My understanding is that string theory is a generalization of existing theories, but has no evidence distinct from existing theories.

Also working on some 3d maths.

I’ve used the free versions a bit, but not really to the extent that I’d call it vibe coding. The chat bots often know where to find libraries or pre-existing functions that I don’t know. It’s also okay at algorithms for well defined problems, but it often says be careful not to do something I absolutely need to do or visea versa. It’s very hit and miss on debugging. It’ll point out obvious stuff (typos) reliably, and it can do some iteration stuff usually, but it usually doesn’t pick up on other things. Once in a rare while it will impress me by suggesting I look at a particular thing, and I think it manages this better in new chats, but most complex issues fail for it. I use it as a faster stackoverflow, but you need to be able to work through the code yourself, understand what you’re doing, and test that individual steps are doing what they need to do. The bots can’t really do any sort of planning or breaking down a problem into sub-problems, and they really suck at thinking about 3d stuff.

I’m not a physicist, but I’m pretty sure there are only three spacial dimensions. We can talk about time as another dimension, and I don’t know enough to say there aren’t other dimensions like that, but I’m pretty sure there are only three spacial dimensions.

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White House’s plan for federal spending next year also includes a ban on using federal funds for subscriptions and publishing fees for some academic journals.

I’d support ban on using federal funds for subscriptions or publishing fees for all journals. Frankly, journals don’t do anything most of the time. You tell them who the reviewers ought to be, and they accept it. The reviewers read over it and make suggestions. You make your minor edits (or if you wrote a shit paper and were dumb enough to suggest competent reviewers, you get to do more work). Then the journal puts the paper through an automated pipeline and hosts it on a web site.

Reach out to reviewers yourself, make an open source version of the pipeline and have scientific societies host the papers as torrent links (maybe an IRC chat too find reviewers), mandate universities seed their papers, and cut this parasitic industry out of our society.

budget document says that the proposal would maintain funding for research on quantum information and artificial intelligence … plans to increase applied research funding on those topics at the defence and energy departments … But basic quantum and AI research funding at NSF, for example, would be cut by 37% and 32%, respectively.

Grifters at AIPAC taking basic science money for finance bros.

To be fair, no one taught me how to apply for jobs.

The article described the paper’s calculation of tidal and electromagnetic forces forming a tunnel. Isn’t there some concern on the accuracy of values where two very large numbers are canceling out? I suppose this paper is all theory, so it doesn’t really care beyond asserting the possibility, but it seems like even if wormholes could form they’d be extremely unstable.

This sounds like a if black holes collided “just right” sort of issue.

Realistically, I think they could’ve gotten away with it. He could shut the whole thing down and the scientist would still come in to at least help them land. I think you’d have riots if he tried to stop that.

When I was young I was really into Star Trek, and viewed the Prime-Directive as a good approach to foreign policy. As I got older and more into politics, I advocated isolationism. People countered that we should all help each other, and for a time I found that a compelling argument.

Now I see good intentions corrupted – sudden withdraw of help causing massive damage. I see a government that does whatever it wants around the world with nothing but apathy from its citizenry – facilitation of genocides and support of authoritarianism. I see the rounding up and abuse immigrants on one side and the use of immigrants to fill labor needs rather than fund proper training on the other. I see globalization used to cut workers wages under the guise of mutual dependence maintaining peace.

There is certainly value to helping others and maintaining peace, but generally, I think Americans need to push our government towards minding its own business.

I still think universities and academic societies should be hosting instances and funding them with dedicated endowments. It’d also provide a great way to request more money from people who feel a reciprocal obligation due to using the instance.

I thought France was recycling some high percentage of nuclear waste? I admit this is not my field.

Revoking the Pope’s citizenship and deporting him would be very on brand for Trump.

“Trump deports Pope” is on my bingo card.

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I mean, the guy literally threatened to do war crimes.

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Yeah, maybe for paper ballots have the default as equal to lottery than let people add numbers with negative being below the lottery position? Having a default solves a lot of practical problems, but I think summing all everything will still take computers. It’s just too much to determine what’s greater than what for every relation for every ballot then sum everything. Maybe doable for small numbers of people, but not for a whole city. Still paper ballot give something to go back and reference then you can use a program hash to validate the count.