@creme @fribbledom that was the joke. But I realized the correct tone didn't come across in text so I deleted it.
@fribbledom What is fortran good for nowadays? I've seen interesting schemes but what could fortran do that something else can't do much better?
Added the triangular model to my Ising simulation. The triangular model behave similar to the rectangular model in the ferromagnetic case but in the ant-ferromagnetic case it lacks a base state and continues to have large amounts of noise at arbitrarily low temperatures violating the third law! Video show the difference between the two antiferromagnetic models. The lack of a base state comes from the lack of a 2 - vertex coloring of the triangular graph.
@crackurbones Just from the article this seems like it may be a case of mathematical naivete. To build a model, to say, hey if we do this I predict better outcomes and thus my approach is superior, seems extremely removed from the realities of civil engineering.
Did you know you can extend the bifurcation diagram for the logistic map
f: z → az(1-z)
beyond a=4 by solving
f^n(z) = z
for various n. The full picture is that for a>4 you get a repelling Cantor set!
@freemo \ x_{n+1} = r x_n(1 - x_n) \ is a simple enough population model. Lets try simulating it! Oh no...
@davidga fucking why
Finally finished that Ising model simulation. The reason why I was reading about the ising model is that simple generalizations of it lead to bolzmann and hopfield networks. The Ising model is like a boltzmann network that only remembers the base states, all one spin for J=1 (ferromagnetic) and checkered for J=-1 (antiferromagnetic). This simulation only does Gibbs sampling and I mostly made it as an exercise in c++ but its pretty fun to play with. Since I wrote it in c++ it might be cool to render in opengl and try to get this really performant and dynamic but quadratic complexity and the fact that gibbs samplers cant be parallelized are limitations
@freemo I wish Haskell was more practical. If the tools were better and it was more reliable I'd use it for everything.
It is amazing to me, as someone that has spent his entire life in school, that almost everything I have learned, I learned outside of a classroom on my own prerogative. And now as a graduate student I have to teach and thus be implicit in a lie that wastes the time and potential of young people on worthless pedantry. The lie that a bachelors degree matters at all.
@greylaw89 This is one of my favorite math problems that can be explained to anyone. I can tell it to my college algebra students and they will still understand and be more interested in it than the endless factoring of quadratics.
@lnxist This video is a trap and I cannot escape.
@smonky sounding a bit like a super villain there bud
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