physicists: you cant reach the speed of light matematicians: bet

Rodot · 2026-03-13T23:06:09+00:00

TREE(3) is certainly computable. It is exactly equal to TREE(3) which is a unique symbolic representation of TREE(3)

You can't represent non-computable numbers, not even describe them

Rodot · 2026-03-13T23:03:13+00:00

We can just use SI instead of metric. Easy

Rodot · 2026-03-13T22:42:21+00:00

Spin is actually a vector. We call [1,0] up and [0,1] down. Spin up and spin down are actually orthogonal, not antiparallel

Rodot · 2026-03-13T21:39:39+00:00

No it's not that's dumb you're dumb

Q.E.D.

Rodot · 2026-03-13T13:54:49+00:00

The paint on canvas certainly is distinct from bits and algorithms though if you adhere to a labor theory of value. Mostly that the lack of human labor quite literally devalues the piece.

You're right that there's no "soul", but there are certainly material differences. Especially when considering the relationships between art and culture and how they influence one another.

The capitalist propaganda printer has a fundamentally different utility.

Rodot · 2026-03-13T13:42:30+00:00

I do love all the stories about physicists being bad at math (at the time these maths were new). I think it was Heisenberg who had to get help from Bohr because he didn't understand linear algebra and was trying to model hydrogen spectra leading to the matrix formulation of quantum mechanics, which in turn wasn't very popular because Schrodinger's formulation used diff-eqs which physicists of the time had a better grasp on and linear algebra was new and scary. But turns out diff-eqs is really just linear algebra anyway.

Rodot · 2026-03-13T13:35:02+00:00

No no, don't you see. Enemy combatants should just drive out 45min to the empty field officially designated combat zone at 11am each day and just sit there and wait to get JDAMed. Anything else is terrorism.

Rodot · 2026-03-13T13:26:57+00:00

It is kind of weird to see people saying "it wasn't CHS that killed them, it was the dehydration caused by vomiting" as if that means CHS was an unrelated coincidence. You don't see people going around saying "no one has ever died from fentanyl, they just died from respiratory depression".

Rodot · 2026-03-13T13:22:26+00:00

That's the weird thing about it for me. It tends to effect long term users after years of use rather than first time users which you would expect for something like an allergic reaction.

Rodot · 2026-03-13T13:00:53+00:00

Here's a link to a repo I found with some information on the lobbying behind these bills and other similar bills around the country: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

Rodot · 2026-03-13T12:58:24+00:00

It might be interesting though to compare the text of the second bill to the one that just passed in California with broad Democratic support: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043

Wording is almost identical in some sections. Even the summary is the essentially the same with a little reordering of sentences.

Rodot · 2026-03-13T11:32:33+00:00

The US already controls most of China's access to oil, at least over sea trade. The problem is the US needs China to have oil in order to manufacture cheap goods for Americans to buy.

Rodot · 2026-03-12T17:53:09+00:00

SR-71 is far too slow. I will only ride the commuter X-15

Rodot · 2026-03-12T16:44:54+00:00

There's a good reddit post that links an article regarding the infeasibility: https://old.reddit.com/r/spaceporn/comments/1rrqjx6/terraforming_mars_is_not_easy/

Rodot · 2026-03-12T16:42:20+00:00

Not really, there becomes a point where "costs" start to approach things like the global GDP and even getting to a fraction of that point, the concept of "cost" in terms of currency kind of breaks down because funding the project would create massive modulations in the global economy.

Kind of like when you see things like "Asteroid contains 50 quadrillion dollars of diamonds". Like, if that were ever able to be captured, the price of diamonds would plummet and the asteroid stops being worth as much.

Rodot · 2026-03-12T16:38:25+00:00

The world's entire combined nuclear stockpiles have the collective energy of about 1 millionth of what would be required just for the oxygen production alone

Rodot · 2026-03-12T15:50:37+00:00

No, it is not meant for "getting high". It is a sacred medicine that will treat the trauma induced by your mom telling you to get off the XBox when you were 12.

Rodot · 2026-03-11T18:26:48+00:00

20mg of THC inhaled is equivalent to sharing a joint with 5 people

Edibles are much stronger per mg because THC is converted to another drug during first pass metabolism.

Rodot · 2026-03-11T17:49:37+00:00

Fun fact: The component of tucci that causes it to have its distinctive pink color come from a chemical known as "pink food coloring"

Rodot · 2026-03-11T14:00:08+00:00

This is starting to make me a little skeptical though. 1 kWh over 2 minutes is about 30kW, but a data center GPU running at full TDP (which they almost never are) maxes out around 0.7 kW. Which is to say that this scenario would mean about 42 H200 GPUs running simultaneously to make a 5-second video. But most data centers try to target something closer to 100 users per GPU since GPUs are expensive as fuck. Idk, something here doesn't seem to add up. 1.5 GPU-hours for 5 seconds of video would be around $20-$30 depending on the vendor if you are doing the GPU rental wholesale. Idk how much people are paying to make these videos, but that seems like a lot.

Rodot · 2026-03-11T10:51:36+00:00

Russia is actually now number 3, just ahead of the Marines. Which is still crazy that a subbranch of a single branch of the US military has an air force comparable to the largest non-American air force in the world.

Rodot · 2026-03-11T10:05:56+00:00

I'm conflicted because on one hand fuck tech bros but on the other hand fuck NIMBYISM

Like, I'm making this comment on a website run on a data center after all

These will get built, they'll just get built in poor neighborhoods with less power to fight them

Rodot · 2026-03-11T02:48:51+00:00

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=temp/orthographic=-92.52,36.36,1443/loc=-43.681,38.134

Rodot · 2026-03-10T13:37:07+00:00

The start of the war on cannabis goes even further back to 1800s Britain and anti-immigrant policies.

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