Logan R. Kearsley

Notable entries being "I am not a person (I'm three possums in a coat)" and "Three Kobolds in a Trenchcoat".

I really love the extremely tiny sub-genre of modern folk music that involves non-human things pretending to be people.

It suddenly occurs to me that this would be an excellent justification for "just trying to communicate with the eldritch abomination leads to madness and death". They weren't trying to hurt you, it's just that their natural communication system triggers seizures in a significant number of humans....

If you think "ew, that's a really disgusting shade of yellow", take heart in the fact that standard digital color displays made for humans are actually incapable of producing the correct spectral distribution, and it would probably look better in real life.

YouTube video by Logan Kearsley Fyrefly A - 2-segment word list

!!EPILEPSY WARNING!!
youtu.be/iQKuozwaSsM
I managed to synthesize the complete 2-segment word list for Fyrefly A. So if I can get the translation done, I might actually manage to submit something for the Cursed #Conlang Circus on time!

Just popped in to my head. Wasn't even dreaming about Dune...

The sleeper has awakened! Earlier than he wanted to...

Ah, but black hole stars can only form in near-zero metallicity environments, so they cannot in fact be suns!

97-Year-Old Dies Unaware Of Being Violin Prodigy ROCKFORD, IL—Retired post office branch manager Nancy Hollander, 97, died at her home of natural causes Tuesday, after spending her life completely unaware that she was one of the most talented musici...

one of the darkest pieces of spec fic I've ever read:

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And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

After spending a long time designing digital radio protocols, working on ethernet interfaces is making me anxious about profligate network protocols are with bits. 14 whole bytes for an ethernet header!? Duplicating MAC addresses ARP messages? What decadence!

I first read this as referring to autism, and was about to be really mad. But it's actually about literal masks on your face.

Today I Learned: If you attach an Android device to an ethernet connection, it will repeatedly perform ARP scans of your entire subnet range.

It's going to be very difficult to convince future generations that the phrase "trumped-up charges" did not, in fact, originate as a reference to Donald. #linguistics #etymology

The old sense of "dead" or the old sense of "today"?

Mineral Cup has better voting security than some countries!

We also now have more beanbags posted than followers, so spread the word!

YouTube video by Logan Kearsley Forward-Scroller demo

I made another video! youtu.be/2eOftbXt4tQ

YouTube video by Logan Kearsley Almost-3D Heightfield Demo

I made another video: youtu.be/BUOnFfBegXs

YouTube video by Logan Kearsley M4ZE - An exploration of mazes in 4 dimensions

I made a video. youtu.be/m1qMoe6QBRI

I think I may have just invented a new routing algorithm....

Oh bother, I forgot the alt text. A picture of a fabric wallet with very well-worn embroidery of Winnie-the-Pooh eating a pot of hunny.

Pooh Bear is looking a little sad after 30 years.

Beta decay. There is a continuous distribution of both possible emission angles and energy partitions between the electron and the neutrino.

A lot of experimental results have a continuous space of possible outcomes. That's uncountable in both the linguistic and mathematical senses.

How much of the global wavefunction corresponds to each observable state, conditioned on the fact that you start out in a particular state. (Because it is impossible to access the entirety of the universal wavefunction, so there's no choice but yo condition on what you already observe.)

"Worlds" in "many worlds" aren't always discretely countable; if they were, you could say it's the count of how many worlds an outcome occurs in. But since they're not... "how much world". What proportion of the total "mass" of reality.

The measurement postulates of quantum mechanics are operationally redundant Understanding the core content of quantum mechanics requires us to disentangle the hidden logical relationships between the postulates of this theory. Here we show that the mathematical structure of q...

And while the Born rule was initially an underived guess (though not without justification), we now have several derivation that show it is a mathematically-necessary consequence of QM, regardless of interpretation. E.g., arxiv.org/abs/1811.11060

Not really. What the probabilities represent is straightforward: internally, it's how likely you are to observe something, externally it's the measure of "how much world" observes each outcome. That's not an additional assumption, it's a result.

Now, the waiting begins. Most likely, I will forget about this pre-order, and be pleasantly surprised when it shows up next spring!