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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Yeah. It also makes sense that the different nations are so culturally different, if they’re spaced out over large distances. It can be rather inconsistent, because some quests have NPCs treating excursions all the way across the map like it’s no big deal.

    The latest event has a few examples of this, which was one of the things compounding my irritation with the (imo) subpar overall execution of the storyline.










  • This is part of a genre of science writing whereby a university’s press release officer struggles to figure out what a professor is talking about, and translate it into hype. So the text oscillates wildly between impenetrable (the material offered by the professor) and eye-rolling (the stuff by the press release guy).

    From what I can figure out, the “light-induced matter” here refers to polaritons, a phenomenon whereby the quantum states of light and atom mix, which has been known about for decades. Basically, these guys figured out a slightly nicer way to simulate these things on a computer.


  • If it was so irrelevant, the colleges would not have fought tooth and nail to maintain it. Anyway, the prior experience of individual states that have banned affirmative action indicates that the effects are not negligible – it’s responsible for double digit shifts in racial compositions of student bodies.

    Things will depend on how the universities respond; one can imagine Harvard doubling down on ever-subtler ways to tag Asians as personality-free robots undeserving of consideration.