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by tagrun 10y ago
> but it is not the only way to produce knowledge that is reliable. Yeah, as evidenced by http://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-f... Indeed! Just look at the puny and half-wrong progress made in
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by tagrun 10y ago
Science is well defined. Oh, so when science is defined in the way Popper defines it, it is "arbitrary confines", but when it is defined in a way to legitimize cargo cult science, it is "well defined".
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by tagrun 10y ago
> Social sciences haven't been "playing science", they are just as scientific as physics. This sound a lot like trolling, but I'll bite for this once. You can't have less/more reliable knowledge. Science can
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by tagrun 10y ago
This is exactly what's wrong with those "sciences": you can't do things scientifically (meaning the way "natural" scientists do) when it works for you and do something else when things start to get hairy, and c
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by tagrun 10y ago
As a physicist, I'm not happy with the trend of new research fields calling themselves science (mainly for benefiting from the hard-earned respect physics [or natural philosophy, as it was called] has gained throughout centuries, which
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by tagrun 10y ago
I can recommend Howards Georgi's Lie Algebras in Particle Physics which is a good introduction in the context of particle physics (yes, it covers both Lie algebras and groups). No, it is nothing like the angular momentum of a spinning
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by tagrun 10y ago
There's an accidental similarity between the groups SO(3) and SU(2), which works for spin. There are other quantum numbers such as flavor SU(3) for there is no mathematical coincidence and such analogies won't work. The difference
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by tagrun 10y ago
> "Spin" in quantum physics is more of an artistic interpretation of the term. It's similar to how Autism and other disorders have a "spectrum", but aren't divided into colors. > With wave-particle dualit
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by tagrun 10y ago
> Would it make electronics cheaper, smaller, more efficient As the name implies, it uses transport of spin rather than electrons themselves. The electrons may not move at all (you can have a spin current with no electric current at all)
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by tagrun 10y ago
>> ...in no-name journals. > Foundations of Physics isn't a high-prestige, cutting-edge journal, but it's also not a crackpot journal. >> A non-respectable journal doesn't mean its contents are crack-pottery, w
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by tagrun 10y ago
> I wasn't able to find a journal, Why am I not surprised? > He does seem to have a few peer-reviewed publications... ...in no-name journals. > But, if it wasn't published in a journal, it's tough to insist that some
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by tagrun 10y ago
> The theory of Prof. Aguste Meessen published well before Wu's article Which journal was it published exactly, and what is "well before"? You're linking to a generic homemade PDF file served in his personal site, whi
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by tagrun 10y ago
He said "benevolent", and also "really wants to help humanity".
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by tagrun 10y ago
Yes, you can miss anything in any piece of code in a review. No, this doesn't mean you should use someone else's code for trivial stuff a la leftpad. However, if you're saying that you don't have confidence that you can
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by tagrun 10y ago
The irony in your smug reply is, it echoes the broken leftpad mentality of javascript programmers. Go is statically typed, and this either requires generics or a new built-in for just reversing an array/slice. And I can't see how
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by tagrun 10y ago
A few more nice points about arxiv: 1) peer-review can take sometime, it's nice to be able to get your work out earlier publicly for the records, which you can make a claim later on 2) even after publication, it is accessible by anyone
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by tagrun 10y ago
I said a respectable physics journal, not no-name journals with impact factor <1. APS journals, Nature group journals or NJP are examples of respectable journals. Indian Journal of Physics, Physics Essays or Canadian Journal of Physics
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by tagrun 10y ago
Science isn't a computer program based on some simple algorithm. I understand that it can be difficult to spot crackpot to a layman. 1. String theory doesn't assume 20 crazy things and its axioms aren't its only predictions 2
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by tagrun 10y ago
Sorry to break this to you but this is crackpot science, and there is no way such a manuscript can pass through any respectable physicist. Obviously you're not a physicist; let me simply say that this is not how a scientific paper lo
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by tagrun 10y ago
If it was so simple as service -> $$$, they should be paying up the referees, which is the only task that requires rarely found scientific skills. I seriously can't see how editing, typesetting and hosting can host that much, or can
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by tagrun 10y ago
> There are some great lesser alternatives like AppArmor, grsec, Lesser? grsecurity is actually a far superior alternative to SELinux: https://grsecurity.net/compare.php It's unfortunate that their stable patches
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by tagrun 10y ago
And I have to pick one of those two options? Like I mentioned, there are different UUID/GUID schemes using more than 128 bits publicly available already. You don't have to invent one. They may simply be using one of those with add
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by tagrun 10y ago
GUID and UUID refer to different things in general. Also, depending on the context, they can be longer than 128-bits. Oracle Coherence API defines 256-bit UUIDs for example (which is clearly not RFC 4122 or Microsoft GUID, but it still is a
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by tagrun 10y ago
>> `site_id` varchar(50) NOT NULL, > Why varchar(50)? UUIDs are 16-bytes. Why do you think it's a UUID? > The best way to store them would be the binary bytes (which is how postgres stores them). Is it actually better than
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by tagrun 10y ago
No, I meant arXiv:quant-ph/0010020
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by tagrun 10y ago
You (and everyone who replied you so far) misunderstood: if you read the article, you'll see that this is not the issue. This is about the reality of trajectories built-into the pilot wave theory (such a concept which doesn't even
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by tagrun 10y ago
> Caddy provides useful things like a config syntax, middleware, automatic certificate deployment, etc. which you'd have to reimplement or take from somewhere else. Caddy is promoted as an HTTP server. If you focus on that feature r
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by tagrun 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10901895
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by tagrun 10y ago
> [...] consider using caddy[1]. It's a HTTP/2 web server written in Go To be fair, it's not. It simply wraps Go's HTTP/2 server which is mostly developed by Brad Fitzpatrick, which in turn relies on Go's cr
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by tagrun 10y ago
It was also what I thought when I saw the title, but if you go through the write up, you'll see that that's not the argument here and what he's saying makes sense. He's essentially talking about the imperfect cell divisi

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