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by bvv 9y ago
No he did not. The original paper is at https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.07702 This paper was not widely noticed back when it was written in July (both inside and outside the theoretical physics community) and still has not
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by bvv 9y ago
Graham Hutton, one of the authors of the original paper, also wrote a wonderful book "Programming in Haskell". I would wholeheartedly recommend it to both the programming novice and the experienced programmer trying to learn Haske
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by bvv 9y ago
This is certainly an awesome and generous gesture and Drive Savers wholly deserves all the attention they get here. (No sarcasm!) Meanwhile, this is the donation page of Save the Children for the victims of the South Asia Floods: https:&#x
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by bvv 9y ago
This seems like an area where a trusted organization (perhaps the EFF?) could do a lot of good by creating a "for dummies" webpage where the vulnerability disclosure process is explained in layman's terms (i.e. with suitable
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by bvv 9y ago
It's most certainly not scientific writing. But I think that is not the point of these publications -- they are meant for a wide audience. So I think I should interpret your criticism as saying that quanta does a poor job in maintainin
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by bvv 10y ago
As usual I think that Woit's blog post is unnecessarily polarizing. If you decide to read his post then I would recommend you also read the excellent comment by Marty Tysanner on the same page. Also, sigh. If you dig deep into the dark
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by bvv 10y ago
Quanta Magazine has also a good reputation among many theoretical physicists including myself. They of course do suffer from the occasional misconception, but as a whole the accuracy of their reporting is leaps and bounds above many other p
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by bvv 10y ago
The main problem is that the supposed violation of momentum conservation. This law is very deeply ingrained in all the current fundamental theories of physics, from the standard model to general relativity. These theories are extremely succ
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by bvv 10y ago
> The parent would decide that in early days of Higgs' career, he wasn't productive enough, and thus he would prevent him making the discovery for which he is famous. You are stretching the meaning of my comment. Did you know
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by bvv 10y ago
Peter Higgs published about 5 scientific papers after his Nobel-winning work in 1964 until his retirement in 1996, none of which were particularly impressive. I think this is below any reasonable standards, not just below contemporary acade
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by bvv 12y ago
It's a little complicated. The idea is that one uses this Leech lattice to define a 24-dimensional space, and we throw in little quantum strings that live on that space. These strings are inspired by (but not exactly the same as) the s
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by bvv 13y ago
This article provides some historical context to today's prize. http://profmattstrassler.com/2013/10/08/the-twists-and-turns...