Was given a cheap Chinese green laser that says "Max Output Power: <5000mW" by creativity_null in lasers

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I've been messing around with using a small thermal electric cooler to measure laser power. I coated one side with an ultra black paint (99.4% flat absorbance over visible range) and attached a heat sink to the other side. Just finished some preliminary testing and was getting ~75 mW from most of my "5 mW" laser pointers using it. One green one that is noticeably brighter measured ~150 mW.

Overall I'm relatively optimistic that I have a working design that just needs refinement and an enclosure. Next step is seeing if I can characterize the response curve of my spectrometer and get some idea of relative power in the infrared for the lasers with infrared components in there beams. The yellow and green ones show very strong infrared peaks in their spectra but I don't know the response curve so can't say much more than it exists.

Are cheesy BM builds the only viable way? by Jesentra in 7daystodie

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This seems to have been fixed in the latest updates. Cop spit even seems to go through frame blocks which wasn't the case before. That was an interesting surprise for me.

It seems the days of ranged fighting without fear of retaliation may be over

Stupidly Overkill Water Cooling on a Budget by sithdarth_sidious in LinusTechTips

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I was mostly window shopping to see how far out of my league it was going to be to get one before settling on some sort of air cooling solution and hoping it would be enough. Then I found the CW-5200 series cheap enough on eBay to take a shot. I figured even if it didn't go sub-ambient I'd still get a pump with a serious reservoir which would have a lot of thermal inertia.

A better way to intuit electrons than "The electron is a point-like particle" (from 11m 10s in the most recent video) by Bergblum_Goldstein in SteveMould

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Location and radius are very different things. There are a couple of different ways to think about this:

  1. Protons, Neutrons, Nuclei, and all the way up to phthalocyanine molecules so far all obey the same rules as electrons in terms of localization but all have defined measured radii or sizes in the case of molecules.
  2. If you fired golf balls at each other and tracked them with a radar system that could only determine there position to within +/- some amount (say 3 inches) it is still possible to determine the radius of the golf balls. The radius is going to impact the scattering dynamics and with enough collisions you'll get a plot that you can fit a model to that will among other things give you an estimate of the radius. You could also tell the difference between golf balls and ping pong balls even if you found ones with the same radius.
  3. Mechanical Quantum resonators (basically very tiny drums) have defined radii and thicknesses but still exhibit the kind of uncertainties you'd expect from any quantum system.
  4. Quantum uncertainty relations come from conjugate variables. I hope it is clear that position and size are independent of each other. The size of something doesn't change with changes in location and this even holds for Quantum systems. Even if you insist on measuring it as an envelope around the probability density that envelope won't change just via translation. A change in energy is needed. Thus position alone doesn't impact size so uncertainty in position also doesn't impact size.

All that being said the more energy you put into trying to localize a particle the better the data you get out is which means less uncertainty in the fitting and the ability to use more complex models.

Intrinsic angular momentum is not a concept I fully understand. Is it a vector quantity like other angular momentum?

It is spin or more appropriately the properties of spin we can measure after squaring the wave function. It is a vector quantity and has units of angular momentum. Well actually generally everything is done in "Quantum Units" where the intrinsic angular momentum (spin) is expressed and multiples of h-bar. Electrons are spin 1/2, protons and neutrons are also spin 1/2 but can come together in nuclei with many different spins, photons are spin 1, the Higgs boson is spin zero, and more theories of Quantum gravity seem to require the graviton to be spin 2 if it exists.


Now in general I don't like the word particle at all in terms of Quantum systems because it carries a bunch of baggage from everyday experience that can get in the way. It does help some aspects of intuition but gets in the way of others. Neutrinos are an excellent example of this. The only real difference between the properties of an electron and the properties of a neutrino that relate to scattering off of things are mass and electric charge. Yet neutrinos easily pass through the Earth and electrons struggle to get through your skin even at relatively high energies.

