The h Bar

1:57 AM

Why is a rank $n = k + l$ spinor $\xi^{\alpha_1 \dots \alpha_k : \dot{\alpha}_1 \dots \dot{\alpha}_l }$ symmetric in the indices, or is it maybe only symmetric if you transform each index with the same $SL(2,C)$ transform and it's conjugate?

Cows

2:55 AM

Finally free for a few days. I am going to try to solve integral and associated things.

Bernardo Meurer

@BalarkaSen Did you ever finish reading?

Balarka Sen

I didn't read the rest as carefully but I did understand what you did. Lacan's theory classifies languages, or interpretation as language, as a sequence of signifiers (adjectives) which we use to understand the signified (noun). You drew a graph of iterative signifiers (adverbs of adverbs of ... of adverbs of adjectives) which approximates the signifier we want to understand.

An interpretation of the signifier is a path in the graph.

Bernardo Meurer

Why are you calling signifieds nouns?

Balarka Sen

You're setting up an appropriate weight according to the original interpretation of such a graph, as intended by the author. Minimizing that path ("finding an interpretation that agrees with the intention of the author) with this weight is a travelling salesman-like problem

Nick Alexeev

0

Q: What does "physical dimensions approaches the wavelength" mean exactly?

I'm learning Electronics by my own. And I'm in stuck while reading a book after failed to understand the following paragraph in Chapter 1, Electric Circuits 10th by Nilsson : On the other hand, the propagation frequency of radio signals is on the order of 10^9 Hz.Thus the wavelength is 0.3 ...

circuit-analysis

Balarka Sen

3:05 AM

You showed it's NP-hard, concluding the death of the author theory.

Bernardo Meurer

@BalarkaSen Yeah!

Nice!

You get it!

Balarka Sen

@BernardoMeurer Oh, well, I mean I'm not restricting it to just nouns, but merely making an analogy with the theory of syntaxes.

Bernardo Meurer

Ah, yeah, alright :)

Balarka Sen

Signification is "like" assigning adjectives to nouns

Bernardo Meurer

Yeah

/me really likes semiotics

Balarka Sen

3:09 AM

Why the fuck are you writing these things

Is this for the philosophy course

Bernardo Meurer

It's for a literature course LOL

Balarka Sen

Jesus fucking christ

Bernardo Meurer

We had to write an analysis of Gulliver's Travels

But I didn't want to

So I did that and added that case study in the end

HACKERMAN

►

@BalarkaSen But this prof is okay with it, and she gets it

Balarka Sen

That's really nice, because this thing you wrote here is a strong 9

Bernardo Meurer

Do I get the yellow flannel?!

Balarka Sen

3:15 AM

You get the savage patrick yellow flannel

Bernardo Meurer

Woohoo

I was really happy with it tbh

Balarka Sen

I really really like it

Bernardo Meurer

I think it's a cool idea, and it joins some pretty bizarrely different topics

You're the only person who likes my shit, lol

Ryan thinks I'm insane

@BalarkaSen Have you hear Byrne's album "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today" ?

"Home" in that album is p good

Balarka Sen

Yup!

@BernardoMeurer Ryan is right.

But that doesn't mean this isn't a strong 9

Bernardo Meurer

Lol

Balarka Sen

3:20 AM

I like My Life in the Bush of Ghosts more tbh

Bernardo Meurer

Is that the one with Eno?

Balarka Sen

Mhm

Everything ... is also with Eno

Bernardo Meurer

Really? Spotify doesn't show him on the artist list

Balarka Sen

Oh it absolutely is. Strange

Bernardo Meurer

Well, nice

I like Eno

Balarka Sen

3:24 AM

I love him

Bernardo Meurer

I've been in a weird musical phase recently

Like

weirder than my usual weird

Balarka Sen

What are you listening to?

(ie how weird?)

Bernardo Meurer

Hermeto Pascoal - Slaves Mass (1977)

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Like "Uses a pig as an instrument in live performances" weird

That's my favorite track rn

"Just listen"

Balarka Sen

On it

Cows

hmmm wow!!!! So this is what hard means. Let me take a break and eat peanuts.

