Gustephan
@Gustephan@lemmy.world
- Comment on Peasants 4 days ago:
I’m one of them, haha. My archives are nice and organized, but anything related to a current project I’m working on either lives on the desktop or lives at ~, depending on which machine I’m using. Automated output type files go into a structure (like any kind of processed or cleaned data), but figures? References? Drafts? FFA on the desktop. For whatever reason I just cannot function with an organized workspace
- Comment on Peasants 5 days ago:
Seriously, why would anybody bother putting their papers in a folder when the desktop is just right there?
- Comment on when you work in an interdisciplinary institution: 6 days ago:
At least the program can run in polynomial time. They tried to do the same for yall stamp collectors moms but quickly realized that problem was NP hard!
(Perfect, no notes)
- Comment on when you work in an interdisciplinary institution: 6 days ago:
Nonsense. An astrophysicist wouldn’t be caught dead hanging out in public with their dealer and somebody who thinks counting past 1 is pointless.
(/s but also shit talking is fun so pop off if this made your blood boil and you’ve got a witty retort)
- Comment on Amazing Grace 1 week ago:
TIL that Dolly Parton entered in and lost a Dolly Parton lookalike contest at some drag bar in LA in 2012
- Comment on I'm down 1 week ago:
This is how you get the thoroughbred of sin riding across the nation
- Comment on Anon notices fake advertising in video games 2 weeks ago:
dark souls most soul items are white
- Comment on And you can thank me for it 2 weeks ago:
Glad you like it :)
And hey, you never know. You’re a person on the internet I don’t know; I wouldn’t want to look like a fool in front of you and your deer furry lover if that happens to be your situation
- Comment on And you can thank me for it 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on And you can thank me for it 2 weeks ago:
With a reflective pool of water on the forest floor. Like the rest of us
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 2 weeks ago:
“Everything I don’t like is ai”
Grow up. The imgflip watermark is clearly visible in the meme, and it’s an ancient meme format.
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 2 weeks ago:
Euclidean geometry enjoyers in shambles
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 2 weeks ago:
I guess n would be infinite in the limit I’m looking for. I’m looking at this in like a “musing about theoretical complexity” angle rather than actually needing to use or know how to use pi on modern systems.
For the record, I realize how incredibly pedantic I’m being about the difference between the irrational pi and rational approximations of pi that end up being actually useful. That being said, computational complexity has enough math formalism stink on it that pedantry seems encouraged
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 2 weeks ago:
You sound like an involved and caring father. Rock on, dude
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 2 weeks ago:
Do said atomic instructions produce pi though, or some functional approximation of pi? I absolutely buy that approximate pi is O(1), but it still seems like a problem involving a true irrational number should be undecidable on any real turing machine
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 2 weeks ago:
Is it actually? I’ll admit im pretty rusty on time complexity, but naively I’d think that pi being irrational would technically make even reading or writing it from memory an undecidable problem
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 2 weeks ago:
“is not like you do calculations by hand anyway”
… get off my lawn, whippersnapper.
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 2 weeks ago:
That’s because your engineering ass needs things to be physical and sane. Physics is a field for the mentally unwell to sink further into insanity while incoherently scribbling greek letters on every available flat surface.
On a more serious note, yeah you absolutely have to be careful about where you apply really ambitious simplifications like that. There are plenty of mathematical regimes where you can use natural units (this is the term to look up if your interest extends further) and simplify your reference frame by a hell of a lot though. Setting the speed of light to 1 is also a hell of a drug, and brother I’ve got an addiction
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 2 weeks ago:
You’re a monster. I love it
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 2 weeks ago:
The real comment mvp. You deserve every positive vote my post got
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 2 weeks ago:
Somebody else already said it, but that’s what the title is.
Longform: for a lot of calculations that happen in astro deal with distances so large so large that only order of magnitude changes actually meaningfully affect the end result. To connect to a more common topic, here’s a joke. “Whats the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars?” “About a billion dollars” This joke works for the same reason; 1 billion is so many orders of magnitude larger than 1 million that (1,000,000,000 - 1,000,000 = 1,000,000,000) is only incorrect by ~0.1%, even though substituting 0 for 1 million in that equation seems ridiculous on the face of it
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- Comment on Free Talk Friday - June 13th, 2025 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know that I’d call it a compliment or an insult? It just was. It was unusual to see “a few dudes in short sleeve button ups and khakis who look like a mildly jamming dad band” keep the concert energy up after Veil of Maya played and performed a much more stereotypical hardcore set. They didn’t speak to the crowd at all, other than the one interruption when the sound wasn’t right. My comment may also have been influenced by the fact that I’ve watched some of his (Tosin Abasi) guitar tutorials on YouTube and it is exceedingly clear that he’s working with a healthy dose of the tism. Calling it autistic wasn’t meant as a compliment or an insult though, just a matter of fact neutral statement about the experience.
- Comment on Free Talk Friday - June 13th, 2025 3 weeks ago:
This happened to me at a concert in Cincinnati once. Veil of Maya opened and played a great face melting hardcore set with thrashing and screaming and moshing, then Animals as Leaders came on and played the most autistic set I’ve ever seen. Every one of them looked like a music school postdoc just casually jamming, while the pit was still going and having a great time. At one point, the lead guitar Tosin notices some issue with the speakers, stops the music, goes up to the mic with the tiniest little mouse voice, and is like “I’m hearing an audio issue I can’t play through, speak amongst yourselves while we get it fixed”. Absolute banger of a show. I think of that every time I hear “talk amongst yourselves” now.
- Comment on It's not supposed to make sense... 3 weeks ago:
The most important thing I’ve ever been told about quantum is “shut up and calculate.” Results don’t seem physical? That’s quantum. Results don’t make sense? That’s quantum. Shut up and calculate
- Comment on Well whenever you notice something like *that*, a wizard did it 3 weeks ago:
Christian scientists on their way to tell you about how their evidence free belief in magic shouldn’t affect how you view their ability to derive truth from evidence
- Comment on Got to be impressed with this guy's skill 4 weeks ago:
I’m sure this is real and that guy is super talented, but I’d love to see a video of somebody who couldn’t do this but still had confidence because they thought the video would be edited so the bread didn’t all fall to the ground
- Comment on Shamelessly stolen and posted here for y'all 4 weeks ago:
At least it’s not forty cakes. That’s as many as four tens. And that’s terrible
- Comment on Sometimes when it's quiet I sit on the shower floor 5 weeks ago:
How is this TERFy? (Not disagreeing or challenging your position, I just don’t understand and would like to)
- Comment on JUST DO PSYCHEDELICS LIKE NORMAL PEOPLE 5 weeks ago:
“Drugs” is a pretty wide net, and yeah most of them would make it more difficult. Someone who isn’t me once told me that psychedelics make it a lot easier to follow really abstract thought, and that comes in handy when trying to imagine theoretical geometries our brains and other sensory equipment didn’t evolve to comprehend
