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by drauh 10y ago
I have a PhD in physics, though not particle physics. QFT was required, since the methods appear all over in condensed matter physics. Unfortunately, there is no real shortcut to being able to understand those terms except by studying one o
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by drauh 10y ago
When I was a wee undergrad, a grad student office-mate had printed out these equations and posted them on the office door. He wrote on it: The simplicity of the Standard Model. Or words to that effect; this was in the condensed matter physi
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by drauh 10y ago
Fortran 77?
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by drauh 10y ago
See Ashley Madison?
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by drauh 10y ago
Well, I don't know much about the photographer and artist tags, but he was credited as writer on a few movies.[0] The "teacher" bit may be because he ran a training session somewhere, or was a TA or tutor at some point. But,
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by drauh 10y ago
Sorry, I meant "verified". I was thinking along the lines of science.
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by drauh 10y ago
"… some reason …" Name one? I think I understand that it's unsatisfying that there are instances where mathematics cannot be done with just pencil and paper. However, it's a reproducible proof. And folks in science have
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by drauh 10y ago
OED lists "prize" as common US spelling. [0] [0] http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/151652?rskey=W7yb3q&result=6#e...
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by drauh 10y ago
I learnt it in high school on a counterfeit Apple ][ with an 80-column display card. (Maybe it ran CP/M? My memory is hazy.) I had to type up the school's Prize-Giving Day program. When I got to college (late 1980s) and got my fir
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by drauh 10y ago
"Scientists often learn more from studies that fail. But failed studies can mean career death. So instead, they’re incentivized to generate positive results they can publish." Not in the "hard" sciences: my background is
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by drauh 10y ago
It started with Gopher, IIRC: "Surf the Internet." I recall having a GIF of the gopher mascot with those words.[0] It was sometime between 1992 and 1995; I'm fairly sure it was before Netscape. The Jargon File[1] doesn't
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by drauh 10y ago
Granted, I'm a mostly self-taught programmer, but I would have thought that if something appears in formal logic,[0] it should have an analog in a programming language. Even standard algorithms like quicksort[1] use conditionals. And,
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by drauh 10y ago
No, it's not over. That was likely propaganda. This update from The Guardian at 2016-07-16 03:15 UTC (i.e. 2 hours after your comment here): However, Reuters reports that bomb attacks on the parliament are continuing, with a senior Tur
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by drauh 10y ago
> The military is not attacking the crowds. There are reports to the contrary: * https://www.yahoo.com/news/turkey-military-opens-fire-crowds... * "Opening live fire from helicopter" (Google translation) v
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by drauh 10y ago
Holy shit. Good luck, and stay safe!
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by drauh 10y ago
Beaker Notebook (posted several times, but without much attention[0]) does something similar: http://beakernotebook.com/features It supports these languages: Python, Python3, R, JavaScript, SQL, C++, Scala/Spark, Lua&#
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by drauh 10y ago
Nail soup. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup
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by drauh 10y ago
"Published" in scare quotes. By definition, preprints are not reviewed. It's like a Wordpress for scientific papers. It was created so that researchers could get their work out to their peers quickly rather than waiting for t
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by drauh 10y ago
They seem to be different Unicode codepoints: FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER
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by drauh 10y ago
I don't think so. The link [1] I posted is crackpot. See also: * https://motls.blogspot.com/2006/05/crackpot-papers-on-arxiv.... * https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0605023 (dated 2006)
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by drauh 10y ago
Using physics-based models will make it even more frustrating and complicated. You'd have to take into account "temperament" or tuning, which someone else has already mentioned. Then, the relationship between frequencies is d
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by drauh 10y ago
I don't think it's a discredit. arXiv is a preprint database, which means nothing is refereed. It's under "Computer Science", but that's just the author's own classification. I don't think there'
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by drauh 10y ago
OK, from now on, you can only code in Fortran 77.
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by drauh 10y ago
Additionally, there is a richness of thought and experience that other languages bring to the human experience. Just google for "untranslateable words that should exist in English" or something similar. Not to mention that even co
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by drauh 10y ago
It runs the 2-factor app that secures my online accounts, which may or may not include banking.
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by drauh 10y ago
Because anecdote == data?
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by drauh 10y ago
Print out the backup codes, and keep them in your wallet (or a safe at home). You should do that, anyway, in case your device gets stolen. Most sites which use 2FA tell you to do that right when you enable 2FA.
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by drauh 10y ago
It won't be difficult once we understand how quantum gravity works. :)
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by drauh 10y ago
alias d='dscacheutil -flushcache || discoveryutil mdnsflushcache || killall -HUP mDNSResponder'
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What Happens When Big Data Blunders?(cacm.acm.org)
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