Now the next question is whether the link accompanying a citation should go the reference section or straight to a doi
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Now the next question is whether the link accompanying a citation should go the reference section or straight to a doi
I don’t believe many people think of these as tools for telling right from wrong. Or at least I fucking hope not
Oh nice
I realise this is probably not a major use case but LaTeX or Typst to write mathematics and other technical content would be great...
Try going north
A small number of apps got to be big because they are very good and funnelling and retaining users. Blocking may not be the best way but I’m not sure why you think it would be totally ineffective
Ha! Do you like having to zoom in and scud about so you can read them on your phone?
PDFs are dead. HTML is the universal medium
Of course a human can also be inspired by ("pilfer") other work without being fully aware of the first place they saw a particular approach. I'm just a bit cautious of saying that this is qualitiatively different from what happens already. Evidently it is quantitatively different
Of course we DON'T actually cite everyone who contributed. There's a tacit statute of limitations on citations where the things deemed to be "common knowledge" are uncited. There's an interesting question of whether AI somehow expands that notion of common knoweldge. I'm not trying to be contrarian!
Also, how is the Born rule meant to come out of this? I assume you get something like a classical mixture of pointer states. But that somehow doesn’t seem satisfactory if you want to know more about where probabilities “come from”
Looks interesting. Definitely sounds less ontic than Everett. I guess I don’t get how an interpretation gets tested experimentally, especially when it’s based on ordinary QM of system plus environment
Surely the most boring belief a person can hold is that you are the lone voice speaking truth to power in your liberal milieu? Imagine him at a kid’s birthday sulking by the Wotsits
What is 2026's biggest quantum centenary? I'd vote for the statistical interpretation of the wavefunction, signalling definitive end of classical physics. Born won the 1954 Nobel prize for stating it most explicitly, though it was apparently no surprise in Copenhagen www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Nice! One distinction you might draw between conventional emergent thinking and ML driven methods is that the former pins its hopes on simplicity while the latter does not. We get taught that simplicity is good, because microscopic details are erased and universality emerges, but it’s not a given.
The fact that online harms are (of course) different in manifold ways from booze doesn’t mean that a similar two-pronged approach isn’t going to be necessary. That seems baked into the social contract of western societies
Hope this response is less annoying
Ok I was away for a bit but thanks for the response. I wasn’t trying to be smug. My point really is that there is a solid precedent for dealing separately with banning things for kids and getting adults to use them less. Risking oversimplification: feels a bit like whataboutism
I guess my usual response here is: are you ok banning alcohol and tobacco for teenagers?
I think they imagine people hang around in Calais listening to the Today programme. It seems to be very hard to understand that different groups inhabit radically different information environments
From Weinberg’s “Gravitation and Cosmology” 🤓
I'm sure I remember once reading that she held a rather low opinion of her own physics results: "pure rubbish" or something like that. But I can never find the quote...
Cigarettes? Alcohol?
Interesting that it performs well in typst... I didn't know how much uptake there was. You're a fan?
Yes. I’ve never really understood why anyone would regard the supposed contradiction as anything other than a category error. A psychological concept can hardly be at odds with a physical one. Or at least, the burden of proof is on anyone saying it is
Nuclear weapons are now ESG compliant 💥 www.ft.com/content/f789...
A female kakapo being held during daytime. Credit: Andrew Digby
Yesterday we started #kakapo artificial insemination for the season. We do this to help maintain genetic diversity, with a potential additional benefit of improving fertility. We inseminated Esperance, who mated naturally a few nights ago. #conservation #parrots #birds
Could I ask you about this again? I'd like to make a more serious push for us to trial gradecope. When I've used it in the past I manually assigned pages to question parts. I think there is another way where different parts of the answer booklet are assigned to different questions. Which do you use?
I listened with a non-physics friend and liked your bit a lot. Do you have a favourite bit of popular writing about QM? I like to say that the mathematical objects that appear in the theory are not as obviously related to the things we observe and that’s ok: classical physics maybe spoils us a bit…
Finally, after much delay from the BBC, Marnie Chesterton's "What Is Quantum?" is being broadcast at 9.30 am on Radio 4 on Tues 30th Dec. Recorded on Helgoland in the summer, with input from the leading figures in quantum mechanics (and me).
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
