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Does consciousness continue after a physical death? What are your opinions?

Based on the Schröder Staircase and on the work by Kokichi Sugihara, professor at Meiji University, this animation provides a brilliant cartoon version of the popular optical illusion [learn more: buff.ly/3pmkW4p] x.com/tuidelescriban…

We report: this is the slow expansion of air and water, just as fascinating as it ever is. It is difficult to explain: a picture does not convey how those big masses move, change shapes in space, and how the wind does all that. It does not show how small they make us feel.

Trees don't have nervous systems, but they do feel what is happening, and do experience something analogous to pain when they are damaged. It also means they kind of know when they are being hugged 🤗🌳🌲

The most useful razors and rules I've found: 1. Bragging Razor - If someone brags about their success or happiness, assume it’s half what they claim If someone downplays their success or happiness, assume it’s double what they claim 2. High Agency Razor - If unsure who to work with, pick the person that has the best chances of breaking you out of a 3rd world prison. 3. The Early-Late Razor - If it's a talking point on Reddit, you might be early. If it's a talking point on LinkedIn, you're definitely late. 4. Luck Razor - If stuck with 2 equal options, pick the one that feels like it will produce the most luck later down the line. I used this razor to go for drinks with a stranger rather than watch Netflix. In hindsight, it was the highest ROI decision I've ever made. 5. Buffett's Law - "The value of every business is 100% subject to government interest rates" - Warren Buffett 6. The 7-Figure Razor - If someone brags about "7 figures" -- assume it's closer to $1 million than $9 million. 7. Mack's Rule - Break down the investments your parents made in you: Time, Love, Energy, and Money. If they are still alive, aim to hit a positive ROI (or at least break even.) 8. Instagram Razor - When you see a photo of an influencer looking attractive on Instagram -- assume there are 99 worse variations of that photo you haven't seen. They just picked the best one. 9. Narcissism Razor - If worried about people's opinions, remember they are too busy worrying about other people's opinions of them. 99% of the time you're an extra in someone else's movie 10. Everyday Razor - If you go from doing a task weekly to daily, you achieve 7 years of output in 1 year. If you apply a 1% compound interest each time, you achieve 54 years of output in 1 year. 11. Bezos Razor - If unsure what action to pick, let your 90-year-old self on death bed choose it. 12. Creativity Razor - If struggling to think creatively about a subject, transform it: • Turn a thought into a written idea. • A written idea into a drawing. • A drawing into an equation. • An equation into a conversation. In the process of transforming it, you begin to spot new creative connections. 13. The Roman Empire Razor - Historians now recognize the Roman Empire fell in 476 - but it wasn't acknowledged by Roman society until many generations later. If you wait for the media to inform you, you'll either be wrong or too late. 14. Physics Razor - If it doesn't deny the law of physics, then assume it's possible. Do not confuse society's current lack of knowledge -- with this knowledge being impossible to attain. E.g. The smartphone seems impossible to someone from the 1800s -- but it was possible, they just had a lack of knowledge. 15. Skinner's Law - If procrastinating, you have 2 ways to solve it: • Make the pain of inaction > Pain of action • Make the pleasure of action > Pleasure of inaction 16. Network Razor - If you have 2 quality people that would benefit from an intro to one another, always do it. Networks don't divide as you share them, they multiply. 17. Gell-Mann Razor - Assume every media article contains a % of false information. Sandbox the article from your worldview until you've: • Seen primary sources • Spoken to 3 domain experts 18. Taleb's Surgeon - If presented with two equal candidates for a role, pick the one with the least amount of charisma. The uncharismatic one has got there despite their lack of charisma. The charismatic one has got there with the aid of their charisma.

A happy life is a simple life 1) A family you love who loves you back 2) A healthy body built from years of good sleep, good diet, good exercise 3) A clear mind built from years of reading, writing, following your curiosity 4) A purpose that provides meaning and peace of mind

Books, a view onto a wood, plants, fairy lights, a cozy spot to read & a library ladder - what more could one want?

Fun facts about three dimensions: -the only dimensionality in which knots can exist -the only one where Newtonian gravity gives a closed stable orbit -the only one where the Ising model doesn't have a known solution -the last one where polymers bumping into themselves matters

In 2002, Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman published the first of three groundbreaking papers offering a proof for the famous Poincaré conjecture, one of the toughest unsolved problems in math. He was awarded the prestigious Fields Medal in 2006 and 1M reward from the Clay Mathematics Institute- he refused to accept both.

Wolfgang Pauli was a remarkable physicist who made significant contributions to quantum physics and won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1945. A few rare facts about him: • He was raised as a Roman Catholic, but later became interested in mysticism and psychology. He had a long correspondence with Carl Jung, who analyzed his dreams and used them as a source of inspiration for his theory of synchronicity. • He was known for his sharp wit and his sarcastic criticism of other physicists' work. He coined the term "Pauli effect" to describe the tendency of scientific equipment to malfunction in his presence. He also invented the term "not even wrong" to dismiss theories that he considered meaningless or untestable. • He was fascinated by the number 137, which appears in various physical constants and equations. He believed that there was some deep significance behind this number, and he hoped to find a mathematical explanation for it. He died in room 137 of the Red Cross Hospital in Zurich.

We report: though there is wind, the rain is so heavy that it is falling straight down, and the white hiss of it is steady and loud in our ears. There is already a stream running straight down the middle where there is a deep groove from the many rains that came before.

Here's a short dynamics-based explanation of the equation e^(πi)=-1

🚨 Google's new Quantum Computer completes the task in 6 seconds that would have taken one of the world's best computers 47 years. Quantum computers can change what we can build and how we understand the world. Here's everything you need to know:

Juggling balls as seen from above. x.com/tuidelescriban…

1994: A Brief Introduction to Shor’s Algorithm For Quantum Computers: "In 2001, IBM demonstrated Shor’s algorithm for the first time, successfully factoring the number 15 into its prime factors using a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) implementation of a 7-qubit quantum computer. Since then, the algorithm has been implemented on various quantum platforms, but challenges such as noise, decoherence, and scalability must be addressed before it can factor numbers relevant for cryptography. The practical implementation of Shor’s algorithm is still challenging due to the requirements of error correction and the need for a large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer." Full story: cantorsparadise.com/1994-a-brief-i…

“My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me” — Oliver Sacks

These strange solids aren't spheres and yet roll in interesting and unexpected ways. Watch some of the most curious geometries such as the Wobbler, the Oloid or the Steinmetz Solid [video, Maker's Muse: buff.ly/2LUzXbQ]

This is a coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a red blood cell (erythrocyte) squeezing through a capillary. This is where the oxygen-exchange with the surrounding tissues happens. Magnification: 9000x [source: buff.ly/2pkUVFT]

@PhysInHistory “The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land.” —T. H. Huxley, 1887 (Carl Sagan’s ‘Cosmos’)

"Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine." -- Alan Turing (1912 - 1954)