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" ...by waving your hands and chanting "to first order". " I've found that to be very successful in all walks of life.
Another classic in the same vein as the linked article is http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~dinoj/scilies.html , which contains this nugget: "Correct to within an order of magnitude." Wrong.
Citation: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/cv.html
Virtually everything, and I mean everything in your post was wrong, but I still enjoyed the hell out of it. Laser scientists know that if you use (a well anti-reflection coated) Ge window or lens to transmit a high power CO2 laser beam, slight absorption heats it a little. Heating it a little makes it more absorptive. So it heats a little more. And so forth, until the motherf——r cracks: “thermal runaway.” Guess why?…
He switched to CS and now gets paid to work on A-list videogames all day: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/cv.html
Edit: Oops, LinkedIn says he's now at Google.
Mods: The title is wrong; this was written in 2001. Citation: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/cv.html
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Another classic in the same vein as the linked article is http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~dinoj/scilies.html , which contains this nugget: "Correct to within an order of magnitude." Wrong.
Used to be ok in some branches of astrophysics. Now they know the age of the universe more accurately than any test you’ll get in a hospital. Stay the f—— out of hospitals (and courtrooms).
I think this is a good deal older than 2007, but my memory could be playing tricks on me. I could swear I had read this when I was studying semiconductors in school, in the early 2000s. Edit: could be I'm thinking of Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics, and I read this article later.
Why the experimental points don't have error bars? Is it not possible to use four terminal sensing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-terminal_sensing Perhaps the sample is too irregular, but for very low resistance samples using only two terminals never work. Can they use a lock-in amplifier? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock-in_amplifier When it works, it's like magic. I'm not sure that it is useful here > I atta…
Part of being a physicist is having a high pain tolerance to non-working hardware. This includes cables.
Virtually everything, and I mean everything in your post was wrong, but I still enjoyed the hell out of it. Laser scientists know that if you use (a well anti-reflection coated) Ge window or lens to transmit a high power CO2 laser beam, slight absorption heats it a little. Heating it a little makes it more absorptive. So it heats a little more. And so forth, until the motherf——r cracks: “thermal runaway.” Guess why?…
> You are going to be a good experimental physicist eventually. He switched to CS and now gets paid to work on A-list videogames all day: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/cv.html Edit: Oops, LinkedIn says he's now at Google.
Virtually everything, and I mean everything in your post was wrong, but I still enjoyed the hell out of it. Laser scientists know that if you use (a well anti-reflection coated) Ge window or lens to transmit a high power CO2 laser beam, slight absorption heats it a little. Heating it a little makes it more absorptive. So it heats a little more. And so forth, until the motherf——r cracks: “thermal runaway.” Guess why?…
> You are going to be a good experimental physicist eventually. He switched to CS and now gets paid to work on A-list videogames all day: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/cv.html Edit: Oops, LinkedIn says he's now at Google.
"Two years experience in swing dancing (east coast swing and lindy hop)."