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Because I'm a mad scientist, I sometimes have the urge to buy a nitrogen vacancy diamond and a 532 nm laser so I can fuck around with some qubits.
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I got *really* hyperfixated in 2019-2020 on the idea of making my own NV diamond magnetometer. I was sooo close to pulling the trigger on it, but the chemical supplier company I tried buying NV...
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I often think about that time in my life as my peak. I was seriously considering building a complicated quantum sensing apparatus from scratch, even though I barely understood the physics involved. I...
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I'm desperately trying to rebuild myself to get back to kind of self-confidence and self-assurance I had back then, but sometimes I wonder if that version of me was special and unique to that time and...
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I say all of this from my bed, where I'm struggling to convince myself it's worth bothering to get up and get ready instead of sleeping away my life
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It's like I can only define my self-worth in terms of my accomplishments (or lack thereof)
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The idea that I might never achieve anything "important" or "impressive" in life ever again terrifies me. I don't even understand what that would look like. I don't know who or what I would be.
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It's really frustrating that it's the first clear night in weeks and I can't even set up my telescope because it'll be so frigid it could be damaged. But oh yeah, on Monday it'll be raining. WTF
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I'm in this video and I don't like it lolhttps://youtube.com/shorts/E_xrHy1MKoA
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It's not that I don't want to do anything. It's that I really want to be laying down under a blanket, with my eyes closed, and not moving, and I'm not interested in doing anything that interferes with...
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If I could write code while my eyes are closed and without moving, I'd probably be doing that
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Okay, so I put on my prescription sunglasses instead of my glasses and that actually helps somewhat. Maybe I just have light sensitivity? Is that a thing people get sometimes?
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We need to go full Luddite and start smashing the servers of any corporation developing AI tech
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I'm proudly a Luddite when it comes to AI technology. We are only just starting to see the affects of things like ChatGPT, but it's already clear the this technology will only enhance and expand...
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AI will:- Obfuscate the contributions of individuals, making it trivial to reduce compensation.- Be used to exploit entire classes of labor with the threat of replacement by AI.- Degrade the working...
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I remain unconvinced that there is ANY meaningful benefit to using AI tech in anything but very niche technical domains.Or to put it another way, I think the cost to widespread adoption of this...
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I can't help but watch this and think, "Damn, the 50s were absolutely fucked, weren't they?"https://youtu.be/ibUsglYe4r0
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