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b-boy bouiebaisse
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watching INDEPENDENCE DAY for the pod and damn this movie still whips!
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aka Matt. Physics PhD student, conformal bootstrapper. Boise โ CU Boulder โ Yale. he/him.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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watching INDEPENDENCE DAY for the pod and damn this movie still whips!
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@t8erboi.bsky.social
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"it was this musical on the CW about a woman who---wait, where are you going, i swear it's not just twee shit for tumblr kids, come back!"
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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is IMO the funniest show of the past decade, but it's impossible to describe without it sounding like the cringiest thing ever, so I can't get anyone to watch it.
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A physics conference is a great place to experience Euro 2024, bc basically every country is represented, but no one's enough of a soccer nut to start fights over it.
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I get the logic here, but "the incumbent president chooses to run again despite health problems" was a pretty significant thing that happened in The West Wing.
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hockey is like a sport you would make up if you didn't know anything about canada except where it was on a map. rowling-ass worldbuilding.
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Kavi ๐ฑ๐
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Like 90% of secular attempts to justify social conservatism around family, marriage, divorce, etc, take the form "if we force people to go through the motions of a thing that successful people do it will make them successful" Equivalent of an unfunded $3000 wristwatch mandate
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Majorana fermions are the worst; I thought the whole point of studying physics was to not have to care about silly mathematician things like "what field is this representation defined over?"
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Nigel Goldenfeld
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But can you do better? In
arxiv.org/abs/2406.18784
we use a self-consistent expansion in conjunction with RG to achieve an even better approximation for the anomalous dimensions of a nonlinear porous media equation. SCEs are amazing. They are non-perturbative, highly accurate & not hard to do.
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(admittedly not my best prose, but I'm at a conference right now and I wrote it between talks)
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I started a new blog!
The first post is about how I learned to stop worrying and love the Democrats: twolabyrinths.com/posts/being-...
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I'm in Madrid for a physics conference and it's been pretty great so far. The metro system puts most American cities to shame
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Stephen Judkins
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The fact that Biden has delivered on left-wing policy far better than any president in generations but is widely despised by left-wing voters reflects more poorly on left-wing institutions and voters than on Biden. This is not a movement showing political maturity, and I say that as a left-winger
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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are you scared? DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
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AND WE'LL BECOME (WE'LL BECOME) SILHOUETTES WHEN OUR BODIES FINALLY GO
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Leo C. Stein
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Am physicist, can confirm we are often very fucking annoying
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Micah
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here is the thing about undecided voters: think of the weirdest person you know, someone whose thought process you cannot comprehend in the slightest now think of the weirdest person they know that is the median undecided voter
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okay i lied
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"something snapped in you when you lost last time", we are SO BACK
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WHY WOULD YOU CONCEDE THAT INFLATION IS STILL BAD????? YEAR OVER YEAR INFLATION IS LOW! REAL WAGES ARE UP!
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i think the raspy voice actually worked for him on the veterans answer, tbh. had some gravitas.
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Most parents (and Jonathan Haidt) would be anti-phone regardless of whether it were borne out by the evidence, but cmon, that doesn't imply phones are good.
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Microplastics Sommelier
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einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything youโd want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) youโre a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planckโs radiation field ๐งชโ๏ธ
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David Waldman
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Once again, the SCOTUS regrets having caught the car on abortion. This time, to the extent that it has "ruled" anything at all in this case, it "rules" that it's a bad time to catch the abortion car again, so everyone should look away and allow them to say they didn't catch it after all.
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Kavi ๐ฑ๐
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in general this whole vibe of religious people getting extra rights because of social deference to religion seems pretty bad and i'm not sure why so many liberals are willing to concede to it
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Some good news from last night: In Boulder, CO, state rep Junie Joseph, who's been very vocal about getting rid of occupancy limits, won by 18 points against a left-NIMBY primary challenger.
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I feel that. Played really poorly yesterday and got relegated. I could use a break from A, though, so I'm not *too* bummed.
