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Everything
My recent life is well summed up in a comic strip and a video, except substitute lasers, equations, budget crises, martial arts, dance, cooking, video games, socializing, and random acts of awesome in for the other images.
I'm thinking of heading to Portland this weekend, though it seems a little unlikely at this point. Mayhaps a few weekends from -
Words of the day:
hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
sesquipedalian
Weighing in at 1,913 letters:
Methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleucylphenylalanylalanylglutaminylleucyllysylglutamylarginyllysyglutamylgycylalanylphenylalanylvalylprolylphenylalanylvalylthreonylleucylglycylaspartylprolylglycylisoleucylglutamylglutaminyl ( Read more... ) -
A Call for witty chants
Alright team Earth, this is an official call for witty chants or heckles for the Expensive Hardware Lob.
There is no such thing as below the belt. -
Possibly the best sport ever
You think it takes skill to put a ball through a hoop from a measly few meters away? Hit a puck with a stick into a net covered by a person about the same size as the net? They ain't got nothing on the Expensive Hardware Lob.
Anybody who says that hitting a baseball is the most difficult thing to do in sports has never tried to launch an ( Read more... ) -
Public Health Warning
Long carbon nanotubes are structurally similar to asbestos and there has been some concern that they might cause the same sorts of health problems. Much more research needs to be done, but initial findings are enough for people to urge caution when working on items that have carbon nanotubes in them. The tubes are pretty stuck into the items that ( Read more... ) -
Quantum Zeno Effect
My simulations indicate that there is no quantum Zeno effect for continuous position measurements. That is to say, while you can keep a quantum particle in a state if you measure it much quicker than it can expand out of that state, this does not appear to work for position in the sense that a particle that's being measured will "heat up" and ( Read more... ) -
Science News
Two quick things:
1. Apparently HP researchers discovered a new basic passive circuit element: the memristor!
It's nonlinear and has memory! Some people predict a revolution due to this.
2. Tell your friends to play this game. You should too. Folding proteins is a hard problem that people have tried computer farming brute force methods to solve. ( Read more... ) -
Word of the Day
Quantum Optics has spawned a new word of the day:
StochastiMasochism = Hurting oneself though (attempting) to solve stochastic (differential) equations. -
Qual over = very yes
I am now officially:- Done with the qual. Completely.
- In the Post-Qual Slump
- A PhD candidate.
- Working on the big bad project until Party Time.