[tiam]

Congratulations tiste

I'm on this site for the first time in years and it's nice seeing some faces.

There does seem to be alot less traffic on the site though. It seems less busy especially the book forum though we have alot of ICE novels and a new SE book.

This post has been edited by tiam: 03 August 2021 - 07:43 PM

[Abyss]

wait does this mean Tiste had sex?

[Tsundoku]

With modern technology ... not necessarily.

[Slow Ben]

That’s awesome Tiste. Congrats to you and the missus.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'researchers at Google in collaboration with physicists at Stanford, Princeton and other universities say that they have used Google's quantum computer to demonstrate a genuine "time crystal." [...]

"The consequence is amazing: You evade the second law of thermodynamics," said [...] director of the Max Planck Institute[...]

[...]

Time crystals are also the first objects to spontaneously break "time-translation symmetry," the usual rule that a stable object will remain the same throughout time. A time crystal is both stable and ever-changing, with special moments that come at periodic intervals in time.

[...]

The new time crystal demo marks one of the first times a quantum computer has found gainful employment.

[.... quantum computers] could be used to simulate the particles of any imaginable quantum system.

A time crystal exemplifies that vision. It's a quantum object that nature itself probably never creates, given its complex combination of delicate ingredients. Imaginations conjured the recipe, stirred by nature's most baffling laws.

The discovery that, in the case of time, only discrete time-translation symmetry may be broken by time crystals puts a new angle on the distinction between time and space.'

https://www.quantama...puter-20210730/

... but wishing I'd invested more in Alphabet! Hm... still time (for now).

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 04 August 2021 - 12:50 AM

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

 Tiste Simeon, on 03 August 2021 - 06:09 PM, said:

Well, we're past the point where it's meant to be a lot safer so I can tell you guys this (pre-big announcement on Facebook even!)

We're having another baby! Very excited (and terrified!) we have the first scan coming up, can't wait.

Lovely news! Congrats

[Tiste Simeon]

Thanks everyone! I'll take bids for names now

[Morgoth]

 Tiste Simeon, on 04 August 2021 - 07:26 AM, said:

Thanks everyone! I'll take bids for names now

it should clearly be Martin

[Macros]

Only failires are called Martin

Matt is the true name for a great

[worry]

Name it Worry Jr. And when it starts playing with your Beach Boys records, you can say "Don't, Worry, baby".

[QuickTidal]

 Macros, on 04 August 2021 - 09:44 AM, said:

Only failires are called Martin

Matt is the true name for a great

I feel like an amalgam of the two would work.

Mattartin

[Tiste Simeon]

I was thinking of using usernames for it, like "The Quick Retired Abyss Morgoth Macros Worry Smith"

May have to do some quick talking with Mrs Tiste...

[Morgoth]

Anomandaris has a nice ring to it. Anomandaris Martin Simeon

[Tsundoku]

I will be humble and accept you giving them Shane as a middle name.

The advantage over the rest - it's unisex. True story.

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 04 August 2021 - 01:52 PM

[Tiste Simeon]

 Morgoth, on 04 August 2021 - 11:47 AM, said:

Anomandaris has a nice ring to it. Anomandaris Martin Simeon

That's not... Actually the worst name...

[Morgoth]

 Tiste Simeon, on 04 August 2021 - 03:30 PM, said:

 Morgoth, on 04 August 2021 - 11:47 AM, said:

Anomandaris has a nice ring to it. Anomandaris Martin Simeon

That's not... Actually the worst name...

It is the best name. The middle ties it all together. Like a rug.

[Tsundoku]

Or a noose.

[Cyphon]

It can't be Anomandaris Shane Simeon because the initials would be ASS.

[Tsundoku]

... but it would look great as a vanity plate on his car.

[worry]