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ACuriousMind

Nov 11, 2024 20:16

you either become a mathematician young or you live long enough to see yourself become a physicist

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ACuriousMind

Dec 25, 2024 21:37

@Relativisticcucumber sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is a flamethrower

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ACuriousMind

Jan 8 17:48

It's also important to recognize - precisely in a historical approach to the subject - that philosophy and physics did not use to be seperate, natural science and philosophy used to be done by the same people and understood to just be different variations in the pursuit of "knowledge", i.e. science

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Allie

Jan 8 15:45

I just would rather focus on the science and physics and stuff

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PM 2Ring

Jan 24 17:29

Still recovering, but progress is slow. But at least I'm able to sleep for a few hours at a time now. It's exhausting when you can't sleep more than 30 or 40 minutes at a stretch...

Herr Feinmann

Dec 23, 2024 19:19

Bloody ACMary

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Slereah

Jan 24 08:44

@ACuriousMind Obviously not America

DIRAC1930

Jan 7 01:02

Whats everyones favourite equation?

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PM 2Ring

Nov 5, 2024 04:58

No, I'm self-taught.

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Mr. Feynman

Nov 15, 2024 15:34

But anyways, if you ever plan to really do a hbar unofficial online meeting, I'm in

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ACuriousMind

Jan 6 01:54

@SillyGoose that people even get old enough to die so much of cancer and old age degeneration is already part of the success

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ACuriousMind

Jan 5 02:06

youngsters these days can't even use ancient memes correctly :P

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ACuriousMind

Dec 20, 2024 12:31

@PM2Ring An entire answer that consists only of copied content is still mostly a violation of the plagiarism policy even if disclosed. Spoke the help center: "In particular, answers comprised entirely of a quote (sourced or not) will often be deleted since they do not contain any original content." I have not yet seen a single post that cites LLM output in a way I would consider even technically acceptable.

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User1865345

Jan 4 08:43

Perseverance and stubbornness. These are the keys.

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User1865345

Jan 4 07:45

@JohnRennie I have no problems with LLMs. But students nowadays rely blindly on these as if these are some oracles.

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User1865345

Jan 4 07:45

This attitude has to change.

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qwerty

Jan 4 01:50

talk to his current and past students privately, off the record, if you can.

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qwerty

Jan 4 01:37

you are a brilliant person - don't let those people haze you

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ACuriousMind

Dec 18, 2024 20:26

@TobiasFünke the logical conclusion is that the math/hep folks have jobs while the CM folks don't ;) (no, I have never heard of time zones)

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ACuriousMind

Dec 18, 2024 15:32

@Arjun Don't do QFT then if you value your sleep :P

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naturallyInconsistent

Dec 18, 2024 13:38

@Arjun it's ok; people just need to shine in their specialty. There is no need to be great at everything.

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Emilio Pisanty

Jan 21 18:08

hello folks =)

ACuriousMind

Jan 21 17:56

I cannot teach you the whole abstract theory of gauge theories in chat, just accept that $A^\mu(x)$ is the gauge field and that effectively all massless vector bosons will come from a field that looks like $A^\mu(x)$

John Rennie

Jan 2 06:40

@User1865345 The downside is you have to be old - on balance I don't recommend it :-)

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Sine of the Time

Dec 16, 2024 17:19

@NOTEBook well, I'm rarely in this chatroom, but the point is that no one is "morally" obliged to answer you questions (in chats), even if they know the answers

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Arjun

Dec 16, 2024 14:15

Can anyone of you recommend me some good resources(even videos work) to learn tensor calculus for electromagnetism and general relativity? Thanks.

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User1865345

Jan 1 04:56

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John Rennie

Jan 20 07:07

A signor is a type of particle that carries sign charge

User1865345

Dec 31, 2024 13:34

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Relativisticcucumber

Dec 31, 2024 00:53

@naturallyInconsistent I am the major victim of this offense

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Ryder Rude

Jan 19 13:54

it was false accusations. so there should've been a direct apology

Allie

Jan 18 19:11

reading is awesome!

Tobias Fünke

Jan 18 18:35

I don't know if we need better moderation or so... I don't think so, actually. We should try to a) not act in bad faith and b) calm down, think a minute before sending a message

Silly Goose

Jan 18 17:37

it is annoying that all these people who claim to be champions of science are doing exactly what they are oh so upset about others doing

Relativisticcucumber

Jan 18 17:29

i just dont think the events that ensued were appropriate or in accordance with the established rules of the chat. i believe that, as a frequent user, i should be allowed to question this type of thing when i see it.

Relativisticcucumber

Jan 18 17:27

im quoting the meta post rules: "Yikes, that's a lot! What can I talk about then???
Anything! As I mentioned earlier, conversations are not restricted to physics, though we do like to move the homework and meta-physics SE-discussions elsewhere. Don't ask about asking, just ask! Really, The h Bar is full of people who're interested in all sorts of things."

Relativisticcucumber

Jan 18 17:17

i feel like the atmosphere in this chatroom lately makes me afraid to have discussions tbh.

Relativisticcucumber

Jan 18 17:15

@ACuriousMind acm, can i ask why you jump on this message in this way? im not advocating that climate change is false, but i dont find the question posed unreasonable so im curious.

John Rennie

Jan 18 06:09

Ah yes. The Z-Library has the pdf but the physical book is £202 here.

Relativisticcucumber

Dec 28, 2024 00:39

what did ohm say when his circuit blew

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Mr. Feynman

Nov 9, 2024 09:44

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Herr Feinmann

Dec 27, 2024 08:43

Do you think that 2025 is a good timeframe for a hbar meeting? :D

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User1865345

Dec 27, 2024 03:34

Source: Great Physicists and the Pets Who Inspired Them

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Ryder Rude

Jan 17 10:54

@ACuriousMind u are being authoritarian. i specifically only post the videos that are not questionable. i have posted videos from Lee Smolin and bolbteppa posted two from Susskind and other string theory researchers.

ACuriousMind

Dec 8, 2024 20:17

@HerrFeinmann no I love you all equally

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ACuriousMind

Dec 25, 2024 19:50

"ashmerm" lol

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ACuriousMind

Dec 25, 2024 17:48

@LeakyNun who's deriving any values here? You just plug in the redshift you see in the telescope into Hubble's law and it gives you the distance at the time of emission

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Slereah

Oct 22, 2024 12:22

No.

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Slereah

Dec 24, 2024 11:05

Stigler's law of eponymy

Stigler's law of eponymy, proposed by University of Chicago statistics professor Stephen Stigler in his 1980 publication "Stigler's law of eponymy", states that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer. Examples include Hubble's law, which was derived by Georges Lemaître two years before Edwin Hubble; the Pythagorean theorem, which was known to Babylonian mathematicians before Pythagoras; and Halley's Comet, which was observed by astronomers since at least 240 BC (although its official designation is due to the first ever mathematical prediction of such astronomical phenomenon...

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qwerty

Dec 24, 2024 10:23

ahh we should give Jeffreys the prior credit

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