emacs' lisp.h there's a FIXME from 2013 that ends "Maybe in the year 2016." Then in 2016 the it was updated to 2020, then in 2020 it was updated to 2025 😧

Hello #emacs, the year is now 2026, are u ok?

“clopen source”? 😁

screenshot of firefox developer tools console showing loading up of emacs lisp files

now it's running inside firefox (instead of node) with wasm outputting to xterm.js, but looking like I'm stuck between no gc and webworker stack limits

update from the trenches: I have a temacs.wasm and a loaddefs-gen.elc compiled with it! I may have disabled garbage collection to get there, but hopefully it will be worth it in the end...

meme left panel: dog surrounded by fire right panel: dog says "this is fine."

tfw you just wanted to update your website and so started by updating emacs... but are now three days into trying to compile emacs to wasm

Thank you for continuing to make your thoughts available! This really resonated with me and my journey through the free software landscape, navigating the many cognitive disconnects between principle and practice

help! I'm trapped in a Grothendieck universe and can't get out

Peter Shor: we haven't found many new quantum algorithms, in part, because we need larger quantum devices for testing our heuristics. He gives several examples of algorithms that were discovered computationally, including turbo codes, @fermilab.bsky.social quantum symposium by the SQMS center.

“Some physicalists, such as Daniel Dennett, argue that philosophical zombies are logically incoherent…” yeah gotta be careful getting into arguments with philosophical zombies cause they’ll commit a lotta logical fallacies

from the “hard problem of consciousness” wikipedia. i think i found the philosophical zombies

(Definitely not taken out of context from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philoso...)

“Some physicalists, such as Daniel Dennett, argue that philosophical zombies are logically incoherent…” yeah gotta be careful getting into arguments with philosophical zombies cause they’ll commit a lotta logical fallacies

Star Trek Voyager scene. Captain Janeway is sitting in her ready room at her space desk and holding up a cup of coffee. It's an old fashioned ceramic cup with some fancy gold paintings. Closed caption reads, "The fine art of putting off an important task."

4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...

Car Size

xkcd.com/3167/

😂 well at least quantum transduction is a legit thing being worked on, but no they won't teleport you to the fifth dimension, at least not anytime soon

I think the goal should be to shift the student away from defaulting to an explanatory role when they perceive a difference in knowledge to their peers. Instead encourage them to provide context for the peers' solutions amongst the concepts being taught so that their role can be more as a mediator.

A strategy that might help in this situation is to ask the student to focus more on the problem-solving process itself: "What other approaches work to solve the problem? Can the solution be simplified? For what problems would this approach not work or be unnecessarily complicated?"

Right, as usual I'm getting excited and jumping to the fun speculations! When I get some more time, I might try to work through this all in more detail and then can share whatever notes come out of that

Also in thinking about the interpretation of wick rotation in the C^*-algebra case, does it seem sensible to say that derivations of the lie part give rise to unitary dynamics while derivations of the Jordan part give rise to non-unitary diffusive dynamics so wick rotation is just the intertwiner?

My intuition says that under continuous, simultaneous measurement of system energy and mass the pure state-orbits correspond to the energy eigenstates so the associator should then be related to the dephasing channel?

Right! Then I think its that H=(i/8)[a^2+(a^\dagger)^2, i(a^2-(a^\dagger)^2)]=(i/8)[p^2-q^2, {q,p}] where a is the creation operator. This seems quite suggestive now! The p^2-q^2 observable corresponds to the Lagrangian while the {q,p} observable corresponds to single-mode squeezing

Also in thinking about the interpretation of wick rotation in the C^*-algebra case, does it seem sensible to say that derivations of the lie part give rise to unitary dynamics while derivations of the Jordan part give rise to non-unitary diffusive dynamics so wick rotation is just the intertwiner?

Ah I think I found that X=q-p and Y=p^3-q^3 for [q,p]=iI work here, but then I'm struggling find a good answer to the second question you pose in your post of what does it mean to write the heisenberg evolution of an free oscillator as (d/dt) O(t) = (x-p, O(t), p^3 - x^3)

Indeed your new blog post is what led me to your paper! A lot of interesting things in the blog post for me to digest as well. I'm trying to see how this goes through in the case of the harmonic oscillator, but it's not clear to me whether the Hamiltonian there can be written as H=−4i[X,Y]?

Especially tantalizing is how Wick rotation comes up in this discussion, another thing that's always seemed quite mysterious and honestly somewhat mathematically uncomfortable, so it's so cool to see the thread linking it to algebraic axioms!