BTW I like your line of thinking. Actual smart person as opposed to the vast majority of google posers.

Don't need any more proof than that to know those self-described smart people aren't all that smart. Not that other convincing demonstrations are in anything remotely resembling short supply.

I would say that, yeah, geologists are pretty bad scientists. After all, isn't that why they went into geology?

Not all of quantum mechanics is probabilities, far from it. Einstein's original discovery of quantum energy levels is a good example, these energy levels are precise, they are not random. Another great example: all protons have the same mass. Not the same mass plus some random fudge factor. Exactly the same mass. If that doesn't astound you then... well then, left as an exercise for the interested reader.

The really interesting thing to me is that none the the interpretations is predictive. More or less by definition.

Photosynthesis is very, very quantum. Not much classical about it at all.

Sure, but we've been working on the QM mystery for more than a century with basically zero progress on the interpretation questions.

Try this one: how does light propagate through a transparent material? If you think that's obvious, then explain why it slows down entering a denser material (obvious!?) but speeds up again on exit. OK, clock is ticking, let's see some answers.

Don't you love it when a slashdotter confidently posts the answer to a question that has so far defeated all the greatest minds that human history has ever produced?

Does reddit want to be a shitty search engine like wikipedia? Not that I don't get a whole lot of use out of wikipedia's search engine - in fact the vast majority of my searches go through wikipedia's engine and not google's. Suck it google, you don't get to spy on the vast majority of my searches. But this works because I feed wikipedia really softball searches. Send it the sort of search you regularly throw at google and it just barfs.

Wikipedia has not got anything remotely resembling Pagerank and there doesn't appear to be any agenda to create such a thing. You can't just copy google's (now out of patent) algorithms because the situation is different. You don't have zillions of netizens linking things. You've got something much more regimented happening, and in the past every attempt to extend Pagerank to non-internet situations has met with failure. Including google's. Did you know they used to offer corporate search appliances that they hyped as like google but private and entirely inside your own network? Abject failure. Nobody making links means the search engine just sucks way too much, like old school alta vista or hotbot. Tons of results with zero ranking. Pull your hair out. Slit your wrists. Doesn't matter, it won't work any better no matter what you do. After years of throwing money at it they finally canned the whole department.

OK, is that what reddit wants? If that is not in fact what reddit wants then they are going to have to swallow their pride and bring in some people who can invent what they want, and implement it reliably. Not going to be cheap. I would suggest playing the open source card on this one, otherwise... welcome to the shitty internal search club.

I've never heard of anyone having an Apple VR headset. But what do I know, I generally exclude Apple fanbois from my life until they get therapy.

I hear you. Nice and sunny, though the puddles do freeze over in SFO. Didn't know that I bet? But life is too short to let all that greasy black stuff go into your lungs, never mind the other little annoyances.

Oh look another Apple fanboi with a car parts analogy! I like this one: an Apple fanboi is like a blown head gasket.

Right. I on the other hand have a brick of an apple airbook here which is unusable because of big snowy blobs on the screen. Developed shortly after new for no apparent reason.

Or just failed head. Was that whoosh?