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by JProthero 7mo ago
This shouldn't prevent anyone from finding and reporting a similar pre-existing result in the literature.
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by JProthero 7mo ago
>It's highly likely that the problem was solved before and the model picked that up. If you can demonstrate that, I would put it to Strominger and his colleagues, and I imagine they would be obligated to cite your contribution in th
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by JProthero 7mo ago
Do you understand the purported result, and the verification? I don't, but I'm confident that Andrew Strominger wouldn't have agreed to put his name on this if he didn't think it was correct and interesting. The human au
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by JProthero 3y ago
The two main sources for this piece seem to be interviews with Simon Thomas, the Chief Executive of a British semiconductor manufacturer (Paragraf) based in Cambridgeshire; and Raoul Ruparel, a director at Boston Consulting Group, which is
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by JProthero 3y ago
This doesn't seem to have been firmly established, but as far as I can tell it's currently thought to be related to how carbon in the solar system's protoplanetary disk behaved when it was vaporized after fusion began in the
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by JProthero 3y ago
Might the low abundance of carbon on Earth compared to its ubiquity in biology be suggestive of some kind of panspermia? Although carbon is relatively scarce on Earth, it is the fourth most common element by mass in the universe (and in Ear
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by JProthero 4y ago
>If generative AI can repeatedly test physics theories faster than humans, then we may witness progress in physics. AI could generate thousands of theories and conduct experiments successfully, possibly leading to new physics models. How
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by JProthero 4y ago
> I asked it to stop adding disclaimers as you can see. This is the first example of an extended dialogue with GPT-4 that I have read, and the fact that it failed to obey the request to dispense with its repetitive disclaimers was perhap
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by JProthero 5y ago
I think my source was a book, but the XKCD is a better link! I think the book reference I had mind may have stated the effect in terms of force.
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by JProthero 5y ago
This is a great analogy, I'd never seen it translated into tangible terms like that before. I remember reading that, at close enough range, the neutrino emissions from a supernova would be intense enough to be dangerous to structures m
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by JProthero 5y ago
Thanks for a great couple of replies. I'd just add that there are almost certainly more superheavy elements not thought to exist in nature which have yet to be produced artificially, but probably will be at some point.
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by JProthero 5y ago
Excellent. I give this 10^14 / 10^14. The pedant in me wants to point out that they are now known to have some mass and do interact a bit , but this was written in 1960.
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by JProthero 5y ago
> You are grasping as straws trying to prove that Blair, who went to fee-paying schools was actually a working-class man of the people...why? I did not claim that Blair was a 'man of the people', though there are plenty of pe
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by JProthero 5y ago
Thanks for the link. I've read through the quotes, and I can't find any instance of Johnson making a promise during the referendum campaign to keep the UK in the single market. I don't understand how he could have made such a
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by JProthero 5y ago
There is a semblance of truth to some of this, but I'm afraid anyone not especially familiar with the UK could come away from reading what you've written with a very distorted impression of reality. I may be misreading some of you
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by JProthero 5y ago
> Interestingly, many very recent Sci-Fi movies involving realistic-ish human space travel feature spacecrafts with spinning toroidal living quarters. Some less recent ones too [1]. It never ceases to impress me that this was filmed be
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by JProthero 5y ago
> The current Prime Minister even promised to stay in the single market while campaigning for Brexit, professing himself a 'Fan'. Could you provide a source for the promise to stay in the single market? > The single marke
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by JProthero 5y ago
' I think if you look at politics in the UK, it is self-evident that the culture of the UK is not exactly entrepreneurial...unless you believe that a group of probably 30-50 people who went to the same school, went to the same universi
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by JProthero 5y ago
> Finally, electric cars charge at ~96% efficiency, while hydrogen is something like 40%. >> This claim has little substance and credibility. The efficiency of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles versus battery vehicles is considered i
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by JProthero 5y ago
Continuing my review of the predictions from the 2010 thread, here are my last set of judgments — the Hits (the predictions I think the commenters largely got right): Hits: 2010 Prediction: Electric cars become fairly common. A destructive
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by JProthero 5y ago
Continuing my review of the predictions from the 2010 thread with those I consider to be Hit and Miss (a bit right, a bit wrong): Hit and Miss: 2010 Prediction: Ebooks defeat paper books. All high street bookstores go bust. —JulianMorriso
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by JProthero 5y ago
I enjoyed going back through the 2010 thread too. Just for fun, below are my judgments on some of the predictions, as an all-knowing resident of the 2010 commenters' misty future. For anyone who is really into making clear predictions,
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Eavesdropping on the Taliban(theatlantic.com)
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by JProthero 5y ago
I wondered from the announcement whether the other figures would be present somewhere in the paper.
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by JProthero 5y ago
Thanks for the replies. To clarify — is this not a measurement of the two particles' masses to ~38 significant figures?
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by JProthero 5y ago
I've often heard it said that a particular prediction of Quantum Electrodynamics [1] may be the most precise experimentally confirmed value in physics [2], with an accuracy in the region of one part in a trillion (10^12). I haven'
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by JProthero 5y ago
I wouldn't dispute much of what you wrote above, but I do think the French contribution to empiricism and rationalism qualifies as major (difficult as these things are to measure), and that that contribution is at least similar to the
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by JProthero 5y ago
This comment brightened my morning. I'd like to add something substantive, but the two parent posts already noted everything I would have.
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by JProthero 5y ago
> The main contributions in rationalism and empiricism are not French. Are you certain of this? I can think of many contributions to rationalism and empiricism made by French speakers that I feel are important. The metric system, for i
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by JProthero 5y ago
I'd add that the article does not state that there have never been cases of accidental releases of pathogens from laboratories, only that such accidents had likely not led to a 'global epidemic' as of the date the article was

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