2715 pts · February 23, 2016
Hi! :)
Have you read Children of Time? Absolutely fantastic sci-fi book with a really unique world building
I had a neighbor whose house I used to wander into for snacks all the time. I only learned that her name wasn't Abuela when I took Spanish in middle school!
My take on something like this is that it can also encourage other people to donate! That's a truly incredible number of donations; I'd like to get there one day too.
#41 ...I have one of these names and my family uses one of these shortenings. My dad started it.
You need to take it with a bunch of water because it forms a thick mucus when wet and you don't want that happening in your throat. So either make a thick slurry to drink down or do pills with a lot of water.
I broke a finger doing this and the hand specialist and I spent a good chunk of my appointment watching Wheel videos on YouTube together
It's actually super easy to do a cartwheel in a German Wheel! There are a pair of straps for your feet and a set of inner handles for your hands, so you just strap in and hold on! The stuff she's doing is really hard, though.
German Wheel! I've been taking lessons for two years now and have only broken one finger so far! It's even more fun than it looks.
My favorite thing about my apartment complex is that guests have to pay to park after 9 pm so it's super easy to get people to leave
Thank you!
Did it stop when you grew up? My mouth bleeds when I eat pineapple, and I haven't tried eating it in years because of that.
It was a simulation of the Dicke model, which is an equation (a Hamiltonian) that describes the energy dynamics of a quantum system under certain conditions. I trapped 80 ions and then subjected them to the conditions described by the Hamiltonian, then measured the final internal spin state of the ions. We'll use this data to test how good an approximation of a quantum system the Dicke model is!
I ran the simulation using trapped ions by hitting them with various laser beams, so this was definitely an experiment!
Yeah, it took 6 months to confirm it was broken and find where it could get fixed, one year estimated repair timeline turned into two years with delays, then 6 months to get it installed and recalibrated. It was a lot like the frog in a pot of hot water, where I would have left early on if I knew how long it would take. I'm glad I didn't now, though! We've also been able to set up a lot of experiments in the downtime, so hopefully things will go quickly now!
I work at NIST!
My system may be modified by the fact that I created it, but that just means we need a new term in the Hamiltonian to describe those currently unaccounted for interactions! Our models of quantum mechanics are all currently incomplete and partially wrong (which doesn't mean they aren't useful!), but with every experiment we inch closer to a more complete description of reality.
That's a great question! We have Hamiltonian which is a mathematical model for how we predict a quantum system to behave under certain conditions (time, electric fields, laser frequencies and strengths). To simulate this, I trapped 80 ions in my apparatus and exposed them to those conditions as described by the Hamiltonian. So in this case, my 'simulation' was making a quantum system and watching it change, which is then used to verify the theory simulations done on classical computers.
Thanks! I'll make a post once we get the theory team to look over the data and confirm it isn't nonsense.
I'm afraid I can't comment on that until after peer review 😁
I used trapped ions to simulate a model of quantum mechanics, looking into a regime which demonstrates quantum chaos!
Trapped ion quantum computing! I used the ions held in my trap to simulate a model of quantum mechanics.
The local circus center just installed one of those and I was wondering what it was. Thanks!
I love your enthusiasm!
I reviewed a paper for a Nature journal a few weeks ago and they had an option for reviewers to have their name published in an acknowledgement with the final paper. I think this is a fairly new option, and possibly a nice way to give reviewers more credit. I didn't do it, though, because I'm still new in the field and better about providing critical feedback when it's anonymous.
My mom is 60 and will pull my arms over her shoulders and bend over to pull me up on her back every time I visit so she can still pick me up <3
I've had a recurring nightmare for years now where I'm trying to use the bathroom but all the toilets are wrong in some way, like mounted on top of a spire or in a glass closet. I am sure the images in this post will feature in my nightmares going forward.
That's so awesome! Top tier GM-ing; your players are lucky to have you.
I loved my last landlord. He gave me a hug and said he was proud of me when I mentioned I got a fellowship while renting from him.
Kind of the opposite age thing, but I started taking circus classes (aerial rope/silks/sling, German wheel) a year ago despite being unathletic and in my thirties. Everyone has been so welcoming and supportive, even though they're all in their early twenties and have been doing this for years. My every tiny step forward towards adequacy is just as celebrated as one of them mastering an emtire complicated routine.
