It's quite telling that all comments below the tweet are either:

That's pretty spot on.

Seems like this is an internal network link? I'm getting an error page...

Also, what a supportive wife 😁 This kind of geniuses come with a manual...

This is a top-notch Quanta Magazine piece, very entertaining and inspiring read.

Yeah. I consider finance (Wallstreet, etc) to be a net negative to society, and they suck up many big brains. It's good that not everyone has that strong urge for big money.

Or a specific split chosen by the person who asks for it. The other one can accept or refuse.

I'll probably just forget to pay at some point. Or I won't have internet access for 24 hours.

Maybe I should~~

@remindme in 1 year.

This is going to end badly, indeed~~

With LPW, I think, at some point, node liquidity could become a problem. But things could get out of hand much faster there...

Thanks for the book recommandation. Will let you know if i get around to reading it.

You saying this feels satisfying. This would mean there is a non-zero amount of ego to caress~~

"The end is the beginning"... Is that a Vedic time reference?

I'm a bit of a degen, at times~~

Different dynamics than LPW. Not sure how I'll go about with this one.

Yeah, I remember lastpaywins had something similar going on where timers would not sync between tabs... @alex_lewin resolved it somehow, but don't know how.

Anyone care to join for a 1000 sat game?

Haha, you made me reopen my laptop in bed and check the Wikipedia page. I see your point now about there being no time in this equation.

That's a long time ago. But isn't \Psi here a functional in spacetime, i.e., time treated at the same level as spatial dimensions?

By the way, we have Mathjax support here, so you can use LaTeX formatting. You just need to use double $$ instead of single ones for your equations.

Thanks for tagging me. That was an interesting read.

I'm not sure if you have a specific question. I use the equations of quantum physics daily, but just as a way to make tangible predictions on the observables of condensed matter that I am interested in. The concept of time there is in its simplest and most widely used form. I don't even do anything relativistic, even though the particles that I study can formally be described by the Dirac equation, I mostly use the time-independent Schrodinger equation for everything.

Very down to earth. No metaphysical thinking, just use the probabilistic nature of the equations to make predictions that can be measured.

I usually don't think about the metaphysical aspects of it all. I haven't read a book that ponders the nature of our reality in a long time. Funny thing, though, is that I could only read them when they were written by what I considered a "real" physicist. If it were just someone who was good at thinking, but unable to grasp the equations, I would de facto discard it. The trigger that made me stop reading these kinds of books was when I was focusing on free will, and my conclusion from reading the books was that we don't have free will. It kinda made me depressed and annoying to talk to, as most people want to believe in free will. So, one day, I just decided that free will must exist, as a postulate, and it has made my life easier. But that's also probably why I just use the equations as tools now and don't think much about Everett's many-world interpretation, etc.

I'm rambling, but all this to say I don't have neither the qualifications nor a desire to go much beyond a similar approach towards the nature of time.

Still very interesting to read about it, but I don't look for it anymore.

It's a bit sad to write it out like that~~

I guess the 2.2% number includes energy prices.

What do you think? This kind of smallups and downs will be the new normal for the next 10 years? Just a slow degrading of people's purchasing power with momentary small improvements, that will be reported with big fanfare as things are getting better again?