Reality Explained.
Simulation of 2D gas relaxing towards an equilibrium Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution. What questions do you have? Source: https://t.co/mrV1DlQ260
Today I turn 88…I’ve seen some serious shit. The most serious of it all is love. I love my family, my friends, and my wonderful fans. The power of love remains.
A three-way battle between one AI, another AI, and Magnus Carlsen. Magnus’s best strategy? Do nothing. The two AIs will conclude each other as the only real threats, spend time obliterating each other, and leave Magnus to sweep up the leftovers. Source: https://t.co/2gUqLDjv9G
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physics to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”
Civilizational speed-run (animation below). Blueprint of the West.
Proof → concrete → steam → silicon → stars
Next video suggestion: Song China to the Treasure Fleets: then the pause. Compass, gunpowder, movable type, the biggest navy on Earth… then the ships are burned.
Physicists used ChatGPT to find more solutions to interesting differential equations. This time smooth, exact solutions for a confined plasma in 3D. This is almost certainly more interesting for physics applications, e.g. fusion, than Navier-stokes
New cat alert! A call from a wildlife sanctuary about a "weird cat" has led to the first new cat species discovered in over 100 years in Bolivia’s Yungas forest ecoregion. Learn more about this feline surprise: https://t.co/crffXvPqH4
A new species of cat has been identified for the first time in a century—and experts think that there may be even more to discover around the world: https://t.co/woOXXxJOXB
The human-caused climate change crisis is demonstrably real.
Generative AI is often fakery.
Yet ironically the effect of AI data centers on making the environment worse represents one of its truths.
https://t.co/8OnnIm17AF
I drew this stormy water planet with mathematical equations.
A hot, fully water-covered planet can frequently experience multiple cyclones simultaneously due to its chaotic atmosphere.
The actual GOAT of our IT industry who co-created the C programming lang and helped develop the Unix OS. Happy birthday to a true legend whose work shaped modern computing.