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This is a slippery slope, IMHO. It can easily get you to be the next "tactical tornado" of your team (cf. John Ousterhout, A Philosophy of Software Design).

Entanglement in the life of physics giant Chien-Shiung Wu

I also worked for 10 years at a small movie theater in Italy, and very much share what you described. The noises, the lights, the repetitive and almost ritual actions. A very nice …

In what country are you located? In France there's a "médiateur" https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F14373 It might apply in your case...

Has anything changed significantly since 2014 that would make today's cellphones more efficient at detecting gammas? IIRC the tiny size of the cmos camera was the limiting factor..…

It's just hard to do. But there are efforts in this direction e.g. https://analysispreservation.cern.ch/ src: I used to be in HEP

Hi! Interesting project, congrats! How does it compare to https://calmcode.io/human-learn/introduction.html ?

Your reply is fun to read and I really enjoyed it. Of course the descriptions of the "typical day" in the original blog post is idealized. I suppose this idealization is there to m…

From [1] (links therein might be more in-depth) "stable matter, and therefore life and intelligent beings, could not exist if its value were much different. For instance, were α to…

Very much agree. I prefer"The Lessons of History" by Durant [1], more focused and less "fluffy" IMHO. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lessons_of_History

Just finished "Model Thinking" [1] taught by Scott E. Page. I really enjoyed this class. It provided me with several very useful mathematical tools to think more clearly about impo…

Street-Fighting Mathematics [1] [1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-098-street-fighti...

Fun story. In the Princeton Physics dept. corridors (ca. 2010) there were posters and papers talking about current research and results. One of them, not far from Anderson's office…

And his recent (2019-11-07) interview on France Culture https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/linvite-des-matins/tr...

The conclusion of this study is not clear at all to me. From reading their executive summary, the CEBR researchers seem to take the global value added (GVA) of any physics-based in…

Same experience here. Ended up settling on app.getpolarized.io which seems to be less "intrusive."

A bit off-topic...is there any project to create one's own OCR engine customized to one's own handwriting?

> Because when things go wrong they really go wrong. My impression is that the main reason is poor education and scaremongering, rather than actual causalities. When comparing nucl…

Very sad news. Took one of his graduate courses, he was great.

Very thoughtful comment, thank you. Indeed the main difference between e.g. physics and economics (or medicine) is that in the former case one has the privilege of being able to ex…

"In physics with 3 theories that can model 97% of the world. In economics you have 97 theories that can model 3% of the world." I can't remember the source for this aphorism, but i…

For a reasonable rebuttal of her arguments, please take a look at this article on slate [1]. The main argument against her article is that progress in science is not just measured …

The Lessons of History, by W. & A. Durant changed my view on several "big topics" of history and society, such as biology, religion, economics, and war.