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Mmarcusl replied to the thread Engineering Second degree for engineers for more job opportunities?.Most job seekers complain that they follow hundreds of leads but rarely or never get an interview. The fact that you are getting many...
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Mmarcusl reacted to Dale's post in the thread Graduate Horizontal component of the electric field of an infinite uniformly charged plane with
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Why? It seems very clear that for every point “up and to the left” there is a symmetrical point “down and to the right”. Using that fact... -
Mmarcusl reacted to PeroK's post in the thread Graduate Horizontal component of the electric field of an infinite uniformly charged plane with
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If you have have linear wires, then the linear charge density must tend to zero, as the number of wires increases. You end up with... -
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Do you have something against symmetry? I mean, is there a specific reason that you are going out of your way to avoid using symmetry? -
MDo human rules apply to Erdos? He was a Martian
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Mmarcusl reacted to FactChecker's post in the thread Undergrad Please Explain (actually explain) The Monty Hall Problem with
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A mathematical proof (there might be others) is based on Bayes' Rule. You can use that to directly calculate the probabilities. If you... -
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Another way to show that this is a false claim is to directly calculate the amount of information entropy before and after opening the... -
Mmarcusl replied to the thread Job Skills Physics Careers: Expectations vs. Reality.You've asked for a reality check. I find it sad to see how unrealistic your physics expectations are. You want support and free license...
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Mmarcusl reacted to CrysPhys's post in the thread Job Skills Physics Careers: Expectations vs. Reality with
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I read through your extended rant. I haven't the time to go through a point-by-point rebuttal of the many factual errors and... -
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Whether this idea floats around out there (where? the aether?) is moot. A student contemplating spending 6+ yrs to earn a PhD in...