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02:04
@imbAF You are the one who is wrong. You didn't even copy the implication correctly. The screenshot also says why the replacement works.
@SillyGoose This is yet another nomenclature headache that is incredibly unfortunate. Textbooks and examinating bodies stick strictly to the idea that SR means that whatever you are measuring is relative and thus that other people can legitimately disagree with what it is you are seeing. But even from the very first paper, Einstein was clear that the Special Theory of Relativity is really about establishing the new absolute quantities suitable for use, namely (Lorentz) invariant quantities.
You may have constants that are independent of spacetime, in which case they are still good constants. You might have older "constants" that depended either on time or on the space metric. Once you upgrade them to depend instead on the new spacetime metric, the Minkowski generalisation of Pythagorean theorem, then they are new good constants with which to describe physics. Hence what ACM said about proper.
I'm amused that the star happened on the Unruh statement. It is actually the statement after that, that is much more insightful: Inertial frames disagreeing upon anything at all, would be a useful tool to establish preferred inertial frames, and thus they can never disagree upon any Lorentz-invariant observable.
@Relativisticcucumber Just to reinforce what ACM seems to have successfully drilled into the cucumber, the point is that classical physics, you can decree that magnets, point masses, rigid bodies (when your classical physics omits SR), exist and behave in certain ways, disturb spacetime in certain ways. However, the theorem asserts that a classical explanation of a magnet has to fail. Classical physics is just rife with hidden internal contradictions this way.
 
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04:03
@PM2Ring I fear it is.
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A: Deriving constant-acceleration kinematic equations without calculus

AACosgrovePartition the interval $[0,t]$ into $n$ equal slices of width $\Delta t = t/n$. Over each slice, the velocity is a linear function of time: $v_x(t_k) = v_{0x} + a_x t_k$ at $t_k = k\Delta t$. We compute the total displacement as the sum of consecutive "mini-displacements," each given by the veloc...

Same thing. Accounts in different communities. Already answered at CV. Posted at AI.
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Q: How to handle empty input for RoBERTa text classification model?

AACosgroveI'm working on a text classification task using a fine-tuned RoBERTa model. My model takes text inputs and classifies them into predefined categories. However, I'm unsure how to handle cases where the input text is empty (i.e., an empty string or just whitespace). Specifically: What is the expec...

This is a completely ai generated post.
They have now diversified their targets: AI, Cryptography, Quantitative Finance, Theoretical Computer Science.
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A: In which class is the problem of computing propositional Craig interpolants?

Alex RudimerCraig's Interpolation Theorem guarantees existence of an interpolant, but it does not guarantee that the interpolant can always be written down in size polynomial in the size of the original formulas. In fact, there are known examples where any interpolant (in standard propositional formula form ...

@User1865345 Ah. I suspected it might be so. — Emil Jeřábek 5 hours ago
I have already flagged this user's post at Physics as well as at Theoretical Computer Science.
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A: Simplistic Magnetic Train Physics

Alex RudimerIn the given idealized model, the absence of retarding forces other than friction or losses implies that the “train” composed of the cell and dipole magnets would indeed appear to accelerate indefinitely. However, the real experiment stabilizes at a certain velocity. The discrepancy arises from n...

Apparently they have proficiency in everything: from general relativity, machine learning, complexity theory to generative adversarial networks.
They have also posted at Signal Processing.
Kudos to the advanced ai they are using. Apparently many are falling for these otherwise good looking posts.
@User1865345 wanted to go in and downvote and flag it, but did it before lol. The other one, miao miao just downvoted and flagged.
👍🏻👍🏻
But this is really frustrating. I can speculate there is not one user behind this. And they will not stop even if the existing accounts are banned.
And these ai generated contents are so advanced now that ordinary detectors fail to identify those.
04:21
What is going on here 😅
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Q: Uncensored version of Light travel distance and comoving distance in the Big Crunch scenario + discussion

q2wonderlandBelow is the uncensored, but totally non-offending version of Light travel distance and comoving distance in the Big Crunch scenario. Physics SE's astronomy fraction's cancel culture is getting worse and worse. Below is the discussion in comments from the deleted post with the uncensored version...

