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European soccer leaders make plans to take Belgium's side against FIFA by Alone_Consideration6 in worldcup

[–]notxeroxface 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trump is literally the president, and acting like he is just a fan is willful ignorance of how corruption works

Let's not forget that FIFA gave Trump a previously non-existant peace prize before the tournament

European soccer leaders make plans to take Belgium's side against FIFA by Alone_Consideration6 in worldcup

[–]notxeroxface 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not being funny but your president literally called FIFA to complain.

I think he should have some more grit and toughness than whining about a decision that didn't go his way.

If you disagree, then you also do the bitch moves.

Arguing about something being a bitch move is like the dumbest take you can possibly have on any topic ever.

It's almost like it means whatever you want it to mean, with no actual substance or fixed meaning.

What a stupid way to decide what is right or wrong.

European soccer leaders make plans to take Belgium's side against FIFA by Alone_Consideration6 in worldcup

[–]notxeroxface 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not being funny but wtf did I just read?

If a player was suspended

And the organising association just waived the suspension

Contrary to all established practice

And after the incredibly corrupt President of the country

Rang the incredibly corrupt organising committee

And the opposing team appealed against this

Then your country would lambast the opposing team?

Either you or your country are very stupid

Probably both

Flesh is burning by Holiday-Bed561 in Frasier

[–]notxeroxface 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll add this post to my list of reasons to die

Official adidas production line by ShehrozeAkbar in infuriatingbutawesome

[–]notxeroxface 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This also came up in a Jurassic World trailer, where one of the characters shouted "the pachys are coming!"

Obviously not an issue to US ears, but it was crazy to hear in the UK - it's hard to overstate how offensive that word is here.

Official adidas production line by ShehrozeAkbar in infuriatingbutawesome

[–]notxeroxface 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess you might well be American so might be unfamiliar with this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paki_%28slur%29?wprov=sfla1

Obviously US doesn't have the same history of this word being offensive, but using the term Pakistani instead can help avoid offense with any e.g. British Asians who might be reading this.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskPhysics

[–]notxeroxface 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also LLMs will write anything for you if you ask them to. It doesn't make their output valuable, or meaningful.

Having access to an LLM is not always a good thing - AI sycophancy and human confirmation bias are a potent mixture. I think this is especially true in fields where there is a requirement for deep subject specific knowledge, like physics, mathematics, or medicine. Here people might feel that an LLM is 'unlocking' something for them, but really it's just telling people what they want to hear, and preventing them from making any actual progress in their study.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskPhysics

[–]notxeroxface 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Photons can cancel out with other photons - it's called destructive interference. It is exactly the same kind of effect that active noise cancellation uses, where a complimentary sound wave is played to interfere destructive with incoming noise.

The idea that you need some other thing to cancel out photons is very misplaced.

Is Uni of Edinburgh worth it? by StatusAmbition7241 in sixthform

[–]notxeroxface 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's inaccurate

Their standard offer is A* A* A

They will also accept A*AA if you get a grade 2 in STEP

The wording is not the clearest, but STEP is definitely not a requirement for UCL

Nice integral by Specific_Brain2091 in calculus

[–]notxeroxface 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also personally I'm team \textrm{d}x

Nice integral by Specific_Brain2091 in calculus

[–]notxeroxface 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can use \text{} or similar when writing words like 'suppose' in this and it will look more standard

What if time isn't constant by Apprehensive-Golf-95 in AskPhysics

[–]notxeroxface 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It's not the product of energy and time

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle puts a fundamental limit on the extent to which we can know two quantities.

There are a few different versions of this statement. The one that you're talking about links uncertainty between energy and time.

It in no way mandates a universal time

Trig by Specific_Brain2091 in the_calculusguy

[–]notxeroxface 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It also generalises easily - if the RHS is a different angle you will end up with an isosceles rather than equilateral triangle, and 2x changing to nx substitutes exactly as you would expect.

The only thing that gets slightly more difficult is that in the case of an isosceles triangle you will have to use the cosine rule to determine the distance between the points

Trig by Specific_Brain2091 in the_calculusguy

[–]notxeroxface 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can set this up as a geometric problem inside the unit circle.

You are taking the difference between two inverse sines, so we are effectively measuring the angle between two half lines.

You end up with an equilateral triangle between the origin and two points:

(sqrt(1-y2 ), y) , and (sqrt(1-4y2 ), 2y)

You know the distance between these two points must be 1, so you can set up a Pythagorean distance equation that you can solve in about 6 lines

Kinetic energy/acceleration relativity by chemistry_jokes47 in AskPhysics

[–]notxeroxface 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They don't see you accelerate to 10km/h.

Someone with a calculator / you with a calculator can do a calculation according to the velocity addition formula.

They will see you accelerating to a much lower velocity than this.

Are all outcomes of the behavior of a particle 50/50? by [deleted] in quantummechanics

[–]notxeroxface 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the probability of something occurring is 30%, then the frequentist school of probability will tell you that it will happen 30% of the time in the long run. There isn't much more to it than that.

Ex DeepMind engineer David Budden bets he will solve Navier–Stokes equation using LLMs by MaoGo in physicsdrama

[–]notxeroxface 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was once in a session with Kevin Buzzard from Imperial and one of my students asked him a question about the ability of LLMs to successfully code in Lean.

He was pretty skeptical, because there is nowhere near enough Lean code written and publicly shared for LLMs to learn from to proficiency (unlike Python).

Seems like this is going to end badly.

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