Tuesday, September 28
Daily News Stuff 28 September 2021
Way Worse Edition
Way Worse Edition
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- Facebook has abandoned the idea of Instagram for Kids after everyone in the Universe, and many people from nearby universes, told them what a terrible idea it was. (Hot Hardware)
The planned app was to target children under 13. You do have to wonder where these people come from and how small their bubbles are that they even contemplated this.
They say that YouTube and TikTok have versions for children, but YouTube has - always has had - content for children, and TikTok is an internationally designated relativistic black hole targeting zone.
Tech News
- For just $3 you can strangle AMP at its source. (Apple)
This is a Safari extension for iOS that finds Google AMP links and converts them to take you to the original content instead.
- The problem with the blockchain is the blockchain. (The Block Crypto)
Oops. Accidentally spent $22 million in transaction fees to transfer $100k.
- Spider.
- The problem with North Korea is North Korea. (Bleeping Computer)
If you try to travel secretly to North Korea, people will notice and assume you are up to no good - particularly when you are up to no good.
- This is impossible. What mistake are you making? (Quanta)
The discovery of a double charm tetraquark was met with appropriate levels of skepticism, but seems to check out. Unlike those faster-than-light neutrinos that were all down to a faulty cable.
- Sydney is fully exiting lockdown December 1.
No vaccine mandates, no vaccine passports, no intrastate travel restrictions.
The past couple of months have still been appallingly authoritarian and a huge overreaction, but they at least had the sense to back off before it blew up in their faces. Assuming they actually follow through. We'll see.
Melbourne continues to spiral into the abyss.
- The FCC is setting up a $1.9 billion fund to rip Chinese spy equipment out of US communications networks. (ZDNet)
Larger telcos can't access the funds, but smaller carriers, schools, libraries, and other organisations providing internet access are eligible.
This is not the worst way to spend public funds.
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<i>The unexpected discovery of the double-charm tetraquark highlights an uncomfortable truth. While physicists know the exact equation that defines the strong force — the fundamental force that binds quarks together to make the protons and neutrons in the hearts of atoms, as well as other composite particles like tetraquarks — they can rarely solve this strange, endlessly iterative equation, so they struggle to predict the strong force’s effects.</i>
Sometimes I wonder whether we've been taken for a ride by QFT in general. The problems go back much further than any of the latest string theory nonsense. The basic picture of the world being built has incoherent and unforced features, and the math actually doesn't work. In fact, the freedom granted by the tricks they use to make the math work allows all sorts of mischeif, like dialing in the anomalous magnetic moment of particles. Depart from electrodynamics, and nothing works. What does it even mean to know the exact equation describing the strong force, when you can't actually build a consistent mathematical model that results in anything from it?! There is no model: No mathematical automaton we hold to correspond to the world. Just a recipe that has failed to result in a model.
Pop-Science insinuates we should look askance at Einstein's general relativity, because it can't be force-fit into the framework of QFT. At least in GR, we know what all the elements of the theory correspond to in the real world, and what it is saying about how the world works! GR is a model of reality!
Sometimes I wonder whether we've been taken for a ride by QFT in general. The problems go back much further than any of the latest string theory nonsense. The basic picture of the world being built has incoherent and unforced features, and the math actually doesn't work. In fact, the freedom granted by the tricks they use to make the math work allows all sorts of mischeif, like dialing in the anomalous magnetic moment of particles. Depart from electrodynamics, and nothing works. What does it even mean to know the exact equation describing the strong force, when you can't actually build a consistent mathematical model that results in anything from it?! There is no model: No mathematical automaton we hold to correspond to the world. Just a recipe that has failed to result in a model.
Pop-Science insinuates we should look askance at Einstein's general relativity, because it can't be force-fit into the framework of QFT. At least in GR, we know what all the elements of the theory correspond to in the real world, and what it is saying about how the world works! GR is a model of reality!
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