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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago

and even unsolicited dick pics.

But what about the dck pcks?

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

yeah, 3b1b animations can take you through all of undergrad math in probably a month if it all existed and you used anki

We could bottle this arrogance and sell it as an emetic.

And besides, we all know that mathematics videos peaked with the Angle Dance.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago (23 children)

Fun fact: The plain vanilla physics major at MIT requires three semesters of quantum mechanics. And that's not including the quantum topics included in the statistical physics course, or the experiments in the lab course that also depend upon it.

Grad school is another year or so of quantum on top of that, of course.

(MIT OpenCourseWare actually has fairly extensive coverage of all three semesters: 8.04, 8.05 and 8.06. Zwiebach was among the best lecturers in the department back in my day, too.)

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

This is just straight-up gossip, but why not:

Tegmark used to go around polling physicists at conferences about which interpretation of quantum mechanics they prefer. A colleague of mine said that they were sitting near Tegmark and saw him fudging the numbers in his notes — erasing the non-Many Worlds tallies from those who said they supported Many Worlds as well as others, IIRC.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 17 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Banned for using the word metacognition seriously.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 15 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Max Tegmark has taken a break from funding neo-Nazi media to blather about Artificial General Intelligence.

As humanity gets closer to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

The first clause of the opening line, and we've already hit a "citation needed".

He goes from there to taking a prediction market seriously. And that Aschenbrenner guy who thinks that Minecraft speedruns are evidence that AI will revolutionize "science, technology, and the economy".

You know, ten or fifteen years ago, I would have disagreed with Tegmark about all sorts of things, but I would have granted him default respect for being a scientist.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 17 points 2 months ago

Hark! I hear the wanker roar.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 17 points 2 months ago

Rooting around for that Luke Skywalker "every single word in that sentence was wrong" GIF....

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 24 points 2 months ago (9 children)

"Comment whose upvotes all come from programming dot justworks dot dev dot infosec dot works" sure has become a genre of comment.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that sounds like text which somebody quickly typed up for the sake of having something.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 14 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Scott Computers is married and a father but still writes like an incel and fundamentally can't believe that anyone interested in computer science or physics might think in a different way than he does. Dilbert Scott is an incredibly divorced man. Scott Adderall is the leader of the beige tribe.

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