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raginrayguns reblogged
I need to start reading romance novels
If you like medieval fantasy (idk if you do?) then The Sharing Knife is solid medieval fantasy, and the first two books also work as romance novels. I mean they are romance novels but they're not like, on the romance shelf at the bookstore with a shirtless guy on the cover and sex scenes timed to jerkoff session lengths
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From the transcript:
HAIDT: You could be right about that. That is definitely within the realm of possibility. It could just be, this is the early days, and I am overreacting. You could be right, but let’s think of another class of events. Suppose we change our diet so that there’s just no vitamin C in it, and our kids start getting scurvy. Would you say, “Well, they’ll adapt to that. They’ll adapt to scurvy. We’ll figure out how to live with scurvy.” Is that going to be something we’ll adapt to?
COWEN: That’s what the Aztecs did. They put nixtamal in their tortillas, and they don’t get scurvy for that reason. They didn’t eat oranges. They did adapt to it.
raginrayguns reblogged
i used to be counting the days when i could go back to biology but like. Idk man. Semiconductor age is kind of cool. Maybe I'll just stick with semiconductors for a while, if I can. The jobs are mostly structure based drug design because that's what worked but if computational cehmistry can work for semiconductors..................................... oh is it too much to hope for... how will we make this work.
@firebendinglemur said:
hope you're ok with being a postdoc the rest of your life . . .
yeah no my life sucks cause i have no money. Probably gonna start applyign to drug companies soon
i used to be counting the days when i could go back to biology but like. Idk man. Semiconductor age is kind of cool. Maybe I'll just stick with semiconductors for a while, if I can. The jobs are mostly structure based drug design because that's what worked but if computational cehmistry can work for semiconductors..................................... oh is it too much to hope for... how will we make this work.
What exactly happened to Kat?
I think her accidentally disabling her body is supposed to mirror Omega? Did she get reconnected? It seemed kind of underwhelming, like, she became a virtual being and then was like "nevermind"
Here's the thing though. We know that Omega can incarnate as an ordinary human thanks to the distortion.
What I'm wondering is if Kat is really still laying on the ground. It seems unlikely because usualyl Kat sees through etheric tricks, but... what did she say about how she got moving again?
raginrayguns reblogged
Main speculation in the gunnerkrigg comments is that the stranger is Omega. I don't know whether that's the case, but it's worth remembering that, contrary to what Kat and Anthony say about an "Omega device", the shadow men tend to talk about Omega as if it's a person.
To me Omega seems contradictory. The Court wants to achieve a world without magic, perfectly mechanistic and predictable, but their main hope for that is a Laplace's demon, which is just as mythological as Coyote? Not that I think it's a plot hole, just more reason to think the exposition so far isn't honest.
Another loose end here is Kat from the original timeline, the one where Antimony died, the first one to make Tiktoks. I guess she could be Omega, or she could be the original robot angel (perhaps the source of Robot's impressions that the angel is cruel?), or involved in some other way. Or not relevant at all.
yyup
I think we just got evidence that Kat from the original timeline is OMega somehow? It doesn't really make a lot of sense but...
Omega's "disguise" kind of looks like if Kat "fixed" all the things she was ashamed of. Like remember Kat wanted to learn to apply makeup, but then Annie todl her she didn't have to? And Kat was brielfy trying to look more feminine because she was ashamed of being into girls, and she started wearing the hair thing.... what if she had grown her hair long? Didn't people make fun of Kat for having a big nose? And now this is a black-ahired girl with long hair, a small nose, wearing makeup. Could this be what Kat without Annie would have eventually looked like, or would have chosen as a human avatar?
And Omega's "real form" resembles the robot angel, at least in having lots of plugs attached.
OH. What if Omega's ability to rpedict the future is just because she's literally from the future. What if her lost accuracy is just because the timeline has been diverging from hers since Annie was saved by the tiktoks.
Does anyone remember any specific failed predictions from Omega?
raginrayguns reblogged
I got to say, the resolution to the decade-long "Robot cult worshipping Kat" plotline being Shadow telling Robot to stop making a Robot Cult and Robot being like "Okay" feels a little underwhelming.
