You are right about the incentives being aligned a certain way. But, while the justification for the LHC might have been Higgs, what most high-energy physicists (theoretical and experimental) really cared about was…
A great lesson one learns as a physicist is that one must develop a new intuition mainly through years of practice. So when you say "It's very frustrating", I interpret it as "this doesn't seem reasonable to me". But it…
That's a valid argument but still a bit strange. One could make the same argument about: - chip design - modern processors are not fundamentally different from 8086, which also belongs in a museum. Sure, there's much…
I am not an expert on their space program or the provenance of rocketry inventions but they seem to have developed both the cryogenic engine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE-20) and the boosters in-house…
Out of this list, the books I am familiar with, are great (Hilbert-Courant, Spivak, Korner's books). At the same time, even with extensive mathematical training, I haven't read them from start to finish. I wouldn't even…
Yes, elephants can certainly destroy crops. But proximity is a symmetric concept. The problem has been the massive expansion of our (speaking as an Indian) population (~360 million in 1950 to ~1.4 billion in 2021) into…
I would highly recommend Sergey Levine's course: http://rail.eecs.berkeley.edu/deeprlcourse/ For a more mathematical treatment, there's a beautiful book by Puterman:…
One of the (two) core assumptions that Einstein made with special relativity is absolutely that the speed of light in vacuum ("c"), is constant in every inertial reference frame/coordinate system. This has been borne…
While that's definitely true, maybe one should look at this another way. $400/mo saved in a 0% interest bank account for 40 years = $192,000 $400 * 12/year invested at 10% (incl. inflation) for 40 years = $2.12 million…
>> The program is commonly used as a bridge for high-performing students to enter the U.S. job market, especially in tech. Is the idea that students on OPT or employees on H-1Bs are all high-performing geniuses a myth…
You are right about the incentives being aligned a certain way. But, while the justification for the LHC might have been Higgs, what most high-energy physicists (theoretical and experimental) really cared about was…
A great lesson one learns as a physicist is that one must develop a new intuition mainly through years of practice. So when you say "It's very frustrating", I interpret it as "this doesn't seem reasonable to me". But it…
That's a valid argument but still a bit strange. One could make the same argument about: - chip design - modern processors are not fundamentally different from 8086, which also belongs in a museum. Sure, there's much…
I am not an expert on their space program or the provenance of rocketry inventions but they seem to have developed both the cryogenic engine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE-20) and the boosters in-house…
Out of this list, the books I am familiar with, are great (Hilbert-Courant, Spivak, Korner's books). At the same time, even with extensive mathematical training, I haven't read them from start to finish. I wouldn't even…
Yes, elephants can certainly destroy crops. But proximity is a symmetric concept. The problem has been the massive expansion of our (speaking as an Indian) population (~360 million in 1950 to ~1.4 billion in 2021) into…
I would highly recommend Sergey Levine's course: http://rail.eecs.berkeley.edu/deeprlcourse/ For a more mathematical treatment, there's a beautiful book by Puterman:…
One of the (two) core assumptions that Einstein made with special relativity is absolutely that the speed of light in vacuum ("c"), is constant in every inertial reference frame/coordinate system. This has been borne…
While that's definitely true, maybe one should look at this another way. $400/mo saved in a 0% interest bank account for 40 years = $192,000 $400 * 12/year invested at 10% (incl. inflation) for 40 years = $2.12 million…
>> The program is commonly used as a bridge for high-performing students to enter the U.S. job market, especially in tech. Is the idea that students on OPT or employees on H-1Bs are all high-performing geniuses a myth…