Alex Adamov
@alexadamov.com
Exploring the nature of reality. Physics 🔁 Mind. Good explanations chaser. Here to make friends!
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Alex Adamov
@alexadamov.com
· Feb 19
Why did I just decide to do this? A chat about free will while cycling in Phuket
A cycling tour in (very!) warm and sunny Phuket while talking about free will or lack thereof.In the video, I visit an art coffee shop in Patong. This is the...
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I decided to cycle in the heat of Phuket and I wondered why the hell did I decide this?
The video is what happened, including a little chat about free will or lack thereof :)
PS: I spotted some cool art in this little tour if you are into that ;)
youtu.be/pmt_LDdbvno?...
The video is what happened, including a little chat about free will or lack thereof :)
PS: I spotted some cool art in this little tour if you are into that ;)
youtu.be/pmt_LDdbvno?...
Come study our bilingual sustainable engineering bachelor program. You can learn German alongside.
Also: we need you to provide a German A2 level certificate when you apply.
Are you for real @tu-braunschweig.de ?
Also: we need you to provide a German A2 level certificate when you apply.
Are you for real @tu-braunschweig.de ?
October 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Come study our bilingual sustainable engineering bachelor program. You can learn German alongside.
Also: we need you to provide a German A2 level certificate when you apply.
Are you for real @tu-braunschweig.de ?
Also: we need you to provide a German A2 level certificate when you apply.
Are you for real @tu-braunschweig.de ?
Solar radiation would kill us if we didn’t have earth‘s magnetic field. Did you know Mars’ field has faded?
Earth‘s magnetic field is produced by liquid metal flows (convection) in its outer core: hot fluid rising and cooler fluid sinking. It’s like a giant dynamo.
Earth‘s magnetic field is produced by liquid metal flows (convection) in its outer core: hot fluid rising and cooler fluid sinking. It’s like a giant dynamo.
August 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Solar radiation would kill us if we didn’t have earth‘s magnetic field. Did you know Mars’ field has faded?
Earth‘s magnetic field is produced by liquid metal flows (convection) in its outer core: hot fluid rising and cooler fluid sinking. It’s like a giant dynamo.
Earth‘s magnetic field is produced by liquid metal flows (convection) in its outer core: hot fluid rising and cooler fluid sinking. It’s like a giant dynamo.
If you want to learn a scientific or engineering field, you need to think in arrows (vectors). I wrote a gentle intro to it. No prereqs required.
open.substack.com/pub/quantumq...
open.substack.com/pub/quantumq...
Find the Wind
A tiny puzzle you can solve with nothing but arrows and common sense.
open.substack.com
August 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
If you want to learn a scientific or engineering field, you need to think in arrows (vectors). I wrote a gentle intro to it. No prereqs required.
open.substack.com/pub/quantumq...
open.substack.com/pub/quantumq...
This meal planning app I vibe coded on replit is low key useful. I’m trying to cook more and eat less processed food.
What it does:
I take an image of a recipe -> It extracts ingredients and saves
I make weekly meal plan -> It consolidates ingredients and checks (cont’d)
What it does:
I take an image of a recipe -> It extracts ingredients and saves
I make weekly meal plan -> It consolidates ingredients and checks (cont’d)
August 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This meal planning app I vibe coded on replit is low key useful. I’m trying to cook more and eat less processed food.
What it does:
I take an image of a recipe -> It extracts ingredients and saves
I make weekly meal plan -> It consolidates ingredients and checks (cont’d)
What it does:
I take an image of a recipe -> It extracts ingredients and saves
I make weekly meal plan -> It consolidates ingredients and checks (cont’d)
on intrinsic motivation
Rewarding task completion actually leads to worse intrinsic motivation. Rewarding showing up and giving it a good shot is more effective at fostering intrinsic motivation
Rewarding task completion actually leads to worse intrinsic motivation. Rewarding showing up and giving it a good shot is more effective at fostering intrinsic motivation
August 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
on intrinsic motivation
Rewarding task completion actually leads to worse intrinsic motivation. Rewarding showing up and giving it a good shot is more effective at fostering intrinsic motivation
Rewarding task completion actually leads to worse intrinsic motivation. Rewarding showing up and giving it a good shot is more effective at fostering intrinsic motivation
Future conscious ais will likely not know what it feels to have a finite duration. They will probably not be shut off and so live very long.
