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Unless I misread it, if a project is deemed to have an "FBA" then the project leader is an "FN", in the author's opinion. And yes, some such projects have been explicitly called ou…

>Really Bad Acronyms, or FBAs, are spawned by FNPLs (Nerdy Project Leaders) when naming new systems Nothing like personal attacks to get your point across. Well done author.

The standard and most effective form of curation in science is the reference list at the end of a paper. But usually you just read everything that is relevant to your research inte…

"You can upload your research and publish it on the open web. Members of the community will be able to vote on your research to raise its visibility." Oh dear.

Are you sure it was peer reviewed at all? It looks like a conference proceedings.

I think the article misses the point of what physics is. It is not a collection of "sparse" models and principles, rather, it is a scientific discipline from which such models have…

The author is talking about how a given physics model appears simple when they are presented with it, e.g. a particular quantum field theory. This is the kind of limited perspectiv…

"The counterfactuals that matter to science and physics, and that have so far been neglected, are facts about what could or could not be made to happen to physical systems; about w…

Note that if f(x) = x^2 then the second derivative f''(x) = 2, so it looks like you're off by a factor of 2 (as well as the accuracy issue).

Knowledge of complex numbers are required to solve quadratics too (when the discriminant is negative).

If you liked Primer, the film "Timecrimes" does an excellent job at the physical consistency of time travel.

It is interesting that they chose to use a first person shooter as an example screenshot since gameplay would be broken by visual changes in occlusion.

I think we need more clever people making more predictions (and especially from people quoted in the article like Gross, Witten, Rattazzi etc), and fewer blog articles like this de…

IANAL but I expect not. I would imagine the rental company would then just bill or sue the driver for the loss and inconvenience (or otherwise claim it on insurance).

On a similar note, I would like to think a rental car company would suffer consequences if a drunk person waddled up to the rental desk and they were handed a set of keys.

> astronomers use supernovae to measure distances, which is important for cosmologists to study, for instance, the expansion of the universe and dark energy. AFAIK supernovae datas…

I think this would be great, yes. The store has no reason to hide the markup if its fair, reflecting the convenience they added.

I think only in the same way that 'soccer' is not a good name for football, as a reference to domestic violence

In that case, hypothetically what about a separate app that only sells game currency, like vbucks?

There is a fundamental reason not to publish scientific code. If someone is trying to reproduce someone else's results, the data and methods are the only ingredients they need. If …

As a theoretical physicist your results should be reproducible based on the content of your papers, where you should detail/state the methods you use. I would make the argument tha…