reedf1

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by reedf1 6y ago
I was given the impression by my professors that it was a purposeful move, maybe it was just in teaching and not research. I'll defer to you, the actual particle physicist.
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by reedf1 6y ago
And I wish they wouldn't have, for the sake of scientific clarity.
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by reedf1 6y ago
Well because you can encode intuition in names. e.g. Quarks come in pairs, and each pair has one quark with +2/3e charge and one with -1/3e. The names can give you intuition for their charge, i.e. Up quark is +2/3e Down quark
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by reedf1 6y ago
Yes, "Truth quark". Because they don't exist naturally it lead my physics prof to say "There is no truth in the universe". Also, Some physicists call the fourth, fifth, and sixth derivative of position, "snap,
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by reedf1 6y ago
This really grinds my gears, we purposefully moved away from "beauty quark" as it was a bit too whimsical (at the expense of descriptiveness), now science communicators keep using it as it seems to capture the imagination of non-s
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by reedf1 6y ago
The truth that no one wants to acknowledge is that successful content creators are usually brilliantly multi-talented and hard-working. I'm never surprised to find the ones I like have had whole careers in media (or media-adjacent) fie
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by reedf1 6y ago
I find I can enter a flow state with work more easily when I feel like the world is asleep.
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by reedf1 6y ago
Things aren't given fundamental value by being an NFT so its weird to expect anything other than the value of ownership of what your NFT gives you. If people are buying NFTs thinking they have value simply because they are NFTs they ar
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by reedf1 6y ago
In addition, on the /classic page, There is less: - Up-to-date tech There is more: - Nostalgia/Parenting content ( A Calvin and Hobbes guide to parenting? )
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by reedf1 6y ago
My whole childhood and young life I wanted to go into physics academia. I wanted to have influence - to push the boundaries of science. I had an idyllic view of this purely meritocratic system where people were paid to explore. My first yea
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by reedf1 6y ago
This should surely satisfy some of the sceptics. ETH2 solves many of the controversial problems with cryptocurrencies.
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by reedf1 6y ago
I visited Japan a few months before the pandemic hit and it is really sad thinking back now. There was a real effort from the airport in Tokyo to as far away as Osaka and Kyoto accommodating for foreign languages and really showing off Japa
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by reedf1 6y ago
"But TVs are cheaper!" I guess my TV is a good emergency snack for when I can't afford food.
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by reedf1 6y ago
Is the name a take on the infamous demon core incident? Fun name! For those interested... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
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by reedf1 6y ago
Maybe you've become a better coder and now the "average code" has dropped in your estimation. There are a multitude of potential explanations, and anecdotes from people will not reveal the answer to your question. My small am
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by reedf1 6y ago
The "architecting systems" vs "developing a game" point really hit home. When I've attempted to make a game myself I've ended up developing - a night-sky pixel-art generator based off of night-sky data from SIM
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by reedf1 6y ago
> Well, C++ might be “low latency” when it comes to executing code, but it’s definitely not low latency when it comes to rolling out new features or even finding devs who can write it. Every time one of these articles roll around it&#x27
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by reedf1 6y ago
I am leveraged (via my mortgage) about 600% of my GDP (yearly salary). This seems realistic for me, why is it not realistic for the government? Especially when the government's spend directly correlates with their future income.
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by reedf1 6y ago
I am so conflicted about the environmental impact of Proof-Of-Work. In many ways it feels like an arbitrary energy spend - but I think criticizing cryptocurrency for it seems a little disingenuous when we don't apply the same logic to
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by reedf1 6y ago
Interesting the author accuses computers of 'word soup' and then produces a bit of GPT-3 tier human exceptionalism gunk.
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by reedf1 6y ago
...and the cost of those operations?
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by reedf1 6y ago
And the cost of an off-chain transaction? Actually, you're right, that's not worth mentioning because that doesn't fit with your argument.
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by reedf1 6y ago
Can confirm, had my lobotomy scheduled after the first time I was paid in btc.
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by reedf1 6y ago
I find this data fascinating - partly because I don't understand it. I regularly send bitcoin and, as far as I can tell, have never spent more than a tiny (unquantifiable in fiat, as in much less than a cent) amount on transaction fees
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by reedf1 6y ago
You'd have to make sure you deposited to the secondary wallet independently from your primary wallet or anybody remotely block explorer saavy could determine that you probably had another account with more crypto.
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by reedf1 6y ago
I feel you are especially vulnerable to wrench attacks though.
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by reedf1 6y ago
I find it interesting that you perceive this as a recent phenomenon - rigorous cultural self-criticism almost seems like a culturally British trait from my perspective. Are you suggesting this is new?
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by reedf1 6y ago
I find comments like this needlessly pedantic, unsubstantive, and, in this case, probably wrong.
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by reedf1 6y ago
Yes, lens compression is how people colloquially know a variety of perspective distortion (foreshortening). I have a background in optics and there is quite a bit of lingo discontinuity.
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by reedf1 6y ago
As an amateur photographer the reporting at the beginning of the pandemic was journalistic poison. Anyone even vaguely interested in photography knows about lens compression. There wasn't a single photo of a beach or a high-street I co

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