eigenket

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by eigenket 2y ago
> What was the "specific" definition of the aether? TL:DR the aether has a reference frame. This is exactly what it's inventors wanted and exactly what modern things don't have. Here is the long version: When you put
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by eigenket 2y ago
It would be quite funny if that was how it worked, but it just checks to see if the exponent is 0 and then uses the mantisa as the index if so.
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by eigenket 2y ago
> How and why does this make it a different matter? Context is important. I've spent time on nude beaches, that doesn't mean its appropriate to turn up to work with my dick out. What is appropriate in one place is weird in othe
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by eigenket 2y ago
> Do you feel the statue of David is sexual and/or sexist? I'm not the person you asked but I feel like answering with my (unwanted) perspective. The statue of David, in its current context in a museum is not a particuarly sexu
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by eigenket 2y ago
They index them with doubles, they do the same with loop variables. As long as your integer is less (in absolute value) than about 2^53 (because they have 53 bit mantisas) you can represent it exactly with a double. 2^53 is 2^(10*5+3) so ev
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by eigenket 2y ago
> and has the tyrannical premise of "guilty until proven innocent" behind it No it doesn't, for three reasons. 1. This is an internet forum not a court of law 2. He already plead guilty to his crime and been convicted, hes
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by eigenket 2y ago
>> my understanding is she wouldn't have been sent to jail for that. > Your "understanding" directly contradicts the links I posted saying that she was jailed for her insulting/offensive remarks. My copy and pas
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by eigenket 2y ago
Copying and pasting from literally the third sentence of the link you posted > The young woman was convicted last week of sending "insulting and threatening" messages The threatening is important I didn't lie in the commen
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by eigenket 2y ago
> She was not jailed solely for the threats of violence. As far as I understand, yeah she was. I'm not an expert in the German legal system but while the defamation was also a crime my understanding is she wouldn't have been s
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by eigenket 2y ago
I didn't lie, I got the wrong guy because you weren't specific. In the context of his tweet I think it was clearly a call to violence. Almost always is not the same as always.
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by eigenket 2y ago
Attraction, flirting, and sexuality are all fine and good things in the right environment (e.g. beach in Bora Bora), imo its a bit weird bringing them into a work environment.
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by eigenket 2y ago
I fully agree that being topless at the beach is fine and cool, do whatever you like there. I also agree with the poster above who said it feels slightly weird to share a picture of that with people in a work environment.
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by eigenket 2y ago
I don't know the details of the other cases but the UK didn't jail anyone for being a "curious observer". They jailed him in advance of his trial where it is alleged he took part in criminal acts (setting fire to shops a
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by eigenket 2y ago
Ok, there's some stuff that you seem confused about here. Firstly she wasn't sentenced for insulting him, she was sentenced for threats of violence against him, specifically she wrote something like "you won't be able to
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by eigenket 2y ago
More specifically they're jailing people who were at the riots but who claim they were only passive observers. This is standard pre-trial detention because pretty serious crimes were committed. Obviously if its found at their trial tha
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by eigenket 2y ago
Oh, that guy posted "Today was a terror attack by a Muslim...heads must roll" which again sounds like a call to violence to me. Sorry I picked the wrong guy calling for racial violence, my mistake.
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by eigenket 2y ago
Are you lying or misinformed? He didn't get 3 years in prison for telling people to go out and protest, he told people to “set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards”. Setting fire to a building full of people isn't a
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by eigenket 2y ago
Could you point to something happening in the UK you think is similar to this? Edit: I guess there's this [1] which free-speach maximalists would probably disagree with. Personally I think there's a line between free speech and ca
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by eigenket 2y ago
Let's say you have a library of functions you know how to integrate and differentiate. Something that happens a lot is that you end up wanting to do integrate or differentiate a product like x -> f(x)g(x) or composition like x ->
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by eigenket 2y ago
Did you reply to the wrong comment? This doesn't appear to have anything to do with what I wrote.
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by eigenket 2y ago
It seems quite likely that this is the case. We know a bunch more men than women are applying, and a reasonable prior is that an average woman is about as good a candidate as an average man. Therefore there seem to be a bunch of women who a
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by eigenket 2y ago
> This also means that on average, a man on campus is more qualified to be there than a woman on campus This does not follow from what you wrote before. I think it would if equivalently talented men and women were equally likely to ap
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by eigenket 2y ago
Seeing the phrase > And a serious error-detection system needs resources, says Elson. “We cannot expect it to work for free.” Posted in a blog by Nature, whose entire business is based on the work of unpaid reviewers trying to find error
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by eigenket 2y ago
I was responding to > would much prefer if the original papers got posted here I don't think this would generally be useful. Can you provide an example of a Quanta article you found particularly misrepresentative? I haven't rea
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by eigenket 2y ago
I think posting the original papers here would generally not be useful. I am a scientist, specifically in quantum information theory and I can't read scientific papers in other fields without a significant amount of time and effort. If
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by eigenket 2y ago
They did their calculations with a charged scalar field essentially because this stuff is really difficult, and you want to make life as simple as you possibly can. I think there are no obvious obstructions to it working with the electron f
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by eigenket 2y ago
Thats a quite surprising view to me! Thats explicitly not what the Simons foundation set them up to do. I do agree that they are much shallower than the true scientific papers, but I would argue that that is pretty much necessary given thei
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by eigenket 2y ago
I'm gonna talk about charge, essentially the same thing happens with spin, but it gets a bit more complicated. The TLDR is this, charges with the same sign repel each other, if you're trying to make a black hole have more and more
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by eigenket 2y ago
I don't understand where you think that happened in this article? The point is that hypothetically there is a way to make an extremal black hole, if you had essentially god-like powers. None of the authors are shocked or in disbelief t
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by eigenket 2y ago
Maybe it'll help here to point out that if you start with a spinning black hole there's an easy way to stop it spinning. You just chuck in matter with the angular momentum going the opposite way to its spin until all the angular m

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