Alan Täkibay
@alantakibay.bsky.social
Goalies are special.
November 21, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Goalies are special.
Playing chess with a pigeon:
November 6, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Playing chess with a pigeon:
Today's America in one picture.
August 16, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Today's America in one picture.
Rather predictably, magas are becoming obsessed with Victory Days. Their own "Immortal Regiment" is surely on the way.
May 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Rather predictably, magas are becoming obsessed with Victory Days. Their own "Immortal Regiment" is surely on the way.
A recent image from the #JWST and #Hubble 🛰️. I added the Moon for scale. Everything non-spiky is a galaxy.
esawebb.org/images/potm2504a
esawebb.org/images/potm2504a
May 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
A recent image from the #JWST and #Hubble 🛰️. I added the Moon for scale. Everything non-spiky is a galaxy.
esawebb.org/images/potm2504a
esawebb.org/images/potm2504a
Grok 2, everybody! 🤣
February 14, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Grok 2, everybody! 🤣
Mistral "le Chat" is le dumb.
February 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Mistral "le Chat" is le dumb.
This is what I've long suspected, and it's been confirmed yet again: Trump is a beta. Certainly, he needs adoring sheeple, but above all, he craves approval and friendship from those he considers alphas – Musk, Kim, Putin.
February 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This is what I've long suspected, and it's been confirmed yet again: Trump is a beta. Certainly, he needs adoring sheeple, but above all, he craves approval and friendship from those he considers alphas – Musk, Kim, Putin.
ChatGPT vs DeepSeek.
The prompt was "Please give me all real roots of the equation 2^x = x^2".
The prompt was "Please give me all real roots of the equation 2^x = x^2".
February 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
ChatGPT vs DeepSeek.
The prompt was "Please give me all real roots of the equation 2^x = x^2".
The prompt was "Please give me all real roots of the equation 2^x = x^2".
Even ChatGPT understands the difference between "AND" and "NOR".
November 29, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Even ChatGPT understands the difference between "AND" and "NOR".
"A Word on Statistics" by the Polish poet Wisława Szymborska.
theatlantic.com/books/archive/2021/01/poem-wislawa-szymborska-word-statistics/617711
theatlantic.com/books/archive/2021/01/poem-wislawa-szymborska-word-statistics/617711
November 25, 2024 at 10:11 PM
"A Word on Statistics" by the Polish poet Wisława Szymborska.
theatlantic.com/books/archive/2021/01/poem-wislawa-szymborska-word-statistics/617711
theatlantic.com/books/archive/2021/01/poem-wislawa-szymborska-word-statistics/617711
There is an even funnier quote in his "Unpopular Essays":
November 24, 2024 at 10:51 PM
There is an even funnier quote in his "Unpopular Essays":
🇰🇿 What is the color of the Kazak flag?
You can test your perception of blue and green at ismy.blue
The screenshots below show the results of three individuals, one of them has protanopia. Can you guess which one?
You can test your perception of blue and green at ismy.blue
The screenshots below show the results of three individuals, one of them has protanopia. Can you guess which one?
November 23, 2024 at 4:15 PM
🇰🇿 What is the color of the Kazak flag?
You can test your perception of blue and green at ismy.blue
The screenshots below show the results of three individuals, one of them has protanopia. Can you guess which one?
You can test your perception of blue and green at ismy.blue
The screenshots below show the results of three individuals, one of them has protanopia. Can you guess which one?
From Arend Heyting's "Intuitionism":
November 20, 2024 at 10:49 AM
From Arend Heyting's "Intuitionism":
November 16, 2024 at 12:20 PM
At Historisch-Technische Museum Peenemünde.
August 12, 2024 at 10:16 AM
At Historisch-Technische Museum Peenemünde.
⬅️ Gothmog, the Lord of Balrogs, at the Storming of Gondolin. Artwork by Tom Loback, Tolkien's illustrator.
➡️ The Red King of the Jinn. Kitāb al-Bulhān (Book of Wonders) compiled by Hassan Esfahani, 14/15th-cc., Jalayir Sultanate.
➡️ The Red King of the Jinn. Kitāb al-Bulhān (Book of Wonders) compiled by Hassan Esfahani, 14/15th-cc., Jalayir Sultanate.
July 16, 2024 at 4:31 PM
⬅️ Gothmog, the Lord of Balrogs, at the Storming of Gondolin. Artwork by Tom Loback, Tolkien's illustrator.
➡️ The Red King of the Jinn. Kitāb al-Bulhān (Book of Wonders) compiled by Hassan Esfahani, 14/15th-cc., Jalayir Sultanate.
➡️ The Red King of the Jinn. Kitāb al-Bulhān (Book of Wonders) compiled by Hassan Esfahani, 14/15th-cc., Jalayir Sultanate.
The Planck Stroll – a pretty neat mockery of the anthropic principle by Anton Zeilinger:
June 25, 2024 at 3:14 PM
The Planck Stroll – a pretty neat mockery of the anthropic principle by Anton Zeilinger:
The setup is not rare or artificial in any way: for example, the first few lines of the Balmer series are perfectly visible; some studies indicate that children can see into near ultraviolet, including the entirety of the Balmer series.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_spectral_series
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_spectral_series
March 21, 2024 at 11:43 PM
The setup is not rare or artificial in any way: for example, the first few lines of the Balmer series are perfectly visible; some studies indicate that children can see into near ultraviolet, including the entirety of the Balmer series.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_spectral_series
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_spectral_series
What is it then, if not an observation of a single quantum event? What is it, if not a direct "seeing" of a quantum "jump"? Rephrasing Wittgenstein's old anecdote, what would a quantum jump be like if we could see it directly?
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March 21, 2024 at 11:41 PM
What is it then, if not an observation of a single quantum event? What is it, if not a direct "seeing" of a quantum "jump"? Rephrasing Wittgenstein's old anecdote, what would a quantum jump be like if we could see it directly?
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From Léon Rosenfeld's letter to Frederik Belinfante, as quoted in doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2008.10.002:
March 2, 2024 at 1:01 PM
From Léon Rosenfeld's letter to Frederik Belinfante, as quoted in doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2008.10.002: