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John Rennie

9:01 AM

SAUSAGE PARTY Movie Clip - The Most Intelligent Being Alive (2016) Animated Comedy Movie HD

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Now that's fame!!

Slereah

he was in many cartoons

The Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama, Dilbert

bolbteppa

theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/stephen-hawking-obituary 'Stephen Hawking obituary by Roger Penrose'

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John Rennie

> Hawking had many students, some of whom later made significant names for themselves. Yet being a student of his was not easy. He had been known to run his wheelchair over the foot of a student who caused him irritation.

Slereah

Wrong move, Hawking

I don't think you'd like it if I pushed you out of your chair!

Dawood ibn Kareem

That could be a career-ending move.

Slereah

9:08 AM

For HIM

Although I guess it's too late to murder Hawking now

Dawood ibn Kareem

No matter how many Nobel prizes you win, you'd always be remembered as "the jerk who pushed Hawking out of his chair".

Slereah

The man who finally defeated Hawking

The Oxford chair is like the thunderdome

two men enter

one man leaves

Dawood ibn Kareem

"... Whites are richer in average because they do more work that is actually useful for other people ..." - Luboš Motl.
You what now?

Slereah

Not me

All my work is useless

lılostafa

Has Hawking proposed using mountain-sized black holes to harness energy here on the Earth? I couldn't find anything in credible sources but this claim is all over the place

Dawood ibn Kareem

9:19 AM

Oh, he's younger than me. I kind of always assumed he was older.

Motl, that is. Not Hawking.

Mithrandir24601

@YuzurihaInori If you actually wanted to see it, they put it on arXiv today, so you should be able to read this: arxiv.org/abs/1803.04449

(also, join us in the quantum computing beta!)

Slereah

Now we finally know your name, Laura

Mithrandir24601

@Slereah Me? I'm not Laura :P My real name's Ross - I'm not an author on the paper, as I had nothing to do with it :P

lılostafa

9:35 AM

@Mithrandir24601 Why is QuantumComputingSE sponsored by a company?!

Slereah

who doesn't love money

ABcDexter

meh

lılostafa

researchers working in this area could be great businessmen too

ABcDexter

@lılostafa hmm, interesting

Slereah

So in the "vote to close because off topic" reasons

why is there no "this isn't on topic at all"

Dawood ibn Kareem

9:40 AM

That would be like having "should be closed" as a "vote to close" reason.

bolbteppa

That Penrose thing is really good

Slereah

Well yes, but the other reasons are often not fitting

bolbteppa

So that's the point of global GR, showing you will get black holes regardless of what metric you consider?

Slereah

Some posts are neither homework questions, non-mainstream physics or to be transferred to another SE

Some are just bogus

@bolbteppa it is one of the benefit, yes

Dawood ibn Kareem

You could post on Meta, asking for "just bogus" to be added as a VTC reason.

Mithrandir24601

9:42 AM

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Q: Why does the Quantum Computing site look different?

I recently announced a pilot program we are trying on Quantum Computing Stack Exchange, but rather than pointing you elsewhere, I decided to re-post the original announcement here. Enjoy! Sponsorship Pilot — Bringing resources BACK to Stack Exchange As our devs continue to work on features li...

Slereah

@DawoodibnKareem I'm not very optimistic about any request on Meta :p

They're not fond of changing anything

bolbteppa

'On the date Galileo was born, Richard Feynman died. On the date Galileo died, Hawking was born. On the date Einstein was born, Stephen Hawking died.'

