Gustephan @ Gustephan @lemmy.world

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Hopefully one day his late night meltdown will include him trying to suck start a shotgun

From the moment I understood the weakness of my analytical math, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of numerical methods. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Statistics. Your kind cling to your transforms, as though they will not decay and fail you.

I could probably discover electricity, depending on where I landed. Jewelers of the time could make wire, copper was common, and magnets (lodestones) had been discovered. Realistically though I'd be a dumb giant (ie, speak no known languages of the time and statistically I'd have like a foot on the "tall" people of the era). I'd probably try to find some party trick that looked like magic to people of the era then hope that people would welcome and try to integrate me rather than burning me as a witch. Then I'd probably die in a week or two anyway to some disease lol

I usually get to the point of opening my flashlight app so I can search for my phone in dark places before I realize

Couldn't tell ya. Iirc SUSY based theories were pretty much all killed by data by the time the LHC reached 12TeV collisions, and I've been in a different field since then

Later, the bartender collected their Nobel prize for observing and writing about a meson that stayed stable for the duration of a short conversation

/played Instant emotional damage

RIP in pieces, every supersymmetry based theory :(

Don't we still have a few years before lemmy somehow enshittifies?

I wouldn't be too surprised if you could achieve that kind of density for a few fractions of a second with explosive powered compression. I'm thinking something like the electromagnetic flux compression technique used by Nakamura et al to make the 1200T magnetic field back in 2018. The package absolutely wouldn't exist for long though lol

I'm not going to repeat the slang for it but it makes so much sense that he's a "named 4chan user." Even among the most crusty basement dwelling community in modern history he's shunned for being lame.

Paintballs are trickier than just a water balloon. They have to be rigid/strong enough to survive the blast of co2 or compressed air that propels them, then they have to be soft enough to break on impact without harming the other player.

They also just aren't that messy. I worked under the table as a referee at a Paintball place when I was 13, and we played such that gameplay didn't stop when refs were doing paint checks. We'd toss people out if they were intentionally focusing on us but I got lit up probably 10+ times a day, every weekend for 2 years. My jersey and slider pants came clean in the wash every time, and to this day the only lasting blemishes are the shredded fabric on the knees/elbows/ass from when I dove and slid a lot.

I feel like batch should be in the evil alignment section. My experience with batch files is that .bat may as well be written .forkbomb

The spyro remakes they did were faithful to the originals in a way that was super satisfying to my nostalgia. My only minor complaint is that they are clearly using better physics engine/edge detection, so most of the glitches used in speed running of the games are not in the tfb remake. Beyond that though it was exactly what I wanted; near carbon copy of the ps1 gameplay with ps5 graphics and hardware

A spectrum does imply a total order, but I'd argue that the meme stating there is exactly 1 who is the gayest, OOP is referring to a strict total order. I'd also argue that the gayness spectrum allows degenerate states (heh) and as such is a non-strict total order, rather than the strict total order implied by OOP

It gives people context for what kind of ai math I'm familiar with/formed my opinions about ai on (ie, generally lightweight transformer models rather than LLMs), as well as a small logos appeal of "hey I spent years of my life researching that shit, I at least kinda know what I'm talking about"

Kilroy was here

Not OP that you asked, but I've used ai before to examine netflow data at the head of a medium sized network and identify malicious traffic via netflow anomaly, rather than the signature based methods that are used by current network intrusion detection systems. It's effectiveness is contingent on having good data that contains labeled malicious packets to train on, but it was pretty dope in lab conditions to watch a graduate ethical hacking class try to compromise my testbed network and my best performing ai powered intrusion detection algorithms were able to accurately flag something like 90% of the malicious traffic.

If we had an organization dedicated to creating like a modern version of the NSL-KDD dataset every 6 months or so I think this type of network intrusion detection system would be extremely effective.

Fun fact; the standard model actually allows for spontaneous particle-antiparticle pair generation, so long as the pair mutually annihilate within some hbar defined time limit and conservation laws aren't broken at a macro scale. This is the mechanism behind hawking radiation too; some of the energy given off by black holes is caused by spontaneous pair generation that happens such that one of the pair is created beyond the event horizon and the other member is created before the event horizon, causing one to be trapped and the other to be jettisoned into space.

I know that doesn't really relate to your comment about containing antimatter but I counter with the following: I'm profoundly autistic and the standard model has been a special interest of mine before. I couldn't resist the chance to infodump a bit