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Thanks! This is really intersesting and insightful. I'd definitely read the blog-post if you get round to writing it!

It's a very common term in British English (the Economist is a British magazine):

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/piling

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I've got 10 years experience as a software engineer for both startups and established companies. I've also got extensive experience as a Unix system administrator and a strong background in mathematical and statistical modelling.

I'm looking for role working with interesting technologies for an organisation that has a positive impact on the world.

andypea

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Especially as many people in the UK call the game soccer. For these people the term football would be used to refer to (Rugby) football.

andypea

5년 전discuss

Spam calls are simply not a problem in many countries outside the USA, so it must be possible to tackle the problem without a global treaty.

andypea

5년 전discuss

I've found that a simple dot_files directory that is sync'd via a public git repository [0] works well for me. When I'm on a new machine all I need to do is clone the repository and run `ln -s ~/dot_files/bash/bashrc ~/.bashrc`. The bashrc file then takes care of everything else.

It might not work for every program out there, but it does for the small number that I use.

[0] https://github.com/andypea/dot_files

andypea

6년 전discuss

The main problem is that quantum mechanics is telling us that systems evolve in two, apparently contradictory, ways:

  - isolated systems evolve through unitary time evolution; and
  - coupled systems evolve through an application of the measurement process.

Decoherence is an attempt to reconcile these two processes, but it's not clear that it works for systems with spatialy seperated entagled states. However, it all works out if you define a theory with emergent locality.

andypea

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This sounds a lot like a problem with your power supply. When your graphics card starts working harder, it uses more power than your PSU can supply, which makes the voltage drop and causes the PC to reboot. I'd get a new PSU from a reputable manufacturer that is rated for more than the maximum combined wattage of your components. There are heaps of PSUs on the market that are advertised at a much higher rating than they can reliably supply.

andypea

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If anyone else has a Google Music account, but doesn't want to move to YouTube Music, then try chatting with Google support and asking for a refund. It worked for me!

andypea

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I completely agree with you. I know many people who's lives are made much easier because they have access to medication. The last fifty years have also seen a massive improvement in the lives of people with severe mental health problems (in europe at least).

However, support for people with mental health problems is still severly underfunded. The improvements we have seen say as much about the terrible treatment of the past as they do about how well we are doing now.

Almost all studies I have read find that a combination of medication and other therapies provide for the best outcomes. Most people can only get funding for medication, which is often better than nothing, but it really falls short of what society could, relatively easily, provide.

It is really a tragedy, not just to the individuals suffering from mental health problems, but also to society as a whole which misses out from all the untapped productivity and creativity.

andypea

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If you want to start with a single self-contained book, then a really good choice is "Modern Mathematical Physics" by Peter Szekeres:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/course-in-modern-mathem...

It covers most of the mathematics needed for quantum field theory (which is a big chunk of applied mathematics) starting right from set theory.

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