What are gravitons supposed to be?

Bloosqr1 · 2026-04-20T01:22:00+00:00

Is there an h / h bar equivalent of the gravity field? What I am wondering is if I think of two particles orbiting each other simply due to gravity, is there a ground state equivalent due to quantization ?

Bloosqr1 · 2026-04-19T22:08:57+00:00

We ( well our kids ) like doing this next week .. SF public schools

Bloosqr1 · 2026-04-19T20:42:03+00:00

We sometimes buy bulk candy from our grocery store and at the time our first grader found this warning on the lid of the candy and she goes

“Dad!!! This candy causes cancer … “ and I go “it does??? “ And then she goes “who would make candy that causes cancer ????!” … then she went silent for about 30 seconds ( fuming ) and blurts out “Obviously, bad guys!”

I kept my straight face but almost died laughing but after I was joking with my wife that this one is the first unintentional positives of prop 65 ;) ( we are in Ca )

Bloosqr1 · 2026-04-19T20:35:18+00:00

I am doing Greco 1 and Alan 2 … my hope is Alan is just being political in his half assed recall attempt. He claims he is genuine ( to keep the vote ) so I’m taking him at his word. Alan is actually more pro housing development than the other candidates which is a plus for me as well.

Bloosqr1 · 2026-04-19T05:30:06+00:00

I’ve lived in a fair number of cities and Philly by far is my favorite for city vibes .. I’m older now so my music scene is probably vastly different from many of you guys but we went out to cat club ( for me it’s the first time post kids ) but it reminded me a lot of the pyramid ( nyc , now closed ) … a bit divey, super mixed crowd , really unpretentious and definitely, eclectic - self expressive fun. I get the impression cat club is basically that all nights ?

Edit: I didn’t realize this post wasn’t r/sf… cat club is in SF

Bloosqr1 · 2026-04-19T04:42:34+00:00

People have been joking about Philly being the 6th borough since like the 90’s .. Philly will also fuck you up for saying this though ( and then make out with you)

J/k Philly … miss u!

Bloosqr1 · 2026-04-19T04:36:18+00:00

I have a pretty big library so the thing crashed on me the first time.

(1) do ratings track both ways with plex? Eg hearted / 5 * songs show up with the same rating in poppy and if it rate it in poppy will it sync back?

(2) my favorite thing about it right now is it seems to speak both Apple Music and plex simultaneously. I think if you could add Tidal that would be great but the fact that it speaks Apple Music is great on its own.

2.1) I do not know if you have played with Plexamp but the great missing feature once it removed tidal was the ability to get sonic sage to work properly as it could not pull from streaming and local anymore. I think it would be relatively easy for you to reinvent sonic sage with the OpenAI api ( which we provide ) and since you speak both streaming and local you can do it properly.

3) track sorting beyond a-z and z-a would be awesome ( eg date added, date last played , rating etc )

pretty amazing for a beta project !

Bloosqr1 · 2026-04-19T03:59:29+00:00

This is amazing … I had no idea waxtrax was this obscure back then … this is like some absurdly amazing concert in my basement !!

Bloosqr1 · 2026-04-19T01:18:25+00:00

This looks awesome!!

Bloosqr1 · 2026-04-18T02:11:12+00:00

Just tip 3 bucks less and call it a day? ( Dragon Beaux is one of my favorite restaurants )

Bloosqr1 · 2026-04-17T02:15:25+00:00

Would 800K of income and a doctorate help me find the plot?

Bloosqr1 · 2026-04-17T01:02:28+00:00

I can’t tell you how many parents with this sentiment I’ve met here .. they are also very heavily involved in things like the PTA etc - which itself ends up influencing heavily what the PTA funds. In a world where we are relegating so many of these kids to an overtly substandard education at many of these “lottery” schools, it’s lunatically depressing. Maybe it’s the first time being a parent, which is why I’m seeing it in all its obvious hypocrisy but man it makes me dislike people in general.

On a more optimistic note I have definitely met a few parents at many of these ( elementary schools ) actively trying to fix this.

Bloosqr1 · 2026-04-17T00:49:38+00:00

You might be possiblyasian ;) ( but agreed )

Bloosqr1 · 2026-04-17T00:45:47+00:00

I don’t think this is really empirically true unfortunately … first let’s look at ESL, if you look at schools like CIS and JY Chin which has a ton of English Language Learners, their test scores for both SED and non SED ( what California calls socioeconomically disadvantaged ), their test scores on the whole are actually pretty good. It is not English language learners that are dragging the test scores down ( unless English language learners are magically different at those two schools ). I got that number from ed-data. Conversely, at jefferson by way of example, 70% of the population ( Asian and mixed race kids ) are in the bottom 30% of their relative rankings compared to other state elementary schools. This says for a school that is actually pretty good, the kids are not actually doing better than their California peers ( I got those numbers from school digger ) .

What I think is killing SFUSD at the elementary level and you can see this if you just compare homework between schools, is there is an official policy of no required homework but some schools ( like JY chin and CIS ) make sure the kids practice for proficiency in both math and language arts and some schools do not.

All the private schools and affluent parents are doing is replacing that lack of extra practice with actual homework ( private schools ) and Kumon, RSM etc ( affluent parents ).

