Sure. It would take awhile to get the choreography down. I believe the Stirman group made videos of a paralyzed worm that wiggles its head and tail, and we have also done the same, although I don't have any videos of that up.
We actually discussed this in lab and I think "All the single ladies" would have been a good song choice since the worms are also single (albeit hermaphrodites).
Ultimately we decided not to pursue this, even though it would have been a great visual. Unfortunately, scientists today operate in a political environment that is increasingly hostile to research. See for example this Senator who wants the public to rifle through NSF grants and propose research projects to cut: http://majorityleader.gov/YouCut/Review.htm (For the record, this is a manifestly BAD idea.) At an institution where research is largely publicly funded I have to walk a fine line between making my research accessible to a broad audience and preventing the gimmicks from overshadow the real science.
The CoLBeRT system is extremely useful for our understanding of the nervous system. It allows us to systematically probe the connections of the worm's nervous system to to understand how the signals these neurons create correlate with the worms' behavior. The research that this tool enables will yield insights that directly help us understand our own much more complicated brain. With certain political parties up in arms about cutting science research, I don't want to give anyone an easy bullseye by making a dancing worm. Very good idea, nonetheless.
I agree that that the above post would be funny if we weren't dealing with a real person... but Brianna is real. I have a request to the/. community: Please watch what you say. Brianna is a real person, with real feelings who for all we know is reading this article right now after she typed her own name in google. Lets try to keep it funny without knocking her position or status.
Over and over again, I hear the term discipline. But for me disciplane doesn't work. Its all about commitment. I have wrestled with accomplishing my goals and I am proud of my results. Here is my philosophy:
Like many things in life, getting stuff done is ultimately about 1) the image you choose for yourself and 2) your commitment to it.
1) The image you choose for yourself is all about how you want to percieve yourself. It is the "I want to be_____" where the blank can be anything from "hardworking and efficient" to "not such an asshole" The most important thing is that your self-image has to come from you. YOU decide your image and YOU decide for yourself if you are reaching that image. What other people think and tell you cannot matter. For example, the person who submitted to ask/. already did a good job defining his self-image and he already decided for himself where he stands. So hes good for step 1.
2)Be committed to your self image. Discipline is all about punishment and restraint. whereas commitment is all about valuing yourself and your self-image. I prefer to be committed to myself than to discipline myself. Being committed includes finding out what it takes in the real world to attain your self image (i.e. doing the research necessary to find out how to be more efficient). Furthermore, being committed to yourself means not letting other people judge your progress. Don't let anyone say your finished when your not or vice-versa. Staying committed means you have to both value AND judge yourself. This is the hardest part but its worth it.
Stick to these steps and always stay committed. Envision what you will be like as an efficient person and then strive for that. But stay committed. It is very rewarding to stay committed to yourself and it almost always produces good results.
"United Linux is an enterprise-grade Linux with real-world power."
From another page on SCO's website:"The UnitedLinux initiative has full support from industry companies such as AMD, Borland Software Corporation, Computer Associates, Fujitsu Siemens, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, NEC, Progress Software, and SAP".
Sounds to me like bashing Linux may be a little counterproductive.:0)
Try either MuLinux or PicoBSD to get started with a minimilist distro. Pico BSD runs on a single floppy, and I think MuLinux requires at least two. Onoe advantage of MuLinux is that it can actually run X after a few more floppys. I had both of these running at one point on a Laptop w/ 8 megs of ram.
Do it once a month and you're pulling in a million per year.
You don't even need to be pulling anywhere near this much. Sending spam requires almost absolutely 0 effort. I know a lot of people who would settle for 5 bux if all they had to do was click a computer for an hour or two.
When Moffett Field (now NASA AMES Research Center) in the Bay Area had an open house many years ago, I stopped in the Computer Mueseum/Wharehouse...
I will never forget looking at a bookshelf-sized board of ram. They were quite literally wires crisscrossed with small cheerio sized hunks of metal at each intersection. You could charge these cheerios on and off (creating 0s and 1s) by sending electricity through a wire on its x or y coordinate.
It was soo cool. I could sit and count the number of bits on that board of ram. Imagine countin todays 128 Mb that come standard.
Is a UNIX-like OS!
Everything he describes is Unix or Linux.
-No Registry
-Run server applications as users
-Configurable installation
-Seperation of Protocols etc../
I find it ironic that Bill Gates is being lectured on how to design a 30+ year old operating system.