Slereah

but then who was born on the day Hawking died

bolbteppa

pi

ABcDexter

The One!

bolbteppa

9:51 AM

'A powerful body of mathematical work known as Morse theory had been part of the machinery of mathematicians active in the global (topological) study of Riemannian spaces. However, the spaces that are used in Einstein’s theory are really pseudo-Riemannian and the relevant Morse theory differs in subtle but important ways. Hawking developed the necessary theory for himself (aided, in certain respects, by Charles Misner, Robert Geroch and Brandon Carter)

and was able to use it to produce new theorems of a more powerful nature, in which the assumptions of my theorem could be considerably weakened, showing that a big-bang-type singularity was a necessary implication of Einstein’s general relativity in broad circumstances.'

lılostafa

@Mithrandir24601 Nice (BTW, Bring resources BACK to Stack Exchange looks like MAGA :)

bolbteppa

Birth of Albert Einstein (3.14.1879) Death of Karl Marx (3.14.1883) Death of Stephen Hawking (3.14.2018)

Slereah

March 14 44 BC – Casca and Cassius decide, on the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should live.

COINCIDENCE???

March 14 1931 – Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.

This all paints a picture

It's also the birthday of Michael Caine

It's also apparently "Steak and Blowjob Day, an Internet-driven "men's version of Valentine's Day""

Too bad Hawking missed it

Dawood ibn Kareem

@Slereah I assume that's not how he died.

Slereah

It might be

Hard to eat steak in his condition

Secret

10:09 AM

> Even recently, Hawking had a huge amount of energy to provoke and issue various strange futurist statements – e.g. that we have to ban the evil artificial intelligence, move the mankind to other celestial bodies, and other things

i really felt this and similar things are foreshadowing something big that is to be happened at 2020

The 4th, if not final, Convergence

bolbteppa

He's not wrong

Secret

The question is then, what lies beyond that Cauchy horizon that is at 2020

(:P)

bolbteppa

You wont know until it is too late to predict it :p

Secret

True true

:p

Tanuj

10:29 AM

@JohnRennie Hi !

John Rennie

Morning

Tanuj

Morning ! It's 4 pm here though

@JohnRennie I have something to ask.

John Rennie

Yes?

Tanuj

@JohnRennie I just don't get what formula or what concept has been used in this question.

John Rennie

Triodes? I didn't realise you were doing a history exam.

Tanuj

10:32 AM

I know the formulae for current aplification , but what is this ?

Slereah

@JohnRennie badum tish

Tanuj

@JohnRennie I guess triode would be n-p-n or p-n-p transistor ?

John Rennie

@Slereah triodes though? Seriously?

Slereah

that is how they are called

Like diodes

but 3

John Rennie

@Tanuj yes, back in the day triodes played the role transistors do today.

Tanuj

10:34 AM

Well , it is a 1981 question :p

Slereah

@JohnRennie But I'm guessing that from a physics perspective, triodes are easier to analyze than transistors

John Rennie

I think the amplification factor is basically the same as $\beta$ for transistors.

Slereah

You don't want to do PNP junctions just yet

John Rennie

Triode

A triode is an electronic amplifying vacuum tube (or valve in British English) consisting of three electrodes inside an evacuated glass envelope: a heated filament or cathode, a grid, and a plate (anode). Developed from Lee De Forest's 1906 Audion, a partial vacuum tube that added a grid electrode to the thermionic diode (Fleming valve), the triode was the first practical electronic amplifier and the ancestor of other types of vacuum tubes such as the tetrode and pentode. Its invention founded the electronics age, making possible amplified radio technology and long-distance telephony. Triodes were...

Tanuj

@JohnRennie Okay so $\beta=\dfrac{I_{c}}{I_{b}}$ for a transistor .

Slereah

10:36 AM

"Today triodes are mostly used in high-power applications for which solid state semiconductor devices are unsuitable, such as radio transmitters and industrial heating equipment."

See?

Tanuj

But how does the question use this ?

Slereah

They're still around!

John Rennie

@Slereah so is the bubonic plague, but that doesn't mean that we encounter it every day, or that we're pleased when we do.

