Hey, r/math. So I took a linear algebra course expecting to see this topics (having taken a proof based course on linear algebra up to diagonalisation) but sadly, reading the syllabus, I realised we'll only cover Cayley-Hamilton and canonical forms.

Any books, resources on the other topics listed? Thanks

I'm trying to follow the explanation of Shor's algorithm on Wikipedia. I'm stuck on this one step.

U_f |x, 0q > = |x,f(x)> where f(x) = ax mod N (for some classically determined a and N).

I understand that you initialise all your qubits in state |0>. Then perform a hadamard transform on all of them. This makes sense, now each qubit is equally likely to be measured |0> or |1> so you have encoded all values up to 2N -1 in an independent superposition. You then want to biject x->f(x), mapping all those values to your modular exponentiation function f(x).

How does one perform U_f? From the diagram on wikipedia, it looks like you perform a C(U) operation between the most significant (qu)bit and every other bit.

As a concrete question then:

C(U) = ((1,0,0,0), (0,1,0,0), (0,0,u00, u01), (0,0,u10, u11)). What are the values of each of u00, u01, u10, u11 for each qubit?

And then you perform a Quantum Fourier transform a measure each qubit and do something classical with the result, which isn't trivial but still just cog turning.

For some background, I finished my degree a few years ago and then left physics behind but still have an amateur interest. (I think this might help with pitching a response at the right level?)

d means d-dimension, and s is a value in [0,d-1]

There is a really cool application of representation theory to physics which philosophically explains where mass and spin come from (in a sense at least). Let me try to explain this from the ground up to maybe incentivize more people to learn about physics -- there's some really good math in there!

To begin, in special relativity one equips space-time R^4 with a different inner product than usual: g(v, w) = v^0 w^0 - v^1 w^1 - v^2 w^2 - v^3 w^3 (the upper indices refer to the components of the vectors, as is customary in physic). To briefly see why, consider that g(v, v) = 0 if and only if (v^0)^2 = (v^1)^2 + (v^2)^2 + (v^3)^2, which if you think of this as a velocity vector means you're dealing with something that 'moves as much in time as it does in space', i.e. light (using c = 1). It's possible to push this logic further to show that all observers agree on this inner product. That is to say that the allowable changes of coordinates in R^4 are those which preserve this metric. The ones fixing the origin are automatically linear and form the Lorentz group O(1, 3), whose connected component of the identity is SO+(1,3) (the Lorentz transformations that preserve both time and space orientations). If you also allow translations of spacetime you get the Poincaré group (with connected component of the identity) R^4 |x SO+(1,3) (this is my shitty ASCII attempt at a semi-direct product sign).

Now let's bring quantum mechanics into the picture. In QM, the state of a system is described via a vector in a Hilbert space. So let's suppose we want a Hilbert space which describes the possible states of some type of elementary particle. If we want a relativistic theory, then different observers should agree on the state -- this doesn't mean they see the same state, but rather that given an element of the Poincaré group, there should be a unitary transformation of this Hilbert space that maps the state one of them sees to the state the other sees. This means our Hilbert space needs to come with a unitary representation of the Poincaré group! But actually, not quite -- in QM it makes no difference if you multiply your state vector by some unit complex number. So it should really be a representation 'up to multiplication by a unit complex number', which is called a projective representation. [A t

For the unaware, "Unitary/ Federal/ Confederal" are terms used to describe the relationship between a state and its regional subdivisions or member states.

The terms can be murky and there is plenty of grey area, but it is typically understood that what differentiates a unitary state from the other two is that in a unitary state the regional subdivisions lack independence.

In contrast, in a federation/ confederation regional subdivisions or member states are relatively independent. That means that they are able to levy their own taxes to fund some/ most of their operations, have certain legislative powers, have independent institutions( like a regional police for example), etc.

Now the difference between a federation and a confederation is that in the former the federal state has supreme authority while in the latter that is not the case for the confederal state. What this means is that member states in a confederation can leave with their own volition which cannot be done in a federation. Another thing is that in a confederation the member-states will typically send a fixed amount of delegates to the confederal state.

