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  • favoredponcho@lemmy.zip
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    I saw some lecture from a professor specializing in quantum mechanics and he started his course off saying “Right now, I’m the only one who doesn’t understand quantum mechanics. In about 7 days, all of you will be unable to understand quantum mechanics…”

    https://youtube.com/shorts/X4pehLRhFhI

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    It’s hard to explain quantum mechanics when you don’t understand them.

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      It’s hard to explain quantum mechanics even when you understand them.

      • bearboiblake [he/him]@pawb.social
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        It’s a superposition of knowledge and ignorance.

        • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
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          The more you know the less you know

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            Congratulations, you’ve successfully explained quantum mechanics.

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            This isn’t even a joke, it’s literally true in quantum mechanics.

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              Thank you for explaining the joke, I now know less.

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                You know nothing, but you know precisely about what you know nothing.

                • scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                  Only before you check, though.

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            Sometimes I get the sense that I have a clear picture of quantum mechanics. But when I look closer, it gets all blurry.

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          • Owl@mander.xyz
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            The more you know of one thing the less you know of the other*

          • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca
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            This is true about everything though.

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            Damn Heisenberg

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        There’s an old joke about quantum mechanics professors starting their first lecture with something along the lines of “right now, some of you probably understand quantum mechanics. By the end of the semester, if I did my job right, none of us will understand it.”

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          If they’re lucky they might understand kubernetes though.

          • veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world
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            Or as the professionals call it, k8s

        • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
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          Iirc, it’s a youtube video of an actual class

          Edit: https://youtube.com/shorts/X4pehLRhFhI

      • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
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        I thought that was like its thing. It doesn’t really make sense.

    • dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Thats the joke!

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      I understand them! They perform oil changes on the quantum

      • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zip
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        They’re so good they fix your car on the quantum level!

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          They both do and don’t fix your car, you just don’t know until you’ve paid them. No refunds!

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      No one understands quantum mechanics

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        You both understand and don’t understand quantum mechanics at the same time… It’s that simple, that is until such a point at which becomes known as to whether or not you understand or don’t understand quantum physics and then some kind of quantum tunnel collapses?

        No habla English

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          The waves of this comment collapsed into photons entering my eyes showing me a joke about superposition once I observed it.

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            ¿Que paso?

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            You should Hadamard again to reverse the superposition.

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          Vos me queres decir que entender mecanica cuantica es como entender el final de evangelion?

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        Whoa. Blakeception

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        A lot of us understand it as dice rolls based on shit we can’t account for, more or less. Be a bit easier when someone finds out vacuum energy causes unstable isotopes to decay but I’m not nearly that smart and I’m also digressing. Kids in 300 years acting like it’s common sense lol

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        Then why do I have anti- matter in my trunk?

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        Quite a few people understand quantum mechanics, but they can’t explain it to you if you don’t understand the maths

        There’s no good way of putting quantum into words, all of the descriptions are wrong in more or less subtle ways

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      That was the point, right?

      • Čauky Mňauky@lemmy.zip
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        It’s hard to explain jokes when you don’t understand them.

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    I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.

    If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don’t understand quantum mechanics.

    Both quotes attributed to Richard Feynman.

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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      I can do (some of) the maths, but I definitely can’t explain why any of it is like that, or how it works.

      • minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world
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        We all end up looking at cats in boxes pictures on the internet whenever we start to try to understand oh wow this cat is funny.

      • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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        You know what, i keep thinking that maybe, our universe is the only universe that actually functions. Like, if the universe was in some different way, it either wouldn’t work and we would therefore not exist to observe it, or it would be equivalent to this universe, i.e. maybe not exactly equal, but similar in some way, sothat we could form abstractions and arrive at the same universal laws that we have today. Including quantum mechanics.

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        I like watching it in action. I don’t know what the hell is going on, but it gives me a strange kind of peace, and if you stare at it long enough, you trick yourself into thinking that it makes some kind of sense.