Slereah

@JohnRennie Why do you hate triodes so much

Tanuj

Guys , I think we are missing out the point of the discussion here.

bolbteppa

10:38 AM

\begin{align}
U[\Lambda,a]U[I + \omega,\varepsilon] U[\Lambda,a]^{-1} &= U[\Lambda + \Lambda \omega,\Lambda \varepsilon + a] U[\Lambda^{-1},-\Lambda^{-1} a] \\
&= U[I + \Lambda \omega \Lambda^{-1},-\not{a} - \Lambda \omega \Lambda^{-1} a + \Lambda \varepsilon + \not{a}] \\
&= I + \frac{i}{2} (\Lambda \omega \Lambda^{-1})^{\rho \sigma} J_{\rho \sigma} - i ( - \Lambda \omega \Lambda^{-1} a + \Lambda \varepsilon)^{\rho} P_{\rho} \\
&= I + \frac{i}{2} \Lambda^{\rho} \, _{\mu} \omega^{\mu \nu} (\Lambda^{-1})_{\nu} \, ^{\sigma} J_{\rho \sigma} + i ( \Lambda \omega \Lambda^{-1} a)^{\rho} P_{\rho}…

John Rennie

@Tanuj You're not going to be asked about triodes in your exam. If you're fascinated by triodes then feel free to study them intensively, but don't feel disappointed if I don't share your enthusiasm.

bolbteppa

Has anyone ever tried this for the conformal group

Slereah

@bolbteppa probably?

You might want to check...

What's his name

the big conformal field theory book

De-something

bolbteppa

Not in there

DiFrancesco

Slereah

Ah yes

Tanuj

10:39 AM

@JohnRennie I'm actually disgusted by the question itself , just wanted to know how the amplification factor got translated to resistance times conductance ?

John Rennie

@Tanuj I have no idea

Tanuj

@JohnRennie cool , no prob. I'll just memorise it then (Hoping its too old to come in the exam)

@JohnRennie One more question , this is a lot relatable.

How do I decide what's happening here ? I mean , where is the current gonna flow

Any idea about this ?

John Rennie

@Tanuj that's a full wave rectifier

Tanuj

@JohnRennie okay , but how do I decide across which two points AC voltage(input) should be applied ?

@JohnRennie There will always be this one configuration right ? I mean the terminals across which input and output will be given and received are fixed , right ?

@JohnRennie okay so I gave it a reading , and I think I've got it ! Thanks :)

Dawood ibn Kareem

11:10 AM

@JohnRennie The bubonic plague is mostly used in high-power applications for which solid state semiconductor devices are unsuitable?

Tanuj

11:41 AM

@JohnRennie Hey ! Is your name John Harold Stewart Rennie ?

John Rennie

@Tanuj yes. Harold and Stewart are my two grandfather's names

Tanuj

@JohnRennie cool.

John Rennie

It was fairly standard back in the 60s to give children middle names in memory of other family members.

Maybe it still is ...

Tanuj

Hmm , nice

anyways , best of luck @JohnRennie

for the 500 windows updates

John Rennie

I've just had a phone call from a friend:
Him: my keyboard has locked up and I can't type anything
Me: it's a wireless keyboard you use isn't it?
Him: yes
Me: have you checked the battery?
Him: no

God preserve me

Tanuj

11:56 AM

lol

Slereah

12:07 PM

Oh man

We can see @JohnRennie's inventions

"A substantially anhydrous underarm cream composition suitable for topical application to the human skin"

is that what they call

deodorant

at the patent office

John Rennie

Ah, you're searching a patents database?

Slereah

I just used the google

also this : data.epo.org/publication-server/…

Tanuj

@JohnRennie that's where I found your full name , I didn't guess it.

Slereah

I believe this may be the toothpaste

John Rennie

@Slereah that's an application of depletion flocculation i.e. an entropic force!

Slereah

12:10 PM

and what is it used for?

John Rennie

Lots of chemicals used in industry are supplied as a dispersion of a solid in water. For this particular patent the chemical is a zeolite dispersed in water.

In the dispersion the particles can either repel each other or attract each other. In the former case we say the dispersion is stable, while in the latter case the dispersion is flocculated.

