> Once again, we don’t have a satisfying explanation why. We know that these quantum numbers correspond to standing-wave solutions of a three-dimensional wave function that we pulled out of thin air. We also know that the model works better than any alternatives. But we don’t know what any of it really means — or if it means anything.

It is so refreshing to see this explicated thus; physics textbooks are generally coy about "know this for now, and there will be deeper insights available later" but they typically never level with readers and say "we don't know".

This is how I usually characterize AI to friends who have no background in computers: it's an indefatigable (that is, not able to be fatigued) employee who has read nearly everything in the world, who does make mistakes, but who never lacks for motivation.

Most humans would become discouraged after being told 20 times that their work fell short, but AI agents will persevere en masse until the oceans are boiled, for better or for worse.

Is that not exactly cloudflare?

For a brief hopeful moment, I thought this was the .io kind of sandstorm

> my deepest fantasy is that one day I'll be in the hospital for some random thing, they'll take blood for some test, and then when they read the results, their eyes will go wide and they'll call for a consult. The other doctor will read the results and say "you don't have the nutrient?! How do you live? You're so brave". They give me a shot, and just like that, I'm able to conduct myself in society, understand social cues, hold my attention on anything i want for any length of time, etc

... so perhaps the Nutrient is a product of a gut bacterium.

> Radicle supports private repositories that are only shared among a trusted set of peers, not the entire network. These are not encrypted at rest but rely on selective replication and are thus completely invisible to the rest of the network.

There's no structural separation of public / private repositories; this is one bug or fat-finger away from a leak.

I was looking into how to get a radicle node running, but connected to only my own devices.

You can't seem to start the radicle node without it automatically connecting to the (generously provided) global shared seed nodes, and you can't examine/change the config without starting the node (at least with rad subcommands).

If you do `rad auth` and then delete the four seed addresses from ~/.radicle/config.json before starting the rad node, it helpfully re-adds them on startup:

  [...]
  INFO  node     Opening node database..                                                                                                                                                                           
  INFO  node     Address book is empty. Adding bootstrap nodes..                                                                                                                                                   
  INFO  node     4 nodes added to address book
  [...]

Not exactly a subscription since it's a stored-balance system, but still.

Is this because of the Palantir / techbro culture that the author is immersed in, or for some systemic or economic reason?

How could they not? When I penciled this out ~18 years ago, I included the amortized cost of all the interviews it took to hire a given engineer as well. It's not rocket surgery, as they say.

Money can be exchanged for goods and services.