Nitpick of the nitpick... Temperature is actually an intensive quantity, i.e. combining two subsystems with the same temperature yields a bigger system with the same temperature, not twice bigger.
The anthropologist Philippe Descola with his main work Beyond Nature and Culture has been trying to classify the nature/culture relations by studying comparatively several societies.
There is an expanding field of study looking at machine learning with statistical physics tools. While there is still a lot of work to do in this area, it yields interesting insights on neural networks, e.g. linking their training with the evolution of spin glasses (a typical statistical physics problem). We can even talk about phase transition and universal exponents.
Most of the research is done with simpler models though (because mainly math people do it, and it's hard to prove anything on something as complex as a transformer).
I feel like it would have been nicer to have a perfect match with orgmode syntax (e.g. they use square brackets instead of chevrons for time stamps). It would make migration easier... Really impressive project nonetheless!
This is a real project, this guy wrote a compiler, to convert common lisp to GLSL (I'm not talking about a simple DSL with code generation, but also type checking and so on).
In his Livestreams, he usually try to implement a specific 3D feature (like triplanar mapping, the Phong of lighting, ...).
Everything is done in a single window, with the program being recompiled while running, pure lisp style.
He is on a hiatus right now though with livestreams, but there is plenty of material already to watch ...
I am too young to have played Morrowind at its release date, so I am not biased by nostalgia. Honestly, with a couple graphics enhancing mods, it can still look beautiful today. Of course not the NPCs, but the artistic direction for the landscapes give it a timeless feel. Wandering though the wilderness, seeing Vivec city for the first time with its meteor, with a bit of good faith on your part to not set expectations too high, and you can still be surprised by this game...
I'd advice reading the famous article "More is different" by P. W. Anderson. It takes condensed matter physics as a counter example that knowledge is a pyramid, and that e.g. biology is just applied chemistry, which is just applied physics, which is just applied math and so on.
I am glad social science people do not need to know quantum physics, nor medecine does group theory ; their fields are dense enough on their own sake ...
Talking from my experience, despite its undeniable advantages to fight climate change, the general hostility of the public opinion towards fission (or nuclear in general) refrained me from pursuing this path...
Totally out of topic, but I highly recommend it ...
(Not technically a spoiler) I really liked the parallel betweens the bad guys' language, which was manipulative to the extreme, and the good guys' language, which was of course less extreme but still contained deceiving vocabulary
(i.e. Babel 17 is critiqued because the good guys are called "who are invading", yet the bad guys are themselves called "invaders" in English ...)
I am surprised that they are serious when saying "even a single person being offended is one too many". Not want to start yet another flamewar on CoCs, but how is such a rule even practically enforced ?
Given it's impossible to respect for a project of this scale with this many users, it just feels like a fake statement for good PR
I feel like this makes the whole move even less respectful that if they'd have done nothing about the Santa hat complains
Depends on what you do. I've been glad to use pencil in the past, since it is water resistant compared to pen. Useful when you spill coffee on your notebook, or leave your hiking journal in the rain like me ...
Indeed. Given the fast startup time of Python, I've always just restarted the session (which is most of the time faster than typing "import importlib; importlib.reload()" haha)