tags: quantum mechanics

Why I must force life to be linear and predictable, I do not know, but it is surely the root cause of much of my unhappiness. It is unfortunate that it is easier to be miserable than to be content, but like I'm implying, life really isn't all that linear.

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2003

May

2003 May 7

I'm Not the One Who's Crazy!

Schizophrenia. Maybe I do need to be on medication.

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2007

May

2007 May 6

mika “any other world”

In any other world
you could tell the difference
and let it all unfurl
into broken remnants.
Smile like you mean it
and let yourself let go.

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June

2007 Jun 30

better lucky than good

The Fool is an auspicious card, depicting potential.

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2007 Jun 30

dissolution

July cometh. A new year starts.

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July

2007 Jul 13

nerd dreams

I swear. Who dreams of particle accelerators?

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August

2007 Aug 2

this type of hero

How much of your destiny is truly predetermined? How much of it is self-fulfilling prophecy? (There are technical terms for these things, I think, except I can’t remember them. Confirmation bias? Forer effect?)

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2008

August

2008 Aug 9

what is "real"?

One of the books I'm currently reading is A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Gödel and Einstein by Palle Yourgrau. Essentially, it concerns Gödel's conclusion that the Theory of Relativity naturally leads to a universe where time isn't real. I also started The End of Time by Julian Barbour, who comes up with a similar conclusion, though his formulation is much more recent, and in the few pages that I have read, he necessarily bases his ideas partly on the way that the brain processes information (without actually going into the messy neuroanatomically and neuromolecular details.)

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2010

July

2010 Jul 27

low quality dreams

I've been disappointed at the dearth of dreams I've been having since I watched "Inception". There are only two that I remember. The first one was fairly vague. All I remember is trying to hijack a Final Fantasy-style airship. The second one involved me and my ex from high school in an alternate timeline where we never broke up and we were supposed to go to a wedding that I first assumed was in Las Vegas, given all the casinos and hotels, and the fact that it was the middle of the desert. The only thing that was totally off was the fact that this dream city had a port, and I remember thinking in my dream "When did Las Vegas get a port?" The dream involved searching for a particular book in all of this dream city's bookstores. Yeah, not very exciting.

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2014

August

2014 Aug 5

Hope is the Only Thing That Will Get Me Through This

This is no way to live: always fearing the future
Hope is the only thing that will get me through this
unfounded faith better than drifting unmoored
on the uneasy sea where nightmares dwell in the depths
and still I drift

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2015

October

2015 Oct 29

Apparently Approaching the Stationary Phase of Moore's Law

Without some new breakthrough in physics, it seems unlikely that the original formulation of Moore's Law will continue to hold. This is certainly not the first gloomy forecast.

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