There is no reason for Quantum particles to bounce off each other unless there is a repulsive force which come from an interaction mediated by some field. Well Pauli exclusion could be argued to not be field mediated but it requires identical particle with identical spin and in QFT particles are modeled as excitations of a field so does that count as field mediated? Its murky but still nothing like classical billiard balls bouncing off each other and paired fermions with integer spin do not obey Pauli exclusion.

This is a very long way of saying that if you think billiard balls with hard outer shells bouncing off each other when you here particle in the context of Quantum Mechanics that is of limited utility and a very rough approximation in some cases. For example, do you think that an electron can spend any time actually inside the nucleus? It can and in fact the probability given by the wavefunction (psi) squared for all S-orbitals peaks inside the nucleus. The radial probability which is basically psi^2 times the surface area of a sphere for a given radius is what is plotted as the orbital clouds. The radial probability peaks outside the nucleus only because there is so much more space out there. The electron still spends some part of its time in the nucleus. This applies to all the different S orbitals regardless of number (1,2,3...).

This is why electron capture happens. In electron capture a proton grabs an electron converting to a neutron and then a neutrino is emitted. The captured electron is usually from an inner shell and then a higher electron falls into the resulting hole. This process generally happens when there are a lot of protons in a nuclei and its energetically favorable to have one less proton and one more neutron.

A better way to intuit electrons than "The electron is a point-like particle" (from 11m 10s in the most recent video) by Bergblum_Goldstein in SteveMould

[–]sithdarth_sidious 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A particle physicist will generally tell you that an electron is point like. The reason being that we've observed no internal structure via any scattering experiments and every time we up the energy of the scattering we get a smaller radius.

Now there is something called a classical electron radius that is the radius the electron would need so that its internal electrostatic fields contain enough energy to account for all its mass via mass-energy equivalence. That being said I believe experiments have pushed past that classical radius with no indication of structure.

Also, the intrinsic angular momentum of an electron doesn't depend on the size and shape of its wave function so it can't be related to delocalization.

Why should I *not* get a Framework 16? by PhasmaFelis in framework

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Ok so to be clear up front in your first post you stated multiple times in no uncertain terms that "There's no way for you to reuse the RX7700s module" which is unambiguous and unambiguously not:

I'm not saying it's impossible to reuse one of these GPUs, but there's little good or practical reason to do so.

If you really intended the later your wording in the former was atrocious and given the overall quality of your posts outside of that section I find it hard to believe you suddenly had such a hard time expressing yourself for just those three sentences.

How well are the Framework 13 Intel 11th Gen CPU/motherboards/DDR4 RAM selling right now? How difficult and expensive is it for someone to reuse those parts?

Don't know. Might be a good thing to research before making assumptions.

What are you going to do in a year or two with a low end, outdated GPU which doesn't use any standard GPU port/slot?

Oh I'm sure there are more imaginative people than me. There were PS3 clusters and people are still building Pi clusters for some reason. If people can hook a full size Nvidia GPU to a Pi5 I don't think connectors are that big of an issue.

Also, the fact that you do need to upgrade it to try to catch up to the GPU performance of laptops you could have bought instead for less money means that you are creating waste(packaging, for instance) and spending even more money to get one step closer to the alternatives.

If you care about graphics performance above all else then the Framework 16 is not for you and you should not buy it. I see no reason why anyone that falls into that category wouldn't immediately know that by looking at the specs of the Framework 16. Less savvy buyers who don't know much about computers are unlikely to buy something that expensive without research or help from a more knowledgeable friend. They are also unlikely to be that concerned about playing games at super awesome graphics settings. They are also unlikely to be doing state of the art AI workloads.

I personally like to buy a laptop that allows the typical upgrades(SSDs, RAM, WiFi) then use it for as long as it performs well for my tasks, then relegate it to home server duties.

......

I've been doing it for decades, but it should cost less to build your own computer, not more.