So in a confederation the democratic representatives of the government tend to represent the member-states individually which contrasts the common democratic unitary states where the democratic representatives of the government tend to represent the people directly.

Federal States, on the other hand, tend to do both. Germany for example, which is a federation, has two legislative houses. The Bundesrat where the regional subdivisions( known as Länder) send their delegates AND the Bundestag which directly represents the people.

The most common form of government is the unitary state and all Balkan countries, except Bosnia and Herzegovina, are indeed unitary.

Examples of federations include Belgium, the US, Canada, Brazil, Russia, Switzerland(even though the official name has "confederation" in it, this because it used to be a confederation), Mexico, Argentina, Australia, and the already mentioned Germany, together with some other countries.

Confederations are the rarest of the bunch however you might already be quite familiar with one. Indeed, many people consider the EU to be a type of confederation. In this case, the Confederate government is compromised from the European council, the European Parliament, the Council of the EU, the European central banks( for the countries that are in the eurozone)...

Personal

And in comes part 2: This is not summarized just taken portions of regulations after reading through them. I ran out of snarky comments. I regret not being able to finish this out properly and put a little entertainment value into it. As I said in part 1 please take it and run with it. It was a dismal dive. And I prefer to be optimistic and hopeful. This is the kind of thing that needs a lot of attention and to be changed ASAP:

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION (Release No. 34-90933; File No. SR-IEX-2021-01)

>January 15th 2021 SEC : Self-Regulatory Organizations: Investors Exchange LLC; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed Rule Change to Modify the Way It Handles Odd Lot Orders by Allowing Them to Be Displayed Orders and to Aggregate to Form a Protected Quotation
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>Currently, all odd lot orders on IEX are treated as non-displayed, whether the User^(12) entered the order into the System^(13) as an odd lot, or if the order began as a displayed round^(14) or mixed^(15) lot order, and was subsequently decremented to an odd lot order by execution or User order amendment.^(16) When a displayed round or mixed lot order decrements to a non-displayed odd lot order, the order also loses its execution priority as a displayed order and also receives a new timestamp resulting in the order being ranked behind all resting displayed and non-displayed orders on the Order Book at the same price level.^(17) Additionally, a displayed order that becomes non-displayed because it decremented to an odd lot will no longer be disseminated on IEX’s TOPS,^(18) DEEP,19 and Data Platform^(20) data feeds (collectively, the “Data Feeds”), as applicable.
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>Odd lots comprise an increasingly large portion of all securities transactions – in October 2020, 35.6% of all trades on IEX were odd lot executions. Odd lots account for an even larger percentage of trades on other equities exchanges – in October 2019, nearly half of all trades on equities exchanges were odd lot trades, which was nearly double the number of odd lot trades in 2016.21 IEX understands that this growth in odd lot trading is driven by the increasing prevalence of stocks priced above $1,000 per share (which translates to more than $100,000 in notional value for the standard round lot of 100 shares), as well as computerized trading strategies that increasingly employ odd lots.^(22)However, odd lots are not subject to

May it please the Court:

#Parties and Jurisdiction

Plaintiff is a managing general partner of CannibalHookers, a registered government relations firm based in Miami, DX. As part of its business, plaintiff employs lobbyists to develop long term relationships with public figures and/or their families.

Governor u/Tripplyons18 is the executive leader of the state of the firm’s incorporation and author of the law in question.

Plaintiff and defendant are subject to the general laws of the State of Dixie. This Court has general jurisdiction over this action pursuant to the Court Rules II and III.

#Introduction

This action seeks declaratory judgment that certain provisions in the Dixie "Fair Work Ethic Act" ("FWEA"), recently passed by the Assembly and written by and signed by Governor u/Tripplyons18, are unconstitutional under multiple sections of the Dixie Constitution, both on their face and as applied.

