First set of examples here: Examples of group madness in technology Many of these taken from the comments on the last one; thanks bros. Again, one of the worst arguments I hear is that “thing X is inevitable because the smart people are doing it.” There are tons of examples of smart people doing and working […]| Locklin on science
Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog by Peter Gutmann and Stephan Neuhaus Supposedly AI investors are poised to fuel this horse shit…| Locklin on science
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The Urban Astronomer’s Guide: A Walking Tour of the Cosmos for City Sky Watchers by Rod Mollise. Uncle Rod gives a seasonal guide to Urban sky watching. I’ll eventually find the time to buy a dark …| Locklin on science
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The North American Aviation company was pretty much wiped out by the Apollo-1 accident; a political sacrifice, as the all-oxygen atmosphere which caused the disaster was called out by …. Nort…| Locklin on science
Part 1: Other anomalies: Unusual birb hunting strategies (Corliss BBB16): many kind of birb do things like drop bugs or turds into water to attract fish. Also wiggle their bills into the water to a…| Locklin on science
1 post published by Scott Locklin during July 2025| Locklin on science
Neither is computer science, political science, economics, nutritional science or anything else with the word “science” in the name. I tire of internet weight lifting dorks talking abou…| Locklin on science
Trigger warning: PDF link heavy shitpoast. One of the weird and potentially breakthrough things in physics is variable beta decay. Beta decay, essentially is free neutrons turning into a proton, el…| Locklin on science
Believe in Yourself: the Lee Priest Story by Lee Priest. For various reasons not entirely clear to me I am a big fan of Lee Priest youtube videos. Listening to him rattle on about lifting, eating m…| Locklin on science
Reversible computing is interesting as a concept. There is something called the Landauer limit, which back in 2010 I used to calculate the thermodynamic limits of AI versus the human brain. The idea here is, every bit has some minimal amount of entropy involved in its destruction. Dissipating entropy creates heat. All computers destroy bits […]| Locklin on science
Too busy ATM to say anything technically interesting so I give you this queued up ….. MOAR grad school stories. Texas Joe: I mentioned him in a comment as a notable Pittsburgh roommate. Texa…| Locklin on science
One of the delusions of modern times is that we need a nerd clerisy to help us run things. We’re presently at the end of the post-WW-2 order (or the post-broadcasting order), sort of nervousl…| Locklin on science
Sleeping Beauties in Theoretical Physics by Thanu Padmanabhan. I ran across this looking for some alternatives or updates to Moore’s “Building Scientific Apparatus.” Major long ta…| Locklin on science
