Mysteries of mode collapse — LessWrong

Critical Signals

Critical Signals explores practical and visionary responses to an era of collapses.

Collapse — Oakland Public Library

Collapse — Dallett, Cassandra, — <p>COLLAPSE is a doomed love, temporary, free on bond, haunted by rage and regret, fueled by Hip-Hop beats, and clinging like the remains of the Ghost Ship fire--with the world burning around us, it is time and place, politics and anarchy, connection for the broken.</p><p>Poetry. California Interest.</p>

Collapse Theories

Quantum mechanics, with its revolutionary implications, has posedinnumerable problems to philosophers of science. In particular, it hassuggested reconsidering basic concepts such as the existence of aworld that is, at least to some extent, independent of the observer,the possibility of getting reliable and objective knowledge about it,and the possibility of taking (under appropriate circumstances) atleast some properties to be objectively possessed by physical systems.It has also raised many others questions which are well known to thoseinvolved in the debate on the interpretation of this pillar of modernscience. One can argue that most of the problems are not only due tothe intrinsic revolutionary nature of the phenomena which have led tothe development of the theory. They are also related to the fact that,in its standard formulation and interpretation, quantum mechanics is atheory which is excellent (in fact it has an unprecedented success inthe history of science) in telling us everything about what weobserve, but it meets with serious difficulties in telling uswhat there is. We are making here specific reference to thecentral problem of the theory, usually referred to as themeasurement problem, which is accompanying quantum theory sinceits birth. It is just one of the many attempts to overcome thedifficulties posed by this problem that has led to the development ofCollapse Theories, i.e., to the Dynamical ReductionProgram (DRP). As we shall see, this approach consists inaccepting that the dynamical equation of the standard theory should bemodified by the addition of stochastic and nonlinear terms. The nicefact is that the resulting theory is capable, on the basis of a singledynamics which is assumed to govern all natural processes, to accountat the same time for all well-established facts about microscopicsystems as described by the standard theory, as well as for theso-called postulate of wave packet reduction (WPR), which accompaniesthe interaction of a microscopic system with a measuring device. As iswell known, such a postulate is assumed in the standard scheme just inorder to guarantee that measurements have outcomes but, as weshall discuss below, it meets with insurmountable difficulties if onetries to derive it by assuming the measurement itself to be a processgoverned by the linear laws of the theory. Finally, the collapsetheories account in a completely satisfactory way for the classicalbehavior of macroscopic systems.

Folding context

Context windows, compression, and "folding the dough"

The Tower Keeps Rising

Vibecoding and the possible collapse of a shared language.

The secretive plan for a Maine data center collapsed in 6 days

A proposed data center in an old Lewiston mill building began to unravel before the public even got wind of it.

Aesthetics Wiki | Fandom

Thank you to the winner of our redesign contest, Ethan Duke! The background and wordmark are both his work. You can check him out on both Instagram and Twitter at @theduke2442! The dark mode was designed by Gwenanenn.

Compositing & Blending • Niklas Gadermann

Exploring the math and intuition behind blend modes in the browser

Super Duper Secure Mode

Introduction

Might Unmakes Right

The catastrophic collapse of norms against the use of force.

Dark mode toggles: two states are enough • Lea Verou

Yes, the underlying model must have three states, but one is always irrelevant to the actual user goal. Users do not seek out solutions to problems they don’t currently have. A lot of the hate towards two-state toggles is based on poor implementations.

‘Shut up and calculate’ does a disservice to quantum mechanics | Aeon Essays

The cliché has it that the Copenhagen interpretation demands adherence without deep enquiry. That does physics a disservice