Balarka Sen

3:28 AM

I have no problem with pig as percussion instrument. One of my favorite musician, Scott Walker, beat up dead beef, uses fart noises, beats large wooden boxes (and many other things) as percussion.

Bernardo Meurer

@Cows That's what she said

Balarka Sen

LOL

Bernardo Meurer

I love Scott Walker's music too!

Balarka Sen

Unfortunate coincidence of names

Scott Walker - 'See You Don't Bump His Head'

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To be listened in full volume

Bernardo Meurer

On it

I have my whole setup going as well

Balarka Sen

3:32 AM

@BernardoMeurer This is good!!

I love this full atonality

Bernardo Meurer

I really, really, really fucking like it

He's so fucking good

he goes so intense in a live show in Montreal that in the middle of the song he just screams "Don't worry, I won't break it"

And then he breaks it

Balarka Sen

Lol

Bernardo Meurer

Hermeto Pascoal - Quebrando Tudo

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He's the lagoon santa if you haven't noticed

Balarka Sen

Yeah I figured. Absolute madlad

Bernardo Meurer

He's one of two great brazilian musicians who are albino

We got it all dawg

Also, @BalarkaSen, the whole show

Hermeto Pascoal Live in Montreux 1979

►

Balarka Sen

3:40 AM

I think I'll do organic chemistry while listening to this shite lol

Bernardo Meurer

It's so gold

Balarka Sen

Thanks for this

Bernardo Meurer

It startes with some japanese hosts

It's like you're listening to something from the future

Also, did you hear about Slavoj? :(

Balarka Sen

Nope, what about him?

Bernardo Meurer

He's got Bell's Palsy

Balarka Sen

3:45 AM

Oh dear

Bernardo Meurer

Yeah :/

Nika called Jela for me to wish him a speedy recovery

She said he's doing well though

Balarka Sen

Good to hear

@BernardoMeurer I have been listening to some weird rap lately

Have you heard of Aesop Rock?

Bernardo Meurer

Have not

Sounds cool

Balarka Sen

Aesop Rock- DayLight / NightLight

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That's the most iconic track from him

If you like this you'll probably like anything from him

Bernardo Meurer

That's nice, I already like it

I also really like this track

MF DOOM feat RZA - Books of War

►

Balarka Sen

3:55 AM

I love MF DOOM, I listened to Mm Food a few days ago

Let's hear this

Bernardo Meurer

Mm Food is amazingly good IMHO

Balarka Sen

Can't disagree man

Secret

4:31 AM

0

Q: In the twin paradox, are some events lost to the observer turning around?

From what I understand of the twin paradox, the time difference in time can be accounted for when the twin on a rocket ship turns around/switches reference frames. Does that imply that, events that have occurred in this gap will be lost to the "younger twin"? Can this be extended to such extrem...

special-relativity reference-frames inertial-frames observers

I think it should be theoretically possible to push the events into the infinite future, thus effectively they don't happen for that observer, but I suspect you can only do that near black holes

DanielSank

6:26 AM

if $\omega_0 + \omega \gg |\omega_0 - \omega|$ then $\frac{1}{\omega_0 + \omega} \ll \frac{1}{ |\omega_0 - \omega|}$ — By Symmetry 11 hours ago

It's easy to misread the user name as part of the sentence...

diobuc eulb

7:23 AM

By Symmetry we can see that that is a profile link.

Balarka Sen

7.6/10

diobuc eulb

7.5

triggered

okay bye sleep sloop

Balarka Sen

gdnt

Slereah

8:57 AM

Mornin

Anonymous

ninroM

Balarka Sen

i have to do a long ass integration by parts but i don't wanna

Slereah

I had to do that integral once

It was a fun two weeks

Man I'm looking at the thesis in my town

The one interesting thesis is more of a history of science thing

Secret

9:20 AM

> The rules of consent still apply when you've been drinking. Consent is not possible if someone doesn't have the capacity to provide it. Always ask yourself: "Am I in a position to ask for consent? And can the other person really give consent?"

