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Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah was largely ignored until Jeff Buckley's rendition was largely ignored until his untimely death.. Cohen took five years to write the lyrics. Buckley's version is not Cohen's but John Cale's a musician and producer who was given all of Cohen's attempts to his final...

Can the use of AI by students be valuable? OpenAI thinks so. It has introduced a new mode for CHATGPT called "Study Mode". Instead of doing work for students, it engages students in active learning when they request an explanation of a topic...

I posted a remark on a MIT study of the effects of the use of AI on students in the thread; Is AI hype?

Less than 50%. A toss of a fair coin has a 50% chance of a heads or a tails coming up.

I am surprised no one has taken notice of Tim Henson, lead guitarist of the progressive band Polyphia. Polyphia "Ego Death" Polyphia "G.O.A.T."

No hoping, only doing.

The OP is a sophomore in HS and has a goal of understanding the paper in two years.

Will not happen, But, if by some chance you think you do, please let us know.

To get where?

Yes, you will have a lot of water under your bridge before you can fully appreciate the article.

Aren't you in a similar situation this time with engineering courses?

First, what country are you in? You will only have three semesters of physics courses before you apply to grad school. Even with a BS, you will be short of courses compared to a regular physics major. As you noted, medical physics is quite competitive. I suppose you can leverage your research...

At what point are you in your program? I assume your major is Physics. Is this an issue with every subject? Can you give an example of a difficult problem?

Starship 10 is rumoured to be launched in the first week of August.

It's all about the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics, as noted by E. Wigner. Math can take us from one physical realization to another as a guide might take us from one location to another through unfamiliar territory. Without that guide, we would be lost.