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        I can tell a piece of software to do the maths for ms. Sometimes the results appear to work with reality.

        People complain about LLMs hallucinating, but they have no idea of how many assumptions and just plain “everybody does it this way, I guess it works” are there in scientific research.

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          It’s called the heuristic method and those doing it know the limitations. Whereas LLMs will just confidently put out garbage claiming it true.

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            Scientific calculations - and other approaches as well - put out garbage all the time, that is the main point of what I said above.

            Some limitations are known, just like it is known that LLMs have the limitation of hallucinating.

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              I didn’t notice your critique on the outcome of results, but how they were achieved. LLM’s hallucinating are making computers make ”human errors”, which makes them less deterministic, the key reason I prefer doing some things on a computer.

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          Which is ironic because everyone has, at least once, been asked “but how does it work?” and have answered “dunno, but it does”

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          The different domain though. LLM hallucinations may lead to catastrophe, while assuming infinite mass of an electron in absence of electromagnetic field is neat

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            Calculations will happily tell you that an acutely toxic drug is the best way to cure cancer.

            The reason why that does not lead to catastrophe is that there are many checks and safety nets in place in order not to blindly trust any result.

            The exact same approach can be applied to an LLM.

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      What does “understanding” mean in this context?

      I can perfectly fine do the calculations; That’s what “understanding” is, in my opinion. Feynman might be hitting on some metaphysical concept, but then again, what is that metaphysical concept, is it any different from pseudoscience, and do we really need it?

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      Plain stupid

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        We’ve learned rather a lot since then.

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        imagine calling one of the greatest science educators of the modern era “plain stupid”

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    Cropped so I get the authentic glaucoma experience.

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    A delightful character arc.

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      is it an arc or was the first response a rage-bait-y ‘quantum mechanics are difficult to explain regardless of gender’

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        Yes

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    Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

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      img

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      We know, but it’s getting a bit cringe now

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        Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

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        Nah.

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      good bot

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      Such a warrior!

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    My grandfather didn’t die in Korea so that people could fight online like this.

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      Oh same, my grandpa didn’t die in Korea either. Twins!

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      We used to be a country /s

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      That wasn’t a fight.

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        I was just referring to an old internet joke that was in the same vein as this post.

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          I was expecting a similar response to OP’s. Especially for him.

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    Every time my wife walks in on me peeing she just stares at my pecker and asks me “so how does it come out?”

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      Imagine your vulva formed a tube around your urethra

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      Idk i keep asking myself, how would it feel like to have 6 fingers, and are you able to move them all? Idk it just seems weird, but then i remember that i have 5 fingers too and i can move them just fine. So i guess it’s intuitive somehow?

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    I’ve read this like ten times and I think the joke might be that quantum mechanics are difficult to explain to everyone, of which women are obviously a subset. But maybe I’m doling out too much credit lol

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      The joke is that quantum mechanics are difficult to understand, so the commenter doubts their ability to properly explain it (to women). The replier assumed it was a dig at women’s intelligence, not a reflection of the original commenter’s intelligence and ability to explain.

      I.e. a stupid person would have difficulty explaining anything to women.

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      To be fair, the original question did not clearly state it needed to be easy to explain to men. The only requirement was to be difficult to explain to women. So, technically, this answers the question as written.

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        And we all know that technically correct is the best kind of correct.

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      No thats definitely the joke.

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    Redditor failed the litmus test for misandrists

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    This is peak my phone is fighting for its life energy 😂

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    I pretty sure magic is involved

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    Beep

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    Anyone else bored as fuck, and wish someone would post another Misoginyst/Misandrist post, so we can read people getting upset?

    I’m actually kind of addicted to watching the hate now. I’m not even Misoginyst/Misandrist myself.

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      95% of those are just ai generated rage-bait, so just ask ChatGPT to make one for you and you’ll get the same experience.

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    deleted by creator

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