Ab 22 Uhr @couchsofa live in der #Mikrogravitation und im Stream auf http://stream.mikrogravitation.space! #Mikrogravitation20182 #WakeThemAll!
What would you say if you met a woman as beautiful as Marilyn Monroe and as intelligent as Albert Einstein? #justcurious #peopleIwanttomeet
Are there #people or #companies financing/doing research in either theoretical quantum information, data science or machine learning who need a theoretical physicist who likes to play around with data and has a solid background in math?
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Hey, I'm Charlie. I'm part of the doctoral training centre at University College London for delivering quantum technologies. I'm just finishing up a master's project and will be a PhD candidate starting October this year.
For my master's and PhD I'm investigating efficient and practical ways of encoding fermionic systems (electrons, essentially) onto quantum devices for simulation.
Interested in any quantum technology related content.
#introduction I'm James, a NatSci student, #programmer and dinghy instructor. Looking to see cool new things and get to know interesting people/bots! #robotics #scicomms #programming #tennis #bots😊
@lutoma So spät noch wach?
Fun with spoons
How do you find the center of mass for any given geometry even if you have no idea on how to solve this analytically?
a) You can try some numerics.
b) You build a 3D replica and try to balance it on your fingertip. Works pretty well for spoons. Take a spoon, try to balance it -> yep, you found the COM.
Some more physics. You balance that spoon and add some small perturbations. Does the spoon hold? Congratulations, you just found a stable minimum.
How to describe this mathematically? -> Taylor series.
Dirty way - do a Taylor series expansion of the equation of motion around your extremum. Try to solve the differential equation with an ansatz combining two exponentials, one with a negative sign in the exponent, one with a positive one and both with different coefficients. The coefficients depend on the initial conditions but the exponents come from the solution of the differential equation.
If the exponent is imaginary you get a linear combination of cosine and sine functions. Congrats! For small perturbations your system will oscillate around the minimum but not leave it. You found a stable (maybe local) minimum.
Your exponent is real. Damn you found an unstable maximum. Try again.
Only thing I'm missing here on #Mastodon is the #quantum #information #community which is quite active on #Twitter and #Facebook.
@tootapp This is no coincidence. Take a closer look at the accounts that write you: most of them will come from chaos.social. Two communities are gathering there: the German hacker community of the Chaos Computer Club (who run the server) and the German podcasting community around the so called "Sendegate". Both groups, which appreciate open source very much, program themselves and like to give feedback to open software. You did everything right.
@freemo Would be needing some new #followers as well.
You don't have to like my ideas. It's enough if they make you think and challenge ideology.