This is one of those "belief makes gods real" settings. Specifically, Coyote tells us, it happens when someone dies. And a New Person, presumably a believer, has already died. So robot cult mythology has already entered the ether. The robot cult's beliefs are now, to some extent, true.
raginrayguns reblogged
Main speculation in the gunnerkrigg comments is that the stranger is Omega. I don't know whether that's the case, but it's worth remembering that, contrary to what Kat and Anthony say about an "Omega device", the shadow men tend to talk about Omega as if it's a person.
To me Omega seems contradictory. The Court wants to achieve a world without magic, perfectly mechanistic and predictable, but their main hope for that is a Laplace's demon, which is just as mythological as Coyote? Not that I think it's a plot hole, just more reason to think the exposition so far isn't honest.
Another loose end here is Kat from the original timeline, the one where Antimony died, the first one to make Tiktoks. I guess she could be Omega, or she could be the original robot angel (perhaps the source of Robot's impressions that the angel is cruel?), or involved in some other way. Or not relevant at all.
yyup
I think we just got evidence that Kat from the original timeline is OMega somehow? It doesn't really make a lot of sense but...
Omega's "disguise" kind of looks like if Kat "fixed" all the things she was ashamed of. Like remember Kat wanted to learn to apply makeup, but then Annie todl her she didn't have to? And Kat was brielfy trying to look more feminine because she was ashamed of being into girls, and she started wearing the hair thing.... what if she had grown her hair long? Didn't people make fun of Kat for having a big nose? And now this is a black-ahired girl with long hair, a small nose, wearing makeup. Could this be what Kat without Annie would have eventually looked like, or would have chosen as a human avatar?
And Omega's "real form" resembles the robot angel, at least in having lots of plugs attached.
OH. What if Omega's ability to rpedict the future is just because she's literally from the future. What if her lost accuracy is just because the timeline has been diverging from hers since Annie was saved by the tiktoks.
Does anyone remember any specific failed predictions from Omega?
What did the Tiktoks do besides save annie? All I can think of is show Katja the workshop. So the original Kat must have done both. I don't know why, but it suggests some plan beyond just "what if I had had a childhood friend", which could be related ot her current interest in Robot
raginrayguns reblogged
Main speculation in the gunnerkrigg comments is that the stranger is Omega. I don't know whether that's the case, but it's worth remembering that, contrary to what Kat and Anthony say about an "Omega device", the shadow men tend to talk about Omega as if it's a person.
To me Omega seems contradictory. The Court wants to achieve a world without magic, perfectly mechanistic and predictable, but their main hope for that is a Laplace's demon, which is just as mythological as Coyote? Not that I think it's a plot hole, just more reason to think the exposition so far isn't honest.
Another loose end here is Kat from the original timeline, the one where Antimony died, the first one to make Tiktoks. I guess she could be Omega, or she could be the original robot angel (perhaps the source of Robot's impressions that the angel is cruel?), or involved in some other way. Or not relevant at all.
yyup
I think we just got evidence that Kat from the original timeline is OMega somehow? It doesn't really make a lot of sense but...
Omega's "disguise" kind of looks like if Kat "fixed" all the things she was ashamed of. Like remember Kat wanted to learn to apply makeup, but then Annie todl her she didn't have to? And Kat was brielfy trying to look more feminine because she was ashamed of being into girls, and she started wearing the hair thing.... what if she had grown her hair long? Didn't people make fun of Kat for having a big nose? And now this is a black-ahired girl with long hair, a small nose, wearing makeup. Could this be what Kat without Annie would have eventually looked like, or would have chosen as a human avatar?
And Omega's "real form" resembles the robot angel, at least in having lots of plugs attached.
OH. What if Omega's ability to rpedict the future is just because she's literally from the future. What if her lost accuracy is just because the timeline has been diverging from hers since Annie was saved by the tiktoks.
Does anyone remember any specific failed predictions from Omega?
