• gravitas_deficiency
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    8 months ago

    Inappropriate and questionable backronyms are one of the best parts of reading scientific journals.

  • mumblerfish@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    NMR is also not a great abriviation for a Swedish person, Nordiska Motståndsrörelsen (nordic resistance movement) and is a neo-nazi cult-like organization.

  • Kratzkopf@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 months ago

    Is that actually what you are researching about? How would one make arbitrary photonic waveforms? Can one just use different monochromatic light sources and overlap them with adjusted phase shifts?

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      8 months ago

      Na, I just found the acronym funny, so no idea how it’s actually supposed to work. but there are lot’s of different well-cited papers that propose PAWGs.