The tools of Dan Gelbart
One of the cult youtube channels of machinists is the channel of Dan Gelbart.
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Warfighting ability
Imagine you are world hegemon and some shitty little country sidles up to you with an idea of making war on some other country.
Statistical picture of Quantum Mechanics
The statistical picture of quantum mechanics is an idea I had in my mind more or less as the correct picture, while occasionally simultaneously holding the gaseous nonsense that the Schroedinger equation somehow describes things the individual particles are doing.
Progress: real and Potemkin
I ran across this essay, Freddie deBoer offering a bet to Scott Alexander that the AI singularity isn’t coming in the next 3 years, based on a decent decent set of economic measurements:
Q1/2 2026 books
Getting the best of it by David Sklansky.
Bouncing droplet "quantum mechanics"
I was always a fan of de Broglie and Bohm’s “pilot wave“ idea.
FAUB robot program failure
An airplane is a giant tin can.
Beyond Quantum with Khrennikov
I’ve gone through Khrennikov’s “Beyond Quantum” book and write some notes for the crowd.
Very small engines
One of the interesting things to contemplate is the scale of the internal combustion engine.
Silicon Valley Lotharios
There are many amusing stereotypical personalities in Silly Con valley.