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Thi Hoàng

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  • lesson 4: people can only meet you at the depth to which they’ve met themself.
    7 lessons from 1 month in Vietnam - by vân
  • I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.
    Optimism (1903)
  • Nay, the desire and will to work is optimism itself.
    Optimism (1903)
  • I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true. To what good I open the doors of my being, and jealously shut them against what is bad. Such is the force of this beautiful and wilful conviction, it carries itself in the face of all opposition.
    Optimism (1903)
  • The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field, I cannot reap a kernel of the good.
    Optimism (1903)
  • When I have a piece of writing in mind, what I have, in fact, is a mental bucket: an attractor for and generator of thought.
    More people should write « the jsomers.net blog
  • You should write because when you know that you’re going to write, it changes the way you live.
    More people should write « the jsomers.net blog
  • More people should do what I’m doing right now. They should sit at their computers and bat the cursor around — write full sentences about themselves and the things they care about.
    More people should write « the jsomers.net blog
  • Unconventional photon blockade is less restrictive: it blocks the entry of two photons only. This blocking is achieved via destructive interference of disparate excitation paths to the N=2 � = 2 energy level (Fig. 1). But the effect does not influence the N=3 � = 3 and higher energy levels in the same way, allowing emission of “bunches” of three or more photons.
    Physics - A Double Take on Unconventional Photon Blockade
  • Cavities have a series of equally spaced energy levels, N=1,2,3,…, � = 1 , 2 , 3 , … , which correspond to 1,2,3,…, 1 , 2 , 3 , … , photons occupying the cavity. For regular photon blockade, the presence of an emitter shifts all the energy levels of the cavity such that only the N=1 � = 1 energy level can accept photons. Photons tuned to this energy can therefore only go in and out of the cavity one at a time.
    Physics - A Double Take on Unconventional Photon Blockade
  • An alternative route to achieving photon blockade arose in 2010, when theorists predicted that the strong interaction restriction could be relaxed if two cavities were used instead of one
    Physics - A Double Take on Unconventional Photon Blockade
  • The true cost of a bad employee*** is never the salary. Think about it like embedded learning cost - you will have to pay for this sort of training one way or another anyway. The true cost of a bad employee is the mental health of your top performers, and that of your own.
    “What is the Key to Life?” and Other 32nd Birthday Ponderings — Linh Dao Smooke
  • The only true key to life is your breath: inhale, then exhale. Without it, there is no life.
    “What is the Key to Life?” and Other 32nd Birthday Ponderings — Linh Dao Smooke
  • The hardest balance to strike when working in a team is that of ownership versus collaboration. Without ownership, nothing will get done because everyone will assume someone else will do or already did it (“cha chung không ai khóc”). Without collaboration, there’s a high failure rate because people are much more capable of focusing on their own short-term goals rather than zooming out to see the big picture.
    “What is the Key to Life?” and Other 32nd Birthday Ponderings — Linh Dao Smooke