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The mystery of nuclear 'magic numbers' has finally been resolved ( www.newscientist.com )

Goeppert Mayer and her contemporaries explained these numbers by proposing that protons and neutrons occupy discrete energy levels, or shells. This model, which is still used to interpret many nuclear physics experiments, treats each particle in the nucleus as independent, but our best quantum theories assert that particles ...

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Original article on arXiv (it's a short one).

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Very well written article.

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Thinking about how animals experience life is very interesting, so I looked deeper into than the Wikipedia article. I do not regret it.

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A "EE" degree won't get you into poking the right things into memory using BASIC. How about your "EE" programmers try that understanding of hardware?

Not being taken seriously, mocked for my views and people not believing a word I say.

I don't want to complain too much since in all honesty this isn't even remotely a serious enough topic. As I've gotten more and more educated in ML and adjascent knowledge, I've tried explaining to people my views, why they make sense and how they apply to the urrent world we live in. I push back when people claim outrageous ...

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IMO, being outside of Meta (the company) space means being out of reality these days. But there are some things about socialism that would stick to the people you interact with. Like materialism: "Do you know that guy who talks a lot about you brain chemistry on instagram? So that's materialism, trying to reduce a person to something calculable." Something like that, you would have to adapt it to your circumstance. It's hard, but you have to deal with it. It's the people you care about or at least that you are obliged to deal with. Be smart about it.

Gen Z is the first generation dumber than their parents, neuroscientist claims ( www.vice.com )

Gen Z has managed something no modern generation pulled off before. After more than a century of steady academic gains, test scores finally went the other direction. For the first time ever, a new generation is officially dumber than the previous one. ...

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heh, always the prefrontal cortex

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I agree that learning friction is essential.

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I'm brazilian and I have to say the opposite: smartphones are teaching people how to write, read and think quickly. In university scenarios, people are excited by the possibilities technology have made possible for them. People are willing that the country grow in stature. And that means deep philosophical meaning and so on. Also, Brazil is known for its diversity, so anything that is plus diversity will make brazilian people more willing.

I've read most of this comment section and I can't help but think that americans are lacking the meaning they once had. "Building pipe bombs made us smarter". ok. "television wasn't as bad as smartphones". ok. But the landscape changed and now there is the need for diversity. Time won't come back and that's fine, we as world don't need white predominant thinking to be back. We need something that will push us all forward, and that is not measuring and saying people are dumber and finding other measures to say the same again.

Let's just pull up everyone. You don't need to be dumb to wish the best for all. As the article says, friction is good. More social, more friction, more thinking.

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I know little more from Japan than the mainstream culture knowledge. That said, Japan is said to be a place where people are cold and distant. So, things starting getting more social, they get more tourists, and then instead of relaxing in relation to the social sphere, Japan is like: "No, let's be more cold and distant.". Yeah, that will work.

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Remote computing is very expensive. It's just the gated (owned by companies) LLMs that are cheap for the final consumer. Training a 2b LLM on remote compute will cost thousands of dollars if you try to.

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Very informative!

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Well it's a shuffling done by computer on a card deck software then.

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I think it's important to understand the philosophy also. The free software movement traces back to being able to transform any software in order to function on hardware as intended by the user. This is necessary and is its base philosophy.

So you have a hardware that is unusable without property software. That is what is unacceptable by free software standards. And I agree.

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I think this is important. Many science history textbooks highlight that the ancients got the measures right by 5% off or that the modern era scientists got the quantity of oxidation (phlogistic) off by 5%. So it's important to note that we are actually advancing in Science and that we are finding new horizons, not just repeating what the ancients or modern era scientists did.

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What do you want to self-host? Lemmy?

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You need a static IP address and DNS. Then you need to follow instructions for launching and administrating the lemmy server online: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System ( www.cambridge.org )

With the Liberal International Order (LIO) in decline, scholars have focused increasingly on the possible return to a Westphalian great power system marked by sovereigntist claims and balancing among states. The actions of the Trump administration, however, raise a number of significant puzzles for such accounts—the US seems ...

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Did these two people (publishing on Cambridge!!) just try to give a deep scientific coating to Curtis Yarvin idea of aristocrats ("CEOs are monarchs")?

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It isn't that good.

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Data from space missions is open for the scrutiny of every researcher and citizen scientist, right? It's good to have those things open so everyone can check.

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Back in the early 20th century, companies needed licensing, would sell their product nationally. They were on the toolbelt of the government. Now companies are global and they are the ones who choose government; they don't even sell anything tangible anymore. They just say: "Let's organize to build these lot of datacenters, we'll organize it for you.", and they do it worldwide. No need to bring in value, they're just "politicians without borders".