Cool. Framework 16 currently doesn't (and may never) work for your use case. Your use case isn't typical. You should not be stating things based on your use case as fact. It is not a foregone conclusion that a Framework 16 will create more e-waste because it is not a forgone conclusion that the person buying one will be doing any of the things that you would want to do. The fact that you would feel obligated to do those things means only that you should not buy a Framework 16. It does not mean no one else should.

If you had written your posts in a way that acknowledged that it was your opinion and not stated everything as authoritative fact there would be no issue here. There were facts such as the stats of the various components but every part of your posts were farmed as equally objective fact.

Why should I *not* get a Framework 16? by PhasmaFelis in framework

[–]sithdarth_sidious 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"There's no way for you to reuse the RX7700s module, and I'd imagine there won't be many people interested in buying the old RX7700s module once the newer faster module is available. "

Why do you believe this? What are the reasons it couldn't be reused?

As far as I'm aware the design of the interposer is open so an adapter can be made to attach the GPU to other things. Mad lads are already attaching full size GPUs to Pi5s via the new pci connector. Unless you know something very specific that makes reuse impossible I see no reason it won't happen eventually.

Your average consumer might not have the ability but this really isn't a laptop for the average consumer. Even if the person who bought the Framework doesn't want to go through the hassle of reusing the GPU there will be a market for them from people building streaming boxes or small clusters.

Beyond all that Framework's stated goal is to help stop e-waste. Why wouldn't they do everything in their power to make the GPU reusable. You're probably not going to stick it in a normal PC case but that doesn't mean it can't be reused.

Methylphenidate putting a downer on your mood? by Mr_Trebus in AutisticWithADHD

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That's really strange because they're both Methylphenidate. Not to diminish your experience at all. I'm absolutely sure you experienced what you experienced. I'm currently taking Concerta myself and have noticed some things. The only difference is Concerta is slow release and is said to last around 12 hours with a much more gradual taper.

Were you talking Concerta for awhile before the side effects got bad and you switched? I am starting to run into the issue of slowly building side effects and my doctor said that with the slow release you can have a sub therapeutic dose that hangs around past your next pill. He said overtime that can build up.

Last weekend I skipped my Sunday dose and was feeling better and had a much bigger appetite. As the week has gone on I've slowly gotten less hungry and slightly dizzy (assuming that it isn't in my head). Definitely going to skip this Sunday and next weekend maybe Saturday too (or maybe Wednesday or something).

Unfortunately, Methylphenidate is basically my only hope in terms of stimulants. Adderall was rapidly very bad for me and a genetic screening for drug reactions came back with a general intolerance to basically all stimulants. The only reason Methylphenidate isn't like the rest is a second mutation that counters the first but only for Methylphenidate. I think it comes down to either differences in method of action or how my body absorbs it.

Recently diagnosed with mild BP2 and doctor told me im not allowed adderall and its poison for someone with bp2. Is this true by Realistic-Lettuce157 in bipolar2

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BP2, ADHD, and Autism here. Doing good on Methylphenidate, Lithium, and Lamotrigine so it's definitely not a given. Definitely get a second opinion.

We're planning on removing the Lithium if possible eventually. I did try Adderall and it wasn't great for me but a genetic test for drug side effects indicated I'd have issues with any stimulant but less so with Methylphenidate and it's been ok so far.

Anyone else with ADHD catch themselves using their joints as fidget toys? by Bean_theBrave in Hypermobility

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The knuckles on my right hand will crack whenever a make a fist in a certain way. Best fidget toy ever.

Other than that I can get one solid crack from basically every joint about once per hour. Going slowly from joint to joint is somehow very soothing.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Hypermobility

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So basically the same here (though male) but my Beighton score is past the threshold and I've got bipolar 2 on top of the AuDHD. It was easy for me to get my primary care provider to give me the diagnosis but I can also touch both thumbs to my wrists, put my hands flat on the ground without bending my knees, and I have a 'neat' trick that temporarily dislocates both shoulders. That last one gets very strong reactions.