Dude is ranting.
Flagged it as low quality. 😤
It would be first time I have opened account in a community to flag stuffs.
In any case, I can suggest edits to typesetting and other formatting.
04:53
@User1865345 I believe it is time for a meta post.
I know.
I am just waiting for a bit more time. But a post is on cards, for sure.
The sooner the better.
Good luck; you're going to need it. Link us so we can support your meta post on the topic. However, the overlords have already decreed that they want to support AI, hence why you will need all our support
Hmm
Dec 14 at 23:14, by PM 2Ring
@ColleenV Agreed. IMHO, for SE to retain value it must remain an "island" of reliable human-based knowledge, while the rest of the Internet becomes a "swamp" of GenAI slop... — PM 2Ring Dec 11 at 23:02
I believe in that. Absolutely.
The crocodiles from the swamp are invading.
04:57
Exactly.
@naturallyInconsistent btw, in Ten fold, we did discuss about a potential usage of gen ai in distant future. But that was supposed to be meant for only answering questions that could be answered by a good wiki search or so, provided with proper citation of usage of AI.
I know what you meant @think_meaning_buildß; while I don't believe it fully, certainly there is a sense of leeway.
@User1865345 I dont see the point of rewarding people who are so lazy as to not even want to do a wiki search of their own questions.
@naturallyInconsistent exactly. This is completely moot.
@User1865345 thank you for your support
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Q: Are we free labor for OpenAI?

Thomas BilachRecently, I’ve seen a number of CV users plugging questions into ChatGPT to help generate answers/content. Some of these users self-report to be educators. So, here’s the question: When we turn inquisitive minds to ChatGPT, are we not participating in our own obsolescence? I worry that because Ch...

05:38
that mexican alien troll post is hilarious
05:57
Eddie current guillotine to vent your frustration on your instructor at the end of the semester!
Typo, eddy 🤧
It's currently in TAMU physics lab center.
07:00
eddie!! where's myow blood, eddie!!
07:28
meow
@ACuriousMind sorry for the ping, but this user is being really suspicious today. There is a flurry of activity; the newest post list is dominated by activity within the last 7 hours. Some are very short answers, and some are really long, but it doesn't seem like spamming ChatGPT usage. Rather, it seems like rep boosting with a lot of low quality answers. But his rep count is already high...
@Allie M E O W ~ ~
i like Szabo's quantum chemistry book
i understand configuration interaction better than i did 24 hours ago
07:51
@Allie it's a classic, no?
@User1865345 ... this really destroys SE
08:02
...and I don't know what to do against it. In a not so distant future I imagine 10 or even more users per day posting dozens of genAI answers everywhere; it will be impossible to track down most posts
08:15
Morning @TobiasFünke
@TobiasFünke yes. I am pessimistic tbh.
@TobiasFünke gen ai have advanced greatly. These posts easily evade typical ai detectors and they are becoming more coherent.
In future, if it becomes really incompatible to think about gen ai free contents, then we need to regulate. It can't be laissez faire.
I personally don't want any form of answers from LLMs.
Question is: why do these users do what they are doing? What is the gain here?
@User1865345 internet points
same reason people karma farm on reddit.... they literally have nothing better to do
The answer is not important for me at all though. It has to be nipped at the bud.
but how?
@Allie ahh! yes.
i hate (how) AI (is being used)
08:22
Same here.
im wondering if it will make large parts of the internet totally unusable
@Allie My first problem is lack of acknowledgement of using of ai to produce the materials.
ahem twitter
Call it X.
Twitter is dead.
no i will continue to deadname twitter
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08:24
Some ego maniac killed that bird.
@User1865345 no i mean how do you prevent it?
@Allie I don't know?
Yes. I don't know.
At least now.
because im thinking on the internet there's really no way to tell anymore
maybe this will finally push me off the internet
(mostly)
ive already left all social media over a yeara go
But my go to way to look for those traits. They are following the same rule book till so far.
@Allie it's true.
But still one can try and get some signs.
@Allie 👏🏻👍🏻
@TobiasFünke Yes, very well written!
08:26
Meta manipulates democracy; X is now 4chan mostly.
honestly it is insane the cultural impact that gamergate had on us
it feels like that dictates so much of current internet discourse right now
@Allie it's a good feeling when a book comes out of nowhere to change your perspective greatly.
@Allie I agree
@User1865345 Well this is actually my first introduction to quantum chem. I am a chem major starting comp chem phd next year!
Currently doing research in DFT
maybe not first introduction, ive studied pchem before but
@Allie great! Best wishes!! 👏🏻👏🏻
thanks :) im currently waiting back on decisions. pray I get in somewhere good!
08:29
I did take chemistry but left it in 2nd year of my minor. I did study Peter Atkins Physical Chemistry. It was a good one.
@Allie of course you will. 👍🏻
youre in physics now?
No. Mathematical Statistics.
ohhh cool!
statistics is hard
All subjects are hard. Point is whether you enjoy it or not.
i was gonna make some stupid p value null hypothesis joke but you probably get those way too much LOL
@User1865345 so? do you?
08:31
Ah. P value. Thaat is a worthless relic of history yet not extinct.
Living fossil, if you may say so.
@Allie I love studying the subject, if that is what you are asking.
yup!
yay i love when people are happy about studying. i love studying too
yesterday, by User1865345
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Q: ASA discusses limitations of $p$-values - what are the alternatives?

