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  @PaniczGodek@functional.cafe What you call ‘disagreement’ was merely this jackass looking for talking points to torpedo the paper. Which was not written for the journal system, but he showed what would happen if it were. He did not hold back on looking for ad hominem attacks that were complete irrelevancies. And he actually, literally claimed I had assumed symbols on paper were moving faster than light. The whole paper was about symbols and symbolic operations, and he claimed I assumed FTL motio...

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  I know for a fact, now, that there is no such thing as a photon: https://michelson-morley.crudfactory.com/#_there_is_no_such_thing_as_a_photon Take it or leave it as you wish. I do not try to force belief on anyone, and I am not a professor who controls your grade or whether you get granted a PhD. #physics #science

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  I have corrected the Grover’s algorithm code at http://crudfactory.com/PHYSICS.html It now takes a predicate closure to tell it what to search for. Before you actually had to give it the answer to get the answer! This was what the inference engine interpreted an ‘Oracle’ to be. Oracles are practically impossible to understand, to me. They come from Turing theory, don’t they? Well, I’m a functional programmer (though I do often write Ada). #computing #quantumComputing #physics #science #mathem...

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  Okay, there was no Big Bang. The universe is expanding due to electrostatic repulsion, and the cosmic microwave background is due to all this electromagnetic activity. At some point I will have to organize all this. First, I have to order me up some books about the mathematics. Probably from computer graphics people rather than physicists, so I do not prejudice myself. #physics

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  Back to the grindstone. I have figured out it will be 42 years next autumn since I did my ‘Electromagnetics’ 300-level class in electrical engineering, which would be the last time I used Maxwell’s equations. And here I am having to make them fit in the new theory, which should have been Einstein’s theory in the first place but he had no radio stations in his time so he completely missed this: That radio waves have inertia and move with the transmitter. This solves Michelson-Morley.

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  @MaddieM4@raphus.social BTW I haven’t worked on hiha lately, because I have been too busy proving that Special Relativity is wrong (and that therefore General Relativity is wrong). The Michelson-Morley effect is due to electromagnetic transmissions moving inertially along with the transmission source (antenna, light bulb, etc.) It couldn’t be simpler. Albert Einstein would have said, “Ach du lieber, of course! I have boo-booed!” But most physicists are actually citation portfolio managers. And...

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  My newly arrived copy of CRC Standard Curves and Surfaces (old 1993 edition) came in immediately useful. I was able to complete the longitudinal Doppler shift without having to do the full mathematical workup. Not that I shouldn’t do so. It is just that doing such things is not easy. Professors writing examinations act as if it were, which is part of why I loathe universities. Instead I have subtle logical proof the math is the same as SR: https://michelson-morley.crudfactory.com/ #physics #ma...

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  @paninid@mastodon.world Now that I am starting to feel maybe up to going for walks again, I have ordered myself a personal surveillance camera. Because I am in the Minnesota Twin Cities, don’t you know. This is about trying to prevent the demographic tip-over, not about lawbreaking. They’d deport me, too, as an Arab-looking Jew, if they got half a chance, even though I am a descendant of a member of Continental Congress.

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  It seems to me that the if a ‘photon’ is ‘massless’ then most likely a ‘photon’ is actually a mathematical entity and not a physical one. It is an ‘infinitesimal’. And such things are not actual things, unless you are using Abraham Robinson’s nonstandard analysis. We do not use nonstandard analysis, but the standard kind that is a mathematical analog of action by direct contact. (They do not TELL you this in Calc 101, or ever. It is LOST KNOWLEDGE. Our modern times are a Dark Age)... #physics

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  @hosford42@techhub.social @ZBennoui@dragonscave.space @zakalwe@plasmatrap.com @marionline@autistics.life But I think maybe the worst thing of all is time pressure. Learning things is so much easier if you have NO TIME PRESSURE. And if you let it happen largely in your sleep, as well.

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  I went least significant bit first and optimized for reducing the node count. This leads to a tree walk that gives the leaf nodes in a scrambled order. If you want them in-order I think that would work if you want most significant bit first. If you go MSB first and do not optimize for node count it seems to be called a ‘bit-trie’, among other names. The name ‘integer-keyed trie’ shows up, but I would consider that ambiguous. After all, what I just implemented is one, as well.

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  Speaking as a fonts guy, I find it remarkable just how bad at ordinary geometry physicists seem to have become. Special Relativity was not, I am coming to believe, the correct approach to a mathematics for dealing with the Michelson-Morley results. First the notion that c was a "speed of light" should have been dropped. It should be viewed as a units-defining constant. Second, the notion of "frame of reference" dropped in favor of more abstract use of coordinate systems...

