PHYS771 Lecture 9: Quantum
There are two ways to teach quantum mechanics. The first way -- which for most physicists today is still the only way -- follows the historical order in which the ideas were discovered. So, you start with classical mechanics and electrodynamics, solving lots of grueling differential equations at e...
Hasnain says:
Scott Aaronson on how to teach Quantum Mechanics. Interesting...
Posted on 2012-07-31T21:15:04+0000
Indranil Gupta on distributed systems : engineers onstage : rnd.io
Ravi: The date today is March 29th, 2012. We're here in Mountain View, California, with Indy Gupta—Indranil Gupta—how do you say it?
The Ultimate Counterfeiter Isn’t a Crook—He’s an Artist
On a bright May afternoon in 2007, a German artist and printmaker named Hans-Jürgen Kuhl took a seat at an outdoor café directly...
Print - The Perfect Compliment - Esquire
Recently, a few people told me that I looked good, that I'd lost weight. It made me feel good, then it made me feel bad. It was a compliment, sure. But then I realized it's just something you say to a big guy to get the conversation rolling. It might have even seemed the perfect compliment upon deli...
http://pgbovine.net/PhD-memoir/pguo-PhD-grind.pdf
pgbovine.net
Hasnain says:
Everyone going to - or considering going to - grad school should read this. It's a riveting 115 page read, and very informative.
Posted on 2012-06-30T16:08:38+0000
The Surprising Truths About Income Inequality in America: Big Issues: GQ
Frantz says he has never even seen a customer or a menu at the steak house where he toils in the kitchen. "If I get money," says the Haitian immigrant, "I'm going to leave."
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1112.6209v3.pdf
arxiv.org
Hasnain says:
"Contrary to what appears to be a widely-held intuition, our experimental results reveal that it is possible to train a face detector without having to label images as containing a face or not."
And, of course, they used it for identifying cat pictures. Good to what they did with 16,000 CPU cores for three days.
Posted on 2012-06-26T21:23:34+0000
II. As a weapon in the hands of the restless poor—By Earl Shorris (Harper's Magazine)
Earl Shorris’s book about the Clemente Course in the Humanities, The Art of Freedom: Teaching the Humanities to the Poor, will be published in 2013 by W. W. Norton. He was awarded a National Humanities Medal in 2000. This story, part two of a package titled “On the Uses of a Liberal Education,” ran ...
Hasnain says:
An old article (1997), but definitely an interesting read.
Posted on 2012-06-22T14:26:19+0000
Volatile and Decentralized: Startup University
matt-welsh.blogspot.com
How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions
How the world’s most powerful drug traffickers run their billion-dollar business.
Hasnain says:
I still say it's too short. Well worth a read though, *this* is what journalism should be like.
Posted on 2012-06-15T19:55:57+0000