Ian Stark

One of Matt's parents. @ian.stark.scot (Bluesky) @[email protected] (Mastodon)

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Immense planning and technical precision was required for this absolutely preposterous (but real) view: I captured my friend @BlackGryph0n transiting the sun during a skydive.

This might be the first photo of it's kind in existence. See a video of this moment in the reply 👇

[Ian Stark @ianstk]

@john_ritzema It was the risk of losing their seats at election that led local MPs to require all those tunnels, wasn't it? Government proposed to run HS2 through people's view, objectors threatened the ballot box. It does sound like we already have the system you describe, and it failed.

[Ian Stark @ianstk]

@fountainbridge @LivingStreetsEd @thecockburn @livingstreets Not my take at all: this design is specifically for those not in cars. Waiting at that crossing, on foot or bike, I can watch the approaching traffic while keeping an eye on the signal. Cycling up to it there's a sensor that even pushes the button for me before I get there.

[Ian Stark @ianstk]

@fountainbridge @scottish_water Reminder that "wildflower meadows", lovely as they are, aren't a stable natural phenomenon but always arise from human intervention and are pretty much as managed as a window-box. Hope they get it fixed, though. I do like window-boxes.

[Ian Stark @ianstk]

@fountainbridge @scottish_water FOMBL report it was in the topsoil used by @scottish_water
https://t.co/vtdX84z0pP

[Miegakure, 4DToys {mtbdesignworks} @mtbdesignworks]

I'll be showing Miegakure publicly for the first time in a while at this year's SIGGRAPH Real-Time Live! session!

It'll be a good opportunity to restart talking about the game—especially since it's my kind of audience: appreciative of works at the intersection of art & science

[Ellen Pasternack @pastasnack_e]

I wonder who put this sign here? Oh well, I’m sure it’s not important.

[Ian Stark @ianstk]

@ChristleTaylor @hammer_mt @realpheirce @Austen Thanks! I think it also captures no-cloning quite well — you can steal a magic coin, but you can't copy it without losing the magic.

[Ian Stark @ianstk]

@hammer_mt @realpheirce @Austen Not useless, I think, just maddening in that it seems so close to superpowers yet somehow dives off in a different direction. But that's reality for you.

[Ian Stark @ianstk]

@hammer_mt @realpheirce @Austen True, but for that you could share a list of bits in advance. Actual entanglement has much more weirdness like being able to mess with coins so that yours is now linked to another you never even knew about.

[Ian Stark @ianstk]

@hammer_mt @realpheirce @Austen If I toss my coin really early, I know it before you do...

[Ian Stark @ianstk]

@hammer_mt @realpheirce @Austen Nope. And if anyone watching this is moving fast, "already" may be ambiguous. Plus, if you think about it too much then the errors in the analogy show up, and with luck a proper physicist will show up to clarify.

[Ian Stark @ianstk]

@hammer_mt @realpheirce @Austen I toss my coin, the result (previously uncertain) is now heads. Minutes later you, a light-year away, toss your coin and find out I just threw heads. How fast did that information get from me to you? It's not really communication, but it is spooky and it is at a distance.

[Ian Stark @ianstk]

@hammer_mt @realpheirce @Austen Maybe think of the entanglement as two coins, where the first time you toss them they are certain to come up the same, even if widely separated. Still 50/50 heads/tails, just linked for one toss. Magic, but no use for communication. (N.B. Analogy v. inexact.)

[Ian Stark @ianstk]

@mattstark256 Coo. Can I build me one of these?
https://t.co/Zlq3WmFdvu

[Ian Stark @ianstk]

@PlayStationUK @playViewfinder Or, as they call it in Scotland, an egg.

[Ian Stark @ianstk]

@georgbacker @BAFTAGames @playViewfinder The team were fantastic, really great to see everyone enjoying the event. Well done all round :-)

[Ian Stark @ianstk]

@SystemFOmega @kamatsu8 @rg9119 I'm fairly sure that's the domain-theorist's equivalent of taking your shoes off to count above ten. We've all been there.

[Ian Stark @ianstk]

@kamatsu8 @rg9119 Powerdomains? I still think some of this may be historical in trying to cut down to “computationally reasonable” domains seeking full abstraction. Ask Gordon Plotkin? His office isn't far from yours, but I realise that is not sufficient information to find the man himself...