TimWe already have multiple threads tagged as p-values that reveal lots of misunderstandings about them. Ten months ago we had a thread about psychological journal that "banned" $p$-values, now American Statistical Association (2016) says that with our analysis we "should not end with the calculatio...

there are moments when it drags on (especially with adhd) but those little moments where ideas come together are just so exciting
@Allie that's the fuel you need. If you don't love the subject, sooner or later, it will be a burden.
@Allie you are very very very very wrong. high rep accounts have commercial value. SE not so much, but if it is used, it will be for something incredibly nefarious.
08:34
@Allie my god. We do face such moments of stalemate frequently. But the Eureka moments after those are simply too much!
@naturallyInconsistent fair
@naturallyInconsistent good point.
wonderful world of late stage capitalism we live in :')
im gonna be joining some leftist action groups
i cannot keep feeling paralyzed
i need to do SOMETHING however tiny
@qwerty you know something is of problem when dudes like Elon are virtually running the no. 1 country of the world.
08:36
It still isn't late stage capitalism! We are still some ways away from the Great Gatsby level of dysfunctional. Things can still get a lot worse.
I still believe Marx. Capitalism is digging its own grave.
@Allie 👏🏻👏🏻
@Allie actually, this is kinda why miao miao is a patreon of Simon Clark. His climate change videos emphasises that, actually, quite a lot of good is in progress. It is not all doom and gloom.
@User1865345 I object to calling the USA the number 1 country of the world lol, you've fallen for their... marketing
@qwerty 🙂
@qwerty it is certainly number 1 for some stuff; it is just that a listing that miao miao puts up, would instantly attract a half-day ban from ACM
08:39
hehehe well most people who don't specify the ranking of what would not have your list in mind ;)
@Allie That's really good.
@naturallyInconsistent wait. I did watch his videos.
@User1865345 miao miao became his patreon the moment his video about wanting to quit went out. Thenafter miao miao is listed in his videos, though it took a while for the backlog to clear. Not as nI though; as real name.
meow
@User1865345 yes, but how to regulate? how to prevent this from happen?
miao miao also am patreon of bobbyBroccoli. It became impossible to avoid donating to him once he published the videos on meow meow day job.
@Allie M E O W ~ M I A O ~ x2
08:46
@naturallyInconsistent ooo
I don't understand either... really, it escapes my understanding...

