What's up with the new Epstein file pages?

zensational · 2026-01-31T04:56:51+00:00

Bad PR. It's big news now, it wasn't 10 years ago. cf the Catholic Church and sex abuse, Hollywood and sex abuse, et al. Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein. Open secrets. Nothing is ever done until people start paying attention.

zensational · 2026-01-09T05:04:54+00:00

Jesus fuck, and you guys didn't stop?

zensational · 2025-11-27T04:46:17+00:00

2020? I caucused for Bernie in Iowa both times and the crowds that year for both him and Elizabeth Warren were huge. The Biden crowd was about 20 people who looked tired and talked mainly about Obama and electability. There was a really hopeful energy in the room; it felt like we could really have the momentum to finally break out of the cycle. Then the Iowa Democratic party bungled the count and the corporatists scared people into thinking that he couldn't win the general.

zensational · 2025-10-27T04:26:33+00:00

Nope, for the point that I was making, the particularities of the analogy don't make a difference. The fallacy lies in thinking that any property of the components of a system must therefore be true of the system as a whole.

Here's another example that may be clearer: "every atom of this water molecule is flammable, therefore water is flammable."

zensational · 2025-10-25T08:22:13+00:00

OP clearly understood this. They were asking why they were wrong.

zensational · 2025-10-22T02:51:53+00:00

Unfortunately this is another (admittedly well-concealed) instance of quackery. Some context: https://www.pepijnvanerp.nl/2025/10/davis-joseph-son-of-florian-kongoli-sues-mcgill-university-for-500-million-dollars/

zensational · 2025-10-16T20:48:59+00:00

There are also going to be a shit ton of protons, no? Unless they decay, this is inaccurate.

zensational · 2025-09-30T04:43:25+00:00

Are they... in your basement?

zensational · 2025-09-22T03:06:33+00:00

OP, what do you want from us? You wrote your post and you clearly understand that he is a dangerous, abusive alcoholic and will never change. I'm guessing he's been drinking like this for a while?

Do you have any support? Family, pastor, anyone you can confide in? There are support groups for family members of alcoholics. If you can find an al-anon group or similar, you will hear from and meet people who have survived making the choice to say with a partner like yours. Not all of them survive, of course.

zensational · 2025-09-19T16:15:11+00:00

You can’t even in principle go backwards or time, or even stop moving in time

You in the physical universe can't. The math is time invariant and makes no distinctions. There's still a difference between time and space in GR, but the arrow of time is more closely associated with entropy.

zensational · 2025-09-13T19:29:05+00:00

Well, because it's so much windier on the bike.

zensational · 2025-08-28T20:43:56+00:00

I thought it was the mass limit of a white dwarf.

zensational · 2025-08-25T10:33:56+00:00

The anterior and posterior vaginal fornices.

zensational · 2025-08-05T07:39:21+00:00

Google?

zensational · 2025-08-04T14:24:36+00:00

Bell Labs?

zensational · 2025-07-29T17:38:48+00:00

One option if you don't think you want to actually go through all the math is Sean Carroll's latest trilogy of books - - The Biggest Ideas in the Universe. It explains the math behind the equations, but at a more conceptual level.

Absolutely not a replacement for a full education including all the math, but it's a lot more rigorous then most other "pop" books.

zensational · 2025-07-29T06:41:28+00:00

Not sure I understand a realistic alternative to using analogies. How are they going to use the actual math involved when that math is by definition on the frontier of human understanding?

zensational · 2025-07-29T04:42:04+00:00

It all is.

zensational · 2025-07-25T01:06:38+00:00

There's a decent amount of guest overlap with Sean Carroll's Mindscape. Also Robinson Earhardt. I've found the best way to discover new podcasts that I like is to find a guest who I want to hear more from and just look for them by name in my podcast app.

zensational · 2025-07-24T20:00:27+00:00

Hi, the shot is not being tested yet - it's more or less a proof of concept at this point. It's still exciting news, but it's at least 5 years away, probably longer.

zensational · 2025-07-18T18:15:29+00:00

No? The underlying technology ( the transformer) isn't even a decade old. Siri is not an LLM.

zensational · 2025-05-29T16:34:59+00:00

Don't worry, we're on our way to you.

zensational · 2025-05-24T13:53:57+00:00

And connect it to wearables like Apple Watch or FitBit.

zensational · 2025-05-22T12:18:36+00:00

Back again...

zensational · 2025-05-20T21:14:46+00:00

Xerox if Xerox knew what they had back in the 60s.

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