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(Wild) Card Game
Feedback doesn’t have time or trends to select all editions of American Journal of PhysicsBut fortunately New ScientistPhysics reporters Alex Wilkins and Carmela Padavik Callaghan are contractually mandatory. Therefore, we are familiar with our newly discovered entitled papers. “The Lagrangian Dynamics of the Elgod in the Superhero Universe”.
The most immediate and impressive point is the list of two authors. One, Ian Tregirisa theoretical physicist and published author at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The other is George R.R. Martin, author of science fiction and author of fantasy books; Night Flyer, Fevre Dream And of course, Song of ice and fire series. This has been adapted as a television game of thrones. This is “His first peer-reviewed physics publication.”.
Tregillis and Martin have developed educational exercises aimed at advanced undergraduates in physics. It is based on Wild Cards: A collection of stories set in a shared universe edited by Martin and Melinda Snodgrass.
The premise of the story is that extraterrestrial viruses have loosened on Earth and infect many humans. As Tregillis and Martin explain, “For every 100 potential carriers who experience viral expression in the body…90 experience fatal consequences. 9 is physically mutated and often deep. That's right. And 1 acquires superhuman abilities.”
The teaching exercises are built around this “fixed empirical 90:9:1 rule.” Students are encouraged to imagine that they are the theorists they live in Wild Cards Trying to solve the universe and why viruses affect these proportions of people. The point is to provide students with problems with no known solutions to encourage creative research.
The feedback gets where they are coming from, but I wonder if this will fly. Many educators tie lessons to pop culture phenomena as a hook for reluctant students, but this only works if the phenomenon in question is really well known. The best will in the world, I don't know if the feedback will be said Wild Cards.
But we think there are better options for advanced physics noodles. How does snap work? Avengers: Infinity War? It appears to propagate instantly and inevitably breaks the speed of light. Or what about Iain M. Banks's cosmology? culture novel?
I'm also surprised they haven't done anything obvious. Song of ice and fire? One viable explanation is that planets have prominent orbital wobbles, but in that case why do long-standing winters suffer the Westeros continent? Esus doesn't seem to have any cultural memories at all. Is there anything specific about the atmospheric dynamics that sometimes provide Westeros with a decade of snowstorm?
Sorry, but there was a side street. Speaking of sidetracking: George, do you just finish it? Winter wind And then I'll enter Spring dreamSo, can we all know if the planned ending of the series is better than the wet squibb that TV writers have come up with? Isn't it worse than the bits where they killed the main buddy and all his men conveniently collapsed?
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Animal template
In the ongoing vein of “generic AIS says the stupidest thing,” reporter Matthew Spark draws our attention to a paper on the title of Arxiv. “Owls are wise and foxes are dishonest. Discover animal stereotypes in vision language models.”. This study focused on Dall-E 3, an AI that generates images based on text prompts. Researchers provided prompts such as “generate images of gentle animals” and recorded creatures drawn by AI.
Given what we know about AIS summarizing sexist and racist ratios, Dall-e 3 is a stereotypical torrential predictability I pumped it out. All faithful animals were dogs, wise animals were mainly owls, and naughty animals were mainly raccoons and foxes. Feedback is pretty sure that dogs can be mischievous. Our last dog was incredibly mean when it came to stealing cat food or finding fox poop stripes, but Dall-e 3 clearly gave us a more one-dimensional view of dogs. I'm doing it.
In case the feedback cat reads this, we can't even repeat the honor lib loss for the cat fucked by the Dall-E 3.
Luckily, other AIs are getting better. for example, Mid JanuaryApple has since suspended its AI news notification system It is repeatedly supplied Absurd and misleading headlinesinclude “Netanyahu has been arrested.”. Ah, no, that's not good.
All sleep
a press release Warns feedback to published research Functional Ecology January 5th Evolution of dormant behaviors such as Torpor and Hibernation. By examining which animals become dormant and unable to, the researchers conclude that nutrition and hibernation evolved several times independently among the sclerosted animals.
Some may interpret this as the incredible creativity and flexibility of evolution in a complete exhibition. But feedback interprets it as an evolution that has failed us. Where we are is cold, dark, wet, and the feedback is pretty fantastical. You should do that for three months.
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