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Bed-Fever
BY JOHN MASEFIELD
I must get into my bed again, to take a break and to sigh,
And all I ask is a goodly book and an iPad to read her by
And the pages turn and the pillows plump and the stiff sheet loosens
And a slow smile as I close my eyes, away from any nuisance.
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All this Feynman made me think of all the famous physicists I've heard give seminars: not out of my sheer (unquestioned) brilliance but by virtue of being in the field from 1966 - 1980, first as grad student then as post doc or prof -- just explaining this isn't braggadocio
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And now for the creme de la creme (as Miss Jean Brodie would say) on the streets of NYC
Marlene Dietrich
Dick Cavett
Woody Allen
John Turturro
Tony Curtis
Art Garfunkel
Will stop trying here.
Mostly omitted particle experimentalists
Also Doug Hofstadter, often one summer
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“paula”
I should add, as I did in MLAAQ, that the effect of all this was to make you realize that there were people who could create/invent/discover things that you might with struggle understand, but that you (i.e. me) could NEVER have done.
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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky retweeted
And now for the creme de la creme (as Miss Jean Brodie would say) on the streets of NYC
Marlene Dietrich
Dick Cavett
Woody Allen
John Turturro
Tony Curtis
Art Garfunkel
Will stop trying here.
Mostly omitted particle experimentalists
Also Doug Hofstadter, often one summer
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Steven Weinberg -- seminars
Chien Shiung Wu - seminars, same dept
Mike Green -- many summer schools together
Sheldon Glashow -- multiple seminars, summer schools, etc
Sidney Coleman - summer workshops, seminars
running out of time and patience here
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I"d forgotten I wrote this but yes, he wasn't allowed in as @Jadam2122 observed
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I know friends even two days ago who were telling me that Ramaswamy wasn't tarnished like Vance and Rubio. And I said anyone who played footsie even briefly revealed something unforgivable about their character. Now after yesterday my friends agree with me.
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I’m re-quoting this because I think anybody in the world who wants to understand anything by asking the question ״why?״ should be forced to watch this first.
In 1983, a BBC interviewer asked Richard Feynman why two magnets push each other apart — and he refused to answer it.
What he did instead is the best seven minutes on thinking ever filmed.
Bookmark & watch today, no matter what.
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I like this because it resonates with how I distinguished Models from Theories in Models.Behaving.Badly. Theories are absolute knowledge, as Feynman says about E&M. They (try to) describe a fact.
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Models are merely analogies so you always ask Why? (A theory can be wrong; it's its nature that makes it a theory.)
You can, if you like, waste an hour and watch a long video about it here:
piped.video/watch?v=DanOzH5L…
2/2 and I promise to stop now
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Feynman’s brilliant account of “inadequate explanations” à la Spinoza, and his description of the diff between theory and model. A theory is adequate, self contained, e.g Maxwell eqs. A model is inadequate, an endless chain of causes @ole_b_peters
nitter.siddz.com/heyrohhit/status/21120…
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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky retweeted
The wonderful version of Sun’s Unix, Solaris, is still available and is open source: Illumos and other distributions like Tribblix (my choice)
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You Can’t Know Everything, by @lionel_trolling open.substack.com/pub/johnga…
"It makes sense that a neurotic person would become so fascinated with those who seem to be extremely certain about everything, because that’s exactly what they lack and seek.
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