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by calhoun137 7y ago
I think we need to comes to grips with a hard truth about the reality of academic life. Once you invest decades of your life into a research subject, if it turns out the entire thing is never going to work, there are major social and finan
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by calhoun137 7y ago
This is the better link. Omg I love this guys humble style. If I ever think I have made a big discovery in math or physics I am totally going to present it like this: "You know how I am always coming up with bad ideas that turn out
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by calhoun137 7y ago
This is a surprisingly hard question to answer! An orthodox point of view says "diameter" is just a word for a physical quantity which can be measured by experiment and plugged into a formula to predict the result of other experi
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by calhoun137 7y ago
Whew this is a long article, does anyone have the tl;dr?
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One reason to do this would be to discover what other apps the user has on their device which may not be detectable by other methods. That is valuable business intelligence that could be used in various ways for maintaining a competitive a
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by calhoun137 7y ago
This is causing a big problem for my business right now, but I am not mad at Stripe because you earned that level of credibility and respect in my opinion. I understand these things happen and am glad to know a team as excellent as Stripe&
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by calhoun137 7y ago
I'm just here to let you know your website designs are aMaZiNg!!!!
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by calhoun137 7y ago
> I’m not sure the debt situation can be fixed until we deprogram people to stop seeing college as this one, singular, necessary thing, though. This is an interesting point of view, and I would like to push back on this. In my view, it i
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by calhoun137 7y ago
I agree with a lot of what you are saying here. But the education system functions as a means of enforcing class divisions and preventing economic mobility. The major issue is student debt , regardless of any other legitimate criticisms o
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by calhoun137 7y ago
> The current proposals as I understand them will subsidize tuition at the current, severely inflated rate, letting the colleges get away with their price gouging This is great point in my opinion. Solving this issue in the real world i
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by calhoun137 7y ago
> This is why I'm so skeptical of the "free college" rhetoric I assume by "this" you are refering to the OP's statement that "This is what happens when there's 0 pressure on universities to price t
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by calhoun137 7y ago
> People act like the utility of this stuff is apriori obvious, but to me it's really not. Unless you are trying to build a knowledge graph, what do you do with these triples? I have been very interested in this subject for years, t
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by calhoun137 7y ago
Better title: "When everyone shows up on my website"
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by calhoun137 8y ago
I honestly feel like you comment is a perfect illustration of this point made in the OP, which was as much about citizens as it was about what politicians would like them to think: "just fathom the authoritarian mindset that would lead
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by calhoun137 8y ago
It's unsurprising that political leaders would want to convince people that the true criminals are those who expose acts of high-level political corruption and criminality, rather than those who perpetrate them. Every political leader
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The indictment is not only about hacking, but about aiding the source in avoiding detection, and encouraging them for more documents. There is zero allegation of hacking. Rather they are saying Manning sent a hashed password and Julian sai
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by calhoun137 8y ago
The attempt of the US government to prosecute Assange is the gravest possible threat to press freedom imaginable. People are talking about a hashed password like its something new, but this is not new information at all. The Obama justice
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Guccifer 2.0 Game Over – Year End Review(disobedientmedia.com)
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I am putting my money on "configuration change" as the root cause of iCloud being down.
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by calhoun137 8y ago
> I can never understand those protesters In my opinion, the potential for the technology that microsoft could develop for the military is just as dangerous if not more so than chlorine gas, which was used in WW1. You should watch this v
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by calhoun137 8y ago
I swear to god I am never going to order from instacart ever again.
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I thought there might be a way to use constructive and destructive interference of a large number of sources to build an open air 3d hologram out of pure light. If light didn't have to travel in a straight line, and we could control t
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by calhoun137 8y ago
> Aside from the fact that it's not in open air I once put a lot of work into researching how to build an "open air" 3d hologram like they have in the movies and came to the conclusion that it is basically against the laws
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by calhoun137 8y ago
> In this post, I’d like to focus on a question that any “explanation” for QM at some point needs to address, in a non-question-begging way: why should amplitudes have been complex numbers? I will take your word for it that > The ques
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by calhoun137 8y ago
Great points, let me try and explain better where the group O(1) appears in basic QM. An amplitude in QM is only defined up to a global phase transformation e^it. To be more clear, given some amplitude A and a real number t, we will calcu
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by calhoun137 8y ago
> the chance of different configurations being realized are complex for quantum mechanics I don't think there is anything essential about complex numbers when it comes to formulating the laws of QM. Everything can be done without c
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by calhoun137 8y ago
The question of the relationship of complex numbers and QM is extremely interesting imo, and a lot of the article is devoted to this question, not sure I totally agree the subject at hand is why is the universe the way it is. Additionally,
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by calhoun137 8y ago
The reason amplitudes are complex is because a fundamental role is played in quantum theory by symmetry, and the imaginary number in an exponential (e^it) is a very algebraically convenient way to capture an important symmetry. In quantum f
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by calhoun137 8y ago
I imagine a lot of people are going to be checking the comments here to find out what the answer to the question in the title is. I believe this part is what the answer is supposed to be: > “local tomography”: i.e., the “principle” that
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by calhoun137 8y ago
At the end of the day the thing that makes Python the best programming language is not actually the language itself, which has a lot going for it, but the community around it. The python community is the full of extremely good programmers,

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