@0celo7 KOTOR (both parts) is...a really great game for the story and companions, but a bit unfinished at certain points. The combat system is a bit weird, but not really bad.
@Slereah You are correct. Also, it's an abomination to use both $\varphi$ and $\phi$ to denote different things, and people doing it should be tarred, feathered, and chased out of town.
@Danu I do not feel under-appreciated. I simply think that the general population and many physicists have a unrealistic picture of what it is to do experimental physics. This thought is reinforced by comments, like the one from yesterday, suggesting that scientists do not make money. That opinion might be correct if we restrict our definition of "scientist" to those who work in university only on government grants and on problems of little practical consequence.
@Danu However, many people which I would consider "physicists" work in places like NANA, NIST, Intel, Google, Northrop Grumman, countless government contractor companies and even stock market trading (which I think could be argued to be a kind of physics problem as it is the modelling of collective behavior in a natural system, albeit a very complex one) and make handsom livings.
@Danu So you see, it's not that a feel "underappreciated", it's that I feel it is damaging to the scientific community and to the world to imply, through statements like the one made yesterday about scientists not making money, that our physicists brothers and sisters working in the industrial sector are not physicsists. Making those suggestions gives e.g. students a warped idea of what they can do with their lives should they pursue the study of physics.
@Danu Also, for the record, I am not only talking about those trained as experimentalists. Those folks working in industry include a healthy number of theorists. This is particularly true among the financial analysts but also true in Northrop Grumman, NASA, NIST, Los Alamos, etc. by my first hand knowledge.
The faculty make a fair living down here. They start at like $72k/year and are required to teach 6 credit hours per school year (usually broken up 3x3, but some like to do 6x0 so they can focus on research the second semester)
@gonenc Oh, uh, yeah I forget which I use. Anyway, yeah I use \newcommend{ket}[1]{|#1\rangle} so I can type \ket{\Psi} for quantum states. It's awesome.
Why are bra and ket defined in the official package braket.sty in two different ways (\bra, \Bra and \ket, \Ket)?
I do not understand why there exists the command \bra with non-scalable delimiters. For stylistic reasons, I intuitively used the capital letter versions. Were you ever confronted w...
@ACuriousMind don't think I don't like Morrowind, I just think I need to get some of the other faster games out of the way first before I can really sit down and take the time to enjoy it
@0celo7 It's very different from Morrowind. It's sandbox, and the game is split between doing quite well done fight between small armies and galloping around the world with your army doing quests and seeking these fights or trading or marrying or whatever.
@DanielSank He's a Business Intelligence programmer, I asked if he had any subcontractor work that I could do & he recommended that site for doing freelance programming
@KyleKanos Well, I mean, I'm biased, but if you want to do some really awesome research with real life data with people who are ridiculously smart... you could try Google.
@0celo7 Anecdotally: someone gave a lecture about how tech companies like hiring physicists over CS majors for the same job b/c physicists are more willing to "go with the flow" and not try changing things
@Danu Haha! I remember the first week of my Greek course in Uni. I came in with the advantage of knowing the alphabet from physics, so I slacked. However, when the quiz came I needed to know the order and I failed miserably.
@Danu She used to sing this. Ahhh those younger days.
@Danu Greek is remarkably easy, actually, if you know English or Spanish. The grammer is almost exactly the same as English and the verb conjugations are almost exactly the same as Spanish.
@Luke Ah, it it's a generalized coordinate, then the "kinetic" term can look however it wants. The Lagrangian formalism doesn't actually know that it has "kinetic" and "potential" parts, the Lagrangian is just the Lagrangian.