For the first time in Southern history, the Assembly has empowered a politicized reliant agency to investigate workplaces and terminate employment contracts without an employer or employee’s assent, upon a mere allegation of workplace harassment or bullying. There is no right of appeal or of intervention. The board represents an undue and unauthorized state burden on the right to own and operate an enterprise unencumbered, and to execute employment contracts for benefit without unreasonable state interference. The manner in which the Assembly has granted investigative powers to the board also strongly implicates violations of the the Fourth Amendment and Dixie equivalent.

Though the Assembly recently adopted a new constitution that voluntarily eliminated the power of the Assembly to impose taxation, FWEA also creates a business tax to fund an expansion of paid spousal leave far beyond any other federal or state program. Mandated paid family leave is considered by the federal government and major accountancies as benefits subject to income tax treatment, to be reported by employees and employers and withheld by businesses as needed. For example, beneficiaries may withhold family leave taxes through the federal W4-V form.

> Aside from Washington D.C., the current states that mandate PFL [like FWEA] require employees to pay into the fund. Deducting the employee’s port

This post is not for the old lorehands, you know all this stuff. This is for newbies who might not know and may be interested.

I've been noticing a lot of discussions on /r/teslore about the nature of Auri-El vs. Akatosh where posters show a dissatisfaction with the easy answer (Auri-El = Akatosh) and an interest in the recipe of what makes up the Dragon God of Time.

I've also noticed that a lot of the comments focus on the idea of Akatosh being what happens after the original, Auri-El, is changed by the Marukhati Selectives (either retroactively or from that point on). And like the responses on those threads inevitably say, there is not a lot of evidence for that and there is a whole lot of evidence against it.

But I've started to wonder, do a lot of those hungry new fans know the original Auri-El/Akatosh heresy? The heresy that people in-universe argue about largely isn't that Auri-El was split into Akatosh. It's that Auri-El the Aldmer warrior king broke/mantled the Time Dragon in the first place.

As Mannimarco puts it in Where were you when the Dragon broke, listing off those who could tell you where there were:

>So could the High King of Alinor, who was the one who broke it in the first place.

Auri-El being an accretion on the Dragon King of Time is the Marukhati Selectives' position. According to Michael Kirkbride's longer version of "Where where you when the Dragon broke?" (the details of which have been used for later ESO texts on the Selectives, at first they tried to deny Auri-El = Akatosh at all.

>A fanatical sect of the Alessian Order, the Maruhkati Selective, becomes frustrated by ancient Aldmeri traditions still present within the theological system of the Eight Divines. Specifically, they hated any admission that Akatosh, the Supreme Spirit, was indisputably also Auriel, the Elven High God. > >Newly invented rituals were utilized to disprove this theory, to no avail.

In this text, they finally recognize that yes, Auri-El is Akatosh, but they'll change that.

>Finally, the secret masters of the Maruhkati Selective channeled the Aurbis itself to mythically remove those aspects of the Dragon God they disapproved of.

However, their position isn't "This god exists like this from the origin and we need to change him". They see themselves as ro

0.How do you all memorize in situations that require word per word memorization for school?

For example things like, 1.Memorizing the Bill of Rights 2.Lines for a school play 3.I'm considering law school. Anyone else attorneys? How did you go through memorizing the law for your classes?

My original post ends here. The below is if you feel compelled for further discourse..

After seeing so many people reply in a short time frame to the above questions, I thought I'd ask a "few" more questions out of personal curiosity for those willing to answer and are interested.

Feel free to answer any or none of the below. I've also included a lot literature that I've read in the process of organizing my thoughts verbally here. Perhaps, some of you will also find it very interesting.

The below is a compendium of research, insights, connections/thought associations, conjectures, hypothesis, theories, general thoughts, I accured and had after all the reading..

4.How did you all do in formal schooling, good grades elementary, middle, high, college/university, masters, PHD?

6. How do you all do with memorizing visuals (diagrams, models, charts) exactly/precisely as possible for a test?

For example, what strategies or how would you appoach memorizing visuals like Krebbs Cycle, Maslow's hiearchy of needs, Bullish Rectangle (stock chart pattern)?

