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Ele Willoughby, PhDHappy birthday Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827), French mathematical physicist (who incidentally, did invaluable work in geophysics). He was pretty hard-headed and probably didn’t really have any imaginary friends, but nonetheless Laplace’s Demon is my 3rd in the series of Imaginary Friends of Science. In 1814, when he envisioned an entity such ⁠🧵 <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Laplace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Laplace</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/LaplacesDemon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LaplacesDemon</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#physics</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/determinism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#determinism</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/ImaginaryFriends" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ImaginaryFriends</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a>

The Krononaut Moon Project 🌑  Understanding <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Quantum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Quantum</a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Mechanics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mechanics</a> #3: <a href="https://me.dm/tags/NonLocality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NonLocality</a> ❛❛ <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Quantum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Quantum</a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Mechanics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mechanics</a>, it seems, then forces you to give up on <a href="https://me.dm/tags/determinism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#determinism</a> & <a href="https://me.dm/tags/locality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#locality</a>. It is fundamentally unpredictable & <a href="https://me.dm/tags/nonlocal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nonlocal</a>. ❜❜ 5:00/7-min. 🔗 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL9wWeEmQvo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL9wWeEmQvo</a> 2020 May 29 🔗 <a href="https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_nonlocality" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_nonlocality</a> 🎓 h/t <a href="https://mstdn.ca/@teledyn" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@teledyn</a> for thoughts on non-locality. <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Community</a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/TimeTravel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TimeTravel</a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Research</a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#physics</a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/spacetime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spacetime</a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/BellsTheorem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BellsTheorem</a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#video</a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Kronodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kronodon</a>

The Zen Art Center :verified:Is everything you do predetermined, or do you have free will? Does a deterministic world view dominate western society? What do you think? Leave your thoughts in the comments! <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/zen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zen</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/zenmaster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zenmaster</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#philosophy</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/materialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#materialism</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/determinism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#determinism</a> <a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/YUx6gSOkGDo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/shorts/YUx6gSOkGDo</a>

Matemático Fã do EulerThere a lot of people here who knows more about <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#physics</a> than myself, so I wonder what you guys think about this video. It is fascinating, but it still feels wrong. <a href="https://youtu.be/EjZB81jCGj4?si=UQ6v2RD3M8DbBAXB" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/EjZB81jCGj4?si=UQ6v2RD3M8DbBAXB</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/determinism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#determinism</a> OBS: Turn on CC if you don't speak Portuguese, there are available English subtitles.

notBread 🏴‍☠️Free will is a fiction helpful to capitalism. In that it ignores all the possible choices made for us by others and attributes all choices after that as our own. Our choices are limited by who we were born to, where we were born, how much money our parents have, what languages we speak, the availability of education, the local religion, our family's place in society's hierarchy, our assigned gender, our peers, if a foreign government decides to intervene, whether we have enough food or not, are but just a few non-choices in our lives that determine our future behaviour or beliefs.The vast majority of people neither have free will under a hierarchical system devoted to capital, nor can they have success as society defines it. Their choices are constrained to make the lives of the rich more comfortable. Which is why capitalism cannot fix poverty, because it views the poor as having an ability to "choose" to not be poor. In essence, capitalism can never change something that it needs to survive. In the same way it cannot fix wealth inequality, homelessness, racial inequalities, or any of the other problems that it leaves to fester.Capitalism benefits from the illusion of free will. It tries to convince us that we have a choice to be successful or not, but to do that we must disregard everything about our current living conditions and all the barriers put up to keep money in the hands of the already wealthy.[ <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/freewill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#freewill</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/determinism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#determinism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antiCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antiCapitalism</a> ]

Mx. Luna CorbdenAre determinists destined to have come to that conclusion? Or do they choose to?<a href="https://defcon.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#philosophy</a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/FreeWill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeWill</a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/Determinism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Determinism</a>

Steven Saus [he/him]From 12 Nov: Determinism vs. free will: A scientific showdown - EnlargeKTSDESIGN The takeaway of Robert Sapolsky’s Determined: A Science of Lif... <a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/11/does-science-tell-us-anything-about-free-will-depends-on-who-you-ask/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/11/does-science-tell-us-anything-about-free-will-depends-on-who-you-ask/</a> <a href="https://faithcollapsing.com/tags/behavioral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#behavioral</a>-science <a href="https://faithcollapsing.com/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#book</a>-review <a href="https://faithcollapsing.com/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#culture</a> <a href="https://faithcollapsing.com/tags/determinism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#determinism</a> <a href="https://faithcollapsing.com/tags/free" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#free</a>-will <a href="https://faithcollapsing.com/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a>

IT NewsDeterminism vs. free will: A scientific showdown - Enlarge (credit: KTSDESIGN) The takeaway of Robert Sapolsky’s ... - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1982865" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/?p=1982865</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/behavioralscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#behavioralscience</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/determinism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#determinism</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/bookreview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookreview</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/freewill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#freewill</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#culture</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a>

