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Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier

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Re: Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier

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Post by ovi256 »

ahoka wrote: post #21
Majestic121 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is something about Hungary and extremely smart people : https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-consid...

Just have to leave the country to be successful, or worse, to not get killed by the same people what will be the first to boast about your achievements abroad.

Some people are proud of where other people were born, regardless of where these other people work.

Some people are proud of where other people work, regardless of where these other people were born.

These are very different views of the world /shrug

Re: Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier

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Post by SiempreViernes »

tpmx wrote: post #42
solarist wrote: post #8

L’Huillier, who became the fifth woman to win the physics prize, was teaching when she received the call from the committee, having the advantage of being in the same time zone as the committee. (On a side note, Bing chat already knows now that she won the prize. Color me impressed.)

Photo from that lecture at Lund University, Sweden: https://twitter.com/lantisfjantis/status/1709146065985777767 This year's Nobel laureate in physics lectures us after (!!) being notified of her win!!

I like how lantisfjantis then goes on to report he's astounded that she turned off her phone for the remaining half of the lecture.

Like no shit, you try to carry on a lecture while like 20 different journalists try to call you! The youth of today! ;)

Re: Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier

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Post by seanhunter »

urthor wrote: post #33
noobermin wrote: post #31

There is some nice sweet irony here. Very marginal inside baseball. I know of one of the recipients although indirectly. I felt like their group was kept around their university physics dept because they were known to be good in that field, while generally their colleagues were generally not respected as their physics (which was derisively deemed "AMO" as if it were an epithet) was not seen as "fundamental" enough by…

Academic politics is something else. I thought for awhile those guys got lucky and skip office politics. Then I realize that PhD level IQs + pressure to get into the fancy journals means that the politics is 古典小說 tier.

> Academic politics is something else.

There is a famous formulation of this known as Sayre's law[1], which is often stated via the quote "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake. That is why academic politics are so bitter," which wikipedia attributes to Charles Philip Issawi.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre's_law

Re: Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier

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Post by mingusrude »

tpmx wrote: post #42
solarist wrote: post #8

L’Huillier, who became the fifth woman to win the physics prize, was teaching when she received the call from the committee, having the advantage of being in the same time zone as the committee. (On a side note, Bing chat already knows now that she won the prize. Color me impressed.)

Photo from that lecture at Lund University, Sweden: https://twitter.com/lantisfjantis/status/1709146065985777767 This year's Nobel laureate in physics lectures us after (!!) being notified of her win!!

My son was also in this class and there is a video of when they applaud her and she tries to continue with the lesson.

Re: Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier

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Post by jb1991 »

sidcool wrote: post #52
daoboy wrote: post #38

An attosecond is to a second what a second is to the age of the universe.

How the hell do they do it! I can't even reduce 100 ms latency from my API calls.

Don't be too hard on yourself. We can't all be Nobel laureates.

Re: Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier

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Post by kranke155 »

seanhunter wrote: post #54
urthor wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Academic politics is something else. I thought for awhile those guys got lucky and skip office politics. Then I realize that PhD level IQs + pressure to get into the fancy journals means that the politics is 古典小說 tier.

> Academic politics is something else. There is a famous formulation of this known as Sayre's law[1], which is often stated via the quote "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake. That is why academic politics are so bitter," which wikipedia attributes to Charles Philip Issawi. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre's_law

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Re: Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier

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Post by thrdbndndn »

daniel-s wrote: post #37
urthor wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Academic politics is something else. I thought for awhile those guys got lucky and skip office politics. Then I realize that PhD level IQs + pressure to get into the fancy journals means that the politics is 古典小說 tier.

The Chinese translates to, "classical novels," according to Google.

I'm a native Chinese speaker but I have no idea what OP means by "古典小說 tier".
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