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My first reaction was Ewww. I put it back to the old style for myself. Sorry Greg. -
Ugh! Not a fan of the forest green and earth tones. Also, the font used for "Today, 7:31 AM" in light gray, maybe Courier, is hard on...
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PeroK reacted to Roberto Pavani's post in the thread Undergrad Meaning of division by non-whole real numbers with
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As a humble engineer, I think there's both a counting bias and a decimal bias here. We are taught to think of numbers mainly as counts... -
PeroK replied to the thread Undergrad Meaning of division by non-whole real numbers.In pure mathematics it takes a lot of work to develop the real numbers. Integers and rational numbers are far simpler. One of the...
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PeroK replied to the thread Undergrad Solving the chess game (quantum computer wise).Even if chess is solved, nothing changes in terms of human play.
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PeroK replied to the thread Undergrad Solving the chess game (quantum computer wise).It is effectively impossible. You can only estimate the number of moves in every position. I doubt there will ever be a full...
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PeroK reacted to QuarkyMeson's post in the thread Undergrad Solving the chess game (quantum computer wise) with Like.
The same issue as why it's not a solved game practically. The number of possible games is finite, but it's absurdly large. You would...
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A rod would try to orient itself radially, due to tidal forces, in the same way as tidally-deformed ellipsoids of planets and moons...
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PeroK reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Undergrad "The wavefunction never collapses" with Like.
There's a difference, though. We know how to quantize everything that isn't gravity: just use the standard framework of quantum field...
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PeroK reacted to anuttarasammyak's post in the thread An intuition I had about infinite numbers -- Is it valid? with Like.
Yes. For an example, let p, q, r be prime numbers. There are infinite number of prime numbers. Infinite number of sets...
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PeroK reacted to jbergman's post in the thread Undergrad "The wavefunction never collapses" with
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I don't agree with this point completely. If Gravity was semi-classical you still could postulate a MWI theory but it just wouldn't make... -
PeroK reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Undergrad "The wavefunction never collapses" with
Informative.
I'm not sure what this means. But... Actually, in the paper you referenced, the opposite point is made: the "semiclassical gravity"... -
To me it looks like it's rigged for Messitina. Spain/France in a final versus the FIFA protégées...
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PeroK replied to the thread A whale sunk a firefighting boat!.What about "sung a song" or "rung a bell"? Those sound even worse to me.
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PeroK replied to the thread A whale sunk a firefighting boat!.Is "sunk" correct in US English? In UK English the simple past tense is "sank".