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Wow, those who could find their own research topic were lucky. I've never seen anyone in my environment get that much freedom. The supervisor sets the problem and the student must …

> full of petty and lame characters, absurd situations and pathetic developments. Yeh, I wish I could understand this a few years ago. Pursuit of truth is not the primary goal of m…

Alarm going off 20-40 times a day would stress me out. Also, being aware of the alarm can make one feel tension and they could change the behavior.

I didn't expect to see Artemiev mentioned here. Great soviet composer and his "Meditation" is a very fitting track for the movie. Amazing blend of electronic and eastern traditiona…

I think the author is missing a couple of important points: 1) How would one approach this task having a day job? 2) How do you compensate for not having a chance to work in a suit…

Also Santana had a song named after Toussaint but I don't think lyrics are describing anything about the actual person.

I don't work at home all the time, but I've been struggling to find some metric to hold myself accountable for my own quality and intensity of work. Do you mind sharing your experi…

Integrating a compiler into a text editor to speed it up is a bit of an overkill imo. What if a lisp source changes and needs to be recompiled? What if several lisp files change? D…

Even 1-2 days of bad sleep (< 6 hrs) would destroy me either now or back when I was 20.

That's very cool but it's in no way specific to the FORTRAN language: https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/documen... contrary to the earlier comment: > You can't d…

Heh, I could have made a mistake about the origin of the saying. I haven't read that article.

> The thing is, you can write a perfectly normal fortran code, and instantly gain speedup (CUDA, distributed computing with OpenMP, etc) just by enabling some compiler flags. I'm n…

Could be, at least C++ has tools to implement better design. I've seen one guy's python code that looks worse than his FORTRAN code. There's a russian saying: "A true FORTRAN progr…

> Fortran has historically been noticeably faster than even C/C++ for numerical computations Nowadays: faster - maybe, noticeably - I doubt it. > supercomputers have better-optimiz…

I was under the impression that physicists had too many ideas and too few chances to test them in experiments.

True. I don't know much about cosmology.

Was QM necessary for invention of bipolar transistors?

Yes, quantum computing is not a problem in modern fundamental physics. Yes, collider construction is not a problem in modern fundamental physics.

SM/beyond SM is the only field in fundamental physics though. Everything else is either a consequence of those models or applied physics.

I wouldn't say that Linux maintenance is completely smooth for me, but if something happens it's usually due to my own poor attention. OTOH Windows 10 is determined to force its up…

That's the reason I use linux. I need to get work done. I guess I could do it on windows but it's much more convenient on linux to set up a working environment and lots of the tool…

Where could I read about advanced assembly optimization techniques like this?

They say this leak might enable more malware developed targetting these games. The code seems to have already been leaked 2 years ago. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/599332362?t=03s

> Magnetism is a consequence of relativity and the finite speed of light That doesn't make any sense.

Differential forms aren't necessary for this though.