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by djaque 6y ago
I'm sad that we don't have any modern equivalent of Bell labs and it looks like we won't have anything for quite a while. I had a chance to work with a scientist who was at Bell in its golden age and he said that you could j
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by djaque 6y ago
This is one of those things where I wish I could just take a week out of my life and flip through these. Old school research is so cool.
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by djaque 6y ago
I can empathasize with the argument to keep the film unmolested and not for snobby reasons like that. I watched Peter Jackson's "They Shall not Grow Old" which is a collection of restored WW1 footage. Was super hyped going i
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by djaque 6y ago
Some more good discussion here -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24598923
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by djaque 6y ago
Actually, I've heard that chemistry departments are a standout in terms of abuse and that seems true just from the students I've talked to at my institution. There's like this weird old school attitude of "this is the w
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by djaque 6y ago
For what it's worth, I've actually been warned against their physics department for grad school. The other rumour I heard is that Harvard is even worse (for physics grad students). Tons of toxic behaviour like sabotaging labmate
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by djaque 6y ago
Priming is one of the least reproducible effects out there and lies literally at the core of the reproducibility crisis [1]. I'm going to call BS on claims of some sort of spooky weaponization of it. Edit: To add necessary context for
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by djaque 6y ago
> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
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by djaque 6y ago
I'm sorry, but that just doesn't jive with my friend's real lived experience. They grew up being told that they were broken and endured life long pain from that upbringing. My friend was literally disowned by her parents who
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by djaque 6y ago
I hope that the church will change with the times, similar to the way their practices and beliefs with respect to racism have changed since the 60s [1]. However, I wouldn't take the pope's words as a sign of that change. I have f
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McConnell says Trump nominee to replace Ginsburg ‘will receive a [Senate] vote’(nytimes.com)
14 points by djaque 6y ago|12 comments
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by djaque 6y ago
It's also worth noting that at least for TikTok, its audience is young and left leaning. It is wildly popular with young people. It was where individuals organized buying up tickets to Trump rallies to inflate expectations during the
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by djaque 6y ago
The author affiliations are listed as "Rule of Law Society". A quick google search shows that it is a political non-profit dedicated to "investigating Chinese corruption" and is led by Steve Bannon of all people [1]. Gi
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by djaque 6y ago
That's not even ad hominem. It's a pretty relevant piece of info and does change how I look at the article.
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by djaque 6y ago
It reminds me of a story about Max Planck [1] being told by his advisor to not pursue theoretical physics because it was only the small details that were left to work out. Of course, he went on to help start the revolution in quantum physi
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by djaque 6y ago
I'm not really sure about crystallography (not my field), but I think it's maybe an issue with expectation management. Everyone is trying to sell the new technology as fix for every field. In reality XFEL experiments do have a l
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by djaque 6y ago
I forget who said it, but there is a quote in physics along the lines of "we already have a theory of practically everything, but it is so complicated that we can use it to predict almost nothing." All of basic principles that und
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by djaque 6y ago
Yes, I have a friend who left plasma physics and is still salty about the situation with ITER. She also said that by the time they're done, the technology is going to be outdated since it all began in the 80's. I'd disagree
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by djaque 6y ago
Whenever I see headlines like this, I'm reminded that physics has a communication problem where the public thinks that high energy physics is the only type (or the only worthy type) of physics out there. There's a lot more to the
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by djaque 6y ago
Is anyone else trying to decide if you should upgrade from 1080 ti's? I have a box with four of them which have served me well for a while now, and based on just raw performance it looks like upgrading to two RTX 3080s would exceed the
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by djaque 6y ago
I think all of the comments here that say "McCarthyism and cancel culture have taken over our universities!" miss the point. The real story is that in the US, we are politically polarized enough to buy into the dean's story t
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by djaque 6y ago
Scientists have been getting by pretty well for all of the "writing failure" that you're claiming. I'm guessing that you think scientific papers are bad because you have a hard time reading them. In reality, you were pr
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by djaque 6y ago
That was very explicitly the point. We now have top Nixon advisors explaining that they couldn't make hippies or black people illegal, but they could do it by proxy with "the war on drugs" [1]. [1] https://www.bus
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by djaque 6y ago
The problem right now is that camera footage is handled by the police departments. Any oversight requires the police to operate in good faith. Thinking back to how many news reports I've seen where the footage was "lost" or
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by djaque 6y ago
Yes, I'm amazed at how quickly things have changed. My sister who is only five years younger than me has a friend who is gay and went to the same high school that I did. In only half a decade the culture shifted from just clear and o
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by djaque 6y ago
Not sure how old you are, but even in 2010 when I was in high school our boy scout troop played smear the queer and the first time I learned the word gay was as an insult. Didn't really help with the whole growing up gay thing.
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by djaque 6y ago
Darn, I wish this was available a few months ago. I just went through the effort of assmbling my own PD Buddy sinks because they are currently out of production.
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by djaque 6y ago
Too bad they didn't give it an infinite wooden tape :)
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by djaque 6y ago
I hope they make it out all right. I got the chance to visit a few years ago and was one of my favourite museum experiences. Everything is set up similar to how it was during the war and you can basically just walk up the desk Turing sat a
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by djaque 6y ago
Hello fellow accelerator physicist! Yes I understand how seeding PRNGs work and I personally do that for my own code for debugging purposes. My point was that not using a fixed seed doesn't invalidate their result. It's just a c

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