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Palantir only cares about one philosophy. The "philosophy of God". You may like some enlightenment figures like Kant or Leibniz, since the sense of hierarchy is powerful on the epoch, but that's about it. You're supposed to reverb/echo the "philosophy of God" or get out! Critical thinking without hierarchical thinking is just a pain on the ass for them, so you can "go home and eat our metaphysical shit" or submit to the Mathematical God which will create all the rules and philosophy we need.

I guess that's what he means.

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bullies!

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Yeah, I thought people could use some connecting to their roots in these trying times for the US.

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You're giving Microsoft too much credit. The market in general doesn't want you to think of an alternative.

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Well, it's weird that it gets 16%

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The solution is Starlink. Yes. (it says on the article that the solution is Starlink)

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I'm kind of curious as to what I could do with Proton Drive SDK.

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An enterprise solution to Cairo (open source rendering API)? I don't know how I feel about this. It seems like something coming from Embarcadero or something like that. Something that would turn Linux into more of a Windows environment.

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OpenStreetMap can be self-hosted. Protect the public OpenStreetMap service and force profit-driven interested parties to self-host an OpenStreetMap solution.

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So the EU wants to diversify for autonomy. India has been growing a lot, I think it will be a good partner.

Monster Neutrino Could Be a Messenger of Ancient Black Holes ( www.quantamagazine.org )

Nearly three years ago, a particle from space slammed into the Mediterranean Sea and lit up the partially complete Cubic Kilometer Neutrino Telescope (KM3NET) detector off the coast of Sicily. The particle was a neutrino, a fundamental component of matter commonly known for its ability to slip through other matter unnoticed. ...

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This is just incredible. I am at a loss for words.

I just wish I didn't had to cite Lovecraft for this to be cool.

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" In the chemical reaction unit, CO2 was chemically hydrogenated to methanol at a rate of ~0.25 g hour−1 g−1 catalyst, and the produced methanol was constantly condensed and fed into the enzymatic unit to a final concentration of ~100 mM during the first hour. In the enzymatic unit, the methanol was first converted to ~22.5 mM C3 intermediate DHA for another 1 hour by supplementing two core enzymes and auxiliary catalase (cat) and then transformed to ~1.6 g liter−1 amylose starch in the subsequent 2 hours by supplementing the remaining eight core enzymes and auxiliary components (Fig. 3A). "

The information is on the Original Science Journals Paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abh4049 (login - free account - required)

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I have noticed Nature articles (and Physical Review articles as well) are very well written and interesting to the general public as well.

Some journals articles from other journals are preoccupied with the formulas and data, but I guess Nature editors and publishers are also very preoccupied with the writing quality.

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I think the french are more pasty? Any child of a frenchman had lots of rights. That's how Haiti got to rebel, no?

Edit: I'm sorry, there seems to be a misunderstanding from my part. Pasty means pale! Now I get it! I think it doesn't make too much sense because America is a european concept for Americus Vespucius, so it's more Mexico than latin america. The spanish are kind white, but they are also very african because they were colonized by the Arabs from the Magreb and beyond.

Italians are kind of dark skinned also, maybe because of North Africa? I don't know. Anyway, the dark skin don't necessarily means the person is hispanic or a original person.

The problem here is the acculturation. I bet some people mark themselves as white for convenience, and there are all the darkskinned "hispanic" people. I don't know, seems kind of bogus to me.

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Not children. People of any age. They're dark skinned, sometimes slightly dark skinned. They look like japanese, sometimes they don't. Sometimes they're hispanic without a spanish surname. They're not told they're hispanic, they're just marked as hispanic by the demographics. They don't need to be told what they are for people to oppress them.

That's how it works: you mark someone as something and don't give a shit about what they think about it. Sometimes, the person just thinks: "This is how I look like, and this is what my family looks like, so I'm correct and don't know anything about this heritage thing.".

They don't need to be told anything, that's how it works.

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That's good. It's similar to Brazil in the sense of recognizing and preserving tribal cultures. That's important, but it doesn't extend to all native people. There are movements here advocating for the recognition of the urban indigenous—people who live in the cities but aren't officially recognized as having native ancestry.

Even more, it's increasingly expected that there were big cities in the Amazon, featuring complex trade routes. However, this topic still needs to be studied more profoundly for various reasons.

It all depends on History, specifically how groups like the Aztecs in Mexico and the Inca in Peru dealt with the Spanish. Their elites were often made kings (or viceroys) in the early post-colonization period. That makes a significant difference in the subsequent social structure.

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That's common culture/knowledge. But I don't know, seems like rubbish to me. If English colonization has different methods, what can you say about Trinidad & Tobago? And the English Guyana? Let's not go to Africa and Asia. It doesn't seem to be their "modus operandi" to me.

I don't think there is some big extermination plan for America and Australia. I think there's just something different to those places, but that requires more study. Not of the common knowledge kind. Why would you want some kind of extermination colonization strategy for Australia? It's weird. It's more of a "counter-study", but I believe there are people fighting the good fight out there. I'll put it on my list and research it.