So I wrote some words about finiteness for them. As you do 😃
Does rich consciousness require finiteness (death)?
ysqander.site/blog/finiten...
So I wrote some words about finiteness for them. As you do 😃
Does rich consciousness require finiteness (death)?
ysqander.site/blog/finiten...
Ysqander's Collection
Life is short therefore I think about my thinking
ysqander.site
July 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Future conscious ais will likely not know what it feels to have a finite duration. They will probably not be shut off and so live very long.
So I wrote some words about finiteness for them. As you do 😃
Does rich consciousness require finiteness (death)?
ysqander.site/blog/finiten...
So I wrote some words about finiteness for them. As you do 😃
Does rich consciousness require finiteness (death)?
ysqander.site/blog/finiten...
I know that 2/3 of replies to any posts online are gonna be negative or non-constructive. And it is what it is.
July 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I know that 2/3 of replies to any posts online are gonna be negative or non-constructive. And it is what it is.
1) what
Future ships be powerd by quantum information reactors
Future ships be powerd by quantum information reactors
July 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
1) what
Future ships be powerd by quantum information reactors
Future ships be powerd by quantum information reactors
Salsa is both a dance and a food.
Unique?
Unique?
July 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Salsa is both a dance and a food.
Unique?
Unique?
writing a substack post - feel free to suggest ideas or resources😃
July 21, 2025 at 7:26 AM
writing a substack post - feel free to suggest ideas or resources😃
watch this NOW
Vsauce proposes a view on our life at this moment in Time:
Dust specs which can leave a ghost trace
Was not possible for the 110 billion unknown people that have ever been born before
It’s lovely perspective. But better watch it and tell me whether it resonates or not
Vsauce proposes a view on our life at this moment in Time:
Dust specs which can leave a ghost trace
Was not possible for the 110 billion unknown people that have ever been born before
It’s lovely perspective. But better watch it and tell me whether it resonates or not
July 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
watch this NOW
Vsauce proposes a view on our life at this moment in Time:
Dust specs which can leave a ghost trace
Was not possible for the 110 billion unknown people that have ever been born before
It’s lovely perspective. But better watch it and tell me whether it resonates or not
Vsauce proposes a view on our life at this moment in Time:
Dust specs which can leave a ghost trace
Was not possible for the 110 billion unknown people that have ever been born before
It’s lovely perspective. But better watch it and tell me whether it resonates or not
Nothing like a high interval run in 28-30c
Feel the limits!
Feel the limits!
July 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Nothing like a high interval run in 28-30c
Feel the limits!
Feel the limits!
The follow button and recommendation algos were a huge mistake. Should have done a simple connection graph based on 2/6 friendly people 3/6 weird but ok people to hang out with and 1/6 people unfriendly to one's own views.
July 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The follow button and recommendation algos were a huge mistake. Should have done a simple connection graph based on 2/6 friendly people 3/6 weird but ok people to hang out with and 1/6 people unfriendly to one's own views.
There is a before and an after regular use of kettlebells in workouts.
Underrated how much you get done with them!
Underrated how much you get done with them!
July 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
There is a before and an after regular use of kettlebells in workouts.
Underrated how much you get done with them!
Underrated how much you get done with them!
Get the bag and get bought out.
The recent NBA rule changes accelerated the resolution of bad contracts because teams can stretch the money owed and fall below the penalty thresholds on total salary.
It’s a great league for players!
The recent NBA rule changes accelerated the resolution of bad contracts because teams can stretch the money owed and fall below the penalty thresholds on total salary.
It’s a great league for players!
July 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Get the bag and get bought out.
The recent NBA rule changes accelerated the resolution of bad contracts because teams can stretch the money owed and fall below the penalty thresholds on total salary.
It’s a great league for players!
The recent NBA rule changes accelerated the resolution of bad contracts because teams can stretch the money owed and fall below the penalty thresholds on total salary.
It’s a great league for players!