Have you read Children of Time? Absolutely fantastic sci-fi book with a really unique world building
I had a neighbor whose house I used to wander into for snacks all the time. I only learned that her name wasn't Abuela when I took Spanish in middle school!
My take on something like this is that it can also encourage other people to donate! That's a truly incredible number of donations; I'd like to get there one day too.
#41 ...I have one of these names and my family uses one of these shortenings. My dad started it.
You need to take it with a bunch of water because it forms a thick mucus when wet and you don't want that happening in your throat. So either make a thick slurry to drink down or do pills with a lot of water.
I broke a finger doing this and the hand specialist and I spent a good chunk of my appointment watching Wheel videos on YouTube together
It's actually super easy to do a cartwheel in a German Wheel! There are a pair of straps for your feet and a set of inner handles for your hands, so you just strap in and hold on! The stuff she's doing is really hard, though.
German Wheel! I've been taking lessons for two years now and have only broken one finger so far! It's even more fun than it looks.
My favorite thing about my apartment complex is that guests have to pay to park after 9 pm so it's super easy to get people to leave
Thank you!
Did it stop when you grew up? My mouth bleeds when I eat pineapple, and I haven't tried eating it in years because of that.
It was a simulation of the Dicke model, which is an equation (a Hamiltonian) that describes the energy dynamics of a quantum system under certain conditions. I trapped 80 ions and then subjected them to the conditions described by the Hamiltonian, then measured the final internal spin state of the ions. We'll use this data to test how good an approximation of a quantum system the Dicke model is!
I ran the simulation using trapped ions by hitting them with various laser beams, so this was definitely an experiment!
Yeah, it took 6 months to confirm it was broken and find where it could get fixed, one year estimated repair timeline turned into two years with delays, then 6 months to get it installed and recalibrated. It was a lot like the frog in a pot of hot water, where I would have left early on if I knew how long it would take. I'm glad I didn't now, though! We've also been able to set up a lot of experiments in the downtime, so hopefully things will go quickly now!
I work at NIST!
My system may be modified by the fact that I created it, but that just means we need a new term in the Hamiltonian to describe those currently unaccounted for interactions! Our models of quantum mechanics are all currently incomplete and partially wrong (which doesn't mean they aren't useful!), but with every experiment we inch closer to a more complete description of reality.
That's a great question! We have Hamiltonian which is a mathematical model for how we predict a quantum system to behave under certain conditions (time, electric fields, laser frequencies and strengths). To simulate this, I trapped 80 ions in my apparatus and exposed them to those conditions as described by the Hamiltonian. So in this case, my 'simulation' was making a quantum system and watching it change, which is then used to verify the theory simulations done on classical computers.
Thanks! I'll make a post once we get the theory team to look over the data and confirm it isn't nonsense.
I'm afraid I can't comment on that until after peer review 😁
I used trapped ions to simulate a model of quantum mechanics, looking into a regime which demonstrates quantum chaos!
Trapped ion quantum computing! I used the ions held in my trap to simulate a model of quantum mechanics.
The local circus center just installed one of those and I was wondering what it was. Thanks!
I love your enthusiasm!
I reviewed a paper for a Nature journal a few weeks ago and they had an option for reviewers to have their name published in an acknowledgement with the final paper. I think this is a fairly new option, and possibly a nice way to give reviewers more credit. I didn't do it, though, because I'm still new in the field and better about providing critical feedback when it's anonymous.
My mom is 60 and will pull my arms over her shoulders and bend over to pull me up on her back every time I visit so she can still pick me up <3
I've had a recurring nightmare for years now where I'm trying to use the bathroom but all the toilets are wrong in some way, like mounted on top of a spire or in a glass closet. I am sure the images in this post will feature in my nightmares going forward.
That's so awesome! Top tier GM-ing; your players are lucky to have you.
I loved my last landlord. He gave me a hug and said he was proud of me when I mentioned I got a fellowship while renting from him.
Kind of the opposite age thing, but I started taking circus classes (aerial rope/silks/sling, German wheel) a year ago despite being unathletic and in my thirties. Everyone has been so welcoming and supportive, even though they're all in their early twenties and have been doing this for years. My every tiny step forward towards adequacy is just as celebrated as one of them mastering an emtire complicated routine.