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by evanb 5y ago
Always mysterious when something like this happens; submitted this yesterday! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29212384
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The Concept of the Ruliad(writings.stephenwolfram.com)
3 points by evanb 5y ago|0 comments
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by evanb 5y ago
… if you already have a master’s degree, which takes 2 years. In the US many 5-6 year PhD programs do not require—and in fact include—a master’s degree.
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by evanb 5y ago
The syntax and usability of from sklearnex import patch_sklearn # The names match scikit-learn estimators patch_sklearn("SVC") seems quite clunky. I'd have preferred a syntax like from sklearnex import
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by evanb 5y ago
Light can take any speed---when it is traveling through a medium. Capital-T 'The' speed of light is the speed of light through a vacuum, and equal to 'The' speed of gravity.
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by evanb 5y ago
I think you're thinking of bleem, the secret integer between 3 and 4 [ according to the short story "The Secret Number" by Igor Teper https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Teper_TheSecretNumber.pdf ].
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by evanb 5y ago
Tegmark's mathematical universe hypothesis is like Platonism taken to the extreme: only mathematical objects exist. Standard "vanilla" Platonism says: there is an abstract world of pure forms (the mathematical side) and it
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by evanb 5y ago
I met the owner/operators of thetasteofgermany at the Christmas Market by the National Portrait Gallery just before Christmas 2019. German ex-pats, they were extremely friendly and knowledgeable, and excited to hear I had just returne
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by evanb 5y ago
In case the author sees this: when I click in the last row of the laser demo, the 'beam' never gets started---the box just sits there, checked.
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by evanb 5y ago
I think you’re missing the forest for the trees.
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by evanb 5y ago
As a physicist, I try to avoid the snobbery of limiting myself to "higher physics". A wide variety of physical systems are interesting, not just fundamental particle physics. Physics contains multitudes; graphene, giant magnetor
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by evanb 5y ago
mRNA vaccines could also be eligible for the chemistry prize (which is often a biology prize in disguise).
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by evanb 5y ago
MSF won the peace prize, not a science prize. Science prizes have not gone to organizations; if there were ever an opportunity to break that tradition it was with the discovery of the Higgs (the 2013 prize) and they didn't.
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by evanb 5y ago
There’s a beautiful episode of The Anthropocene Reviewed in which John Green explores this recording. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anthropocene-reviewed/e...
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by evanb 5y ago
“I don’t know, sounds like bull shit to me.”
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by evanb 5y ago
In this case, transit is the right jargon. A transit is when the foreground object doesn’t completely hide the background object. An occultation is when the foreground object hides the background object. These two situations are collectivel
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by evanb 5y ago
I'd pay for an app that could do the same for Apple News links.
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by evanb 5y ago
You might enjoy Lepage’s “Lattice QCD for novices” which develops a lot of the ideas without getting bogged down in the specifics of QCD (it focuses on the harmonic oscillator + a harmonic oscillator). [0] https://arxiv.org/
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by evanb 5y ago
Many problems in physics are perturbative. Then, approximate methods suffice to get reliable answers. In Asimov’s “relativity of wrong” it’s the perturbative nature of gravity—-gravity is very weak—-that makes “the Earth is a sphere” less
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by evanb 5y ago
I’m a LQCD practitioner. There are a variety of open-source implementations; I’ll just point to a few. The one funded by the Department of Energy through the SciDAC program is the USQCD software stack [0]. There’s also the GPU library qud
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by evanb 5y ago
> I would interpret it to be "roughly ten times", because that is what it means Only if you work base-10!
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by evanb 5y ago
If you see the other player die, you can make literally any legal move and win.
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by evanb 5y ago
Not sure I have anything concrete to say, except that the “try all rules” rulial space seems to be an interesting way to make Tegmark’s mathematical universe hypothesis [or at least the more limited computable version] into a concrete thing
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by evanb 5y ago
All of this business about multiway computation and even “rulial space” seems to have been anticipated by Toffoli to some extent in “Action, or the Fungibility of Computation” [0]. The brilliant point of this paper is to point out that in t
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by evanb 5y ago
Collaborators and I built a library for numerically studying the Hubbard model (a model of condensed matter physics) using Blaze. It's great. HOWEVER, the lack of built-in GPU support is severely limiting, and we found the third-party
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Has Completed Testing(nasa.gov)
2 points by evanb 5y ago|0 comments
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by evanb 5y ago
Relevant: "I can't show you how pink this pink is." by Tom Scott https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NzVmtbPOrM Also relevant, his piece on "The Library of Rare Colors" https://www.youtube.c
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Veritasium: Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective [video](youtube.com)
13 points by evanb 5y ago|1 comments
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/science/lasers-fusion-pow...
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End of the Line for Uber(marker.medium.com)
42 points by evanb 5y ago|42 comments

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