There’s no reason to invent your own head canon, the influence was openly acknowledged when Swift was new and it continues now that the language is developed out in the open (see Swift Ownership Manifesto)

Obviously Rust was first but over time both languages have been taking inspiration from each other. For example let-else was motivated directly because of its success in Swift: https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/3137-let-else.html#prior-ar...

My salary adjustment didn’t doesn’t keep up with inflation, but his ability to monetize his position in public office far outstrips it. Why would he care? He can point a firehose of public money straight into his own pocket with no consequences.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n7gphyYNsdM

USA is lawless and corruption is rampant, yet no one can stop it because individual consequences are too high.

Also, one of the session videos illustrated the content with an app for keeping track of one's fleet of paper airplanes.

And another was about origami.

So they’re taking advantage of the marketing push behind Disclosure Day hitting theaters to make a stupid “aliens” pun about immigration. What a bunch of dimwit fascist tools.

Everyone is twelve now. If you're twelve, this is hilarious.

I overshot their requirements as well. I wanted them to have a clear view.

When one is talking about two things gradually diverging, isn't "drift" a natural, descriptive verb to reach for? I've heard it often when discussing an implementation diverging from a specification, for example.

Oh of course -- the unusual part is that they apply it to basically everything. Gravity is caused by inertia drift, consciousness is coherence drift, the economy is governed by power drift, etc.

People do delete their own comments after they've had a moment to consider what they've written. It's an honorable thing to do, IMO.

Great clip. Where was he going with the bit about physics? I didn’t quite follow.

Rutherford said that "all science is either physics or stamp collecting." In his view, a field either explains the underlying mechanisms of the universe (physics) or it simply collects and labels data without real understanding (stamp collecting).

Carr was saying, in a hand-wavy way, that we'll see a step-change in technological advancement when AI innovation in physics bears fruit, and that other applications of AI are less likely to be as transformative.

I had no idea Jimmy Carr was a graduated physics student! Surely he's not just some comedian who is talking about a subject he doesn't truly understand and then trying and convince others that his level of knowledge is far greater than those that study this subject.

Way cool!

I wasn't quite sure what he was about there. I think there are a couple of different things - firstly AI making a breakthrough on the fundamental laws say combining quantum mechanics with gravity which would be interesting but I don't think was really what he meant. The other thing is using robots and the like to produce better and more stuff which I think he was thinking about though that's more engineering really.

Don't miss that you can click through to aperiodictable.com to see it live.

Also: when did everyone stop calling this quasiperiodic and start calling it aperiodic? I feel like the almost-but-not-quite translational symmetry was a useful distinction. Has it fallen out of favor?

I believe it is just "as of" the XKCD comic, for which "aperiodic table" seems more sensible than "quasiperiodic table" for how the comic was written. The exciting thing about using the Penrose tiling is that you get "aperiodic" without it just being completely arbitrary. For that it is natural to borrow XKCD's terminology for this particular project.

I don't think mathematicians are going to change their term to "aperiodic". Almost everything is aperiodic. Quasiperiodic indicates something much more interesting is happening.

Everyone's focused on the aperiodic part, meanwhile I'm wondering just what about this visual qualifies as a "table"...I suppose "aperiodic voronoi" doesn't quite have the same ring.

[Gut Flora Summit banner]

“But what if it’s a big hoax and we create solid stools for nothing?”

Seriously, though!

This demand for peer-reviewed evidence in place of observation of known and basic mechanisms is out of control.