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dukwon351 karma

So they're more like hacked ants than zombie ants?

dukwon60 karma

Cryogenic gas leaks are the focus of a lot of the safety training for if you want to go underground. People are issued with a dosimeter when they go to certain areas to check they haven't received too much radiation. There's also typical things like high voltage, fire and working at a height.

Apart from that, probably the Geneva traffic. There's a roundabout nearby that is sometimes called the Large Car Collider.

dukwon43 karma

This plaque is currently located in building 1, between the Orsay and Marseille LHCb groups. It mentions two offices: one in building 31 (31/2-012 according to this), and one in building 2.

Do any of you know which office it was in building 2? Apparently it belonged to Robert Caulliau.

dukwon39 karma

Neural networks and boosted decision trees are common.

The ROOT TMVA package is the principle tool for multi-variate analysis:

http://tmva.sourceforge.net/

http://root.cern.ch/root/html/TMVA_Index.html

dukwon25 karma

IIRC the CMS control room sound effects are all Freddie Mercury