sudoreboot

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this a triangle?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no rule that the angles of a triangle add to 180 degrees. It only holds true in Euclidean geometry, which this is not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any advantage to tying game logic to frame-rate?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It may be of critical importance in some games that, no matter how low the framerate is, the player never misses an event due to skipped frames.

  There are also games that are not real time even in their animations, and so there may be no benefit to skipping frames rather than just letting it run at whatever framerate. Slowed tick rate mostly feels weird if one has certain expectations for the passage of time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Once. They do not have the ability to learn or adapt on their own. They are created by humans through “deep learning”, but that is fundamentally different from continuously learning based on one’s own actions and experiences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We are prediction machines, but nothing like chatgpt. Current AI has no ability to learn, adapt, or even consider the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Physics⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe what they’re trying to describe is a torus

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨double slit⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The interference disappearing from measurement is not really because the instrument alters the state. Or, at least, putting it like that occludes the more fundamental reason.

  Fundamentally, measurements are subject to the uncertainty principle, which dictates that one can not define precisely the values of two complementary observables at the same time. Position and momentum of any quantum object are such complementary observables, so measuring one – for example position – requires that the other (momentum) becomes less defined.

  When the position of a particle is narrowed down to a pixel on a detector screen, its momentum becomes very uncertain and we must talk about all the possible paths it might have been on in order for it to have arrived at that point.

  The probability of a particle being measured at any given pixel is given by the probability of all possible paths combined, but with an important quirk: when combining each possible quantum state, they interfere with each other such that they may cancel out. It’s sort of like adding together vectors on the unit circle - usually the result is a shorter vector. Repeated measurements of positions give you what appears to be wave-like interference due to the way the probabilities of all paths interfere.

  By checking which slit a particle passes through, you exclude all the possible paths through the other slit and end up not observing the same pattern because the two slits simply do not interfere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨double slit⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no idea what that is so I’ll just go with yes, probably!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨double slit⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn’t “looking” that is meant by “observation”. “Observation” is meant to convey the idea that something (not necessarily sentient) is in some way interacting with an object in question such that the state(s) of the object affects the state(s) of the “observer” (and vice versa).

  The word is rather misleading in that it might give the impression of a unidirectional type of interaction when it really is the establishment of a bidirectional relationship. The reason one says “I observe the electron” rather than “I am observed by the electron” is that we don’t typically attribute agency to electrons the way we do humans (for good reasons), but they are equally true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨brilliant as silver⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is no one going to comment on the font rendering

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Kind of weekly thread] What have you been watching?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Untamed, a Chinese series based on a manhua called Modao Zushi. It’s about a quasi-delinquent cultivator going against the grain, using “wicked magic” to get things done and everyone close to him has a shit time and/or ends up dying, and he gets blamed for everything that is bad.

  I saw the donghua first, and while I enjoyed it a lot, it was difficult to keep up with all that was happening. The live action felt better paced, partly because it’s just longer and gives more room to digest and get used to the characters and names. I was a little unsure about it at first - it seemed a little silly, but after a few episodes I grew really attached to the characters as they were acted and portrayed. For me, the occasional silliness became endearing and didn’t detract from the overall serious, melancholic atmosphere.

  I’m binging Chinese productions these days because I’m really bored and sick of Hollywood (and my part of the world sucks at quality TV fiction), and I feel seriously uncomfortable with how underexposed I’ve been to non-western cultures (aside from Japanese). SEA is massively diverse and populated but virtually all I ever see originates from within the Anglosphere or northern/central Europe, and I’m discovering that that’s not for a lack of quality content elsewhere. But I digress.

  Basically, 10/10 recommend escaping the Anglo-trap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the best feeling⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the last things I remember is Oberyn getting his mind blown

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨aLiEnS!!1⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking “three ridges” first 😅 (I imagined the sand running between the four fingers of my semi-closed fist)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does this icon mean?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Could it be to identify you as OP?