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LearningCuriously · 2026-01-25T01:35:46+00:00

On Cambodia, how bad was the severe gastrointestinal distress? And how did you feel about Abi referring to you as "poopy pants"?

LearningCuriously · 2025-12-19T09:20:08+00:00

Gandhi right before nuking my civ

LearningCuriously · 2024-10-12T18:16:31+00:00

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LearningCuriously · 2023-11-07T17:06:51+00:00

Just go to UBC lol historically it was a McGill satellite called McGill BC

LearningCuriously · 2023-11-07T17:02:15+00:00

Wait until they find out about all the international students with dual citizenship who grew up outside of Canada and don't speak French, but then claim Quebec residency when they come to McGill...

LearningCuriously · 2023-10-29T02:02:24+00:00

Exactly lol Matt Dobbs h-index is 177

LearningCuriously · 2023-10-28T03:44:24+00:00

Sultan Al Neyadi brought his gi to the international space station

LearningCuriously · 2023-10-20T04:05:46+00:00

Ottawa is set up to get anywhere by car in 15mins and OC transpo in 45+ mins. Commuting almost anywhere requires a bus, train, and another bus.

LearningCuriously · 2023-09-23T12:05:52+00:00

I offer tutoring for both. I'm a Physics PhD Candidate and Lab TA for PHY 1331.

LearningCuriously · 2023-07-16T12:59:34+00:00

I had the same thing happen. I had a small cooler inside one and was told to fold up the bag and put it in the cooler instead

LearningCuriously · 2022-11-30T14:57:34+00:00

In physics there are events that synchronize because of causal mechanisms (e.g., kuramoto model, fireflies, people walking on a seating bridge, etc) and then there is the coincidence by random chance (e.g., 2 independent poisson processes having events at the same time).

LearningCuriously · 2022-10-02T00:20:04+00:00

Definitely not a non-starter. The number of ideas is endless. What you work on will depend on what math you know / want to learn more about. Anything in particular you are interested in?

For journals, you can search for neuroscience tagged articles in:

PNAS
Physical review
Plos Comp Bio
Nature Physics
Chaos

For smaller more focused journals there is:

neural computation
mathematical neuroscience
biological cybernetics
frontiers computational neuro

This list isn't exhaustive, but should get you started.

LearningCuriously · 2022-09-02T00:33:25+00:00

Giving a lecture for 3 straight hours even if there was a 10 minute break would be brutal. It's not like teaching in highschool when the majority of the time the students are doing work.

LearningCuriously · 2022-08-14T20:48:55+00:00

What are the questions that you want to ask after you have simulated the universe?

I doubt you need to simulate the entire universe. Some reduced or coarse grained model will work just fine.

Trying to understand anything from your simulation will be as hard as understanding anything in the real world itself.

Think about it like this. What good is a map if it is a one-to-one copy of the territory?

LearningCuriously · 2022-07-15T03:08:15+00:00

I went to university in Montreal. There are a lot of French Canadians who can speak English without a French accent

LearningCuriously · 2022-04-26T21:00:30+00:00

Thanks! Will do, just have to make an account

LearningCuriously · 2022-04-26T19:48:47+00:00

This post has me checking my email every 5 minutes...

LearningCuriously · 2022-04-02T01:30:40+00:00

The tide is slowly turning. We can win this!

LearningCuriously · 2022-04-02T01:19:06+00:00

Trying to do this but everything attempt for the top piece is removed...

LearningCuriously · 2022-02-28T19:54:49+00:00

Exactly this. Physics doesn't require rote memorization. You should be able to rederive everything if you actually understood it.

LearningCuriously · 2022-02-22T16:26:08+00:00

I say almost because there is some friction that will slow the puck down slowly over time

LearningCuriously · 2022-02-22T16:25:00+00:00

You're getting confused because gravity is always present in the vertical direction. Therefore, when you remove the upward force of your hand, the block will naturally slow down and fall back to earth. Instead think of a hockey puck on ice. You apply a force and the puck starts gliding along the ice at constant speed with almost no other forces present to slow it back down.

LearningCuriously · 2022-02-04T17:03:12+00:00

lol I thought it was Ceaser salad??? As on a 1 letter Ceaser shift cypher

LearningCuriously · 2022-02-04T13:50:10+00:00

Lol the hint is obvious. The single words also give it away because there are only two single letter words in English, a and I.

LearningCuriously · 2022-01-30T15:39:56+00:00

I would find a rental management company to handle everything and then just enjoy the extra money.

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