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abvr

31 karma · joined August 14, 2018

Systems programmer by the day, physics boffin by night.

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abvr··on LHC physicists embrace brute-force approach to particle hunt
Sorry to be unaware, but what were/are they hoping or expecting to discover with these experiments, that is other than find new subatomic particles. I mean, they did find a whole set of subatomic particles and their respective spins, so no reason why they couldn't find something more. I know it's all for recreating the scene of the big bang or whatever theory that they hope to prove or disprove or figure out a new one.

I do know of the Standard Model and Beyond the Standard Model types but it really seems to boil down to discovering new theories perhaps. That could also be uncertain as a new model could ally with QM or not, again I don't know if the current Standard Model allies well with QM. I think it doesn't again ally well with GR which is the same problem with QM and GR. It's funny though how they all behave.

abvr··on Ask HN: Can engineers from Google or Facebook solve whiteboard questions easily?
Yeah, quite a bit must have changed or more likely evolved through the years, so a lot of the pseudocode and algorithms have been modified or added for instance, topics on dynamic programming, memoization and the like have had more emphasis. Several revisions to examples in basic tree algorithms and additions of some too have arisen. You could consider brushing up on a few things as a casual read perhaps, especially on the new topics. Also, another book I found great was Skiena's Algorithm Design manual.

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-CLRS-se...

abvr··on LHC physicists embrace brute-force approach to particle hunt
But it's always been a brute-force approach which is usually used at CERN, for detecting and analyzing the particles that may arise out of the various particle accelerator collisions. It is however a wiser approach to probably involve the current hardware capabilities to crunch the vast amounts of data through some statistical analysis or algorithms to sift through so much data without much human intervention and obtain results that have lesser false positives, as those are one of the drawbacks of using the brute force approach. Further research in these areas which could then help improve the accuracy of these models an then be reinforced into the chain and obtain only the required data to then manually observe.
abvr··on Ask HN: Can engineers from Google or Facebook solve whiteboard questions easily?
Yes, it's usually abbreviated as CLRS.
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