maya benowitz 🕰️
@cosmicfibretion
mathematical physicist lost in a liminal space of events to take humanity toward the singularity of knowledge 📙 aspiring timelord
A technical thread on C.F. von Weizsäcker (the original quantum information theorist) and the nature of time.🧵1/
i made the mistake of eating a whole yellow dragon fruit
Holy smokes. I've had such an incredibly productive week. I had forgotten what it's like to focus without constant context switching.
Physicists love to tell you about hunting for sign errors, which is a pain. But my oh my when it's a Z2 action and the difference is between a torus and the pillowcase orbifold you just feel dumb.
hey bro, not trying to compete with you bro, don’t care who’s smarter or knows more bro. Me all wide-eyed tweaking like an addict: I just *need* to know some things bro, just one more hit of understanding bro, I need this bro
We need a word for those who view the sciences as a sport to compete with peers and accumulate awards and prestige.
Einstein didn’t go into physics because he wanted to be the next Newton.
It must be hard, going into physics thinking you’re the next Einstein and discovering you’re the next nobody.
Wait, so Perimeter invited Weinstein to give a secret unrecorded talk on the condition he never mention it in hopes he would make a donation? Did I get that right?
I feel for all the future kids reading their history books, squinting in disbelief at the social media posts of the U.S. government, convinced they’re in some social experiment designed by their teachers.
When the history is written they’ll be known as the Trump-Epstein files.
Not normally a big conspiracy theory guy but I’m uhhh not sure what other conclusion I’m supposed to draw from this Trump post other than he is 1000% implicated in the Epstein files and it’s very very bad lol
The careers and wealth of people like @pmarca wouldn’t exist without institutions funding basic research at universities. The Tech Right are the bottom dwellers of innovation, pushing bits around in the pursuit of status and wealth with little regard for the generations to come.
Leaked group chat messages show that Marc Andreessen opposes science funding and high-skilled immigration. People think there's a "split" between MAGAs and the Tech Right. These are two issues where you would think that the split would manifest itself. Especially on high-skill…
BREAKING: Metadata shows the FBI’s ‘raw’ Jeffrey Epstein prison video was likely modified. wired.com/story/metadata…
BREAKING: Metadata shows the FBI’s ‘raw’ Jeffrey Epstein prison video was likely modified. wired.com/story/metadata…
But I was told AI will discover new physics in a year.
Can an AI model predict perfectly and still have a terrible world model? What would that even mean? Our new ICML paper formalizes these questions One result tells the story: A transformer trained on 10M solar systems nails planetary orbits. But it botches gravitational laws 🧵
Aside from the obvious moral abomination of these raids, think about how much money and resources we are wasting on this bullshit. Your tax dollars sending armed gestapo agents with helicopters to kidnap farm workers, the hardest working people in the country. Insanity.
“A CBP helicopter.. they’re landing in the middle of the farm.. is does appear that they were not planning to be here as long they have… so this helicopter made a run.. for some cases of water”
ChatGPT4.5 >> Grok4 on mathematical physics and it's not even close.
No, your AI is not going to discover new physics. You have to go out and make precision measurements for that.
We should not tolerate the terrorist state. Now is the time to arm yourselves and organize well-regulated militias.