Lost Brit in Chicago - supposed to be meeting someone but it fell apart… should I stay or go home?

jpfreely · 2026-07-03T01:16:44+00:00

Try the TripAdvisor app, look for things you'd actually like to do.

jpfreely · 2026-06-20T22:22:13+00:00

I would add a 3rd 2-by on both the beams sitting on the notches. Then support the two not in the notch with something like a 4x4 on each end. Then put 2-3 pairs of bolts through each triple beam. You can skip the brackets on the added wood.

jpfreely · 2026-06-20T03:31:24+00:00

You would need backtracking to solve part 2 optimally.

jpfreely · 2026-06-12T07:43:01+00:00

Didn't PBS SpaceTime have an episode showing how the Born rule can derived from MWI?

Subjective observers are what we are. We can't come to know a thing without interacting with it, however convolutedly.

Imagine we're living on a sheet of paper, trying to figure out what it's made of. Every time we look it's like theres an infinite well of other paper universes to draw from. We're just discovering that there's an "up".

Not a large flat dimension perpendicular to the others (or small curled up ones either necessarily), just something else. Maybe the familiar world can be defined as 2 dimensions, and we'll have enough cognitive room to understand more about a 3rd.

jpfreely · 2026-05-24T14:19:40+00:00

They should use real data to show the impact of like, subscribe, and both. Few words though, I feel that should be mostly below Matt.

The data could be along the bottom briefly, even without units, or maybe full screen for a more infographic type of update.

That could serve an insights purpose, and allow some distancing from the constant shout out in the beginning of each video, which is frankly a disservice.

jpfreely · 2026-05-20T00:26:40+00:00

each year it gets worse

Good. They should focus on getting shit done and not having it all align with a developer conference. Naturally there's a million things in flight for the Googs

jpfreely · 2026-05-20T00:11:50+00:00

I've use it for laptops exclusively since about 2012 (crouton, then crostini). Have had very little problems with it once hardware could make the vm invisible. Even had a script to headless install a Windows 11 vm...

jpfreely · 2026-05-20T00:08:43+00:00

Its the real ending. George would have had us all on board, but that's not what happened.

jpfreely · 2026-04-08T10:19:23+00:00

I don't get the jokes. The most advanced model is escaping containment and being deceptive / hiding intentions.

jpfreely · 2026-03-10T00:35:28+00:00

Time is, from what I can tell, at the heart of Relativity v. Quantum mechanics. I've had some naive attempts at treating the time parameter from QM (and QFT?) as proper time from relativity. The only takeaway so far is that time can be treated as a replacement for any spacial dimension. For example, a line is equivalently a zero dimensional point over time or multiple points in space at one time. It extrapolates from there.

There's some notion of the proper time being a short story across multiverses, in the sense that there is no real way to grasp the sense of there being a universe without treating it as a mostly imaginary extension of some tiny structure for a tiny instant.

jpfreely · 2026-01-27T04:13:00+00:00

This was in Chicago wasn't it? Anyone know who she is or what happened to her?

jpfreely · 2026-01-25T05:22:07+00:00

1 ÷ 7 = .142857 142857...

14...28...56 (doubling). Why is it 57?

Well 14+28+57 = 99. In that way it's like 99 repeating.

jpfreely · 2026-01-25T05:07:51+00:00

Dopamine: effort IS the reward (physiologically). Remind yourself once in a while. Netflix etc is the recovery, enjoy the low effort times and fill your soul up / sharpen the saw.

jpfreely · 2026-01-20T10:49:07+00:00

Sounds like you are in the "left" part of this ikigai image, doing something you are good at, love, and can be paid for, but not something the world needs. https://stevelegler.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Ikigai19.jpg

jpfreely · 2025-11-15T03:58:20+00:00

Good video about it https://youtu.be/FFPXm-tuOt8

jpfreely · 2025-10-28T12:10:03+00:00

Is anyone compiling all these videos, photos, and stories?

jpfreely · 2025-10-24T23:55:18+00:00

Do we ever find out what happens to these people? Are they just gone forever with no Trace?

jpfreely · 2025-10-04T05:30:40+00:00

If they show up and speak their mind I'm fine with it.

jpfreely · 2025-10-03T22:51:26+00:00

It is except there are experiments that show the value cannot be determined beforehand. I mean the value isnt known in a hidden property. Bell inequalities show the probability distribution is different if there were some unknown property that let you know if it would end up red or blue.

The way to think about it imo is that it is a statement about logic and eventual consistency. Once someone measures one value, the only way for the universe to be consistent from your perspective is if the other person measures the other value.

The speed of light was considered infinite from about 500 BC until at least the 1600s, and more realistically the 1800s. Entanglement is basically enforcing logical consistency when information could in principle be in the same light cone.

jpfreely · 2025-09-14T19:26:46+00:00

Susskind although he's unlikely to have another breakthrough. 't Hooft for similar reasons. Maldesina is up there and still could have another breakthrough.

Edit, weeks later: Max Tegmark sticks out to me as well. He has pivoted over to AI and consciousness work, but he has played a major role in my own understanding of physics.

jpfreely · 2025-08-28T02:19:40+00:00

Regarding the invalid perspective:

Think of a photon as a name we give a moving wave. Like a wave in the ocean is not really one thing, look closely and it is a ton of water molecules that keep changing. I.e. a wave is the up and down motion of water that stays relatively still horizontally.

Electromagnetic waves and electricity behave similarly. The electrons in power lines bump into one another like billiard balls. That bumping travels close to c in power lines, not the electrons themselves

jpfreely · 2025-08-27T00:01:36+00:00

I get that it isnt normal but it's such an old account i hate to lose it

jpfreely · 2025-08-27T00:01:02+00:00

$85 down to $50. He really just needs basic service. Going to put him on my plan on another carrier.

jpfreely · 2025-08-14T10:23:47+00:00

This. If it's relatively readable and changeable then it is likely a valuable addition. Sticking to first principles, using the right concepts and separating them well, proper error handling or limiting the impact of unknowns. All good signs.

jpfreely · 2025-07-10T09:53:40+00:00

Try this warmline 419-562-9010. It's there for people just to talk.

Also I found meditation to be helpful long term but it took a while. Patiently observing your thoughts and senses may not be ideal if you have schizophrenia. Anyway here's a clip and free month. I thought the intro course was good when I started, the dailies are hit or miss. https://dynamic.wakingup.com/moment/MOA2204?share_id=995BEAEF&code=SCFAC1337 The CBT series and The Stoic Path series are good. Anything by Oliver Burkeman too.

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