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by chunky1994 7y ago
That's an appeal to authority if I ever saw one. He may be qualified to talk about it, but he certainly isn't showing that here. The parent comment shows what we're taking issue with.
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by chunky1994 7y ago
I'm in complete agreement. The fact that he entirely glosses over there existing a field like algebraic topology with tremendous application to physics shows the author has little understanding of what he's writing about when it c
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by chunky1994 8y ago
This is almost exactly the point addressed in Dr. Ernst Stuhlingher (then the associate director of NASA) in this elegant response: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html Which was written to
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by chunky1994 8y ago
It's rather amusing that the author assumes that non-associtiave objects are "weird" for physicists (or at least that was my reading), since the velocity addition formula is in general non-associative and that has been extens
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by chunky1994 9y ago
This is a fantastic comment. To provide some anecdotal evidence (which I realize isn't much) I can compare where I grew up (Urban India) vs where I went to University (Urban North America) and can see some Stark differences. There is a
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by chunky1994 9y ago
It looks like someone flagged the story unfortunately. It dropped like a rock from the front page. It really is an excellently written piece
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by chunky1994 9y ago
I haven't touched this stuff in a while so take this with a grain of salt. This is good progress since it's about an order of magnitude faster for operations than previously constructed CNOT gates, however it still has many caveat
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by chunky1994 9y ago
The problem is that the gravitational infinities one gets in QFT are non-reonormalizable. Renormalizable theories must follow a very strict criteria (and even then they are rather difficult to grasp if you don't really put a lot of tho
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by chunky1994 10y ago
The folks over at anonymous were bombarding the site according to some of the shadier 4chan boards.
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by chunky1994 10y ago
I do agree that time dilation occurs, what I disagreed with/corrected was with this: it could travel almost any distance before decaying , which I took to imply that the lengthening of particle lifetimes was not measurable in the way
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by chunky1994 10y ago
Actually what the parent comment said would be correct. Time dilation and length contraction do not arbitrarily change the proper distances that particles travel at near light speeds. As observers, the detectors would see precisely what we
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by chunky1994 10y ago
It's more that we don't have strong enough decision making computers/algorithms to rival a human's capabilities in cases where the action (in this case not having lots of weapons but apparently only one being launched) i
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by chunky1994 10y ago
I think that example is a bit unfair, teaching really isn't scientific when you get to the core of it. You cannot expect professors to be able to conduct double blind studies with student grades and so a more overarching non-scientific
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by chunky1994 11y ago
> gravity is so admittedly poorly understood Gravity as a force/phenomena in space on its own is actually very well understood. In fact it's possibly one of the most well understood theories we have in physics because of gene
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by chunky1994 11y ago
That's actually not true. git-pull (which is where the pull request comes from) is in the git manpages. Specifically it is: Fetch from and integrate with another repository or a local branch . Which is basically a git fetch and merge
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by chunky1994 11y ago
I really do enjoy this, thank you very much! I may try and do a writeup of the possible physics at some pint with your permission, would that be okay? (Also Uwaterloo represent!)
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by chunky1994 11y ago
If it was possible certainly, however a lot of european universities especially in the Schengen region require the knowledge of a language other than english (whether German, Swiss etc.) for effective learning (a language which is probably
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by chunky1994 11y ago
Some context here: 1) This is for one , 4 month term at university in Canada (uwaterloo specifically) for an engineering degree. Other degrees are lesser in cost (math is similar, which includes CS) A lot of the miscellaneous fees drop off
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by chunky1994 11y ago
This isn't true for waterloo. (Bo was probably in 4 stream.) We only pay for the terms before we actually go onto co-op. EDIT: As he points out below, it's different for different programs (even within engineering some pay 2 terms
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Ask HN: Best books you've read in 2014
3 points by chunky1994 11y ago|4 comments
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I Teach University Physics, but I'm on Government Assistance(huffingtonpost.ca)
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by chunky1994 12y ago
While I admit the government is trying to censor (or was, I've yet to see any evidence of this from the current government) certain politically critical articles etc. and I am unaware of the true extent of the CMS, the part about the U
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by chunky1994 12y ago
When you say QM is deterministic except for the Born rule, I would add that a lot (almost all) of QM is based off of the Born rule [1], so as to avoid potentially misinforming the unfamiliar reader. [1] The Born rule in QM is the rule that
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What's better than linspace? Effective interpolation(nbviewer.ipython.org)
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by chunky1994 12y ago
Well that's not necessarily true in the sense that we have no idea what was before the big bang. Time as we know it did not exist before the big bang, however there could've been almost anything before and it doesn't affect o
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by chunky1994 12y ago
While I agree with what you are saying, I'd like to add a bunch of addenda (caveats?). The Higgs mechanism was one possible model which the standard model required, the others have now obviously been disproven thanks to the LHC. If no
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by chunky1994 12y ago
I highly recommend the intro to data science course on coursera: https://class.coursera.org/datasci-002 Even if you have only a little programming experience if you spend a fairly reasonable amount of time on this you'
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Ask HN: How did you build your current work ethic?
8 points by chunky1994 12y ago|4 comments
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by chunky1994 12y ago
As far as I see it, every proof I have ever encountered has been of two types: A => B, or A <=> B. The first of which has the following structure: A: Given conditions (a,b,c,...) are true; B: We can say (..., x, y, z) are true. The
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What are worthwhile problems? Feynman's moving letter(scienceblogs.com)
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