More accurately:
>looks inside
>matrix multiplication

Could be worse, could be Blackrock and Nestle.

Not quite 2000s rather early 2010s, but House of Cards has to be up there.

To much risk of the rocket blowing up and instantly obliterating earths entire ozone layer.

I’m pretty sure cremating Madonna would lead to an unprecedented environmental disaster.

POV: When you have to piss but can’t go so you have to squeeze you balls shut.

Love and affection. As someone who’s parents have a bunch of psychological problems, paired with growing up poor as an immigrant. I never in my life have experienced either love or any sort affection for either family nor strangers. For context my mother is a prefect example of a sociopath and I’m 80% sure my dad is autistic. Neither of those conditions exactly scream empathy. I never heard the words ‘I love you’ spoken with the eyes, or any sort of meaning behind them. Listening to daily (and I’m not exaggerating here) screaming matches for 30 years has given me the impression that those words don’t really mean anything to them anyway. Never having had a safe place to develop those feelings and given that I’m not exactly easy on the eyes means that I have somehow managed to become full grown, mentally stable adult with empathy, and a yearning for affection and acceptance without a single fibre of love in my body. Never have I had an interaction other than quid pro quos, “I want something from you, you want something from me.” never “I want you, you want me.” I literally can’t imagine what it’s like waking up next to somebody, feeling emotionally safe or having somebody genuinely wanting to spend time with you. I know that there are currently literally billions of people for whom this the most normal thing in the world but for me that is borderline incomprehensible. I would want to wish that kind of lonelines on my worst enemy.

I’m a dude BTW.

As the saying goes, “Draw with your eyes, not your brain.” Drawing is just a loop of asking yourself whether it looks right or not. Nobody is timing you, if you have to check a reference a million times to draw a single line and then erase it angway then so be it, because the next line will maybe only take half as much, and then half of that…
Theres this wrongfull elitism that an artist has to be able to draw perfectly from memory. They don’t. Fuck it. Print out an image and trace it, that practices line commitment, line width control and scale. Then you can use the traced image to practice shading and coloring. You don’t put a kid on a bicycle without training wheels first, why would you do the same thing as an artist?

Metallica’s Nothing Else Matters is a walz and you can’t convince me otherwise.

Real friends are the ones that stick with you when shit hits the fan. When you’re an adult and you meet new people, you usually want to show yourself from your best side and for everything to go well. She we were kids, shit hitting the fan was somebody kicking a ball into a neighbors window or falling of a bike, minor things as an adult, but as kids that built character. The stakes are so much higher as an adult when things go wrong, so generally you avoid it even though this means that most of your relationships are superficial.

I’m not saying that something horrible must happen in order to get friends as an adult. But sometimes it’s better to simply work against the odds together to form a deeper connection.

First, screw grammar, I’ve learned 3 languages without ever learning their grammar, including English.

Find a topic that you are very knowledgeable at in your native language and start consuming knowledge on that topic in the language you try to learn. Go back to the basics of that topic, something you know by heart. There will be a reversal where instead of listening to the language and trying to understand what is happening, you will already know what is happening and just listen to the words. You will go from “What did he/she say?” to “Oh, that’s how you say it!”. Its way easier to append connections in you brain that create new ones, so the familiarity of the topic is a stepping stone to learn the language. Of course you will still have to pause and translate constantly but it will be less and less necessary with time.

Double Slit:

