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by zbyszek 2y ago
The answer is "God knows!"
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by zbyszek 2y ago
https://catgpt.wvd.io/
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by zbyszek 2y ago
Monty Python imitated Britain first.
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by zbyszek 2y ago
"In 1944, while at a railway station he started chatting with a stranger who turned out to be an engineer who worked on ENIAC." I thought this was precisely the kind of careless talk people were told to avoid during wartime.
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by zbyszek 5y ago
That doesn't sound quite like the Balboa I was taught, where the contact is at the top of the chest (and along the arms and hands of course) and the partners are slightly offset to the side to avoid shin kicking and toe trampling. As
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by zbyszek 5y ago
I thought the catch was going to be people who cannot stand upright.
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by zbyszek 5y ago
As far as I recall, QCD gives you a nice simple formula - a path integral over quantum operators - for any quantity you want. Lattice QCD works out the answer with great big Monte-Carlo integration. The tricky bit is defining a field theor
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by zbyszek 5y ago
Goodness me, that's a blast from my very distant past! The venerable MILC code is still available: https://web.physics.utah.edu/~detar/milc/milc_qcd.html
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by zbyszek 8y ago
And since you had asked for the difference and not the ratio, the candidate immediately failed, right?
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by zbyszek 8y ago
A London taxi driver explained to me back in the 1980's how he liked fares from clubs where boys wore make-up because anyone who has spent three hours crimping and back-combing and spraying their hair is unlikely to want to risk damagi
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by zbyszek 8y ago
Being at the front and facing the orchestra, a conductor can also balance the volume of the various sections. An orchestra is usually large enough that when you are sitting in one bit you cannot judge your volume relative to others.
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by zbyszek 9y ago
There is. A field theory in Minkowski space can be formulated in Euclidean space (and vice versa) with a technique called Wick rotation.
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by zbyszek 9y ago
The photographer, Harry Diamond, (himself the subject of a Freud painting -- http://pictify.saatchigallery.com/462766/interior-in-padding... ) was still a Soho habitué many years later when I had the pleasure of meeting
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by zbyszek 10y ago
The author says "the least likely element of this scenario is that Kellogg's will bring back free gifts". I have at home a bunch of squashy balls, eagerly sought by my son, from Kellog's Frosties from the time of Six N
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by zbyszek 10y ago
There is; the equation on the CERN mug in the photo is an example. For example, the gluon Lagrangian (Section 1) may be more compactly written -1/2 Tr F_{\mu\nu} F^{\mu\nu} for a suitably defined F. Or further abbreviated to something
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by zbyszek 10y ago
I imagine that the conclusion Mr Karpov would have you reach is that you should buy PVS Studio instead.
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by zbyszek 11y ago
Having worked in a university mathematics department I noticed that the pure mathematicians tended to keep themselves to themselves, for instance not attending talks by visiting mathematicians unless it was of direct relevance to their rese
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by zbyszek 12y ago
I am suprised that there was only one. I knew someone who kept ferrets (to catch rabbits for her hawk) and was told that, as social animals, being kept in isolation would send them crazy, while all-female groups didn't get along well.
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by zbyszek 12y ago
They do, but they also want things simpler. Reconciling these conflicting demands is the trick.
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by zbyszek 13y ago
Presumably after the Crimean War, otherwise Dr James Barry ( http://www.notablebiographies.com/supp/Supplement-A-Bu-and-O... ) could never have succeeded in her subterfuge.
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by zbyszek 13y ago
The famous jibe is along the lines of "An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out", attributed to Winston Churchill, but I think he denied it.
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by zbyszek 13y ago
"Sculpting in time" is also the title of Tarkovsky's book which I haven't read, but I now have a new impetus to do so. Interesting about colour - perhaps a "less is more" thing. The end of Andrei Rublev is bre
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by zbyszek 13y ago
That would have to be a different URL, like www.howmanypeoplewereinspaceatanygiventimeinthepast.com (sorry, coldcode).
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by zbyszek 13y ago
Das ist aber Mist. Nicht bloß wissenschaflicher Mist, nur der reine Scheiß.
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by zbyszek 13y ago
I wonder how this compares with previous 'pseudolite' ideas? The University of New South Wales (et al.) were active here but I think the point was more an augemtation to provide better positioning at GPS-unfriendly latitudes or t
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by zbyszek 13y ago
Such temerity! They'll want their own flag next.
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by zbyszek 13y ago
I presume because the relative permanence of the printed word relative to the spoken, leading to its potentially greater exposure.
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by zbyszek 13y ago
Repetition isn't necessarily a bad thing. Whether compatible results can be obtained with independent analyses of the same data is surely an important indicator of success. Of course that should not preclude the possibility of replication
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by zbyszek 13y ago
I met him on a couple of occasions many years ago and he really is great company. And he got a round in.
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by zbyszek 14y ago
Different personalities all right. Recall the Ig Nobel Prize-winning observations of mallard necrophilia; https://moeliker.wordpress.com/the-duck/

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