But somewhat ironically a stable dispersion isn't stable. If the particles repel each other they can settle to the bottom of the contained and rearrange into something approximating spherical close packing. The result is a dense dilatant sediment that is a bugger to redisperse.

Slereah

I should learn more about chemistry someday

I am v. bad at it

John Rennie

If the dispersion is flocculated the particles adhere to each other to form a porous network that is easy to redisperse, so in practice you want your dispersions to be flocculated.

The patent was for a method of flocculating a zeolite dispersion using depletion forces.

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Q: What materials can be used to prevent the settling of particles in the ceramic slurry?

How can we avoid the Settle particles in the ceramic slurry? What materials can be used for this purpose?

physical-chemistry home-experiment popular-science

Slereah

unfortunately no industry wants to build spacetimes

that's why we're in a recession

All the spacetime jobs went to China

Jim

::Jim sees that Stephen Hawking has died:: ..... Happy Pi Day, everyone!

Fawad

12:25 PM

Pi Rant 2018: Alternative Pi

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Jim

@Fawad I hate how it started. You don't take the year as the next two digits. You properly celebrate Pi day at 1:59:26 in the morning

lılostafa

1:21 PM

in The DMZ, 17 mins ago, by lılostafa

Someone just added a code to one of the templates in MediaWiki namespace in Wikipedia that used users' resources to mine cryptocurrencies. and it remained there for a few minutes

:)

at least hundreds were affected

0celo7

@Slereah HE is now officially old

Slereah

Hopefully there aren't any more theorems that we need to ask the authors about

Still no answers from Yurtsever

Let's hope he answer

Otherwise I guess I'll have to ask Friedman

Balarka Sen

1:38 PM

Stephen Hawking dies the same day Karl Marx died

Coincidence???????

#FOREVERRESISTCAPITALISMBABY

:airhorn:

Slereah

or forever die if u resist capitalism

0celo7

@BalarkaSen how does it feel being the smartest person alive

Slereah

Isn't that Neil Degrasse Tyson now

Balarka Sen

neil dedass tyson you mean

Sir Cumference

Oye, he's been dead for a few hours and we're already making jokes :(

Balarka Sen

1:42 PM

@SirCumference Marx has been dead for a few centuries and you're already mocking my effort to resist capitalism????

GULAG

0celo7

@SirCumference he was a complete troll himself

@Slereah or bill bye

Nye

Balarka Sen

lol @ bye

Slereah

Who's the current guy who is both an actual scientist and still somewhat well loved by the normies

Sir Cumference

@0celo7 ?

Slereah

Kaku maybe?

bolbteppa

1:43 PM

vote Kaku

but he's not Hawking old boy level I don't think

because strings is not reality (yet)

Balarka Sen

Stephen Hawking rick roll'd entire auditorium!!

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bolbteppa

Penrose?

Slereah

neither are singularities or hawking radiation

Penrose is insane now

Sir Cumference

Remember when Hawking did Hawking radiation?

Slereah

RIP

Sir Cumference

1:44 PM

Good times

bolbteppa

Weinberg

0celo7

@SirCumference you were a sperm when he did that

bolbteppa

Nobody else has that 'this is god talking' quality

Sir Cumference

@BalarkaSen Still didn't deserve to die :(

0celo7

@bolbteppa the smartest man is likely Trump or Mozkuchi or someone like that

@SirCumference no one is saying that

Balarka Sen

1:45 PM

I vote for Mochizuki

Slereah

Only @JohnRennie remembers

Balarka Sen

@SirCumference Don't be a sadass

it was a bummer Hawking died

Nobody's rejoicing his death

bolbteppa

Witten is smarter than Hawking to the normies

Sir Cumference

@BalarkaSen That was fake. Did you just rick roll me?

