@pepchasdrdave.bsky.social Hi peppers. Why is is that the 🍊🤡's inner circle seem to all use Twitter, not Truth Social? Seems like an uncharacteristic lapse in sycophancy? What's their problem?

Pope Julius II - Wikipedia

Longing for the good old days, when Popes were bloodthirsty. "In addition to an active military policy, the new pope personally led troops into battle on at least two occasions..." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Ju...

Key here seems to be stopping ships in and out of Iran so they can't sell oil to anyone. A change from last month when they allowed Iranian oil at sea to be sold in a bid to reduce the oil price. 🤷‍♂️

I'll give it a shot, but first I need to wrap my head around R. Not in my wheelhouse - yet.

For any ‘retrocurious’ people out there... I’m giving a free online talk next week, a new big-picture foundations talk I’ve been developing: “Retrocausal Quantum Models; 10 reasons to take them seriously.” Monday evening in the US; Tuesday late morning in Asia/Australia. sciforum.net/event/MWQDW2...

I'd be really interested in that function!

I know. Been there, done that. It's ludicrous!

Yeah, that is a very partial, glitchy workaround. If you set an answer to a small number, it will mark it correctly, but still tell you that the correct answer is 0. Then if you edit the question, the answer will be updated to 0!

Thanks! I've filed tickets and complained. Nothing fixed of course. Seems like the small number error has been baked in for years. Extraordinary that something this basic hasn't been addressed.

Nice! Any chance this circumvents the problem canvas has with small numbers? (Numbers smaller than 1e-4 are taken to be 0). Hard to set physics questions when you deal with small things. 😐

A barrel without a bottom.

Two pulses arrive at the quantum memory, are stored, and then leave as interference fringes.

A double slit experiment - but instead of 2 slits separated in space, there are two pulses separated in time. By using an atomic quantum memory we can see exactly how the 'which-pulse' information is lost, given rise to interference, just like the slits in space. 🧪
opg.optica.org/opticaq/full...

0 stars. Clippy redux.

I care a lot about this, it's insane. The issue is the scale at which tech companies are ramming genAI down our throats. It's not an inherent requirement of the technology. Rampant misuse is the main problem, similar to cars. I'm not at all confident that humans can be trusted with either.

I'm not defending the way it is being pushed into everything. Vast data centres enabling clickbaitslop etc are an insane waste. I'm not defending that at all. There is nuance though. There are applications that don't infringe on IP and can be genuinely useful.

You could say that about a lot of what humans have "achieved". Have you seen these roads, they're covered in 1 ton monsters going 100kph! I'm not pro LLMs, I normally find myself arguing against them. The environmental cost is a result of tech bros wedging them into everything we do. That is bad.

I feel the same way about cars. As a species, we're not great at using the right tools at the right time.

It needed some guidance, but the result was something that would have taken me hours. Point being, it has a place, but it should not be everywhere.

So I'm on total agreement on most of this, but there are some things it is good at. The problem is the way it's assumed to be great at anything. I wanted an interactive 3D model of light reflecting and refracting from a surface including the behaviour of s and p polarised light...

Make Primary School a lot more interesting — Sports Bet Junior!

Also kind of a lie. USA near top of list when it comes to the increase in fuel costs: www.globalpetrolprices.com/fuel_price_t...

RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one to create a performance illusion — 1+1 'value pack' offers desperate psychological relief as the memory shortage worsens Filler RAM won't make your system run any better, but it'll at least make it look good.

Why is nobody selling a 1+1 QRAM value pack where both sticks are fake? This would offer a desperate psychological relief to many people working on quantum algorithms that require QRAM!
www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...

Well played @theguardian.com

Looming CSIRO job cuts come at 'critical moment' for climate change action Scientists are calling on the Australian government to push back on a plan to scrap hundreds of jobs at the nation's science agency, as they await the release of further details this week.

We all lose – and future generations will lose even harder – when governments cut investments in research & researchers. Or fail to increase them to the levels actually needed.

😡

Yes! There are so many words wasted trying to parse the motivations of this administration. The only filter that ever works is "what does Trump want now?".

So much peace they're running out of peace things.

‘Complete joke’: Efforts to reduce funding wait times ends with longer blowout A long campaign to improve Australia’s sclerotic research bureaucracy has culminated in an extraordinary blowout to grant approval times, leaving scientists despondent.

“A complete joke”

After the starting gun fires, Australian researchers have to wait 2–3 years before even starting the race.

Really clear article explaining the impossibly long new time-frames for Australian Research Council grants.

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A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

Thank you Norway.
youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ?...

Trump’s family is embroiled in a $500m UAE scandal. We’ve hardly noticed | Mohamad Bazzi A crypto startup founded by Trump’s family signed a huge deal with the UAE president’s brother. Where’s the political fallout?

Still think this is more egregious:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The sort of grift that might have always been there, but now there's no hiding it with these arsehats. Insider trading, with a side of Bibles, watches and NFTs.