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by djaque 6y ago
Yeah, and it might just be that there was a surge of hiring recently, but I've had a lot of bad luck. Two delivery drivers showed up at the wrong street and I had to guide them to my place. One managed to deliver it inside the next d
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by djaque 6y ago
I'm not surprised. In my region, delivery companies add on something like $10 (~$5 for the actual delivery, $2 for the company's cut, and another >$2 for the recommended tip). Compare that with "delivery native" com
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I did a read through last year and thought it was great. Having to actually tell a computer how to do Langrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics makes you learn it really well. Pointed out some of the interesting reasons behind why we choose o
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by djaque 6y ago
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I had it and didn't have bad symptons back in Feb. too. Just a light sore throat and generally feeling gross. It'll be interesting to see how many people really caught it once this is all over.
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by djaque 6y ago
> The field of x-ray light sources seems to be pretty well developed, lightsource.org lists 30 of them world wide, so adding one more doesn't look like it's going to critically impact anything except maybe the local community
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I'd contest that second point. I'm actually one of those people that builds the parts that make accelerators (accelerator physics PhD student). There's a lot more interesting accelerator tech outside of the energy frontier.
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by djaque 6y ago
Certainly, and the LIGO is one big complicated dataset. The problem is that Sabine Hossenfelder doesn't just make arguments about the data, but makes the researchers out to be villains. Not only that, but all of the problems she bring
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by djaque 6y ago
Sure, I don't see your email though. I'm also only a grad student in one specialized field (accelerator physics) so not sure how much I can help with HEP questions.
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Exactly, I was talking about the full many body Hamiltonian being unsolvable.
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Not quite... the two main technologies I'm talking about are free electron lasers (FELs) and ultrafast electron diffraction. New technologies that only exist at national labs right now. If we could bring access to them to the univers
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Well said. Whenever I bring up that point on physics subreddits I also get tons of passive aggressive comments. It's super toxic. The HEP people in my own department also seem to believe that anything other than beyond the standard m
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by djaque 6y ago
Oh, that's right. I wasn't really placing the electron ion collider (EIC) under the energy frontier umbrella, because they're moving in a different direction. I'm actually sort of involved with them too, but from a dis
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It is not tunnel vision when the problem they're tackling is literally stuck in a tunnel. Bigger and bigger colliders are the only direct way we have to study high energy phenomena. It's not that physicists are lazy, it's t
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by djaque 6y ago
My personal opinion (and I might be biased since I'm not a collider guy) is that it's time to take a break from the energy frontier and put our efforts into other kinds of physics. There's a whole world out there besides &qu
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by djaque 6y ago
I post this every time someone links to Hossenfelder, but please take her opinions with a grain of salt. She seems more interested in attacking the "physics establishment" than in giving people a picture of the reality of our situ
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I'm interested to try it. I've been watching people do photogrammetry for a while now, but the results have seemed really bad. When you remove the texture, the underlying model always seems off. This is important for doing objec
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Experience is different than authority and I don't think the parent comment was complaining that the first reply didn't have the authority to say what they did. I assume they were saying that you shouldn't place a lot of imp
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by djaque 6y ago
Wow, I had no idea that Ohio had a line for reporting people who don't show up to their jobs out of fear of becoming infected [1]. It seems crazy to me that people are being asked to choose between their life and their livelihood. [1]
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by djaque 6y ago
Well, I think body cameras are the most important technological solution. Unfortunately they're still huge problems with how the footage is dealt with and who is allowed to handle it. How many times have you seen police abuse cases w
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by djaque 6y ago
The way I understand it is that during the space shuttle years, companies made ties and lots of money off of federal contracts. The whole SLS program has since been doninated by those companies using political pressure to get those contrac
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by djaque 6y ago
It's hard to believe how badly AIDS victims were treated back in the day. Ignored by your government and demonized by society. The whole article is about trying to rationalize denying medical care to subjects of "voluntary sexua
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A GAN Which Generates Garfield Comic Panels(youtu.be)
7 points by djaque 6y ago|0 comments
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by djaque 6y ago
Yeah, strong claims especially around a political topic like this need strong evidence. I wonder what someone who has actually studied neuroscience would think of this. You've got to remember that it wasn't that long ago when th
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by djaque 6y ago
My knowledge of it is just through department oral history. I did some googling though and apparently his time at Cornell is talked about in Lawrence Krauss's biography "Quantum Man". Here's a brief review of it [1]. A
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Taking a look back at the book, I think you're right. They are misrepresenting him in this one quote. He was referring to the gross mindset he was trying out. On the other hand, I'm in one of the departments Feynman had an appoi
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by djaque 6y ago
Just following up on this thread in case there was any doubt about the consequences of the presidents actions: " NYC Poison Control Calls for Bleach, Lysol Double After Trump Disinfectant Comment" [1] [1] https://www.nb
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Hong Kong Broadcast Network Claims Kim Jong Un Dead(nypost.com)
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Ok, it turns out that my skeptic alarm wasn't wrong on this. It looks like there's a whole cottage industry of people who are peddling non-FDA-approved UV blood irradiation therapy and ozone therapy as a cure-all for everything f
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by djaque 6y ago
I can't believe that the design of composition notebooks is practically unchanged since the 1930's. Like I had that exact one just a few years ago. I guess "if it aint broke then don't fix it", but I thought someb
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Mistake or not and sarcasm or not, it's clear what people interpreted his statements as meaning. His words prompted medical officials and Lysol to release statements about not drinking disinfectants and state agencies are reporting pe

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