Karsten SchmidtPragmatist that I am, I've been spending a lot of time over the past 24h to abstract & extract the fixed timestep/lockstep simulation update logic so that I (or others) don't need to re-implement the boilerplate for this type of update cycle for each new project. So a new (small) package is born:<a href="https://thi.ng/timestep" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://thi.ng/timestep</a>Aside from the main update logic which entirely separates simulation state (and its update/integration) from rendering state (which will be derived/interpolated), the package also provides convenience wrappers for numeric or vector-based state variables. These are very useful, since the update logic requires 3 distinct versions of each sim state var: previous, current (next) and its interpolated version. Only the latter should be used outside the simulation (e.g. for rendering). It's all explained in the readme and the classic article by Glenn Fiedler (from 2004) upon which the core logic is based on...In related news, I've also uploaded an updated version of <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Bubblemania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bubblemania</a> which is fully deterministic now (pixel perfection verified several times via difference images exported after 1000 and 2000 frames). Obviously I cannot update the version on fx(hash), but you can just copy your hash & params query string and append it as I've done here:<a href="https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/bubblemania/?fxhash=ooFcsnZBR21MRPkZeBMJFya6SZTtvnfoUzYpejfg5txRCCWnVyH&fxminter=tz1W2E9rSnHDftdygWiRjgVZzbw5y8oMN2z3&fxparams=01043ff000000000000000000000000000003fe3333333333333" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/bubblemania/?fxhash=ooFcsnZBR21MRPkZeBMJFya6SZTtvnfoUzYpejfg5txRCCWnVyH&fxminter=tz1W2E9rSnHDftdygWiRjgVZzbw5y8oMN2z3&fxparams=01043ff000000000000000000000000000003fe3333333333333</a><a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/ThingUmbrella" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThingUmbrella</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/GenerativeArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenerativeArt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Simulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Simulation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Determinism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Determinism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/TypeScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TypeScript</a>

Karsten SchmidtOkay, I found the non-determinism issue! Get ready for a deep dive:Just as with Apple's "natural scrolling direction", there're really two ways of thinking about this issue and IMHO it's not even a bug as such, just me prioritizing a different aspect of the whole piece: realtime performance (since this is animated)The "offending" code to update a single cell/bubble is attached, see if you can spot the issue...It took me little while, but as predicted, it _is_ timing related: The animation code is trying to be "best practice" (aka using the highres timestamp supplied by requestAnimationFrame(), computing the delta time to the previous frame and so be adaptive to any dropped frames or unexpected delays, e.g. due to window resizing, garbage collection or any other external factors). Because of that, each bubble is updating using realtime deltas and hence the animation WILL sooner or later become non-deterministic in terms of individual bubble movements (but nothing else!).Btw. The official MDN docs[1] are having an explicit warning about making sure to use the realtime timestamp future-proofing animation code (see 2nd screenshot)Everything else in <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Bubblemania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bubblemania</a>, i.e. the layout, the positions, shapes, colors & texture assignments of the bubbles, all that _is_ fully deterministic. I just verified this (several times) by serializing the entire state to JSON and then diffing results. The issue is (real)timing!This is useful food for thought though in general (and for others): There are only two choices for _any_ such generative, realtime animated project:1) Locking the frame rate to ensure a "theoretical determinism", but eventually having to irrevocably accept a change of character of the entire piece in the future (e.g. due to higher or uneven display frame rates, e.g. more common 120Hz screens in a few years or low powered machines with frequent dropped frames on the other side of the spectrum...)OR2) Prioritizing realtime animation and accepting the fact that minute/unimportant details might/will become variable (e.g. in this case, bubbles bobbing in a non-guaranteed order)IMHO you can only pick one of these and it seems I picked the wrong one... (just like with Brexit, you can't both eat your cake and have it too! 😉)What would you have done/prioritized? Which aspect is more important here (really)?[1] <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/window/requestAnimationFrame" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/window/requestAnimationFrame</a><a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Debugging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Debugging</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Determinism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Determinism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/RealTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RealTime</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Animation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Animation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/GenerativeArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenerativeArt</a>

War on the Castle, Peace in the Valley🛡️🍉🇵🇸 🏳️‍🌈Fascism 2023: Discussion: Individual cognitive disfunction and emotional coping mechanisms explain a lot of what goes on at Trump rallies and Alternatives for Germany and Golden Dawn events. In reply to <a href="https://mastodon.world/@Maura_resister" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Maura_resister</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/@project1enigma" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@project1enigma</a> suggests that a disease model of global fascism trend denies "agency" of perps. W/O going into debate on freewill and determinism good point but OTOH <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/pandemic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pandemic</a> modeling can yield insights. Remember that <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Darwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Darwin</a> (not RichardDawkins) recognized that <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memes</a> or <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ideas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ideas</a> transmit subject to <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/naturalselection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#naturalselection</a> forces. Preventive medicine intervention models may be appropriate in planning prevention of epidemic spread; indeed epidemiological framework is an appealing approach to what is essential mass psychopathology.Stop screen reader hashtags follow. Keywords: <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/disease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disease</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/medicalmodel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#medicalmodel</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/epidemiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#epidemiology</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/freewill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#freewill</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/determinism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#determinism</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/SamHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SamHarris</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/RichardDawkins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RichardDawkins</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/naturalselection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#naturalselection</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolution</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memes</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/psychopathology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#psychopathology</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/WilhelmReich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WilhelmReich</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/criticaltheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criticaltheory</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Marcuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Marcuse</a>

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