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I love beer but generally dislike lagers (or at least american style lagers), so I'll often ask for a mystery beer and specify "anything except for a lager." I've truly yet to be d…

I was wondering if you had any advice for hardware startups? I'm currently exploring the idea of integrated-circuit spectroscopy, and have the physics/simulations down but the capi…

Assuming 7% returns, and 6% employee match of a graduate student's salary in my programme (32k), graduate school costs ~288k in lost retirement savings, as well.

(Disclaimer, I'm working on FCIQMC right now) One of the reasons that FCIQMC doesn't have nuclear motion is that the gradients from FCIQMC, and actually most QMC techniques, are re…

We're getting around this by putting a paragraph at the end of the conclusion with a link that says something to the effect of "Click here for a live version of the paper with all …

I'm trying to push my research group to release our papers as iPython notebooks and it looks like my next paper will be. Our text will be rendered as normal markdown and our figure…

Absolutely!

That's rather presumptuous to assume that he didn't. In fact, he did and as part of our grad student resources, we have access to a whole host of school specific recruiters. While …

When I started my PhD last year, my department head gave us a speech where he told us that college football players have better career prospects in the NFL than we will in academia…

Do you have any recommended places to pick up noopept?

I think they were trying to explain super-dense coding [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdense_coding

PhD students, especially in the sciences, don't pay tuition.

I tried to search for a speedmaster 3510.50 and it cut off everything after the period. Regex issue?

Would you mind sharing this party pooper business check list?

The top physics kids in the US tend to get picked up by financial (or some other industry) firms because they're really really sharp because making 200k sounds much better than mak…

Optimal, at least in this sense, refers to the optimization of a cost function so we can quibble about the cost function used but optimization in general isn't nonsensical. And rea…

What kind of solutions?

Locality in this sense refers to the presence of "hidden variables" as first put forth by bohm and later suggested by other people. It was believed that the various CHSH, HOM, and …

Don't worry, I felt the same when I was starting to read papers as a graduate student but I came to realize that in cases like the one where you mentioned elliptic modular forms be…

Speaking as the author of multiple academic articles (theoretical physics), I would fundamentally disagree with your assessment. We usually are trying our absolute hardest to commu…

I'm not entirely sure if I agree, in my experience. For my courses in AP Chem, Phys, Calc AB, BC, Compsci A, AB, and Stats, my courses in high school were good enough that I unders…

Beyond this, I would argue that the good schools in rich areas aren't the problem. I went grew up in the shadows of NASA and my schools were all excellent -- my teachers all had ma…