apognwsi

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by apognwsi 8mo ago
im not even disagreeing with you, but i hate that hn seems to have this penchant to point out that unreasonable assertions may still be true despite being ludicrous. can facts emerge from a hypocrite? yes of course, but prices are not affec
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by apognwsi 9mo ago
smoking is not an appropriate analogy at least insofar it is primarily damaging to the individual (claims of second hand smoke aside), whereas exposing oneself during covid is more broadly damaging as the purpose of social distancing was sp
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by apognwsi 1y ago
that's not right. if photons were truly spin 1, there would be 3 spin eigenstates available, but in fact there are only 2 (Sz=0 is unavailable). the pithy argument invokes the absence of a stationary frame of reference. for all practic
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by apognwsi 1y ago
i understand what you mean now. you are referring to the yield of treasury bonds, which, at least historically for <10 year tbills, do track the fed rate.
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by apognwsi 1y ago
What do you think you mean by saying 'drives interest rates down'. It seems a leap to think the fed, the entity that establishes the interest rate, will react in the way you describe.
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by apognwsi 2y ago
i did not read the study. an obvious confounding factor is that doctors with better board scores are hired into better hospitals with better patient populations, and thus better outcomes.
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by apognwsi 2y ago
to be clear, this is an opinion pertaining to the preferred behavior of eg the american government and not anything like a summary of its history in this regard. that is, the tech industry since its inception in the 60s has accepted, to its
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by apognwsi 2y ago
probably not - 'monads' are an interface (typeclass in haskell) for which specific functions (bind, unit) need to be defined. you can do monadic programming in any language, including python. that is, functions are central to the
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by apognwsi 3y ago
with error correction, qc is entirely distinct from analog computing. that is what makes it even remotely viable, theoretically.
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by apognwsi 3y ago
yes, this a very reasonable though inexact interpretation.
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by apognwsi 3y ago
viscosity has very interesting units - stress (force / area) divided by rate (1 / time). viscosity is measured (a field known as rheology) by, in some way, moving a thing through a fluid at increasingly fast accelerations, or equi
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by apognwsi 3y ago
the statistics of a collection of particles, ie fermions or bosons, depends on their symmetry under commutation. that is, the wavefunction of the collection of particles, which does have physical meaning isofar as its square is the real den