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My understanding is that the wave function will collapse if information can be retrieved, so the moment it can be known which slit it goes through, it's already over. I also have a fun QM exper…

This is an updated version of what he published before.

> Universities should be looking at more and discouraging 1 dimensional applicants They really, really do. Admission to top universities has become hyper competitive. They're getting tens …

This is the type of thinking we need more of. Thanks for posting this.

Metaphors are symbols and symbols are learning. As a starting point, all learning needs to do that; it's a feature, not a bug. But the finishing point is to understand where it breaks down and …

Ages ago I talked about this with Ron Garret here on HN and he pointed me to his Google Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc He makes a tremendous case that, yes, we'…

Nice. Keep going.

What phase of late-stage Capitalism is this? It's horrible but it's spawning some pretty funny takes, such as "Collateralized Burrito Obligations": "A single BNPL contract for…

No Princeton?

I really like that idea! Edit: It would be great if you could set the context and AI would generate it. It would make as an amazing addition to a standard Readme. Further, at one level it could show …

The end of the petrodollar and you're alive to witness it.

Is this going to be a crazy year?

There's a reason why you have connoisseurs. You can fool carbon dating by using materials from that time. I'll have to look into the x-rays and what they show, but it can be quite hard to …

The details of the crime seem to point to something like this. Remember that Picasso was questioned and probably involved. One theory is that what we think is the original is, in fact, a master-copy …

> Curious too when the various disciples lived, wrote My understanding is that in spite of the names, the disciples didn't write them.

Me too. I can recommend Dan McClellan, who's an Oxford-education biblical scholar and has some books and makes videos on the topic.

Thanks, Dan, for that clarification. The question each month is actually two-fold: what have you been tinkering around with and what new ideas are thinking about. It's an invitation to dialogue…

Ivrea is beautiful. I've been there multiple times for the annual orange-throwing festival. Incredibly fun and recommended.

What we have is amazing, but it's probably not the path to AGI. Let's focus on what we have, invest in what it can bring us, instead of hyping what we don't have, forcing it to be some…

Happy to hear that, and yes, will do!

Very cool! I'll try it out and I'll be watching its progress.