One thing that always amazes me is how much computational power it takes to simulate something as simple as a ball rolling through fur. Yet nature ‘just does it’—in an ‘instant’, whatever that meanspic.twitter.com/0ZUr1LWBn1
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Reminds me of the quote by Laplace: ‘Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration’
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Nature laughs at the difficulties of speaking French.
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hoh hoh hoh (French laugh) (And French Santa, probably)
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la nature fait l'hon hon aux l'difficultés d'intégration
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It’s precisely complex problems like this one that we need to remember when considering Wigner’s “unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences.”
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Reality has some serious ray tracers
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"omelet du fromage" - Laplace
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Three of the 7 words in that quote are from French: “Nature”, “difficulté”, and “intégration”. Over 2/3 words in modern English come from French or directly from Latin. We are actually speaking Anglo-French.
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