The word “measure” or “observe” carries a lot if confusion when people talk about the double slit experiment, as if it wasn’t one of the most important aspects in physics.
Imagine that at first you’re kicking a ball at a wall at random. Now you put a goalkeeper between you and the wall, he catches the ball and looks at it and then throws it at where he thinks it would have gone if he wouldn’t have caught it. Those are two entirely different scenarios. Same thing goes for the double slit experiment. A non-measuring and measuring setup are completely different, it just seems like magic because you can jump between them with a flip of a switch.
At the atomic scale it is impossible to measure something without the probe interacting and altering the object you are measuring. Imagine if instead of weighing a car to get it’s mass, your have to smash another car into it and calculate the mass from the impact energy. I know it dumb, but that’s essentially the best we can do when it comes to particle physics.
Also in a world where cameras are omnipresent, we are used to take snapshots of reality. But that’s now something you can simply do at atomic scale. You can’t take a photograph of a photon mid air.
Additionally, imagine if I give you two sets of images of a car going along a road.
The first set shows it has travel fairly far between the first and second image taken. You also know the time that passed between the images. Now it is trivial to calculate the average velocity of the car. But if I ask you about the position of the car some time between the first and second image, the best you could do is guess, since you don’t know whether the car might have speed up or slowed down during that time. The second set of images shows the car at almost the same spot, the time between the images is also much much smaller. So small in fact that even the precision of your stopwatch starts to matter. Now you could count the pixel differences and still figure out how much the cat has moved and its average velocity, but it will be much less precise than the first set. But, if I where to ask you about the cars position between the images, you could tell me very precisely where the car was, since it’s velocity couldn’t fluctuate a lot in such a small time frame and distance. That’s in essence the uncertainty principle, you either now the position or the velocity of a particle precisely. Of course you still can’t take a snapshot of a particle. But to figure out the cars position you could also force it to stop briefly or put off-ramps along the road, and by checkout which one it took, you can figure out where it was at that point in time. This is essentially what we do with particles. We confine the particle in it’s position/path to figure out whether it went through one slit or the other and therefore give it a defined trajectory through our method of measurement. That’s really all the magic, you can’t check without interacting and intercating changes the outcome at those scales.

Quantum Computing:
Before we had our normal bit based computer we had analog computers. First mechanical systems then electrical. They operated on either speeds, forces, positions, friction, etc for mechanical ones and voltages, currents and charges for electrical. Calculations hat to be represented with physical components, where each module was a calculation step. The good thing is, the calculation was essentially instantaneous, the bad thing was they were hard to manufacture, had to be calibrated and once setup for compute, they they were hard to alter. But when it comes to things like derivatives and integrals they are hard to beat. For example current is just the time derivative of the charge. So you if set up a computer to measure charge at the input and current the output, you can instantly calculate derivatives of very complicated formulae.

Then, along came Turing and showed that not only can numbers be represented as a binary number sytems, but also that addition, subtraction, multiplication and division operations can be executed through a series of not-and (NAND) operations on those binary numbers. This was good enough for 99% of our problems since we now had a component that was easy to manufacture en masse and almost every mathematical computation could be done to an acceptable level of precision given enough time. But one thing that classical computer suck at is randomness, since whole point of bit based computers was that you don’t have to deal with random fluctuations in your electrical components like with analog computers. We don’t want to measure 1 - 5 ± 0.1 Volts, we want a clear threshold for a 0 and a 1 for our systems to work reliably.
That’s where quantum computers come in. Their bits have an undefined state which can be resented mathematical and is especially useful in calculations where probability is involved. Then, just like with the double slit experiment you “measure” or interact with them to lock in their properties and get your result. Its hard to imagine but there are simply areas of mathematics where working with probabilistic states instead of numbers is necessary.
Think of it as 3 separate areas of mathematics:

Analog computing - > Algebra and Analysis Bit based computing - > Discrete Mathematics Quantum computing - > Stochastic and Crytograpy

Stochastic is generally a hard to understand topic, so quantum computing isn’t far removed in comprehension. That’s why quantum computers also won’t replace classic bit based computing, since they do not do discrete mathematics any better, it’s just that classic computers really are that much worse at probability calculations hence the claims how much faster quantum computing is (in those very specific areas)

“It was what it was”

click

Yes, this exactly how it feels.

“Staycation”, I’m so stealing that.

Dann that’s crazy, never thought about what was going on on cruise ships during Covid.

“Have you ever had a dream that you, um, you had, your, you- you could, you’ll do, you- you wants, you, you could do so, you- you’ll do, you could- you, you want, you want him to do you so much you could do anything?”

“Corporate needs you to find the differences between these two pictures.”

“They’re the same picture.”

They say to be successful you gotta make your own luck.

“Brb, gotta grab some rope and duct tape.”

Yes, but I have this sentiment that even if I’m all alone in an empty apartment, nobody wants to hear me talk. So I resort to whispering, which technically isn’t using your voice.