muhdeeb

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by muhdeeb 6mo ago
So it seems that their definition of 100% means 1 excited state per incoming photon, and then they use a material that converts a single high energy excited state produced by one photon into 2 half as energetic excited states...but then th
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by muhdeeb 7mo ago
How I wish more people would remember this! What extraordinary interpolation tools we have! Truly marvelous and worth celebrating, but not worth a damn for extrapolation. Such a torrent of well-formed advertising trying to convince experts
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by muhdeeb 7mo ago
The reason this is important is not because the molecule has any practical utility, either now or in the future. Most of the reactions it participates in will probably be various decompositions of itself into other. The real importance come
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by muhdeeb 1y ago
Huh. That's an interesting possible metric. How many competing tendencies in a space? It a good question and one that's been asked before. I wonder how machine learnability compares to other measures of chaotic structure, like mul
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by muhdeeb 1y ago
Well put! You make a very good point. The historical trajectory of a field's development is an extremely haphazard presentation of the ideas. It belongs in a separate curriculum, and I'm grateful that the history of science exists
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by muhdeeb 1y ago
In this case, chemistry of Ga and Ge are a bit different, and the Cr compound that was misstated is part of a family of materials that rely heavily on the coordinating chemistry of Ge and its mates in the same period. So it makes more sense
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by muhdeeb 1y ago
I'm inclined to give them a pass. It's easy enough to figure out that it should be germanium and not gadolinium, and dyslexia already exists among scientists. Context provides enough information to correct the record. I didn'
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by muhdeeb 1y ago
The trouble with holograms, if I understand them correctly, is that when storing information in a phase structure, to change one small part of the information you are storing, the hologram must be adjusted everywhere. The bits are encoded i
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by muhdeeb 1y ago
This article has a headline engineered with shock value connotations, but when you read it carefully, it takes pains to rein the suggestions of the title in as much as possible while still stirring the pot. It’s a kind of artistry you need
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by muhdeeb 1y ago
Agreed! It’s pretty alien. I’ve seen brilliant single author work, but nothing that uses “I” unless it’s a blog post. The formal papers are always the singular “we”. Feels very communal that way! Nice to include the giants we stand on as im
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by muhdeeb 1y ago
What’s the plan for dealing with cosmic rays? I worry about when your beautiful angstrom-precision qubit networks encounter a relativistic proton or muon.
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by muhdeeb 1y ago
As far as I understand it, smaller scale XFEL devices still suffer from poor aim, even though now these machines have been miniaturized to basement scales. They don’t need to be significant fractions of a kilometer anymore. This aim issue w
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by muhdeeb 2y ago
It’s a cadmium isotope. Super cool technique, I think perturbed angular correlation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perturbed_angular_correlatio... I haven’t used it for my research, but it’s an incredible local probe