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by nyc111 8y ago
Elon Musk talks about arguing from first principles and claims this is the physics way without going into details. What else did he say about physics that you liked?
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by nyc111 8y ago
> computing science ... is slowly but surely becoming an essential part of many areas of modern physics research. Also, this means that fundamental assumptions and the calculations are hidden from view. Recently, some physicists question
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by nyc111 8y ago
I agree. It seems to me that in those huge physics projects like CERN what most physicists do is programming or data analysis.
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> ...the pure joy of understanding the universe around us is one of the most beautiful experiences you can ever have in life. But you do not need to study physics for 25 years in order to understand how the world works. Academic physics
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by nyc111 8y ago
So they wrote and published the book in Github? Is this a free service?
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by nyc111 8y ago
Actually, the number is 1/137.03599913.
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by nyc111 8y ago
They always focus on obesity but microbiome also affects the mood and behavior.
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by nyc111 8y ago
> When waiting for a bus that comes on average every 10 minutes, your average waiting time will be 10 minutes. This is very ambiguous. Unless he gives a time frame the numbers do not make sense. Average in a week? Average in a year? This
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by nyc111 8y ago
Would not be easier to actually time the actual waiting times as he waited for the bus every day?
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by nyc111 8y ago
May I suggest The Double Helix by James D. Watson https://www.amazon.com/DOUBLE-HELIX-James-D-Watson/dp/B00A21...
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by nyc111 8y ago
You might like Russel's Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy https://people.umass.edu/klement/imp/imp-ebk.pdf From the Introduction: "And as we need two sorts of instruments, the telescope and the mic
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Nima Arkani-Hamed: Spacetime is doomed [video](youtube.com)
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Marie-Antoinette’s Jewels Come to Auction(sothebys.com)
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by nyc111 8y ago
> When traveling in the public we have to live with other people. I agree. But in the case of the announcements, it's not the other passengers who are making the noise but a huge and mindless bureaucracy who makes the announcements
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by nyc111 8y ago
I was referring to @fi358's comment: > Many of us Finns find it annoying as it is against > local customs (it resembles situation where somebody > comes too close to my personal space). This constant > chit-chat prevents me
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by nyc111 8y ago
By the way, I see this topic as part of the fundamental human condition, that is, the neverending strife between the individual and his master, the legal organism. Governments and their branches are legal organisms. These organisms exploit
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by nyc111 8y ago
This may be true. But it does not make sense to violate personal spaces of millions of people for the possibility that one blind person will be in the train. I never encountered a blind commuter but I'm sure they exist. In my country p
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by nyc111 8y ago
I really liked APL. I'm learning it from here https://aplwiki.com/LearnApl/AplTables It's fun. Not sure what I can do with it but it's so different than other languages.
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Why I’m Still Using APL (2012) [pdf](cs.uwaterloo.ca)
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It looks like I would love to live in Finland! I'm always annoyed by passengers in the bus talking loudly while I try to read my book. This is very common. Commuters are very noisy in Turkey. Also I wonder if in Finland they announce s
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by nyc111 8y ago
This seems a scan from printed version and code is legible http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/%7Ejzhu/csc326/readings/iverson....
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by nyc111 8y ago
I think they are looking in the wrong place. This is related to intestinal health and microbiome. So it is closely related to diet. But, I also suspect it is habitual. Some creatures in the body get "drunk" by the chemicals releas
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by nyc111 8y ago
> To me Darwin the more impressive in this regard because his idea wasn't just seriously batty (no one had seen evolution at work when he proposed it, despite living in it's midst) I think the idea of evolution was in the air.
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> Einstein because he proposed time wasn't absolute... Einstein’s iconoclastic idea was his questioning of Newton’s occult force. That was Einstein’s starting point. He could not accept that an occult notion acting instantaneously a
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by nyc111 8y ago
Dyalog appears to be free http://www.dyalog.com/download-zone.htm
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by nyc111 8y ago
I tried to read it but the code sections appear very small on my screen. Almost unreadable. But glad to learn about APL. In this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZXpgCjaxU4 he uses aplcloud.com Looked very nice but th
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by nyc111 8y ago
Yes, I missed that. I had GR in mind.
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If so, we must credit academic scholasticism for turning Einstein's simple theory presented in couple of brief journal articles into a 1,275 page book (over 5 pounds!). If those original papers required such a book to make them intelli
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I wonder why. Is this an institutional habit? Or because mathematicians' work is mysterious to lay people?
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True. And also he got mathematical help from Marcel Grossmann. Poincare too was doing work on the theory of relativity. Also one of the selling points of relativity in the early days was the difficulty of its math. I think it was Eddington

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