@michael_nielsen When I lived in Germany, I was intent on learning German and *always* carried a book in my pocket and read it whenever I could-- trains, in line, etc. While I haven't been really lazy about learning, I haven't been that dedicated since.
@johnsontheochem@DulwichQuantum I saw VQE papers that defined chemical accuracy in the fine print to be relative to some classical approximation with no indication of the latter's accuracy. Probably whatever they could do on a laptop with PySCF.
@DulwichQuantum I tried to find out once and really never could. Sometimes it was referenced to some approximate calculation just because it was calculable. One of the Garnet Chan slides posted here said "spectroscopic accuracy" which makes sense at face value.
The babies and toddlers killed in Gaza, the ten children who lose a limb every single day, these are killed and maimed with US bombs shipped in real time, being shipped now, to be used for that very purpose. There is no distancing possible
I think it's important to situate the Genocide Convention and South Africa's case within socio-legal context in which they operate. I think it will help explain the dissonance between people's excitement at South Africa's arguments and my more cautious view🧵
For 3 months I have been trying to make sense of Gaza, not just what is happening in the Strip but everything around it. I wanted to wait a bit but finally here it is, a long essay @TIME was generous enough to publish. Please read and spread if you can
https://t.co/76SckwZTUH
@david_temin That was the weakest Atlantic piece I've ever seen. But then it's hard to sell genocide with the language of universal values. Notice all the apologists on this thread changing the conversation to anything and everything except the ongoing mass murder in Gaza.
This is idiotic and dangerous. Protest outside the Israeli consulate or the offices of your member of Congress, not Jewish or Israeli-owned restaurants.
@MacaesBruno This has been crystal clear policy for decades. you kill 1000 of our children, we (with the help of U.S.) kill 10,000 of your children. No we can't live with it. Biden should have pulled the plug on day one. No bombs until you show a serious plan for equal rights for all.
@RadishHarmers@feelsdesperate You're giving him too much credit. Doesn't know or care who you are. He just saw an opportunity to drive outrage, clicks, followers, with empty headed twaddle. Sometimes you have to step on a few faces.
@Marco_Piani No he's correct. For example whatever you did to Eric Garner he might have survived if he weren't overweight. Therefore it's legally impossible to murder him... or maybe it was "logically" impossible. I'll have to look it up again. But you get the point.
@ShibleyTelhami History has taught us that if a people are continually subjugated, dispossessed, and brutalized, no amount of making them "pay the price", short of annihilation, will end the chaos death and destruction.
And the costs and threats to people everywhere keep rising.
@im_PULSE That's a bit unfair. You have the remember some are not fortunate enough to have access to books... or wikipedia, or websites of human rights orgs, or youtube, or common sense ... before they give their considered opinion on twitter.