sbdmmg

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by sbdmmg 3y ago
This is a slippery slope, IMHO. It can easily get you to be the next "tactical tornado" of your team (cf. John Ousterhout, A Philosophy of Software Design).
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The Little-Known Origin Story Behind the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by sbdmmg 4y ago|1 comments
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by sbdmmg 4y ago
Entanglement in the life of physics giant Chien-Shiung Wu
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by sbdmmg 4y ago
I also worked for 10 years at a small movie theater in Italy, and very much share what you described. The noises, the lights, the repetitive and almost ritual actions. A very nice illustration the projectionist's life is told in the ex
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by sbdmmg 4y ago
In what country are you located? In France there's a "médiateur" https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F14373 It might apply in your case...
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by sbdmmg 5y ago
Has anything changed significantly since 2014 that would make today's cellphones more efficient at detecting gammas? IIRC the tiny size of the cmos camera was the limiting factor...
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by sbdmmg 5y ago
It's just hard to do. But there are efforts in this direction e.g. https://analysispreservation.cern.ch/ src: I used to be in HEP
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by sbdmmg 5y ago
Hi! Interesting project, congrats! How does it compare to https://calmcode.io/human-learn/introduction.html ?
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by sbdmmg 6y ago
Your reply is fun to read and I really enjoyed it. Of course the descriptions of the "typical day" in the original blog post is idealized. I suppose this idealization is there to make the contrast between the highly-effective day
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by sbdmmg 6y ago
From [1] (links therein might be more in-depth) "stable matter, and therefore life and intelligent beings, could not exist if its value were much different. For instance, were α to change by 4%, stellar fusion would not produce carbon,
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by sbdmmg 6y ago
Very much agree. I prefer"The Lessons of History" by Durant [1], more focused and less "fluffy" IMHO. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lessons_of_History
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by sbdmmg 6y ago
Just finished "Model Thinking" [1] taught by Scott E. Page. I really enjoyed this class. It provided me with several very useful mathematical tools to think more clearly about important and frequent problems. Scott is a great teac
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by sbdmmg 6y ago
Street-Fighting Mathematics [1] [1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-098-street-fighti...
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by sbdmmg 7y ago
Fun story. In the Princeton Physics dept. corridors (ca. 2010) there were posters and papers talking about current research and results. One of them, not far from Anderson's office, was about broken symmetries and the Higgs boson. In i
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by sbdmmg 7y ago
And his recent (2019-11-07) interview on France Culture https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/linvite-des-matins/tr...
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by sbdmmg 7y ago
The conclusion of this study is not clear at all to me. From reading their executive summary, the CEBR researchers seem to take the global value added (GVA) of any physics-based industry, and consider it as a something like a contribution o
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Physics worth more to EU economy than retail and financial services, says study(sciencebusiness.net)
162 points by sbdmmg 7y ago|52 comments
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by sbdmmg 7y ago
Same experience here. Ended up settling on app.getpolarized.io which seems to be less "intrusive."
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by sbdmmg 7y ago
A bit off-topic...is there any project to create one's own OCR engine customized to one's own handwriting?
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by sbdmmg 7y ago
> Because when things go wrong they really go wrong. My impression is that the main reason is poor education and scaremongering, rather than actual causalities. When comparing nuclear with other energy sources, nuclear is still quite saf
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by sbdmmg 7y ago
Very sad news. Took one of his graduate courses, he was great.
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by sbdmmg 7y ago
Very thoughtful comment, thank you. Indeed the main difference between e.g. physics and economics (or medicine) is that in the former case one has the privilege of being able to experiment by toggling the parameters one at the time. And bru
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by sbdmmg 7y ago
"In physics with 3 theories that can model 97% of the world. In economics you have 97 theories that can model 3% of the world." I can't remember the source for this aphorism, but it resonates a lot with your comment :-) [disc
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by sbdmmg 8y ago
For a reasonable rebuttal of her arguments, please take a look at this article on slate [1]. The main argument against her article is that progress in science is not just measured by how many particles you've discovered this year. (dis
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by sbdmmg 8y ago
The Lessons of History, by W. & A. Durant changed my view on several "big topics" of history and society, such as biology, religion, economics, and war.
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by sbdmmg 8y ago
Thanks! interesting article...reminds me of planet.com The project website [1] has a lot more technical details. [1] http://web.stanford.edu/group/deepsolar/home.html
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by sbdmmg 8y ago
"In high-energy and particle physics, projects are done by large international teams that can have upwards of 1,000 members. All participants are listed as authors as a mark of membership of the team, not for writing or revising the pa
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by sbdmmg 9y ago
I used to have it on the wall too; I don't know whether we were colleagues :-) https://xkcd.com/1205/
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by sbdmmg 10y ago
It was a horrible disaster. But, 30 years after the accident, this article is trying to get readers using punchy headlines, like "Children are still being born with severe birth defects". I would have expected a BBC article to be