yeah you're right

rule: scientists need a research budget and for that they have to convince the public that there's interesting stuff to be found out through their research.

fair

doesn't hurt to ask. better be informed than taken by surprise

very interesting concept. another example might be railway drivers who are merely appendices to the vehicle. the vehicle largely drives itself, the driver is mostly there to check tickets, answer passenger's questions, etc.

AI will copy the spelling mistakes to seem more human

yeah high protein + high fat seems to rule

there is no connection between company profits and job cuts. idk why people seem to think "surely if the company makes lots of money, they can afford to pay a few employees". that's not the point. companies inherently have no interest in "paying a few employees". if the company thinks it can save $1M on employees who generate $800k in profit, it will always let them go.

people think that change never happens, even though it always does,
and when change does happen it is always unexpected and we are taken by surprise.

every meal:

• milk
• bread (really fatty croissants, to be precise. everything else gives me constipation)
• bananas
• bell pepper
• lots of tomatoes

i mostly don't cook. i'm not cooking for 1 person only.

i don't eat 3 meals a day. fuck that shit. snacks all the way.

i know the last one with the atom isn't technically a harmonic oscillator but eh, close enough

eh, the price curve looks a bit more U-shaped. it goes down first as you go from 1 to 3 stories (because less area usage) but then it can go up again (higher construction cost per floor because higher material strains). i'm not entirely sure where the optimum is.

yeah, since as we all know, the world is actually hollow. there is nothing going on inside.

positivity does not come out of negativity. it comes out of yourself.

i never got jealousy. it's a foreign feeling. anyways, i'm poly.

it depends on who you spend time with

i personally never liked the feeling of having to be responsible (towards others, but also towards myself). idk this is more of a "what type of person are you?" thing.

also btw this was not your question but just to add ... i think that it's important to reserve enough space to streets. not to build lanes, but to build cafes and seating banks and trees there. it's a typical problem of cities that they figure out that there's not enough space to build trees, bike lanes, etc. after the houses are built. better reserve space first.

what, are you talking about the last one?

oh we're not recreating x² (i think). this is the energy eigenstates of quantum harmonic oscillators. interesting topic, but not interesting to explain.

good boy/girl :)

https://www.ipm.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ipm/de/PDFs/Pressemitteilung/2025/PI-ElKaWe-Elektrokalorische-Waermepumpen-projektabschluss.pdf

Wie funktioniert eine elektrokalorische Wärmepumpe? Legt man ein elektrisches Feld an elektrokalorische Materialien an, so richten sich die elektrischen Dipolmomente im Feld aus – diese zusätzliche Ordnung geht nach Geset- zen der Thermodynamik einher mit einer Erwärmung des Materials. Die entstehende Wärme wird über eine Wärmesenke abgeführt, sodass das Material wieder auf die Ausgangstemperatur abkühlt. Wird nun das elektrische Feld entfernt, so verringert sich die Ordnung und das Material kühlt ab – ebenfalls den Gesetzen der Thermodynamik folgend. Jetzt kann es thermische Energie aus einer Wärmequelle aufnehmen. Der Effekt ist reversibel. So kann ein Zyklus aufgebaut werden, der als effiziente Wärme- pumpe zum Kühlen oder Heizen funktioniert.

Warte mal. Ich sehe da gerade dass das etwas ganz anderes ist als das was ich recherchiert habe. Ich habe das Thema Thermoelektrizität gelesen, das auf dem Seebeck/Peltier-Effekt beruht.

Dabei fließt ein Gleichstrom durch zwei verschiedene Metalle (mit unterschiedlichen Seebeck-Koeffizienten) sodass beim übergang Wärme aufgenommen/abgegeben wird.

Das was das ElKaWe projekt macht ist was komplett anderes. die verwenden wechselstrom, um scheinbar einen kristall schnell abzukühlen/erhitzen, und dann die wärme/kälte des kristalls abwechselnd in zwei verschiedene richtungen abzutransportieren. das ist was ganz was anderes.