Posts by loke@functional.cafe
(DIR) Post #B4M2Or3JpyngToZWXQ by loke@functional.cafe
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I have a physics (or perhaps maths) question that one been thinking about for a while, and I'm hoping someone here could shed some light on it.Why is it that everything in the universe appears to fit in a scale that is on the order of roughly 10-80 to 1080? In maths, you can easily come up with problems where the solution goes way beyond what exponential notation can describe (Grahams number is one such example) but in the real world, everything seems to fit in 100 orders of magnitude.Is there something fundamental that causes this? I know this might be more philosophy than physics, but surely people have thought about this?#physics #maths
(DIR) Post #B4VWdJDKfzGcvHhfwu by loke@functional.cafe
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A lizard I saw while biking today. Usually they run away quite quickly but this one was just hanging around on the road.https://youtu.be/bRl5ByNklX0#singapore #mtb
(DIR) Post #B4VWdJRVpGbrdGL03E by loke@functional.cafe
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Later I saw some monkeys. One of them was clearly making sure I wasn't a threat until he got bored and joined his friends.https://youtu.be/nOW0QMqI8cM#singapore #nature #mtb
(DIR) Post #B4VWdJhoqdeaRpy1T6 by loke@functional.cafe
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As I'm writing this, I'm in the middle of the trail. It's nice that it's dry and the trails are just mud, which is quite common here. I might not even need to do a full bike wash after this ride, which is pretty rare.#singapore #mtb #nature
(DIR) Post #B4moKP93VBhQg59nYu by loke@functional.cafe
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Public transport fans are the best (in general, not just these creators).But all the videos these guys made are great.I often pass by there when I'm out biking and I don't feel like making it all the way over to the MTB trails (which requires me to put the bike in the car and drive for 25 minutes).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4xlUgR3i0s
(DIR) Post #B4oT1MIa9QSLcubs5Q by loke@functional.cafe
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I'm just going to leave this here, with no further comment.
(DIR) Post #B4tHhXiZrDDpXtuv5M by loke@functional.cafe
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I wrote a blog post announcing the new GUI for Kap.https://blog.dhsdevelopments.com/new-gui-for-kap#kap #apl #programming
(DIR) Post #B4yeAtnnzrHFDdZ6zg by loke@functional.cafe
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@juanejot @thomasfuchs what even are those two things? Chicken and tomato?
(DIR) Post #B4zXNyQBd5KYmvlUjA by loke@functional.cafe
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@sodiboo you know, that's actually brilliant. Good art makes you think, and this made me think about both work and art.
(DIR) Post #B54hUyaXNTUofINs1Y by loke@functional.cafe
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The sun is pretty high in the sky right now.
(DIR) Post #B5YNO7WnZY2S1Tt1fM by loke@functional.cafe
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This post by @jonocarroll got me thinking.https://fosstodon.org/@jonocarroll/116418569123722577It should be possible to reproduce this (well, mostly) using very little code in an array language. Kap was missing a simple way to draw lines and boxes, so it was clearly time to remediate this. It's a very simple API that allows you to draw lines, boxes and ellipses in different colours.This is what I came up with. The editor window at the bottom is the full code.The code declares a few functions: R creates a rotation matrix with the given angle, T creates a translation matrix, and S creates a scaling matrix.The API already has built-in rotation and scaling, but I thought it was neater to do it with proper matrix operations.
(DIR) Post #B5mWJ7PEDahdzrTT28 by loke@functional.cafe
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This industry is weird. On one hand, you have slides like this at Def Con.On the other hand, it's all "hrrr agentic security".
(DIR) Post #B5sPkgTcOsN7r4U6CG by loke@functional.cafe
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Am unusually large number of durians on our tree this year.
(DIR) Post #B5tOSimnAc4z0aHdxY by loke@functional.cafe
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I had a bit of fun, and wrote a blog post where I comment on another blog post that compares R and pandas for some common calculations. I do the same in Kap, to show the differences.Obviously Kap is less easy to understand without any prior knowledge. But once you know it, it's quite efficient.https://blog.dhsdevelopments.com/a-little-comparison-between-r-and-kap#kap #apl #programming
(DIR) Post #B67H2E4OlnEkkVNQ6i by loke@functional.cafe
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@calx @SRAZKVT Qubes OS is the only system that makes this a very comfortable thing to do.It's just very disappointing that I can't use the GPU with it.
(DIR) Post #B6YbIWmWDEEZlayxea by loke@functional.cafe
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We have an old decorative bird cage outside our house (no birds inside). However, the neighbour's chicken has taken a liking to it. This is where she spends the nights.
(DIR) Post #B6h3szgD4qD1A7dcZs by loke@functional.cafe
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Just a small part of this year's harvest from our tree
(DIR) Post #B6ql0YoAugoEadrDrk by loke@functional.cafe
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I'm patiently waiting for the guards to allow me to pass into the bike trail.
(DIR) Post #B7kmXBssRwu2XUz0Zk by loke@functional.cafe
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@snowyfox those rules are just outright racist. Interesting that the article didn't say it explicitly.
(DIR) Post #B8ZtiYz1yMFZdWBN6e by loke@functional.cafe
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@wolf480pl @sjb @p there might be. What you imply in your question is whether hidden variables can be used to explain observations (i.e. the photon took a specific path, but the path cannot be observed).Now, we have to add another restriction, which is that the hidden variables should be local, but worth that assumption the Bell Test rules this out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_testBut there are nonlocal theories where particles do take a specific path, with Pilot Wave Theory being the main one. It is, however, a nonlocal theory which means that it depends on all other particles which you could call spooky action if you like?