If you have CAT5/6 between the locations, USB-over-CAT5/6 adapters are inexpensive and work quite well. I've used OREI's successfully over >60m. But there are many options, with varying limits on cable length.
FWIW, I have had great success asking AI coding tools to generate/edit tikz code. As with all AI coding, it helps to steer the agent to structure the code sensibly, etc. But frontier models seem to know how to write tikz.
Parallel Lives: A Local-Realistic Interpretation of “Nonlocal” Boxes by Gilles Brassard and Paul Raymond-Robic.
Abstract: We carry out a thought experiment in an imaginary world. Our world is both local and realistic, yet it violates a Bell inequality more than does quantum theory. This serves to debunk the myth that equates local realism with local hidden variables in the simplest possible manner. Along the way, we reinterpret the celebrated 1935 argument of Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen, and come to the conclusion that they were right in their questioning the completeness of the Copenhagen version of quantum theory, provided one believes in a local-realistic universe. Throughout our journey, we strive to explain our views from first principles, without expecting mathematical sophistication nor specialized prior knowledge from the reader.
I’ve been building quantum photonics experiments. Repeating the Bell inequality tests that won the 2022 Nobel, quantum erasers, etc.
I just published a fun interactive 3D demo of SPDC, one of the most common and accessible ways to create entangled pairs of photons. I'm hoping to publish a series of articles on other cool learnings about doing quantum photonics in the lab.
I’ve been building quantum photonics experiments. Repeating the Bell inequality tests that won the 2022 Nobel, quantum erasers, etc.
Probably the coolest part has been automating the optomechanical equipment and optimizing physical experiments with Bayesian optimization. Similar to hyperparameter tuning in ML, but with lasers.
Recorded 10 February 2026. Terence Tao of the University of California, Los Angeles, presents "Machine assistance and the future of research mathematics" at IPAM's AI for Science Kickoff.
I appreciate the ability to rapidly capture a note/thought/todo without friction and context switching.
I solved this problem with a twilio sms number. When I send a text to it, the content gets prepended to my obsidian todo.md file. This was easy to arrange with a few lines of Python glue.
iOS makes it easy to text or share to sms from almost any context.
The Earth is generally expected to spin more slowly over time, due to tidal friction. But it has been spinning faster and faster since the 1960s. As shown in the figure in the wikipedia article [0].
I have read numerous explanations, but haven't found a really authoritative discussion.
Wow that's really interesting. A great quote form the article:
> In 2021, it was reported that Earth was spinning faster in 2020 and experienced the 28 shortest days since 1960, each of which lasted less than 86399.999 seconds.[24] This caused engineers worldwide to discuss a negative leap second and other possible timekeeping measures, some of which could eliminate leap seconds.[25] The shortest day ever recorded was 29 June 2022, at 1.59 milliseconds less than 24 hours.[26] In a 2024 paper published in Nature, Duncan Agnew of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography projects that the water from increasing ice cap melting will migrate to the equator and thus cause the rate of rotation to slow down again.[26]
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