snowstate @snowstate@mastodon.social

how is this an article and not a meme

Does this say chill or grill

I need to learn how to eat more

Oh right it's called a graviton

If a massive particle is a matter wave packet, and a photon is an electromagnetic wave packet, then what is a gravitational wave packet? Is there a gravity particle

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Feeling pompous because I downloaded an app called vocabulary builder and it turns out I already know most of the words it gives you

ants with incendiary bombs. arsonist ants

reading a book. it has flamethrower ants

book reader app idea: optional feature using device camera and eye tracking to mark where you were on the page if you look away. also turns the page automatically for you

Maybe we just automatically guess based on context? But I can't remember a time I've ever thought a sound was behind me, only to discover it was in front, or vice versa

This is still a mystery to me: how are humans able to tell whether sounds are coming from in front of them or behind them. Can't fully triangulate sounds with only 2 ears

Still feel like my version sounds better, and the meaning wasn't perfectly preserved, but I feel like this is a good enough reason to trust that the Japanese version is pretty accurate

Also I kind of like the use of the word stronghold rather than bastion

Original text:

This island shall not only be a bastion of scientific and technological advancement, but the cradle for civilization’s nascent epistemic endeavour: that is, the synthesis of computation and cognition.

Google translated to Japanese and back:

This island must not only be a stronghold of scientific and technological advances, but also a cradle for early epistemological efforts of civilization. That is, the integration of calculation and cognition.

v impressed right now

And also some sense of mystery that makes you want to know more. This is like, the teaser blurb description thing

And the other thing I want to do here is to imply some sort of urgency or danger, like "you need to escape"

It's for a project

The last line especially doesn't feel right to me

Help me workshop this

You feel a surge. The hum of electrical power reverberates through the facility. Halogen tubes flicker on, irradiating its sterile corridors with artificial blue light. A response from the mainframe, an electric flow in the dark.