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by zbyszek 17y ago
Romans, surely?
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by zbyszek 17y ago
I'll make a start to the best of my understanding so that at least more learned readers can correct me. In particular the Josephson phase qubit is beyond my ken, really, so take this with a pinch of salt. They have a lump of material which
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by zbyszek 17y ago
A relative of mine recently had heart surgery of a type that is fairly routine nowadays. But when I think of the fact that you can pull apart someone's rib-cage, stick knives into their heart and then put it all back together again such th
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by zbyszek 17y ago
Beer
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by zbyszek 17y ago
Yes and no. In my experience it is usually a mistake for scientists to try to write fancy prose like a novelist. I would much rather have a dull but comprehensible paper (all short, plain and simple sentences) than any kind of highly lite
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by zbyszek 17y ago
In my day we used FeynDiag ( http://feyndiagram.com ) if we needed a printable diagram. I don't know what the cool kids use now.
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by zbyszek 17y ago
Agreed. Most papers, even good ones, are hard to understand because the subject matter is hard. They are written with the assumption of a certain amount of prior knowledge of the field, and depending on the intended audience, very little
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by zbyszek 17y ago
Yes. It is the link between funding and publication records that matters here, not how useful journals are for doing research. I was fortunate enough to work in an area of research for which the arXiv was originally established, and found
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by zbyszek 17y ago
Reeds representin' -- another clarinet and sax here!
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by zbyszek 17y ago
I worked with a CM (at EPCC in Edinburgh, Scotland) in the mid-nineties for a little bit. I think we used CM Fortran -- basically Fortran 77 with extra knobs on for parallelism. I remember it as being a pleasant experience. The programmi