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Orthogonality Catastrophe: January 2006
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A graduate student's misadventures in theoretical physics. Monday, January 23, 2006. I don't care who you are. I don't care where you're from. Get this straight: you don't get to penny. Saturday, January 14, 2006. Yay, except not really. Right after the one-year warranty period expired, my department-issued. IBook decided to suddenly give up the ghost. After that. Except. except the powerbook is just so good. Monday, January 09, 2006. Top" physics stories of 2005. It's not that hard. Of diagrams from alg...
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Orthogonality Catastrophe: Mike on the mic
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A graduate student's misadventures in theoretical physics. Sunday, April 09, 2006. Mike on the mic. Last week, as promised, Michael Peskin. Gave the Lee Page series of lectures. He's best known for writing the de facto. Recounts, but instead he turned out to be a remarkably cheerful, bubbly guy, willing to talk at length with anyone. His lectures were among the best-delivered talks I've been to here, after correcting for my personal areas of interest. Thanks to Peter for pointing this out). Dunno I'm sti...
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Orthogonality Catastrophe: great moments in physics writing
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A graduate student's misadventures in theoretical physics. Tuesday, June 20, 2006. Great moments in physics writing. The award for best use of the word "potty" in a graduate physics textbook goes to Binney et al., The Theory of Critical Phenomena, page 260:. Well, come on,' you will be saying. 'Who are you trying to fool? The expansion is divergent, and no amount of shuffling of variables is going to change this.'". This blog is only for patient readers. One post per month? Not so fast .
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Orthogonality Catastrophe: June 2006
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A graduate student's misadventures in theoretical physics. Tuesday, June 20, 2006. Great moments in physics writing. The award for best use of the word "potty" in a graduate physics textbook goes to Binney et al., The Theory of Critical Phenomena, page 260:. Well, come on,' you will be saying. 'Who are you trying to fool? The expansion is divergent, and no amount of shuffling of variables is going to change this.'". Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Jack Challis's Tangent Space. The Displaced El Pasoan.
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Orthogonality Catastrophe: February 2006
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A graduate student's misadventures in theoretical physics. Thursday, February 23, 2006. Still trying to carpe that diem, but most of the time it's all I can do to give the day a limp-wristed slap as it whizzes past. Research is progressing, at least, but it's going sloooowly. In considering the evolution of physics at Yale, two questions emerge: 'How much credit to give Yale for keeping Josiah Willard Gibbs. And 'How much blame to put on Yale for not keeping Ernest Orlando Lawrence. Still, I want to get ...
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Orthogonality Catastrophe: March 2006
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A graduate student's misadventures in theoretical physics. Tuesday, March 21, 2006. Spring in New Haven: it doesn't get any warmer, per se, just less cloudy. Flipped through the latest US News and World Report college rankings. For the first time ever. This year (this follows the hard-won struggle for two-ply toilet paper. In the 90's.) Evidently the administration caved not for reasons of basic hyigene but because one of the trustees is on the board of Proctor and Gamble. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Orthogonality Catastrophe: Movie review: Primer (2004)
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A graduate student's misadventures in theoretical physics. Wednesday, September 26, 2007. Movie review: Primer (2004). Is probably the best hard sci-fi movie you've never heard of. whether that inspires you to keep reading beyond this sentence is really only a function of your. Personality. The reason you've probably never heard of it is because it was writer/director Shane Carruth's first experience with filmmaking: it was shot on a ludicrously low budget of only $7000, did really well. Go off the rails.
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Dispatches from Polynesia: September 2005
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Thursday, September 29, 2005. Beds and a lot of fish: topsmelt (. A school of blacksmith (. We did a night snorkel as well, and the cloudy water translated into spectacular bioluminescence by plankton in the water. I would wave my hand and myriad tiny sparks of light would flash in front of my face. On land we did a hike up to a grove of island ironwood (. And laurel sumac (. A shrub on the mainland, becomes a full fledged tree on the island, and Catalina cherry (. Leaping into the air, doubling back tow...
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Dispatches from Polynesia: January 2006
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Saturday, January 28, 2006. Revenge of the Sith. Belowground is a crypt housing the great men and women of modern French history, from Voltaire and Rousseau to the Curies and Alexandre Dumas. Nobody (at least anymore) is buried immediately in the crypt; you must spend some length of time in your normal grave, after which your posthumous greatness has become such that you are reinterred in the Panthéon. Photo of Sainte-Chappelle- another very beautiful place- by Tim.). Posted by David @ 5:31 PM. I'm off t...
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Dispatches from Polynesia: November 2005
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Sunday, November 20, 2005. This weekend was the Big Game between at Stanford but unfortunately I had a paper to write for my evolution class (on the evolution of obligate pollination mutualisms, like figs and fig wasps, yuccas and yucca moths, and. I tried some adventurous cooking today by trying to make pumpkin soup following a recipie from. The Joy of Cooking. Posted by David @ 9:44 PM. Wednesday, November 09, 2005. What if there is nobody else? Posted by David @ 8:06 PM. Tuesday, November 01, 2005.
