The power was turned off at home. The forecast says it will start raining in an hour and end next Wednesday. All cafes are closed. I’m completely puzzled about what to do and how to work.
It seems that “when in doubt, go to sleep” is quite appropriate here.
Leesburg-Purcellville-Leesburg, 32 km, 1:12, avg. speed 27.2 km/h. But the highest Strava recorded was as much as 76.7 km/h. Of course, it’s lying, or fishing for compliments to get a paid subscription
In the yard by the house, so that mothers with children are not bored
Table at the crossroads: Puzzle exchange. Bring your own puzzle, take any of these
McLean-Purcellville-McLean, 122 km, six hours of pedaling… Phew, a real dopamine storm! I just got a photo of me lying on the floor spread-eagle, not wanting to go anywhere, but I was told not to post it because I look weird in it.
Watched Don’t F**K with Cats. Wow! Netflix released one of the coolest documentaries I’ve ever seen. Three hours, three episodes. Highly recommend.
In 2011, some dude releases an anonymous video online where he kills kittens on camera. An investigation begins on the internet. Every little detail from the video gives a piece of the puzzle. But, as expected, it doesn’t end with just kittens. The killer sets up a real quest for the police and independent investigators. /You better not read the Wikipedia about the killer at all, especially before watching the movie. The wiki has too many unpleasant details/
Finished watching Devs. And once again, I catch myself thinking that I find it difficult to watch science-popular films where the idea is full of holes, and nothing fits together, and the authors do not explain it at all. Take the worlds of Tolkien or George Martin, which are fantastic, but overall consistent. Here, various theories are taken, which the audience will not understand anyway, mixed together.
In my opinion, if you tackle the theory of determinism and the idea of Laplace’s demon, then come up with a solution for the causal loop that all time travel theories inevitably encounter. For example, what prevented people from making choices, knowing in advance what was “predetermined” for them? There should have been a law of nature that counteracted this. For instance, the projection of the future comes/is induced only in a state of sleep, but reliably disappears upon awakening, leaving only the memory of the fact. Or at the moment when a person learns about their future, the universe in which they exist at that moment simply shuts down (though it’s unclear how then anyone would learn about this law), and the universe where they have not yet learned about it continues to exist. But most likely, everything will end much earlier: to “calculate” the future, it is necessary to gather information about the state of the entire world, and this is impossible because you cannot take a snapshot of the world. Information gathering cannot be instantaneous at least due to the finite speed of information transmission, meaning information about different events will be asynchronous. That is, absolute simultaneity is impossible – Einstein showed this, and therefore it is not possible to create what the series talks about.
I miss proper science fiction. Of all the films over the last ten years, “Interstellar” came closest. But “closest” does not mean “very good.” “Interstellar” also had a lot of inconsistencies.
It would be wonderful if through science fiction films, real ideas and concepts from scientists were visualized. Let them be fantastic, but at least consistent and not “holey” for people who understand the subject. That is, a scientist comes up with some string theory, which cannot be proved, and a movie is a great way to reveal it to the public. And together with someone who can come up with scripts, it forms the basis for a movie. And so, that the scientist’s name would be in the credits. Then they wouldn’t let nonsense through. For example, it would be possible to make a movie about a twin of our universe made of antimatter, where time flows backward (google CPT-Symmetric Universe) or about a world in which all molecules of organisms are twisted in the opposite direction (google homochirality). Of course, my level of education is not enough to create a full scenario without “holes,” but that’s the challenge.
Well okay, these topics are too complex. But it would be possible to make sci-fi about people who from birth (or even earlier) were trained to perceive signals from artificial sensory organs, much richer than our “built-in” ones, resulting in their brains developing differently, and they would grow up with super abilities, capable of solving problems of a completely different quality than us. This is a perfectly “possible” scenario, though not yet tried in practice. Or take the theme of creating people with artificially altered DNA. Or take Elon Musk’s neuralink and fantasize about what happens when everyone can get their implant and order a program for it online. Or make a movie about a world where organ transplantation has become very simple and cheap, leading to a huge crisis, a fracture of society into castes, and a war in which everyone eventually killed each other and humanity started all over again, from caves and the invention of fire.
This is the kind of science fiction I want. To be “without holes” and closer to science.
We found a simply great trail, Baltimore-Annapolis, 50 km round trip. Truly a half-day cycling adventure. A historic town in Victorian style with delicious restaurants and the naval academy (where Lisa and I wandered all day last time. All buildings there have free entry! Well, okay, after the checkpoint where they ask to see your ID)
Near the house, we encountered a snapping turtle hesitant to cross the road. I had to act the Good Samaritan and escort it to the pond. These turtles are very aggressive; they have a long neck and can snap off a finger piece before you blink. By the way, these turtles were once used for soup, among three other types.
Here’s a video of a guy who earns likes on YouTube by letting various creatures bite him. This time it was the snapping turtle’s turn
Finishing @[106201067632497:274:Devs]. And I keep thinking, who does Foster remind me of? Dmitry Zavalishin @[521916472:2048:Dmitry Zavalishin] and Eugene Kaspersky merged into one. Besides the nearly identical look, they all had a team that was creating something strange and semi-secret in the basement (Dmitry had a next-gen OS, Eugene focused on DDoS topics). In both cases, their ladies (at different times and to a certain extent) controlled a world populated by genius programmers. In its time, ABBYY also had a long-term project with high ambitions, but David Yan doesn’t resemble Foster (yet). What other examples come to mind? Magic Leap, who raised over $2 billion for something unclear, and where the fog was so thick that the money kept flowing?
A spin-off needs to be released in Russia!
P.S. Watching Devs is essential. It contradicts all conventions, but is incredibly engaging. There was a calm dialogue in episode six, taking place in shadow, that lasted 26 minutes – exactly half of the episode.
P.P.S. As for being science fiction, it’s so-so — it’s better not to understand the complex speeches about quantum superposition and multiverses, otherwise it becomes embarrassing for the writers.
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