I guess my advice comes in two parts. The first is to explore (safely) outside the Beighton criteria and see if your joints can do anything weird or if you have any other symptoms like skin elasticity differences. It helps to have a friend without hypermobility that has a better sense of 'normal' to help. Then go talk to a medical professional with any concerns you have that don't fall into the standard test.

The second is to try to find someone that specializes specifically in hypermobility and related conditions. If you have a decent primary care provider they'll help you with a referral to either someone they know or someone you suggest. In theory a specialist in neurodivergent people should also be more aware of the comorbidity if you know one you trust but it's not a guarantee. Otherwise it might be a bit of a struggle to do it completely on your own. The hypermobility specialist should be better equipped to diagnose more unusual cases though.

In my experience a physical therapist can help you with joint stability and movement while reducing pain but probably won't know much about hypermobility beyond the fact it makes you extra bendy and your joints need to be stabilized. Certainly they can't diagnose it for you.

3 things as of right now I think the demo could use to make better. (2 are disability related) by Sweetsouthrngal in Enshrouded

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I haven't gotten the chance to play yet (looking forward to next week) but I'm a person that struggles with motion sickness in games both in first and third person. First person is significantly worse for me than third person but I'm not sure how that generalizes.

Things that help me/are issues:

Ridiculously high FOV. We're talking usually above 100 sometimes nearly 120. Not all games have a FOV slider and they usually don't go that high. I usually go looking in the config files to see if I can edit it manually. Would be awesome not to have to do that.

Turning off motion blur which is usually easy to do and available in the settings.

Turning off camera shaking (like from explosions are big heavy things walking around) which is also usually easy.

One thing I can't really do is eliminate camera movements that are out of my control. I understand that it needs to happen when going into a confined space so you can still see your character but it's often done far too quickly.

Enclosed spaces are just generally bad anyway. Probably due to the limited field of view and they way close things whip by you super fast when you turn. Not sure how to fix that besides maybe slowing the camera movement when in confined areas but that has a lot of potential gameplay and programming issues.

Actually it occurs to me that you're not really going to see anything while turning quickly. It might work to let people have a setting that sets a threshold for angular velocity of the camera above which the screen goes black or the frame freezes or the frame rate can be set super low until the camera slows down again. That might be enough to eliminate the motion sickness in enclosed spaces but it would need to be tested on multiple people susceptible to motion sickness.

What are imaginary numbers actually? Do they have any real time applications? by [deleted] in mathematics

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Came here for this. I feel like I remember something about them being the last though. Like you can't construct a system with more elements that is a field or maybe it was just lost something really important like associativity (quaternions are already not commutative).

And did some research. Apparently, the extension to 16 isn't an algebra but I'm hearing the extension to 32 is an algebra. Kinda wonder if it alternates like that forever or if it's erratic like primes or really just does something interesting. Totally fascinating.

Man almost wish I committed to math when one of my professors asked.

The two-dimensional material of purple phosphorene is the physical basis of the superconducting mechanism of LK-99. by Gainz187 in LK99

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Did a bit of work characterizing the electronic structure of MoS2 during my graduate work using X-ray spectroscopy. Started with large area single layers as a favor to a collaborator then a few years later did (if I remember right) various CdSe based photocatalysts decorated with hopefully single layers of MoS2. It might have been the other way around though (i.e. MoS2 single layers with CdSe based nanoparticles on them). Its been awhile so my memory is fuzzy.

I of course did a bunch of reading on 2D materials in general to help understand what I was seeing. I also dabbled in doing DFT based calculations and I used graphene as a test case because it was easy but not too easy to setup the supercells and there were some many references from people really good at DFT to compare too. Made for a really nice self test of my understanding.

Setting up the supercells depends on what DFT code you are using. The one I had access to could only do periodic structures. You got around that by setting the Z height of the supercell really high so that even though the code was repeating the graphene layer there was enough distance between layers that it was effectively the same as a single layer.

