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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə)

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🇳🇱 Postdoc in Quantisation of moduli spaces, QFT, TQFT & CFT, Algebraic Geometry, Differential Geometry, moduli geometry – Masters in: Maths/Physics/Logic – Help me learn 🇵🇹🇩🇰🇮🇹🇩🇪🇫🇷 by talking to me! (he/him) Forse tu non pensavi ch'io löico fossi

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 17m

Produced in the German city of HAMBURG

🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 18m

Haha

🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 27m

mœtℏễɽ... I muʂʈ hɑvɛ the bürgær and the frî

🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 1h

What's the most annoying way to get around this? Call it a βʉяgəя or something

Anna Strolenberg @annastrolenberg.volteuropa.org · 20h

Today the EU parliament voted to ban the word burger if they are made with plant protein, instead of animal protein. 🤦🏻‍♀️

They claim it’s to stop consumers being ‘confused between meat and plant products’ - solving a problem that nobody had!

This new rule leaves a bad taste in the mouth…

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 2h

obviously there's a lot of problems with child labor, but it's too valuable for big business for it to ever go away, so you need to embrace it early or your kids' resumes will be left in the dust

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Nirmalya Kajuri @kajunut.bsky.social · 8h

"Black holes give off the impression of being dark and brooding, absorbing all the light around them. But they are secretly musical."

I wrote about the music of black holes in my latest post. 🧪⚛️

open.substack.com/pub/nirmalya...

Black Hole Beats

Ringing Black Holes can give Ringo Starr a run for his money

open.substack.com

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 8h

Big W: I do not have to have dinner with the fascist step-brother-in-law

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BEAVE @beaveinflow.bsky.social · 11h

A haunted house but it’s just someone saying “Let’s go around the room and share one fun fact about ourselves.”

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 10h

Iedereen schaamt zich een beetje (terecht)

🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 10h

Siamo tutti

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

“They’re all Antifa now”

Laura Ingraham screenshot that reads: THEY'RE ALL ANTIFA
NGL
NOW
DEMS MELT UNDER PRESSURE
THE ANGLE ALERT

🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 10h

I would argue that a site called "stack overflow" is inherently biased

🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 10h

If you identify all numbers between 1.000000 * 10¹² and 1.000009 * 10¹² then the sine is not single-valued

Your error margin is just the entire range of values

🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 11h

I don't even think the irrationality of the period factors in! Anything that is periodic cannot possibly be evaluated on a number so big the actual phase gets jettisoned

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 11h

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 11h

No but I mean if you don't store your numbers up to integer accuracy then the sine is literally meaningless

That's not the problem with any algorithm it's literally incomputable

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 11h

No but I mean if you don't store your numbers up to integer accuracy then the sine is literally meaningless

That's not the problem with any algorithm it's literally incomputable

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 11h

hmmm, I guess? But that's less of an issue of computing the sine and more of data storage, I'd say

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 11h

that means we need 11 digits of pi to determine 10^11 mod 2pi up to integer accuracy, right? Should be easy enough, no?

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 11h

I actually recently got very annoyed at scissors not having a singular and always having to say "a pair of"

🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 11h

I think we know 100 digits of pi tbh

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 11h

surely you can just do mod 2pi??

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 11h

wait what

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 11h

life hack: you can have one more drink. c'monnnn just one more

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 11h

hahaha I admit I wouldn't quickly call any response to that an "overreaction". But!

🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 11h

worst part is the interviewer was dead serious!!

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 12h

immediately after:

"They're exploiting an extraordinary amount of labour, they're extracting an extraordinary amount of resources[,] hoovering up [wh]at they need to create [value] [for themselves] and not actually giving that value back[.]"

Interviewer: "You also write about the dark side of AI."

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