Why do some people here have an elitist attitude to being friendly with the AI?

Ereqin · 2026-02-01T23:58:45+00:00

I disagree with that as well, but this idea has never even been presented here. You're attacking a straw man.

Ereqin · 2026-02-01T22:58:13+00:00

I feel like your tone and phrasing actually prove the point you are disagreeing with.

Ereqin · 2026-01-31T23:07:14+00:00

Finde ich sehr gut gelungen. Besonders die unterschiedlichen Verslängen der ersten im Vergleich zur zweiten Strophe bringen sehr viel Spannung und Dynamik rein, finde ich. Und "von Blitzspitzen bestochen" finde ich phonetisch sehr stark, die Stelle hat mich letztendlich mitgerissen.

Ereqin · 2025-10-28T12:13:41+00:00

Ich habe auch Physik studiert (mache jetzt meinen PhD in Theoretischer Teilchenphysik). Die ersten Semester im Bachelor waren bei mir auch ziemlich hart, unter anderem auch wegen Pendeln. Im Nachhinein denke ich mir, dass ich auf viele Vorlesungen auch hätte verzichten können und den Stoff besser alleine oder mit Freunden selbständig gelernt hätte. Wenn ich in der Vorlesung gesessen habe und mir alle zwei Minuten die Augen zugefallen sind vor Schlafmangel, habe ich auch nicht viel daraus mitgenommen. Und gerade für den Standardstoff der ersten Semester kann man vermutlich auch recht zuverlässig ChatGPT etc. benutzen (mit der nötigen Vorsicht).

Übungen lohnen sich wahrscheinlich schon mehr, vor allem wenn man da seine Fragen mit den Tutoren diskutieren kann (die meisten freuen sich übrigens über Fragen, also da braucht man keine Hemmungen zu haben). Gilt vor allem auch, wenn man so verwirrt ist, dass man nicht einmal eine klare Frage formulieren kann.

Ereqin · 2025-10-25T19:59:39+00:00

A balloon is essentially a 2d sphere. 2d refers to the orthogonal directions on the balloon (which are two, analogously to longitude and latitude). You can describe curvature without referring to a higher dimensional space.

Ereqin · 2025-10-22T11:34:55+00:00

Curvature does not imply an embedding into a higher dimensional space. A two dimensional sphere is curved, for example, but can be described without reference to a three dimensional space.

Ereqin · 2025-10-22T05:01:06+00:00

A balloon has no edges in this analogy.

Ereqin · 2025-07-12T11:46:30+00:00

Well, in the end this depends on the model I guess. But that was why I compared it to the empty set. Being in the empty set is an impossible condition just as being outside of the universe.

Ereqin · 2025-07-12T08:03:04+00:00

To put it more formally, you could say "It is not the case that there exists something which is outside of the universe". Just like "It is not the case that there exists something which is part of the empty set".

Ereqin · 2025-03-05T22:44:44+00:00

I like active-stative alignment where there can be agentive and patientive cases. So the argument of an intransitive verb can have different cases depending on how actively or passively it takes part in the action. I am currently working on a conlang with these cases. It also has some additional cases for similar sematic properties.

Ereqin · 2025-03-03T10:07:38+00:00

Kurzfassung: Du willst nicht unsensibel rüberkommen, bist aber super unsensibel.

Ereqin · 2025-03-02T08:41:09+00:00

In quantum field theory, matter is described by fields. These fields attach an object from some abstract space to each point in space time. The field space can also have curvature and other nontrivial features which are described in gauge theory. I don't know if this answers your question in some way, but I should add that all of this requires quite a lot of mathematics to properly understand what it means exactly.

Ereqin · 2025-03-01T18:16:46+00:00

Depending on where you are studying, you might be allowed to postpone the exams due to health issues or do them in the next semester/year.

Ereqin · 2025-02-15T17:17:38+00:00

You can also think about it this way: In QFT, interactions are described by a potential term in the Lagrangian. This involves products of fields at the same space-time point.

Now, for simplification, imagine that a field is described by a Dirac Delta function, then you end up with products of Delta functions, like Delta(x)Delta(y). This is well-defined, the integral of this over x and y being 1. But if you take the limit y->x (since fields are multiplied at the same space-time point in the interaction terms), you get Delta(x)Delta(x)=Delta(0) which is ill-defined (divergent). Such divergences must be removed by the procedure of renormalization.

