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@guest you seem to be implying earlier that weather would affect outcome of game in the sense of favoring one team over another or affect spread etc. ... that is not very plausible. it would not be expected to give either team any advantage over the other.

the only case could be if a mostly fair-weather team met a team that has good experience playing in non-fair-weather conditions, and there were not-fair-weather conditions for the game.

@guest ok, maybe weather would affect running vs passing balance, and a team with advantage/ stronger in one or the other could benefit.

guest

Yes, and ~~good~~ experienced bettors know this ;-)

vzn

@guest ok, what year then?

guest

Was the "fix" in?

user54412

@guest I mostly took the last semester off since I was traveling around giving job talks. Before that I taught an intro to astronomy/cosmology.

guest

@ChrisWhite interesting. Kudos for your efforts :-)

vzn

6:21 PM

@FenderLesPaul congratulations! to study physics? undergrad? do you have an idea on what specialization? do you have any interest in qm computing? its a world class center for it now, maybe even world leading (hi DS!), maybe too good a chance to pass up...?

Physics Meta

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Q: Which country holds maximum dominance?

Just for stats I want to know which nation has its dominance or maximum user on physics.stackexhange.

support

vzn

@FenderLesPaul ps any reaction to this? :P

dmckee

@0celo7 You hand writing looked to be adequately legible to me. I don't know any ten year old girls well enough to look at the handwriting right now, and don't recall what it looked like when I did.

Besides, today's ten year-olds may well be the first cohort from after the feds stopped recommending that primary schools teach cursive.

My own handwriting (mostly printing, with a few cursive-like flourishes to make letter distinguishable) is slightly idiosyncratic, though the students seem to find it decipherable.

The only times I use straight cursive is on checks and thank-you notes. And I write those slowly because my muscle memory for cursive isn't what it used to be.

Bernard Meurer

6:37 PM

@dmckee Picture

vzn

6:51 PM

@BernardMeurer spking of chatbots... just saw this, amazing... reminds me, anyone see that movie Her?

in theory salon, 21 hours ago, by vzn

Your Next New Best Friend Might Be a Robot/ Meet Xiaoice. She’s empathic, caring, and always available—just not human / Wang

Bernard Meurer

@vzn Loved that movie

Amazing, that chat bot

FenderLesPaul

7:11 PM

@vzn thanks! It's for physics graduate school, my specialization is quantum gravity

@vzn I am quite interested in theoretical aspects of quantum computing though

I wish I knew more about it

@vzn also the thought of Jimmy Page with a 25 year old gf is kind of gross haha

FenderLesPaul

7:25 PM

@DanielSank we should meet up when I get there for visit week!

Slereah

Guys

Can I with the ADM formalism look some initial values and just evolve them along a thing

In a way that is easier than with the EFE

Bernard Meurer

Illinois application results come out in 2 and a half hours

I'm dying

@FenderLesPaul How do you cope?

FenderLesPaul

7:41 PM

I don't haha

I just freak out

Good luck dude!

Bernard Meurer

Thanks man, I'm just hitting the wall with a hammer while I wait

FenderLesPaul

Lemme know what happens

Bernard Meurer

Will do if I don't pass out

Bernard Meurer

8:00 PM

2 hours to go

yuggib

8:21 PM

@0celo7 everyone would be upset ;-)

DanielSank

8:41 PM

@FenderLesPaul I'll be here.

GBeau

8:54 PM

@FenderLesPaul GBeau stares longingly at his empty email inbox

Bernard Meurer

1 hour to go now

I am perishing

FenderLesPaul

9:14 PM

@GBeau I haven't heard back from any new places either

2 places so far

GBeau

where..?

FenderLesPaul

UCSB and Cornell

Bernard Meurer

9:31 PM

Half an hour to go

Bernard Meurer

9:50 PM

10 minutes

5

hubot

Landau's book has been stuck in my mind.

