> Attosecond pulses: Flashes of light that last only a few billionths of a billionth of a second. In one attosecond, light covers a distance of 0.3 nanometers (one nanometer is one millionth of a millimeter). This corresponds to the diameter of a water molecule.
> Femtosecond pulses: Flashes of light that last one millionth of a billionth of a second – about one thousand times longer than attopulses.
There was a nobel prize for the Higgs, but SUSY and all the other sorts of things particle physicists hinged on...well that didn't peter out, did it?
I thought for awhile those guys got lucky and skip office politics.
Then I realize that PhD level IQs + pressure to get into the fancy journals means that the politics is 古典小說 tier.
There is a famous formulation of this known as Sayre's law[1], which is often stated via the quote "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake. That is why academic politics are so bitter," which wikipedia attributes to Charles Philip Issawi.
That's truly amazing that we can measure at that detail. Mind blowing actually.
https://www.dn.se/sverige/nobelpristagaren-anne-l-huillier-f...
(On a side note, Bing chat already knows now that she won the prize. Color me impressed.)
It actually doesn't. Bing searches for your query and uses plain old search results as extra context for the actual LLM. GPT-4 still has the same knowledge cutoff as when the model was last trained.
Here's what it feeds to the model when searching for "nobel prize in physics 2023":
https://twitter.com/lantisfjantis/status/1709146065985777767
This year's Nobel laureate in physics lectures us after (!!) being notified of her win!!
Like no shit, you try to carry on a lecture while like 20 different journalists try to call you! The youth of today! ;)
Experimental setup - https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2023/10/fig5_fy_en_23.pdf
Light / gas interaction - https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2023/10/fig4_fy_en_23.pdf
I actually think this work is cool so I can't explain that passing image. Sometimes our brains are weird.
Same as you though, does it really matter if we can't fucking keep them working in our universities...
In his novel Budapest, the Brazilian novelist Chico Buarque writes that Hungarian “is rumored to be the only tongue in the world the devil respects.”
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Can someone elaborate on these weights ? Are there occurrences where the attribution weights are different between laureates ?
I was thinking along the lines of: 1 attosecond corresponds to .3nm, so very short wavelength, so very deep UV.
>The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter"
There's also a link to press release: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2023/press-release...
If you want an ELI13-and-paid-attention-in-science-class then this covers it pretty well https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2023/10/popular-physicspr...
