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2:00 PM
We'll see how well you can say French paper names
 
Anonymous
Is that real Peter Shor in the comment section? motls.blogspot.in/2016/05/… What is he even doing there
 
:43772729 There's a common creationist argument saying that the bit of Genesis that says that God expanded the heavens is sign that the Bible predicted cosmological expansion
 
I thought the Pope told Hawking to not investigate what happened before the big bang?
 
He can shove it
 
@Slereah probably pretty well
German can be manipulated into French
basically the same lingo
 
2:06 PM
is that what they teach you in the Fatherland
Do they also tell you that Alsace is rightful German soil
 
it does not work, there is no h bar in the drop down list
 
rob
 
4 hours ago, by Balarka Sen
We need Ron, John and Lubos all at the same time
and that voldermort is banned, this is impossible
 
I think we should have a ron maimon fan meeting
 
Maybe that can be the topic of the Physics chat session
Though to be honest I only have a vague idea of who Ron Maimon is
I know Maimon is the demon of greed
oh wait no
I'm thinking of Mammon
Mammon in the New Testament of the Bible is commonly thought to mean money, material wealth, or any entity that promises wealth, and is associated with the greedy pursuit of gain. "You cannot serve both God and mammon." In the Middle Ages it was often personified as a deity and sometimes included in the seven princes of Hell. Mammon is a word in Hebrew ממון and it means "money". Mammon is the god of material things. == Etymology == The word Mammon comes into English from post-classical Latin mammona 'wealth', used most importantly in the Vulgate Bible (along with Tertullian's mammonas and pseudo...
 
2:14 PM
lel
 
You cannot serve both God and Maimon
 
that's where you're wrong, kiddo
 
Raimon=god
opps typo
Maimon
 
If I had Bezos money I would buy Stack Exchange and make Ron Maimon and Lubos Motl the head moderators
 
Anonymous
You don't need that much to buy Stack Exchange
 
Anonymous
2:18 PM
It's much cheaper :P
 
what's the price tag
Apparently Stack Exchange is valued at around $30 millions
 
Anonymous
@Slereah Including SO
 
Anonymous
I guess
 
Well SO is the main site
 
Anonymous
SO is their main source of income
 
2:20 PM
Yes
 
30 mil is a lot you know
 
Since every shitty site on this modern internet runs entirely on SO copy paste
there is interest in keeping it alive
 
I'd probably delete a bunch of the SEs
 
"Concerning the anti-universe, I can never fail to quote a favorite joke of mine which I learned from my diploma adviser in Prague. Aside from the universe, there also exists the anti-universe where everything is anti-. For example, the hardest science over there is anti-physics and it's researched by anti-Semites. ;-)"
Ouch!
 
Chemistry? foh
 
2:24 PM
@skullpatrol I didn't watch any of the games. Never cared much for basketball as a spectator sport.
 
I am anti-secret organistions
 
Who is this Ron, John and Lubos?
 
Ron Maimon, John Duffield and Lubos Motl
 
Slereah and (probably?) 0celo7 wil give you a 2 hour history lesson to them
 
@Slereah I suggest you delete this.
 
2:27 PM
Oh I've heard of Ron
 
Three colorful characters
 
Anonymous
I like colorful puns
 
and duffield seems to be saying some physics all the time(?)
 
I don't think I've ever seen him saying some physics
 
I don't think Duffield has ever been correct about anything
 
2:28 PM
but who is lubos?
 
Jinx!
 
I am not sure if duffield is a weird, since I never foudn any need to discuss my ideas with him
 
@PrathyushPoduval one of the most famous string theorists...
 
Anonymous
Lubos is PSE brand mascot and our sun god
 
Lubos Motl is a Czech string physicist who has relational issues
 
2:29 PM
@Slereah Oh okay, I've never actually read his posts
 
what does he do these days
is he a leturer somewhere
 
@0celo7 Oh okay. Reading Balarka's starred messages I thought they were a bunch of harry potter characters for some reason :P
 
or homeless?
 
I'm not sure
he still has internet access
he just posted today
 
Lubos is uninvtiable into h bar
is it because he blacklisted it?
 
2:30 PM
... apparently he wrote a book in French???
 
@Slereah Is there a colourful history between those 3?
 
Hello. What is tube length (L) in compound microscope? In this picture
 
@PrathyushPoduval I don't think they've met
 
sooooooooo.... many...... nonweirds....
 
