Certhas

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by Certhas 4y ago
But it's not really touch focused the way I use it. It's more text focused. I never start a program by touching/clicking, I hit Super and type the name. Same for settings. I absolutely need the Ubuntu modifications to it. I r
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by Certhas 4y ago
Yes absolutely. I don't think anyone in this or any of the linked articles suggests otherwise. That said, particle physics has been a very prominent and successful branch of physics.
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by Certhas 4y ago
The limiting factor is the strength of magnetic fields you can achieve. The more momentum the particles have, the stronger a field you need to bend them into a circular orbit. The attainbale strength is determined by material properties and
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by Certhas 4y ago
"Nightmare" was how physicists themselves characterize the situation we are in, and have done for at least 15 years. Look at the 2007 article linked in the article above: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126&#x
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by Certhas 4y ago
The author correctly reports a scientific debate inside of science amongst scientists. Particle Physicists can pretend this is just a political problem all they want, but if more and more other physicists are convinced the field is entering
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by Certhas 4y ago
That's not the problem we face though. Consider the following: For all terrestrial phenomena that we have observe so far we have a theory of everything. In order to put matter into a state where it behaves in such a way that you can te
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by Certhas 4y ago
You are mischaracterize what's happening entirely. The article is not whining and it's not claiming that this is somehow shaking the foundations of science. But we are potentially in the middle (or even at the end) of a monumental
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by Certhas 4y ago
That's a very uncharitable reading of the headline. I think it's pretty clear that it's talking about particle physics, not physics as a whole. At any rate the article makes this clear in the first line: > Unless Europe’s
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by Certhas 4y ago
Okay, the analogy is not exact, and some software is genuinely different. That's fine. But what I don't understand is why you and others in this response claim that "it must be okay because people purchase it that way" i
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by Certhas 4y ago
I see where you are coming from with this, but isn't everything actually addressed in the post (even though it's not the focus)? She wanted to try academic teaching, took a pay cut for it, tried for a couple of years, and is factu
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by Certhas 4y ago
The US pays vastly more to administer it's health care than any other OECD country. Your assertion that the cost of government bureaucracy should exceed the cost of private markets at this task is emphatically not backed by data. A goo
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by Certhas 4y ago
Except that JPEG built on decades of academic research. It's the exact opposite of a dirty hack that just happens to work well enough to stick. The magic is doing the foundational research, iteratively, painstakingly, over decades, wit
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by Certhas 5y ago
To me this is the fascinating thing about Musk that really sets him apart: He has succeeded at building several companies that make real stuff and tackle hard engineering challenges. And it's not just having money to throw at the probl
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by Certhas 5y ago
Yeah, consensus changes. Especially when new evidence and new ideas arise. That shows that scientific consensus is working. If the scientific consensus threatens assets and income of powerful industries they run massive lobbying and ad camp
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by Certhas 5y ago
This is risible. Next we'll cry a tear for all the good scientists who can not get heard with their findings that Tobacco is harmless after all? There has been concerted funding and propaganda _against_ the science by an industry that
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by Certhas 5y ago
Well... color is physics though. Three spectra that our eye are sensitive to span a vector space dual to the space of all light spectra [1]. That space naturally has a linear structure. You can have twice as much light of one color or the o
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by Certhas 5y ago
I looked up the definitions: Theft: an unlawful taking (as by embezzlement or burglary) of property. Inflation: a continuing rise in the general price level usually attributed to an increase in the volume of money and credit relative to ava
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by Certhas 5y ago
As a childhood lesson you don't need crazy inflation for this to hold true though. Anything that takes more than a few of months to save up to just doesn't make sense as a kid. Your disposable income goes up by factors of ten ever
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by Certhas 5y ago
> The answer to any technology-oriented problem is better communication. I agree with this for the question of what to do in the concrete situation of handling your kids. In a larger sense though the answer to technology can be also regu
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by Certhas 5y ago
The attempt at an individual/technological solution to a problem that needs to be solved at a societal/regulatory/legal level. It's a bit like talking about buying better gas masks and forcing your kids to wear them, whe
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by Certhas 5y ago
"I do not think, we have to discuss which new physics could explain the discrepancy between CDF and the Standard Model - we first have to understand, why the CDF measurement is in strong tension with all others." That's... cu
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by Certhas 5y ago
Sorry for the awkward phrasing, what I meant was: Mint (specifically Cinnamon) doesn't have Wayland support. Not having Wayland means it doesn't work well on my new hardware. Not working on my new hardware is a showstopper. Thus I
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by Certhas 5y ago
I have a Laptop with touchscreen and Hi-DPI. Firefox for Wayland worked perfectly out of the box. Without Wayland I couldn't get a config that did the right thing. I used to use Mint, but not having Wayland is now a showstopper on my n
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by Certhas 5y ago
Because he claimed to keep the entire language in his head, not just a sane subset. You can also keep a sane subset of C++ in your head.
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by Certhas 5y ago
Julia is there now. It seems absurd to me to build this on top of Python. You are building everything as a DSL that needs to be carefully crafted to never touch the data structures of the host language. Changing from Python to Julia and sud
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by Certhas 5y ago
I know that video. This is also different from pure peer review because it involves an editorial decision/recommendation. I am sure >95% of the papers rejected from NeuralIPS will pass peer review elsewhere. So this isn't about
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by Certhas 5y ago
If he was doing what you're saying that would do him credit. But I see it more as indulging in wishful thinking and gaming the funding system by promising vaguely plausible nonsense and avoiding the tough questions that would come with
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by Certhas 5y ago
What the heck are peer review scores? And why would you expect it to be correlated with citation count? High quality research isn't the same thing as highly citable research. Peer review is supposed to check plausibility and maintain m
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by Certhas 5y ago
As a trained physicist, I think you are getting this relatively right. Some of the issues at play are simply unknown according to the current state of theoretical physics. Our Quantum Field Theories naively predict an infinite energy densit
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by Certhas 5y ago
I was not complaining about the snippet being offensive. I was saying that it's not based in an honest attempt at rational discourse. It's performative not informative. It's hyperbole written to evoke a reaction rather than t

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