I also do not want genAI content here. I can ask machines myself
meow x miao collab
@Allie what are you working on, if I may ask? :)
@TobiasFünke There should be some mechanism to detect these products. I don't know how the moderators do that. However, I fear there is no such detector that doesn't give false positive.
of course!
But I am new to this so some of the details might be beyond my current understanding
08:48
The next thing is to what extent we should be hostile and aggressive towards such contents.
i am working on orbital-free DFT
@naturallyInconsistent I see.
1. I am working on the development of a python library for OFDFT calculations (been a programmer for a long long time)
Personally now or in future, I will not be able to tolerate a bit of these ai crap, no matter how improved it is.
@User1865345 this is the kind of situation whereby false positives are not a big deal. A user can just reword and retry.
08:49
Exactly
@User1865345 yes
@Allie oh, interesting
2. my project will be to apply the exact factorization method to try to formulate new kinetic energy density functionals for orbital-free DFT
Great @Allie.
i am very excited :3
@Allie straight up magic, yall. super ambitious
08:51
do you work with hardy?
anyway, great topics. :) glad you support us here in the chat, to counter balance the HEP guys haha
hardy gross?
@TobiasFünke But just see these recent posts; some have been accepted and well received. So those posts helped. What to say to that? AI posts helping?
nerp. I am in the US
08:52
My current problem is again not acknowledgement of using of ai and posing as jack of all fields.
thank you all for the warm welcome :) i will be sure to share my progress if that is something that would be good for the chat
@User1865345 well, the point is that AI will become better (?) and even now it is quite good in answering STEM questions. The point for me is not whether it is good or bad, the point for me is that I don't want spam, and no genAI content, because I can just ask some machines myself. No need for SE. I want the experience of humans
@Allie sure, please do so :)
@User1865345 true that
@Allie defo net +ve. Too few of us here.
positive
08:54
@TobiasFünke yes. SE is only for humans as @PM2Ring said in an earlier msg.
@naturallyInconsistent what are your pronouns or should i just say nI
Hey @Allie; just a suggestion. You can join your local DSA chapter if you wish.
They are wonderful bunch of ppl.
thanks for the suggestion! ill look into it
@TobiasFünke problem is the SE bosses have some different things in their mind. They are not, let's say, too hostile to the idea.
@Allie 👍🏻
is SE managed by super corporate people
08:57
@Allie he/him
@User1865345 money money money...
@naturallyInconsistent meow
@Allie kinda
(thanks, now i know)
08:58
@Allie M E O W ~ ~ ~ x3
Do you use some special software for taking notes etc? E.g. Obsidian?
who are u talking to
i have a bad habit of answerign questions that werent directed at me
I really have to start structuring my notes, questions, etc... right now everything is too unstructured
@Allie lol
sorry, I meant everyone, of course!
09:00
structure? Miao miao iz chaoz
one thing is my research, the other is everything else (my hobby so to say), including SE
@naturallyInconsistent hehe same
honestly i like notebooks
ive thought about trying to organize but like im never able to keep up with it
handwritten? I agree on a daily basis, but I want to use search functions haha
especialy if its complicated i will just like not do it the way im supposed to
@TobiasFünke I have my regular old HP. During my masters, we had an automated software which recorded instructors' lectures and converted that to pdfs. I had my own. I am pretty fast in my keyboard and made different folders, subfolders to write things up in Overleaf and TexWorks.
09:02
Been using raw LaTeX for about a decade...
my package list is sooooo long
@User1865345 HP?
@naturallyInconsistent 👍🏻👍🏻
HP Inc. is an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, that develops personal computers (PCs), printers and related supplies, as well as 3D printing services. Founded in 2015 as the successor of the original Hewlett-Packard, HP Inc. is the world's second-largest personal computer vendor by unit sales after Lenovo and ahead of Dell, as of 2024. The company was formed on November 1, 2015, as the legal successor of the original Hewlett-Packard Company after the company's enterprise product and business services divisions were spun off as a n...
takes way too long to compose stuff, though. But they look so nice
09:02
aaaah
im so excited i will be getting 3 textbooks for christmas
like, even plotting bandstructure, miao miao uses LaTeX TikZ
@Allie which ones?
@naturallyInconsistent OMG
@TobiasFünke 😅
@Allie 👏🏻👏🏻
xD thats another level of insanity
09:03
szabo quantum chem, macquarrie pchem, griffiths electrodynamics
@naturallyInconsistent awesome
the first two ive already read about 25% of and really enjoyed it, the last one i havent started
It was sooooo beautiful~
printed many copies just to look at the fonts and the nice alignment of bandstructure
lol
09:04
@Allie actually I read somewhere that if you maintain notebooks and write physically, memory retains it in a better way.
I tried TikZ once and did not again xD
@naturallyInconsistent I believe...I never really learned tikz, but had to use it once or twice for some figures. ended up using mathcha io
I use handwritten plus LaTeX. these days overleaf for easy collab etc
