QuantumRoar

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by QuantumRoar 9y ago
Yes, the current understanding is that general relativity breaks down inside of black holes and, to understand how it really works, we need a quantum theory of gravity. However, I would not call it gossip since, by your reasoning, anything
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by QuantumRoar 9y ago
This is not true as often you find surprising things that are not general which ARE NOT GOSSIP. To stay with the physics theme, the Schwarzschild solution of general relativity is a very special one and I don't think anybody thinks tha
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by QuantumRoar 9y ago
No. Usually you talk to your colleagues and you help each other -- especially in the same department.
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by QuantumRoar 9y ago
If I remember correctly, there are needle-like implants with around a thousand contacts and it is quite a difficult task to get the signals out of the brain. Either you have the ADCs directly at the contacts, which means you can't get
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by QuantumRoar 9y ago
You're mixing up programming with computer science. The former is a task that does not necessarily need any math (e.g. web development), the latter is literally math (e.g. category algebra). Edit: clarification
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
The questions are actually pretty clear. The problem is that you lack a general understanding of mathematical concepts and therefore you don't know what to do with it. But that's fine and that's actually what the exam is for,
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
I never needed to bother with a filter where I live. So everybody uses them where the water is chlorinated?
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
The water in the US is chlorinated (at least where I was in Washington, DC). It smells and tastes really terrible.
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
I strongly believe that we should not easily segregate people into a smart kind and a not-so-smart kind. Intelligence comes in many ways and the genetics and upbringing of a person will make their intelligence manifest in different ways. So
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
Nope, not fake. Just another way to look at it. From the paper: "One of the deepest insights about quantum gravity that emerged in recent times is that it is expected to be holographic [1–3], meaning that there should be an equivalent
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
I think you wanted to say: "Are we simplifying things in software development?" All of the points you have made are actually simplifications of what might be the optimal solution. Imagine the solution space as some multidimensiona
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
Once you own data centers, energy consumption becomes a major consideration. I'm not doing stuff like that but I assume the train of thought concerning the economics of energy consumption is like that: You buy new hardware and from exp
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
You can view things like abstract concepts as information. You can create information by using energy and e.g. encode it onto a surface or encode it in a human brain. There is a minimum amount of energy necessary to store information define
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
I see your point. What I meant was that existence and interaction are equivalent. But I see that I didn't express myself well there. Let us presume that existence and interaction can be separate. Let us also assume for a moment that th
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
The kind of predictive statements that all physicists are making for quite a while now and on which all of our technological progress is founded. If there were some other fundamental means by which reality might be modified besides the basi
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
> By the same token, consider an ultra-relational metaphysics such as that of Bruno Latour, who tells us that a thing is nothing more than whatever it modifies, transforms, perturbs, or creates. If this were true, then everything would b
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
Nothing about this makes any sense. The cat is an analogy, the box is an analogy. Everything about that thought experiment is an analogy. The moon is still there, even if noone looks up into the night sky. The cat is either alive or dead be
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
Typically, when people think about the future, they think about what they're doing today and how technology could transform that. But when predicting the future, you need to figure out what we won't do anymore because of technolog
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
Aixtron hasn't been doing too well lately. So there is definitely a positive side to an acquisition. From Aixtron's website on November 17 [1]: >CFIUS [Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States] informed the parties
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
Do not use the Internet. Do not use phones. Do not use bank accounts. Do not travel by plane. Do not enter public spaces. Do not show your face. Otherwise you accept our Terms of Service. Thank you for trusting us. (Is it just me or is it a
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
Insulting millions of people serves no other purpose than to point out your own superiority in some way. I can't fathom how much hubris is necessary to do that without feeling ashamed of yourself. How can it be so hard to be nice to ot
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
Of course, you're right.
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
They stopped doing the age related holiday amount thing at German universities about 4-5 years ago (I'm not sure if everywhere but at least where I'm at). Their argument for stopping was, as you said, that it discriminates by age,
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
Asking to turn off the adblocker and at the same time showing the following quote: "I'm doing the thing that scares me the most every single day." Like what? Browsing without an adblocker?
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
Apple has a lot of developers. I wonder what they think about the new MBPs. There are so many complaints from developers that I cannot believe that all Apple engineers are happy with their new choices in MBPs. I wonder if a lot of displease
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
Arch Linux + XMonad is the way I run my stuff. I still have a MacBook Air lying around that I use when I'm on the road. The amount of visual clutter, annoying UI animations, the nagging from notifications and alerts surprises me every
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
First, from Wikipedia [1]: "The Armitage–Doll model is a statistical model of carcinogenesis [...]" Second, the paper itself [2] talks about cancer rates and uses experimental data for it (I just glossed over it, so I can't g
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
> Every time a cell divides there is some chance of a genetic error occurring. > Activities that damage tissue, etc and necessitate cell division to replenish the cells will contain cells with more errors. I don't see how your ex
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
There is a difference between using statistical models and understanding the underlying processes. I can tell someone that when we smash together Muons and nucleons that there is a certain chance that we will produce Kaons. That, I believe,
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by QuantumRoar 10y ago
They, too, wondered that at some point. Even if you have an improbably low fail rate, the defects should break every single chip, right? Turns out, defects in manufacturing chips are not randomly distributed but very much localized. The cha

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