bolbteppa

quora.com/…

Balarka Sen

1:47 PM

Yup

Did you seriously think that was real

Sir Cumference

'Course not, but now you put me in some paradox

Where the lack of rick roll = rick roll

Balarka Sen

? It has a rick roll in it

Sir Cumference

Well the rick roll wasn't real

Balarka Sen

Ah

Well that's the philosophical dilemma for you

0celo7

The smartest person probably isn’t a physicist, let’s be honest

Balarka Sen

1:49 PM

I think Mochizuki qualifies as the greatest academic troll

bolbteppa

'inter-universal Teichmüller theory (IUT), also referred to as the arithmetic deformation theory or Mochizuki theory'

Slereah

@BalarkaSen what about the Bogdanov brothers

Sir Cumference

@bolbteppa Ah yes

Balarka Sen

@Slereah the bogs are great

Sir Cumference

Always need to have that paper handy

Yashas

1:51 PM

@BernardoMeurer One genius decided to start his life on this day (PI day!) while another chose to end his.

bolbteppa

checks Kaku to remember what Teichmuller theory is supposed to be

Sir Cumference

@bolbteppa Does anyone actually know what Teichmuller theory is?

Balarka Sen

Yes.

0celo7

@BalarkaSen ahhh this thesis isn’t right

Sir Cumference

@BalarkaSen IUT, should be specific

0celo7

1:52 PM

Help

Balarka Sen

Teichmuller theory is pretty simple

0celo7

Illegal integration by parts is killing it

Balarka Sen

inter-universal teichmuller theory is where it's at

Slereah

I met the Bogdanov brothers

They were at a science fiction con in my town once

bolbteppa

The arithmetic version of everything is incredibly difficult

Sir Cumference

1:54 PM

Who needs an arithmetic version of anything?

Slereah

mathematicians

Sir Cumference

Number theory hasn't helped anyone :/

bolbteppa

I think the rot started with Dedekind's arithmetic version of Riemann-Roch

Balarka Sen

When she says she likes guys who love kids

Tweeted by maxmoefoe on February 16, 2018 at 6:26 PM

Slereah

I wonder what's going on with their face, really

Sir Cumference

1:55 PM

@BalarkaSen Erm, that looks like the guy from Slereah's old profile pic

Slereah

Do they have some orphan disease

according to the daily mail, too much plastic surgery

but it's the daily mail

Balarka Sen

They looked pretty fine back in the days

The bogpill transmogrified them

Sir Cumference

@Nat "SE.QuantumComputing" Shouldn't it be "QuantumComputing.SE"?

Slereah

they are revealing their alien origins

They were technically big stars on French pop science TV stuff, but I never saw their show, so I dunno

C'est pas sorcier

C'est pas sorcier (French for It's Not Rocket Science) is a French educational television program that originally aired from September 19, 1993 to February 1, 2014 which had a lot of success. In all, 559 episodes have been produced. All episodes can be watched legally on the YouTube channel. == The presenters == Sabine Quindou and Fred Courant are in the field. They visit places, interview specialists and introduce questions that Jamy answers. Before 2011, Jamy Gourmaud was in a laboratory truck. Now, he goes to symbolic locations relevant to the topic with a mobile laboratory equipped with touch...

this is the pop science I remember

Bernardo Meurer

@Yashas I find it hard to believe he chose to die

@BalarkaSen Still writing

This paper is completely fucking insane

It might be my best work

Yashas

2:08 PM

@BernardoMeurer I worded it very badly. I did not mean in that sense.

