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by thicknavyrain 5y ago
Was OP mistakenly implying you had passed away? Or do you just happen to share the same name as the FT author?
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by thicknavyrain 5y ago
This sounds like it would very quickly encourage the development of slums, and then there goes many of the public health gains made over the last century.
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The Internet: A Review(slate.com)
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Hedging your bets: Career options after a PhD in Physics [pdf](atzerothorder.files.wordpress.com)
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by thicknavyrain 6y ago
It is true. The classical wavefunction of a ground state electron overlaps pretty heavily with the nucleus of an atom IIRC.
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by thicknavyrain 6y ago
I think there was actually a cheat code in Jedi Knight II that _did_ enable movie style lightsaber dynamics.
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by thicknavyrain 7y ago
I haven't heard of the Loader model, but as an (ex-) Particle Physicist, I should point out that photons are just one example of the more general phenomenon of gauge bosons. In terms of the particle content associated with nature (and
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by thicknavyrain 7y ago
I agree this kind of trolling is pretty weird and disheartening, but as an added example of hilarity, mere minutes after my comment and yours, someone just tried to sign you up to _my_ newsletter (presumably against your will). I'm ama
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by thicknavyrain 7y ago
Maybe I'm hideously naive for believing the entire HN crowd might have been a little more straightforward and mature in explaining why putting emails in their profiles isn't something they choose to do, rather than pulling this ki
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Proton Beam Therapy: A Short Story(shorts2017.quantumlah.org)
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Proton Beam Therapy: A Short Story(atzerothorder.wordpress.com)
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by thicknavyrain 7y ago
For sure, although given that 87% of Britain is White British, for a cohort of 95 students in my year, one would expect all things equal for there to be about 12 non-white students, when in fact there were two. This is not to get mired into
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by thicknavyrain 7y ago
I will qualify this to say that of the people I know at CERN and other experimental collaborations, the groups seemed more diverse.
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by thicknavyrain 7y ago
Also a (former) non-white-male particle theorist (well, phenomenologist) here. This isn't hard data by any means but in the first year of my PhD, I attended a mandatory summer school for all particle theorist (and associated fields) Ph
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A new competitive machine learning optimiser: Rectified Adam (RAdam)(medium.com)
1 points by thicknavyrain 7y ago|0 comments
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Xerox could have conquered the personal computing market (2012)(hbr.org)
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San Francisco banned facial recognition tech; London should follow suit(linkedin.com)
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by thicknavyrain 8y ago
Perhaps rather fittingly, Virginia Woolf's essay "A room of one's own" is an absolutely brilliant read on _why_ precisely women are and were so often neglected and left out of the cultural conversation and literary lands
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by thicknavyrain 8y ago
For what it's worth, I'm British and even though I didn't get all the cultural references in his essays, it was usually easy enough and read between the lines to infer what he was hoping to illustrate from his examples. This
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by thicknavyrain 8y ago
While he doesn't write essays that necessarily create or explain fundamental ideas in the academic sense, I'd definitely pitch for David Foster Wallace as an essayist. I picked up a short collection of his essays, "Both Flesh
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by thicknavyrain 8y ago
Pleased, but not surprised, to see the thought and effort Tong puts into communicating ideas. His notes on Quantum Field Theory are still an excellent go-to introduction for masters students and sheds light on a number of otherwise tricky t
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by thicknavyrain 8y ago
Interestingly, the corporation robot/A.I. doesn't seem to put up much resistance at all in Moon, and IIRC even actively helps the main character to escape. I'm really glad they subverted that particular Sci-Fi trope.
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The Taming of the Screw (2000)(americanhistory.si.edu)
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by thicknavyrain 8y ago
Sure, but there are some interesting and affordable tabletop experiments being done to probe certain features of QM (like Weak Measurement: https://www.hep.ucl.ac.uk/qupot/ ) and test fundamental assumptions. The work o
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by thicknavyrain 8y ago
Does anyone outside of High Energy Physics use ROOT? I'm not trying to be argumentative, I'm genuinely curious, I'm a physicist by day so seeing ROOT talked about on here amongst popular libraries is like someone recommending
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by thicknavyrain 8y ago
Yes, essentially it’s energy held by gluons and quarks inside the proton itself. What’s meant by “binding energy” is that it’s not the total mass of quarks and gluons inside the proton but their “field energy” which in QFT terms is, I imagi
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Spun Out of Proportion: The Proton Spin Crisis (2017)(atzerothorder.wordpress.com)
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Higher-order truths about Chmess (2006) [pdf](ase.tufts.edu)
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Spun out of proportion: The Proton Spin Crisis (2016)(atzerothorder.wordpress.com)
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by thicknavyrain 8y ago
As mentioned in the article, this is just an adapted snippet of the full Kenyon College commencement speech in 2005. You can watch the video of full speech (which I recommend over the text version because Wallace' intonation makes the

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