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Yeah, I've also read that Feynman was very fascinated with the principle of least action from classical mechanics, which lead to his reformulation of quantum mechanics in terms of path integrals (that and, according to the book we used for advanced …
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^Ok, that is pretty awesome too. ^^I've read the first volume in his course of theoretical physics, the one on classical mechanics (a translated version of course, I don't speak Russian). I actually really liked that book, because it is very concis…
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It is kind of interesting how the general public only knows certain famous physicists but not others who made plenty of contributions, but I guess it isn't too surprising. I don't know every famous person in every field that isn't my own after all. …
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^^More like, "If we don't try that whole industrialization thing, we're going to end up like India or China". In the beginning the introduction of western technology in Japan was almost entirely for the sake of creating an army and navy equal to th…
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The following is just based on my own former experience, living in Japan for a year, so don't take it as authoritative. Generalisations will ensue. Hideaki Anno just sounds kind of bitter. That is not to say that there is no truth in what he says,…
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I don't really see how brain damage is an argument against the existence of souls. If we posit that there is some kind of eternal soul which is the basis of our mind, personality and rationality then the brain is simply a tool which translates this …
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I really need to polish my German too. I mean I had it for about 5 years from 7th grade to second year of gymnasium (5 years) and it is similar enough to Danish that I can actually understand a lot of German (probably between 50-80 percent of any gi…
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ひらがなを覚えるのはそんなに難しくないけど、大切なのは練習だ。練習をしなければ書くと読むのスピードが遅い。そしてこれからはカタカナだ。カタカナはひらがなと同じように簡単に覚えられるけど、書く時はよく忘れる事がある。たくさんの漢字がもう書けるようにな…
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Getting some kind of electronic dictionary might also be useful. I certainly was happy to have one while I was living in Japan and when you're reading a book or something like that it is really useful to have a dictionary in which you can just write…
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Japanese is nowhere near as hard as most people make it out to be. It's just kind of frightening in the beginning because of all the kanji (and I guess hiragana and katakana, though one can actually learn that pretty quickly). However the grammar is…
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And who said that mathematicians don't have a sense of humour. Of course the whole project of which principia mathematica was a part of turned out to be unrealisable as Gödels's incompleteness theorem showed in 1931. Also I used to think that…
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1+1=2 is certainly algebra. After all it only makes sense once you've specified that the integers (including 0) Z is a (abelian, though not important for this operation) group with respect to the operation plus. Algebra is about the study of albegr…
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I didn't mean that as a borderline example, just as another ridiculous consequence of taking this law to it's logical extreme. Also, is that Australian ban for real? Because if so, wow just wow. That's not just ridiculous, but downright insulting, …
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I have yet to see various porn involving rape fantasies be outlawed in a western country and I'm not sure I see a big difference. It's fictional and unlike said porn there aren't even any actors performing the fantasy. Banning drawings, especially t…
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It does kind of bother me when people use the "western world" or the "eastern world" as though the countries encompassed in these terms are all similar, since they really aren't. In particular, I often see people using "western world" as a synon…
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First of all, I have obviously been in Denmark. I have been on holidays in Norway, Sweeden and Germany which shouldn't be too surprising since all those countries are really close. In addition to that I have been on holiday in the UK, the Czech Repu…
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The text is written as a markov chain, where each sentence corresponds to a state. At least that's what I get out of it. For more information on markov chains http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain, though you probably won't get much out of it if…
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While one can certainly make a case for Prince Of Nothing being misogynist (I kind of lean more towards misogynistic world, but I can certainly see how certain parts of it could easily be interpreted as general misogyny on the author's part), the au…
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It's actually pretty good. At least the first trilogy, I haven't gotten around to reading the two books that have so far been released of the second trilogy, but I've heard rather mixed things about them. I'm not really a fan of the whole "look at m…
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I don't know, people go on holiday in all sorts of places for flimsier reasons. Like all the people from Denmark who, at least used to, go to Malta just because it's sunny and near the ocean. Not saying that is all there is to the island, but that i…
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"Pawns are the soul of chess" after all. But seriously, if you play chess on anything other than the "I am so new to this that I only know the basic rules of the game" level, you know that pawns are incredibly important. The pawn structure decides t…
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As a Dane, that is someone under the Nordic Model, I do sometimes get tired of foreign ideological libertarians spreading lies about the Scandinavian countries to "prove" how the model isn't working, since they don't have enough empirical facts to b…
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Yeah, there really is no excuse for that article. The text itself accuses them of being plagiarists. I mostly mention Einstein and Galileo because they are the two people with whom I'm familiar, due to having an education in physics. From what resea…
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While I sometimes find their articles funny, I never take anything they say at face value. Because, I've often found myself decrying bullshit at topics that I actually know something about. I've harped enough on this article in other cracked thread…
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I know he probably didn't mean for the video to go viral the way it did, but uploading it to the internet, with the dramatic gesture of shooting the computer just seems to be asking for it. Parenting should happen in private, not be broadcast to the…
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I don't really like Confused Matthew, not necessarily because he dislikes critically acclaimed movies, but because his arguments generally suck. I mean, doing a serious review of 2001 where all the criticism can basically be boiled down to "it's bor…
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Nope, the original meaning of お宅 (otaku) is generally a more polite word for someone else's house, which you use when 家 (ie) just doesn't convey the right amount of formality. Oh, you were talking about the slang version. Yeah pretty much, thou…
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Due to work-related "injuries", the only thing I can possibly see in F=ma is force equals mass times acceleration. I simply can't unsee Newton's second law. Don't worry, if you plan on pursuing physics, you'll become just like me. It's even wor…
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^^^I concur with this statement. I'm pretty sure the only reason anyone would think that it isn't possible to speak two languages at the same time, is that they haven't seriously tried. Sure if, you learn one language first and then completely stop …
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Ok, that quoted post was fucking gold. Seriously funny. Nothing better than mixing two languages up so that things don't make sense in either of them. Especially if you use idioms and grammar of one language with words from one where it doesn't appl…