My objection is: How can a drunkard being mentally awake enough to even ask themselves such questions?

Conclusion: The cocktail culture has to go, and be replaced with the mocktail culture where no one gets drunk, ever

Seriously FUCK ALCOHOL. Who's that smartass that give history the idea that ethanol is for oral consumption?!

Anonymous

It's being consumed since pre-historic times

Anonymous

Like water

John Rennie

9:43 AM

@Blue tastes better than water though :-)

Anonymous

@JohnRennie Plain alcohol tastes disgusting unless mixed with something :P

Anonymous

I almost spat out the first time

Anonymous

Some cocktails can be really good however

Secret

it's watery bitter, which is why cocktails can knock someone out so easily

because it masks that bitter taste

Anonymous

Last time I was at the airport I bought a few chocolate bars without realized they had a rum filling inside. After biting into it....I ran for the washroom. It's like the worst medicine you've ever had (Ever tried tasting the inside stuff of a capsule medicine?)

Secret

9:53 AM

well sometimes the capsule of my medicine melts prematurely and my mouth is swamped with some kind of plastic bittery stuff

John Rennie

@Blue I wouldn't advise drinking neat ethanol :-)

Secret

and I then drink a lot of water to flush that away

Anonymous

@Secret That plastic taste isn't half as bad

Anonymous

Just open the capsule with your hand

Anonymous

And lick inside

Anonymous

9:56 AM

The powder

Anonymous

(AT YOUR OWN RISK)

Secret

oooo, that happens back in high school when I got a cold, and out of curioisity, I open the capsule of my flu medicine and taste that powder

it's sharp bitter, slightly better than Huang Lian sacredlotus.com/go/chinese-herbs/substance/…;, though

trust me, that powder is nothing when you have taken a tiny bite on a piece of Huang Lian

Anonymous

I don't want to :P

Anonymous

Neem juice was enough of a nightmare for me

Secret

well, I only get to know what it taste like because back in those times there's a chinese medicine field trip thingy and the instructor allow us to try out the herbs

Anonymous

10:06 AM

I sort of miss the chemistry practical classes where I used to mix random chemicals to make new colors

Anonymous

Once had HCl up my throat

Secret

uh.... not the conc. stuff right?

(dilute I can understand why it will be possible)

Anonymous

Obvio XD

Anonymous

I'd be daed

Anonymous

Did get a teeny weeny hand burn once due to the conc stuff though

Anonymous

10:09 AM

It forms a yellowish scar

Anonymous

It faded off over time

Secret

O yeah, that reminds me back in an electrolysis class in high school, a tiny drop of the dilute sulfuric acid electrolyte end up on my fingers and my fingernail biting habit caused me to unintentionally found out what the acid taste like (metallic acidic)

and ooof, you gotta be glad that's not conc. sulfuric acid though, cause it burns even worse

Anonymous

10:22 AM

Is there any geometric way to visualize why column rank = row rank ?

Anonymous

Couldn't find any good answers on the net

Anonymous

Maybe it would be best to think in terms of dual spaces

Balarka Sen

It's an easy consequence of the rank-nullity

Though I have never seen it written out that way. I found that accidentally

in Mathematics, Sep 9 '17 at 19:58, by Balarka Sen

@LeakyNun Rank-nullity says for an mxn matrix, dim im A + dim ker A = n, yeah? Now im A is literally the column space of the matrix; that means dim C(A) + dim ker A = n. Alternatively you know dim R(A) + dim ker A = n (because R(A), the rowspace, is the orthocomplement of ker A).

Anonymous

10:46 AM

@BalarkaSen Okay. But how do you prove that dim R(A) + dim ker A = n without using rank nullity ?

Secret

16

Q: Why do universal constants have the values they do?