Sir Cumference

@BernardoMeurer What's it about

Bernardo Meurer

@SirCumference I am modeling the understanding of sentences (defined as collections of signifiers, and the signified they produce) as graphs and showing that understanding people is a problem reducible to the Traveling Salesman Problem, and therefore is NP-Complete

Slereah

ahah

Bernardo Meurer

Which is why we rely on contextual cues to understand things, in order to give us some heuristics

Sir Cumference

@BernardoMeurer Sounds cool. Don't know what most of that means though

Slereah

2:10 PM

poor @BernardoMeurer fell for the trap of "natural language is reducible to logic"

Bernardo Meurer

@Slereah It's batshit

Anonymous

@BernardoMeurer What do you mean by "understanding people" ?

bolbteppa

Bernardo Meurer

@Blue Understanding sentences they produce

Anonymous

BTW it does look very interesting. Please give me the link if possible

Bernardo Meurer

2:11 PM

It's not ready yet

I can link the rough draft

bolbteppa

Why is the therapist division and not multiplication (and why is it not working)

Anonymous

@BernardoMeurer Sure, that'll do

Slereah

@BernardoMeurer Hopefully you won't learn what a phatic sentence is

That's usually where things collapse

Sir Cumference

God, remember when math was so simple you had 4 basic operators? Good times

Bernardo Meurer

@Blue send.firefox.com/download/18844f6e80/#Kh2eX131Q78SCzOghQ3syA

Anonymous

2:12 PM

In fact, I'll be actually very surprised if you can prove that understanding sentences is NP complete

Anonymous

Thanks!

Bernardo Meurer

@Slereah Isn't a phatic sentence anything Nicki Minaj says?

Slereah

Could be!

Bernardo Meurer

:P

@Slereah I know the idea is probably borked, but it's been fun to write, and gave me a nice model to argue about how Satire works

@Blue Keep in mind, still very WIP

Sir Cumference

What is NP complete?

Bernardo Meurer

2:14 PM

@SirCumference I define it in the paper

Otherwise go wikipedia it

Slereah

It was a pretty common idea in linguistics in like...

Early 20th century?

Then I think linguists realized that human speech made no sense

bolbteppa

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Bernardo Meurer

@Slereah Any idea why would LaTeX be throwing a figure with [H] to the end of the file anyway?

Instead of having it where I damn put it

bolbteppa

There's so many good ones

Slereah

@BernardoMeurer I gave up trying to understand how figures work in Latex

It never works properly

Bernardo Meurer

2:22 PM

Yeah :/

Slereah

Usually I just try every possible option until one places it properly

if it ever happens

Otherwise I just try to make the previous text a bit longer until it does :p

dmckee

@BernardoMeurer Are you using a package that supports H? It's not one of the default positioning arguments.

Bernardo Meurer

@dmckee Yeah, I'm using the float pkg

\begin{figure}[H]
    \centering
    \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.6, every node/.style={scale=0.6}]
        \SetVertexMath
        \Vertex[x=-8, y=0,L=\mathfrak{s}]{s}
        \Loop[dist=1cm,label={$\mathfrak{s}$},style={thick,-}](s)
        \Vertex[x=8, y=0,L=\mathscr{S}]{S}

        \foreach \y [count=\n,evaluate={\m=int(6-\n)}] in {2,...,-2}
            {\Vertex[x=-6, y=\y, L=i_\n]{l1\m}
                \Edges(s, l1\m)}

        \foreach \y [count=\n,evaluate={\m=int(8-\n)}] in {3,...,-3}
            {\Vertex[x=-3.2, y=\y, L=j_\n]{l2\m}

@dmckee This is the culprit

It makes a damn page for itself somehow

dmckee

@Slereah If you regularly want to control the position exactly then you might not want to use floats in the first place. The point of floating environments figure table, etc... is tht the compiler can move them.

Slereah

@dmckee what is the secret tag to make it work properly then?

dmckee

2:26 PM

??

Slereah

What do you advise to use to put a figure after a piece of text

Nat

@SirCumference Conventionally, yes, though I dislike the little-endian format that's inconsistently applied to the start of a URL, e.g. Chat.StackExchange instead of StackExchange.Chat, so I tend to reverse the order. I figure that such conceptually incorrect standards are maintained due to universal adoption, so I figure that breaking that unanimity may help enable future improvement.