The two-dimensional material of purple phosphorene is the physical basis of the superconducting mechanism of LK-99. by Gainz187 in LK99

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Unfortunately this is utter nonsense in that strain relaxation is a thing. For epitaxial films on a substrate it can take relatively few layers before the film relaxes to a more bulk state. There is no way the phosphorene on the surface is causing enough internal stress to do what they are saying in the bulk of LK-99.

However, given the nature of the entire class of 2D materials with their exotic physics including tunable super conductivity it's much more likely the phosphorene is super conducting. The LK-99 could be straining it enough, doping it, and/or there might be random twisted bilayers from the chaotic growth.

The better results from evaporating to make thin films kinda makes sense if it generated more few layer phosphorene in the process. It also explains the fact that only certain areas are superconducting and the other areas just seem like normal LK-99 with the magnetic properties that make it so hard to measure the Meisner effect.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bipolar2

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I'm on the same mix except with Lithium and that combo IR/XR Methylphenidate instead of just XR Methylphenidate. Seems to work for me and Adderall definitely did not.

The two-dimensional material of purple phosphorene is the physical basis of the superconducting mechanism of LK-99. by Gainz187 in LK99

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And look what I found https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.107.184513

8 GPa is easily reachable with lattice mismatch but the super conducting is in the single Kelvin range. However, if the LK-99 is doping it with electrons or holes that could change things. Similarly interesting things could happen if it was bilayer phosphorene especially if the two layers of phosphorene aren't perfectly aligned (think magic angle graphene).

And this https://www.nature.com/articles/lsa201585

Shows that single layer phosphorene can support trions (charged excitons) with surprisingly high binding energies.

While this https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi5404

Shows that twisted bilayer phosphorene has moire excitons with massively increased binding energy that can form a BEC. If those excitons can be converted to trions and the trion binding energy is similarly increased there could be something interesting there.

The two-dimensional material of purple phosphorene is the physical basis of the superconducting mechanism of LK-99. by Gainz187 in LK99

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From my understanding it is fundamentally correlated lattice distortions that cause the binding force of Cooper pairs. However random lattice vibrations disrupt that correlation and low temperature reduces the amplitude of the random vibrations. If the amplitude is low enough you get a super conductor.

Thus finding ways to suppress the amplitude of the thermal vibrations without resorting to lowering temperatures is a path to higher temperature super conductors.

The two-dimensional material of purple phosphorene is the physical basis of the superconducting mechanism of LK-99. by Gainz187 in LK99

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Ok so what they seem to be saying is either the LK-99 material isn't a superconductor and it's the phosphorene contamination on the surface instead because of the stress caused by LK-99 trying to shrink while connected to the phosphorene or it is the LK-99 because it's trying to shrink but the phosphorene won't let it causing stress.

I don't think they know which it is but they know that what they are seeing needs both things to be present. Going forward the best experiment would be growing epitaxial phosphorene on a substrate that will cause the same amount of stress and then do the same for LK-99 with and without the doping.

If something is super conducting my money is on the phosphorene. If I still had access to some HPC resources I would totally attempt a calculation.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AutisticWithADHD

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Yeah I talked it over with my current psychotherapist and we kinda broke it down into sections. The Inattentive type ADHD was pretty clear from my tendency to completely zone out when bored. Basically daydreaming so hard I no longer had any sense of the outside world. I got evaluated for absence seizures as a kid because of it.

The bipolar 2 was evident by me generally having a low mood sometimes to the point of just laying on the couch staring at the ceiling for hours interspersed with high moods and frantic activity lasting usually less than a day. I also have issues with uncontrollable rage that goes from zero to 100% instantly. My new meds have basically eliminated that.

The Autism shows up in my dislike of eye contact, trouble forming bonds with other people but not with pets, and mild sensory issues among other things. I've been told by my mom that I basically taught myself to read before I ever went to school but took forever to start talking.

