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by claudius 13y ago
Complain about 60 hours/week? Rarely. Work 60 hours/week? Rarely. Professors tend to put in roughly 40 to 80 hours depending on their scientific and organisational workload, but most others hardly ever work 60 hours/week with
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by claudius 13y ago
So, err, what other metric than work output (be it products, ideas, bright kids or whatever else you might think of) are you using as the ‘core value’ of a person?
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by claudius 13y ago
8 hours at 400$/hour will still only be 3200$ and he can presumably spend the remaining 4-3 hours doing more security analysis with less overhead, so it might still be cheaper to hire him as a consultant.
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by claudius 13y ago
Numerical calculations (e.g. DMRG) on large systems easily take days, if not weeks, to converge sensibly. At the same time, the algorithms can be implemented in a relatively small amount of code (500 sloc in the Python prototype with some h
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by claudius 13y ago
@1) Is it? [0] seems to indicate that it is usually about twice as slow as C and sometimes fares much worse. Of course, that article is over a year old by now so maybe there are improvements, but if I can get a 2x performance gain ‘just’ by
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by claudius 13y ago
Are you talking about Alan Kay as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay ? He doesn’t seem to have made any major contributions to physics, mathematics, the natural sciences or basically any other field, apart from
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by claudius 13y ago
Unless, of course, you consider her a physicist and those as less than mathematicians…
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by claudius 13y ago
Which is why using the vacuum fluctuations makes sense – these are particle/antiparticle pairs created randomly in the vacuum. Since these do have finite masses, you can accelerate them to larger momenta than would be possible with pho
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by claudius 13y ago
No, one still needs energy to accelerate the particles to actually create an impulse. Think of it as a (propeller) airplane, but instead of accelerating air, it uses the quasiparticles due to vacuum fluctuations.
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by claudius 13y ago
It’s not the job of university professors to motivate/entertain you; being motivated to learn is the students’ job and every minute the professor spends entertaining disinterested students is a waste of time for those who actually wa
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by claudius 13y ago
To me, that looks more like a limitation in PDF rather than the tool that is used to create the PDF – that is, hyperref allows you to create arbitrary links to be handled by your system, but the problem is that PDF does not work all that we
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by claudius 13y ago
Is there anything specifically wrong with the hyperref package? It seems to work rather decently for me.
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by claudius 13y ago
What do you find complicated/logically-inconsistent about LaTeX? The job it is supposed to do is nontrivial, so it seems appropriate that the tool is at least somewhat nontrivial, too, especially if you don’t like defaults. It admitted
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by claudius 13y ago
Why would that be awkward? Your employer gets your expertise in training your replacement and you get enough time to find a new job; this seems rather sensible to me.
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by claudius 13y ago
Why is dividing the country peacefully apparently out of question? It seems to have worked somewhat decently for the Czech and Slovac republics.
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by claudius 13y ago
Oh, I'm perfectly happy with the location of the Fn key, and, admittedly, larger Del and Esc keys were also a good idea. Five-row keyboards are not (and neither are six-row chiclet-style keyboards).
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by claudius 13y ago
At least these phones don't have perfectly fine, working keyboards Lenovo could 'improve'.
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by claudius 13y ago
Alice (telco) at one point required the password I used on the website to identify me on the phone. Quite sensible as authentication/identification (though it requires the password to be stored in plain text somewhere, something I don’
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by claudius 13y ago
Cambridge University has a 'Centre for Mathematical Sciences', housing both the departments for pure and applied maths.
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by claudius 13y ago
Please do people a favour and either format this as code or add more linebreaks, at the moment it makes stuff rather uncomfortable to read (until one clicks ‘Fit to Width’).
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by claudius 13y ago
About the size of Texas with twice the population. So yes, it is a rather large country by European standards.
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by claudius 13y ago
The key is that there is little to no destruction. Destruction looks like [0], what you see on the pictures from Kiev is a minor annoyance and can be fixed within a few days. Burning old car tires might not be the ecologically best way to d
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by claudius 13y ago
> The EU experience wasn't all that good for Greece, for example. Greece got itself into a bloody mess by overspending, and while low interest rates due to Eurozone membership may have made that easier, it is in no way the fault of
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by claudius 13y ago
But, to be fair, it is only the 24th of January, so there might well be many more crazy things for us in stock. Though Google linking directly to mail some poor Hotmail account will be hard to top, yes.
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by claudius 13y ago
You can hit Esc before the combination to fill in for M and then it is just C-S-5 for me, which is certainly doable?
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by claudius 13y ago
> Is there any label that people apply to themselves or others that successfully filters out the lunatic fringe from reasonable people? I don’t know, it probably has to do with the visibility of these fringe groups and your position in t
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by claudius 13y ago
The problem with ‘feminism’ is that it is essentially worthless as a label to denote a political ideology – sure, there are some people who call themselves ‘feminist’ who have perfectly respectable views, but there are also a bunch of peopl
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by claudius 13y ago
You know the masses of celestial bodies relatively well from their observed trajectories and it is not too difficult to include relativistic corrections in your calculations (though active corrections using thruster will still be extremely
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by claudius 13y ago
One should note that the ‘quantum computer’ in question is the D-Wave, which is generally assumed not to be a real/general quantum computer but rather a sophisticated device to simulate a specific set of problems on a microscopic level
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by claudius 13y ago
A backlit keyboard is a lame excuse for not including a convenient light you can use to read just about anything.

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