davrosthedalek

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by davrosthedalek 8mo ago
Exactly. The field has been a tik-tok between times of discovery and times of precision. We are now just swinging back from a discovery period. The next machine will be first a precision machine and then upgraded to be a discovery machine a
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by davrosthedalek 8mo ago
What are you talking about? The spectra of hydrogen is very well understood and a text book example for students to calculate. We use spectra to test QED calculations to something like 14 digits.
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by davrosthedalek 8mo ago
Lattice-QCD can, by now, actually calculate the masses of the proton, neutron from first principles pretty accurately. This is of course a brute-force approach. We currently lack, in all fields, theory for emergent properties. And the mass
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by davrosthedalek 9mo ago
Why past tense? BNL will host the EIC, and SBU is going full steam.
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by davrosthedalek 9mo ago
This is in preparation for starting construction work on the Electron-Ion-Collider (EIC) which will use the same tunnel and experiment locations.
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by davrosthedalek 9mo ago
Yes, because at that time, a modem didn't actually talk to a modem over a switched analog line. Instead, line cards digitized the analog phone signal, the digital stream was then routed through the telecom network, and the converted ba
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by davrosthedalek 10mo ago
That extension doesn't follow. It is possible to verify if software works without knowing how it works internally. This is true with many things. You don't need to know how a plane/car/elevator works to know that it work
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by davrosthedalek 11mo ago
True, but my point is that not only does the analogy not work, the author also doesn't understand the thing he makes the analogy with, or at least explores the thought so shoddily that it makes no sense. It's somewhat like saying
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by davrosthedalek 11mo ago
[put my hand up]. I recently had to/wanted to convert my lecture slides from latex-beamer/lyx into html/reveal.js. I did a couple of slides per hand, and then asked AI to convert the rest, following my example. Saved me hours
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by davrosthedalek 11mo ago
Fewer absolute or relative? If you scale down your search space... This only makes some kind of sense if your step size is fixed. While I agree with another poster that a reduction of a creative process to gradient descent is not wise, the
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by davrosthedalek 11mo ago
I think it's a trick. It seems to be the article is just a series of ad-hoc assumptions and hypotheses without any support. The language aims to hide this, and makes you think about the language instead of its contents. Which is logica
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by davrosthedalek 1y ago
How? I think the same argument applies: If it's changing from loop to loop, seems mutable to me.
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by davrosthedalek 1y ago
No? It has a lifetime of one loop duration, and is constant during that duration. Seems perfectly fine to me.
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by davrosthedalek 1y ago
With WSL2, Windows is better, sad, but true.
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by davrosthedalek 1y ago
Larger breaker and thicker wires!
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by davrosthedalek 1y ago
> Since the loop copies data pointer by pointer, it can handle the case of overlapping data. I don't think this loop does the right thing if destination points somewhere into source. It will start overwriting the non-copied parts of
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by davrosthedalek 1y ago
It's niche /for development work/. Being used by a developer doesn't make it used for development. Or the most used developing tool would be the toilet.
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by davrosthedalek 1y ago
Unfortunately, very true. I think Canada ranks last in the G7 on GDP-percentage science funding. Salaries seem to be OKish, maybe similar to Germany, but cost of living (mainly housing, food is comparable cheap) in Vancouver and Toronto is
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by davrosthedalek 1y ago
Honest question on this: It is clear that first amendment protects the rights of protesters from persecution by the government. But does that mean that the government would need to endure protests in any federal building at any time? If not
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by davrosthedalek 1y ago
I don't think this is quite correct, at least for private universities. They absolutely have the right to disallow protests on their property. The first amendment protects you from the government -- the government cannot force the univ
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by davrosthedalek 1y ago
That's not what people have complained about. People complained about that in the US a government rule seems to be "don't criticize the government". What about Christian Drosten who criticized a lot of the Corona decisio
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by davrosthedalek 1y ago
Funding is always a lottery. It's not like everyone gets some, but it's less. It's more that less people get funds. So you really have to look at the average. But you are right. That's why I said: can change quickly.
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by davrosthedalek 1y ago
My point is this: I do think that some universities gave the protestors way too much leeway. It clearly created a hostile work environment for some - Jewish, and I grant you also Muslim students. The universities responsibility is to keep t
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by davrosthedalek 1y ago
Funding levels are lower. Salaries are lower. In physics, from the places I know in the US, about half of the faculty is foreign, and about 30% is German. This is at top universities. That wouldn't be the case if these people would fin
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by davrosthedalek 1y ago
As long as you are not a "Beamte", i.e. a special case of state employee, yes.
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by davrosthedalek 1y ago
From what I know, some received the death threats because they were Jewish, some because they supported Israel. One of them had the photos of the missing hostages up on the door. They were torn down repeatedly.
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by davrosthedalek 1y ago
To add some more anec-data: I have a couple of Jewish colleagues. Several of them received death threats. This is not acceptable.
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by davrosthedalek 1y ago
Also: Even if they could, why would they? Grants are for research. Research only very indirectly affects their income. They could probably accept more students (so more tuition) if they would say to the faculty: no research, more teaching.
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by davrosthedalek 1y ago
Are you sure?
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by davrosthedalek 1y ago
You are not supposed to reimplement DOOM with templates.

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