Can humans think?

This is like telling people to not donate to Wikipedia because you don’t like Wikileaks.

See also Brand-new colour created by tricking human eyes with laser - News - nature.com.

It’s not just the narrow wavelength. Even with a perfectly monochromatic green light, your green receptors would activate a lot but your receptors for red and blue would still activate a bit. These researchers specifically target only the green receptors to activate (by literally shooting light at those receptors in particular), so for the first time ever your brain reads a pure green signal.

It’s a math trick. Not a physical theory.

The article over-dramatizes the story. This “deeply wrong” discrepancy is less than 10%. CMB measurements predict a Hubble constant of around 68km/s/Mpc. Distance ladder measurements get around 73km/s/Mpc.

Our current understanding of the universe the Lambda-CDM model is still wildly successful and it’s more likely that the true correct model of the universe will be a correction/extension to Lambda-CDM rather than a completely new theory (although if it is a completely new theory that would be pretty cool).

The only times anyone would use the asterisk as multiplication symbol are

• they are doing some fancy math and it’s not the same kind of number multiplication we’re familiar with
• they are on a computer, the keyboard does not have a (×) key, and they don’t know how to typeset it (\times in LaTex), so they just use the asterisk instead

The US government falls in the second category.

Did they end up choosing block list or allow list? I hope it was the former. Allowlist will exclude small instances and harm federation diversity.

Thanks! The link is helpful.

Look like they got the domain back a while ago. Wonder why federation took so long.

If only the new US regime could copy from the PRC by funding and promoting scientific research😔

Flat-earth belief likely has secondary unwanted effects, like how all conspiracy theories eventually funnel into anti-semitism.

Correlation is not causation