ladams

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by ladams 1mo ago
> And now we are 2.2% faster than Ninja! This claim isn't supported by the author's measurements?
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by ladams 2y ago
You can pay in the app on the Denver RTD system!
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by ladams 2y ago
CPA is very very widely used in experimental physics, so I don’t really think it belongs on this list.
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by ladams 2y ago
latexrun does a pretty reasonable job with LaTeX files, and only runs when needed, etc. Would be nice to have this integrated into a build system for plots, data generation, etc.
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by ladams 2y ago
Do you have a link? Google just gives results about the US Navy detection of the implosion…
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by ladams 2y ago
I don't think that 4o will actually be available for free. It seemed like they were quite careful in choosing their words. My guess is 3.5 is free without an account, and accessing 4o requires linking your OpenAI account.
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by ladams 2y ago
Safer for the passengers, but increasingly dangerous for pedestrians.
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by ladams 3y ago
Frequencies beyond the Nyquist limit alias back to resolved modes. So a combination of the camera plus a human eye to check that the flashing is “fast” (i.e. above the Nyquist limit) should be enough to verify the frequency.
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by ladams 3y ago
A minor correction: anti-matter is actually regular matter. We understand it quite well, and are even able to create anti-atoms in the lab. On the other hand, dark matter is much more poorly understood: essentially the only evidence we have
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by ladams 3y ago
This has been my conclusion. I've spent the past few weeks polishing my yt-dlp scripts. Honestly, the experience of being able to watch any video I want offline and buffer-free is way better than the default YouTube experience. Sometim
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by ladams 3y ago
I’m sure the faculty were thrilled with this tradition. Less pages for them to read!
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by ladams 3y ago
Reminds me of Joey Hess (joeyh.name). That said, I think this take has aged poorly in light of recent history. For instance, Google was started as a small collaboration, but has since grown into an enormous company. Presumably, this growth
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by ladams 3y ago
Is it? Every large company has a well compensated CTO whose job it is to think through these sorts of hypotheticals. But “nobody gets fired for choosing Microsoft”, and so the monopoly continues…
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by ladams 3y ago
The rise in student loan debt can alternatively be explained by increasing concentration of wealth in the hands of a few people. In the past (e.g. 40 years ago corresponding to a graduation date ~20 years ago), more families were able to sa
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by ladams 3y ago
Stellarators in particular suffer from very long development cycles. It takes years and years of research to develop the algorithms used to optimize the coil geometries, and then the production of the coils and assembly of the vacuum vessel
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by ladams 5y ago
Worth noting that a neutron decays into a proton, an electron, AND an electron anti-neutrino, so that lepton number is conserved (electron is +1 and anti-neutrino is -1). This interaction conserves charge and baryon number as well.
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by ladams 5y ago
But you have to let the Turing machine run forever for this to work! Every number with a terminating decimal representation in rational. Maybe it's not so easy to describe a transcendental number, at least in our lifetimes...
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by ladams 5y ago
When I look at the link you provided, my conclusion is that US among the worst in deaths/capita, and about an order of magnitude above the median...
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by ladams 5y ago
I'm a physics grad student, and this is completely wrong. The purpose of graduate classes (at least in physics) is to teach you how to navigate a the standard reference texts. For example, the main thing I learned in my grad E&M cl