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It doesn't surprise me in the least. Germany is a country of insane regulations and rules. They absolutely love paperwork - all the Germans apologized to me when I first moved here…

I cannot emphasize this point enough. If you are new to the gym, please get a personal trainer (or someone who knows wtf they are doing) for a session or two to show you the correc…

If you've never been to a gym before or done weights, please, please, please get a personal trainer for a session or two to show your the correct form. I see way too many people at…

I was very lucky, growing up, to be the son of a sports medicine doctor because, from birth, healthy eating and exercise and their benefits were grilled into my brain. Unfortunatel…

> The end state is fairly obvious - every light, every doorknob will be connected to the internet. Why does my doorknob need to be connected to the internet? Does my fork need to b…

I have no qualms with mathematical physics at all. I love mathematical physics to the extent my undergraduate degree is in mathematical physics. But the problem is that they are ca…

Sorry it was late but I know what you mean. I meant "theoreticians" in the sense that the article is talking about, i.e. those who work on string theory or loop quantum gravity. Ma…

I think high level theory is wandering aimlessly through a field blindfolded with little guidance or where to look. This is because our current theories are so good, we have no ide…

What's a thing explainer? But unfortunately since quantum computing is still really only an academic pursuit, you're only going to find technical literature or dumbed down to the p…

>There needs to be more people chasing their dreams rather then being cranked through the academia process. I am reminded of the following story I experienced in my first year chem…

Despite me not liking what he has done, I can't really find any faults with what he has done. If he purchased the drug legally then why can't he charge as much as he want? Can anyo…

What I love about bouldering is it is very easy to mark progress. You can get higher on the wall or do a move. Very motivating. You can see it. I find that in the gym, progress is …

When I was at Waterloo almost everyone I knew at the climbing gym was some combination of engineering, physics, mathematics, and computer science. This doesn't surprise me since bo…

When you use this method you are implicitly making the function periodic. I can give you any function on some interval (sufficiently well behaved) and you can compute the Fourier s…

This is called a spectral method and is widely used in numerical codes. I highly recommend Spectral Methods in MATLAB by Trefethen (who someone mentions above) for a very good tuto…

I work in numerical relativity and our group produces many, many gravitational waveforms. I even visited LIGO this past summer. If Lawrence Krauss isn't bullshitting (and I have no…

Yeah I know. It's hard to squeeze information out of them. I actively tell them to please, please come to me if they don't understand something and I have office hours for a reason…

Interesting. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors are one of the most fundamental applications of linear algebra. In physics, quantum mechanics is a giant eigenvalue-eigenvector problem. O…

Interesting. I used linear algebra with quantum mechanics where eigenvectors represent quantum state of the Hamiltonian which is how I initially understood them. And as for TAing, …

I always see linear algebra on HN and many people comment on how they never understood the subject. This makes me ask: what exactly is it that people don't get about linear algebra…

I'd love to see new physics! Every physicist I know loves new physics. But if you claim to violate the conversation of momentum, everyone is going to be skeptical and not believe i…

Now show me the e-mails from investors of the hundreds of start-ups that get rejected and fail.

This is actually my PhD research! Yes the current thought is that neutron star mergers are the source of heavy elements (iron and greater) over supernova. Looking at the elements p…

Bullshit. I live in Germany and am learning German but everyone here speaks English. If you even sound the slightest bit non-German they respond in English. It does vary from city …

Course-work based masters perhaps, but definitely not thesis-based. My Master's degree was entirely paid for and I actually made money. I wrote a thesis that contained original res…