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by orbifold 7y ago
The server instances are free though, google only charged them for the datatransfer to those instances.
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by orbifold 7y ago
It actually extremely easy to write C++ wrappers for other languages. Examples I‘m familiar with are pybind11 (similar to boost python) and the node C++ API. That other languages don’t have similarly convenient libraries is entirely their o
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by orbifold 7y ago
There is nothing new about this formula or derivation. In fact this precise formula (including that derivation) is taught in Germany.
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by orbifold 7y ago
If you use a small membrane there will be basically no way that a sufficiently large gradient between the two sides exist to produce meaningful amounts of electricity. This article is total bullshit even if the material science is nice.
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by orbifold 7y ago
I would say that under almost all circumstances it would be better to study in Europe if you can. German universities are free and pretty good (LMU and KIT for compsci for example). The cost of living is comparable. Even favoring the ~1 yea
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by orbifold 7y ago
In fact rumor has it that a major reason for the Brexit campaign was that there was a threat of very costly corporate tax loopholes being closed in new EU wide legislation.
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by orbifold 7y ago
I think he is well aware of this. The current quantum device Google build is however not much different than a sufficiently complex other physics experiment and so far they have not been able to demonstrate that it is capable of fault-toler
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by orbifold 7y ago
Thanks for open sourcing this! This seems like precisely the kind of tool I‘ve been looking for. One thing that would be really great is support for HPC schedulers like SLURM. It seems relatively straightforward to add, so I might give it a
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by orbifold 7y ago
I think that still is more or less a polite way of saying that American banks found suckers in Düsseldorf and Frankfurt to sell to. Sometimes in multiple steps: First sell to Deutsche Bank, they sell to suckers in Düsseldorf.
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by orbifold 7y ago
I never understood people that questioned the practical applicability of math. Surely they must realize that these things are so elementary that there is no way there was no practical use for them. Logarithms specifically allow you to multi
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by orbifold 7y ago
The details make it a very hard problem. There is scientific consensus that a too rapidly changing climate leads to mass extinction of species (plants, animals, etc.), because suddenly species are not adapted to the climate they find themse
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by orbifold 7y ago
Julia always seemed great on paper and definitely is a strong candidate for replacing Matlab. But whenever I tried using it, the user experience seemed much more broken than python or c++. It just seems way easier to structure and work on a
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by orbifold 7y ago
While this is true, this work is typically done by a different person than the one designing the RTL, and it takes 1-2 month at most if there are minimal changes to the overall physical design. We are able to iterate on designs at a rate of
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by orbifold 7y ago
I would try to make adding tests as easy as possible. That is for every piece of code you write think to yourself: How would I test this. If in many cases the code only makes sense in the context of the whole application running this might
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by orbifold 7y ago
Not necessarily, because it could give a hint. It is possible to get from various higher dimensional gauge groups like SO(10) to almost the standard model. But the left over particles often couple in unfavourable ways and lead to proton dec
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by orbifold 7y ago
You basically have to listen to any lecture he gives to understand that he has at least a drastically overinflated ego. Compare that to lectures by people like Witten or any other world-class theoretical physicist / mathematician. The
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by orbifold 7y ago
There is no way people would give up owning their own car outside of very dense urban centers. Everywhere else it would neither be practical nor desirable to wait for a rental car to arrive. People also tend to store lots of personal items
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by orbifold 7y ago
There is academic effort that has been working on a similar concept for 8+ years. A recent paper that also discusses some of the challenges (routing around defects, ...) is https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389&#
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by orbifold 7y ago
I‘be looked into clojure briefly. What made it unattractive to me was the lack of performance and complexity of the build tooling. Simplicity in go goes beyond the language itself. It is also very simple to build, depend on libraries and de
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by orbifold 7y ago
Minecraft is successful precisely because you can meaningfully impact the game world.
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by orbifold 7y ago
It won't get rolled out in the EU, Germany and France have explicitly stated that they won't allow it: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cryptocurrency-f... "no private entity can claim monetar
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by orbifold 7y ago
Which is why of course physics departments pay you ~50% to do a PhD, whereas in Computer Science they pay 100% because otherwise no one will apply.
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by orbifold 7y ago
Which is why our dog can cause up to 5 million in damages and they would be payed by our dog liability insurance...
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by orbifold 7y ago
The story is even worse than what is publicly reported. The test was actually not developed by this professor but by one of his postdocs. She happened to be Chinese and her contract was up for renewal, when he saw the potential for commerci
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by orbifold 7y ago
Well you can drink coffee, whereas most apps are garbage and not useful.
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by orbifold 7y ago
> I certainly don't feel exploited. Sure this is your subjective perception, maybe fuelled by the positive reinforcement that rituals of accomplishment provide and the fact that working on physics is really fun. As long as you reali
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by orbifold 7y ago
You can take a look here: https://github.com/alisw/AliRoot
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by orbifold 7y ago
> Every statement in your diatribe would seem to be predicate... I would be happy if they found any experimental evidence for their predictions. If you have followed the field basically the majority opinion was that supersymmetry at the
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by orbifold 7y ago
I'm pretty positive that people made firm predictions and bets that the LHC will see super partners (because otherwise the "naturalness" argument would go away). Whether it would be the MSSM or something else was up for debat
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by orbifold 7y ago
CERN and the LHC are to me prime examples of bad science. You build huge machines at incredible cost, wasting hundreds of thousands of man hours of brilliant young people’s time. They are paid almost nothing (a checkout clerk at a Swiss sup

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