So Technology Review published a summary of an arxiv article arguing for mass quantization in black holes. Looks like an ultraviolet catastrophe argument, which is fascinating in itself. But first, I have to address this journalistic clusterfuck:
Of course, the question of this kind of black hole production at the LHC once again raises the thorny question of whether the safety assurances we’ve been given about these experiments are valid.
Bob and Sarah are a physicist and chemist, respectively. They should have known better than to send us mad libs for an RSVP card.
For only 650 per month, I could enjoy…
... an interest in: Group Habitation, Rocketry, Radio, Making Things, Creating Art, ReProgramming the World, Video Kaleidoscopes, Mad Science, Performing, Music or Entertaining, WareHousing, and the list goes on.
If you ever need to unzip data compressed with zlib without a header (e.g. produced by Erlang’s zlib:zip), it pays to be aware that
windowBits can also be -8..-15 for raw inflate. In this case, -windowBits determines the window size. inflate() will then process raw deflate data, not looking for a zlib or gzip header, not generating a check value, and not looking for any check values for comparison at the end of the stream. (zlib.h)
Smear green blood
Your palms are sweaty
Scaly skin glistening
To last demands
The planet’s going under and
You’re floating overhead
Realizing that the sexism of beer advertising is just too implicit, Dos Equis helpfully spells out exactly how to treat women as subhuman.
You’re so prolific
An impact factor well above thirty two
It makes me jealous
And in need of passing this peer review–
You know my motivations
In search of reputation
My erdos number ill acquire from you
(11:14:44 AM) Duretti Hirpa: I HAVE ALL THE GAY CARDS IN THIS RELATIONSHIP
(11:14:54 AM) Duretti Hirpa: shit, i had all the boyfriend points in your LAST relationship
23:09 < justin> Erlang tattoo might be cool
23:09 < justin> not many have those
23:10 < justin> not even sure what that would look like
23:10 < aphyr_> Yeah, really gonna add to my aura of mysterious sexiness
23:10 < aphyr_> "What's that?"
23:10 < aphyr_> "Oh, that's Erlang. It's a distributed functional programming language."
23:10 < justin> Mad tail
23:10 < aphyr_> "Tell me, would you and your friends like to do it... concurrently?"
23:13 < aphyr_> "Oh sorry. You're not my... TYPE."
23:13 < aphyr_> DAMN YOOOOUUU STATIC COMPILERS!
Things are getting a little slap-happy here in the final hours before Showyou launch.
“So,” our CEO asked me, “what happens if our new service becomes a huge success?”
aphyr: I think basically we can *expect* the service to collapse in unpredictable ways
mark: that would not be good
aphyr: No this is good!
aphyr: It means we averted all the ways it would predictably collapse!
mark: thanks kyle, i'll sleep well over the weekend now :-)
I’m supposed to be working on some distributed feed stuff tonight, but dammit, this song is incredible and I want to think about it.