polarized
(US) Having a distinctive polarization.
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Context collapse has gotten an undeserved bad reputation because it's been negatively polarized.
I think there’s a lot of very smart people on this site who are in pretty extreme danger of being negatively polarized into defending a very obviously ill-intentioned and corrupt industry/crowd because they are too ir…
Yuchen Liu (Courant Institute) speaking on "Moduli of boundary polarized Calabi–Yau pairs" at our #AlgebraicGeometry #Math seminar back in October 2023. #MathSky
A lot of people getting negatively polarized by online discourse into being pro-data center
Becoming increasingly polarized in a pro-Stancil direction
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(US) Having a distinctive polarization.
When the polarizers are aligned in the same direction, they block the same state of polarization, i.e. they both block horizontally polarized light, and both let the vertically polarized light through. The second polarizer therefore has …
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(US) Of a group or situation, being at two or more extremes.
Speaking of round sunglasses, these lightweight polarized ones and come in two shades of tortoiseshell as well as black and bronze.
“Context collapse has gotten an undeserved bad reputation because it's been negatively polarized.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I think there’s a lot of very smart people on this site who are in pretty extreme danger of being negatively polarized into defending a very obviously ill-intentioned and corrupt industry/crowd because they are too irritated by anti AI Posters. Woke never dies I guess”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Yuchen Liu (Courant Institute) speaking on "Moduli of boundary polarized Calabi–Yau pairs" at our #AlgebraicGeometry #Math seminar back in October 2023. #MathSky”
— Bluesky· May 2026“A lot of people getting negatively polarized by online discourse into being pro-data center”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Becoming increasingly polarized in a pro-Stancil direction”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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