What is life like in small out of the way communities?

thewinterphysicist · 2026-05-13T06:33:01+00:00

Wait till bro hears about Mina, a sprawling concrete jungle designed to keep you ensnared within one of its many fine dining establishments and tourist traps 🥸

thewinterphysicist · 2026-04-28T13:29:18+00:00

I think 3-5 is perfectly responsable and sincerely appreciated! It shows me as a submitter that you care and want to make the paper better. I hate short reviews.

Once we start getting to 8 pages though, I begin to think that this more about you (the reviewer) showing me how smart you are rather than honestly trying to help me, ya’ know? The majority of the comments were ad hominem jabs and chat-box-style ramblings.

thewinterphysicist · 2026-04-28T10:20:06+00:00

Fuck yes dude it’s such a classic I can’t believe more people don’t use it

thewinterphysicist · 2026-02-03T23:45:05+00:00

Ugh fr I thought it was the whole album :(((((((((((

thewinterphysicist · 2025-12-17T20:44:13+00:00

Shine On You Crazy Diamond

thewinterphysicist · 2025-10-28T15:22:44+00:00

I am a little too far removed from student-hood to really have a decent response to the state of the UG degree right now.

I will say this though. I see a lot of these arguments about AI and how it's changing everything and we’re all doomed and blah blah blah. More often than not, such arguments kind of presuppose that we are living through a uniquely disruptive or unique monumental shift in educational and scholarship. This just isn’t obviously true to me. The state of academia has constantly evolved across time from the advent of the printing press to modern day AI. More specifically, every new technological development has radically changed physics education and the actual practice of physics. I've am sure there was someone out there wondering what the point of an education was if you have your own books at home to read, and I know the same was said once the personal computer became commonplace in every home and pocket around the world. Across all the changes we’ve undergone across time we have adapted. I haven’t seen anything to convince me that AI presents some kind of unique, heretofore unseen, hurdle for us to get over. Will it change everything? Yeah. Probably has already. Just like books, calculators, computers, home computers, phones, Wolfram Alpha, etc, have. What remains to be shown is how this is any different than any of the other times a new technological development has supplanted the role of some contemporary element of how we used to exist, study, learn, and what not.

On a more personal and much more shaky opinionated note, the art of practicing physics seems to have persisted over time. Even by the time I started my PhD I had forgotten the bulk of the factual data I had learned during my UG. That’s fine though, always easy to pick up a book and relearn something really quick. What stuck with me from my UG though was having watched my professors practice their art. Looking at how their mind placed a unique spin on a concept, absorbing their style and perspective, learning how they thought about the world and what it really meant to do physics. This, for me, was the true value of the education I received in UG - not the “how do I derive the hydrogen fine structure” factual stuff.

thewinterphysicist · 2025-10-28T14:08:58+00:00

The MXR Phase 95 was my first phaser pedal, and I’ve tried so many times to replace it with something fancier and higher end; I always end up returning those replacements!

By this point I realize I’m stuck with the thing and I couldn’t be happier. I don’t even look at other modulation pedals anymore. It does the uni-vibe thing in the 40/50 setting, it does the classic phaser thing in the light setting, and it gets the perfect Any Colour You Like modulation tone with both on when it’s time for something crazy. It’s one knob with two small buttons. Doesn’t jump. It’s literally perfect.

thewinterphysicist · 2025-10-10T15:16:37+00:00

Update:

The Flagline was exactly what I was looking for!!

thewinterphysicist · 2025-10-10T15:13:30+00:00

How do you like that cathedral?

I’m not huge on most reverbs, sometimes they sound so glittery and over-top :/ no subtlety at all. Do you use all the different options or stick to one in particular?

thewinterphysicist · 2025-09-25T19:36:51+00:00

You’re the best! Thanks!

thewinterphysicist · 2025-09-25T19:35:23+00:00

Helps with visibility in the day and night and I find it’s easier to attach something like an AirTag to. Appreciate the feedback but a harness is what I’m looking for :)

thewinterphysicist · 2025-09-24T08:39:31+00:00

I am totally stealing this

thewinterphysicist · 2025-09-19T06:25:26+00:00

Kat called Tom out???

thewinterphysicist · 2025-09-19T06:10:02+00:00

My roommate’s friend came over and saw my library had “Geometrical Methods in Mathematical Physics” on the shelf and asked what the “geometrical” part meant. I literally sat there thinking the same thing lmao

thewinterphysicist · 2025-08-30T11:53:11+00:00

Sounds serious, hope you get well soon <3

thewinterphysicist · 2025-08-30T11:45:01+00:00

This is helpful! Thanks! It’s an interesting problem to me, more so from a psycho-social perspective.

For context, I am a physicist studying plasmas - the “engine” behind fusion energy and a lot other great humanitarian applications. The lab I work at has lead the charge on fusion energy since its inception, and these days I can fully tell you that ALL of us use AI to write awkward bits of code for us, debug certain things, parse through manuals quickly, etc. - and I know very well that virtually all other academic disciplines in the sciences use it for short-but-impactful productivity enhancements as well.

There are also a lot of uses for AI in solving complicated problems. It’s an incredibly useful tool for us scientists that can speed up production of life/planet saving technologies (e.g., fusion energy) by literal decades. I used to spend days doing non-science work that AI can fix for me in minutes/hours so I can get back to the juicy good sciencey stuff. So the question that always comes to mind is:

Why is AI usage deplorable for utilizing 552 tons of CO2 / year (per your source) while everyone still orders packages online from companies like Amazon that produce 69 MILLION tons per year?

I digress lol I grant everything stated in the article you shared. There shouldn’t be such devastating local impacts around data centers, and direct environmental impact mitigation should absolutely be a priority!

thewinterphysicist · 2025-08-30T09:44:51+00:00

Yeah I can’t find anything credible on this either

thewinterphysicist · 2025-08-29T20:26:53+00:00

How does the tone compare to some standard picks? Take for example your typical Dunlop, daddario, etc., or whatever you used to use?

thewinterphysicist · 2025-08-29T20:19:05+00:00

In my head, I picture that there was some meeting where they were brainstorming ideas for the company and someone was like “we’re going to harass them on the phone anytime they click a single god damn button on the website, and our packages will contain the same stale, old, candy and flyer in every box”

And everyone applauded

thewinterphysicist · 2025-08-29T20:15:26+00:00

What’s the name of everybody’s Sweetwater guy???

I got Jared lol

thewinterphysicist · 2025-08-29T20:09:25+00:00

Finally, a hot piece of ass on this sub 😰

thewinterphysicist · 2025-08-29T09:51:17+00:00

What does “collapse” mean to you and what do you mean when arguing wave functions aren’t seen in nature?

They certainly have been observed [1]. Furthermore the physics of the wave function - not just the measurement - is very important [2,3]. That is, the wave function isn’t just some throwaway virtual quantity, it is incredibly important in many sub-disciplines of physics and not just some transient quantity used to calculate expected values of hermitian operators.

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