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diobuc eulb

7:22 PM

Balarka Sen

good meme

Slereah

7:36 PM

That might make for a long game

The time it takes will be measured on the long line

dmckee

@Slereah This

is pure poetry.

Slereah

Man, I don't even like numerical simulations!

dmckee

From arxiv.org/abs/0801.4589 so I might be a tiny bit biased.

Slereah

Are you the KamLAND Collaboration

D. McKee

indeed

dmckee

7:53 PM

@Slereah It gets worse than that. That paper is a follow-up with more data from a previous one, and it is better for three reasons: (a) more time means more data, (b) better calibration in the outer part of the detector means more data passes the cuts, and (c) better understanding of low-energy backgrounds means more data and makes the independent axis long enough to show more than one full oscillation. My long-term project for KamLAND was a big driver of (c).

So I'm a little fond of it.

Cows

8:17 PM

@diobuceulb hehehe

vzn

8:31 PM

@DavidZ ?!? its says comments disabled on deleted / locked posts / reviews on the bottom & doesnt allow comments

rob

8:44 PM

@vzn That seems to be an artifact of the question having been migrated to meta and then closed. Since the status is "migration rejected," the comments are open instead on the original. I would posit that having a discussion in those comments isn't a great idea.

Emilio Pisanty

@DanielSank you may find the video link at the end of this answer interesting

@dmckee how come you work in such a small team?

dmckee

@EmilioPisanty Just introverted, I guess.

Emilio Pisanty

@dmckee also, how's it feel now that that PRL is ten years in the past?

Semiclassical

tfw you realize the stuff you wrote out had a sign error

Emilio Pisanty

(yeah, I know, that was a low blow.)

Semiclassical

8:48 PM

$e^{+t^2/2}$ should've been $e^{-t^2/2}$...ugh

dmckee

@EmilioPisanty I've been feeling a little bit like I've been exiled to Siberia, to tell the truth. Harken to the howling wolves.

Semiclassical

@EmilioPisanty random question: is the phrase "exponentially improved asymptotic expansion" one you've run into?

Emilio Pisanty

@dmckee apparently Siberia isn't howling wolves all the time, though

my PhD supervisor tells tales of summers doing field work in Siberia in August in humid 30°C+ heat

with swarms of bloodflies to boot

dmckee

@EmilioPisanty I imagine it would be. Loots of sun, lots of water small bodies of water.

Emilio Pisanty

Black fly

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dmckee

8:53 PM

On a completely different topic, I've just been tinkering with the tufte-handout as an alternative to revtex4-1 in formatting my short treatments for students. In at least some case it is very nice.

Emilio Pisanty

these ones, I think

@dmckee ugh

tufte is overrated

@dmckee sample?

dmckee

Well, so far I've only tried it with a couple of notes that need lots of little figures and encourage a lot of side-comments.

I'm a little worried about how it will look with some of the other notes.

Emilio Pisanty

this? ctan.math.illinois.edu/macros/latex/contrib/tufte-latex/…

what kinda font is it using?

dmckee

@EmilioPisanty The nofont class option makes it fall back on Computer Modern, and so far I've stuck with that.

@EmilioPisanty Yeah, that.

Emilio Pisanty

@dmckee meh

dmckee

8:55 PM

Emilio Pisanty

I've developed a mild allergy to Computer Modern

dmckee

^ What it looks like for my short blurb on heat engine basics.

The figures in the margin really work for that one.

The one about thermodynamics at phase-changes is less pleasing because I need a couple of big figures.

@EmilioPisanty I haven't been able to work up the energy to really experiment with fonts recently.

Emilio Pisanty

I'm super chuffed with my latest take on \documentclass{article}

but it doesn't look like I have a shareable draft

vzn

@rob (sigh) ok thx for info

Emilio Pisanty

@dmckee there we go

oh, also, I meant to ask

physics.stackexchange.com/posts/392736/revisions this feels like stuff that's appeared before

have we got a persistent potato-banana fan spamming us from time to time?

dmckee

9:09 PM

Cool drop-cap, there.

Emilio Pisanty

@dmckee yeah, that took a while to get right

dmckee

What are the fonts?

Emilio Pisanty

\usepackage{tgheros} %% Main sans-serif font
\usepackage{tgtermes} %% Main serif font

and for the drop-cap

%% Fancy first letter
\usepackage{lettrine}
\pdfmapfile{=montserrat.map}
\renewcommand{\LettrineFont}{
  \fontfamily{iwonal}\fontsize{42}{42}\selectfont %% Iwona Light
%  \fontfamily{Montserrat-LF}\fontseries{l} \fontsize{42}{42}\selectfont %% Montserrat light
%  \fontfamily{Montserrat-LF}\fontseries{l} \fontsize{41}{41}\selectfont %% Montserrat extralight ?
%  \fontfamily{Chivo-TLF}\fontseries{l} \fontsize{42}{42}\selectfont %% Chivo light
  \color[rgb]{0,0.25,0.8}
  }
%% use as \lettrine[lines=3]{T}{\,} he

I think the chivo version was slightly nicer but there just wasn't any way to install it on my texlive system

(that's TeX Gyre Termes and Heros, respectively, for the main text.)

David Z

9:22 PM

@vzn huh that's weird, I see the "add a comment" link as usual

@dmckee @rob how about you, do you see the commenting link on that meta post? I wonder if this is different for mods vs non-mods.

DanielSank

@EmilioPisanty OH MY GOODNESS!!!!

YES

So much yes.

This is exactly what happened in my field.

Emilio Pisanty

lolz

dmckee

@DavidZ I see a link to let me comment.

Emilio Pisanty

@DavidZ I see 'comments disabled on deleted / locked posts / reviews'

DanielSank

The paper I shamelessly linked in my comment on that same post had the following essential message: You have to lift the two level approximation and the RWA in order to understand superconducting qubit readout.

@EmilioPisanty My colleagues are going to find this hilarious.

Emilio Pisanty

9:27 PM

@DanielSank if it earns me bragging points, I helped organize that workshop

DanielSank

@EmilioPisanty Excelent.

I just mailed that video to my team. It's funny.

David Z

@EmilioPisanty cc @dmckee huh, OK then, I never noticed that particular difference.

Emilio Pisanty

10:00 PM

@DanielSank ah, yes, here it is