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  RE: https://masto.ai/@chemoelectric/116538010742849679 This is one of my goals in life, to de-obfuscate the jargon of scientists and engineers. Even scientists and engineers themselves do not understand what they are saying. It isn't just laypersons. I wish to explain it to everyone. First I must understand it myself, of course. I get arguments, but usually the person arguing with me is wrong.

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  @hosford42@techhub.social @ZBennoui@dragonscave.space @zakalwe@plasmatrap.com @marionline@autistics.life Python is a very, very, VERY bad language, syntactically. I cannot imagine using it while blind. It is very difficult to use while sighted. One little slip-up and the entire program is lost.

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  @hosford42@techhub.social @ZBennoui@dragonscave.space @zakalwe@plasmatrap.com @marionline@autistics.life Due to chronic hand pain, for coding I have to input with one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataHand It is still quite uncomfortable. For ordinary language I can use an Android phone and a stylus. I started coding in the late 1970s. But my major was electrical engineering and so VERY heavy on the analytic geometry. Plus I did most of my electives in numerical analysis with the...

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  @rmi@cloudisland.nz The chip Microsoft announced has become a big scandal in the scientific world (as often happens with things published in "Nature" journals). It was found to have been based on faked data. Papers marked permanently as probably faked.

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  The physicists themselves are convinced because they believe themselves such "geniuses" that they need not actually become true scholars. They know no actual mathematics, nor logic and rules of plausible inference, nor random process analysis, nor epistemology, nor any of a thousand other things they ought to know but do not. They instead wing it and think they can, because they are just so freaking "smart". And they simply blow you off if you try to point out how wrong the...

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  This just has to be incorporated into hiha for use to make symbol tables. https://pastebin.com/AzyUwY70

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  It is for concatenating any number of UTF-32 strings, using a NULL pointer as the sentinel argument. Because a NULL pointer is a valid value for a string_t, the C17 prototype works. With the way stdarg.h works, for NULL to be a valid string_t is necessary for C23 as well, I think.

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  In the src/plugins/50-decimal_float.c plugin. This is something that acts on about the third pass through the Pratt parser for the lexing phase. That’s how I am doing lexing. I am using NUD rules in a Pratt parser and going through the parser repeatedly until a fixed point is reached. It could be done in one pass (because my input reader has indefinite amounts of lookahead, I use Gnulib’s gl_xlist.h) but multiple passes makes it a little simpler.

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  I just changed hiha floating point numbers to like 123.45↑+30 or 123_456.0^-30 I do not care if some silly person puts this on a bad language design list because it is different from what they are used to. It is so there can be a lexical representation for vector components. #programmingLanguages

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  Thus Unicon and Object Icon are the better implementations, when it comes to co-expressions. Unicon still uses stack-switching, and Object Icon uses what-I-haven’t-yet-examined. (Possible methods are numerous. One could go so far as to separately compile to C and use Cheney-on-the-MTA, or compile to GNU C and use computed goto.) If you want threads in Icon, ADD THREADS! Do it as a foreign library, if necessary.

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  Having exceptions, proper tail calls, or gotos wouldn’t alone have solved the problem, anyway. There still would have had to have been some kind of modularization.

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  I added also that having all the exits go through the end of the subroutine meant that, if you turn off the optimizer, then the debugger is much easier to use. This is no small matter. Early exits mean the subroutine may exit at any of several points. And the smart alec pointed out that I would have had to turn the Rust code’s immutable value into a mutable variable, to which my reaction was, ‘So?’ And, anyway, a really, really safe language would have LINEAR vars that made this no problem.

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  I exaggerate. Gfortran is FRICKING AN ENEMY OF GENERAL PROGRAMMING. But it can be managed.

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  I’m running pmmcabe on my current hiha code and here are the modified/unmodified numbers: 2 2 4 4 6 6 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 3 6 2 2 4 4 1 1 3 3 3 4 3 3 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 4 4 3 3 3 3 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 5 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 4 5 5 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 4 1 1 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 3 3 5 8 2 2 5 5 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 Now you see why I mock Rust as an ‘improvement’. People are still writing spaghetti. #programming

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  @ainmosni @feld @lritter Revenue is what you use up when you are losing money.

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  @vnikolov @kentpitman @dougmerritt @screwlisp I merely wished people to consider the POSSIBILITY they MIGHT have a use here. (As an aside: Their uniqueness can be assured for all purposes nowadays by UUID, and already could have been by putting them in a subdirectory of /tmp. Their destruction was never a REAL problem, because the shell provides for that sort of thing. All of this is merely CUMBERSOME, not undoable. Shell programming is a PAIN.)

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  That means Mi havas doloron je la dorso.

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  You know, the semaphore version of ‘Wuthering Heights’ truly, truly sucks. I mean, let’s just make fun of Yorkshire English, by golly.