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Typhoon wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 3:53 am

Nonc Hilaire wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 3:52 pm

Typhoon wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 5:09 am

I have never had a good idea without having a new girlfriend, too.

~ Erwin Schrödinger, the 1933 Nobel Prize winner in physics and the creator of quantum wave mechanics, in his diary.

Schrödinger’s pussy.

Very 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.

A double slit experiment.

Nonc Hilaire wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 7:33 am

Typhoon wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 3:53 am

Nonc Hilaire wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 3:52 pm

Typhoon wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 5:09 am

I have never had a good idea without having a new girlfriend, too.

~ Erwin Schrödinger, the 1933 Nobel Prize winner in physics and the creator of quantum wave mechanics, in his diary.

Schrödinger’s pussy.

Very 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.

A double slit experiment.

Brilliant.

[5 MB of data in punch cards]

Typhoon wrote: ↑Sat Feb 25, 2023 4:05 am 5_MB_of_data.jpg

[5 MB of data in punch cards]

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

Typhoon wrote: ↑Sat Feb 25, 2023 4:06 am 333286151_506130825008800_2870977315427393516_n.jpg

Huh I was thinking the other day that laid off coders should "learn to hack"...

Typhoon wrote: ↑Sat Feb 25, 2023 4:05 am 5_MB_of_data.jpg

[5 MB of data in punch cards]

And do they have to go into the reader in order???????...... What if someone knocks the pile over?.....":O....><'.........

Miss_Faucie_Fishtits wrote: ↑Sun Feb 26, 2023 6:38 pm

Typhoon wrote: ↑Sat Feb 25, 2023 4:05 am 5_MB_of_data.jpg

[5 MB of data in punch cards]

And do they have to go into the reader in order???????...... What if someone knocks the pile over?.....":O....><'.........

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: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2023 4:40 am

I dont understand

why ?

what is coo sticks ?

the engineering/science of sound is called "Acoustics" so its a dad joke pun on the "coo" noise a pigeon makes.

xkcd is spot on with this one.

noddy wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2023 11:14 pm Screenshot_20230426_061236_Chrome.jpg

Cute, but not even wrong.

Doc wrote: ↑Sat Jul 08, 2023 6:24 pm

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.

Well that sorta make my core reach critical mass.....'>.......