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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Not only hieroglyphs can be used for the meaning and the sounds of a word, they often use both at the same time: the rebus principle, or "represent something by what it sounds like". That's a lot like writing English "I see you" as "👁️ C U".

Coptic, mentioned in the video, is a descendant of Egyptian. That's why Champollion's strategy worked: even if the Coptic translations of the Greek words won't give you the exact sounds Egyptian used, at least it allows you to see consistent patterns, that you can contrast with Egyptian loanwords in other languages.

For reference on dates, Ptolemy V reigned from 204 to 180 BCE. He's the grand-grand-grandfather of "that" famous Cleopatra (Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator).

I'd argue Demotic isn't quite a different language from the Egyptian written in hieroglyphs; both are more like different registers of the same language, written with different writing systems. So it's less like 2025 English vs. Old English and more like "colloquial 2025 English" vs. "a really posh 2025 English", with one being written with Latin letters and another in Saxon runes.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Then I have no idea. (Is it even TTT at this point?)

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gotta agree with Lena, your art is great.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

If the grid expands up, O loses; with the right moves they would tie instead.

If the grid expands down, O and X tie. With the right move O could ensure a win instead.

Either way they're really bad at Tic-Tac-Toe. But at least they were nice enough to not force someone to draw an O on their own leg, drawing an X is easier.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I was expecting a s2, they hanged the loose endings in s1's final episode a bit too obvious:

s1 endRune is missing, but she's alive, everyone is travelling to Silk's kingdom, Rain still holds the artifact borrowed from Mastoma, etc.
I'm probably watching it, but got to admit the first season wasn't exactly memorable.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Yup, it is a refutation. But people seem to be eager to ignore reality, to keep things consistent with the bullshit they believe (in this case, the Copenhagen interpretation):

  • what Schrödinger wanted to show - if the cat can't be dead and alive at the same time, then superimposition is bullshit
  • what people did with the thought experiment - if superimposition is true, the cat is dead and alive at the same time
[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Ah. I would've never guessed it!

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Now I'm really curious on what it is.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Numbers.

  1. Ichinose Sayuri
  2. Nikaidou Nanase
  3. Mitaka Nozomi
  4. Otonashi Mai
  5. Godai Rina
[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It's refreshing for me, to see someone respected within the academic community, calling superimposition bullshit.

I always saw the idea that particles were in multiple places at the same time with suspicion; for me it was always more like "you don't know where the particle is, if you try to measure it you'll fuck its location up, so you pretend it's in multiple locations". It's useful because, statistically speaking, you won't notice the difference.

Applying this to Erwin's kitty: it's like you have a bunch of cats. Each is trapped in a separated device, that releases poison depending on the decay of some radioactive atom. You have no clue if any individual cat is alive or dead, but when dealing with all of them, you can say "x% are alive, (100-x)% are dead". And you apply those proportions to an individual cat, just to make your maths easier: "this cat is x% alive, (100-x)% dead".

So it's an abstraction; and sure, we need abstractions, but we should not confuse them with what is being abstracted.

I'll go further. I feel like someone will eventually find a theory that describes accurately small and big, massive and light, fast and slow objects. The so-called theory of unification. Perhaps it might resemble the theory of general relativity from a distance, but it'll look nothing like QM.

We have to try to phrase things more precisely to keep public misunderstandings from wreaking havoc on science.

That's a losing battle. Assumers gonna assume.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

I think it depends a lot.

If Frieren is transported into the KnY world and fights a bunch of local demons, then she'd likely conclude they're the same shit as in her own world. Then I bet she'd kill Nezuko first and then ask questions.

However, if it's Nezuko and Tanjiro being transported into the SnF world, I think Nezuko might stand a chance. Frieren would likely notice Nezuko isn't the same sort of demon as she typically fights, get a bit more on the defensive side, and in the meantime Tanjiro can intervene and explain stuff.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's good. The more Microsoft boycotts itself, the more people shift to Linux.

Using AI tools sometimes makes sense, sometimes it doesn't. And by forcing the usage of a tool that won't necessarily help, MS is only adding more meaningless busywork to its own development, like sand in an engine.

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