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gaugefield

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    Comment #44051062

    There is a convention in academic papers where you write the explanation for the 1st occurrence of the abbreviation, then leave it out for the rest of the paper. I suggest others t…

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    Comment #43895799

    Yeap, as example, I enjoy Seinfeld and the office (US version) than many of the comedy series in my own country.

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    Comment #43778338

    Reputation and the dynamics of social media is a tricky one. Within the scientific community, it is pretty well known as far as my experience goes. When it comes to the general pub…

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    Comment #43767220

    This is from Perimeter Institute which (on their own website) has incredible collection of high quality content on topics like theoretical physical, mathematics, for those who are …

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    Comment #43546641

    This issue also bugged me for a while. It is more of cultural issue, and older the research group is, the less likely it is for research software to be open, in my experience. In t…

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    Comment #43448690

    I have been self-studing alot. In fact, my first experience was the professor asked me to solve one of his final exam questions (for which he had provided his lecture notes for the…

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    Comment #43399271

    That statement alone does not paint the whole picture. It also has to be better in terms of some metric (e.g. accuracy, computation time, size of molecules simulatable) when compar…

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    Comment #43393681

    Are you talking about the skepticism from Kalai or more general skepticism (from wider group people, which is more about its application to optimization problem, not prime factorin…

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    Comment #43391231

    One of his earliest great works is one that indicated wrong in the foundational aspect of the theory, namely incompatibility with E&M Maxwell equations and Galilean Transformations…

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    Comment #43391143

    While this does not mention it, in many other discussions Rust vs Ada is mentioned. My (late) introduction to Ada via was finding out in one of the Rust forums.