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by zaph0d_ 3y ago
The region was an excellent choice for me to get my education. It was easy to get a research assistant position throughout my studies at the various academic institutions and then advance to my career from there. Cost of living is still qu
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by zaph0d_ 4y ago
They are still doing plenty shots for the national ignition campaign and figuring out the target manufacturing process. The official purpose of NIF has just been shifted to support security research.
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by zaph0d_ 5y ago
I am not sure if they are aware of the Fediverse [1,2]. The Fediverse essentially rebuilds all the social-networking services but as federated services. This means each service can be hosted by multiple instances and instances can communica
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by zaph0d_ 6y ago
I really love the strong connection between statistical mechanics and information theory. Before attending a statistical mechanics lecture I was not able to comprehend why entropy was a relevant quantity, beyond the definition of the secon
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by zaph0d_ 7y ago
This is absolutely devastating! His talk "The Mess We're In" was one of those talks which were incredibly funny and informative at the same time. I absolutely lost it, when he told the story of the single comment his coworker
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by zaph0d_ 7y ago
Are there any papers already out which focus on the technical aspect of reconstructing the image? I heard that they analyzed 3.5 Petabytes of data for this.
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by zaph0d_ 9y ago
Thank you for sharing that story! It must be really amazing to hear storys from a Nobel laureate about working for other laureates like Fermi.
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by zaph0d_ 9y ago
Thank you. Awesome! What did he say at dinner?
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by zaph0d_ 9y ago
Thank you for the interessting material! I have heard a lecture on the geometric and topological applications to solid-state physics. This is one of the things that excites me a lot that whole areas of physics can be "geometrized"
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by zaph0d_ 9y ago
I once took an advanced seminar course on the mathematical foundations of electrodynamics in parallel to my theoretical electrodynamics course during my third bachelor semester. I did not have any clue about differential geometry and did no
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by zaph0d_ 9y ago
The problem is getting worse as new jobs are mainly created in cities. They also offer a more attractive infrastructure such as fast internet speeds and shorter commutes, than rural areas. There are of course many other advantages, but I th
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by zaph0d_ 9y ago
Even if this would be the dream of a lot of theoretical physicists to replace experiments with simulations, this must not happen! Ever! Even if every complex system in the world could be simulated in reasonable time it would still require e
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by zaph0d_ 9y ago
The text said that they begin in the age of 15 or 16, so the "duale Ausbildung" system is meant by that, because "Dualstudenten" are usually 17 or 18 when they start. The "Dualstudium" combines the practical
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by zaph0d_ 9y ago
I would not consider the language barrier as the largest obstacle. But the European scientific infrastructure can't even compete with Californias institutions and it gets much worse if you count in the whole US scientific infrastructur
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by zaph0d_ 9y ago
Yes this is of course a regulatory burden and just a probably unrealistic solution. But the main problem remains, how can someone who is renting get at least some savings out of it?
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by zaph0d_ 9y ago
The problem with renting is, that it will return to you a temporal value(a space to live in each month, after the month this value is basically gone), whereby buying a house will return a lasting value, which you can even use by selling the
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by zaph0d_ 10y ago
IIRC macOs does not support OpenGL 4.5 or Vulkan. Also there is currently no high performance Apple Hardare to do things like CUDA or other GPGPU programming. CUDA on Linux is really an easy thing to do. For Game programming tools like Unre