3. i learned about quantum computing today. Apparently copying is impossible, and reading information from a quantum computer involves reading it multinumerous times and constructing a PDF to determine what was most likely the originally encoded information. kindof funny.
I'm working at the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) and the San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC) at UCSD on some kind of project relating to geophysical data networks. I still don't know how much will be geophysics and how much will be data networks — I sort of fear that I'm being bait-and-switched. Nonetheless I am looking forward to a summer in southern california, since I have not spent the summer there since 1998.
I'm starting at UCSD on June 1. I have to stick around here until this project I'm working on is finished, but it will fill 120% of the time available, so I will probably be here until the last minute. On the other hand, it would be nice to escape for a little vacation and/or have time to find a place to live in SD.
Michael Moore's new movie is called "Fahrenheit 9/11". hilarious!
I'm also looking forward to working on projects at home in MV and exploring the SoCal areas. Some things on my agenda:
try to catch up on my physics so that I won't be too far behind when I start gradschool in late august
go on a road trip in mexico!
hang out with the kids doing the UCSD REU in physics
go to england or taiwan — but that's prolly not going to happen, as there's no time! )-:
go hiking with squarkz if she actually comes to visit SoCal
build a paraboloid reflector by spinning a vat of plaster! [link (http://www.livejournal.com/users/nibot_lab/17344.html)]
build a multi-channel breakbeam detector to measure the exit velocity of a potato from the potato cannon (http://splorg.org/people/tobin/spudgun/). mr.brei uses potato cannons to teach improvised weaponry projectile motion to his physics course, and I think it would be handy to have an actual measurement of the exit velocity
learn about wireless networks
hang out with my friend john (squibb but never updates)
1. Working in lab, tutoring at San Quentin, visiting Boston for a week or so, juggling, and having lots of fun. 2. I'll be mostly around all summer. 3. I'm going to move in with hukuma at the end of the summer!
2. I should probably visit before everyone disappears.
3. PE Builder (http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/) lets you create a preinstalled environment for Windows XP / Server 2003. I've created a boot CD with WinXP, Rip-linux, Flonix, and a bunch of other recovery utilities.
1. relax and recover from classes, find a place to live in Pittsburgh and move, take a vacation somewhere in New England, possibly backpacking and kayaking in Maine 2. not this summer 3. We transfered the 49 minutes of veideo footage of our cloud chamber in action from the Mac we used to film it into a Quicktime file. Next we'll edit it. I should have several minutes (up to 15 if you really wanted) of footage to put up somewhere soon to show you the cloud chamber in action. Plus pictures of it, of course. It looks home built, including the iron we used to heat the lid so the methanol would evaporate faster.
1. Math REU at Penn State. Other plans: I plan on taking the Putnam next year, so I'll try to do some practice for that. I also want to practice for the Berkeley programming contest.
2. Leaving Berkeley on the 27th to Southern California, then China for 10 days, then SoCal, then Penn, then SoCal, then back to Berkeley on August 25th.
3. This GBAX thing is really cool: http://www.gbax.com/gp32review.html
1. Working at the SNAP CCD lab up at LBL. I'm going to spend some time at home, though, and hopefully climb Redcloud and Sunshine Peaks (http://www.home.earthlink.net/~vanderbrook/redsun-narr.html) in Colorado.
2. I'll be here from June 7 through next year.
3. The best thing in the world is eating salt and vinegar potato chips in alternation with chocolates.
1. Mathcamp!! And a trip to Asia. And a friend's wedding.
2. I'll be in town until June 25th (the day after my birthday), when I leave for Asia. I'll be back home on July 7, but leaving for Mathcamp July 8 probably. I think I get back from that August 18, but may be disappearing for the wedding for the weekend of the 21st.
3. The category of quotients (by radical ideals) of the polynomial ring in n variables over an algebraically closed field K is contravariantly isomorphic to the category of algebraic varieties in K^n.
