dustyburwell, 7 months ago

@tottinge Also from the perspective that a program is often a model of a real world system and models can never fully capture the complexity of the real system. (e.g. Bohr's model of the atom)

afilina, 7 months ago

@dustyburwell @tottinge

• I spent time improving the atomic model.
• So now it has twice as many shapes, right?

das_g, 7 months ago

@afilina ⚛️ Quantum mechanics: «Well, see; how do I put this. 😬 [clears throat] Compared to Bohr's, huh? 😅 Look, if we count all possible superpositions, then ‹twice› doesn't even begin to cover it. But don't worry, it's just linear combinations. With complex coefficients, because why not.

Also, the term ‹shapes› might give you the wrong impression. It's more like, you know, fuzzy clouds of location probability density? Yeah, kinda that. Here's some equations.»

@dustyburwell @tottinge

Itty53, 7 months ago

@tottinge

See also, "you spent six hours of work and changed one line of code??"

"Yes, and on better days I'd spend seven hours and remove lines of code to make it work better."