Bernard Meurer

2

I'm dying

1

hubot

Are you alive?

Bernard Meurer

Yes but by F5 key is badly hurt

Denied

Sigh

FenderLesPaul

UIUC?

Bernard Meurer

10:04 PM

Yeah

FenderLesPaul

It's ok dude it's one school of many

where else did you apply?

guest

There are plenty of other fish in the sea @BernardMeurer :-)

Bernard Meurer

UPenn, Cornell, GATech, VAtech, UC(Berkeley, SB, SD), Waterloo, NCS, Minnesota @FenderLesPaul

FenderLesPaul

Gotcha

When does Cornell come out?

Bernard Meurer

Thanks @guest

Didn't get an email with the date for them yet @FenderLesPaul

FenderLesPaul

10:08 PM

ah ok

if you get in you should visit and we can hang out before I'm out of here!

guest

There's no need to put yourself through so much stress counting down the minutes, pal.

Live and learn.

Bernard Meurer

@FenderLesPaul Sounds good to me; I have to see that shoulder in real

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FenderLesPaul

;)

Bernard Meurer

@guest I can't help it man, I get too anxious for this stuff

guest

Fight the urge.

In the long run you will be better off :-)

Patience is a virtue for a reason.

Guns N' Roses - Patience

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Bernard Meurer

10:19 PM

I just hope I get into Cornell or UPenn

And I'm aware of the importance of patience @guest; it's the idea of hard work not yielding fruits that hurts me the most

guest

You tried your best. There is nothing more you can do.

dmckee

11:19 PM

@BernardMeurer That's pretty much a powerhouse list.

FenderLesPaul

@DanielSank Yay!

dmckee

And the conventional wisdom is the strong programs get 3-10 times as many qualified applications as they can accept.

So, getting a rejection (or five) doesn't necessarily reflect badly on you. It's just that the committees have to make some very difficult decisions.

ACuriousMind

@dmckee I've been wondering about that. Except for the best programs in really popular fields like medicine, that just doesn't happen here. Many subjects are even entirely without any form of admission process - you just show up and tell them you'd like to study there. Has America just too few universities for its population?

guest

Does Germany have an "Ivy League" equivalent @ACuriousMind?

user54412

@ACuriousMind + the world's population

user54412

11:27 PM

remember @Danu 's complaints that nobody pays attention to European universities, even in Europe

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dmckee

@ACuriousMind Depends a bit on the field, and the ones I know much about that way are math and physics. Even then that figure applies only to the programs that are well known as being very good. Second tier schools usually get enough applications to fill their needs and further down the list they'll often take anyone they think has a fighting chance of passing the qualifier.

And I think there is a social factor at work in those two fields. In my experience they collect a large number of people who are smart in a quantitative way, but not driven toward any specific work situations.

ACuriousMind

@guest Well, kind of. Certain universities belong to the Exzellenzinitiative

dmckee

So when they see the end of college looming, more than a few physics and math majors say (in effect), "If I go to grad school I don't have to figure out what I'm going to be when I grow up yet."

user54412

@ACuriousMind just wanna say that's an amazing, and amazingly German, word

guest

^

:P

German Universities Excellence Initiative

The Excellence Initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the German Research Foundation aims to promote cutting-edge research and to create outstanding conditions for young scholars at universities, to deepen cooperation between disciplines and institutions, to strengthen international cooperation of research, and to enhance the international appeal of excellent German universities. It is the result of lengthy negotiations between the federal government and the German states. Since almost all German universities are public (most private universities do not have the...

Bernard Meurer

11:36 PM

@dmckee If I'll be leaving home and family for it it better me worth it right?:p

guest

Is it tough to get into São Paulo @BernardMeurer?

Bernard Meurer

@guest the university you mean? USP?

guest

Yes, the uni

Bernard Meurer

I'd say it's the most difficult in the country; or on the top 5 at least

And they are one of the very, very few that make it easier for people in their state