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by ddavis 8y ago
(5th year PhD student) Working on my thesis analysis (collider based HEP), squeezing in time for OSS development and prepping for a jump to software dev. I love physics, but academia is in a rough place right now. Almost everyone I know pur
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by ddavis 8y ago
No passengers on board and unrelated to the MCAS.
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by ddavis 8y ago
On macOS: still waiting for interactions with the address bar to be smooth and fast. It's frustratingly laggy in my opinion. Does anyone else feel this way? For me it's the only reason I still gravitate towards Chrome on a Mac.
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by ddavis 8y ago
Add it to the list of reasons to be unhappy with Elsevier. The article makes it sound like passwords are stored in plain text. What a disaster of a company.
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by ddavis 8y ago
When I started grad school I used to go to the same Waffle House every Sunday evening in Durham, NC. After a few weeks the waitress or cook on shift at that time would notice _when I pulled into the parking lot_ and start making my memorize
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by ddavis 8y ago
That's very disappointing to hear. I'm a fifth year PhD student and I tire of hearing things like "this [now automated task] is worth 5 PhD students!" I can't imagine being called a slave.
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by ddavis 8y ago
This is an editorial, not a study.
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Show HN: Pygram11 – simple, fast histogramming in Python via pybind11 and OpenMP(github.com)
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by ddavis 8y ago
Thanks for sharing! Unfortunately Emacs came into my life after I grew up and left Houston, but if I ever find myself up 249 while on a visit I'll be sure to stop in.
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by ddavis 8y ago
My first time participating.. does the survey closing on the 12th translate to results on the 12th as well?
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by ddavis 8y ago
When I was an undergrad at UT Austin I remember hearing someone who worked with Steven Weinberg mention that Weinberg told people that he “thinks in TeX”. One of the things I love about TeX is I can write it in my editor _without_ WYSIWYG.
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by ddavis 8y ago
Very excited to be able to use both ranges and concepts soon. I started writing C++ just before the 2011 standard and it’s been fun to follow and use the improvements over the last 8 years. I can’t imagine how different the language will lo
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by ddavis 8y ago
I don’t understand what you mean, Google and Samsung dominate the Android market in the US for example. I’m not sure what the trends might be elsewhere.
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by ddavis 8y ago
That’s pretty disappointing to see. Commit appears to be a Sony employee, what percent of Android phones are Sony anyway?
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by ddavis 8y ago
I was talking to a friend the other day who told me about multiple recent grads from their PhD program joining tech companies that were willing to pay for a shared work space office for remote employees. One said it was significantly cheape
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by ddavis 8y ago
If someone prefers their coffee as an espresso with steamed milk, then Aeropress won't be the substitution they're looking for. I enjoy both, but one certainly doesn't scratch the itch for the other.
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by ddavis 8y ago
Since you're an Emacs user... just wanted to plug magit - it might make you change your mind about command-prompt-only git usage
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Eglot Based Emacs Python IDE(ddavis.fyi)
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by ddavis 8y ago
Fedora 29 still has a KDE spin
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by ddavis 8y ago
It's a small post (by a KDE dev) describing why it's not surprising to see RH dropping KDE
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OpenSUSE
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Any Emacs users looking for something similar, see EIN [0] and ob-ipython [1]. [0] https://github.com/millejoh/emacs-ipython-notebook [1] https://github.com/gregsexton/ob-ipython
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Terrible news for scientific computing :(
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Yes I agree that he has a full semester+ of undergraduate/early graduate "course work" in his books... but the first chapter of his particle physics book has almost zero math -- it's just a great story.
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by ddavis 8y ago
>> what set of data this model fits > All the data. The standard model is the best model we've found to explain all experiments observed in the history of physics. This isn't the full story. The Standard Model does not
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by ddavis 8y ago
The introductory chapter of "Introduction to Elementary Particles" by David Griffiths. It doesn't require much knowledge of physics but tells the story of how the theory came to be over the 20th century (based on experimental
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Machine learning is used to reconstruct individual particles in the detector and also to separate signal processes from background processes. A general example... process A and process B can both have electrons in their final states (with o
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by ddavis 8y ago
I got _really_ into TikZ near the end of college. I've always been amazed by what people have been able to do with it. Stuff like this: http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/focused-ion-beam-syste... and htt
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by ddavis 8y ago
Yep, the field is rapidly adopting ML all over the place. The last paragraph in the article mentions a very hot topic right now.
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We have models which provide predictions about the signatures we would see in the detector if that model is true. The "general search" doesn't target a particular model. The only model used is our Standard Model, treated as b

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