Well, that's how the lumber industry works Facts and forestry don't care about your feelings
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Gent_Sausage and
It's funny that he touts his CompSci degree but then argues against rounding which is the great compromise you often make when penning code for microprocessors.
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Replying to @JackJackington @arthur_affect and
you would think someone who knows binary numbers would understand 2+2 can be anything depending on hte base you are working..
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Replying to @renmiri1 @JackJackington and
Yeah it's 10 in base 3 and 4 in literally every number system in which there can be a 2 in the first place. But the value underlying the system in which it's framed is still the same.
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Replying to @Gent_Sausage @JackJackington and
/sigh "in the system it is framed" is the key piece you are missing... Values don't mean anything without context. And we haven't even gotten to quantum mechanics...
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Replying to @renmiri1 @JackJackington and
A thing whose properties are such that its state is in constant flux is also not actually altered by the momentary observation of a particular state at a particular time. It is not forced to assume a state by the observer. That's the state it was in at the moment of observation
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Replying to @Gent_Sausage @renmiri1 and
That's not actually how the spooky stuff in quantum mechanics works, like the whole reason it's spooky is that it's not just some banal observation about not being able to clearly see certain things because they're too small
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Gent_Sausage and
The double slit experiment is so disturbing to people because it demonstrates that observation *does* seem to fundamentally change what is being observed
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Gent_Sausage and
Put detectors on both slits - photon acts as a particle, goes through one of the slits, nothing happens to the other Leave the detectors off the slits, watch the screen behind them - photon acts as a wave, passes through *both* slits, leaves an interference pattern with itself
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Gent_Sausage and
This phenomenon is "retroactive" - in the version of events where the photon is a wave passing through both slits its behavior can only be explained as "always having been" a wave, just like in the other version of "always was" just one particle
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It's a big deal, specifically because it defies our everyday logic of cause and effect It drove Einstein mad, he worked very hard to explain that logically this cannot be how it works only for people to repeatedly try it and prove that it is how it works
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