Saturday, July 9, 2022

John Vervaeke: exemplars of rationality and collaboration

This post is a collection of quotes from John Vervaeke in a conversation with Jordan Hall in 2022. The video for this conversation can be found at this link. I recommend listening to the episode. There are 2 quotes listed below chronologically.

1. "How do you really properly re-cognize, recognize these other perspectives and be able to indwell them and internalize them to a degree without doing some imposition of assimilation or just seeking agreement?" (54:17)

2. "The problem we're gonna face is we do not have widely available templates of rationality, let alone of wisdom. Rationality in the sense I'm talking about here; I'm not talking about the logicality of the Enlightenment. I'm talking about individuals who have demonstrated a domain-general ability for significant self-correction, amelioration of their self-deception and a significant ability to enhance the connectedness to themselves, to other people, to the world, and give it, and it enhance it for other people as well. We have a poverty of exemplars for that." (55:38)

Sunday, July 3, 2022

List of rupee values in Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)

This post is a list of rupee values and  in Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998). There are 7 rupees listed below. Source: strategywiki.org

  • Green: 1
  • Blue: 5
  • Silver: 5
  • Red: 20
  • Purple: 50
  • Orange: 200
  • Huge: 200

Basic timeline of string theory

This post is a basic timeline of string theory. There are 20 events listed below chronologically.

  • 1937: John Archibald Wheeler proposes the S-matrix
  • 1956: Murray Gell-Mann recognizes dispersion relations approach
  • 1959: Tullio Regge proposes Regge trajectories
  • 1961: Chew and Frautschi analyze mesons using Regge trajectories
  • 1967: Dolen, Horn and Schmid propose DHS duality
  • 1968: Gabriele Veneziano proposes the dual resonance model and Veneziano amplitude
  • 1969: Paton and Chan propose the Chan-Paton rules for the Veneziano model
  • 1969-1970: Nambu, Nielson and Susskind propose physical interpretation of Veneziano amplitude
  • 1971: Ramond and independently Schwarz and Neveu propose spinning strings
  • 1974: Schwarz, Scherk and independently Yoneya discover connection between boson string vibration and the graviton
  • 1977: Gliozzi, Scherk and Olive propose tachyon-free unitary free string theories
  • 1984: Green and Schwarz discover anomaly cancellation in type I string theory and Green-Schwarz mechanism
  • 1985: Gross, Harvey, Martinec and Rohm propose heterotic stings
  • 1985: Candelas, Horowitz, Strominger and Witten discover connection between N = 1 supersymmetry and the Calabi-Yau manifold
  • 1987: Bergshoeff, Sezgin and Townsend propose supermembranes in eleven dimensions
  • 1995: Edward Witten proposes M-theory
  • 1995: Joseph Polchinski proposes D-branes
  • 1997-1998: Juan Maldacena proposes AdS/CFT correspondence between N = 4 supersymmetric Yang Mills theory and type IIB string theory
  • 2003: Michael R. Douglas proposes the string theory landscape
  • 2003: Kachru, Kalloch, Linde and Trivedi propose KKLT mechanism for vacuum stabilization

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Basic timeline of Stephen Weinberg

This post is a basic timeline of physicist Stephen Weinberg (1922-2021). There are 19 events listed below chronologically.

  • 1933: Born in New York City
  • 1954: Receives bachelor's degree from Cornell University
  • 1957: Receives PhD in physics from Princeton University
  • 1957: Writes thesis titled The role of strong interactions in decay processes
  • 1957: Becomes researcher at Columbia University
  • 1959: Becomes researcher at University of California, Berkley
  • 1966: Becomes lecturer at Harvard University
  • 1967: Becomes visiting professor at MIT
  • 1967: Proposes unification of electromagnetism and weak force
  • 1970's: Proposes basis for the technicolor theory
  • 1973: Becomes professor at Harvard University
  • 1977: Publishes The First Three Minutes
  • 1979: Proposes renormalization in quantum field theory
  • 1979: Receives Nobel Prize in physics
  • 1982: Begins teaching at the University of Texas at Austin
  • 1995: Publishes The Quantum Theory of Fields
  • 2015: Publishes To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
  • 2021: Died at age 88 in Austin, Texas