@User1865345 this is actually very true; though, I'm quite certain that if you had suffered though LaTeXing something, there will be quite a lot of memory leftover. Trauma, maybe,.
@qwerty I have to because it's needed to make graphs and arrow diagrams.
09:05
@User1865345 I don't know if they meant physical notebooks or the app for windows :p
overleaf is cool!
@TobiasFünke 🤣
no i mean physical
Yes. Yes.
09:06
@User1865345 well not strictly! I just use Inkscape for all my nice diagrams
@TobiasFünke don't have to do everything raw. The bandstructure data comes out as a csv, and will always require machine reading. There is a nice little code that you can just use, to do graph plots in TikZ. It is a separate package, but sooooo easy to use.
as I said, I also do derivations etc. physically on a sheet of paper. But if I want to "save" it and search later for it, I'd rather like to have it on a computer
@naturallyInconsistent initially I did face hurdles. But now I am more or less proficient.
this chat is more active than iw ould haev expected for 4 am
but i know osme of you are in different time zones
time zones :p
09:06
hehe
it's 10am here
@qwerty ohh! I did hear about it. But didn't have the time to experiment with it.
@User1865345 Inkscape is great.
@Allie welcome. I can stay all night up.
for my plots I just use python, with Latex fonts etc.
@qwerty I have not heard statisticians use it. But I will give a try.
09:07
im honestly considering going back to this super late schedule
i like being up when nobody is
conversely i dont like being up when people are...
@Allie although it increases the chance of heart attack the longer you stay awake at night. 🥱
Hello @RyderRude
i think there's just something in my biological clock that goes later than most people
ive always tended towards sleeping later
But US has a good relationship with heart problem. So no offense.
i have to force myself to go to bed at 12am theres absolutely 0 desire to do that
but now the semester is over
09:09
@Allie yeah. If you feel comfortable, I don't give a damn, what one research with a small sample reported.
@Allie 5pm here
@Allie have you considered a career in astronomy or astrophysics? miehehehe
nooooooo
computational chemistry! ! ! !
@naturallyInconsistent you meant switching career? 🙂
09:10
i do tiny tiny things not big big things
@User1865345 yeppuuu
lol there's HEP people who do astro
Actually there are people who do that.
@Allie oh, you are in for a treat. The biggest stuff are always going to have to present themselves as incredibly tiny...
Astrochemistry is the study of the abundance and reactions of molecules in the universe, and their interaction with radiation. The discipline is an overlap of astronomy and chemistry. The word "astrochemistry" may be applied to both the Solar System and the interstellar medium. The study of the abundance of elements and isotope ratios in Solar System objects, such as meteorites, is also called cosmochemistry, while the study of interstellar atoms and molecules and their interaction with radiation is sometimes called molecular astrophysics. The formation, atomic and chemical composition, evolution...
09:12
NO
lol the vehemence
We had one of the professors who specialized in astro statistics.
i just wanna solve the schrodinger equaiton for gods sake
Although I never interacted with him, I read one of his graduate books which is good.
@Allie 🤣
astro statistics
what the hell
whats next astropsychology
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09:14
Just some bunch of cluster analysis, spatial analysis and all that applied multivariate stuffs.
@Allie lol
astro intelligence: the only AI we might tolerate
Plausibly
@Allie sadly, you will have to solve the Dirac equation instead. Too many things require subtle SR corrections, especially in spin-orbit coupling. Luckily we wont have to continually seek QFT corrections, though.
@Allie that comes after find extra terrestrial life
meow
09:17
M E O W ~ ~ ~ ~ x4
well right now i am solving the schrodinger equation. DEAL WITH IT. (i am a baby computational chemist)
that's an extremely high density of meows in a very short spacetime interval
Well. Let me announce one thing.
I live with bunch of cats. Deal with it.
yeah well its kind of automatic
if you knew me IRL you would know i do this constantly out loud
Technically many kittens and few big guys.
@Allie lol
09:19
in the range of 20-50 meows a day depending on how i am feeling
not worried that the energy inside all that meowing could collapse into a black hole?
@Allie Great 😤
nerp.
expect more.
Anyway, gotta go. Enjoy your day, folks.
byeee it was really nice talkign to you
09:25
Yo @Allie.
If you wish you want to switch field, statistics is also an option. Lots of programming skills needed for applied fields of rhe subject.... 🥱
And I am not talking about astro statistics. Think about my suggestion. 😅
WHY DOES EVERYONE WANT TO CONVERT ME TO THEIR FIELD
🤣🤣🤣😤
lololol one awesome thing about comp chem is exactly that-- the programming skills will be transferrable
i have like 10 years of self taught experience but its hard to kinda advertise that
@Allie none of those are myow myow's field...
@naturallyInconsistent Yeah, I was able to solve it
10:02
good
11:02
i think there should be a phy SE -like website for personal theories
i just saw this question and it doesn't fit the main site physics.stackexchange.com/questions/837949/…
but it seems to have some interesting ideas that could be discussed if there was another SE website for this
