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There's an entire chapter on corrosion detection on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System in Rust: The Longest War. It describes the process of pigging with some historical context. Not technical at all.
I recommend reading the book; The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene, numerous people have reported that they don't feel depressed or (as depressed/anxious) after reading it.
Here's a link to buy it on amazon
> Like my can of corn is pure metal
Your corn comes in an aluminum can??
In seriousness - it's an acidity thing. Some energy drinks will straight up dissolve aluminum if they weren't lined with plastic/polymer.
There's a fantastic book called Rust: the longest war that has a chapter on it (even talks about the pop company that dissolved a rat in their product for a court trial). Book sounds boring from a high level, but it's actually pretty compelling.
https://www.amazon.com/Rust-Longest-War-Jonathan-Waldman/dp/1451691602
Have you read The Son Also Rises? (No, not Hemmingway) Basically a whole book on this sort of question
I think you'd love it.
https://www.amazon.com/Son-Also-Rises-Surnames-Princeton/dp/0691168377
Statistical Rethinking by Richard McElreath
There is a lot of gold in this book and basically starts at first principles for Bayesian analysis. I refer back to it regularly.
I guess a textbook instead of journal articles would be a better start. I STRONGLY suggest Physical Biology of the Cell by Robert Phillips. (The Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Physical-Biology-Cell-Rob-Phillips/dp/0815344503)
The book covers most fields in biophysics, especially the molecular biophysics. I love the journal articles written by Robert Phillips, too. At the end of each chapter, there are some suggested readings (most of them are journal articles) with authors comments on each work and should serve perfectly as a beginning.
You could also try to google "biophysics journal club" and see what others are reading.
Statistical Rethinking is generally well-regarded. I've read through a bit of it, but not all.
Gregory Clark is the one that saved the field of economics/sociology for me.
Statistical Rethinking by McElreath and A Student's Guide to Bayesian Statistics by Lambert Both have good accompanying resources on the web.
Yeah, happy to help. But can you tell me what you already know and what your goals are? DL itself is a large subject and so it is hard to give you advice without knowing your interests and hard to tell you what to learn next without knowing what you do know. But for stats, there's two books I recommend. Statistical Rethinking and Regression and Other Stories. Also, don't worry if you have to read books multiple times, that is actually normal.
>Rust has been called “the great destroyer,” the “pervasive menace,” and “the evil.” “This look at corrosion—its causes, its consequences, and especially the people devoted to combating it—is wide-ranging and consistently engrossing.
The story of how close even the Statue of Liberty came to being destroyed from years of neglect and mismanagement is pretty wild. And the finger-pointing went on and on and on.
“Without our bodies there can be no consciousness” seems antithetical to ACIM and other nondual traditions. It is also antithetical to a book I’m readin dispelling the notion that consciousness stems from the brain
I think you could argue that statistics is almost the only subject worth studying. Why? Well, a typical nonfiction book is full of anecdotes. But it's easy to cherry pick anecdotes. The better books are based on studies. But we can't trust studies anymore because of the replication crisis. So you need to study statistics so you can be an informed research consumer/do your own data analysis.
https://www.amazon.com/Statistical-Rethinking-Bayesian-Examples-Chapman/dp/036713991X/
It’s more strange than that. It’s not just the speed that light travels. It’s the speed of causation. Nothing can affect anything else faster than the speed of light. So, there really would be no way to know if the sun blew up. No one could radio in that it’s coming. Nothing can skip that ~8 min wait.
Thus, it’s equally valid to say it doesn’t really happen until the information reaches you 8 minutes later. After it reaches you, you know that it happened 8 minutes in the past. But until it does reach you, you don’t have that information and nothing you can do can get that info (not counting predictions)
If somehow you could skip ahead and see a distant event before it reached you at the speed of light, you’d essentially be looking into the future in some sense, before they happened in your frame of reference. source
A zero tech way to find out how acidic your canned tomatoes are is to look at the can.
If the can has a lining inside so the tomatoes don't eat away at the can they will be be highly acidic, the more impressive the lining the more acidic. If there is no lining and it's just bare metal they are low acid.
It's a good idea to avoid the lined cans because in the US there are less rules they you would think about just what is in the witches brew they use in the lining and there is essentially no public information about what is in there.
See the chapter on canned food in the book Rust: The Longest War for more.
I’ve never taken a course and I learned the biology from reading papers in the biophysics fields I do research in...and I suspect that most physicists do this, which I admit is not the best way. So I can’t recommend any courses but I can recommend that you get / borrow a college (undergraduate) level text book on cellular biology, molecular cell biology. There are also a couple fantastic biophysics text books that I recommend.
Here is one that I have used https://www.amazon.com/Physical-Biology-Cell-Rob-Phillips/dp/0815344503
This is a collection of topics in biophysics with calculations to give students a physics perspective on biology. The three authors are all excellent researchers in their fields. Hope this helps.
the fabric of the cosmos by brian greene.
this is the book that got me into the subject when i was a kid. it builds understanding with terms that are understandable and then builds from there.
https://www.amazon.com/Fabric-Cosmos-Space-Texture-Reality/dp/0375727205
and dont worry, if i opened a paper from anything other than my own specific niche id be just as lost!