*** See the Northern Lights Go to one of those thunder and lightning parks and watch LOADS of lightning Experience the edge of a hurricane {Somewhere safe but really intense} Speak one (or more!) foreign languages really, really well Ride in a "one horse open sleigh" in a "winter wonderland" Scuba in the Caribbean Write a book...or several Get a job Retire Enjoy the celebratory dinner after Nibot wins the Nobel Prize See Bush lose the election Move out of So Cal Enjoy the celebratory dinner after Kris is nominated to the Supreme Court...(or gets into law school....) Hike the entire John Muir Trail Go to Alaska Enjoy the celebratory dinner when Eric comes home from Iraq.
1. may = working 12 hours a day in the lab, probably, trying to finish this paper before i leave. june = moving home with the parents, which ought to be... great (heh), and finding a place to live in seattle. july and august (and september) = argentina!
2. i'm not. but i got invited (just this afternoon!) to visit berkeley and party with geo people in december.
1. Editing and finishing Volume 30, 30S (and hopefully also 27) of the Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, learning to play and worship my new flute headjoint, catching up on video games and DVDs, not spending money on any more of them, spending some quality time with friends, watering my garden, probably spending 6 weeks in July-August doing fieldwork in coastal Oaxaca, where Huave is spoken (still don't if that's really gonna happen or not).
2. In Berkeley all summer except probably not July 1 - Middleofaugust.
3. My brother just bought a new house! I've just spend the last 24 hours helping him move the big stuff, in return for massive bribes of restaurant food.
1. Mad science, working for the Man, NIST. 2. I'm not in Berkeley, nor do I really understand what it means to be IN Berkeley. I'm definitely not IN. 3. When a massive star blows up in a supernova explosion, it sometimes reduces to a neutron star. The magnetic field of these neutron stars constrains electrons to move in synchronicity such that, when viewed from earth, they shine a beam of radio light that passes once every while. B 1257 + 12 is a rapidly rotating neutron star, and its radio pulses intercept the earth every .0062185319388187 seconds. The pulsations of these rapidly rotating neutron stars give rise to the name 'pulsar'. 4. The earth is flat when viewed from the reflections of a spoon.
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2. all summer
3. i'm living with diane next fall
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2. I'll actually be coming to Berkeley roughly weekly for prelim exam studying.
3. Michael Chabon, author of _The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay_, lives in Berkeley!
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2. june 4 (well, i'll be around, in SF)
3. i learned about quantum computing today. Apparently copying is impossible, and reading information from a quantum computer involves reading it multinumerous times and constructing a PDF to determine what was most likely the originally encoded information. kindof funny.
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2. i already started paying rent for an apartment, and I don't want to sublet it. So i'll come here during weekends I guess.
3. You can't integrate ∫e-x2dx in closed form!
answering my own questions
I'm working at the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) and the San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC) at UCSD on some kind of project relating to geophysical data networks. I still don't know how much will be geophysics and how much will be data networks — I sort of fear that I'm being bait-and-switched. Nonetheless I am looking forward to a summer in southern california, since I have not spent the summer there since 1998.
I'm starting at UCSD on June 1. I have to stick around here until this project I'm working on is finished, but it will fill 120% of the time available, so I will probably be here until the last minute. On the other hand, it would be nice to escape for a little vacation and/or have time to find a place to live in SD.
Michael Moore's new movie is called "Fahrenheit 9/11". hilarious!
I'm also looking forward to working on projects at home in MV and exploring the SoCal areas. Some things on my agenda:
try to catch up on my physics so that I won't be too far behind when I start gradschool in late august
go on a road trip in mexico!
hang out with the kids doing the UCSD REU in physics
go to england or taiwan — but that's prolly not going to happen, as there's no time! )-:
go hiking with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
squarkz if she actually comes to visit SoCal
build a paraboloid reflector by spinning a vat of plaster! [link (http://www.livejournal.com/users/nibot_lab/17344.html)]
build a multi-channel breakbeam detector to measure the exit velocity of a potato from the potato cannon (http://splorg.org/people/tobin/spudgun/). mr.brei uses potato cannons to teach
improvised weaponryprojectile motion to his physics course, and I think it would be handy to have an actual measurement of the exit velocitylearn about wireless networks
hang out with my friend john (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
squibb but never updates)
go to the beach a lot
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2. I'll be mostly around all summer.
