https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95gsOrr36II

Sunlight moves in from the East, that’s how I remember. (tried to find a gif, but the video is close enough)

East and west?

Huh. Maybe there is no dragging quantum up to human scale comprehension. Like, we can only really describe this stuff with math equations.

Probably gonnna keep repeating my dumbed down summary though, cus I think for us laymen it helps more than it hinders.

“Photon touching” was a somewhat glib way of putting it on my part.

What does your friend think of this statement:

When physicists say “observe”, they actually mean “measure”. And to measure a photon of light, you have to interact with it somehow, there is no passive way to do so.

oh boy, here I go banging this drum again:

When physicists say “observe”, they actually mean “measure”. And to measure a photon of light, you have to interact with it somehow, there is no passive way to do so.

The post’s header image implies that the interference pattern goes away just by looking at it. If that were the case, we would never see the interference pattern, never know it was there in the first place! In the actual experiment, they put a sensor at one or both of the slits. But to “sense” a single photon, you have to interact with it in some way. Otherwise you wouldn’t know it was there.

Again, this is where the language trips us up. Rather than “sensor”, would really be more accurate to say they put a photon-touch-er at the slits.

So, what we actually get is “Touching the photon changes the photon’s behavior.” The universe doesn’t magically infer when we happen to be looking at it, there is no spooky action-at-a-distance!

transcription:

Three Sisters Companion Planting

By the time European settlers arrived in America in the early 1600s, the Iroquois had been growing the “three sisters” for over three centuries. The vegetable trio sustained the Native Americans both physically and spiritually. In legend, the plants were a gift from the gods, always to be grown, eaten and celebrated together. The three sisters provide both sustainable soil fertility as well as a healthy diet from a single planting.

1. In spring, prepare the soil by adding fish scraps or wood ash to increase fertility.

2. Make a mound of soil a foot high and four feet wide. When the danger of frost has passed, sow six kernels of corn an inch deep and about ten inches apart in a circle of about 2 feet in diameter.

3. When the corn is about 5 inches tall, plant four bean seeds, evenly spaced, around each stalk.

4. About a week later, plant six squash seeds, evenly spaced around the perimeter of the mound.

5. After harvest, make three sisters succotash.

CORN: provides structure for the beans.

BEANS: pull nitrogen from the air and bring it to the soil and vines wind and twist towards the sunlight, they bind the three together and provide further structure.

SQUASH: The large leaves of the sprawling squash provide shade keeping the soil cool, moist and weed-free. create living mulch that shades moist and preventing weeds [sic]. The prickly squash leaves also keep away raccoons, which don’t like to step on them.

TOGETHER: The three sisters provide both sustainable soil fertility as well as a healthy diet.

©2018 Chorlotte A Ricker www.rickerstudio.com

It’s trademarked because capital has the ability to subsume all criticisms into itself.

Nah, science has always worked like that. This is what peer review is for.

What’s better than finding evidence that proves your own preconceived notions? Finding evidence that contradicts someone else’s. Schadenfreude is the great engine of scientific progress.

glowing?

Actually, because of Caesar and Augustus adding months, the 25th month is only Vigintitrisember

is this the biologist’s equivalent of “assume a flat, frictionless plane”

Assume A Perfectly Homogeneous Liquid Mouse

Except everyone hates on the politician instead.

Each model is allowed 2000 tokens to generate its clock. Here is its prompt: Create HTML/CSS of an analog clock showing ${time}. Include numbers (or numerals) if you wish, and have a CSS animated second hand. Make it responsive and use a white background. Return ONLY the HTML/CSS code with no markdown formatting.

are you using the same prompt?

Valve is notably better (not good, but better) than the other companies you’ve listed.

That is, of course, an anomaly. A good monarchy lasts only as long as the monarch. A good company that exists for longer than the average human lifespan will quickly become no different from its peers.

Unless I misunderstand, in China it’s illegal to distribute VPNs, but simply using one and accessing the wider net is fine. That implementation isn’t great, but it could also be a lot worse. Effectively it means anyone who’s tech savvy enough can leave the walled garden whenever they like with practically no consequence. Though, it still requires some group of people assume the legal risk of setting up and hosting the VPN infrastructure.

I feel like there must be some means of achieving the same effect without criminalizing people just for providing a service. Like, defaulting to a garden of public and private webpages that meat the standard, but still with some means of leaving that garden provided you pass a minor techincal barrier to entry.

Also forcing every social media site and glorified-website-app to default to chronological sort every time you close the browser tab or leave the app. It’s a simple change, but it would do a lot.

I heard somewhere that the adult starfish is just the head. Imagine being a face and only a face, scrunching along the seafloor.

Homestuck

I feel like if I was gonna put a computer attached to a motor & heater inside a bed, the very first step would be making sure that if the software goes wrong, it always defaults to staying bed shaped and not catching fire.

I know I know hindsight is 20/20, I’m sure I’m just missing something. Venture capitalists would just give their money to any random idiot with a pitch, right?

the Sun does the same thing but also with a profit motive

Some answers may literally beyond our comprehension.

Sure that may definitely be the case. But in practice, that means we should be exhausting the comprehensible possibilities first. Many Worlds is an explanation of last resort.