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by pessimist 7y ago
Eugene Wigner knew both and has this to say: "I have known a great many intelligent people in my life. I knew Planck, von Laue and Heisenberg. Paul Dirac was my brother in law; Leo Szilard and Edward Teller have been among my closest f
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by pessimist 7y ago
Hebbal lake still exists, and does see migrant birds like painted storks and pelicans every winter. You can see for yourself, and BngBirds visits Hebbal Lake on the first Sunday of every month to see birds. The migrant birds that do visit I
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by pessimist 8y ago
Please read chapter 3 "Probability Amplitudes". http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/III_03.html "When a particle can reach a given state by two possible routes, the total amplitude for the process is the s
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by pessimist 8y ago
Your criticism is totally incorrect. In fact the 2-slit experiment does demonstrate superposition. Wave-particle duality and superposition of states are really just complementary ways of describing the same situation. To understand this, pl
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by pessimist 10y ago
>> As a New Zealander ... Immigrants are bad for society ... I live in Singapore now. Perhaps if you reflect on those contradictions, you may gain a more nuanced view.
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by pessimist 10y ago
Let me address your points: 1. See the latest numbers heres: http://www.thehindu.com/data/most-of-rural-india-still-opts-... I should have qualified "most" as "most of rural", sorry. Of course rural
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by pessimist 10y ago
Most Indians do in fact go out and poop in the fields every day. Most Indian commenters here are from the urban middle class and have literally never spent a minute thinking about the vast and miserable rural lower classes around them, and
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by pessimist 10y ago
I have never heard of this, despite having experienced rural life both among upper and lower classes. I expect that Ellen Barry made it up, or - more likely - was conned by one of her Indian assistants/translators and swallowed it up.
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by pessimist 10y ago
LOTR is a fine but flawed book. Reading it as a dark skinned Asian boy the characterization of all dark races as evil definitely stung and still hurts. The evil side is one dimensional and has no redeeming qualities at all. The female chara
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by pessimist 10y ago
Condensed matter physics has provided important math and physical ideas for particle physics. The basic mathematical framework of particle physics - Quantum Field Theory - is also useful to describe many condensed matter phases. Two extreme
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by pessimist 10y ago
> The one coincidence that Oxfordians have to explain is how Vere wound up publishing under the name of this real individual, Shakespeare. The other "coincidence" they need to explain is why all contemporary references to Shake
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by pessimist 10y ago
To keep things in perspective, in oncology the current success rate of treatments that enter trials is just 5%! See http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/06/02/are... . Immunotherapy is
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WHAT THE AI BEHIND ALPHAGO CAN TEACH US ABOUT BEING HUMAN(wired.com)
1 points by pessimist 10y ago|0 comments
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by pessimist 11y ago
Both the statements in quotes are true.
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by pessimist 11y ago
Consider the surface of a sphere. It is finite but has no centre.
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by pessimist 12y ago
Dianne Feinstein deserves enormous credit. Fox News and Republicans are bashing her and by extension her party as traitorous as we speak. The argument that this report should be kept in secret because it endangers Americans' lives is a
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Gmail Uptime stats at 99.983%(googleenterprise.blogspot.in)
1 points by pessimist 14y ago|0 comments
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Google tests local same day delivery(googlecommerce.blogspot.in)
2 points by pessimist 14y ago|0 comments
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by pessimist 14y ago
Access to credit is a huge deal for people. How else to create a small business, tide over a health crisis, or make a big education investment? Right now poor people are at the mercy of pawnbrokers, loan sharks who often charge interest rat
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by pessimist 14y ago
I think this is exaggerated on many levels. 1. There are dozens of famous and wealthy Indian classical musicians - Hariprasad Chaurasia, Zakir Hussain, Amjad Ali Khan, etc. There are hundreds if not thousands of lesser known musicians who m
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F.C.C. Calls on F.A.A. to Allow Electronics on Planes during takeoff/landing(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
3 points by pessimist 14y ago|0 comments
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by pessimist 14y ago
The best Indian research institutions like IISc and TIFR don't teach undergraduates, and the best Indian undergraduate institutions (IITs) don't do much research. Both research and undergrad teaching are required in the ranking. Honestly th
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by pessimist 14y ago
I'm not aware of the move in question, but you are overinterpreting wildly. Of course top chess players recognize obviously bad moves. In this case though Kasparov was trying to defeat Deep Blue with an anti-computer style, he had a particu
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by pessimist 14y ago
In General Relativity, Faster-Than-Light travel is only prohibited locally. Its possible for space-time itself to expand and shrink faster than light. This is why distant-enough galaxies are receding from us at faster than the speed of ligh
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by pessimist 14y ago
This problem is as old as the Industrial Revolution, not exactly news. I moved to India and here I can afford tons of household help. For example, I have a chauffeur, who comes from a community of highly skilled weavers who make traditional
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by pessimist 14y ago
I presume you live or have lived in India? In that case, consider yourself that the people targeted for this earn less than Rs. 25 per day - that is the official poverty line in India. Please consider yourself what you would be able to affo
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by pessimist 14y ago
Perhaps, but I should note that India has historically suffered from highly inconsistent monsoons which have lead to famines, as recently as the 1960s. The failure of those monsoons lead to the creation of a PDS system.
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by pessimist 14y ago
Incidentally, the problematic public distribution system is solved in parts of India, most notably the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu - http://www.thehindu.com/arts/magazine/article2475948.ece . The estimated loss in Tamil Nadu is 4%,
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by pessimist 14y ago
You are right that India is something like 2 orders of magnitude behind China, and that their Olympic performance was horrendous. However, 4 medals is actually an all-time record for India, a 33% improvement from last time and I believe onl
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by pessimist 14y ago
> Well, they are not trying to convince anyone here. They are trying to prove something. A nobel prize is at stake! If ATLAS only had the results and not CMS, they would have lost the nobel. For them to put aside personal glory for scie

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