A double slit experiment.Typhoon wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 3:53 amVery good.
There's a [apocryphal?] story that the reason Schrödinger was never offered a position in the USA was due to his known polyamorous - polygamous lifestyle . . . two wives a.k.a. Schrödinger's pussies.
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Brilliant.Nonc Hilaire wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 7:33 amA double slit experiment.Typhoon wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 3:53 amVery good.
There's a [apocryphal?] story that the reason Schrödinger was never offered a position in the USA was due to his known polyamorous - polygamous lifestyle . . . two wives a.k.a. Schrödinger's pussies.
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[5 MB of data in punch cards]
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May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
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Looks to me like enough punch cards to make 78 moderate sized programs on an IBM 360. Though I suspect the stack of cards in the photo are closer to 50,000 in total, as a stack of 5000000 dollar bills is around 1791.66667 feet tall(0.0043 inches thick). Punch cards are slightly thicker
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Huh I was thinking the other day that laid off coders should "learn to hack"...
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And do they have to go into the reader in order???????...... What if someone knocks the pile over?.....":O....><'.........
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Yes they had to go in order. They had boxes to put them in You would take the cards to a desk and an operator would run them through a card reader. It would take the card reader a few seconds (as I recall -This was when I was 17 years old) Then you had to wait about 20 minutes to get the result of your program on a wide format print out. I believe the cards were auto-numbered by the key punch machine but I am not sure now. And yes piles did get knocked over.Miss_Faucie_Fishtits wrote: ↑Sun Feb 26, 2023 6:38 pmAnd do they have to go into the reader in order???????...... What if someone knocks the pile over?.....":O....><'.........
"I fancied myself as some kind of god....It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.” -- George Soros
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She irons her jeans, she's evil.........
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the engineering/science of sound is called "Acoustics" so its a dad joke pun on the "coo" noise a pigeon makes.
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May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
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xkcd is spot on with this one.
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Cute, but not even wrong.
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"I fancied myself as some kind of god....It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.” -- George Soros
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“Christ has no body now but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks with compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks among His people to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses His creation.”
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There's a lot of BS going on in certain fields of theoretical physics,
however, experimental precision tests that set limits are important.
One doesn't know if one doesn't look.
Classical examples of assumptions being overthrown are the nucleus model of the atom [Rutherford] and parity [mirror] violation in the weak nuclear force [Wu].
https://phys.org/news/2023-07-roundness ... clues.html
Cornell, Roussy and their team at NIST and JILA recently set a record for precision measurement of eEDM, improving on previous measurements by a factor of 2.4.
How precise is that? If an electron were the size of the Earth, their study found that any asymmetry that exists would be smaller than the radius of an atom, Roussy explained.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
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May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
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May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
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May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
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May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
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Well that sorta make my core reach critical mass.....'>.......
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