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Asimov rocks! You should look into "Profession" and "It's Such a Beautiful Day", if you haven't.

Eridanus2on Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike

The keys could random walk to lock-ports in finite time iff the search space were 2D or 1D. In 3D space, it is gets very unlikely. Biology solves it by dimensionality reduction, find substrates, cling, slide and find love/compatible hole.

Eridanus2on Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated

A bad day at work, for one. Women are human. You are relying on human judgement.

Eridanus2on We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians

https://www.loc.gov/item/2022600183/

Then, I think a lot of cognitive production and post-production code review/proof validation/design approval will start to look like this.

Eridanus2on Meteor Blaster

What is happening???

Eridanus2on A Woman Cured Her Cancer with an Insane Method [video]

Like most kurzgesagt vids, I thoroughly enjoyed it, despite its dark subject. Here's a discussion from 2024 over the nature paper. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42094573

Eridanus2on The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

Old news, I know but writeup has interesting bit about vortex stretching leading to local velocity amplification.

Eridanus2on A misalignment of AI in mathematics

Lemme do the ironic thing here:

https://claude.ai/code/artifact/8cbd2369-0099-41ae-bb78-49d7...

Eridanus2on A misalignment of AI in mathematics

"I am the Lorax," he said, with a shout. "I'm the Lorax who speaks for the trees, which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please!"

Eridanus2on All grown-ups were once children

>Earlier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49638280

Btw, we are f*cked. Like what worthwhile human endeavor is left if not the 'pursuit' of higher truths. Eat, shit, sleep shag, then the reaper's bag.

Eridanus2on We built our house for LAN parties (2024)

You rich. You give job. I clean.

Eridanus2on Splash-free urinals (2025)

This assumes a fixed jet injection/intake vector... It's a floppy assumption at best, shaky at worst.

Eridanus2on Splash-free urinals (2025)

When ya hafta go.. Ya go.

Eridanus2on Impedance Matching (2017)

Is gearing up or down, with a fixed power budget, a valid example in the strict sense? Genuinely asking.

Eridanus2on Bing Wallpaper showing Ad for Harry Potter and Fantastic beasts box set

> write the formulae you were supposed to memorize on your tits

Mnemonic devices. Oh, the privilege.

Eridanus2on Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?

https://stewartschultz.com/statistics/books/Statistics_Terri...

Eridanus2on Andy Weir on writing an accidental best-seller (2019)

Project Hail Mary rocks too.

Eridanus2on A one-handed clock on the hyperbolic plane

Effing Smith chart in clocks. Will it follow me everywhere?

Eridanus2on Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)

Hi, ig?

Eridanus2on The mechanics of the Nepali flash flood

https://www.reddit.com/r/lastimages/comments/1bdrzsh/one_of_...

Truman refused to leave Mt. St. Helens. There is a memorial cross today whereabouts his lodge stood.

Eridanus2on Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) by Nathanael West

"...out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”

Eridanus2on Black hole singularity is a surface not a point

Downvoted back to the dark ages.

Eridanus2on Black hole singularity is a surface not a point

Contains 08 rendered frames of a free falling observer's view while crossing the event horizon. This is not reddit, but plz someone animate it :}

Eridanus2on Humor ability reveals intelligence, predicts mating success. Is higher in males

Corresponding author: humorology@gmail.com

Eridanus2on Astronautics and Aeronautics, 1991–1995: A Chronology

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/1969.pdf Perhaps a better entry-point will be a year of note^^

I appreciate the upload though.

Eridanus2on DIY Beta+Gamma Scintillation Detector

Actual title. "BPW34 + CsI(Tl)", 2024

Eridanus2on GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization

Genuinely asking... How do you get chatgpt to work for 148 mins when I can't get gemini to think for even a minute at a time?

Eridanus2on Near Coast of Venezuela: Sismo – Earthquake (M6- Estimated, at 22:04 UTC)

https://www.threads.com/@cphilpottcraig/post/DZ-Wb-EG8rO/yea...

Eridanus2on The Joys of NMAP (2011)

Throws ssl certificate error