mandlebro @mandlebro@qoto.org

@Xoktz Mildly interesting topic. During my undergrad my writing class was feminism themed and I had to take an "upper division GE" that ended up being a course in feminism. The first was ok, I read the color purple and the feminist mystique, both well written books. The former was very engaging and the later was an interesting look into first world problems from the 50's. I would say, even if you don't like feminism there's interesting things there if you look for it so its good to keep an open mind. That being said there's a lot of modern stuff about equality that seems to be predicated on a sort of Lockian idealism on both sides. I don't think that you can have reasonable policies without recognizing differences between the sexes, both in terms of relationships and the workplace. I also don't think you should feel too bad about having prejudices, just try not to hurt people. There are tons of common prejudices that are not political that can effect people as much as those that are, such as prejudice against unattractive people. Those are my two cents. I can't have strong opinions on these topics in general because they are too squishy, not enough math.

@fribbledom
Underrail
Lisa the Painful
The Talos Principle

@creme @fribbledom that was the joke. But I realized the correct tone didn't come across in text so I deleted it.

@fribbledom What is fortran good for nowadays? I've seen interesting schemes but what could fortran do that something else can't do much better?

Added the triangular model to my Ising simulation. The triangular model behave similar to the rectangular model in the ferromagnetic case but in the ant-ferromagnetic case it lacks a base state and continues to have large amounts of noise at arbitrarily low temperatures violating the third law! Video show the difference between the two antiferromagnetic models. The lack of a base state comes from the lack of a 2 - vertex coloring of the triangular graph.

@crackurbones Just from the article this seems like it may be a case of mathematical naivete. To build a model, to say, hey if we do this I predict better outcomes and thus my approach is superior, seems extremely removed from the realities of civil engineering.

@freemo \ x_{n+1} = r x_n(1 - x_n) \ is a simple enough population model. Lets try simulating it! Oh no...

@davidga fucking why

Exciting weather lately, had rain below freezing with below being the result and today its snow above freezing so everything is just muddy and wet. I like when we get glass trees.

Finally finished that Ising model simulation. The reason why I was reading about the ising model is that simple generalizations of it lead to bolzmann and hopfield networks. The Ising model is like a boltzmann network that only remembers the base states, all one spin for J=1 (ferromagnetic) and checkered for J=-1 (antiferromagnetic). This simulation only does Gibbs sampling and I mostly made it as an exercise in c++ but its pretty fun to play with. Since I wrote it in c++ it might be cool to render in opengl and try to get this really performant and dynamic but quadratic complexity and the fact that gibbs samplers cant be parallelized are limitations

@freemo I wish Haskell was more practical. If the tools were better and it was more reliable I'd use it for everything.

@snow Do it. Conspiracy shit is fun and everyone is nuts anyway so what does it matter.

It is amazing to me, as someone that has spent his entire life in school, that almost everything I have learned, I learned outside of a classroom on my own prerogative. And now as a graduate student I have to teach and thus be implicit in a lie that wastes the time and potential of young people on worthless pedantry. The lie that a bachelors degree matters at all.