7. Demographic survey

College? Major? GPA? Age? Location? (Country, State, or City)? Gender? Race? Career? MBTI?

I have an interdisplinary social sciences BA from the University of Rochester with a GPA of 3.72 . I studied film/journalism, business/economics, and brain/cognitive science. I'm 22, CA, male, Korean, English tutor, ESTP.

8.Why you replying to this post LOOOL? What's the incentive/motivation?

9.Where do you all fall on the aphantasia scale/spectrum?

Meaning out of the 5 senses, how many do you have/lack?

I'm total aphant with a soundless internal monoluge/voice of the mind

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_monologue

I use this voice to sub vocalize (silent speech in the mind) when reading. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocalization

Also able to hum/sing unaudible tunes/melody using this soundless voice

I also have "invisbile imagery". I can recall "invisible imagery/pictures" but can't recall "invisible movies" so I'm guessing my "spatial card" of the mind/brain is on the weaker end or non-exsistent.

Not sure if "invisible movie recall" or "movie imagination/visualization" capacity

Edit: Okay guys, I did some digging, and this could pertain to or have an impact on GME, but that part I am still unsure of. But it looks like they are opening it for comment because of Covid-19 and there now being virtual meetings. So it may be completely unrelated and have no impact or anything at all to GME. I will have to wait for one of the experts to say. I found this article that kind of talks about this stuff https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/05/09/lessons-from-the-future-the-first-contested-virtual-annual-meeting/

The Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) is reopening the comment period for its proposal to require the use of universal proxy cards in all nonexempt solicitations in connection with contested elections of directors (“Proposed Rules”). The Proposed Rules were set forth in a release published in the Federal Register on November 10, 2016 (Release No. 34-79164) (“2016 Release”), and the related comment period ended on January 9, 2017. The reopening of this comment period is intended to allow interested persons further opportunity to analyze and comment upon the Proposed Rules in light of developments since the publication of the Proposed Rules, including developments in corporate governance matters affecting funds. DATES: The comment period for the proposed rule published on November 10, 2016 (81 FR 79122), is reopened. Comments should be received on or before June 7, 2021.

As described more fully in the 2016 Release, 1 Section 14 of the Securities Exchange Act of 19342 (“Exchange Act”) authorizes the Commission to establish rules and regulations governing the solicitation of any proxy or consent or authorization with respect to any security registered pursuant to the Exchange Act. In regulating the proxy process, the Commission has sought to facilitate the exercise of voting rights shareholders have under state law.3 To allow shareholders to exercise fully these rights in contested director elections, the Commission proposed to amend the proxy rules to permit shareholders to vote by proxy for any combination of candidates for the board of directors, as they could if they attended the shareholder meeting in person and cast a written ballot.4 The Proposed Rules would establish new procedures for the solicitation of proxies, the preparation and use of proxy cards, and the dissemination of information about all director nominees in contested elections. Among other things, the Proposed Rules would:

>• Revise the consent

This post started out as another "look at this map I made", but one thing led to another and I have somehow managed to write over 1000 words in an attempt to explain my thinking. I'll put some of the less-essential stuff in the comments to make it a bit more readable.

My proposed system of governance is split into four main layers. Below the Federation are Provinces and Autonomous Nations, under which are various types of local government, and finally local community assemblies.

Federation

>The United Kingdom is a voluntary union of four nations; England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

The Federal Government will operate in much the same way as at present, with the Prime Minister serving as its head and appointing the Cabinet.

A new body called the Federal Council will be established, which will serve as a forum to co-ordinate policy between the federal, national, and provincial governments. Its members will include the First and Second Ministers of each region, along with the PM, deputy PM (who will have a statutory role as minister for England), and the Secretaries of State for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The Federal Parliament will continue to be bicameral, but will undergo fundamental changes in the way it operates.

