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3:00 PM
microaggressions
googles nanoaggressions
 
I prefer gigaagressions
 
googles googolaggressions
 
Well, that's too obvious
 
@ACuriousMind by the way, regarding my earlier ping, have you dealt with ordered exponentials before?
 
@user929304 Sure, that's what the time-evolution operator is for time-dependent Hamiltonians
 
3:06 PM
@JohnRennie should I get a Doner kebab or a Dominos Pizza
 
Anonymous
pizza is too mainstream
 
@Phase Gosh, they're both good ...
 
My life is full of difficult decisions like this
If I go for a Doner Kebab, I'll have to wait till 5 for them to even open and I'm hungry
 
@ACuriousMind indeed, I was wondering about a basic identity, when we have time ordered exponentials, which is whether we have the following equality: $e_p^{\int_0^t iH_{t'}dt'}=e_n^{-\int_0^t iH_{t'}dt'}?$ subscripts "n" and "p" are used for negatively and positively ordered exponentials respectively. So in words, the equality is asking whether, a negatively ordered exp here is equal to a positively ordered one but with the argument (of the exp) times -1.
 
dominos have bad pizzas
(at least for australia)
 
3:08 PM
See I feel like over time Im slowly starting to agree. They're great for the first half or so but I cant remember the last time I've wanted to finish one
and I have great taste in pizza too
Extra cheese, Chicken, Anchovies, Olives and Pineapple
 
@Phase I would have a very simple solution to the dilemma, but my solution would not suit everyone ...
 
What's your solution?
 
Get both! :-)
 
that is the worst idea I ever heard :P
 
hm
problemo is that's a bit pricey
 
3:10 PM
@Phase I did warn you ...
 
I tend to eat a meal a day because I can get nicer stuff each day
rather than more mediocre stuff twice a day
 
@user929304 Yes, that's true.
 
@Blue no, I mean |a|/(1+|a|)
 
@Phase Quantity has a quality all of its own
 
That’s always strictly less than 1
 
3:12 PM
I mean, I used to eat like 3 meal deals a day
So I beg to differ
the sandwiches are ok but not phenomenal.
 
Meal deal?
 
@ACuriousMind ahhhh great! is there a simple way of checking (or seeing) that? because initially I made the mistake of thinking $e_p^{\int_0^t iH_{t'}dt'}*e_n^{-\int_0^t iH_{t'}dt'}=1$ but now after your confirmation, we hve instead the corrected identity of: $e_p^{\int_0^t iH_{t'}dt'}*e_n^{\int_0^t iH_{t'}dt'}=1$
 
Anonymous
@0celo7 Oh. Same thing. Even if we show 1/(1+|a|) is bounded it should be enough. $|a|/(1+|a|)=(1+|a|)/(1+|a|)-1/(1+|a|)=1-1/(1+|a|)$
 
@JohnRennie tesco
Sammich + Snack + Drink
 
@0celo7 what did i do
 
3:14 PM
@user929304 The positively-ordered exponential evolves a state from 0 to t, the negatively-ordered one from t to 0, pretty much by definition. So they are inverses of each other.
 
@Phase This is such a beautiful name
 
@Blue but that’s too muc work
Why do that when you can just show the first thing is bounded above by 1
 
@BalarkaSen thanks babe
 
@AlexanderPigazzini Hi Alexander. Generally speaking exotic matter violates one or more of the energy conditions. From a glance at your stress energy tensor it isn't obvious to me whether this is the case or not. You'd probably have to grind through the maths to check.
 
It’s trivial
 
Anonymous
3:16 PM
@0celo7 Agreed
 
@Phase no problem darling
 
Your method gives < 2, which is suboptimal.
 
@AlexanderPigazzini by the way sorry for the slow reply - I was out. Generally the best time to find me in the chat is between 05:00 and 13:00 UTC.
 
@BalarkaSen topology
 
Anonymous
@0celo7 Right. I'll go by your method
 
Anonymous
3:16 PM
Thanks
 
@ACuriousMind aha! I think I get it. Last sanity check, is the following chain of equalities correct then? $e_p^{\int_0^t iH_{t'}dt'}*e_n^{\int_0^t iH_{t'}dt'}=e_p^{\int_0^t iH_{t'}dt'}*e_p^{-\int_0^t iH_{t'}dt'}=1$?
 
@BalarkaSen Pizza or Kebab
 
@Phase that's a crap place to buy lunch. Their meal deals are expensive and not very good.
 
@user929304 yup
 
@ACuriousMind omg! really? awesome :) as you can tell I don't trust myself at all when it comes to these things :( many many thanks
 
3:17 PM
Buy some pies or pasties from your local bakery. They'll be better and cheaper.
 
Honestly @JohnRennie Im just surprised you didnt recommend I pop by Curry's to buy a nice laptop to munch
: P
there is a greggs not too far
Greggs is overpriced tho isnt it?
 
I find them a bit crunchy :-)
 
Thats where the Epoxy comes in
Soft until it sets
 
@Phase Szechuan sauce
 
@Phase I haven't been in Greggs for a while. Pop in and have a look ...
 
3:18 PM
@BalarkaSen low effort
@JohnRennie last time I went in i didn't even see any pies
 
@Phase To be honest you have to have a high IQ for appreciating Szechuan sauce
 
Anonymous
TIQ
 
@BalarkaSen Without a firm grasp of theoretical physics the subtleties of the aftertastes will be lost on the average consumer
 
Truly
 
I might just go for Pizza + kebab :/
damn you Rennie
 
EW
Chicken bake / Katsu Chicken bake are the best
 
Hey anyone can help me with this question?
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Q: Any solutions to Veritasium's hydrodynamic levitation?

