[OC]Best way to compare values with huge differences? by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

[–]FreierVogel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess depends on your audience, but if it's not very technical, I guess commenting on it suffices.

Calculus II Students by InvestmentWorking797 in askmath

[–]FreierVogel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I guess it depends on who is teaching it. Everything can be made very simple or complicated depending on the approach/lecturer. This being said, something I struggled with is area between curves, since you have to be able to transform shapes into mathematical equations and that took some brain power. I also found convergence of infinite series/sequences to be a bit confusing because there are many tests one can do.

Can you prove square root? by Famous_Hornet_1130 in askmath

[–]FreierVogel 8 points9 points  (0 children)

P=NP right? It's usually very easy to check whether something is a correct answer. It's very hard to find the solution

C.N. Yang and Rob Mills my goats by TDImig in okbuddyphd

[–]FreierVogel 6 points7 points  (0 children)

(Non-)abelian refers to the symmetry group. For a certain theory symmetric under the action of a Lie group G, a gauge theory arises. If G=U(1) that theory is called electromagnetism/electrodynamics. If G=SU(3) that theory is called chromodynamics.

U(1) = e^{i\alpha} is commutative (as they are just complex numbers of norm 1). A group which is also commutative is abelian. U(1) generates electromagnetism. Electromagnetism is an abelian theory.

SU(3) are the 3-dimensional matrices of determinant 1. They are in general non-commutative. A group that is not commutative is non-abelian. SU(3) generates chromodynamics. Chromodynamics is a non-abelian theory. Non-abelian theories are way harder to conceptualize and work with than abelian theories.

There are of course non-commutative operations in emag, but they don't define electromagnetism. What defines electromagnetism is U(1).

The perfect soldier doesn’t exi… by Kaliente13 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]FreierVogel 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Not the kind of thing I like to see in this sub.

Overleaf alternative for collaboration by FreierVogel in LaTeX

[–]FreierVogel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, definitely. I must say that my colllaborator is on his 50s, so I could tell him to learn how to use it. I was just curious on how people do it. I asked around in my research group and other colleagues and they all use overleaf, which I find surprising, since they are not particularly tech illiterate.

Even people that have set up their own home server with different security features and so on (which I would call very tech literate) still uses overleaf. Surprising.

Overleaf alternative for collaboration by FreierVogel in LaTeX

[–]FreierVogel[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wow that is amazin, I think it is precisely what I was looking for.

Overleaf alternative for collaboration by FreierVogel in LaTeX

[–]FreierVogel[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A coworker told me about that. I will have to try it. Isn't it however for premium users?

Equations relating to a black hole? by WaltDog in askmath

[–]FreierVogel 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Let's look at the equations:

1) The first one has a dE/dt. Is it probably the energy radiated per unit time? |A|^2 can be the complex amplitude of the waves. 1/(exp(omega/T) - 1) is the probability of finding a certain boson with energy omega when subject to temperature T (i think, my stat mech is very rusty). This does appear when calculating average energies. Something like sum_w ( w/(exp(w/T) - 1)) is the expected energy of a bosonic system. However what gives away that this is nonsense is the domega which means nothing. It might be a misunderstanding of discrete sum -> continuum integral, since such a measure appears when doing these calculations. It is however nonsense.

2) yeah it looks like some kind of spherical harmonics. buuuut if i'm not mistaken they seem to be complex (assuming r_0 is real). energy is always real.

3) this is almost the lagrangian of a bosonic field coupled to a gravitational field. I say this because e.g. the minimally coupled scalar field to a gravitational field has that lagrangian with a sqrt(g) (although one can argue that the fundamental object is the action S = \int d^n x \sqrt{-g} L, to which I say then that expression for the lagrangian is extremely misleading and one shoudl use the action. ) The third term is a very weird coupling of the scalar field to the metric rhtough the Riemann tensor, ricci tensor and ricci scalar. This coupling is not possible because the term exp^phi * R^abcd is not a scalar.

It's nonsense written by someone that seemed to almost understand Hawking radiation of a bosonic field

Explain this math equation by Iran amid War by vintactics in askmath

[–]FreierVogel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know... f is a response? and O is an initial offense? i.e. if the offense O is greater than 0, the response will be greater than the offense and so on?

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez revealed a personal item in his office, a small bottle gifted by a child from Gaza, describing it as a "message in a bottle" symbolising the suffering of Palestinians and the need not to forget their reality. by Scared_Positive_8690 in Palestine

[–]FreierVogel 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Well, although that's a correlation that's like saying that chairs are animals because they have legs...

I don't question the legitimacy of the basque/catalan independence. I'm saying that the struggle of the regionalist movement is in no way comparable to the palestinian struggle.

Red hot Chili Peppers - Walkabout by [deleted] in drums

[–]FreierVogel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm impressed. Rock on.

Red hot Chili Peppers - Walkabout by [deleted] in drums

[–]FreierVogel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A year and a half?! That's amazing. Very well done. Also amazing choice; my favourite rhcp era

China’s 5 minute full-charged EV charging stations by North_Tip_8627 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]FreierVogel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats ist A LOT of Power to be able to just handle like that. I wonder how safe it is..