• The House of Commons will be reduced in size to 550 members, and will be elected by the Single Transferable Vote, with constituencies ranging in size from 3 to 5 members each.
• The House of Lords will be abolished and replaced by the Senate.
  • Four-fifths of the Senate will be elected by open-list PR in each province and autonomous nation, with smaller regions being slightly over-represented (like in the German Bundesrat).
  • The remaining one-fifth will be appointed by an independent panel in order to represent various vocations and parts of society (such as sciences, arts, businesses and trades unions).
• Senators will be elected/appointed by thirds, with 110 up at each House of Commons election.

Provinces and Autonomous Nations

>There will be 15 regional subdivisions. Three (Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland) will be known as Autonomous Nations, while the remaining 12 will be known as Provinces.

Map of Provinces and Autonomous Nations

Most of the English provinces are fairly self-explanatory, and are adapted from the government regions. I've broken from

This year I took my first course in quantum mechanics. In this course we learnt about operators and stuff. My problem is that I always noted vectors (spacial vectors, not wave vectors) as \vec{r} and unitary vectors as \hat{r}, and I really like that notation.

The problem is that we note operators as \hat{A} so it gets confusing. Any suggestions?

#Humble Beginnings, the Birth of a Movement

The Algerian Hirak Succeeds

The Hirak movement continued to intensify following the end of the Covid-19 Pandemic. The poor government response and increased repression by the Tebboune regime had brought renewed fuel that fanned the flames of Algerian popular desire for democracy. Corruption, nepotism, scandals, government repression, and further arrests led to general strikes across the country, the largest of which coming from the Kabylie region. To reassert order, the government deployed forces to the various cities and blocked major entryways to dissuade protestors from entering the city. Reminiscent of the French blockades of major Algerian cities during the war, this did little but aggravate the situation as more took to the streets demanding change.

Political activists and journalists such as Karim Tabou and Rachid Nekkaz resulted in even greater protests as the largely decentralized Hirak movement gathered outside of the prisons and demanded their release. The government, confident in their ability to outlast the protestors decided to refrain from acting and state media established a policy of ignoring the protestors and painting those arrested as “dangerous terrorists” and “separatists”. However, this would prove to be a fatal mistake.

The protests grew to a level unseen since the original protests which ousted President Bouteflika in 2019, resulting in widespread panic among members of the Algerian Parliament with numerous token resignitions hoping to dissuade the protestors. The protestors, demanding nothing less than full political revolution were undeterred.

Chants of “Dawla Madaniya Mashi Askaria” (We want a Civilian Government, No Military Government) were heard across the country and the Palestinian and Amazigh flags flew in defiance of the government. Fearing a revolution, the regime looked to the west for support. Unfortunately for them, the western power bloc was collapsing and few would allocate resources to save them. The United States had fractured, and France was preoccupied with reestablishing order within the European Union. The regime and the deep state that had been supported for decades had found itself alone, facing none other than the people that they had oppressed. To make matters worse, many within the very same system were seeking reform and sympathized with the protestors, recognizing the writing on the wall.

As more and more politicians renounced their role in govern

Phil

//not sure how well this one turned out, but it has been stuck in my head for a few months.

//constructive feedback welcome

We would like to meet you

“There sir, message transmitted. Hopefully we hear back soon”

“Indeed private. Imagine our first contact without even meeting them physically has gone so well. Within a short period of time, we may be able to see them, after several Drktkspa of textual communication.”

“Hard to imagine sir, especially with our cutting edge technology. Who would have thought that another species would be able to decode what we are transmitting via FTL without knowing our language”

“That is why you are here, to learn the first rule of diplomacy and tactics, never underestimate the opposition. Sounds easy, but overdoing it leads to paranoia, underdoing leaves you dead”

“Quite so sir. Anyways, I’ll keep watch over this”

“Continue on.”

Overseer Skotit calmly walks out of the room, leaving Broont to monitor the state of the art antenna to read the ftl comms background noise and pick out the signal coming from somewhere called “Earth”.

Broont, getting back to work, puts on the audio production device, and starts to listen closely to the filtered noise for the telltale sign of communication. The sound of erratic, yet known long and short tones interspersed with moments of silence. Listening closely, he hears the underlying hiss of the system, and tries to stay awake.