.... that said, i dont have a better answer than a five hundred page book. its not a simple topic!
I also have a background in physics and for Bayesian statistics I really liked this book: Data Analysis: A Bayesian tutorial.
I never understood stats before I read this book, since they were just taught as a collection of methods that you had to remember. However this book actually let me understand how you could derive a chi squared distribution, or the students t distribution without that much work.
I cannot recommend enough this book "From Eternity to Here", a book that explores time as a thermodynamic phenomenon.
Well you're speaking about stereotypes and other nebulous crap. How about showing some data? There is lots of literature surrounding the correlation of IQ and socioeconomic status/income/etc. I suggest you look into it.
And by the way, regarding the stereotype in China that "people don't stay rich for more than 3 generations:" well, I think you're wrong. Again, there's been a lot of research into historical levels of social mobility and generally what we find is that these levels tend to stay very low, both throughout history and between cultures. Here's some relevant reading
That's simply a mathematical description of it. We're saying that antimatter moving forwards in time is mathematically identical to matter moving backwards. Matter can be thought of as antimatter moving backwards in time, too.
The 2nd law of thermodynamics (entropy increases) comes from the definition of entropy: high entropy means that there are lots of ways to arrange things microscopically so that they're indistinguishable at our level. That means necessarily that there are more high entropy states than low entropy states, so by pure probability evolving a system in time (in either direction) leads to a higher entropy system. It's got nothing to do with individual particles moving forwards or backwards in time.
Most of what you consider to be consequences of time moving forwards are consequences of entropy increasing: a being moving "backwards" in time isn't going to remember the future, because remembering is about being able to work backwards from your current high-entropy state to a low-entropy past. Imagine you have a photograph: if entropy was lower in the past, it probably resulted from the lower entropy situation of a camera photographing the subject. If it wasn't lower, then it might just be a random chance collection of atoms that used to be a high-entropy gas.
So to answer your question: antimatter is going to obey the same laws here as everything else. Entropy increases because we don't know anything about the future, and know that in the past it was lower. The same applies to antimatter.
Sorry for the wall of text - but if you're interested you should read this book, which does a remarkable job of explaining entropy.
There is the Son Also Rises which covers the subject.
The top review gave me a TLDR of the book
Thanks!
I will look into finding a viable argument. The only concern is the activity log. You said you made it up? What is it anyway.
Also, sources. Do you have to find internet sources or sources by conducting interviews outside of school and those shenanigans?
Lastly, regarding the actual thing, I can write a dissertation pretty easily. I want to do something economics related. Perhaps about this?
"Rust: The Longest War". Yes, it's a book about rust, and it's absolutely fascinating. I learned about the Statue of Liberty, soda cans, painting bridges...
Highly recommended!
Again Gregory Clark dispels this myth.
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The 3 gen rise is a myth. No one really rises from peasant to lord unless it was a time of troubles, and they do 'regress to the mean' within 3 gen.
Those who do reach the top from lower ranks usually start in at least at the 'second base' (top 10-20% rung of socioeconomic ladder), not from bottom.
You'll love it. The book that opened my eyes most was actually this one. It made me realize how far we've come in understanding how the world works from a physics perspective. It reads very well, read some of the reviews.
For me it was the book The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility where I first became acquainted with this.
I really liked this one.
Pretty much everything that passes by. I love learning new things and expand my knowledge, but here are my biggest passions:
-Music: I'm studying to become a composer and music has been a major part of my life since birth, as I was born into a musical family. It's such a joy when I find a new band or composer and start going through their works and discover many new, exciting works. It's even better when you analyse scores and play then on piano, and everything starts to make sense, the melodies, harmonic structure,... sometimes it gives you the same feeling as when you open your christmas present, except you have been given an insight into a mind of a musical genius from the past.
-Lore: A lot of times I pick up a new game/book/TV series/movie, if I really like it, I go and read as much background lore as possible. The extra information and insight behind the main plot is really interesting to read and I tend to memorize unhealthy amounts of useless information :) So far it spans through Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter, Warhammer 40k, Elder Scrolls, and probably a few more I forgot.
-History: It's real life lore :) Big emphasis on Roman empire/Viking culture/WW2.
-Philosophy: Basically discussing everything ranging from old philosophical problems to problems and dilemmas of the today's world.
-Physics: I love reading about space, black holes, wave-particle duality, electricity,... The more experimental it is, the better. I highly recommend this book.
-Motorsports: Rally and F1 mostly, but I love to drive and I am always blown away by the skills these drivers have. Also, the tech behind the cars is amazing and very interesting.
But the best part is if I can explain the above things to somebody else. It's really one of my favorite things to do. I really like to share my enthusiasm with other people and I can go on for hours at the time :)