And that massive expansion in raw power has basically been filled with terrible software.

software is like a gas that expands to fill the size of available computation

I was rejected for grad school by Johns Hopkins University and the University of Toronto. Sabine Stanley, who I had applied to at UofT, subsequently moved to JHU and I became a postdoc in her group after grad school. 😂

If anything, you seem like the right person to do that.

I was raised by a weirdo so I have been concerned for most of my life that we're wasting a finite resource (helium) in fucking BALLOONS, when it's crucial to medical technology.

I did not expect to be attacked like this.

It IS really that simple.

Our university has decided it will soon start charging us for computing time. We used to at least pretend that academia was about the pursuit of truth and not just about the 💵💵. 🧪⚛️

Chief Executive Officer - New York City, New York (US) job with arXiv | 37961678 arXiv seeks its first CEO to champion open, free scientific discovery and guide the platform’s next chapter as an independent nonprofit.

The arXiv is becoming a nonprofit separate from Cornell, and they're looking for a CEO. Please repost to let good candidates know!
@dabacon.tachyon.institute, @harrowing.bsky.social, @michaelnielsen.bsky.social
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I assumed people just have one called "myenv". No, just me? Okay ... 😅🧪⚛️

I submit a proposal to simulate some processes and then later infer what the detected observable would be. Proposal was declined.

Review: Weakness: Proposal did not show that the signals would be detectable ...

How am I supposed to know the result before having done the science ... ?
😱⚛️🧪

Keeping time between the equinoxes I compute the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit based on the observation that there are more days between spring and fall than between fall and spring.

Ever noticed how there are more days between spring and fall than between the fall and spring (in the northern hemisphere)? That is due to the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit. I talk about it and do the math in this blog post ⚛️ 🧪
jrekier.github.io/bit-blog/pos...

Great news indeed. But I'm still always confused why disgraced faculty are not fired outright? 🧪⚛️

He's a keeper!

We were onto something as kids.

Those atriums though ...

Wow, this was a brilliant read! Such an articulate description of what I think about while walking through campus and seeing those glass atriums and new buildings while the faculty all over the country complain about student unions asking for fair wages.

I don't know honestly. I'm just tired of having to do yet another thing.

Research scientists have no shot at having a permanent position, ever. But at my university, we're now required to send annual reports of our activity in order to be evaluated. For what exactly? Just to be able to keep our jobs? 🧪⚛️

Mercury was only 50 arcminutes (0.8°) above a very young waxing crescent Moon this evening. KAS member Pete Mumbower captured this image from his home in Vicksburg, MI.

Incredible, using Tikz to animate precession and nutation of the Earth! ⚛️🧪

I think the first recorded instance is by monks? So that tracks ...

Agreed!

Ha, I was one of the reviewers for this, nice to see it out! Really good work indeed! 🧪⚛️

An advice for young folks learning to code. Please get comfortable coding the old school way, looking up solutions on stackoverflow etc before you start getting AI assist.

You can trust AI with menial tasks but not with critical code components. It is nowhere even close to the human brain. 🧪⚛️

Me, from Baltimore: "It's going to be cold on the weekend"
My partner: *laughs in Ottawa*

Because I saw some responses for suing etc. Just to clarify, this wasn't an official reason, in fact there wasn't any official feedback. I got some feedback through some insider channels and got to know that this was one of the reasons why I didn't make the cut, among others.

If it was an official reason, it would be, but it isn't. You'll also notice this trend in faculty hiring to some extent.

Really appreciate this perspective, thank you!!

Oh and the mandatory emojis (I forget how this site works) 🧪⚛️