Hours later, he snaps awake as part of his mind picks up the chirps that have been ingrained in his mind since he was young, looking to the stars and the ships above. Quickly writing down what he is hearing, he then calls for the Overseer again.

We would like to meet as well. Where would you like to meet?

“Finally, a straightforward answer, and nice and short as well,” Broont announces out loud, to no one in particular, reflecting back on the massive dump of text that he received a couple weeks ago that resulted in him needing to have an operation done on his wrist after writing it out.

“What was that private?”

“Sir!” Broont jumps up upon knowledge of his overseer being in the room. “They replied back. Nice and short, and wanting us to choose a meeting place”

“Excellent! The best meeting place would be Brekcika 5’s fourth planet. Nice and close and easy directions. It is in between 2 pulsars with very set frequencies.”

“Understandable sir, such a simple instruction cannot lead to any issues”

“Indeed, here, I’ll write it down, and then you can hamm

Go post NSFW jokes somewhere else. If I can't tell my kids this joke, then it is not a DAD JOKE.

If you feel it's appropriate to share NSFW jokes with your kids, that's on you. But a real, true dad joke should work for anyone's kid.

Mods... If you exist... Please, stop this madness. Rule #6 should simply not allow NSFW or (wtf) NSFL tags. Also, remember that MINORS browse this subreddit too? Why put that in rule #6, then allow NSFW???

Please consider changing rule #6. I love this sub, but the recent influx of NSFW tagged posts that get all the upvotes, just seem wrong when there are good solid DAD jokes being overlooked because of them.

Thank you,

A Dad.

Welp, wonder if this one will put me on anyones list... Its about time that I got to the one of the most persecuted and inhospitable place for Christians, welcome to the UPG of the Week, and now introducing the Koreans of North Korea.

*****If you know of missionaries in this country, if you know of Christians in this country, please do not comment at all about it

Region: North Korea

https://preview.redd.it/sw5fvh18z8571.png?width=425&format=png&auto=webp&s=190482bc5065a27576302ddbb7d57dad1dadad56

Stratus Index Ranking (Urgency): 20

Climate: North Korea experiences a combination of continental climate and an oceanic climate, but most of the country experiences a humid continental climate within the Köppen climate classification scheme. Winters bring clear weather interspersed with snow storms as a result of northern and northwestern winds that blow from Siberia. Summer tends to be by far the hottest, most humid, and rainiest time of year because of the southern and southeastern monsoon winds that carry moist air from the Pacific Ocean. Approximately 60 percent of all precipitation occurs from June to September. Spring and autumn are transitional seasons between summer and winter. The daily average high and low temperatures for Pyongyang are −3 and −13 °C (27 and 9 °F) in January and 29 and 20 °C (84 and 68 °F) in August.

Terrain: North Korea occupies the northern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It covers an area of 120,540 square kilometers (46,541 sq mi).To its west are the Yellow Sea and Korea Bay, and to its east lies Japan across the Sea of Japan.

Early European visitors to Korea remarked that the country resembled "a sea in a heavy gale" because of the many successive mountain ranges that crisscross the peninsula. Some 80 percent of North Korea is composed of mountains and uplands, separated by deep and narrow valleys. All of the Korean Peninsula's mountains with elevations of 2,000 meters (6,600 ft) or more are located in North Korea. The highest point in North Korea is Paektu Mountain, a volcanic mountain with an elevation of 2,744 meters (9,003 ft) above sea level. Considered a sacred place by North Koreans, Mount Paektu holds significance in Korean culture and has been incorporated in the elaborate folklore and cult personality around the Kim dynasty. For example, the song, "We Will Go To Mount Paektu" sings in praise of Kim Jong-un and describes a symbolic trek to the mountain. Other prominent r

Hi everyone,

I'm currently taking a class on major literary theories and have been learning more about new historicism recently. I believe I have grasped the idea that there is a reciprocal relationship between history and discourse/literature and that literary texts can never be studied in isolation from their historical, political, and social contexts. However, I have some more specific questions about Greenblatt's "Towards a Poetics of Culture", in which he describes how both marxism (as represented by Jameson) and poststructuralism (as represented by Lyotard) cannot offer a full acount of capitalism and the historical relation between art and society or the relation between those discourses that are read as "artistic" and those that are read as "social/political".

