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by egjerlow 10y ago
Not sure what you mean by the last sentence here, can you elaborate? What I'm saying is that the fact that this strange mathematical result happens to give correct results in a physical experiment must be a pointer to something .
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by egjerlow 10y ago
Are you saying that it's a coincidence that -1/12 ends up in both the casimir effect and in this proof? This coincidence is what I'm referring to..
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by egjerlow 10y ago
I'm gonna be contrarian and say, yes it does - it's been physically proven! The casimir effect, as other people here have mentioned, depends on this being true, and it has been experimentally tested. To me it's one of those t
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by egjerlow 10y ago
She wasn't a German expatriate, as far as I can tell!
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by egjerlow 10y ago
More formally, a photon field contributes to the so-called stress-energy tensor,which acts as the 'source' of gravity in the Einstein equations, thus affecting gravity, as you say.
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by egjerlow 10y ago
yes, those too. Light is influenced by gravitational fields!
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by egjerlow 10y ago
I'm a bit confused by this - I cannot even imagine how you would think in a way that is not linear when thinking about a story. Sure you might be thinking of various aspects that you want to include and you don't know where in the
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by egjerlow 10y ago
It is better to view the spiral arms as 'transient' in the same way you would view a momentary queue in traffic - although the jam itself moves slowly or not at all, the individual cars that make it up move through the jam and eve
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by egjerlow 10y ago
These only work if your definition is in the same file, though.
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by egjerlow 10y ago
Not American. Even in the glorious bastion of everything that is progressive, Scandinavia, this is taught. It is ridiculous, but I didn't know this to be a myth until in my 20s.
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by egjerlow 10y ago
The point is that we're still being taught that the reason Columbus sailed westward was to prove that the earth was round, which was certainly not the case. I have lost count of the times the 'we used to think the world was flat&#
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by egjerlow 10y ago
I'm not sure exactly how the rules work for US citizens,but typically a major inconvenience for non-EU citizens is getting work permits/visas. If this is trivial for US citizens I agree with you but if not I'd say that's
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by egjerlow 10y ago
>Whereas almost all theorems can be shown to be equivalent to one of a handful of major systems of logic — sets of starting assumptions that may or may not include infinity, and which span the finite-infinite divide — RT22 falls between
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by egjerlow 10y ago
The way it is titled on the Norwegian version of the page ("We read app terms and conditions minute by minute") they're probably partly spoofing the successful NRK 'slow TV shows'[1] that were all titled thus. Examp
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by egjerlow 10y ago
This seems like a nice resource for swashing through the terms and conditions jungle: https://tosdr.org/
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by egjerlow 10y ago
Live stream here: http://www.forbrukerradet.no/vilkar-og-personvern-minutt-for...
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by egjerlow 10y ago
OT: Have you read Infinite Jest? I'm wondering how much of the life described in that tennis academy reflects reality.
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by egjerlow 10y ago
Any ideas?
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Runkeeper says sorry for sending your every move to an ad service(nakedsecurity.sophos.com)
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by egjerlow 10y ago
I think he did ;) https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak
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by egjerlow 10y ago
Just installed it and from my immediate first impression this is gonna be a time/strokesaver. Good on you!
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by egjerlow 10y ago
I remember reading an interesting theory about that quote - Newton coming off as kind of a jerk in other contexts, this quote, the theory goes, was a veiled sarcasm towards Robert Hooke, his to-be archnemesis later in life who was also shor
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by egjerlow 10y ago
Although I agree with you that it's in some ways amazing that we can, e.g. spot planets in solar systems hundreds of light-years away and still have discoveries like this one in our own 'backyard', I'd say that the intri
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by egjerlow 10y ago
> If a paper deserves a serious comment, I think the proper format for that is another paper. That's the thing, though - speaking as a former academic, the reaction when you see a paper that needs serious commenting is mostly "
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by egjerlow 10y ago
Would you elaborate on why you think comments on papers might be dangerous? For me it seems like the most natural step forward, given where we are today. As I see it, it would solve many issues. Ideally, we would move away from a publicatio
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Don’t invert that matrix (2010)(johndcook.com)
133 points by egjerlow 10y ago|42 comments
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by egjerlow 10y ago
What about the updated Cryptography engineering book by Schneier et al? Do you have any experience with it?
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by egjerlow 10y ago
https://youtu.be/4u2ZsoYWwJA?t=6m19s
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by egjerlow 10y ago
> Given the fact that humans do have this inherent capacity and ability to imagine and create, future changes in markets or geopolitical conditions (that are mostly due to human actions) cannot be predicted based simply on past events. D
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Virtual Formicidae Emporium, a simulated formicarium(errthum.com)
3 points by egjerlow 10y ago|0 comments

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