Recent content by QuarkyMeson

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 need either infinite compute and/or time to calculate the total number of games exactly. Shannon's number is just a back of the envelope approximation, it's a...

Quantum computers don't have a “strength” in the way you're imagining, per se. They're either quantum or they aren't. The advantage of quantum computing lies in the algorithmic speed up of certain classical algorithms. Then of course you'd have the classical analogues of more qubits more better...

No. IQ scores are meaningless quantities wrt what field or area of study people end up in. It's an imperfect measure used as one component of diagnosing developmental or learning disabilities and even more useless for anything outside of that.

From that list applied math is probably your best bet, you are a dual CS/Math major it sounds like after all. PhD spots are difficult to come by for anyone at the moment due to funding uncertainty. Maybe 5 years ago you'd have been able to find a physics PhD slot somewhat readily, I doubt that...

Not at all. Not to toot my own horn or anything but I feel like at least an average student in physics, I have a bachelors, am starting graduate school in a few months, and ChatGPT isn't just slightly better at physics and math than I am, it's leaps and bounds. ChatGPT is at least post doctoral...

You could do it like physics students and just get thrown into it. After you've been exposed to linear algebra you have 90% of the foundation required to pick up Shankar and work through it and get the other 10% along the way. There aren't any really. Lagrangian and to the same extent...

Have you tried it? You can set this up geometrically and then solve. What do you get stuck on? If you know any complex analysis there is even easier way.

That's not how it would work.

Self studying taylor does nothing for that. Phd applications are about one thing, your GPA, your undergraduate research, and your letters of rec. Self studying taylor checks zero of those boxes. You want to do it anyway? Knock yourself out. It's a very simple book.

I mean you still haven't been able to answer a simple question. Why? What part of self studying Taylor gets you any closer to your goals? I can let you know that it just doesn't.

It's the kind of question asking you why? I didn't ask you why there might be tons of reasons, I asked why you want to. Why Taylor? You're getting the wrong degree if you want an easy path to an applied physics phd program, especially one that's concerned with mechanics.

Why? You're trying to become an EE. Mechanics beyond what you'll study in engineering physics series is pointless to you. You're much much better off using whatever free time you'd be spending doing this and either doing one of your hobbies or looking for relevant internships or investing more...

You need to be specific on what kind of phase you're talking about. Like @PeterDonis said: A single pure state has no physical absolute phase, since a pure state is a ray in Hilbert space, ##|\gamma\rangle## and ##e^{i\theta}|\gamma\rangle## are the same physical state. A physically meaningful...

There are classical mechanical formalisms based on Hilbert spaces like this: Koopman–von Neumann classical mechanics.

It would all make more sense if whole milk was just called 3% milk or something.