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PeterDonis replied to the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid.Maybe for you. But not everyone shares your preferences. And there is no reason why your preferences should override everyone else's... -
PeterDonis replied to the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid.I'm inferring it from your posts. I've already said I don't think lower productivity is due to poor education. So I don't agree with...
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PeterDonis replied to the thread I Is there a bad intuition or bad explanation in quantum entanglement?.This is getting way off topic. Please keep the discussion focused on QM and the thread topic.
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PeterDonis replied to the thread I A very interesting paper on orthodox quantum mechanics.In his textbook, he gives basically the same description you quoted, but he also says that an equivalent way of looking at the quantum...
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PeterDonis replied to the thread I A very interesting paper on orthodox quantum mechanics.This is how Ballentine presents the statistical interpretation--the ensemble is basically the abstract set of all instances of a given...
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PeterDonis reacted to gentzen's post in the thread I A very interesting paper on orthodox quantum mechanics with
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Why do you think that I see an ensemble of particles? I see an experiment depending on some knobs, that I can repeat as often as I want... -
PeterDonis replied to the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid.Yes, I agree. And I would argue that our public school systems not only do not encourage this, they actively discourage it. Which would...
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PeterDonis replied to the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid.Even leaving aside the political issues, I'm not sure this is true either. At least, not if "education" means what you are using it to...
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PeterDonis replied to the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid.You're assuming that the primary cause of world poverty is lack of education. I don't think that's true. I think the primary cause of...
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PeterDonis replied to the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid.So maybe the answer is to not have a one-size-fits-all public education system, but let different people with different preferences work...
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PeterDonis replied to the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid.You shouldn't be. All human history shows that we humans are very poor at deciding things for others. There are cases where it has to be...
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PeterDonis reacted to bhobba's post in the thread I A very interesting paper on orthodox quantum mechanics with Like.
Although well thought of by many, including me, it is not an orthodox approach. That said, it is the book I recommend studying...
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Stupid does not mean what you seem to think it means. Is that the goal? Productivity? Not, say, work/life balance? or happiness? Are...
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PeterDonis replied to the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid.My experience was different. I saw my friends plenty during summer vacation--in fact it was nicer for me because I could see them...
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This. It's 2025, I know some people don't want to belive this, but we are not robots. We need breaks. Children need breaks. And not...