This is meant to be a generic question of the type that we get repeatedly on this site, in different versions: The origin of the value of speed of light The gravitational constant G theoretically? What if Planck's constant were smaller or bigger than it is? Why do universal constants have the...

units physical-constants absolute-units anthropic-principle

This is so cute

as for that column rank stuff, I have yet to find a way to put both the space and dual space together in one picture to figure out why intuitively

Balarka Sen

@Blue It's written right there... R(A) is the orthocomplement of ker A in R^n

It's not a rank-nullity fact

Anonymous

@BalarkaSen I don't know any proof of that without using rank nullity

Balarka Sen

I don't know how to prove that using rank-nullity. It's a simple proof; if Av = 0 (i.e., v is in ker A) then by definition of matrix multiplication, dot product of v with rows of A are zero

So v is orthogonal to each row of A. I.e, v is in R(A)

Similarly show the other inclusion

It's a tautology

Anonymous

11:08 AM

@BalarkaSen I see. And why does dim(orthocomplement of ker (A))+dim(ker A) = n ?

Balarka Sen

Dimension of any vector subspace of R^n + dimension of it's orthocomplement = n

There is nothing special about ker A

You should try to prove that

Anonymous

I can think of a proof for $\Bbb{R}^{n}$. But I don't see the general case immediately

Anonymous

i.e. for any finite dimensional vector space $V$

Anonymous

I'll try

Balarka Sen

In a general vector space orthogonality doesn't make sense...

Although you can still prove that if $W_1, W_2 \subset V$ are vector subspaces such that $W_1 + W_2 = V$ and $W_1 \cap W_2 = \{0\}$ then $\dim W_1 + \dim W_2 = \dim V$

(W_1 + W_2 = V means every element of v of V can be written as v = w_1 + w_2 where w_i \in W_i for i = 1, 2)

Anonymous

11:22 AM

@BalarkaSen Why exactly? It isn't defined?

Balarka Sen

What is dot product in a general vector space? You need choice of an inner product

Anonymous

Yes, so we can define an inner product

Balarka Sen

You don't define an inner product. You choose one.

Anonymous

That's what I meant by define i.e. choose

Balarka Sen

There are many many many possible inner products a vector space can have

Slereah

11:24 AM

tbh there is a canonical one

at least for finite dimensions

Balarka Sen

@Slereah No?

Complete garbage statement

Slereah

r u d e

Balarka Sen

endure rudeness

dam son

Anonymous

So, okay for $\Bbb{R}^{n}$ I understand your proof anyway. Geometrically it still doesn't make much sense to me

Balarka Sen

im turning into a rapper

Anonymous

11:25 AM

It seems more of a result of how matrix multiplication works

Slereah

"endure" is an anagram for rudene(ss)

Balarka Sen

yup

@Blue Well, geometrically row space and column space are related to image and kernel of the linear transformation corresponding to the matrix, where the relation is clear (by what I said)

Row space and column space in itself don't have a geometric meaning

I don't know a more pictorial interpretation

I'd be happy to look if you find one

@Slereah In any case to criticize your statement more constructively, there is a canonical inner product on a vector space if and only if you choose a basis

But there is no canonical basis on a vector space

So there is no canonical inner product on a vector space :P

The formalism is that R^n is not a vector space, but vector space with a choice of a basis (what we call the unit coordinate vectors)

Or at least, that's the formalism I like to keep in mind

Akash. B

Can I ask you a question

Balarka Sen

Me, or the room in general? Ask, don't ask to ask

ACuriousMind

@Akash.B As the room description says: Don't ask about asking, just ask.

Balarka Sen

11:36 AM

@ACuriousMind Get rekt

ACuriousMind

@BalarkaSen Have mercy, I just woke up :P

Akash. B

Okay thank you

Balarka Sen

Haha. Well good morning in that case :)

Akash. B

Oh we are in a time lag Its good afternoon for me

ACuriousMind

Well, it's noon here

Balarka Sen

11:39 AM

So it is for me. I was bidding ACuriousMind good morning, and it's probably afternoon there too, but let's simply define morning to be whenever you wake up

Nailed it

ACuriousMind

@BalarkaSen Yes, I've always thought that to be an excellent definition :)

Balarka Sen

@ACuriousMind I had been experimenting with tranquilizers for a while and finally successfully slept like a normal human being today under the effect of diazepam

Akash. B

Okay my question is yesterday I noticed that my shoes were red originally but under a blue light it turn into blue shoes so my question is what is the real color of my shoe ? and what may be the reason for this?

