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One mustn't forget: Some people are out to get you. There just aren't that many of them. People are worried about their own life. They aren't worried about you. The 5–63 degree Celsius temperature range is (roughly) the "danger zone" at which bacteria multiply rapidly in food. Keep your food out of this range, or trouble will follow. The Moon landing was not faked. Some people think it was. These…
...or Oxford. There is a plethora of self-congratulatory chat that crops up around the Oxbridge (especially recent-Oxbridge) graduate crowd. You hear it a lot. You hear it most of all if you, too, recently graduated from one (or both) of the UK's most august institutions of higher education. Especially if you let yourself get dragged along to the Boat Race. Even one or two acquaintances removed…
I spent the better part of an afternoon yesterday attempting to remove malware from my computer. This difficulty was compounded, significantly, by the fact that the malware in question was Windows 11-- the operating system I'd been running for the previous five years. It's amazing how much we can store even in very small places; indeed, much of the technological advances of the last quarter…
I always remember myself as having been twenty-two even though by then I had to have been twenty-three, because it was late September and I had been talking to someone else back then, anyway, someone who was a social smoker but didn't come with her own ordnance, not like the person I was looking at now, who had brought burnt umber hair and purple rolling papers. It always struck me as impressive,…
when I informed them that I wasn't cashflow positive and in fact more like someone approaching the antithesis of such a thing they were moderately reasonable and had agreed to offset what I owed them against my outstanding deposit which only seemed fair because the act of paying it the first time had nearly bankrupted me and it didn't seem right to be placed in some form of double jeopardy…
so i'm an engineer now, apparently So I'm an engineer now, apparently. A circuitous journey through a peripatetic life will bring you great variety. Q.v. my initial life plan-- study English Literature. Hence why I found myself at Trinity College, Cambridge, doing Natural Sciences, originally as a chemist. Then, I swapped to physics, briefly attempted to switch back, withdrew from the registration…
The Problem with Replicability (Motivation) Developing new methods to process experimental data is a clear motivator for incorporating ML into physics. Indeed, data from physics experiments is messy- cameras exposed to radiation, time, and neglect can develop faulty or dead pixels in the active region of their CCDs. Upgrading and replacing these devices can be costly- so costly, in fact, that it's…
introversion masked as incandescence There is a longtime cultural fascination with the solitary and stoic male protagonist. You can see this as far back as the Homeric idealization of a great man as one singularly possessed by the aim of returning to his wife in Ithaca (so what if there is a seven-year debauched sojourn with Calypso on the way), and as recently in the character of Elliot Alderson,…
Direct And Indirect Suicide: Hal, Joelle, James Though famous for its inscrutability and purposeful obscurantism, perhaps one of the most interesting threads in Foster Wallace's notorious sophomore novel is its treatment of, or, indeed, disinterest in, suicide. Central characters in Infinite Jest variously greet suicide with wry amusement, apathy, anguish, or a combination thereof. Figures attempt…
Aesthete and Ctrl+Alt+Delete Mild annoyance or chuckles of derision are the most frequent responses I get from my art/humanities friends when I tell them I think of coding as an art form. And I have many of these friends, having considered myself very much a musician/writer first and STEM person second for many years (including the majority of my time spent studying physics as an undergraduate).…