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China's Economy Hopes World Plays Pretend(businessinsider.com)
9 points by eigenschwarz 8y ago|0 comments
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by eigenschwarz 8y ago
It seems more and more that having kids perpetuates the original Ponzi scheme of life between the young and the old. One that exists via billions of years of evolution producing powerful psychological selective pressures to reproduce.
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by eigenschwarz 8y ago
I feel this describes my experience to a 'T' and wholeheartedly agree to the advice here. Edit: All I am trying to do, from being a fellow complete newbie, is to add support from N=1 to N=2 of the path from Headspace-->Other vi
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by eigenschwarz 8y ago
As with anything, too much of a good thing can be detrimental: hyperactivity of the DMN has been linked with things like schizophrenia, anxiety, and ADHD. (Indeed, some point to the hypothesis that the DMN was not evolved for today's d
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by eigenschwarz 8y ago
I have my dual boot on 2 separate SSDs and personally find it nice to keep gaming and research separate; there is no temptation to game during the week this way. As an aside, curious why some of these reboot times take so long.
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by eigenschwarz 8y ago
That's not how science works. Cf. Michelson-Morley.
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by eigenschwarz 8y ago
Passive aggressively glib. Would 'we' feel sympathy for the people of California if/when the Big One hits and flattens cities, kill thousands, and levies hundreds of billions in damage? Or if/when massive flooding from a
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by eigenschwarz 9y ago
If you don't mind sharing, I am curious about some of the dietary interventions you tried.
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by eigenschwarz 9y ago
I'm not well-versed in his work but it seems like Laughlin is an advocate for the approaches to looking at the system instead of the components. One could say that is what the conformal bootstrap does when it's used to solve a the
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by eigenschwarz 9y ago
Jared Kaplan, one of the researchers mentioned in the article, has a good set of notes here: http://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/jared-kaplan/files/2016/05/AdSC... David Tong does a good job explaining backgrou
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by eigenschwarz 9y ago
I'll give it a shot! Why are we interested in conformal field theories (CFTs)? One reason is it appears that all quantum field theories (QFTs) can be viewed as points along a “path” between a high-energy CFT to a low-energy CFT (c.f. t
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by eigenschwarz 9y ago
Yes, not that they do exist but perhaps the notion of how a quantum field theory of quarks is really nearly the same thing in some ways as an Ising model, etc. The ultimate goal is to understand how these disparate physical systems are simi
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by eigenschwarz 9y ago
I work directly in this field. This article covers a lot of a material that is at the forefront of theoretical high energy physics where we are neck-deep in the 'fog of war.' Truthfully, I can think of few subjects more difficult
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by eigenschwarz 9y ago
Again, same as above: do you watch TV or listen to radio in school unless the teacher introduces it as part of the learning process? It's not that everything about a smartphone is bad - just like not everything about TV is bad - it&#x2
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by eigenschwarz 9y ago
Do you watch TV or listen to radio in school unless the teacher introduces it as part of the learning process?
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by eigenschwarz 9y ago
Definitely true. As pointed out in your link, the redeeming thing about complex video games (e.g. an immersive RTS or a complex level designed and puzzle filled FPS) is it causes advantageous adaptions in the brain, although at the expense
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by eigenschwarz 9y ago
The scary thing about smartphones is how they might be permanently changing adolescent and teenage brains, and not in a good way. Checking texts and emails, surfing the internet for information, and yes - even sites like HN and reddit - cau
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by eigenschwarz 9y ago
David Hume, Adam Smith, James Clerk Maxwell, Andrew Carnegie, Alexander Graham Bell, James Watt, Alexander Fleming, Lord Kelvin - the list goes on... For such a tiny nation Scotland has truly had a remarkable influence on “modernity”.