raginrayguns reblogged
no particular reason this should be true, I'm just combining gunnerkrigg court mysteries, but we don't know who Omega is (was?), and we don't know what happened to the gunner whose cragg this is, so maybe omega's the gunner
this seems unlikely actually bevcause it hink we do know what happened to the gunner. He was erased from history, and hte only reason people get deliberately forgotten is they migrated to the off-planet colony. ALthough that suggests they started the colony much earlier than has been so far indicated... doesn't rly make sense
Maybe the idea of having no storeis about themselves so the ehter can't reach them goes back before the colony. In which case it failed hard for OMega, right? Because of the robot religion
raginrayguns reblogged
no particular reason this should be true, I'm just combining gunnerkrigg court mysteries, but we don't know who Omega is (was?), and we don't know what happened to the gunner whose cragg this is, so maybe omega's the gunner
this seems unlikely actually bevcause it hink we do know what happened to the gunner. He was erased from history, and hte only reason people get deliberately forgotten is they migrated to the off-planet colony. ALthough that suggests they started the colony much earlier than has been so far indicated... doesn't rly make sense
raginrayguns reblogged
Main speculation in the gunnerkrigg comments is that the stranger is Omega. I don't know whether that's the case, but it's worth remembering that, contrary to what Kat and Anthony say about an "Omega device", the shadow men tend to talk about Omega as if it's a person.
To me Omega seems contradictory. The Court wants to achieve a world without magic, perfectly mechanistic and predictable, but their main hope for that is a Laplace's demon, which is just as mythological as Coyote? Not that I think it's a plot hole, just more reason to think the exposition so far isn't honest.
Another loose end here is Kat from the original timeline, the one where Antimony died, the first one to make Tiktoks. I guess she could be Omega, or she could be the original robot angel (perhaps the source of Robot's impressions that the angel is cruel?), or involved in some other way. Or not relevant at all.
yyup
I think we just got evidence that Kat from the original timeline is OMega somehow? It doesn't really make a lot of sense but...
Omega's "disguise" kind of looks like if Kat "fixed" all the things she was ashamed of. Like remember Kat wanted to learn to apply makeup, but then Annie todl her she didn't have to? And Kat was brielfy trying to look more feminine because she was ashamed of being into girls, and she started wearing the hair thing.... what if she had grown her hair long? Didn't people make fun of Kat for having a big nose? And now this is a black-ahired girl with long hair, a small nose, wearing makeup. Could this be what Kat without Annie would have eventually looked like, or would have chosen as a human avatar?
And Omega's "real form" resembles the robot angel, at least in having lots of plugs attached.
no particular reason this should be true, I'm just combining gunnerkrigg court mysteries, but we don't know who Omega is (was?), and we don't know what happened to the gunner whose cragg this is, so maybe omega's the gunner
raginrayguns reblogged
the density matrix is the embedding of a wavefunction in a vector space where covectors are observables and the product is the expectation of observables
ive never heard anyone say this but it's true right? What's like... the normal way of saying this
When you think of the space of operators as itself a Hilbert space, with the inner product of A and B given by Tr[A^+ B], then it’s called the Fock-Liouville space. It’s useful for doing quantum mechanics on open systems: the Lindbladian is an operator on the FLS. And yes, the map taking a pure state to its projector is an embedding of the original Hilbert space into the FLS, in the strict sense.
Sorry, on second thought, the last sentence is complete nonsense: that map is neither linear nor injective. (Vectors differing by a phase have the same projectors.) Never let me do math when I’ve just woken up.
Anyway, I believe the correct statement is probably that it defines an embedding (not of Hilbert spaces but of Hermitian manifolds) of the projectivized Hilbert space (i.e. the “space of states”) into the FLS. But I haven’t fully checked that.
raginrayguns reblogged
so, the previous new person impersonator turned out to be a supernatural shapeshifter, but just reminding you all that the stranger hasn't done anything supernatural. Like her disguise is literally an outfit, and the teleporting thing she's doing is just what everyone can do because of the distortion. Like she could be whoever or whatever but she could also be some random shadow men agent who just normally looks like that. Wish I thgouht about this before it was revealed she wasn't zimmy
nnope
raginrayguns reblogged
Main speculation in the gunnerkrigg comments is that the stranger is Omega. I don't know whether that's the case, but it's worth remembering that, contrary to what Kat and Anthony say about an "Omega device", the shadow men tend to talk about Omega as if it's a person.
To me Omega seems contradictory. The Court wants to achieve a world without magic, perfectly mechanistic and predictable, but their main hope for that is a Laplace's demon, which is just as mythological as Coyote? Not that I think it's a plot hole, just more reason to think the exposition so far isn't honest.
Another loose end here is Kat from the original timeline, the one where Antimony died, the first one to make Tiktoks. I guess she could be Omega, or she could be the original robot angel (perhaps the source of Robot's impressions that the angel is cruel?), or involved in some other way. Or not relevant at all.
yyup