Needless to say i’m talking about the oversimplified and misleading version of the Schrödinger’s cat paradigm, where he is both dead and alive until you watch it.
I don’t have a job but i follow theater courses at an academy. And my improvisation is both funny and awful until i show it to others.
Autonomous vehicles are at times both amazingly advanced and bedshittingly idiotic.
I’ve ridden ~25k miles in them for work, and I trust them more than 95% of the drivers on the road. But I’ve also experienced them acting in ways that are still quite far from the way humans would.
I’m lifeguard, all my day is like that
Print jobs are both completed successfully and failed until someone checks the queue.
Until I actually show up to the EVGo charging station, it’s both online and offline. The only way to know for sure whether there’s a working charger is to drive there and plug my car in.
Schrodinger’s Cat
A person that has a lot of certs or a high title is both extremely smart or extremely unintelligent. You don’t know until you start talking with them about things more than surface level.
The Heisenbug. Once you try to observe this kind of software bug with your technical means, it simply goes away.
And it’s opposite (Schrödinger’s Box?) - The (edge) problem that you can see and is guaranteed to exist and cause problems but somehow never does and the code works perfectly.
You see, as a nuclear physicist…
…particles get you off?
Our equivalent is nuclear radiations.
We know that you’re here, in this thread. Don’t tell us what you’re doing right now or we’ll collapse the universe.
Another good example is reading book reviews then reading the actual monograph. Sometimes there’s just nothing there
For work I use a database written in COBOL. Reports are simultaneously running and frozen until I either get the report results or sufficient time has passed that I’m certain the system has crashed.
Isn’t that the halting problem?
A textbook example, yes. And Today I Learned something!
What thinking about a close one. Some Application and servers are OK and KO as long as you don’t look at it
The contrast is either too little or too much and I won’t know unless I look at the drawing again the next morning
Not quite Schrödinger’s cat, but in programming we have Heisenbugs named after Schrödinger’s peer.
It’s when you have a bug/crash that is not reproducible when debugging it. Might be that you’re reading some memory that you’re not supposed to, and the debugger just sets it up differently. Maybe you have a race condition that just never happens with the debugger attached.
Schrödinger’s fatigue crack. With old enough steel, you don’t know if there is a crack propagating until you see it.
I guess the best one for me may be elite university students are “just smarter” than others until I have to read their term papers.
For some reason it’s always the non-native English speakers who write well.
Just a guess, but I’d think that a smart person who is ESL will read more good books than their native language peers. When you write you imitate the style of the people you’ve read. The native speakers are reading comic books and the ESLs are reading the classics.
Again, mho
Probably a good take :)
