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by joe__f 4y ago
I've been thinking to move away from Gmail for a while now, what alternatives do you suggest?
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by joe__f 4y ago
I have read HDM a number of times, as a child and as an adult. As an adult I noticed the points you're making and had to read around them a little. I still love the books and have learnt many things from reading them.
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by joe__f 4y ago
Huh, sounds really weird to me. Maybe more normal for Americans? I'm British
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by joe__f 4y ago
[1] is an excellent and fascinating documentary on the history of Tetris, how it came about and the different business struggles in the West to license the game, which was challenging given that it originated in the USSR [1] https:/&
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by joe__f 4y ago
Ben Eater is a great channel. What's with 'Eater' though? Is that his surname? Or is it some kind of pun maybe?
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by joe__f 4y ago
I remember there was a level called something like 'Open the Faucet' in WarioLand 2, and I was similarly confused
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by joe__f 4y ago
"Your antivirus program might think that MineCity 2000 is a virus. It's not." Exactly what a virus would say...
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by joe__f 4y ago
I always feel like I could have more chlorine gas in my life
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by joe__f 4y ago
I've seen people make that analogy before and I do think it has merit. As far as I'm aware it's pretty much the standard approach in neuroscience though and not special to these authors
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by joe__f 4y ago
Haha I'd go for the novelty value
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by joe__f 4y ago
Tao Te Ching is a guide to living your life in a skillful way. The cryptic format is timeless; it's lasted for millenia, and I can understand something new every time I read it
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by joe__f 4y ago
It's damn weather! It's bad, it's sad and it's been happening badder and sadder at an exponentially increasing rate over the last 50 years or so, best explained by models in which there is a causal link to human activity
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by joe__f 4y ago
Some people may find it manageable to leave behind all the places and people they ever knew and move to another country. Many would not want to do this.
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by joe__f 4y ago
"Some people prefer to be homeless on the street versus getting [...] a roof over their head that they don't like" Do you have a reference to back up this statement? Have you ever spoken to any homeless people and asked them
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Many English readers are not either
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Hahaha ok you got me
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The dipole example is meant to illustrate the fact that if you have more than one particle then you can have faster decay as you move away from zero. In the dipole example you also have opposite electric charges, which is analogous to the c
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by joe__f 4y ago
Just delete all the whitespace and you'll have the whole program in one line of code
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by joe__f 4y ago
If you have an electric dipole with a positive and negative electric charge near to each other then the force drops off like 1/r^3, faster than 1/r^2. This result is for a single quark in isolation; in reality quarks come in pairs
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by joe__f 4y ago
I don't think it's possible to tell if your or your partner's acclimatisation period and subsequent improvements were caused by the effect of the antidepressants or by a placebo effect
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by joe__f 4y ago
I think if you find verbal communication difficult then it could help to start with that, and take what you learn there to help improve your writing later on
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by joe__f 4y ago
Paper is two-dimensional, and conventional mathematical notation utilises both of these dimensions. I find mathematical expressions written for computer languages to be more complex to parse and I think a key reason is that the notation is
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by joe__f 4y ago
What kind of writing are you wanting to learn? From the context I guess maybe reports for work? If were wanting to work on creative writing, then I recommend starting with stream of consciousness where you just write down anything and every
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by joe__f 4y ago
Seems like the pool of words is quite small; for example with T_RN it was clear that o or u would be the answer, even though a and e also give valid words
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by joe__f 4y ago
I read the paper more carefully and had a think about this, and here are my thoughts; Dixon et al. find a duality linking form factors and scattering amplitudes. Scattering amplitudes are written as a 'loop expansion', which you c
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by joe__f 4y ago
This was an interesting comment and I learnt something new, thank you. It does feel a little bit like you are proselytising the good news of the dual number autodiff method though, when you don't respond to questions on potential downs
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by joe__f 4y ago
Ah thankyou, it was so neat and automatic that I missed the punchline. It looks like you'll always calculate f and f' together and it's not possible to calculate only f' though? Seems like this could waste time in some a
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by joe__f 4y ago
You need a good foundation in quantum field theory to be able to read Elvang and Huang effectively. 'Peskin and Schroeder' and Srednicki are good standard introductions to QFT. If you understood around half of either of those text
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by joe__f 4y ago
Ok I had a look at wiki and it's clear to me how the dual numbers encode differentiation and the theory behind how autodiff works. How do the two fit together? I didn't follow that part
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by joe__f 4y ago
Scattering Amplitudes in Gauge Theory and Gravity by Elvang and Huang is a standard introduction to the field, if you wanted to take a look and see what you might need to learn to get up to scratch. There are a lot of prerequisites.

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