I feel conflicted telling you about them for two reasons: a) I like knowing what’s cool and doling out the information when I decide that said person “deserves” said information, b) I wasn’t the one who discovered them, that honor goes to either Mike or Pitchfork….not sure which one got there first.
Even their name [...]
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More and more in my life I’ve found that all that is really important to me are the details, the small differences. It doesn’t matter if I’m talking about people, places, jobs, or songs. The difference between something that makes me happy and something that makes me sad or bored or annoyed…is really quite small. [...]
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Ben
#returning a “tuple” or nothing
if plane<3: return listOfObjects, evtList
Awwwwwwww, if plane loves returning listOfObjects, we all get an evtList…how cute.
Do you know how hard it is to break the habit of typing “.mit.edu” after every computer name? I swear, I should just change my shell so that .mit.edu always gets replaced by .cern.ch.
Ben
Whatever happens this summer, I am extremely glad I got the chance to work at CERN. Because truth be told, after working in a lab with 2 Grad students, a postdoc, and a professor I don’t think I ever would have believed how incredibly different this kind of physics is. I really think MIT has [...]
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