in american terms imagine if your roadside yard marks measured distance in miles and were placed 1 football field apart

hectometer signs
show distance in kilometer
placed every 2 hectometers

@thio tool poy

born to “mew mew mew mroew”

forced to “as per my last email”

@flesh he didn’t elaborate. it’s about how the unit n-sphere with the highest volume is the 5-sphere (sphere in 5 dimensions) and above that they get smaller

if you deal with, say, a 1536 dimensional space the volume of a unit 1536-sphere is on the order of 10^-1500

@flesh the same fact applies to cryptography and quantum mechanics

“People who study machine learning, […] your balls are just puny” — 3 blue 1 brown

tried that in my hometown and i got a popup saying “Neustadt is already in use, would you like to rename it to “Neue Neustadt”

me in industralizing germany founding a new city, not giving it a name, and taking the default name it spat out (Neue Stadt (35))

Best explanation for Quantum Mechanics I've ever heard

inraccredible violence (dropping a plushie)

aws suggesting performing “disaster recovery” is basically like “yeah 2/3 of the dc no longer exist”