>I propose that the general question addressed by Jameson and Lyotard - what is the historical relation between art and society or between one institutionally demarcated discursive practice and another? - does not lend itself to a single, theoretically satisfactory answer of the kind tha Jameson and Lyotard are trying to provide. [...] If capitalism is invoked not as a unitary demonic principle, but as a complex historical movement in a world without paradisal origins or chiliastic expectations, then an inquiry into the relation between art and society in capitalist cultures must address both the formation of the working distinction upon which Jameson remarks and the totalizing impulse upon which Lyotard remarks. For capitalism has characteristically generated neither regimes in which all discourses seem coordinated, nor regimes in which they seem radically isolated or discontinuous, but regimes in which the drive towards differentiation and the drive towards monological organization operate simultaneously, or at least oscillate so rapidly as to create the impression of simultaneity. (22, emphasis added)

Greenblatt, Stephen. “Towards a Poetics of Culture.” The Greenblatt Reader, Blackwell, 2005, pp. 18-29.

Greenblatt later talks about how "capitalism has produced a powerful and effective oscillation between the establishment of distinct discursive domains and the collapse of those domains into one another" (24). In other words, there is a constant oscillation or circulation between the separation of the political realm and the sphere of art and their subsequent conflation into one.

My questions now are:

• What exactly does Greenblatt mean by "oscillation" here? Wha

Well, toucan play at that game.

Martin Freeman, and Andy Serkis.

They also play roles in Lord of the Rings.

I guess that makes them the Tolkien white guys.

She said apple-lutely

Over on the draped halls at 🏴‍☠️Sino lies this FAQ about Chinese democracy (link in the comments). At first glance, it seems convincing, but I realised that the FAQ uses poor and sources that contradict its thesis (to various degrees). Note that most of its information is outdated, so I will analyse both the sources they use and a comparison to more recent sources. So this is how they start off:

>It is a common perception that there is no democracy in China today and that it is only a republic in name. As China does not practise public elections for the National Peoples Congress and the office of the President. The general public has no direct say in who resides in the central government.

Yeah, so 🏴‍☠️Sino concedes that since China does not elect its representatives. Now, the rest of the entire FAQ is mental gymnastics trying to reconcile with the facts.

>In there very basic form Western democracies are popularity contests. A candidate gives speeches on why they are the right choice, and the public votes based off this. However, the general public is not the only stakeholder in these campaigns, and in some country’s other stakeholders such as the wealthy elite play a vastly outsized role in the democratic process. A 2014 Research study (News Article) by Princeton University Professor Martin Gilens and Northwestern University Professor Benjamin found that:

"Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organised groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence."

Oh, not that Princeton University study again. Although the US is a flawed democracy (but again, nothing is perfect), this study over-exaggerates and is used to claim that the US is an oligarchy. This Vox Article compiles a lot of the flaws of the study. For example, when the rich and middle class disagree, there is a half-half chance that each class wins half of the time. [Citing this paper by Omar Bashir, and a team of three researchers, UT Austin grad student J. Alexander Branham, University of Michigan professor Stuart

'Eye-do'

This is my first post pls don't kill me lol.

The people in the comment section is why I love this subreddit!!

Cred once again my sis wants credit lol

Hello!

Does any one know when the birth of Open Quantum Systems came around? I assume it was around the time of Von Neumann (1927-1932) or something like this, but i’m not entirely sure

also if anyone has any beginner texts/intuitive advice on Linblad Super Operators and non unitary time evolution (markovian vs non-markovian), that would be super helpful for a project i’m currently working on.

Thanks!

I heard parents named their children lance a lot.

First post please don't kill me

Edit: i went to sleep and now my inbox is dead, thank you kind strangers for the awards!