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a111: 25 results for "landau", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=landau
asciilifeform: !#s landau
asciilifeform: diana_coman: lol, didnt mircea_popescu once mention that he did landau & fr in 1 shot
asciilifeform: sumhow i dun have this problem on ~my~ lolpad, landau & lifschitz scroll great in both dirs
mircea_popescu: landau group, pc actually signed off on this idiocy ?
asciilifeform: 'Not every wiretap request is granted. Only 313 federal wiretaps were installed in 2014, far fewer than the number requested, Landau pointed out. Each one costs the federal government about $41,000, most of which is spent on “minimization”—that is, someone to monitor the wiretap and assess its content.' << lulzy: the universal dragnet thing dun count, evidently, as 'wiretap'
asciilifeform: perhaps last WORKING cyclotron was made in landau's time.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'm approximately as interested in inhabiting a world without landau as you are in inhabiting world without cunt.
asciilifeform: anyway, i need not-having-knuth (or table of motherfucking permeattivity constants, or landau, or,or,or,x10,000) like i need to have my arms and legs and cock chopped.
asciilifeform: phf: everybody and his mother has a copy of landau
phf: asciilifeform: right, i'm not arguing your original statement, just trying to understand this part of thread. if i wanted to grok electrodynamics, can get scan, or easier to just walk to friend and get landau of the shelf. doesn't matter that he has millions of other books, or that there's an archive of book scans somewhere. mp's point seems to be that the activity should be treated as tomb raiding either way, rather then "i have a
mircea_popescu: L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz, Electrodynamics in Continuous Media. hurr.
ascii_field: where is the zimbabwean landau, aha
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-08-2015#1226167 << i personally prefer landau ☝︎
ascii_field: or if you're a l333337 d00d, landau & lifschitz vol. 1-5
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not landau. later contributors can footnote it.
asciilifeform: what would, e.g., herr landau, have accomplished, if he had to occupy himself with teaching arithmetic.
asciilifeform: putting footnotes in there so even the clueless can follow may work ? << lol! what next, footnotes for linux kernel so illiterates can understand? bitcoind? lev landau's 'mechanics' ?
asciilifeform: the landau film has precedent. when they filmed the infamous nazi atrocity pic 'come and see', they fired real bullets over the heads of the actors
asciilifeform: 'The only acting professional in the cast is Radmila Shchegoleva, who plays Landau's wife; before shooting began, she spent a full year working at a chocolate factory and a hospital, a regimen devised by Khrzhanovsky to beat the actress out of her.'
asciilifeform: 'Landau significantly advanced quantum mechanics with his theories of diamagnetism, superfluidity, and superconductivity. He also tapped epic amounts of ass.'
asciilifeform: ^ found through that link. demented film maker decides to make a biopic of lev landau (of landau & lifschitz), gets people to live in a 'soviet reservation' for realism.
asciilifeform: l&l is geared to methods of theoretical physics (landau's famous 'minimum' exam)
mircea_popescu: punkman L.D.Landau and E.M.Leifshitz. all the math one could ever want.
asciilifeform: which one of you people spoke of reading landau in french? was it mp?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: this tome will not be burying Landau, but it's an acceptable bait to whet an amateur's interest, i'd imagine.
asciilifeform: those are a dime a dozen in paul graham's zoo. how many have so much as heard of landau & lifschitz.