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zaph0d_

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About zaph0d_

Physics PhD student. Interests: High energy density physics, HPC, non-equilibrium processes, solid-state physics and quantum computing.

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    The region was an excellent choice for me to get my education. It was easy to get a research assistant position throughout my studies at the various academic institutions and then …

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    Comment #33956109

    They are still doing plenty shots for the national ignition campaign and figuring out the target manufacturing process. The official purpose of NIF has just been shifted to support…

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    Comment #29487052

    I am not sure if they are aware of the Fediverse [1,2]. The Fediverse essentially rebuilds all the social-networking services but as federated services. This means each service can…

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    Comment #24186981

    I really love the strong connection between statistical mechanics and information theory. Before attending a statistical mechanics lecture I was not able to comprehend why entropy …

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    Comment #19707649

    This is absolutely devastating! His talk "The Mess We're In" was one of those talks which were incredibly funny and informative at the same time. I absolutely lost it, when he told…

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    Comment #19624966

    Are there any papers already out which focus on the technical aspect of reconstructing the image? I heard that they analyzed 3.5 Petabytes of data for this.

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    Comment #16328104

    Thank you for sharing that story! It must be really amazing to hear storys from a Nobel laureate about working for other laureates like Fermi.

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    Comment #16327275

    Thank you. Awesome! What did he say at dinner?

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    Comment #16327264

    Thank you for the interessting material! I have heard a lecture on the geometric and topological applications to solid-state physics. This is one of the things that excites me a lo…

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    Comment #16326505

    I once took an advanced seminar course on the mathematical foundations of electrodynamics in parallel to my theoretical electrodynamics course during my third bachelor semester. I …

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    Comment #15560752

    The problem is getting worse as new jobs are mainly created in cities. They also offer a more attractive infrastructure such as fast internet speeds and shorter commutes, than rura…

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    Comment #14860774

    Even if this would be the dream of a lot of theoretical physicists to replace experiments with simulations, this must not happen! Ever! Even if every complex system in the world co…

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    Comment #14568957

    The text said that they begin in the age of 15 or 16, so the "duale Ausbildung" system is meant by that, because "Dualstudenten" are usually 17 or 18 when they start. The "Dualstud…

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    Comment #14440277

    I would not consider the language barrier as the largest obstacle. But the European scientific infrastructure can't even compete with Californias institutions and it gets much wors…

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    Comment #14302476

    Yes this is of course a regulatory burden and just a probably unrealistic solution. But the main problem remains, how can someone who is renting get at least some savings out of it…

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    Comment #14302233

    The problem with renting is, that it will return to you a temporal value(a space to live in each month, after the month this value is basically gone), whereby buying a house will r…

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    Comment #13368839

    IIRC macOs does not support OpenGL 4.5 or Vulkan. Also there is currently no high performance Apple Hardare to do things like CUDA or other GPGPU programming. CUDA on Linux is real…