MauricioSo this video has been around for a while now https://youtu.be/mNHp8iyyIjo Also this Fluid Mechanics explanation may be related. I just wanted to know if there is any standard hydrodynamic terms to explain it. Derek clearly states it is not about Bernoulli principle, as in this case the ball rot...

A long time since no one has given any more feedback
 
From a quick scan that seems a nice explanation.
 
nice video, but doesn't seem to be same effect
in fluid juggling is more like the hairdryer pingpong ball demonstration
the phenomena im considering needs the ball to rotate and the water jet to pass laterally
 
864
Q: Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30?

Jaroslav KuceraWe've noticed that some of our automatic tests fail when they run at 00:30 but work fine the rest of the day. They fail with the message "gimme gimme gimme" in stderr, which wasn't expected. Why are we getting this output?

For once, a deserving HNQ!
 
3:31 PM
>user has like 2 posts in the community
>1400 score answer
rep cap
 
Are there actually people who think Rick and Morty is deep and complex?
 
@0celo7 yes
 
It’s mostly fart jokes.
 
there are facebook groups where people 'discuss theoretical physics' as a community 'brought together as intellectuals through rick and morty'
 
I know that’s a meme. But is it real?
 
3:33 PM
I had one guy try telling me that general relativity is absolute bunk and that there are no ways of hypothetical direct detection of dark matter, despite WIMPs being the leading candidate. @0celo7 Im being real
Im in multiple facebook groups with these people because they're hilariously disconnected from the real world
 
I don’t really care about physics being real or not
The interesting physics is math
 
I think I agree with you but I've barely even dipped my toes into the stuff.
From what I've encountered so far, I agree
 
Still my favourite Freudian slip of all time: "WIMPs - Weakly interesting matter particles", said in a talk in a seminar hosted by someone researching WIMPs.
 
How did they carry it off
 
I'm not sure I understand what "carry it off" means in that context
 
3:38 PM
like
Did they choke or roll with it
 
Everyone laughed, but the speaker seemed a bit flustered for a few minutes.
 
aw
 
Symbolic seppuku is the only answer in that situation.
 
As long as he didn't say hardon for hadron
 
@ACuriousMind have you noticed that we’ve flipped
 
3:41 PM
@0celo7 ?
 
@ACuriousMind you left academia to do GDP and I’m resigning to academia
 
@0celo7 Heh. I guess that's kinda ironic.
 
@ACuriousMind Why SAP? Because they're recruiting? :-)
 
What is slow and painful ?
Huh?
What is SAP
My phone wants to autocorrect that to slow and painful
 
@JohnRennie Yes, but also because I know several people who already work there and have only reported good things and because it's conveniently located
@0celo7 Oh, only the largest German software company.
 
3:46 PM
@ACuriousMind Better reasons than I had for joining Unilever! :-)
 
Am I supposed to know that?
I don’t know any software companies. I don’t like computers
 
@ACuriousMind When are you likely to hear their decision?
 
@JohnRennie I think they made it already. They called me today and said I would be a good fit and should come back tomorrow to meet the rest of the team I would work with.
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Aren’t you really overqualified
 
Congratulations :-)
 
3:51 PM
^
 
Thanks :)
 
@0celo7 you shouldn't underestimate the sophistication of companies like SAP
 
@ACuriousMind are you allowed to tell us what you’re doing?
 
This is kinda stupid, not gonna lie
 
@0celo7 Well, it depends on which of the sub-teams I'll actually join. Might be anything from working on the compiler for their own language to database interfaces. I don't think I know any details yet I wouldn't be allowed to talk about, at least I didn't sign any NDAs :P
 
3:53 PM
@JohnRennie I'll underestimate all I want
 
Congrats, @ACM
 
@JohnRennie I doubt he’ll be scratching his algebra itch.
 
Business software writing is pretty mindless task
 
Anonymous
@JohnRennie It's surely sophisticated. But I don't think it will even need a fraction of the math skills ACM has
 
even the super duper """Artificial intelligence""" stuff
It's basic linear algebra and analysis
 
Anonymous
3:55 PM
@ACuriousMind Congrats again :)
 
It's like beep boop copy algorithm
Move some things around
find a good one
 
Are you kidding me, SE system, is something awful so awful for you to auto suspend me?
 
@Secret you got suspended again? What for this time?
 
He got suspended before?
What is happening
@Slereah HE is basic algebra and calculus
 
@JohnRennie For linking a forum thread that contained a lot of not very nice material.
 
3:57 PM
Tbh who better to write an AI than an AI
 
@JohnRennie: Thank you very much!
 
@0celo7 that's why it's so easy
 
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Irrefutable proof
 
@AlexanderPigazzini No problem, hoped it helped :-)
 
This time not by any mod, but the SE bot itself. (and Acuriousmind pretty much beat me to it on the details). I thought adding a content warning as adviced by another mod should be sufficient to not get me into trouble, but it appears not. Looks like I need to read the chat guidelines to see what websites are being blacklisted
 
3:59 PM
But does a human body exercise a pressure against the atmospheric pressure?
 
yesterday, by doppelspooker
I've validated a flag against that message. Please don't paste graphic descriptions like that here, there's no need for it. Point people to the page and provide a content warning.
 
@Blue No, but I actually look forward to doing something different. Math/physics hasn't given me the excitement it once did for a while now.
 
@Secret no bot suspends people. Presumably you got flagged.
 

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