jwuphysics

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by jwuphysics 11y ago
Oh boy. I also think that string theories (in their current state) are wrong and possibly a dead end, but I feel uneasy reading this. Besides the harmless typos [0] in the article and his questionable academic affiliation (iSETI [1], which
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by jwuphysics 12y ago
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28volume+of+1+kg+of+tu...
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by jwuphysics 12y ago
To add to this list, the gravitational waves interpretation of BICEP2's B-mode polarization signal is incorrect.
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by jwuphysics 12y ago
Pretty much everyone actually thinks black holes are real. I am a physicist.
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by jwuphysics 12y ago
This is definitely a nice, intuitive way to introduce people to the theory of gravity. However, I was a little confused about how he tried to model dark energy.
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by jwuphysics 12y ago
I study astrophysics, so I won't be able to say much about SUSY or string theories or conformal field theories. I do agree that we're living in a golden age of physics! But your second and third points, inflation and SUSY-- those
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by jwuphysics 12y ago
The URL is https://github.com/microg , so I'd have to guess "micro g".
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by jwuphysics 13y ago
Although a tetraquark particle is possible, the Z(3900) might also be explained by two weakly bound mesons (two-quark particles)--which would be less interesting and more likely, in my humble opinion.
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by jwuphysics 14y ago
You spelled "hackathon" wrong in the title. EDIT: unless it's meant to convey that you "hack a ton" but I'm really not so sure...
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by jwuphysics 14y ago
The boldface isn't showing up correctly for me. Viewing on Chromium.
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by jwuphysics 14y ago
It isn't Hunt Library in CMU campus by any chance, is it?
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by jwuphysics 15y ago
I've gotten locked into strange sleep cycles simply out of necessity (I am an undergraduate student at Carnegie Mellon). I've found that, while my body will accept a psuedo-equilibrium of somehow getting ~ 20 hours of sleep a week, it will
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by jwuphysics 15y ago
Is it snowing organic compounds? Probably. Is it snowing complex organic compounds? Let's go see. Is it snowing microbes? At this point, we're leaving the realm of scientific evidence and throwing out sensational headlines. I'm not sa
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by jwuphysics 15y ago
Congrats to PittPatt! I work for one of their competitors, also from CMU.
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by jwuphysics 15y ago
>> 6. On that note, move +1’d sites into a users main Google+ activity stream. Again - networks are all about the Social Objects and +1 is Google’s method for sharing. Why hide it away in a separate tab? Please do not do this. Th
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by jwuphysics 15y ago
I suppose this will be MeeGo's flagship device? Honestly, I don't know if the mobile OS market has room for another...
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by jwuphysics 15y ago
> CMU spin-offs represent 34 percent of the total companies created in Pennsylvania based on university technologies in the past five years. CMU has helped Pittsburgh rebrand itself from a coal-mining, steel-working town to a technologi
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by jwuphysics 15y ago
Having done many of the ones listed in the article, I would like to throw in my two cents: Drugs, like LSD or DMT, are not at all like seeing things from a helicopter. Sure, they are from a "new perspective", but unfortunately it's all in
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by jwuphysics 15y ago
If you were holding onto a chunk of antimatter you would probably be missing a hand.
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by jwuphysics 15y ago
I actually don't think I was ever "naturally intelligent". My current grades prove that. But the reason I could cruise through high school was because my parents drilled me with algebra, vocabulary quizzes, geography, and Montessori schoo
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by jwuphysics 15y ago
I'm making strides but it's still a far cry from high school, where I was easily one of the smartest kids without ever trying. Coming to CMU definitely humbled me quite a bit! But that aside, I'm still not content with being normal. When
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by jwuphysics 15y ago
I wish that people had told me earlier that it's possible to be both smart and not awkward. Circa sixth grade, I gave up my academic life for my social life. Now I'm in CMU desperately trying to get above 50th percentile.
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by jwuphysics 15y ago
I agree that this idea seems intuitively true, but I don't think there is a problem articulating it. It's simply that many will find it offensive that a scientist can be better than an MBA student at managing a company. Then again, Musk ma
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by jwuphysics 15y ago
That's amazing. I'm surprised Asia hasn't even reached twenty million downloads, though.
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Google launches its own one-deal-a-day: Google Offers(google.com)
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by jwuphysics 15y ago
Sounds very similar to the Information Systems program, too. My girlfriend is pursuing a Business Administration heavy Information Systems program, whereas one of my roommates is about to graduate in a web-dev oriented Human-Computer Inter
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by jwuphysics 15y ago
I was once a huge contributor at deals.woot! After awhile, though, I started to notice the decline in the quality of posts, as more and more users filtered in. I remember being extremely annoyed by corporate accounts that spammed the "fres
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by jwuphysics 15y ago
Carnegie Mellon University offers a Software Engineering minor as part of their Bachelors in CS undergraduate program. As for the Master's degree, they already have one. I think students have enough freedom to mold their own strengths and
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by jwuphysics 16y ago
This has also bothered me for quite awhile. I think what nails the ridiculousness of graphical calculators is illustrated in this comic: http://xkcd.com/768/ Seriously, though, as a student in CMU, and as a astrophysics major, I can atte