TIL I learned there are different checkers rules and my Russian mother seems to have taught me American checkers and not Russian checkers 🤷🏻♂️
July 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
TIL I learned there are different checkers rules and my Russian mother seems to have taught me American checkers and not Russian checkers 🤷🏻♂️
being kind of half Russian (Belarus!), this make me chuckle. Ahh that cold Russian resourcefulness and FU to the rest of the world!
July 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
being kind of half Russian (Belarus!), this make me chuckle. Ahh that cold Russian resourcefulness and FU to the rest of the world!
I am liking Merz more and more
first: he is strong against Putin
second: he rejects the bureaucratic EU layer.
Let's have a European military alliance and economic zone which is decentralized. Remove the bureaucratic layers!!!
first: he is strong against Putin
second: he rejects the bureaucratic EU layer.
Let's have a European military alliance and economic zone which is decentralized. Remove the bureaucratic layers!!!
July 17, 2025 at 9:35 AM
I am liking Merz more and more
first: he is strong against Putin
second: he rejects the bureaucratic EU layer.
Let's have a European military alliance and economic zone which is decentralized. Remove the bureaucratic layers!!!
first: he is strong against Putin
second: he rejects the bureaucratic EU layer.
Let's have a European military alliance and economic zone which is decentralized. Remove the bureaucratic layers!!!
German LearningMoan of the day: This page in the grammar book says:
"the irregular verbs - you must learn them".
Ok how hard can it be 🤡? Let's see 👇
"the irregular verbs - you must learn them".
Ok how hard can it be 🤡? Let's see 👇
July 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
German LearningMoan of the day: This page in the grammar book says:
"the irregular verbs - you must learn them".
Ok how hard can it be 🤡? Let's see 👇
"the irregular verbs - you must learn them".
Ok how hard can it be 🤡? Let's see 👇
Einstein welded space and time into a 4D fabric, yet along a light-like path the spacetime interval is exactly zero.
Strap the best atomic clock to a photon and, no matter whether it leaves a quasar or reaches your pupils on a clear starry night, it never ticks even once.
Strap the best atomic clock to a photon and, no matter whether it leaves a quasar or reaches your pupils on a clear starry night, it never ticks even once.
July 14, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Einstein welded space and time into a 4D fabric, yet along a light-like path the spacetime interval is exactly zero.
Strap the best atomic clock to a photon and, no matter whether it leaves a quasar or reaches your pupils on a clear starry night, it never ticks even once.
Strap the best atomic clock to a photon and, no matter whether it leaves a quasar or reaches your pupils on a clear starry night, it never ticks even once.
This is a tree trunk turned into stone.
230 million years ago, it’s organic matter rotted. Then it was submerged in water and the organic matter was replaced by minerals, turning it into a stone.
Amazing!
230 million years ago, it’s organic matter rotted. Then it was submerged in water and the organic matter was replaced by minerals, turning it into a stone.
Amazing!
July 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This is a tree trunk turned into stone.
230 million years ago, it’s organic matter rotted. Then it was submerged in water and the organic matter was replaced by minerals, turning it into a stone.
Amazing!
230 million years ago, it’s organic matter rotted. Then it was submerged in water and the organic matter was replaced by minerals, turning it into a stone.
Amazing!
Just ONE more SYSTEM PROMPT, boss.
Inspired by XKCD comic ‘Physicists’
Inspired by XKCD comic ‘Physicists’
July 13, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Just ONE more SYSTEM PROMPT, boss.
Inspired by XKCD comic ‘Physicists’
Inspired by XKCD comic ‘Physicists’
More Oslo street art. Wdyt?
July 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
More Oslo street art. Wdyt?
In the US, dads often call their son “buddy”
Does this happen in your culture too?
I find it slightly amusing to not just say son
Does this happen in your culture too?
I find it slightly amusing to not just say son
July 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM
In the US, dads often call their son “buddy”
Does this happen in your culture too?
I find it slightly amusing to not just say son
Does this happen in your culture too?
I find it slightly amusing to not just say son
Street art in Oslo. On a wall of a kindergarten. Lovely
July 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Street art in Oslo. On a wall of a kindergarten. Lovely