Reuben

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Name: Reuben Gann
Date registered: 11/30/-0001

Latest posts

  1. An illuminating trip to the Microsoft store — 12/29/2013
  2. Netflix streaming continues to founder as dozens of prominent movies are taken down — 12/28/2013
  3. Saints Row IV is the most fun I've had playing a game — 11/19/2013
  4. Statisticians need to see how experimental science really works, then shut up about it — 11/13/2013
  5. Surface Pro 2: first impressions — 10/24/2013

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Feb 22 2007

Piled Higher and Deeper

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Feb 14 2007

Physics vs Powerpoint

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Computing, Science

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Unfortunately, working in Physics means giving quite a few presentations. This would be bad enough, as it takes significant time away from experiments. But, adding to this, everyone uses PowerPoint. The program is wretched for this application. For instance, say we want to display some kind of atomic structure. Atomic structures, if you don't know, …

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Jan 31 2007

Wii is great, but PS3 is still going to win

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Video games

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It took me 6 phone calls, but I did get a Wii on December 26th, at a Circuit City near my house. By the time I got there, almost all of their units had gone. According to the employee, as soon as someone finds out they have the Wiis, people call their friends and the …

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Jan 27 2007

Derive the Bohr radius in a pinch

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Science

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We all know the Bohr radius is about half an angstrom. But what if you want to derive it exactly in terms of fundamental constants, and you're stuck in the mountains without your textbook? Check this out: all we need is the Uncertainty Principle. (This discussion is inspired by the Feynman Lectures.) To begin, we …

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Jan 25 2007

What I want to be when I grow up

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General

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Many of the talks I go to are absolutely wretched. Between the crackpots, the over-technical wonks, the english-challenged theoreticians, and the overly-excited interdisciplinarians, it begins to get wearing after awhile. But last week, we had a talk that really got me excited. This speaker has what is, in my mind, the ideal life. Harry Kroto, …

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