Posted by bookofjoe 4 days ago
I was there for that! I used my photo of the moment he beat the world record in my blog post about GPT-4 vision prompt injection attacks: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/14/multi-modal-prompt-inj...
Here's my Mastodon thread from this year's competition. Travis competed (and won) again but didn't get a new world record, though another competitor did set the record for the largest pumpkin ever grown in California: https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/113306150061413548
Genetic and care help, a lot, but there are fertilizers and "fertilizers".
Maybe we need a fleet of satellites beaming formed microwaves down to our giant Cucurbitaceae?
(my wife kept prompting me to harvest my radishes this summer; by the time I actually got around to it, they'd grown to sizes ranging from a small potato to an entire fist)
Unfortunately, being not on the convex hull (pareto front) of the funders (now or ever? But thanks Stanford for trying!) (that is, not amenable to dual usage..?)..
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Transport_Netwo...
Lagniappe: https://i.sstatic.net/YDcKQ.jpg
Contemporary physicists call this a “constant coupling” https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/3901/what-is-a-g...
This is not true for the strong force, but you wont get nonsense either if you zoom out far enough (coarse graining, right).
[So “perturbation theory works for SM”, but saying gravity is “non-renormalizable” gives the impression that Manuel Bronstein didnt already anticipate this before he was purged.]
mtw have a mnemonic “space tells matter how to move, matter tells space how to curve”. you arent allowed take short cut as in em “charges tell charges how to move”. Indeed (already true in SR) the fields themselves have mass, so short cuts blow up your face..
Otoh, if you try to take the proper path (integral) you run into the issue of nobody knowing how. Roughly, you need the intrinsic curvature for the integral but you need the integral for the intrinsic curvature..
See Dyson equation, no lucky initial guesses, 3+1d
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Yep Percival knew what was up, but even at the phySE page above “algorithmic compression” was spoken. Gisin you linked had “Kolmogorov complexity”, no delvings?
>Gibberellic acid: In the young fruit stage of pumpkin, apply 10-20mg/L gibberellic acid solution to the young fruit, apply once every 5-7 days for a total of 2 to 3 times, which can obviously promote hypertrophy and accelerate maturity, which can improve quality.
>https://m.plantgrowthhormones.com/info/for-pumpkin-planting-...
My neighbor, who gave me the starts and took much greater care with the plants, had all of his die from various pests and diseases.
That's about 0.25 grams per second. Or 15 grams per minute. If put on a scale, i am assuming you could witness it growing in near real-time.
When you compute the added dry mass per second, divided by the mass of the plant, the rate is still big, but much less impressive.
So fun fact: I like to weigh myself before and after long runs on sunday (15mi+). 5lbs to 7lbs difference. All water. You really can sweat off 7lbs of your weight in a couple hours if you want to.
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