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Ben Bartlett
@bencbartlett
Research @OpenAI • physics PhD @Stanford • math animations, machine learning, cats • previously @Caltech, @CERN, @PsiQuantum • ⚛️🎹🐈🏳️‍🌈
San Francisco, CA
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    Ben Bartlett
    @bencbartlett
    Jun 26, 2020
    parent: if all your friends jumped off a cliff, would you do it too? machine learning model: yes
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    Ben Bartlett
    @bencbartlett
    Jul 4, 2020
    well that settles it
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    Ben Bartlett
    @bencbartlett
    Nov 9, 2021
    eight years later, he said yes ❤️
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    Ben Bartlett
    @bencbartlett
    Sep 21, 2019
    Singularity in a circular wave pool!
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    Ben Bartlett
    @bencbartlett
    Oct 14, 2019
    Lenticular lenses can be used to blur images along a single direction
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    Ben Bartlett
    @bencbartlett
    Jan 28, 2020
    +, Σ, and ∫ are just different evolutions of the same Pokémon
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    Ben Bartlett
    @bencbartlett
    Aug 25, 2020
    A physically accurate simulation of what would happen if the moon collided with Mars
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    Ben Bartlett
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    Jun 23, 2020
    Alan Turing was born 108 years ago today. He was a computer scientist, a mathematician, a philosopher, and a victim of homophobia. His work saved between 2-14 million lives in WWII. Bigotry and intolerance drove him to suicide. Here is some of what he gave to the world: [1/20]
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    Ben Bartlett
    @bencbartlett
    Sep 14, 2019
    Harmonic oscillation in a levitated water drop
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    Ben Bartlett
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    Aug 11, 2020
    physics vocabulary to make u sound smart: • instead of "basically", say "to a first approximation" • instead of "this is hard", say "this is highly nontrivial" • instead of “I have a schedule conflict”, say “I am constrained by temporal boundary conditions”
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    Ben Bartlett
    @bencbartlett
    Nov 9, 2021
    Replying to @bencbartlett
    We’re both huge nerds and I wanted to do something unique for the proposal, so I designed this hexagonal mirror thingy. The mirrors are angled so that just before sunset on our 8th anniversary, it reflects the light from the setting sun onto the ground to spell “MARRY ME?”
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    Ben Bartlett
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    Nov 10, 2020
    As stars burn hotter and hotter, they go from looking red to orange to yellow to white to blue... But why are there no green stars?👇 [1/4]
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    Ben Bartlett
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    Nov 29, 2019
    Turbulent air flow around the landing gear of a Boeing 777X. This took over 1 million processor hours to simulate. SC17 demo: nas.nasa.gov/SC17/demos/dem…
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    Ben Bartlett
    @bencbartlett
    Sep 16, 2019
    Neat demo of conservation of angular momentum using a Hoberman sphere!
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