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by gpsx 7y ago
I also view the apearance of classical physics as you say, but I am not sure if that rules out this concept in the article. I admittedly don't really understand what the article is saying. (It takes me alot of work to understand these
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by gpsx 7y ago
That's a good point about specialists building empathy. One of my college physics professors complained about how dumb the ROTC people were - but a lot of them are humanities majors forced to take physics, which they couldn't care
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by gpsx 7y ago
Matlab - That was designed for engineers who are not experts in software, even if they were highly technical.
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by gpsx 7y ago
A friend recounted a conversation where he was talking to one of his friends, saying he couldn't understand how these people could be so dumb. (I don't recall what "these" refers to...) His friend said, "I don'
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by gpsx 7y ago
I left out some important details in the above explanation. So here is part 2... Feynman discovered another very important item, the path integral formulation of physics. This was important for his derivation of Feynman diagrams and also it
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by gpsx 7y ago
I also will expand on this. Quantum field theory is very difficult and we can't solve many problems. We can solve one in particular, free particles that do not interact. (By the way, this is like solving a simple harmonic osciallator.)
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by gpsx 7y ago
I live in sunny California but I still have problems with not enough sun. I used to be a cyclist and triathlete, being outside for many hours a week, and now I am doing maninly dancing. I am inside way more than I used to be. I can feel whe
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by gpsx 7y ago
When I was running track in high school, we were doing a workout that was 10 200m sprints. One of my best friends Erik was running in the same group as I was. We were about the same speed. But during these 200's, he was just sitting ba
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by gpsx 7y ago
I agree there is a problem. And there would be precedent for breaking up a company. But she is going further than that. How about the definition of platform utilities for companies with annual global revenue of over $25 billion (see article
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by gpsx 7y ago
I was very surprised reading because I thought it sounded _somewhat_ reasonable when she was describing the problem. However her solution is very drastic. I don think we have any precedent for knowing how the market would respond to such he
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by gpsx 7y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to put words in your mouth, particularly based on a mere four words. I was talking to people who I have heard argue "it's only the headers". I appreciate your response. I am not clear on if that part
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by gpsx 7y ago
Yes, meditation could be called disciplined leisure. I'm not sure if the post you are responding to is getting at that. Meditation and minding wandering are very different things, even opposites. But I think both are very useful for th
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by gpsx 7y ago
Why do you say that? In some regards yes, and some no. I think the intellectual property is in the APIs/"headers". That is what Android uses from Java and what this company is copying from SmartCar. Its not easy to write a go
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by gpsx 7y ago
I have a different opinion about why OO was popular. I think it can work well for small programs. But it doesn't scale well to bigger problems. It just becomes too confusing. Once people used it for bigger things, possibly because prog
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by gpsx 7y ago
I'd agree income inequality is a problem, but I think what is specifically bothering people is that they feel they don't have the opportunity to make more. Once someone has money they can use it to help themselves and "hold d
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by gpsx 8y ago
I think the real problem in the US media is political bias. I think essentially the article is accusing the left leaning media of letting that bias color their views. Of course the article is equally guilty of that same thing. And I assume
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by gpsx 8y ago
Back in the 2008 financial crisis I read articles about what went wrong, but I am not sure I understood exactly what was going on so well. I filled in details mysefl by guessing. Maybe someone can clarify this? When they combine a number of
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by gpsx 8y ago
I think the post did make a classification mistake there. I'm not sure exactly what is meant by professional, but there are a lot of jobs people can find fulfilling that are not in the classic defintion of "professional", lik
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by gpsx 8y ago
Wait until the next engineer, however experienced, inherits your code and he will tell you everything you did wrong.
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by gpsx 8y ago
I second this. It would also be nice to specify what is new about a given language. As the parent comment says, this type of thing would be difficult to capture, but it would be very interesting if we could. It would be sort of a Darwin &qu
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by gpsx 8y ago
Wow. I'm shocked by the comments here. If the author reads these I am sure she will give up all hope for the area. Of course a number of commenters didn't actually finish the article.
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by gpsx 8y ago
You can google "electron size" and you get different classical estimations and hopefully a statement that there is no measuarable size and that it is considered a point particle. But that doesn't mean it can't have inter
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by gpsx 8y ago
> There is no simple logical connective in ordinary language that captures that Yes, I'd agree with this. I was trying to say something aproximately true to convey a point. In your post you did agree with my salient point - the elec
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by gpsx 8y ago
That's a funny cartoon, and _very_ fitting to the discussion. I'm a physicist and its true phsycist's don't always tell the whole truth when talking about quantum mechanics. I understand the different perspective between
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by gpsx 8y ago
There appears to be a very basic error in this writeup. I say there appears to be because it seems to be so easy to misunderstand language used in casual descriptions of quantum mechanics. Neither I nor the writer is a lawyer. My apologies
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by gpsx 8y ago
No, that is why I said this has been the golden age to date. Meaning I think there is much more to come. (So I guess maybe it really isn't the golden age then...)
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by gpsx 8y ago
Yes, this is it. I became not so motivated in physics. I have enjoyed the work I have done since then more. I missed the golden age of physics but instead have been able to take part in the golden age (to date) of software and the internet.
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by gpsx 8y ago
I don't think there is a correct answer to the question should we build the next particle accelerator. Its an opinion based on the probability of us finding something (also an opinion) and the relative value of that discovery to $20B.
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by gpsx 8y ago
I don't think Sun should have protected the code for Java. But I think it should be possible to protect it. Most people here may hate the Jaa language but it took a ton of work and expertise to invent it. And it took something to make
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by gpsx 8y ago
I have to confess what I know about Paradise lost comes from the movie Animal House. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ciw1os85nz0

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