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by jjdredd 5y ago
Wow, those who could find their own research topic were lucky. I've never seen anyone in my environment get that much freedom. The supervisor sets the problem and the student must solve it. Edit: I was under the impression that even th
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by jjdredd 5y ago
> full of petty and lame characters, absurd situations and pathetic developments. Yeh, I wish I could understand this a few years ago. Pursuit of truth is not the primary goal of many tenure profs it seems.
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by jjdredd 6y ago
Alarm going off 20-40 times a day would stress me out. Also, being aware of the alarm can make one feel tension and they could change the behavior.
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by jjdredd 6y ago
I didn't expect to see Artemiev mentioned here. Great soviet composer and his "Meditation" is a very fitting track for the movie. Amazing blend of electronic and eastern traditional music. I didn't watch the whole video,
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by jjdredd 6y ago
I think the author is missing a couple of important points: 1) How would one approach this task having a day job? 2) How do you compensate for not having a chance to work in a suitable environment doing good research? 2a)Knowing and underst
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by jjdredd 6y ago
Also Santana had a song named after Toussaint but I don't think lyrics are describing anything about the actual person.
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by jjdredd 6y ago
I don't work at home all the time, but I've been struggling to find some metric to hold myself accountable for my own quality and intensity of work. Do you mind sharing your experience?
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by jjdredd 6y ago
Integrating a compiler into a text editor to speed it up is a bit of an overkill imo. What if a lisp source changes and needs to be recompiled? What if several lisp files change? Does it mean that it also needs a sort of a build system? Thi
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by jjdredd 6y ago
Even 1-2 days of bad sleep (< 6 hrs) would destroy me either now or back when I was 20.
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by jjdredd 6y ago
That's very cool but it's in no way specific to the FORTRAN language: https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/documen... contrary to the earlier comment: > You can't d
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by jjdredd 6y ago
Heh, I could have made a mistake about the origin of the saying. I haven't read that article.
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by jjdredd 6y ago
> The thing is, you can write a perfectly normal fortran code, and instantly gain speedup (CUDA, distributed computing with OpenMP, etc) just by enabling some compiler flags. I'm not sure I understand you correctly. Can you give exa
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by jjdredd 6y ago
Could be, at least C++ has tools to implement better design. I've seen one guy's python code that looks worse than his FORTRAN code. There's a russian saying: "A true FORTRAN programmer can write FORTRAN code in any lang
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by jjdredd 6y ago
> Fortran has historically been noticeably faster than even C/C++ for numerical computations Nowadays: faster - maybe, noticeably - I doubt it. > supercomputers have better-optimized Fortran compilers than C compilers I don'
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by jjdredd 6y ago
I was under the impression that physicists had too many ideas and too few chances to test them in experiments.
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by jjdredd 6y ago
True. I don't know much about cosmology.
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by jjdredd 6y ago
Was QM necessary for invention of bipolar transistors?
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by jjdredd 6y ago
Yes, quantum computing is not a problem in modern fundamental physics. Yes, collider construction is not a problem in modern fundamental physics.
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by jjdredd 6y ago
SM/beyond SM is the only field in fundamental physics though. Everything else is either a consequence of those models or applied physics.
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by jjdredd 6y ago
I wouldn't say that Linux maintenance is completely smooth for me, but if something happens it's usually due to my own poor attention. OTOH Windows 10 is determined to force its updates on me at the most inconvenient times. Once I
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by jjdredd 6y ago
That's the reason I use linux. I need to get work done. I guess I could do it on windows but it's much more convenient on linux to set up a working environment and lots of the tools I use are already there.
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by jjdredd 6y ago
Where could I read about advanced assembly optimization techniques like this?
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by jjdredd 6y ago
They say this leak might enable more malware developed targetting these games. The code seems to have already been leaked 2 years ago. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/599332362?t=03s
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by jjdredd 6y ago
> Magnetism is a consequence of relativity and the finite speed of light That doesn't make any sense.
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by jjdredd 6y ago
Differential forms aren't necessary for this though.
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by jjdredd 6y ago
Why not SUSY then? Once you understand the formalism you can derive any field theory to your liking.
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by jjdredd 6y ago
I don't think you understand the issue here. He's not dodging the question. On the contrary, he's answering on the most fundamental level.
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by jjdredd 6y ago
> If you're running a modern Linux desktop you're probably running Wayland I missed the point when Wayland took over all the major modern distros. Did supersede Xorg now? I've been using X11 forever and never thought of al
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by jjdredd 6y ago
I don't think it's the case. X just works for me. Had to configure it once, after that I experienced no friction using or updating it.
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by jjdredd 7y ago
Watched the video. Nice job with following through.

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