xanmas

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by xanmas 11y ago
I love beer but generally dislike lagers (or at least american style lagers), so I'll often ask for a mystery beer and specify "anything except for a lager." I've truly yet to be disappointed. It's hard to imagine y
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by xanmas 11y ago
I was wondering if you had any advice for hardware startups? I'm currently exploring the idea of integrated-circuit spectroscopy, and have the physics/simulations down but the capital required to fabricate the chips and iterate on
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Teaching Quantum Chemistry with iPython Notebooks(tmarkovich.com)
8 points by xanmas 12y ago|1 comments
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by xanmas 12y ago
Assuming 7% returns, and 6% employee match of a graduate student's salary in my programme (32k), graduate school costs ~288k in lost retirement savings, as well.
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by xanmas 12y ago
(Disclaimer, I'm working on FCIQMC right now) One of the reasons that FCIQMC doesn't have nuclear motion is that the gradients from FCIQMC, and actually most QMC techniques, are really computationally intensive, so this means that
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by xanmas 13y ago
We're getting around this by putting a paragraph at the end of the conclusion with a link that says something to the effect of "Click here for a live version of the paper with all the code and data used in this project." It&#
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by xanmas 13y ago
I'm trying to push my research group to release our papers as iPython notebooks and it looks like my next paper will be. Our text will be rendered as normal markdown and our figures will be live figures with all the code that we used t
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by xanmas 13y ago
Absolutely!
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by xanmas 13y ago
That's rather presumptuous to assume that he didn't. In fact, he did and as part of our grad student resources, we have access to a whole host of school specific recruiters. While students from our programme regularly go into the
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by xanmas 13y ago
When I started my PhD last year, my department head gave us a speech where he told us that college football players have better career prospects in the NFL than we will in academia. While that was probably a bit of hyperbole, it certainly m
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by xanmas 13y ago
Do you have any recommended places to pick up noopept?
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by xanmas 13y ago
I think they were trying to explain super-dense coding [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdense_coding
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by xanmas 13y ago
PhD students, especially in the sciences, don't pay tuition.
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by xanmas 14y ago
I tried to search for a speedmaster 3510.50 and it cut off everything after the period. Regex issue?
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by xanmas 14y ago
Would you mind sharing this party pooper business check list?
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by xanmas 14y ago
The top physics kids in the US tend to get picked up by financial (or some other industry) firms because they're really really sharp because making 200k sounds much better than making 30k. This means that the kids who go into physics are do
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by xanmas 14y ago
Optimal, at least in this sense, refers to the optimization of a cost function so we can quibble about the cost function used but optimization in general isn't nonsensical. And really, the OP specified that he was using the Patero sense of
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by xanmas 14y ago
What kind of solutions?
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by xanmas 14y ago
Locality in this sense refers to the presence of "hidden variables" as first put forth by bohm and later suggested by other people. It was believed that the various CHSH, HOM, and other bell-inequality inspired experiments would have put a
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by xanmas 14y ago
Don't worry, I felt the same when I was starting to read papers as a graduate student but I came to realize that in cases like the one where you mentioned elliptic modular forms being introduced to vastly overcomplicate something, it was us
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by xanmas 14y ago
Speaking as the author of multiple academic articles (theoretical physics), I would fundamentally disagree with your assessment. We usually are trying our absolute hardest to communicate a new advance in the field in anywhere from 4-8 pages
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by xanmas 14y ago
I'm not entirely sure if I agree, in my experience. For my courses in AP Chem, Phys, Calc AB, BC, Compsci A, AB, and Stats, my courses in high school were good enough that I understood 90+% of what was learned in the intro classes at my uni
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by xanmas 14y ago
Beyond this, I would argue that the good schools in rich areas aren't the problem. I went grew up in the shadows of NASA and my schools were all excellent -- my teachers all had masters degrees in what they were teaching, they loved their j