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Dr. Dylan Black is a physicist specializing in laser and accelerator technology at xLight Inc. His Substack, Maximum Effort, Minimum Reward, applies rigorous analysis to thoroughly useless questions: deriving quantum mechanical models of guinea pig behavior, assessing the linguistic accuracy of movies about aliens and applying Markov models to ancient Greek poleis. He speaks three languages — Latin, Middle Egyptian and his native English, listed in order of declining practical utility.
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