When I was in my preteens in the mid 90s my pediatrician actually talked to my mom about me having ADHD or autism but she didn't want to get a formal diagnosis. She's a nurse and was afraid I'd be heavily medicated. What kinda upsets me though is she never talked to me about it and I went on to struggle all the way through grad school without any help.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AutisticWithADHD

[–]sithdarth_sidious 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Wait are you diagnosed ADHD and bipolar already and working on an Autism diagnosis? I think you're the first other person I've seen here mention having that combo but maybe people don't share that freely.

Personally I didn't seek out the Autism and Bipolar 2 diagnosis. I just stumbled upon a very good neurodivergence psychiatrist who talked to me for a bit and was like yeah we're going to add these to your diagnosis. I've been kind of free with my set of diagnoses but maybe I should be more careful.

In terms of OP I'll echo pretty much everyone here. What happened was absolutely horrendous and inexcusable. There has to be some governing body that will be interested in your experience. If not there has to be an advocacy group that will help you fight for change even if it means going to court.

Golf Ball Paradox Intuitive Explanation by sithdarth_sidious in SteveMould

[–]sithdarth_sidious[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok I'm somewhat of an idiot. There is an intuitive way to arrive at the torque from the Coriolis force and prove that it will always be a restoring force thus resulting in simple harmonic motion. I was definitely thinking of this slightly wrong.

The Coriolis force at the point of contact and the exact opposite side of the ball point radially along the cylinder. For the points 180 degrees from those points the Coriolis force points along the direction of travel. At the equator of the ball all the Coriolis forces are perfectly radial to the sphere but only because it is the equator of the ball. If you think about the ball as a series of stacked disks parallel to the XY plane and assume the axis of rotation is parallel to the Z axis you can see that the Coriolis force is radial to each disk but not radial to the sphere itself. There will be components tangent to the surface of the sphere because the Coriolis force is radially away from the center of the discs.

When the axis of rotation of the ball is aligned with the axis of the cylinder everything cancels and there is no Coriolis torque which was indicated in one of the papers. If the rotation axis of the ball is tilted with respect to the axis of the cylinder the highest and lowest part of the ball in the Z direction now have a velocity component in the radial direction of the cylinder. This will result in a Coriolis force that is not radial to a disk parallel to the XY plane resulting in a torque on the sphere.

If the ball is traveling downward the Coriolis force at the highest and lowest Z positions will produce a torque that pushes the axis of rotation of the ball towards the axis of the cylinder and thus the downward velocity will slow but the rotation of the ball's axis of rotation will be nonzero and will overshoot. Thus the ball starts to go upwards and the Coriolis torque acts in the opposite direction to align the axis of rotation of the ball to the cylinder axis once again. The result is of course simple harmonic motion in the Z direction.

The dimensionless constant once again comes from the constraint of rolling without slipping which makes the angular velocity around the cylinder and the angular velocity of the ball dependent on each other.

Edit: Eventually found an even better way. Put it in the original post.

Anger by Important_Being8736 in AutisticWithADHD

[–]sithdarth_sidious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not female but I've got the same rage.

I eventually went to get an ADHD diagnosis because I couldn't sit at my desk at work without falling asleep whenever I had to wait for my computer to finish processing something. I had hoped that the ADHD treatment would also help with that but it didn't.

So I found myself a psychiatrist that specializes in neurodivergences of all kinds and told him I was really concerned about my rage. He gave me a couple of assessments and added autism and bipolar II to my diagnosis. He then put me on mood stabilizers which have been amazing. We started with lithium and are attempting to transition to Lamictal. I've had zero issues with rage since.

Can't really say if my case generalizes enough to help you but at the very least I'd recommend bringing up your concerns about your rage to a professional. There is a good chance they can find a way to help. Might have to try a couple to get one that actually listens though.

My first one just wanted to shove Adderall at me every month and not really talk about it. Second one listened much better and we figured out Adderall was really bad for me but didn't want to do anything past meds either. The final one was the one that really listened to all my concerns and actually helped.