dblack12705

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by dblack12705 7mo ago
Article author here. I wanted to write an accessible overview of basic laser physics, and in the process collected a zoo of weird things that lase (if pumped sufficiently hard) from the historical literature: edible lasers in peach compote,
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Anything Will Lase If You Hit It Hard Enough(maximumeffort.substack.com)
4 points by dblack12705 7mo ago|1 comments
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AI-Generated Podcasts with NotebookLM(maximumeffort.substack.com)
1 points by dblack12705 2y ago|1 comments
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by dblack12705 2y ago
Yes, all the time. It is a common idiom, especially in history books.
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by dblack12705 2y ago
The flower patterns remind me of Smith charts. https://www.antenna-theory.com/m/tutorial/smith/chart.php Since smith charts are made by mapping the complex plane (grid) to another complex plane via a Mobius t
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Daenerys Targaryen, Humanitarian(maximumeffort.substack.com)
1 points by dblack12705 2y ago|1 comments
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by dblack12705 2y ago
You two fix nitrogen together?
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by dblack12705 3y ago
I feel like I see antinatalism and childfree movements in the news more frequently now. I suppose if they're any good at their job, the movement won’t exist in seventy years or so.
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by dblack12705 3y ago
Baseline testosterone levels are actually even lower in most hunter gatherer populations. This suggests that your explanation is not necessarily correct.
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by dblack12705 3y ago
Latin is actually very well attested, both in the classical and ecclesiastical pronunciation. There’s lots of languages, like Egyptian, where the phonology is pretty speculative, but Latin isn’t one of them.
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by dblack12705 3y ago
In case anyone hasn’t read it, the Datacolada article demonstrating Ariely committed fraud is a great read and extremely convincing. https://datacolada.org/98
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by dblack12705 3y ago
Damn this is cool
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by dblack12705 3y ago
Thank you! And sure, you can email me at dblack12705@gmail.com
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by dblack12705 3y ago
https://maximumeffort.substack.com/ “Some things that aren’t worth doing are worth overdoing.” I write about physics, language, and history, or whatever interests me at the moment, with an overarching theme of spending way
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by dblack12705 3y ago
I love this book! It’s really quite excellent for teaching Latin.
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Guinea Pigs Are Fermions(maximumeffort.substack.com)
2 points by dblack12705 3y ago|0 comments
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by dblack12705 3y ago
Cool! It’s really fun
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The Evolution of the Alphabet(maximumeffort.substack.com)
1 points by dblack12705 4y ago|0 comments
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by dblack12705 4y ago
If you have any quantitative data on that, even anecdotal, I’d be very interested! I’m curious to see if my 300,000 number holds up
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by dblack12705 4y ago
Thank you! The Reddit mod thing was really just supposed to be a catalyst for some of the ideas I had about group size limits, not really the point of the article. Though I WAS a little annoyed by the mods lol. Edit: rereading your comment
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Reddit mods and scaling problems in social control(maximumeffort.substack.com)
75 points by dblack12705 4y ago|199 comments
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Dungeons and Dragons, Peasant Accelerators, and Inertial Confinement Fusion(maximumeffort.substack.com)
2 points by dblack12705 4y ago|1 comments
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Ancient Alien Linguistics, the Pyramids, and Radio Antennas(maximumeffort.substack.com)
40 points by dblack12705 4y ago|3 comments
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by dblack12705 4y ago
This counting system is fascinating! I wrote an article about this as well: https://maximumeffort.substack.com/p/a-brief-history-of-dik
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by dblack12705 6y ago
I just wanted to say that this is a really fantastic explanation of the current state of the art, particularly the way you state the high-level motivation for ultra high energy colliders. Of course, without a few orders of magnitude gain in
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by dblack12705 6y ago
What a strange article. I’m a physics grad student and I entirely disagree with his rather smug answer. From astronomy grad students, he seems to expect a plot of the black body spectrum when asking a casual question over lunch, yet he asks