Joe Chott

Husband, Dad, programmer, technology gatherer, explainer.

[Joe Chott @Verxion]

Last intended post here. I’ve switched to the other place. Refer to my account info to know where.

I’ve met a lot of great people here and had some AMAZING conversations.

Can’t continue to support what is happening here though. Sorry.

[Joe Chott @Verxion]

@GeekAndDad @bigthink I’m actually acutely interested in dark matter but I’ve found surprisingly little information about it.

We know so little!!

[Joe Chott @Verxion]

@GeekAndDad @bigthink I… don’t think we actually disagree.

I was speaking to the matter/antimatter aspect. I’m certainly not trying to say energy doesn’t exist or that it is left out. Simply that it doesn’t SEEM to apply to the “missing half” aspect.

[Joe Chott @Verxion]

@GeekAndDad @bigthink Maybe semantics, but here is how -*I*- took it:

1. The entire universe is composed of matter, we know this through the various means expounded on in the article.

2. There “should be” a corresponding antimatter version of every particle

3. That “corresponding” “half” is missing

[Joe Chott @Verxion]

@GeekAndDad @bigthink Well you’d know more there than me. I’d simply posit this:

Why would the floating math error be in only one direction? Why wouldn’t it also have the same error when calculating how many antimatter particles formed?

The answer to that, if any, would be educational.

[Joe Chott @Verxion]

@GeekAndDad @bigthink Half wasn’t said, no.

“The two billion matter and antimatter particles annihilated each other, leaving the one matter particle to join up with all the other leftover matter particles to make up the matter we now see around us.”

Given no corresponding antimatter, half IS missing

[Joe Chott @Verxion]

@GeekAndDad @bigthink Well to put it another way:

1. With respect to the portion that was annihilated, there was a BALANCE. The fact that it became energy is irrelevant to the fact that it was a 1:1 ratio

2. With respect to the matter for which there was no corresponding antimatter, half is missing

[Joe Chott @Verxion]

@GeekAndDad @bigthink …obviously they are still trying to figure out the specifics as to why there was extra matter in the first place…

[Joe Chott @Verxion]

@GeekAndDad @bigthink It was pretty clear to me when I read the article…

All the antimatter had annihilated the corresponding matter. The only reason we have matter today (according to what they are positing anyway) is due to the extra matter present at the beginning.

So we still are missing HALF.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

what bravery looks like:
ilya yashin sentenced to 8 ½ years in prison for spreading ‘false’ information about russian atrocities in bucha

“it’s better to spend 10 years behind bars as an honest man than quietly burn with shame over the blood spilled by your government,” he said

[Joe Chott @Verxion]

:(

[claire @canary_boots]

Echoes my experience. Misogyny & disrespect got worse as I “got ahead” in my tech career.

[Joe Chott @Verxion]

:(

[Tracy Chou 🌻 @triketora]

another variant on meritocracy myth: i used to think i could get ahead of the disrespect & misogyny i experienced as a woman in tech by working really hard and getting really good at what i do. HA now i know that my being competent makes insecure men even more resentful and mean.

[Joe Chott @Verxion]

@rob__mccallum I’m finally to the point I’ve got enough going on “over there” that I don’t think I’d miss this too much if it imploded.

…still, I’m here. Still.

[Joe Chott @Verxion]

@Diragor @viticci On iPad?

[Joe Chott @Verxion]

@GeekAndDad https://t.co/IYKXQ0YtzO

[Joe Chott @Verxion]

@Gartenberg Yay!! :)

[Joe Chott @Verxion]

Thread.

[Joe Chott @Verxion]

Paging @kaylai and @KalofXeno

[Raphaël Millière @raphaelmilliere]

I asked ChatGPT to rewrite Bohemian Rhapsody to be about the life of a postdoc, and the output was flawless:

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Look, if everyone is worried about students cheating on essays for AI, instructors can just cheat right back.

I asked OpenAI to give me an essay question & make a rubric for grading. I had GPT-3 actually write the essay.

I then had the OpenAI grade the essay & give comments. ✅