Yeah that’s why I said they hadn’t done work before they collect the particle, I assume capturing it will involve some transfer of energy but again it depends on the experimental setup.

Very unsure of this, but I believe there’s relative motion between the thermal particles and the accelerating observer, so I guess it would make sense. I vaguely recall it being refered to as a thermal shower.

Regardless, yes you have to provide the energy to create those particles somehow. You’re ending up with something other than the vacuum state and energy must be conserved.

Hawking gave that very explanation in his paper, so it’s his own fault for inflicting bad science communication on the world haha

An asteroid falling into a black hole is in free fall, it’s not accelerating.

There are lots of related questions about black holes and hawking radiation one can ask and the answer is we don’t know, we don’t have the physics to describe it yet.

It doesn’t, it’s a direct result of mixing relativity and quantum physics. It’s painfully complicated and I wouldn’t even know where to begin because I only really know how to understand it through the abstract mathematics.

I guess the simplest explanation I can give is that in quantum field theory, the definition of what is and isn’t a particle depends on your frame of reference. Hence accelerating observers (in free space or hovering near black holes for example) see particles where others may see none.

FWIW that description of Hawking radiation is wrong and I think Hawking even says as much in his original paper on it. The real process is far far more complicated and involves tracing quantum field waves of various frequencies from the infinite past, through a collapsing star/black hole and into the future. Everything else is spot on.

In QFT the definition of a particle itself becomes kinda abstract and hard to define in a consistent way.

I studied stuff like this in excessive detail a few years back but I don’t remember it super well now. Here’s my best guess from what remains of my intuition:

An accelerating observer sees a shower of thermal particles due to a change in their reference frame. In QFT this is represented by a Bogoliubov transformation of the vacuum state to a non-vacuum state. I don’t think the observer has done work on the vacuum at this point as it’s technically still equivalent to the vacuum. When they collect particles, they put them onboard their ship in some container. When returning to an inertial frame they do work on them, expending energy and disrupting the vacuum state.

In essence, when returning to the inertial frame, the state of the field is not represented by the inverse Bogoliubov transformation from the thermal Unruh state. There’s a complicating factor where energy is injected into the vacuum, and what that looks like mathematically depends on your experimental setup.

The comparison with the Sydney Metro is silly, they’re extremely different projects. Melbourne’s metro tunnel isn’t a metro, it’s a badly named but very welcome change to make some suburban lines through running.

Uhhh the history of how Labour introduced neoliberal anarchy to Australia and then made it queer???

None in particular, I want my US friends to be able to escape persecution and be here where they’re safe

My job only exists because it was cheaper to hire several thousand tech workers to replace all the oracle products in house over several years than to keep using Oracle lmao

The anarchist-faq will get you most of the way there, and the K-On manga will fill in the gaps.

It’s always going to be a personal preference kind of thing. Personally I don’t really care much about “passing” and I’m usually completely okay being outwardly trans, unless it’s being used to harass/bully.

I had a weird experience the other day when getting an ultrasound where I told the tech I was obviously on HRT which she immediately denied. I get she was trying to be supportive, but it kinda just made me feel worse because of how awkward it was lol.

I love this stuff, I always put it on my face. It’s just enough to stop feeling like my skin is as dry as paper and it’s not oily, it feels more watery than anything. I switched to it years ago, use it after every shower and now my skin is so nice, presumably just because I’m not leaving my face all dried out, I doubt there’s anything special about this stuff.

That said, I do also use a very gentle sorbolene body wash and hand soap because my skin was too fragile for normal soap. If I don’t, I tend to get lots of sores on my fingers.

A favourite phrase of mine that comes up in so many different areas of life is: “soft on people, hard on structures.” Individuals tend to be pretty good, genuine and caring people.

It’s much like how an atheist might be a great person, but the new atheist movement became a festering cesspool of anti-feminist right wing bigotry. Having a religion doesn’t change much really, shit people are universal.

It’s my HRT birthday today, two years now and it’s really sunny and warm. It’s a nice day :3

I didn’t have an experience like this growing up, my family didn’t realise we were all autistic until I pointed it out earlier this year, and even then they weren’t really accepting of it lol.

Imo support has to include listening to what you want, otherwise it’s just controlling. Regardless of whatever support you have had, you’ve gained skills through your own efforts, no one can just give them to you. You deserve to feel good about that.

Handling family can suck, especially when they treat you like you’ve described, but things get easier when you have space away from them and live your own life. Them pushing you has helped you grow, I had to learn to push myself, which is a skill in its own right but it seems like you’re already doing it. Independence is hard to achieve and I think you’re doing a great job so far, keep it up.

There’s also a considerable portion of the world who hates Greta and is probably cheering them on. The first news story I saw pop up about Greta being kidnapped said Israel was doing the world a favour…

I’m getting replies in my inbox but I can’t view post comments lol, thankyou!

I’m not poor but most of my fun stuff is free, hanging out at parks (picnics with friends or just relaxing with a book or something), walking/cycling trails, free or pay as you feel shows and weekly food not bombs community dinners.

Nothing wrong with a 1 bedroom apartment tbh, and I don’t understand why not living in a house means you can’t buy and own things lol. I’ve got loads of stuff I can do here if I don’t want to go out, I’ve even got plenty of private outdoor space. If I didn’t have so much stuff keeping me busy I could very easily stay in my apartment for weeks at a time, only really leaving to get groceries, I’ve never gone mad from it.

Tbh I find this life is significantly cheaper given I don’t have as much maintenance as a house, and I don’t need to pay the absurdly high costs associated with a car.

Edit: looks like jerboa broke for me so I’ve got no clue if this posted or what anyone else is saying lol

I meant they’re specifically not going for that though. The experiment isn’t about improving the environment itself, it’s about improving the LLM. Otherwise they’d have spent the paper evaluating the effects of different environments and not different LLMs.