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qmbphysics.bsky.social

PhD physicist, mainly interested in the quantum many body problem & some AI/ML. I will occasionally post physics stuff. Aka quietphysicist and susurrus1 on other sites. Maintainer of: @arxiv-nucl-th.bsky.social and @arxiv-nucl-ex.bsky.social

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I'm searching for people who love science and Lego to share and SUPPORT my Lego Ideas Periodic Table project so it can become an official Lego product Please consider sharing 🧪 #science SUPPORT here (it's free) ideas.lego.com/s/p:7ea5c858...

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looking back everything went to shit when Schoolhouse Rock stopped airing

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Anyone who writes a routine for a library should be required to also provide at least one complete example of how to use that routine. Looking at you SCALAPACK. 😠

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New paper: "Theory of resonances", link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02654

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I did too much math today. Can't math anymore. Disconnecting brain...

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Robotics Class is Open

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It's a very long way down... #HorizonZeroDawnRemastered

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The conclusion of this evening adventures in derivations: only off by 1/3. Progress.

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Nickel-58 nucleus may host elusive toroidal dipole excitations. phys.org/news/2025-01...

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I turn math into codes that mostly crash.

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The Christmas Alphabet: ABCDEFGHIJKMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.

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Great capture from @bretthelms.bsky.social today! …minus the poor air quality. #BestViewFromALab

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Christmas song for #UNIX or #Linux hackers <3 #programming #devlife #SysAdmin

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“Waves in an Impossible Sea”: The 2024 science book of the year With so many new science books this year, I found @mattstrassler.bsky.social's "Waves in an Impossible Sea" to be far and away my favorite. Here's my summary, plus a deep Q&A interview with the author! bigthink.com/starts-with-...

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Good Afternoon. Tintin Christmas with the gang and Milou. (Snowy)

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Watching Dune Part Two. You can tell they re-used some of the same dunes

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Well, I just commented out a variable that is not being used in my code, and the final result changed. That's probably not a good thing.

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For anyone who's interested: I have now set up two arXiv accounts here that regularly post new papers+links that you can follow and/or add to lists: @arxiv-nucl-th.bsky.social for papers on theoretical nuclear physics @arxiv-nucl-ex.bsky.social for papers on experimental nuclear physics

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So, one encouraging thing about Google Gemini (and granted, I haven't used it a whole lot) is that when you ask it a technical question is doesn't know the answer to, it doesn't seem to try to invent/hallucinate an answer (e.g., by citing fake papers). Time will tell, but so far so good...

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Boss: you should have been here at 8. Me: why, what happened at 8?

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A good summary of science denial tactics

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Happy 31st birthday to DOOM!

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Not sure who made this & when but fittingly came across it in my downloads folder today:

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Technical gripe: ScaLAPACK not having a parallel routine to diagonalize non-symmetric matrices is just needlessly painful.

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For years, I have been keeping an annotated guide to science fiction based on reasonable astronomy. It's organized by topic: black holes, Jupiter, etc. It makes no claim to be complete, but may lead you to stories you didn't know: bit.ly/astronomyscifi #astronomy #sciencefiction #astroedu #scifi

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BREAKING: Tsunami warning issued for parts of California and Oregon

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At its heart, Star Trek is a utopian fantasy about a society so advanced that they are capable of holding productive meetings that last no longer than three minutes

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So this is a math puzzle that took me a little while to work out. It turns out there is a beautiful generalization of the formula (see Eq. (14) at mathworld.wolfram.com/InfiniteProd... )

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Time is running out to apply for a Bell Burnell PhD scholarship at the University of Edinburgh. If you're eligible, get in touch with us before December 10th! I'd be overjoyed to support anyone interested in applying for one of these scholarships to join my team. www.iop.org/about/suppor...