Okay bye

ACuriousMind

@BalarkaSen Well...temporarily good for you, I guess? (Diazepam is addictive in the long run, so that's not a permanent solution)

John Rennie

@Akash.B if your shoes reflected no blue light at all, then under a blue light they would look black.

So your shoes reflect mostly red light, but they also reflect a bit of blue light.

In white light most of the light reflected is red, so your shoes look red.

ACuriousMind

11:44 AM

@Akash.B The "color" of an object is the colors its reflects mixed together. If there is no red light falling on your shoes, they cannot reflect any red light, so you just see the small part of blue they reflect.

Anonymous

3

A: Looking for an intuitive explanation why the row rank is equal to the column rank for a matrix

This can also be understood in terms of the singular value decomposition. Although proving the SVD takes a bit of work, once proved it provides a more thorough intuition about what is going on. Geometrically, the SVD says that a matrix maps the unit (hyper-)sphere in the domain to a (hyper-)elli...

Anonymous

This makes some sense

Anonymous

@BalarkaSen

John Rennie

@Akash.B But when you use a blue bulb there is no red light present. Only blue light is present so only blue light is reflected, so the light you see reflected is blue.

Balarka Sen

@ACuriousMind Yeah I don't plan to take any more of it. Just needed to fix it because the cycle was so fucked it was psychologically stressful.

Especially because I have exams coming up

ACuriousMind

11:47 AM

Ah, gotcha

Balarka Sen

@Blue I don't see any geometric argument there. One of the answer seems to be proving it like I did

Anonymous

See Nick's answer

Anonymous

About SVD

ACuriousMind

I used to forcefully fix my cycle simply by skipping sleep in one night entirely when it became necessary

I'm actually surprised how easily I've adjusted to getting up early during the week

Anonymous

I used to fix my cycle by sleeping an extra 6 hours

ACuriousMind

11:49 AM

Although I wouldn't want to know how my days would go without coffee :P

Balarka Sen

@Blue That's kind of nice but the same argument, actually. And you don't need SVD to state it.

I like it

ACuriousMind

@Blue huh? The broken part of my cycle was usually that I'd wake up around 3 pm and go to bed at like 6 am. How am I supposed to sleep 6 more hours there and how's that gonna fix it?

Balarka Sen

@ACuriousMind That works for me but after many a meditations

If I do that usually my sleep cycle oscillates in alternative days where it's huge like 9 hours a day then 5 hours the next day

And if I end up getting tired at some point and fall asleep in the 5-hour day, I'm fucked again

Oh lord 6 am to 3 pm is the worst

I do that all the time

After all these days of breaking all boundaries of normal human sleep schedule I think I finally understand that my psychology works different in daytime and nighttime.

It's much more grim at the night-time and I think in different ways. Not saying I am not productive at the night but just differently

This is not ideal for the kind of work I have to do for the next few weeks (which is mostly preparing for various sort of exams). I think I am more creative in the sense of being able to solve problems in the day. Alternatively new, "deep" ideas come easier at night

Anonymous

@ACuriousMind During school I used to sleep at 4 am and wake at about 6 am (and managed the rest by sleeping in class :P). When I'd get a holiday I'd sleep at around 8pm in the evening and wake up around 3-4 am. That would shift my sleep timings a bit backward, so that I would feel sleepy at around 2 am, the next day, and thus keeping some studying time for the morning instead of late night study. (Basically shifting the sleep hours backward by a few hours)

Anonymous

Maybe your and my definition of "broken" sleep timings are different :P

ACuriousMind

12:02 PM

Yeah, yours is a different - but no less bad - kind of broken :D

Anonymous

The last two years of high school is indeed very strenuous for Indian kids

Anonymous

I can understand Balarka's situation

Anonymous

Gets a bit better in college :)

Anonymous

(Because you can skip classes whenever you want and you don't have f*88in JEE or entrance exams to appear for XD)

John Rennie

12:14 PM

f*88 ?

