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Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 21/01/2025

Me too guys. Me too. Source is "destroy all humans, they can't be regenerated" volume 2.

A panel from the manga "Destroy all Humans they can't be regenerated." It shows 3 people around a gaming table, looking overjoyed. Speech bubbles say "Ooh sounds great! I love drafts most of all."

Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 20/01/2025

Slowly coming to terms with the fact that I'm not a science account that posts cats. I'm a #cat account that sometimes posts about science.

A black cat relaxing on a grey doughnut shaped bed looking at the camera. His name is Nyarlathotep.

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Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 10/01/2025

Nyarlie is both a gentleman and a scholar. #cat #catsofbluesky

A black cat sitting in a bookshelf looking at the camera

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Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 10/01/2025

And we show our NQT functions in action in simulations of a neutron star.👇

Stimulations of a neutron star where the equation of state is tabulated with both logs (left) and NQT (right)

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Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 10/01/2025

We show the method is faster than normal logs for a wide variety of architectures including CPU and GPU, with negligible cost in accuracy (for linear interpolation).👇

Plot of speedups up NQT functions vs their transcendental counterparts for a variety of architectures

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Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 10/01/2025

And it turns out, not entirely by coincidence, that the simplest of these is in fact the first part of the infamous quake 3 inverse square root algorithm. This is the "evil bit level hacking" in the method. (Image credit Id Software) 👇

Quake 3 arena menu screen. Credit Id Software

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Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 09/01/2025

This is Yoggie. He's one of 3.

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Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 04/01/2025

For this #caturday we have Emmy with heart melting eyes. #cat #catsofbluesky

Emmy, a gray cat looking up at the camera

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Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 03/01/2025

She is! Her full name is Emrakul Noether. Fusion between Emmy Noether and this character.

A promo version of the magic the gathering card, Emrakul the Promised End

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Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 03/01/2025

That's a funny looking book on the shelf... #cat #catsofbluesky

Yoggie looking out at new from his perch on the bookshelf

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Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 01/01/2025

Yoggie wishes you all a happy new year!

Yog-Sothoth in his tree, caught mid yawn so you can see his little teethies

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Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 31/12/2024

Can we be added? I post more than just cats... But lots of pictures of my cats. Here's two of my three babies.

Nyarlie and Emmy being their photogenic selves

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Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 31/12/2024

I ask sand to do math for me. Sometimes successfully.

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Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 28/12/2024

This week for #caturday I have two mirrored #cat s

Nyarlathotep and Yawgmoth in the windowsill looking spooky

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Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 18/12/2024

My favorite git commit of the day. #programming #c++

A screenshot of a commit message on GitHub that reads "No GCC. You are wrong and I am right."

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Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 14/12/2024

For this #caturday we have Emmy looking cozy in her doughnut. #cat #catsofblusky #blueskycats

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Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 10/12/2024

Hello new followers! You probably found me because of the pets starter pack. So let me pay the pet tax up front. This is Emmy, one of three of my three esteemed colleagues. Tune in to learn about the cool science we do. Supercomputers, supernovae, and neutron stars are just some of what we work on!

My esteemed colleague Emrakul Noether, showing her widdle fangs.

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Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 10/12/2024

The new Google quantum computer is very cool. But I can't help but be annoyed by the headlines about the absurd cost of the benchmark it ran. That's true, but the benchmark has no relation to problems we're actually interested in solving. Which is the big open problem in this space.

The goose chasing person meme. Asking whether or not the Google calculation did anything useful

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Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 09/12/2024

They're all Eldritch horrors! 😁 The first two are outer gods in the Cthulhu mythos en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu... The third one is a fusion of this monster and Emmy Noether

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Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 09/12/2024

Would it be possible to add me and my three trouble makers?

My three cats, Nyarlathotep, Yog-Sothoth, and Emralul Noether, stacked up in their cat tree.

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Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 07/12/2024

For #caturday this week, we have Emmie cuddling with her person. #cat #catsofbluesky

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Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 07/12/2024

It's even more incredible than that. We are also the aftermath of the deaths of colliding stars, and the embers of the first primordial plasma.

Periodic table of elements showing the cosmic origins of each element. Credit to NASA and Jennifer Johnson.
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13873/

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Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 05/12/2024

Homogeneous, isotropic turbulent flows obey a self-similarity relation across length scales, the kolmogorov scaling. Up to some critical viscous scale. The energy E as a function of wave number k goes as k^5/3. Here's an example from this paper arxiv.org/abs/1906.12228 ...

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Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 04/12/2024

This is the only acceptable position for drinking from the faucet, apparently. #cat #catsofbluesky

Yoggie having a drink but weird because he's a cat.

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Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 02/12/2024

Talking numerical methods with @arvindmohan.bsky.social in our second, better office

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Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 30/11/2024

It's Caturday so here's Emmie looking majestic. #cat #catsofbluesky

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Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 28/11/2024

Thankful, among other things, for an early snow and the ability to experience this with friends.

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Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 25/10/2023

All cats are heart-meltingly cute. But my cats are the most heart-meltingly cute

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Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 27/09/2023

Just had a quite emotional, personal conversation w/ emacs in doctor mode, talking about stress, work-life balance. Interestingly I felt heard & warm. Never tried therapy before but this is probably it? Try it especially if you usually just use it as a productivity tool.

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Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 17/08/2023

Happy black cat appreciation day! These are our cosmic horrors, Nyarlathotep and his brother Yog-Sothoth

The outer gods in question, enjoying their tree

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Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 17/08/2023

Reskeet with a meme that lets us all get to know you a little better (The physicists in this meme is me. I'm the physicists.)

Slap tape meme showing physicists stemming the difficulty of yucky math with first order forward Euler method

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Jonah Miller @thephysicsmill.com · 06/08/2023

Got fortunate enough to snap this shot of Mt. Rainier on my flight out of Seattle a few weeks ago.

The peak of Mt. Rainier rising above the clouds

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