alpenm.bsky.social
ATLAS Physicist, miniature painter and tired parent...
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And how not to slice it?
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What did D0/fermilab do with the depleted uranium after the tevatron shut down? Did they have to give it back? Or is it just sitting there still?
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Next film is, "Comrade Rocky", in which he receives a massive package of kompromat and suddenly embraces the Russia boxing association...
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In fairness to Liz... She did put in a good effort to set that standards bar very low...
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What really gets me, is that Gemini is good enough to tell me, once it has given the incorrect conversion, the algorithm it "followed" to make the conversion... That is usually right...
Can we skip through the part where people pretend LLMs "know" what they are doing...
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See also any time I ask it to convert hex -> decimal... or vice versa. I get a completely random (new almost everytime) and junk answer, unless I phrase it correctly to get the old Google plugin that just does the conversion...
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Yeah, I closed three companies registered at my old address during the pandemic. It took about 6 months in total to get them down. Though I didn't have to pretend to be the director, just had to keep filling in forms after forms...
Companies house needs a clear out.
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The violence inherent in the system... Succinctly put by the Holy Grail...
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I once answered the question, "What are the 5 closest capital cities to Reykjavik?" as a Brit... We basically spent ages arguing if London or Oslo was closer... When we should have been throwing away Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff and looking further afield...
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Context was I went past £500 in dividends from the year and wanted to report. The form asks if the investment has ended. Didn't know if it meant the shares (still held) or the dividend (paid)...
The threshold is low now... Always been below it before with my modest holdings.
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TBF, the ability to fabricate the parts, for things like LIGO, probably didn't exist in the 90s...
The engineering for those mirrors is minds blowing...
So it almost certainly wasn't your coding...
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Very true... Often but not always...
Some physicists are great coders, most are fine... Some are in another category altogether...
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I have friends in the nuclear power industry... Some state of the art (modelling only I believe) code is written in an old Fortran version with all the comments in French from the original EDF engineers... Feels very passed down from generation to generation holy relic code.
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A large fraction of particle physics is software engineering... So you would probably be quite good at it.
The problem is we hire particle physicists to do the coding... And so our code is often pretty shonky...
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Atheist particle physicist here... So quite a long way away :P
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Transubstantiation only happens in Catholicism, and only during Eucharistic offerings... So, very much depends on how you give the sample, and who you give it to?
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And then everyone needs that buzzword in their funding application or no money... Even if they will never touch it...
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I was once asked to justify the dijet function...
Iirc, after a lot of historical digging I found that it did once have a physical justification, but that was many terms ago... There had been no further justification updates...
So, I think we showed that it just did the best job...