3. I'm going to move in with
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2. I should probably visit before everyone disappears.
3. PE Builder (http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/) lets you create a preinstalled environment for Windows XP / Server 2003. I've created a boot CD with WinXP, Rip-linux, Flonix, and a bunch of other recovery utilities.
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2. not this summer
3. We transfered the 49 minutes of veideo footage of our cloud chamber in action from the Mac we used to film it into a Quicktime file. Next we'll edit it. I should have several minutes (up to 15 if you really wanted) of footage to put up somewhere soon to show you the cloud chamber in action. Plus pictures of it, of course. It looks home built, including the iron we used to heat the lid so the methanol would evaporate faster.
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2. I leave California on June 20. I'm going to try to stay in Berkeley right up till the last minute.
3. The primes in p algorithm has stuff to do with galois fields.
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2. Leaving Berkeley on the 27th to Southern California, then China for 10 days, then SoCal, then Penn, then SoCal, then back to Berkeley on August 25th.
3. This GBAX thing is really cool: http://www.gbax.com/gp32review.html
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2. I'll be here from June 7 through next year.
3. The best thing in the world is eating salt and vinegar potato chips in alternation with chocolates.
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2. I'll be in town until June 25th (the day after my birthday), when I leave for Asia. I'll be back home on July 7, but leaving for Mathcamp July 8 probably. I think I get back from that August 18, but may be disappearing for the wedding for the weekend of the 21st.
3. The category of quotients (by radical ideals) of the polynomial ring in n variables over an algebraically closed field K is contravariantly isomorphic to the category of algebraic varieties in K^n.
Some things I would like to do ...SOMEDAY...
See the Northern Lights
Go to one of those thunder and lightning parks and watch LOADS of lightning
Experience the edge of a hurricane {Somewhere safe but really intense}
Speak one (or more!) foreign languages really, really well
Ride in a "one horse open sleigh" in a "winter wonderland"
Scuba in the Caribbean
Write a book...or several
Get a job
Retire
Enjoy the celebratory dinner after Nibot wins the Nobel Prize
See Bush lose the election
Move out of So Cal
Enjoy the celebratory dinner after Kris is nominated to the Supreme Court...(or gets into law school....)
Hike the entire John Muir Trail
Go to Alaska
Enjoy the celebratory dinner when Eric comes home from Iraq.
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Re: Some things I would like to do ...SOMEDAY...
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3. Corn starch mixed with water! Non-Newtonian mayhem (http://www.rsvp.rpi.edu/presentations/fluid-dynamics/asx/03.asx).
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2. i'm not. but i got invited (just this afternoon!) to visit berkeley and party with geo people in december.
3. i graduated today!
Congratulations!
heh, thanks!
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2. In Berkeley all summer except probably not July 1 - Middleofaugust.
3. My brother just bought a new house! I've just spend the last 24 hours helping him move the big stuff, in return for massive bribes of restaurant food.
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2. I don't know.
3. Google calculator. Try 1 mole in baker's dozen.
4. I do not believe I have a soul, but others might have their own souls.
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2. I'm not in Berkeley, nor do I really understand what it means to be IN Berkeley. I'm definitely not IN.
3. When a massive star blows up in a supernova explosion, it sometimes reduces to a neutron star. The magnetic field of these neutron stars constrains electrons to move in synchronicity such that, when viewed from earth, they shine a beam of radio light that passes once every while. B 1257 + 12 is a rapidly rotating neutron star, and its radio pulses intercept the earth every .0062185319388187 seconds. The pulsations of these rapidly rotating neutron stars give rise to the name 'pulsar'.
4. The earth is flat when viewed from the reflections of a spoon.
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