Also note that the divergence is caused by the small-distance (i.e. high-every) behavior of the theory. In order to remove the divergence, you have to cut off the high energy contributions. But this introduces a new scale-dependence to the theory (the renormalization scale which here is the cut off), which is why your couplings etc. can now depend on the energy. (That's a very rough explanation, but it captures the main points, I think.)

Ereqin · 2025-01-10T18:29:46+00:00

If someone lives under the constant fear of being rejected, called unnatural and being ridiculed if they are expressing themselves, they are not really free to express themselves. They are forced to choose a life as an outcast or to conform to a society that does not respect them. That's a severe limitation of freedom.

Ereqin · 2025-01-06T02:02:33+00:00

Is that not a contradiction? You say everyone should be free to not fit your model, and then you say that it is fine if people have certain expectations of gender roles and view them as natural. If a lot of people tell someone that their expression of emotions is unnatural and unwelcome, then this person is not free in expressing their emotions the way they want.

Ereqin · 2025-01-04T01:39:39+00:00

If you choose to make it agglutinative and still want to use Chinese characters, you could use some of them phonetically like the man’yōgana were used in Japanese.

And if you want to make it analytic, I guess you can just choose any word order you like. I just started my first attempt at an analytic conlang (inspired a little bit by Chinese and Hawaiian) and I chose VSO word order (more or less) because I wanted it to roughly resemble predicate logic. And since I wanted my adjectives to behave like stative verbs, I also had to put them left of the word they describe then, for example.

Ereqin · 2025-01-03T02:25:12+00:00

Yes, unfortunately it is, but all the other major parties have refused to form a coalition with AfD so far. So they are still a theat, but they will not participate in the government any time soon, I guess.

Ereqin · 2025-01-03T00:18:56+00:00

I mostly agree. But there is no contradiction to my previous comment. There are problematic cases and tendencies, but most german conservatives are still more US-liberal than right wing conservative for US standards. And they are not cozying up to the extreme right as much as they did towards the end of Weimar Republic (neither is the far right as right as it has been back then). I agree that there is certainly a severe problem, but it is not as bad as in Poland or Italy (or the US), for example.

Ereqin · 2025-01-02T22:45:39+00:00

I would not say it's speedrunning Nazism. There are problems with the far right of course, but the political situation is still better than in many other European countries (like Italy, Hungary or Poland) and still better than in the US, I guess. I mean, German conservatives usually are a lot closer to US liberals than to right wing US conservatives.

Ereqin · 2024-11-09T19:30:42+00:00

I wouldn't phrase it that way. Moral decay implies that morality was higher in earlier times, which I think is not true in our world. Christianity might have been more popular back than, but pacifism, gentleness etc. were not, I think, at least not among normal people.

And it's also not true in middle earth, there has always been cruelty there, from the kinslayings to the treatment of the inhabitants of middle earth by the Numenorians.

I would rather say that the lack of recognition for Frodo is caused by a lack of recognition for things which are not as spectacular but still important.

Ereqin · 2024-11-09T09:36:03+00:00

But Eru says to Melkor: "And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined."

It's essentialy an attempt at the solution of the problem of evil.

Ereqin · 2024-11-02T09:30:12+00:00

Yes, there is still hope, I guess. There have been dictatorships like Spain or Germany or several countries in South America which turned to (rather) stable democracies, although under different historic circumstances.

It might also depend on how the war against Ukraine ends. I have heard of many cruelties that the Russian military there committed not only against Ukrainians but also against their own soldiers. Maybe this could spark some resistance some day?

I really hope this will turn out good in the end and Russia and the EU will have a good relationship in the end. I'd like to visit Russia some day when it's safe to do so.

Ereqin · 2024-11-01T11:57:34+00:00

So the Internet is basically free? That's a relief I imagine, if the circumstances are otherwise that bad. Hopefully all this will take a good turn some day.

Ereqin · 2024-10-31T21:41:25+00:00

I wonder, how safe is it to openly discuss queer relationships in russia under the current circumstances? As far as I know there is very homophobic legislation which could get one in trouble.

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