Physics
- Understanding The Great Discovery of A Universal Gravitational Wave Background by the Interational Pulsar Timing Array Collaboration.
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W hat are gravitational waves? What are Pulsars and what does it mean to time a pulsar? How does this relate to past and future observations of gravitational waves? These are all fundamental questions to ask and this article seeks to answer them in simple ...
Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jun 29 2023 - 11:49am
- Summer = Work
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Summer is supposedly a period where people take it a tad easier, spend some vacation time away from anything that is work-related, and "tune out" of the deadlines and rythms of daily work activities that dominate their existence at other times of ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 21 2023 - 7:02am
- MODE Workshop In Princeton
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Although researchers in fundamental science have a tendency to "stick to what works" and avoid disruptive innovations until they are shown to be well-tested and robust, the recent advances in computer science leading to the diffusion of deep neur ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 25 2023 - 3:08pm
- Automatic Differentiation: DerivGrind
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Wait a minute- why is an article about automatic differentiation labeled under the "Physics" category? Well, I will explain that in a minute. First of all, let me explain what automatic differentiation is. Computing derivatives of functions is a ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 8 2023 - 8:21am
- Multithreading For Dummies
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What is multithreading? It is the use of multiple processors to perform tasks in parallel by a single computer program. I have known this simple fact for over thirty years, but funnily enough I never explored it in practice. The reason is fundamentally tha ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 16 2023 - 2:02pm
- On The Multiverse
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I recently read a book by Martin Rees, "On the future". I found it an agile small book packed full with wisdom and interesting considerations on what's in the plate for humanity in the coming decades, centuries, millennia, billions of years. ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 24 2023 - 9:46am
- A Visit To ICTS
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The Indian Center for Theoretical Sciences is located in a rural area a few kilometers north of Bangalore, in southern India. Bangalore is a mid-sized city that saw a very big expansion in the past few years due to having become a center for the informatio ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 5 2023 - 6:06am
- The Monte Carlo Method
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These days I am in Paris, for a short vacation- for once, I am following my wife in a work trip; she performs at the grand Halle at la Villette (she is a soprano singer), and I exploit the occasion to have some pleasant time in one of the cities I like th ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 17 2023 - 9:15am
- Mesmerizing Shapes- Symmetries According To An AI
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Having spent the past 12 months coding up an end-to-end model of an astrophysics experiment, with the sole aim of searching for an optimal solution for its design by use of stochastic gradient descent, I am the least qualified person to judge the aesthetic ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 26 2023 - 8:01am
- An Introductory Machine Learning Book For Physicists And Astronomers
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Last week I received in my mailbox a copy of the Princeton University Press book "Machine Learning for Physics and Astronomy" by Viviana Acquaviva. They sent me a copy because I had reviewed its contents for Princeton Press. I am happy with the b ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 4 2023 - 5:21am
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