This is bad but I have to admit the repetition of “formal analysis” made me laugh out loud

anyway, plus ça change

I think if Lewis Mumford could’ve seen skibidi toilet he would kill himself

“With the successive demands of the outside world so frequent and so imperative, without any respect to their real importance, the inner world becomes progressively meager and formless: instead of active selection there is passive absorption…”

Funny, I just started reading the Feynman lectures on computation last week and happened to notice your name in the acknowledgments!

Stochastic jump-rope?
Coherence time trials?

Just finished Cadillac Desert and now I’m mad this essay doesn’t actually exist thanks

I guess my car has a thermal efficiency of about 10^28 bits per gallon

That’s only von Neumann entropy though! Framing it this way sort of begs the question, doesn’t it?

Good government is easier when the pressure is low. Yet another reason to take action early.

The Lyndon Johnson series by Caro!

Wow I’ve never heard of that before! Sounds like he was halfway to rediscovering the Lindblad equation 🙂

I picked this model because I’m interested in optimal control of the shape of the water surface at a specific time, similar to GRAPE in quantum optimal control

I think you’re basically right and wind is a major source of those ripples as well. My model doesn’t include any atmosphere though so I can’t easily simulate that

and also in 2D

Add me too, please!