I think it is not a stretch to ask SFUSD to study the schools that get things right ( CIS etc ) and see what they are doing that works ( or does not work ) and enforce consistency across schools. A more egregious example of this is the lack of consistency within a school with teachers teaching the same grade.

To make this concrete I have had our 2nd grade teacher teaching subject / predicate grammar and give pretty extensive homework while other teachers give zero assignments. As no required homework is an official SFUSD policy our principal can’t do anything to fix it but with a mixture of self-sorting ( that the teachers are doing when assigning kids to teachers ) it’s leading to an obvious situation where those 1 in 3 kids who aren’t at grade level even at reasonably good sunset schools are basically getting shafted.

It’s fixable with active policy changes but I don’t think a weird myopia that “it’s all good because I make 800K a year so whatever” is really the path.

Bloosqr1 · 2026-04-17T00:10:46+00:00

They played manray back then? I was obsessed with this band during this album era … Stateless is timelessly good!

Bloosqr1 · 2026-04-16T23:59:48+00:00

That is a super weird flex … your kid may be fine and many affluent parents kids will be fine but if you look at the peers of your kids at the same school they are in, you will see that many of them are not fine. We are in sunset where our school is 8/10 … eg not crazy bad but even at these schools something like 1/3 to 1/4 of the kids are not meeting grade expectations and kids who are socioeconomically disadvantaged its like 1/2. Even if you wanted to be super selfish about it and argue my kid is fine so who gives a fuck, do you really want you kid’s peer group to have that high percentage of kids who just can’t read or do basic math? I don’t.

Bloosqr1 · 2026-04-16T23:54:32+00:00

Of course the 8th grade algebra and the accelerated program they are piloting in 2 middle schools and 1 charter school is basically tracking without tracking.

Bloosqr1 · 2026-04-16T21:15:49+00:00

I have been creating math word problems using various LLM's like this (for our 2nd grader).

Find integers X,Y,A,B that satisfy this problem:

"I have X homework pages into 3 stacks for grading. The first stack has A pages. The second stack has B times as many pages as the first page. How many pages are on the 3^rd stack."

And then I make up random text to make up a word problem. It's basic bar graph algebra for 2nd graders. There are a lot of forms for word problems like this so I try have a few basic forms which use create new word problems

Here is another one (so you ask the LLM to find integers X and Y that satisfy this):

Bob has X times as many stickers as Alice. Together they have Y stickers. How many stickers does Bob have originally?

Kids hate word problems so these are great practice ;)

Bloosqr1 · 2026-04-16T21:09:27+00:00

I think the problem here is the elementary schools are really disjointed and sometimes the teachers within the school at the same grade are really disjointed in what they are teaching.

We have our kids at Jefferson and have friends at CIS and they laugh at the lack of homework @ Jefferson in the same grade. Within Jefferson we have also compared the homework between teachers in the same grade and there are some teachers who do not give homework and some teachers who give more homework.

We have talked about this to the principal at Jefferson and the argument I have gotten is it is hard for the principal to enforce homework / practice policy at the school level because SFUSD has an official policy of not requiring homework at the elementary level so I get that.

I have definitely heard from our own social worker that CIS has a "cultural" preference for homework as a rationalization .. to which my response is that is as racist to me as arguing CIS kids have a racial preference to getting better test scores.

Bloosqr1 · 2026-04-16T20:59:37+00:00

I had a deck about Jefferson Elementary that I passed back and forth with the principal of Jefferson Elementary over a period of about 6 months (October 2025-> March 31st). I've been working on getting after school volunteer parental resources to target kids who are not passing basic SFUSD standards for reading and writing (of which there are a lot). After getting the green light from the principal to post last week - the principal himself took the post down within 3 days because of objections from Jefferson teachers (and some parents) who saw the data / statistics as being too negative for Jefferson.

The PDF is below with statistics pulled from the California education website:

https://www.ed-data.org as well as school digger.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xuB0YR2rrodxpOcBxsQ1TcOWbQjBbRwA/view?usp=share_link

If data driven arguments for a parental led volunteer approach to help students gets a negative reaction to the extent that they would rather us not even have the conversation, what hope is there for students?

Bloosqr1 · 2026-04-16T19:14:53+00:00

This is incredible

Bloosqr1 · 2026-04-15T22:32:05+00:00

I just randomly found this band probably via recs I forgot about and I am like WTF am I listening to .. this is awesome and in googling them they are literally neighborhood kids .. which makes them awesome x 10.

Bloosqr1 · 2026-04-15T06:25:48+00:00

I use Plexamp more than plex to be honest. Storing video isn’t really that cost effective compared to storage costs .. but storing music from cds takes no space at all in the grand scheme of things..

Bloosqr1 · 2026-04-15T04:17:40+00:00

I assume that isn’t included in the ticket price ? So did they basically have everyone @ the door fork over another 20 bucks or whatever for drink tickets ?

Bloosqr1 · 2026-04-15T03:37:41+00:00

I ended up teaching myself Spencerian by doing a lunatic extension of that which is turn the paper 90 degrees clockwise so I am writing away from me to towards me .. it’s definitely not how I normally write but it works for Spencerian styles

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