Akash. B

Hello guys What I should in order to be a good at mathamatics

John Rennie

@Akash.B Practice

Akash. B

any other option

John Rennie

Seriously. Practice is the number one way to get good at maths.

Akash. B

okay i get it

ACuriousMind

12:15 PM

Actually, practice is the number one way to get good at most things

John Rennie

I've been practising at being a layabout for decades and I am now an expert

2

Balarka Sen

It's useless if you're not interested though

Akash. B

is mathematics a trap

ACuriousMind

@BalarkaSen I agree :)

John Rennie

@Akash.B Absolutely :-)

Balarka Sen

12:17 PM

@ACuriousMind Only interesting people are allowed to do mathematics

Akash. B

why it said like that

John Rennie

@Akash.B perfectly respectable physics students start learning maths and before you know it they want to be mathematicians instead.

I'm talking about you @Danu :-)

And @ACuriousMind only escaped by leaving academia completely! :-)

ACuriousMind

@BalarkaSen Wouldn't that be nice :P

John Rennie

Maths is a bit like quicksand, only it's sometimes possible to escape from quicksand

Akash. B

What should I do in order to be a theoretical physicist?

Balarka Sen

12:20 PM

(Watch Rick and Morty)

3

Akash. B

Rick and morty?

ACuriousMind

@Akash.B Become a physicist first, worry about the theory part later

Akash. B

How to be it?

John Rennie

@Akash.B the key thing is to do what you enjoy doing

Akash. B

Can you please elaborate

ACuriousMind

12:22 PM

@JohnRennie I'm running a tally of people classifying it as an escape vs. a fall from grace. It's a close race ;P

John Rennie

If you love doing physics then do physics at school then physics at university then take it from there

@ACuriousMind :-)

Akash. B

oh

John Rennie

@ACuriousMind You're clearly loving it though - I'm exceedingly jealous!

While I love doing the nuclear engineering stuff most of the IT stuff I do these days is pretty routine. That's why I hang around here :-)

@Akash.B your profile says you're 14, so you have lots of time to decide where your interests lie.

Akash. B

Okay here is my other question why space is dark even though there are lot of stars in space ?

ACuriousMind

@JohnRennie Let's see what I say in a decade or two ;)

@Akash.B that's Olber's paradox

Akash. B

12:27 PM

I have decided to be an theoretical physicist

John Rennie

@ACuriousMind at the risk of (fraudulently) donning the wise old man hat, companies can always get clever students to do stuff. What they struggle to find are people good at planning and organising stuff. In ten years time you'll be either leading a team (of whatever size) or feeling pretty bored.

Akash. B

Olber's paradox full scientific terms i couldn't understand

John Rennie

@ACuriousMind it was when I got to the feeling pretty bored stage that I left Unilever Research.

@Akash.B suppose you look in a random direction into space. The question is whether the line you're looking along leads to a star.

ACuriousMind

@JohnRennie Ah, sure - if/when I reach that stage I'll probably go look for something else, too, but right now that's a far way off

Loong

@JohnRennie I wish it would be boring routine here just for one day.

Balarka Sen

12:31 PM

@ACuriousMind I love how they mention Poe's hypothesis there. Eureka: A Prose Poem is truly a masterpiece.

John Rennie

@Akash.B If the line you're looking along leads to a star then you see light. If the line you're looking along doesn't lead to a star then you see black.

@ACuriousMind everybody thinks management is boring. The reality is that (in the right company) it's the most intellectually taxing thing you can do. The really good managers have a fantastically fulfilling lifestyle and are very well paid.

Sadly I am not a really good manager ...

ACuriousMind

@JohnRennie It depends on the person. I've met two guys who were managers for a few years and then went back to full-time coding because they liked it much more

John Rennie

@ACuriousMind lots of people try it and fail - I did

Loong

@JohnRennie Sadly our managers are French.

John Rennie

@Loong Sacre bleu!

Loong

12:36 PM

That's the most important reason why all projects fail in this company.

John Rennie

@Loong that's a bit racist :-)

Loong

They have this philosophy of changing positions at least every three years.

Therefore, nobody is interested in finding long-term solutions.

just quick patches everywhere

Let someone else deal with the fallout.

