Only 10 beatings per second? This is a just universe, Sir!
On a serious note, enlightenment only cures us of our selfish curiosity, i.e. any action which causes harm to others. The Way requires us to harmonize with universal compassion, so there is take and give (especially with regard to our required sustenance), but we definitely lose our propensity to experiment with our power at the expense of others. No, we are to increase our curiosity in how we can better help others, help being the cornerstone of compassion.
It makes you question what they mean by discovery. Is it not a discovery until it is published in Nature? On Arxiv this was a discovery in 2021. We can probably find a free energy channel in the YouTube haystack from a decade ago where the guy happened to arrange magnets in this order while going through permutations. Is that discovery or are only incumbent academics allowed to canonize science?
This is not really as simple as just going through the permutations. What this is in practice is a triumph of instrumentation. Before this, no one has imaged altermagnetic domain structure. The behaviour of these materials is intrinsically linked to what happens in the micro- (or nano-) structure.
There are two challenging things here that makes this a discovery. One, making the material, which is extremely difficult to verify as altermagnetic due to the nature of measuring these materials. Two, the measurement, which combines two techniques to distinguish this as separate from antiferromagnetism.
It is a huge push forwards for the budding field since it provides a really nice way to go to a large-scale synchrotron with your altermagnet and study it in detail.
This would have to scale down to the quantum domain to be an actual thing and scaling back up means we bring non-commutative physics into the classical world.
They didn't use macroscopic magnets to form the alternate pattern or the swirls, and they are stable. If you have a link to a YouTube Channel with a similar result, it would be nice to see it.
Also, do you have a link to the arxiv post of 2021? It's a lot of time. This article looks like studing how to "see" the pattern. Perhaps the old one was about the material and general properties.
I was actually thinking of the engineering-minded people who experiment with permanent magnet electric motors out of intuition. The bit about free energy was hyperbole of mine.
I'm trying to decide if we are intentionally 'translating' these ideas from pure imagination down into technological applications through intermediate 'realms' of quasi-reality, or if building stuff with just intuition can still be accepted in the 21st century. The BS is just piled too high for me and my trust in technology is not great. Sometimes I wonder if we are just having a mass psychosis in a field of mud.
IIUC the new article is about taking a "photograph" of the magnetiation in a real sample, and the old article is a theoretical prediction. Perhaps the new article should be presented as a confirmation instead of a discovery, but press releas are full of omisions and overhype.
Complex systems studies is wisdom. We know how communication on internet behaves. Conway's Law hits hard and the processes of life are not dumb.
Access to physical reality is important when negotiating with the beings that can form under this constraint. People have apparently known this instinctively for a very long time and they are not going to give in to the demands of the AI industry.
It's a great mistake to humanize everything in your consciousness.
Isn't this the entire point of browsewrapped TOS "agreements"? There's a reason why specifically tracking via cookies had to be singled out by regulation to work at all (putting aside how well or not well this actually works).
That's a grim view of humanity, I think. The internet is arguably the most collaborative project in the history of mankind especially outside of extractive and invasive motives. Hopefully not all of us will die before seeing serious legislation protecting that kind of social investment.
> why specifically tracking via cookies had to be singled out by regulation
Well, it is not singled out by regulation. The GDPR doesn’t even mention cookies at all. They mention any way to track users. Fingerprinting is also banned, for example.
many of it's predecessor sadly are not and are still around
leading to absurdities of there being _both_ a GDPR dialog for tracking and a "cookie dialog" (which depending of the law might also apply to local storage and co) to get permission to "store" something on you computer. Like a hint to not track you :facepalm:
(And yes legally from GDPR storing a same origin cookie only accessible to the browser and you to remember the user doesn't want to be tracked is legal _iff_ you don't use it for tracking users which don't want to be tracked server side. It's one of the many examples where "what legally is good enough" and "what security wise is good enough" can diverge quite a bit.)
I guess I'm confused that the projections in TFA are largely in line with the projections in the BBC article from 5 years ago. I'd expect something to have changed in that time (whether for better/worse), and it makes me suspicious that TFA is recycling 5 year old conclusions rather than presenting novel data
I am usually buying the cheapest extra-virgin olive oil available (in Europe), and its price has increased by more than 50% in comparison with a couple of years ago.
If possible, try more expensive varieties as well. In some cases they're so strong you'll need less oil for a better result (or in my case, same amount of oil but for a heavenly experience). If you can find some online farmers, look for 5lt tins of oil, this way you'll save a bit. I just looked how much would be to buy oil in Tuscany where I live and get it shipped to France and it almost doubles the price, so I guess buying online from italy is a no no
You are right about the expensive varieties, which I buy sporadically, but I do not use olive oil for flavoring, but as actual food (it typically provides around two thirds of my daily intake of fat, or even more in the days with increased physical work that requires a higher energy intake).
So using a better olive oil would not make me reduce the amount that I eat, therefore I choose the cheapest EVOO most of the time (which is still quite good, even if with a less intense flavor; since I use great amounts in cooking, the flavor is strong enough anyway).
Have no idea why you are getting downvoted. You definitely do need to pay more than average for a decent olive oil. And if you look, there are plenty of good options for high quality and high polyphenol oil at reasonable prices. Just have to dig. r/oliveoil is a good place to start as there are some good discussions and people like to post their finds. Be aware that there are lots of people in that subreddit that kinda sorta shill their own olive oil. Usually they are excellent oils but often quite expensive. Again, you get what you pay for for the most part.
This is why enlightenment cures you of your curiosity.