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by tobmlt 6y ago
Human wants for things are endless. Human desire for extra time, even more so. Human needs are subjective to each and every human. Why does Bezos get up in the morning?, if you’d like something aphoristic you may reply to in many creative
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Apologies, but I must have missed it when you said: “If you want to argue non-linearity of danger then you are arguing for a very remarkable biological coincidence.“ What do you mean here? Can you give a bit more info? Note, I am pretty we
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by tobmlt 6y ago
I like it! Sorry to call older dialects ancient. Being a Fortran programmer is somewhat like being from a red state, I find. I naturally self deprecate (or stick with c++ as appropriate) in front of others. I used to work on a system tha
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by tobmlt 6y ago
that “meta science” bit reminds me strongly of the fiction of Peter Watts. E.g. Siri in blindsight — if I recall, and don’t mix novels, he was a character whose role was as one of a group of people who interpret the post human for the mere
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Pretty cool, thanks for the details! This is about what I’d expect from ancient FORTRAN. (I read fortran IV off Wikipedia, maybe there was fine print)
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by tobmlt 6y ago
I __think__ Fortran just never gave you this particular footgun. No aliasing of pointers allowed from the getgo. It was never an issue. Somebody let me know if that is wrong. I read Complex numbers came in FORTRAN IV, so mid 60’s. I neve
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by tobmlt 6y ago
“In a black hole” ... maybe you mean you’ve already crossed the point of no return but not yet hit the singularity... Eh, forgive me but also, an outside observer would say it takes an infinite amount of time for you to hit the event horizo
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by tobmlt 6y ago
This is a really nice to have detailed write up of a common and vexing problem: how best to combine to curves for (insert your problem here). A few years ago I faced A good many curve splitting and curve join issues when automatically bui
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Not magnetism. In full on GR you get gravitomagnetism - a gravitational analogue to magnetism. The author made use Of full on GR instead of a Newtonian approximation. I thought this was already known to be helpful?
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by tobmlt 6y ago
No they just wrote it down. These are not experimental papers. A smallest possible scale experiment would the logical follow up, unless some GR expert shoots holes in the models on paper first. Edit: ftl is not the experiment in question.
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by tobmlt 6y ago
The trip becomes quicker (to you) the faster you go. If you could ride a beam of light, you’d be there instantaneously, thanks to length contraction. Meanwhile 4 years would pass on earth in some sense. (To an observer watching from ear
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by tobmlt 6y ago
I presently have no time to get into GR, but surely wish I did. Here instead of comment I offer two papers: Erik Lentz (underlying the work in the press release here): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.07125.pdf And similar
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Glad to hear you are in a better situation now. Search for the right work life balance is this struggle that comes after schooling that I really did not anticipate. —I thought you beat that game through education. Pshaw. How naive I was
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by tobmlt 6y ago
We have this in physical engineering too: a robust design continues to perform well away from its optimum state configuration, on-design state, etc. Something in a deep minimum may well go to heck when y’all he situation changes just a lit
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by tobmlt 6y ago
*Most who sell licenses seem to be moving their old stuff/cash-cow-behemoths/etc to saas as quickly (slowly) as possible. -certainly there are exceptions. Exceptions seem more likely with smaller older companies with different pr
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Excitement about photonic quantum computing(arxiv.org)
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by tobmlt 6y ago
The link is for the paper related to Chris Lee's write up in arstechnica today: https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/programmable-optical... To make it easier for people, in the article Chris Lee cite
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by tobmlt 6y ago
I was going to submit exactly this but you beat me to it. ;) To make it easier for people, in the article Chris Lee cites this paper by Xanadu researchers: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03202-1 arxiv versi
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Well I for one am glad you are here, Borat!
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by tobmlt 6y ago
It might also help to know that the scattering matrix has classical counterparts in engineering. For example the “transfer function” in circuits and signal processing, etc, and the “response amplitude operator” (RAO) in ship design. I can
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by tobmlt 6y ago
As a rejoinder, maybe Richard Mattuck’s book would be helpful for those interested in Feynman diagrams generally: https://www.amazon.com/Guide-Feynman-Diagrams-Many-Body-Prob... Accessible to anyone who can sum a geometric
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by tobmlt 6y ago
I had an odd experience with my past computing memories about 7 years ago. We’d just hired a new guy after his masters. I guess I am older than him by say 5 years. I grew up on command line dos, hacking around on config.sys and similar to
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Anecdotal, but your experience seems to match well with my understanding of the dark side of scrum/standup. Holding all else constant I hope to have a job where I am not on the spot for making some unknown amount of tangible progress e
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by tobmlt 6y ago
My wife and I say “I back heard you”. it’s kind of a funny in-joke for us because of the quasi non-sense word. I use similar techniques (plus muscle memory, visual, etc.) as a short term memory scratch pad - especially when highly sleep de
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Aka, the Simons in Chern-Simons theory. (Albert Schwarz formulated Chern–Simons theory, a topological quantum field theory, using the Chern-Simons form)
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Frank Wilczek was hoping for a writers credit on the next Indiana Jones reboot.
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by tobmlt 6y ago
I got nada for a “true” 90 turn... How about a smooth change in direction? This might be weird enough to be interesting in its own right. In that case picture a satellite in a highly elliptical orbit, where you catch it near apogee, and a
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Great site. The easiest/laziest (in a good way! - I need a one or two click interface right now) method of finding the next star-link pass that I know of. Thank you! I take my two-year-old out satellite hunting a few times a week.
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by tobmlt 6y ago
I want to recommend “his girl Friday” here, as there is some news related manipulation of the public / politics in play, (back in 1940) but really it’s a second or third act to the real star (the “punched up” dialogue).
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Also, this was an entertaining retrospective recently posted: https://mobile.twitter.com/stantwinb/status/1336890442768547... I can’t seem to find the old link, but I’m pretty sure it was on hacker news and somebo

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