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Saturday, July 2, 2022

List of NBA champions: 21st century

This post is a list of NBA champions in the 21st century. There are 23 teams listed below chronologically. This post was last updated July 2nd, 2022. Source: basketball-reference.com

  • 1999-2000: Los Angeles Lakers
  • 2000-2001: Los Angeles Lakers
  • 2001-2002: Los Angeles Lakers
  • 2002-2003: San Antonio Spurs
  • 2003-2004: Detroit Pistons
  • 2004-2005: San Antonio Spurs
  • 2005-2006: Miami Heat
  • 2006-2007: San Antonio Spurs
  • 2007-2008: Boston Celtics
  • 2008-2009: Los Angeles Lakers
  • 2009-2010: Los Angeles Lakers
  • 2010-2011: Dallas Mavericks
  • 2011-2012: Miami Heat
  • 2012-2013: Miami Heat
  • 2013-2014: San Antonio Spurs
  • 2014-2015: Golden State Warriors
  • 2015-2016: Cleveland Cavaliers
  • 2016-2017: Golden State Warriors
  • 2017-2018: Golden State Warriors
  • 2018-2019: Toronto Raptors
  • 2019-2020: Los Angeles Lakers
  • 2020-2021: Milwaukee Bucks
  • 2021-2022: Golden State Warriors

List of NFL Super Bowl champions: 21st century

This post is a list of NFL Super Bowl champions in the 21st century. There are 23 teams listed below chronologically. I have listed the year of the season and not the year that the super bowl was played (the Super Bowl is usually played in January or February). This post was last updated July 2nd, 2022. Source: pro-football-reference.com

  • 1999: St. Louis Rams
  • 2000: Baltimore Ravens
  • 2001: New England Patriots
  • 2002: Tampa Bay Buccaneers
  • 2003: New England Patriots
  • 2004: New England Patriots
  • 2005: Pittsburgh Steelers
  • 2006: Indianapolis Cols
  • 2007: New York Giants
  • 2008: Pittsburgh Steelers
  • 2009: New Orleans Saints
  • 2010: Green Bay Packers
  • 2011: New York Giants
  • 2012: Baltimore Ravens
  • 2013: Seattle Seahawks
  • 2014: New England Patriots
  • 2015: Denver Broncos
  • 2016: New England Patriots
  • 2017: Philadelphia Eagles
  • 2018: New England Patriots
  • 2019: Kansas City Chiefs
  • 2020: Tampa Bay Buccaneers
  • 2021: Los Angeles Rams

List of MLB World Series champions: 21st century

This post is a list of MLB World Series champions in the 21st century. There are 22 teams listed below chronologically. This post was last updated July 2nd, 2022. Source: baseball-reference.com

  • 2000: New York Yankees
  • 2001: Arizona Diamondbacks
  • 2002: Anaheim Angels
  • 2003: Florida Marlins
  • 2004: Boston Red Sox
  • 2005: Chicago White Sox
  • 2006: St. Louis Cardinals
  • 2007: Boston Red Sox
  • 2008: Philadelphia Phillies
  • 2009: New York Yankees
  • 2010: San Francisco Giants
  • 2011: St. Louis Cardinals
  • 2012: San Francisco Giants
  • 2013: Boston Red Sox
  • 2014: San Francisco Giants
  • 2015: Kansas City Royals
  • 2016: Chicago Cubs
  • 2017: Houston Astros
  • 2018: Boston Red Sox
  • 2019: Washington Nationals
  • 2020: Los Angeles Dodgers
  • 2021: Atlanta Braves