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Hysteresis - Wikipedia
Hysteresis - Wikipedia
Hysteresis is the dependence of the state of a system on its history. For example, a magnet may have more than one possible magnetic moment in a given magnetic field, depending on how the field changed in the past. Plots of a single component of the moment often form a loop or hysteresis curve, where there are different values of one variable depending on the direction of change of another variable. This history dependence is the basis of memory in a hard disk drive and the remanence that retains a record of the Earth's magnetic field magnitude in the past. Hysteresis occurs in ferromagnetic and ferroelectric materials, as well as in the deformation of rubber bands and shape-memory alloys and many other natural phenomena. In natural systems it is often associated with irreversible thermodynamic change such as phase transitions and with internal friction; and dissipation is a common side effect.
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Hysteresis - Wikipedia
The Laughing Man (short story) - Wikipedia
The Laughing Man (short story) - Wikipedia
"The Laughing Man" is a short story by J. D. Salinger, published originally in The New Yorker on March 19, 1949; and also in Salinger's short story collection Nine Stories.[1] It largely takes the structure of a story within a story and is thematically occupied with the relationship between narrative and narrator, and the end of youth. The story is inspired by the 1869 Victor Hugo novel of the same name: The Man Who Laughs (L'homme qui rit).
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The Laughing Man (short story) - Wikipedia
Has the Copilot SEO Spam War Begun? | Parity Bits
Has the Copilot SEO Spam War Begun? | Parity Bits
A few days ago I wanted to pull something from an external API for testing purposes. As a modern programmer, I typed out something like function getSomeImage...
·paritybits.me·
Has the Copilot SEO Spam War Begun? | Parity Bits
Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement
Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement
A classic pattern in technology economics, identified by Joel Spolsky, is layers of the stack attempting to become monopolies while turning other layers into perfectly-competitive markets which are commoditized, in order to harvest most of the consumer surplus; discussion and examples.
·gwern.net·
Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement
The Hyperreal
The Hyperreal
It's normal to get excited by social media likes. Some say social media is
·amasad.me·
The Hyperreal
The Emancipatory Visions of a Sex Magician: Paschal Beverly Randolph’s Occult Politics
The Emancipatory Visions of a Sex Magician: Paschal Beverly Randolph’s Occult Politics
Erotic magic, Black emancipation, gender fluidity, interplanetary spirit realms — these were but a few of the topics that preoccupied Paschal Beverly Randolph (b. 1825), an occult thinker who believed that his multiracial identity afforded him “peculiar mental power and marvelous versatility”. Lara Langer Cohen considers the neglected politics of Randolph’s esoteric writings alongside the repeated frustration of his activism: how dreams of other worlds, above and below our own, reflect the unfulfilled promises of Emancipation.
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The Emancipatory Visions of a Sex Magician: Paschal Beverly Randolph’s Occult Politics
Becoming a magician
Becoming a magician
When I was a teenager I often used fantasy as a vehicle for escapism. Some people, when they fantasise, think about sex or dragons or wildly unlikely events like winning the lottery. I fantasised a…
·autotranslucence.com·
Becoming a magician
Wikiwand - Need for cognition
Wikiwand - Need for cognition
The need for cognition , in psychology, is a personality variable reflecting the extent to which individuals are inclined towards effortful cognitive activities. Need for cognition has been variously defined as "a need to structure relevant situations in meaningful, integrated ways" and "a need to understand and make reasonable the experiential world". Need for cognition is closely related to the five factor model domain openness to experience, typical intellectual engagement, and epistemic curiosity .
·wikiwand.com·
Wikiwand - Need for cognition
The Zoo Hypothesis as Thought Experiment
The Zoo Hypothesis as Thought Experiment
Imagine a civilization one million years old. As Nick Nielsen points out in today’s essay, the 10,000 year span of our terrestrial civilization would only amount to one percent of the older culture’s lifetime. The ‘zoo hypothesis’ considers extraterrestrials studying us as we study animals in controlled settings. Can a
·centauri-dreams.org·
The Zoo Hypothesis as Thought Experiment
ChatGPT as muse, not oracle
ChatGPT as muse, not oracle
What if we thought of LLMs as tools for inspiring human creativity, not giving us answers? A meta-conversation with ChatGPT
·geoffreylitt.com·
ChatGPT as muse, not oracle
This is the Dream Time
This is the Dream Time
Aboriginals believe in … [a] “dreamtime”, more real than reality itself. Whatever happens in the dreamtime establishes the values, symbols, and laws of Aboriginal society. … [It] is also often used to refer to an individual’s or group’s set of beliefs or spirituality. … It is a complex network of knowledge, faith, and practices that derive from stories of creation.
·overcomingbias.com·
This is the Dream Time
Meditations On Moloch
Meditations On Moloch
I. Allen Ginsberg’s famous poem on Moloch:What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination? Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and u…
·slatestarcodex.com·
Meditations On Moloch
Prophets of the Dark Side | Wookieepedia | Fandom
Prophets of the Dark Side | Wookieepedia | Fandom
The Prophets of the Dark Side, also called the Secret Order of the Emperor, was an ancient dark side cult that arose on the planet Dromund Kaas in the Dromund system of the Outer Rim, a world that...
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Prophets of the Dark Side | Wookieepedia | Fandom