cableclasper
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Comment · 4 months ago
I think it was Ethan Zuckerman who once said that Congress is ill-equipped and incompetent to solve this kind of problem and that we need to design systems that guarantee outcomes and cites Signal as an example. We need to have that mindset now: a clarion call to software engineers.
Comment · 1 year ago
Visualizations like this truly highlight how much there is to be gained from viewing the 3D phase space, but also how much richness we miss in >3D!
(I wonder if there are slick ways to visualise the >3D case. Like, we can view 3D cross sections surely.
Or maybe could we follow a Lagrangian particle and have it change colour according to the D (or combination of D) it is traversing? And do this for lots of particles? And plot their distributions to get a feeling for how much of phase space is being traversed?)
This visualization also reminds me of the early debates in the history of statistical mechanics: How Boltzmann, Gibbs, Ehrenfest, Loschmidt and that entire conference of Geniuses must have all grappled with phase space and how macroscopic systems reach equilibrium.
Great work Shashank!
Comment · 2 years ago
Do boycotts work anymore? I'm asking for an AI-protesting friend.
Comment · 5 years ago
Really neat!
Heat pipes also utilize capillary action (via wicks) for heat exchange: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pipe
Comment · 5 years ago
Modern Warfare.
Comment · 5 years ago
Physics teachers may enjoy Madame Hyde (2017) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Hyde
In it, there are long dialogues on Fermat's principle of least time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_principle) and Faraday cages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage).
I wished the movie dwelled longer on those subjects though.
Comment · 5 years ago
Really cool! I see a resemblance to scratch.
https://scratch.mit.edu/
Comment · 5 years ago
There's a hell of a lot more.
Michael Faraday's "Chemical History of a Candle" is a very readable masterpiece on the subject, despite its age.
The Engineering Guy has done much to revive Faraday's work: http://www.engineerguy.com/faraday/
Comment · 5 years ago
Brilliant and powerful statement. Kudos to Lichess. But this part:
> Imagine if scientists kept the result of every scientific study to themselves. The same work would have to be done over and over again as everyone was forced to reinvent the wheel countless times to do anything at all. Instead, scientists share their work and collaborate which benefits all of us.
raised my eyebrows. If only it were true. Aside from paywalled journals, we don't have a centralized repositories of data in most fields, probably because a lot of it is proprietary (or intends to be) in the first place.
Comment · 5 years ago
This is brilliant work. I've been playing with this for the last half hour and have found cool papers that I otherwise wouldn't have. To me, this has a great edge over google scholar and lens.
A wishlist:
1) To be able to share maps with fellow researchers, not as pdfs or bib files, but as a url to the map so that they can interact with it. I can see that a "share link" is possible for an article, but not for a custom map. Such a link could also be used to embed such maps on sites like how one can with plots from https://ourworldindata.org/
2) To be able to get more metadata like sponsor, country, etc. like https://www.lens.org does.
3) To be able to upload pdfs and annotate them. I can see why this is dicey, but if possible, would be great to see an integration with something like https://fermatslibrary.com/margins
> It's currently in early access so it's free to use, and you don't need to create an account to get started.
I know software developers need to eat and totally respect your choice in making it a paid service in the future, but I will confess a deep desire for such a thing to be affordable, if not free.