I don't know how many billions that has cost us just at this site.

ACuriousMind

@Loong Given that you have alluded to working in the nuclear industry in the past, that's a...concerning choice of words :P

Danu

Glad to hear I qualify as perfectly respectable @JohnRennie

John Rennie

@Danu :-)

Loong

12:40 PM

@ACuriousMind I just thought the same. :-o Especially considering that we now have the nuclear fuel on site.

Danu

So what do you think, fall from (perfectly respectable) grace, or escape?

John Rennie

@Danu you're in danger of thinking that anything I say makes sense (this doesn't apply to food or laptops)

Danu

This kinda stuff is why I don’t like nuclear energy :P good in theory, but humans involved makes it waaay too scary

ACuriousMind

"Good in theory, but humans screw it up" - That's civilization in a nutshell.

Loong

Looking around here, I think you are not wrong.

Danu

12:43 PM

I heard similar things from someone working with Japanese nuclear plants

John Rennie

We all have a notion of perfection, and we tend to criticise our employers, friends, family, whatever, when they fall sort of it.

But companies understand that perfection is impossible. The aim is to be less imperfect than your competitors.

alarge

@Loong one of the EPRs?

Loong

@alarge yes

John Rennie

Moving managers every three years does have unfortunate side effects, but it's part of management training, and the few really good managers that emerge from th far side of it are like gold dust for the company.

That's why companies do it.

Even though everyone thinks it's a bad idea.

Life's like that ...

John Duffield

1:31 PM

Did somebody say Scott Walker? I do like After the lights go out.

Balarka Sen

I like his later works more.

Enemy is a good movie

John Duffield

There's some kind of "odd" stuff in his later works. I'm not so keen myself. But there again, I'm kind of a Yes Album type of guy. Or Wishbone Ash.

Gosh, it's quiet today. Anybody want to talk physics?

John Duffield

1:59 PM

Here's a few subjects: time, speed of light, gravity, history of QM and QED, gauge theory, photon, pair production, electron, positron, electromagnetism, magnets, monopoles, charge, mass, proton, neutrino, weak interaction, electroweak, nuclear force, neutron, antimatter, black holes, Hawking radiation, information paradox, firewall, dark matter, big bang, inflation, dark energy, edge of the universe, fate of the universe

John Duffield

2:17 PM

How about some music then? Such as Friends by Led Zeppelin.

Or The Brazilian by Genesis.

Secret

Do not expect any chat activity until 2 hours later, that's the problem of being in quiet periods

Currently I am busy doing the consent course module of my uni, but I would like to have some philosophy discussion if you don't mind

John Duffield

@Secret : sure thing. What would you like to talk about?

Secret

2:33 PM

I am not sure, you have any good topics? I only know I kinda want to leave ethics behind for now, cause that module I am doing has enough ethics to keep me busy already

John Duffield

No, I'm afraid not. I've talked philosophy plenty of times, but mainly when it's related to physics.

Ethics is do unto others as you would have others do unto you.

ACuriousMind

Ah, @lılostafa, what was that about airplanes you pinged me with a while back?

lılostafa

@ACuriousMind A question about the German word for Airplane factory (fortunately someone else answered :)

John Duffield

Steely Dan: Rikki don't lose that number.

ACuriousMind

@lılostafa Ah, alrighty then :)

lılostafa

2:46 PM

Is anyone here familiar with Excel? I have two text files each of them have n lines
I want to merge the two files so that each line of the new file is the same lines of the two files put next to each other

In Linux paste does this

But in windows I thought maybe Excel can help

How can I merge two columns in Excel? couldn't find anything useful online :/

Tanuj

@Yashas Hi :)

vzn

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vzn

@JohnDuffield fyi someone turned up your amazon book on here awhile back, was a bit surprised. think you should get a website :)

John Duffield

@lılostafa : use copy and paste to get the two columns side by side, then set the formula for column C row 1 to =CONCAT(A1,B1). Then copy cell C1 to cells C2 thru Cn.

@vzn : I will. I have some material to put up.

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