Feynman answering “Why is ice slippery”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GT2zI8lVA

Why are you not disturbed by the fact that when you push down on a chair it pushes you back?

I expected this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GT2zI8lVA

Ah, you’re viewing it as a timetravellers’ dilemma.

My view was more that we’re an observer in the lagrangian solution to the differential equation we call life. The electron, being a constant in the equation. Remove the electron, you alter the equation, therefore destroying known life.

I detect you therefore you’re no longer a wave.

How could you destroy 2, if there’s only one?

We are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively.

We all understand the point. But it’s important to question the source. It suggests a gullability, or fabrication.

Scapegoat tree ftw

Love those too!

Delightful!

I’ll keep my eyes open for those next spring

Oh the colors

People used to make all kinds of stuff from the bark, too

Bending in the wind like a ballerina

I was playing with a magical lamp in the old volkswagen getting rusty in my grandma’s yard. When, surprisingly, the whole car turned into sand and I drowned.

Had this dream when I was 6 or 7 years old. For some reason, I think about it every so often.

For sending over small stuff, I usually generate a qr code and scan it with the other device.

AI does work like that.

With (variational) auto-encoders, it’s very explicit.

With shallow convolutional neural networks, it’s fun to visualize the trained kernel weights, as they often return an abstract, to me dreamlike, representations of the thing being trained for. Although derived through a different method, search for “eigenfaces” as an example of what I mean.

In the recent hype model architecture, attention and transformers, the encoded state can be thought of as a compressed version of it’s input. But human interpretation of those values is challenging.

Removed by mod

I like Xubuntu. But I’ve no experience on how well it does with touch screens.

I’ve met people who don’t know what a URL is.

The kind of people that google “facebook” when they want to visit facebook.

Completely flabbergasted that we run internal services not indexable by google.