Mugwort

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by Mugwort 6y ago
Physics doesn't need another Einstein. Einstein explained Brownian motion, the Photoelectric effect, created special relativity and general relativity, the cosmological constant, helped found quantum mechanics, served as an invaluable
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by Mugwort 6y ago
Hilbert and Courant is BY FAR the best mathematical physics book in existence. No contest. Boas and all the others are good, even very good. H & C beats them by a kiloParsec.
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by Mugwort 6y ago
Do you think it might be related to this event? (linked below ) I'm going to make a guess, that there might have been a nuclear detonation. It probably wasn't a test. This seems to be an accident. Not all weapons are accounted
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by Mugwort 6y ago
I disagree that quantum mechanics needs fixing. What it requires is understanding. Many people even ones with PhDs don't really have a deep understanding of QM. Ask a grad student or even a professor of physics what is essentially di
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by Mugwort 6y ago
Isn't this the tipping point when a company crosses the line, becomes a monopoly, restricts consumer choices, and suffocates competition by leveraging the entire playing field? We've been through that before. Sad to see Apple of
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by Mugwort 7y ago
Get a copy of Racket, take notes, type in the programs for yourself, experiment. This video is the best most direct introduction I have yet found. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5p8DPbaokE Learning Lisp, Scheme or Clojur
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by Mugwort 7y ago
I'm definitely going to listen to the Lex Fridman lectures simply because I enjoyed his interview with Judea Pearl so much.
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by Mugwort 7y ago
We also passed 400 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere. Best decade ever for sealing peoplekind's fate.
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by Mugwort 7y ago
That can't possibly be true, not while Trump is president.
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by Mugwort 7y ago
Is Hacker News fake news? Many times people post things that would make a real expert roll their eyes. There are some smart people here but also lots of inaccurate information.
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by Mugwort 7y ago
Is anyone out there simply unaware of the "fake news" phenomenon. Are we so inured that we cannot differentiate BS from the real thing and need to be protected? I don't think so. Everyone KNOWS. People aren't that s
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by Mugwort 7y ago
It's a matter of degree. Everything is shades of grey. Google has become a very dark shade of grey.
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by Mugwort 7y ago
Google started out as a tech company and then later became a part of the US Deep State (Prism program). I think any good the company was doing will be long overshadowed by this unfortunate relationship. Eric Schmidt bears the greatest res
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by Mugwort 7y ago
Very nice article. I'm intrigued by the Khovanov homology and its relation to the geometric Langlands program. I don't know any knot theory yet but fortunately I know quantum mechanics, quantum fields theory, statistical mechani
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by Mugwort 7y ago
A bird in the hand is worth three in the bush. If I could give someone from a non-mathematician background, e.g. programmer, who sincerely wants to get a peek behind the curtain and know what calculus really IS without diluting anything
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by Mugwort 7y ago
Interesting topic. Non-English based programming languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_...
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by Mugwort 7y ago
Always. Robin Hartshorne's "Geometry: Euclid and Beyond" is the best book of its kind. It does Euclidean geometry with Hilbert's axioms and cleans up some of the loose ends of Euclid's classical treatment. Hartsh
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by Mugwort 7y ago
It's a very good start. From there I think the most productive thing anyone could do is make a very thorough study of Classical Mechanics. People underestimate how much a thorough knowledge will help them. Start with an easy book an
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by Mugwort 7y ago
Agreed. Hard for some people to appreciate but so true.
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by Mugwort 7y ago
There are some really good suggestions here. I would like to add that learning calculus properly is of the utmost importance. It's no exaggeration when I say that this is unquestionably the single best, most profitable action you can
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by Mugwort 7y ago
WASM will eventually catch up to the glory days of Flash and far surpass them. It will be amazing.
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by Mugwort 7y ago
It's very likely a unified theory will win a prize maybe even the Nobel Prize but it isn't going to happen anytime soon. FWIW I'm about as convinced of the truth of string theory as I am of the truth of General Relativity.
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by Mugwort 7y ago
Haskell basics are easy to learn. Nobody learns Haskell to linger on the basics. Haskell is a useful tool for express a deep ideas which aren't basic and require time, effort, focus and guidance to learn properly. You can still do q
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by Mugwort 7y ago
I've wanted to study Sanskrit for a while now but nobody around where I live can teach it. So I've been nibbling at at occasionally. Some points of pronunication are a bit vague such as there being two kinds of T's and D&#x
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by Mugwort 7y ago
Very enjoyable short read. Almost as soon as Oppenheimer Trinity test was a success, Leslie Groves drove him out, revoked his security clearance, called him a communist and he suffered greatly as a result. Oppenheimer lost many of his frie
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by Mugwort 7y ago
Easily the most autistic person I know. No contest.
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by Mugwort 7y ago
Most programmers aren't worth even a pimple on Richard Stallman's ass. Most people too.
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by Mugwort 7y ago
Agreed. Few people ever read and follow those proofs. Another related issue is proofs by computer e.g. the four coloring problem. No human will ever understand every step the computer is doing in these proofs but they can understand the
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by Mugwort 7y ago
Very much so.
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by Mugwort 7y ago
My point is the stuff we already know so well still could use some polishing and everybody should be learning newer and better approaches to classical subjects.

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