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by thicknavyrain 8y ago
That's really interesting. I found that I loved, similar to the occasional video numberphile does, watching Grant explain how one might realistically solve an interesting problem. A particular favourite is the one on the Inscribed Squa
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by thicknavyrain 8y ago
I'm currently in the process of applying for EF and have an interview in two weeks. How would you say you've found the process and would you say it was overall a positive experience?
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Higher-order truths about Chmess (2006) [pdf](ase.tufts.edu)
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by thicknavyrain 8y ago
3 Blue 1 Brown, it’s a mathematics channel with, as far as I’m concerned, unparalleled production quality. He’s a Stanford Mathematician who covers everything in topics from topology, number theory, calculus with nothing required beyond Hig
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How the Math Men Overthrew the Mad Men(newyorker.com)
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by thicknavyrain 8y ago
I've never noticed the guards changing when going through town. What I /have/ noticed is the swell of tourists that surrounds the gates every time it's happening and how it always seems to be when I'm trying to pass
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by thicknavyrain 8y ago
Completely fair criticism. It was more of an articulation of the kinds of thoughts that came to mind when you're not only surrounded by the presence of big companies all day long in Tokyo, but also the jarring presence of seeing all to
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The Ogler’s Guide to Shibuya, Tokyo(atzerothorder.wordpress.com)
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The Ogler’s Guide to Shibuya, Tokyo(atzerothorder.wordpress.com)
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The Term Paper Artist (2008)(thesmartset.com)
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by thicknavyrain 8y ago
This is an exciting time for Belle II to come online. Although every couple of months you hear rumours of deviations in data from the Standard Model of particle physics from some experiment, that later fizzle away with the collection of mor
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by thicknavyrain 8y ago
What you're referring to is called "The Tetris Effect" and it seems to be a widely recognised phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect
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The Term Paper Artist (2008)(thesmartset.com)
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by thicknavyrain 9y ago
Hi, thanks for the kind words and especially for translating from the Dutch! I did anticipate that I was perhaps looking into it a little to much, so it's always nice to clear up some speculation with a bit of evidence. Of course, 12 y
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Ben Feringa's Missing Nobel Prize(atzerothorder.wordpress.com)
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On DJ Patil's “Code of Ethics” for Data Science(atzerothorder.wordpress.com)
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The “Code of Ethics” for Data Science(atzerothorder.wordpress.com)
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The Ocean Before Us: Should You Do a PhD?(atzerothorder.wordpress.com)
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by thicknavyrain 9y ago
By any chance, we’re you ALSO in Carlo Rovelli’s lecture a few days ago? ;)
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The Particles behind the Pyramid(atzerothorder.wordpress.com)
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by thicknavyrain 9y ago
I’m doing a PhD in Theoretical Physics, I hedge the uncertainty of academia by finding small opportunities in other fields to do work in. Internships in science communication, teaching at the university, part time work for a tech start up.
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by thicknavyrain 9y ago
Pretty much just size! There was about 20,000 lines of it, it's legacy code that has been gradually added to since the 1980s, so it would have taken a while to rewrite all the parts to work with each other. Perhaps some day though.
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by thicknavyrain 9y ago
I might actually disagree on this one. If it was the first year of their PhD, then yes, it does seem like grunt work which is dissatisfying, but they will have fully learned the ins and outs of their group's code framework. In the proc
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by thicknavyrain 9y ago
I do wonder about this a little, but so far I haven't seen anything implemented elsewhere in my field that hasn't been possible to do with our existing code. In fact, I have spent a fair bit of my time replicating others' res
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by thicknavyrain 9y ago
"Professors usually have this legacy code on hand (often code they wrote themselves decades ago) and pass this code on to their students. This saves their students time, and also takes uncertainty out of the debugging process." Th
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Studying supernovae, black holes, anti-matter and neutrinos with DUNE(atzerothorder.wordpress.com)
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A Story of 'Nothing': Neutrinos(atzerothorder.wordpress.com)
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