11:30
@naturallyInconsistent I'm afraid "you're posting a lot" is not an actionable offense :P
sooooo much time for speculation, clickbait and debates, so little time for established knowledge
2 days ago, by ACuriousMind
@RyderRude "loop quantum gravity" is certainly not the same as (or a subset of) "canonical general relativity". I would suggest you take knowledge more seriously.
@ACuriousMind sigh :P
@TobiasFünke @User1865345 @PM2Ring I notice a lot of doomsaying here but we've been dealing with this ever since the first GPT models became available. Yes, some of these people keep trying, and we keep banning them, just with all the other people that post garbage on our site. Due to the nature of the problem, dealing with them can take a little more time, but we've been doing it for around two years now and the site has not yet drowned in generated garbage as far as I can see.
You talk about this as if it's a recent (this month or so) phenomenon, but it's not, you just now seem to have started noticing it more for some reason
12:29
i have a 100 points bounty question and no one wants to touch it
Have you considered that it is pretty much a dead end question and the only reason why it got upvoted was because of your bounty?
what do u mean by "dead end question"?
12:46
I've messed with chatGPT and I'm not too worried about it replacing people for answers here
Except for fairly basic stuff
Also presumably more and more the type of question answerable by chatGPT will be answered directly by chatGPT
People are just gonna ask it directly
@Slereah the problem with that is more that people might trust the answer they got instead of asking a real human instead, regardless of whether the answer is correct or not :P
Good, more job opportunities for me :p
joke's on you - the people who trust the garbage AI output are exactly the execs who might otherwise have hired you
Noooo
@ACuriousMind Apparently infinitesimal spaces are typically defined as spaces which only have one point per connected component, but also that's an idea that applies to moduli spaces
Are moduli spaces like infinitesimal models of their structure in some sense?
"Moduli space" is a term with multiple meanings and I wouldn't agree they only have one point per connected component in general
in what context does a moduli space only have one point in a connected component?
13:01
In that the hom-set $Hom(1, X)$ is just the terminal set (not necessarily all moduli spaces but some at least)
or am I misremembering how the moduli space of forms has one point
the actual space of a moduli space $\Omega$ for a given space $M$ is given by $[M, \Omega]$ right
So that $[1, \Omega]$ is just $\Omega(1) \cong 1$
oh you're talking about the universal space of forms again
Well I assume that it generalizes to others
Like the moduli space of Riemannian metrics should also be like that
Only one metric on the point
Many structures have only one structure on the point
It is a boring space
yeah, moduli spaces in that sense will typically have only one point, I agree
It's just a single point and a "halo" of pointless space
but there's another common meaning of "moduli space" where people just mean the space where every point corresponds to one possible choice (of the structure being "modulated")
13:05
Apparently such spaces are interpreted as infinitesimal spaces so idk
i.e. they mean your $[M,\Omega]$ when they say "moduli space", not $\Omega$ itself
if we r having this sort of trouble with ai, then ai has passed or is close to passing the Turing test
I guess maybe you'd have to look at the dual algebra on those spaces maybe
See if they are infinitesimal-looking
Like how the algebra on infinitesimal disks is $\mathbb{R}[\epsilon]$
I can only repeat that you're reaching the parts of nLab-style category theory I don't really know much about
Who does really
They mostly write for each other I suspect :p
13:08
presumably the people who wrote it :P
Trying to figure out the general formalism for the dual algebra of a space but they are not being too forthcoming with it for some reason
There's the dual algebra for manifolds and infinitesimal disks but general smooth spaces not so much?
I guess you're meant to construct it from the duality theorems they have but sheaves are hard enough without getting into cosheaves
there is some sense in which a lot of the structures on spaces do derive from infinitesimal spaces, since they're all jet-related and you can do these using infinitesimal disks, but I'm not sure if that relates directly
13:49
Hello guys
Can I ask a doubt regarding the reported solution of an exercise? (it's just something to discuss, I don't have to solve the exercise by doing calculations etc.)
you may
In the figure, $C_1 = 2 , \mu F$, $C_2 = 6 , \mu F$, $C_3 = 3.5 , \mu F$, and the minimum voltage at which discharge occurs in each capacitor is $V_1 = 100 , \text{V}$, $V_2 = 50 , \text{V}$, and $V3 = 400 , \text{V}$, respectively. Calculate the maximum possible potential difference $V{\text{max}}$ between points $A$ and $B$.
I managed to get the solution by doing this:
q1 = q2
• q1 = V1 * C1 = 200
• V2 = q1 / C2 = 200/6 = 33,33
• Vmax = V1 + V2 = 100+33,33 = 133,33
My question is: but shouldn't Vmax be Vmax = V3 = 400?
@ACuriousMind Well, I kinda agree with you. Yes, the situation now can be handled with some effort; what scares me is how this "trend" will look like in a few months or a year or so...

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