This is solid-state, not particle physics.
So your claim is spin ice as a concept doesnt exist in particle physics and would not be discussed outside solid state?
Readit Newsankitml commented on New quantum state of matter found at interface of exotic materials phys.org/news/2025-07-qua... · Posted by u/janandonly
I started doing some experimentation with this new Deep Think agent, and after five prompts I reached my daily usage limit. For $250 USD/mo that’s what you’ll be getting folks.
It’s just bizarrely uncompetitive with o3-pro and Grok 4 Heavy. Anecdotally (from my experience) this was the one feature that enthusiasts in the AI community were interested in to justify the exorbitant price of Google’s Ultra subscription. I find it astonishing that the same company providing free usage of their top models to everybody via AI Studio is nickel-and-diming their actual customers like that.
Performance-wise. So far, I couldn’t even tell. I provided it with a challenging organizational problem that my business was facing, with the relevant context, and it proposed a lucid and well-thought-out solution that was consistent with our internal discussions on the matter. But o3 came to an equally effective conclusion for a fraction of the cost, even if it was less “cohesive” of a report. I guess I’ll have to wait until tomorrow to learn more.
I have ultra. Will not be renewing it. Useless, at least have global limits and let people decide how they want to use it. If I have tokens left, why can't I use it for code assist?
ankitml commented on Photon transport through the entire adult human head spiedigitallibrary.org/jo... · Posted by u/gnabgib
I don’t think we know enough about science to know whether teleporting a photon is something we can do or not, for example maybe we can via micro wormholes or quantum tunneling or some other frequency anomaly that cancels out strong/weak atomic forces so that an object can be accurately displaced (“teleported”) through other objects.
Once you figure out the “through other objects” part, I guess it just becomes an energy control problem, ie how to get object A to location B accurately, and decelerate it, before the effect wears off. Which is maybe not so hard when you have a teleport sender and receiver that can do the acceleration and deceleration.
Hypothetically the sender would estimate the trajectory required to hit the receiver then sync/teleport an inert beam of atoms (photos or something) with it. Then, once sync has been established you would know the trajectory settings to use, perhaps it would be a giga-energy problem to ie phase the object, accelerate it to light speed, then receive it at the destination and un-phase it. This would allow you to ie teleport living things without the morale dilemma of losing their original consciousness.
The practical distance would be based on the achievable speed ie how far can we shoot something before it phases back. You can cover a pretty big distance in 1us at the speed of light! Around 300m. If you can keep something phased for 10ms, you could go 3000km, at which point you just form a network of receivers.
(Just an exercise, don’t take it seriously!)
Hypothetically my ancestors were cheetah and not hominoid apes. One needs to prove foundational hypothesis before larger claims that can be built on top of those.
ankitml commented on Photon transport through the entire adult human head spiedigitallibrary.org/jo... · Posted by u/gnabgib
Clicked it because I thought they teleported a photon through a head.
Teleport is not a thing a photon can do. Leave alone across brain
ankitml commented on US Streetlights Are Turning Purple scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
It’s interesting how many people assume these purple lights are some kind of new design choice. But really, it’s just a side effect of the phosphor layer breaking down in the LEDs.
Makes you appreciate how tricky it is to balance cost, lifespan, and quality when you’re manufacturing millions of these for cities.
Design choices must include failure modes. IMHO, utterly stupid to only consider happy path.
ankitml commented on Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane old.reddit.com/r/Experien... · Posted by u/laiysb
GitHub is not the place to write code. IDE is the place. Along with pre CI checks, some tests, coverage etc. they should get some PM before making decisions..
I really like this idea too. Generators are one of my favorite parts of Python — super memory efficient, and great for chaining transformations. But in practice, I’ve found they can get hard to reason about, especially when you defer evaluation too much. Debugging gets tricky because you can’t easily inspect intermediate states.
When working with other engineers, I’ve learned to be careful: sometimes it’s better to just materialize things into a list for clarity, even if it’s less “elegant” on paper.
There’s a real balance between cleverness and maintainability here.
It is possible to test the chaining though, if you know your data well. If not, those edge cases in the data quality can throw things off balance very easily.
Dead trees can exist as furniture, flooring and buildings too. Stored carbon with ancillary usage.
ankitml commented on Google is publishing the home addresses of developers without their consent · Posted by u/ebenezerdon
Amazon did that to a physical product my wife is selling. I was very annoyed. But it ended up being a configuration but default being `show address` state is definitely annoying.