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A lot of people here are probably familiar with the excellent j-play Chrome extension to play through games on j-archive. I generally prefer to use Firefox, so I ported the extension to Firefox.

Here's the listing for the extension. Hope this is helpful to someone!

TL;DR: I did a lot of high-intensity weighted chin-ups and consequently got better at weighted chin-ups.

Summary (the real TL;DR)

I (24, male) hit a plateau in my weighted chin-up training, so I decided to run a cycle of Smolov Jr. for weighted chin-ups. The program is three weeks long, with four training days per week, and involves doing a large volume of chin-ups at pretty high intensity - the weight ranged from 70% to 85% of my 1RM in the first week, and increased with each week.

My weight stayed at a constant 145 lbs (66 kg) throughout. My 1RM before Smolov Jr. was +90

Some of you may be familiar with Trivia Trainer (here's the original post about it in this subreddit). Last night I wrote a quick userscript to navigate the website with the keyboard instead of with the mouse. Thought people here might appreciate it.

Here's the script. As I've written it, you can show or hide the answer with the up arrow or the T key, and use the other arrow keys to click the "correct", "incorrect", and "don't know" buttons. But it's super easy to customize it to whatever keys you like.

It works in my browser

BRST symmetry is discussed in pretty much every introductory QFT class when quantizing gauge theories. It's a global symmetry of gauge theories that involves ghost fields. The conserved, nilpotent BRST charge allows us, via its cohomology, to pick out physically distinct states while modding out the redundant gauge degrees of freedom.

I have several questions about BRST symmetry. To summarize, my issue is that I understand BRST symmetry and cohomology on a superficial level, but I don't understand:

• How could we have guessed that BRST symmetry exists without knowing about it in advance?
• **How do we know there aren't other global s

Hey everyone, sorry for being a week late. Feel free to submit your responses sometime in March--you don't have to submit by March 1st. Anyway, the challenges:

Main challenge: Choose a video, or some other event that takes place over time, and write a piece to accompany it.

Text challenge: Set Fire and Ice by Robert Frost to music.

I couldn't post this challenge without linking a Finn M-K piano dub. I love this guy. Of course, this challenge is open to wide interpretation, but this sort of video is what comes to mind when I think of the challenge.

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Last month, we ra

Sorry, I totally forgot to cross-post the challenge! Anyway, here's the challenge post with all the details.

Main challenge*: Write a piece that avoids chordal movement of a perfect fifth or fourth.

Text challenge: Write a piece inspired by The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams.

Post your submissions as a reply to the post I linked over on r/MonthlyComposition.