2:32 PM
Oh okay
 
it would be like puttng Hitler, Mao, and Caesar in a room
and maybe putting a knife in the middle
 
 
@PrathyushPoduval : I talk physics a lot.
 
@JohnDuffield I don't think you've ever talked physics.
 
very useful as a destablising agent to the decaying status o h bar
Actually not, h bar is healthier than last year
 
2:34 PM
@Secret is there some reason why you talk to yourself like a madman
 
@PrathyushPoduval : there's some colourful history between myself and Motl. I haven't had any dealings with Ron Maimon.
 
Interesting, what happened?
 
Help!me!please!
 
@0celo7 I am constantly thinking about things, but they are quite incoherent and tend to spill
 
Use your inner monologue
 
2:35 PM
The thing is... there are some thing about h bar I don't understand, and the thinking goes faster than my typing thus it just become an incoherent mess
also I am still mad about Slereah
 
I am mad about him too
@Slereah no more help for you
 
@PrathyushPoduval : we disagreed about a physics matter and Motl became abusive.
 
You're breaking my heart
 
5 mins ago, by Fawad
Hello. What is tube length (L) in compound microscope? In this picture
 
Anonymous
@Slereah Non-existent things can't be broken
 
Anonymous
2:37 PM
Or maybe they can be...
 
@Fawad the longer L, I will imagine the lenses are in a casing?
 
@Slereah what the hell happened in star trek 5? How the hell did they comission a broken starship? The movie is full of plot holes
 
"Les Bogdanov auraient-ils percé le secret de l'origine de l'Univers ? Un ancien chercheur de Harvard, le Pr Lubos Motl, répond à cette question.

Existait-il " quelque chose " avant le big bang ? Telle est la question que se sont posée Igor et Grichka Bogdanov. Pour la première fois, un des plus grands spécialistes du sujet, le Pr Lubos Motl, analyse et confirme."
One of the greatest specialist!
@PrathyushPoduval Star Trek 5 was filmed during a Holliwood strike
it had a lot of problems during production
 
oof
Didn't they meet a similar god in the centre of the galaxy in TNG too?
a holographic fella
 
Oh they meet godlike beings all the time
Including the greek gods in TOS
 
2:40 PM
hadn't seen that episode
 
TOS used a lot of togas
 
I got bored of TOS by mid season 2
 
It suffers from its budget
 
yeah thats sensible, it was exploring a new frontier in filmography
good thing they didn't make the same mistake with rest of the star trek episodes
 
They made plenty of other mistakes
Enterprise is probably the worst series of all and it aired in the 2000's
 
2:42 PM
yeah i saw the first episode,it was moderate
 
the big mistake was probably making 4 Star Trek series in a row
 
How's that a mistake?
 
Running out of fresh ideas and making the show tired
 
Anonymous
Is Star Trek worth watching ? I only saw a few clips (don't know the story-line)
 
depends
 
2:46 PM
@Slereah DS9's pretty good so far
 
There's over 700 episodes and 13 movies of it
The quality varies a lot
 
@Blue It'll provide you with entertainment for a long time
 
Anonymous
@Slereah Well, as a passtime. Which one would you recommend me to start with?
 
TOS for the story
 
Anonymous
TOS?
 
2:47 PM
(Just watch the important episodes)
The original series
 
Anonymous
Is it on YouTube?
 
No
but it is on Netflix
 
@Blue It does get boring, but the storylines return in other star trek shows
 
Anonymous
I don't have money for Netflix :P
 
lol just download it
 
Anonymous
2:48 PM
Torrent? Okay, I'll try that
 
@Blue then begone, this is an upper class chat
 
@Blue yeah you'll get it in seasonwise packages (of 10-12GBs)
 
Anonymous
@Slereah Intellectuals don't buy things which can be gotten for free :P
 
Torrents are not free, for you must pay the wage of sin
 
Anonymous
@PrathyushPoduval Cool. Which torrent site do you use?
 
