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by blahblahblah10 2y ago
You are right about the incentives being aligned a certain way. But, while the justification for the LHC might have been Higgs, what most high-energy physicists (theoretical and experimental) really cared about was validating beyond-the-sta
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by blahblahblah10 2y ago
A great lesson one learns as a physicist is that one must develop a new intuition mainly through years of practice. So when you say "It's very frustrating", I interpret it as "this doesn't seem reasonable to me&quot
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by blahblahblah10 3y ago
That's a valid argument but still a bit strange. One could make the same argument about: - chip design - modern processors are not fundamentally different from 8086, which also belongs in a museum. Sure, there's much higher transi
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by blahblahblah10 3y ago
I am not an expert on their space program or the provenance of rocketry inventions but they seem to have developed both the cryogenic engine ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE-20 ) and the boosters in-house ( https:&#x2F
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by blahblahblah10 4y ago
Out of this list, the books I am familiar with, are great (Hilbert-Courant, Spivak, Korner's books). At the same time, even with extensive mathematical training, I haven't read them from start to finish. I wouldn't even like
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by blahblahblah10 5y ago
Yes, elephants can certainly destroy crops. But proximity is a symmetric concept. The problem has been the massive expansion of our (speaking as an Indian) population (~360 million in 1950 to ~1.4 billion in 2021) into previously untouched
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by blahblahblah10 6y ago
I would highly recommend Sergey Levine's course: http://rail.eecs.berkeley.edu/deeprlcourse/ For a more mathematical treatment, there's a beautiful book by Puterman: https://www.amazon.com/Mar
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by blahblahblah10 6y ago
One of the (two) core assumptions that Einstein made with special relativity is absolutely that the speed of light in vacuum ("c"), is constant in every inertial reference frame/coordinate system. This has been borne out expe
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by blahblahblah10 6y ago
While that's definitely true, maybe one should look at this another way. $400/mo saved in a 0% interest bank account for 40 years = $192,000 $400 * 12/year invested at 10% (incl. inflation) for 40 years = $2.12 million While
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by blahblahblah10 6y ago
>> The program is commonly used as a bridge for high-performing students to enter the U.S. job market, especially in tech. Is the idea that students on OPT or employees on H-1Bs are all high-performing geniuses a myth that is believed