Bernardo Meurer

[!h] has worked

Slereah

Huzzah!

dmckee

@Slereah I usually don't (advise doing that) but when I do I read

335

Q: Force figure placement in text

I have a problem when a lot of figures are in question. Some figures tend to "fly around", that is, be a paragraph below, although I placed them before that paragraph. I use code: \begin{figure}[ht] \begin{center} \advance\leftskip-3cm \advance\rightskip-3cm \includegraphics[keepaspectratio=true...

floats positioning captions

Slereah

2:27 PM

thank you

I'll put it in my favorites, just in case

dmckee

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Q: Non Floating Figures

I want to stop my figures floating, but I still want to be able to have the caption to the side of them; mainly to save space and for presentation. The only way I know how to get the figure caption to the side of an image is as follows; \begin{SCfigure} \centering \includegraphics[width=80m...

floats wrapfigure

and

Slereah

I remember thesis writing man

The first page was always the worst

Doing the cover in the proper style

Putting all the little logos

Sir Cumference

@Slereah Senior thesis, or an actual thesis?

Slereah

Master thesis

Actual thesis does not exist 😢

Sir Cumference

What should I do with this 1986 Physical Chemistry book I found

Slereah

2:34 PM

Eat it

Bernardo Meurer

Burn it

Slereah

Or read it, I dunno

What do you want from us

Sir Cumference

You guys treat your books well

Balarka Sen

@BernardoMeurer Eyo did you listen to Byrne's new album

It's fucking dope

Slereah

you should see my copy of Kleinert

It's in a pretty bad state

But that's his fault, really

You don't make a 1000 pages book with a cheap spine

dmckee

2:37 PM

Something I have been considering with my writing is trying out the tufte classes for LaTeX, which support positioning of supporting materials (images, tables, etc) right by the associated text by default.

See one of the examples: people.ucsc.edu/~weissman/MathClubTalk2009.pdf

Slereah

Figure 1: Egg slicers, good for slicing eggs and teaching calculus

dmckee

Tufte, of course, has a whole different philosophy about the layout of written material than the legacy approach.

Come to think of it, there are two of my short-notes for students that would probably benefit a lot from conversion to that style.

Another project for my copious spare time.

Slereah

-1

Q: May we discover the right CTC soon

Stephen Hawking is dead. I didn't believe it when I first heard it. Same with most of the people here. And then I cried. In the honour of the Supreme One, I'd like to propose a Chuck Norris Fact style question. Like this. Also requesting Moderators to create a Stephen-Hawking tag.

soft-question

Semiclassical

...

Slereah

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Q: Why are there no options for actual off-topic questions

When proposing to close a question due to being off-topic, these are the choices Off-topic due to being a homework question Off-topic due to being non-mainstream physics Off-topic due to being engineering Off-topic due to belonging to another Stack Exchange (Physics Meta or Math) Other Short ...

feature-request

speaking of which

Semiclassical

2:47 PM

I flagged it as off-topic and used the "blatantly off-topic" option

Slereah

is there a blatantly off-topic option???

Anonymous

@Slereah Yes

Anonymous

Go to the flag option

Semiclassical

Yeah.

Slereah

Oh

I'll delete my question then :p

Physics Meta

2:48 PM

Recent Questions - Physics Meta Stack Exchange: Why are there no options for actual off-topic questions

posted on March 14, 2018 by Slereah

When proposing to close a question due to being off-topic, these are the choices Off-topic due to being a homework question Off-topic due to being non-mainstream physics Off-topic due to being engineering Off-topic due to belonging to another Stack Exchange (Physics Meta or Math) Other Short of using "other", there is no choice for the question actually being off…

Semiclassical

loool

the timing of that was perfect

Slereah

Wait, where is the blatantly off-topic flag option

I'm not seeing it there either

Semiclassical

the route I had (since I'm a low-rep user on PSE) was flag as "should be closed"->"off topic"->"blatantly off-topic"

Slereah

but the options I get are also the ones I posted about!

Am I being denied the blatantly off-topic option

Semiclassical