Ed is correct. In fact Davy at first suggested "alumium" before switching to "aluminum". Anyway, nice to meet you too.

Peridot Peridot (specifically Peridot Facet-2F5L Cut-5XG) is a member of the Crystal Gems who made her debut in "Warp Tour". She was originally a Homeworld Gem technician and a certified Kindergartener. After...

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The best framing I've heard is to distinguish the AI system from the virtual assistant character. The (fictional) assistant that the AI-generated text depicts suggested/encouraged etc., in the same way any fictional character can, the AI itself didn't.

Jamming is a really cool "what if?", making use of some surprising loopholes. It was fun learning about this. For those who want to know more, I've got a "bonus info" blog post on the way.

Everything that can happen will happen. Thus, we can learn something about everything.

Curious about a source for the halving since agriculture statistic, since it isn't on that diagram

Some more thoughts on "AI Physicists":

Sabine Hossenfelder pointed out that the original press release mentions electromagnetism, but not specifically magnetometry, and speculated they might actually be referring to an IR camera.

I've definitely had copyeditors check references for JHEP, and I think also for various APS journals. JHEP uses Springer.

I had the impression they did, just after acceptance. I've had a bunch of questions from copyeditors about what citations correspond to, and I'm guessing they're not doing it all by hand.

calathea orbifolia, a plant with a conical leaf

this plant grows orbifolds (the conical thing)

Old news, with my thoughts on it:

Can’t open windows in space!

POET: And, like a dying lady lean and pale, Who totters forth, wrapp’d in a gauzy veil, Out of her chamber, led by the insane And feeble wanderings of her fading brain,The moon arose up in the murky east, A white and shapeless mass.

OTHER ASTRONAUTS: [screaming] they should have sent a pilot

Physicists of Bluesky! I'm writing a piece for @quantamagazine.bsky.social
: "What is Mass?" a collection of different perspectives on mass in physics, in the vein of Natalie Wolchover's "What is a Particle?" piece a few years back. If you've got a cool perspective to share, send me a message!

Scientists trust what they can verify. Journalists have to trust differently.

If you see a physics paper crammed into six pages of two-column text, here's why:

As in, if a bunch of evolutionary biologists chat at lunch about how dumb the latest Colossal press release is, I'd expect the molecular biologists on the other side of the department to eventually pick up on that and have a similar opinion. If not, I'm guessing biology is more siloed than physics.

Interesting. I would have expected reputations to travel cross-discipline in biology, it's Interesting that it seems not to have here

Image of Heidegger holding Guthrie's famous guitar, the sticker thereon has been changed to read "This fascist kills machines".

Went back to Twitter to check something and @deontologistics.bsky.social reminded me of this meme, I genuinely think the best meme to ever be produced by Philosophy Twitter.

I'm curious how, despite that reputation, Colossal manages to hire those scientists. This isn't meant to be a "gotcha", it's something I'm genuinely wondering. Do they pay way above industry average? Are recruits mostly true believers? Are they getting by on weaker talent?

A few people have asked me about this paper. This is a long piece, but probably not all you were looking for.

I've been reminded more than once recently of something I think should be part of a start-of-career scientist's training: If you find yourself in disagreement with another school of thought, your job is not to write papers showing why the adherents of that school are all benighted fools. Rather...

In which everyone is wrong about teaching:

A gray shorthair cat at the moment of release upside down, with its tongue out looking derpy

A new paper on falling cat science came out and I just have to draw people's attention to this image

For a while, I've been meaning to ask you how war in D&D settings ought to work when they have access to scrying and teleportation. I guess we're finding out.

Could we mechanize scientific creativity? Not with these papers!

Pointy at one end - the painful sharp end when you first start reading it - and rounded at the other - the pleasant end when you've learned the material and are wanting to review it or look up precise details.

That raises an interesting question: according to your intuition, should Bourbaki textbooks be pointy or rounded?