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The Case for the Everettian Multiverse(philsci-archive.pitt.edu)
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by anotherpaulg 2mo ago
Clanki is a great name. I’ve had a lot of success using AI to generate memorable images to show alongside vocabulary cards.
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by anotherpaulg 3mo ago
If you have CAT5/6 between the locations, USB-over-CAT5/6 adapters are inexpensive and work quite well. I've used OREI's successfully over >60m. But there are many options, with varying limits on cable length. https:
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by anotherpaulg 3mo ago
FWIW, I have had great success asking AI coding tools to generate/edit tikz code. As with all AI coding, it helps to steer the agent to structure the code sensibly, etc. But frontier models seem to know how to write tikz.
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The (Quantum) Revolution That Should Have Been – and Still Could Be(conjectureinstitute.org)
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Parallel Lives: A Local-Realistic Interpretation of "Nonlocal" Boxes(mdpi.com)
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by anotherpaulg 3mo ago
Parallel Lives: A Local-Realistic Interpretation of “Nonlocal” Boxes by Gilles Brassard and Paul Raymond-Robic. Abstract: We carry out a thought experiment in an imaginary world. Our world is both local and realistic, yet it violates a Bell
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by anotherpaulg 5mo ago
I’ve been building quantum photonics experiments. Repeating the Bell inequality tests that won the 2022 Nobel, quantum erasers, etc. I just published a fun interactive 3D demo of SPDC, one of the most common and accessible ways to create en
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by anotherpaulg 5mo ago
I’ve been building quantum photonics experiments. Repeating the Bell inequality tests that won the 2022 Nobel, quantum erasers, etc. Probably the coolest part has been automating the optomechanical equipment and optimizing physical experime
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by anotherpaulg 6mo ago
Recorded 10 February 2026. Terence Tao of the University of California, Los Angeles, presents "Machine assistance and the future of research mathematics" at IPAM's AI for Science Kickoff.
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by anotherpaulg 6mo ago
I appreciate the ability to rapidly capture a note/thought/todo without friction and context switching. I solved this problem with a twilio sms number. When I send a text to it, the content gets prepended to my obsidian todo.md fi
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by anotherpaulg 6mo ago
The Earth is generally expected to spin more slowly over time, due to tidal friction. But it has been spinning faster and faster since the 1960s. As shown in the figure in the wikipedia article [0]. I have read numerous explanations, but ha
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by anotherpaulg 7mo ago
He just discussed this on Robinson’s podcast, in conversation with Tim Maudlin.
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by anotherpaulg 7mo ago
Zurek published a book about Quantum Darwinism about a year ago. It is a text book, not a popular treatment, but it is quite a good read. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/decoherence-and-quantum...
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by anotherpaulg 7mo ago
Aider actually prompts the model to say if it needs to see additional files. Whenever the model mentions file names, aider asks the user if they should be added to context. As well, any files or symbols mentioned by the model are noted. The
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by anotherpaulg 8mo ago
Once you’ve confirmed when your target is visible, this site provides a handy forecast of atmospheric viewing conditions. https://www.cleardarksky.com/csk/
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by anotherpaulg 8mo ago
I’m building a quantum photonics experiment that is a variation of the quantum eraser. One aspect that HN may find interesting is my use of Bayesian optimization to control and perfect key experimental settings. About a dozen of the wave pl
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by anotherpaulg 9mo ago
I like the unconventional approach. A few minutes with GPT raises two issues: 1. We've raised CO2 from 280ppm to 420ppm, about a 50% increase. To dilute it back down would require 50% more total atmosphere. This would also raise the su
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by anotherpaulg 9mo ago
It would be interesting to see how hard it would be to walk these models towards general relativity and quantum mechanics. Einstein’s paper “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies” with special relativity was published in 1905. His work on
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by anotherpaulg 10mo ago
I’ve relied heavily on seamless capture for a couple of decades, ala Getting Things Done. My solution is a twilio text number that automatically inserts any texts it receives into the top of my todo.md file. Previously todo.org, until about
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by anotherpaulg 11mo ago
I regularly use LLM-as-OCR and find it really helpful to: 1. Minimize the number of PDF pages per context/call. Don't dump a giant document set into one request. Break them into the smallest coherent chunks. 2. In a clean context,
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by anotherpaulg 11mo ago
I’ve been building proficiency with quantum optics equipment. Repeating classic quantum entanglement experiments like the quantum eraser [0] and violating the CHSH inequality (which won the 2022 Nobel). I’m working towards a novel quantum e
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by anotherpaulg 1y ago
I really like LLM+sympy for math. I have the LLM write me a sympy program, so I can trust that the symbolic manipulation is done correctly. The code is also a useful artifact that can be iteratively edited and improved by both the human and
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by anotherpaulg 1y ago
Below are some great videos on the physics and practicalities of single mode fiber. They are Thorlabs videos, so are slanted more towards the use of SMF in a laser lab rather than a telecom setting. They reference a lot of the theory, but a
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by anotherpaulg 1y ago
If you like this then you will probably enjoy the book How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler by cartoonist and computer-scientist Ryan North. https://www.howtoinventeverything.com/
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by anotherpaulg 1y ago
Scott Aaronson has an interesting take on the 2018 paper being discussed in the article: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=3975
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by anotherpaulg 1y ago
Ya, you would think so. But when you connect to it and sshd tries to fork a process to handle the session… you get a privileges error.
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by anotherpaulg 1y ago
Looks very interesting. I was hoping it would solve a problem I’ve had recently: I want to ssh into a windows box that I only have a normal user account on. So I can’t (and don’t want to) change any admin settings or install anything as adm
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by anotherpaulg 1y ago
Aider has had support for Python and shell scripting [0] for a long time. I made a screencast [1] recently that included ad-hoc bash scripting aider as part of the effort to add support for 130 new programming languages. It may give a flavo
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by anotherpaulg 1y ago
I wish Anki could dynamically adjust the new cards introduced each day, based on whether you get them right or wrong on first viewing. Getting 10 new cards that I happen to already know is easy. That's very different than getting 10 ne

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