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I think Hitchens et al (whatever other issues you have with them) understand this extremely well, and their project is best read as an attempt to end the deference given to "religion" in Anglophone political life.
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This is compounded by the fact that, if protesting outside a synagogue is widely seen as antisemitic, the people who show up to such a protest will be disproportionately antisemitic!
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I think the best case for New Atheism is that, under the current norms of American politics, holding a morally reprehensible event inside a house of worship means that any protest against it will automatically backfire.
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Crooked Emily
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Elaine out there unraveling the origin story of every incel/MRA way back in the 90s
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Emissary Of Night | ูููู
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If Bowman loses it'll be because he voluntarily took a relatively controversial and divisive stance and suffered a 10 to 1 disadvantage in spending and if Latimer loses it'll be because he couldn't stop himself from talking like a literal Klansman lol
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I'd bet quite a lot of money that the median member of Globe Twitter has a negative opinion of PRWORA, and the median member of Rose Twitter has no idea what that is.
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really unfortunate that "neoliberal" can mean either "Romney-Clinton voter who hates 'welfare queens' but thinks Trump is gauche" or "mainstream Dem who finds the Chapo crowd annoying and gets really excited about upzoning."
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...and people still wonder why the zoning laws are so weird!
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Honestly, if you wanted to write a critical piece on student activists, "these spoiled kids don't realize their campus is someone else's workplace" would be a pretty good angle. It's not like undergrads are consistently in favor of staff or grad student unionization efforts, either.
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Wow, they sure stuck it to those greedy [...checks notes...] library staff and maintenance workers.
www.oregonlive.com/crime/2024/0...
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Jesse Locker
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So infuriating www.oregonlive.com/crime/2024/0...
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@t8erboi.bsky.social
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Like, I don't know this person well enough to feel vicariously happy for them, and I'm not going to be invited to the wedding, but it sure makes me feel bad about being single. Thanks, Facebook!
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If they got rid of the AI slop, Facebook would just be a stream of wedding announcements from loose acquaintances, and that might actually be worse.
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Yep. What's even more depressing is that, if southern whites voted anything like northern whites, Dems would have a permanent lock on the senate and EC.
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i have largely stopped arguing about this on social media because it isnโt fruitful, but this finding gets to why you should be skeptical of theories that try to sideline or excise race from an explanation of the white rural turn toward reactionary politics news.cornell.edu/stories/2024...
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Anyway, back to GNY models. These are some of the simplest quantum field theories you can build out of fermions, and they show up all over the place. Our paper shows that their critical points also have only two relevant operators. For the hep-th people, the Lagrangian looks like this: ๐งช โ๏ธ 6/6
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(The mathematical tools used to prove this came out of theoretical particle physics, which is why I get so mad when people claim it doesn't have applications.) ๐งช โ๏ธ 5/n
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Fun fact: Water is described by the same CFT as the 3D Ising model (it's called "critical universality" and it's very weird). So if you added a new axis to its phase diagram by varying the isotope balance or salt concentration or w/e, the critical point would ALSO turn into a line. ๐งช โ๏ธ 4/n
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This has important consequences for the phase diagram. If you generalize the model (say, by adding a chemical potential), the critical point grows into a LINE of critical points. It's sitting in a 3D phase space, but you only need 2 coordinates to find it. ๐งช โ๏ธ 3/n
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The number of parameters you have to tune ("codimension" in math terms) is, at most, the # of relevant operators in the corresponding CFT. The Ising model has 2 relevant operators, corresponding to temperature and field. That's why the critical point is a single point, and not, say, a line. ๐งช โ๏ธ
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New preprint this week! Briefly: There's a class of critical points, known as Gross-Neveu-Yukawa models, that show up a lot in condensed matter (superconductors, graphene, etc). We show that, in a system with a GNY point, you never need to tune more than 2 parameters to find it. ๐งช โ๏ธ 1/n
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