2:50 PM
pirate bay
 
Anonymous
Ehh, so uh, I need to install antivirus first :'D
 
Anonymous
Pirate Bay = Virus Bay. Pretty much
 
@Blue Nope
it's only a text file and videos
 
Anonymous
Okay then. I'll try it
 
@Blue what ghetto ass operating system are you running that doesn't have an AV built in
 
Anonymous
3:02 PM
@0celo7 Windows. It has the built in Windows Defender I think. Not sure how effective that is
 
Anonymous
I'm pretty scared of using Pirate Bay, coz last time Mostafa gave me a link to download Matlab, my PC got infected with some Chinese software malware
 
Anonymous
:43774002 I pirate partly because of the fun of it :P
 
I don't really pirate much these days
I just do whatever is easier, and Steam is usually simpler
 
Anonymous
There's some guilty pleasure associated with being able to get things for free
 
@skullpatrol o/
 
3:06 PM
@Blue yeah,but I'm planning on getting a netflix subscription because downloading takes a lot of space :|
 
Does $T[\varphi] = \varphi(0) + \int_{\mathbb{R}} |1-x^2|\varphi'(x) dx$ define a tempered distribution?
It's certainly linear
 
Well it's linear and maps to $\mathbb R$
I think it's just $\delta(x) + |1 - x^2| \delta'(x)$
 
We need to prove continuity, no?
 
Anonymous
@PrathyushPoduval Well, if it turns out to be good, I'll get a subscription too. I wanted to get a subscription while watching the Gotham series, but later found that it was already regularly being uploaded to YouTube
 
oh yeah? where?
 
3:09 PM
wait, not quite
 
So let $\varphi_j(x) \in \mathcal{S}$ be an arbitrary sequence of functions which converges to $\Psi(x) \in \mathcal{S}$
 
Anonymous
@PrathyushPoduval What where? Gotham?
 
We show then that $\lim_{n \to + \infty} |T[\varphi_n] - T[\Psi] |\to 0$
 
Anonymous
@PrathyushPoduval Just search on youtube. They were uploading in parts. I forgot the channel name
 
3:11 PM
oh okay
 
Anonymous
I liked the first two seasons
 
it became boring in 2nd season
so i stopped keeping track
 
Anonymous
Oh, and Arrow/Flash/Supergirl was pretty nice too. DC storylines are mostly good.
 
hey @rob
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Q: documentation inconsistency with new top bar and search box

robAccording to /help/searching, the way to search is Enter search terms in the search box that appears in the upper right corner of every page However, the search box in the new top bar is in the center-left, not on the right. A confused user.

 
3:13 PM
it went a bit bad in s4, but s5 onwards has been awesome
 
I think that convergence in the Schwartz class reduces to showing that for fixed integers $n,k \geq 0$ we have $$\lim_{j \to +\infty} \max_{x\in\mathbb{R}}(1+|x|)^n|\varphi_j^{(k)}(x)-\Psi^{(k)}(x)| = 0$$
 
Anonymous
@PrathyushPoduval While Ra's Al Ghul lasted it was awesome :P. Although the ending fight was a bit disappointing
 
have an upvote anyway
I guess you closed it yourself, so it's not that bad =P
 
@Blue Lol, they've returned in the latest episode
 
3:14 PM
Morning
 
Anonymous
@PrathyushPoduval Eh, that's his some successor
 
Anonymous
Not him
 
I haven't watched it after that
 
Anonymous
"The League"
 
no spoiler pls
 
Anonymous
3:15 PM
@PrathyushPoduval kk
 
you watched krypton?
 
Anonymous
@PrathyushPoduval Is it a movie? Nope
 
tv show, started last week
 
Anonymous
nope
 
Anonymous
Gotta see sometime
 
Anonymous
3:16 PM
Isitgood?
 
a time traveller goes back in time, to prevent the death of superman's grandfather due to braniac(?)
@Blue yeah it is
 
Anonymous
@PrathyushPoduval Interesting
 
Anonymous
I'll watch for sure :D
 
There's also Legion, whose season 2 is coming up this month. It's a show about a telepath (x-men related) and is designed to fu*ck our brains
 
Anonymous
hmm, I don't like the X-men series much
 
3:18 PM
this one's good
 
Anonymous
Ic
 
Is x-men a comic?
 
Anonymous
Well, gotta go nauw!
 
@SirCumference x-men! Yeah it is a comic
 
Anonymous
See you
 
3:19 PM
goodbye!
 
@PrathyushPoduval Ah, I've never really known much about those
 
you ever saw the bald sir patrick stewart in a chair?
 
patrick stewart?
 
Oh, that's an actor...
 
3:21 PM
yeah
 
Welp that answers your question I guess
 
You never saw this handsome guy?
@SirCumference I thought people would've atleast heard of the xmen movies :P
 
@PrathyushPoduval Afraid not
@PrathyushPoduval I'm pretty out of touch with comics. I've heard of the big ones (Superman, Spider Man, Batman), but not much beyond it
I've read a manga before, but I don't think that counts
 
hmm okay,I've only recently started comics (2 years ago)
I never much liked marvel comics, except the secret empire arc
DC's been quite awesome, with rebirth
 
3:37 PM
I am tired of people abusing the flag to make themselves feel better
 
Anonymous
You were flagged?
 
rob
@EmilioPisanty Yeah, strange. The mother meta post came seven minutes after the physics meta post, but didn't show up in my search.
 
@0celo7 Wait, I can feel better by flagging stuff? Hooooweeee, Bob!
 
Yeah. Like the fifth time in two days. First time in a month
@dmckee not you, but certain marginal figures think they can
 
I got flagged, and suspended, for talking about food ...
 
3:39 PM
@dmckee what is this, a 1960's sitcom?
 
What, faggots? You deserved that one! (The food please do t ban me)
 
rob
@rob Probably if I could have found the search box I would have found the duplicate.
 
HE SAID FAGGOTS - FLAG HIM!!!
 
Anonymous
It does give some satisfaction to get someone suspended. At least for people you hate with a passion. :'P That said, no idea who flagged you
 
Anonymous
@JohnRennie Do the honours :P
 
3:41 PM
Threatening to flag is a flaggable offense
 
@Blue I've been trying (with only very modest success) not to conflate exasperation with hatred.
 
@JohnDuffield you are hampered because you don't have an understanding of quantum being non-classical, there are negative energy states, there is no local circulatory motion
 
Anonymous
@dmckee Doesn't take one much time to metamorphose into the other
 
@Blue No, no, don't do it. People will look at the summary of the post in the flag notification and just vote without looking at the context. That's the main problem with the flagging system.
 
^ I'm afraid there is something to that.
 
rob
3:42 PM
@dmckee This sounds like a version of Hanlon's Razor, about not mistaking incompetence for malice.
 
@bolbteppa : you've got that back to front I'm afraid.
 
And even if context was available it takes attention to really digest the context and make a considered decision.
 
The flag notification gives you a handy little Valid button without forcing you to actually read the post in context.
 
Anonymous
@JohnRennie Was just joking. Cool down! I hardly ever flag :)
 
@0celo7 : what got flagged?
 
3:44 PM
I called out some pirates on being Bad People
 
@0celo7 to be fair, you called them out in quite a colourful way :-)
 
I’m a colorful guy
I identify as a rainbow. Not an overly flamboyant one though.
 
You and Van Gogh - he came to a sticky end too ...
 
Anonymous
chat session in 12 mins
 
Anonymous
what do we talk about
 
3:48 PM
Internet piracy should be a capital offense
 
How about some physics?
 
The Tiangong capsule maybe
 
@Blue as far as I know there are no procedural issues pending, so we can talk about anything we want.
 
My theory is that small, insignificant crimes should have wildly disproportionate punishments
 
@JaimeGallego that was a bit of a non-event in the end ...
It ended up quietly in the Pacific.
 
3:49 PM
Nonsense. It did not land on the Pacific... That's another of their communist lies
It ended up in my backyard
 
I can think of a dozen good reasons to commit murder...but not one for pirating a movie
 
Anonymous
I wanted to show ACM this list of bad questions which got through in the last week. Rough draft for a possible meta post
 
@JaimeGallego put it on eBay :-)
 
Anonymous
At this point I'm not sure I want to post it. Maybe I'll just let it be. It's not complete though
 
Maybe stealing bread isn’t even that bad
Maybe about as bad as murder
 
3:52 PM
@JohnRennie "TIANGONG CAPSULE - $20000. USED, UNTESTED. LIGHT DAMAGE, CAN USE AS SANDRA BULLOCK SPACE MOVIE PROP"
 
But sealing a song? There’s no good reason
 
I was away from physics stack exchange for a while. When I came back it seemed to me that there were more poor questions than there used to be.
 
@JaimeGallego MINOR IMPACT DAMAGE :-)
 
I prefer the term "lithobraking"
 
lithobraking - :-))))))))))))))))
 
3:57 PM
On a serious note, the Chinese space program actually had incidents like this with their Long March rockets.
Imagine a stage full of hypergolic fuel falling in a village.
 
Minor geomorphological side effects
 

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