The power of Linux, in my opinion is in the command line and taking advantage of old hardware. My 486 w/ 16 megs of ram sux running windows. I put Slackware 7 on it and it screams, that is if you don't use X. If you are looking for a smooth GUI stick to a Mac. But the power and control that the GNU set of programs and utilties offer is just intense. For programming, mail, webservers the command line is where its at, especially when it comes to resurrecting old hardware.
Some tidbits: The missiles have a range of 1 - 8km. They are heat seaking and weigh only 12.5 pounds and are 5 feet by 1 foot in size. The US gave tons of these out like lollipops to Bin Ladin and other Afghanis when they were fighting the Russians for us. How hard would it have been to shoot one of these from miles away off in some boat in the middle of the bay? Just food for thought.
My old dad says he remembers when the U.S. supplied Osama Bin Laden and Afghanastan with thousands of stinger missiles to stop the Soviets in the late 70's. These were small, easy to use, and only required one nut to fire.
Wouldn't it be tragic if this crash were a result of our own weapons? It might explain the mysterious "two explosions" we hear about.
I have a powerbook 100, and a Mac Color Classic. They are the sweetes looing things ever, yet I still am unable to find a Unix=like kernal that will run on them! Is there some slimmed down OS X that will run on 6800 processor? I know such things exist for Wintel 286's and such, why is old Mac hardware left in the dust?
I know this is hard for/. 'ers to imagine but i've had great success talking to my senator face to face. Mine gives talks at the local university. I stuck around after a talk and followed him out to his car. We had a good 10 to 15 minute conversation. Give it a shot. People are a lot more responsive to faces than they are e-mails.
Forgive me.. but DUH!! Napolean had this type of stuff.. its called a one time pad!!! The idea is simple.. Alice and Bob agree before hand on a truly random password longer (or as long) as your message and then use this "password" to encrypt and decrypt...
anyone can do that..
try creating a secure Public Key Cryptosystem like Diffie and Hellman
i.e.: Alice has never met Bob before and wants to communicate securely just on the internet while
being wiretapped..
Solve that and post it on/.
(Hint.. its called PGP)
Lego is good, but as one post said, lately they're almost models. With all the funky specialized parts that come in today's Star-Wars-whatever kits, its pretty hard to be creative (and often harder to find regular old blocks).
Brio on the other hand, is pure and simple. You build a railway out of wooden train tracks and you play!
I grew up on these! I would spend hours designing the most intricate tracks winding in and out of furniture. I had whole cities and towns and commuter expresses. Later I even designed some of my own pieces. Brio is safe and has been around forever! Check it out!
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Sure. It would take awhile to get the choreography down. I believe the Stirman group made videos of a paralyzed worm that wiggles its head and tail, and we have also done the same, although I don't have any videos of that up.
We actually discussed this in lab and I think "All the single ladies" would have been a good song choice since the worms are also single (albeit hermaphrodites).
Ultimately we decided not to pursue this, even though it would have been a great visual. Unfortunately, scientists today operate in a political environment that is increasingly hostile to research. See for example this Senator who wants the public to rifle through NSF grants and propose research projects to cut: http://majorityleader.gov/YouCut/Review.htm (For the record, this is a manifestly BAD idea.) At an institution where research is largely publicly funded I have to walk a fine line between making my research accessible to a broad audience and preventing the gimmicks from overshadow the real science.
The CoLBeRT system is extremely useful for our understanding of the nervous system. It allows us to systematically probe the connections of the worm's nervous system to to understand how the signals these neurons create correlate with the worms' behavior. The research that this tool enables will yield insights that directly help us understand our own much more complicated brain. With certain political parties up in arms about cutting science research, I don't want to give anyone an easy bullseye by making a dancing worm. Very good idea, nonetheless.
Jeff is actually an expert at microfluidics! He could pull it off. Check out his other papers.
Added to the links page:
http://colbert.physics.harvard.edu/links.php
I'm still basically writing the website, so there is more stuff coming.
Good point! I'm adding a link to them now. FYI, harvard PR department had nothing to do with this. Just me.
From Mathworld at Wolfram Apparently Pi shows up in the bible twice. Weird.
Also, wikipedia has a rather complete coverage of the topic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi
I agree that that the above post would be funny if we weren't dealing with a real person... but Brianna is real. I have a request to the /. community: Please watch what you say. Brianna is a real person, with real feelings who for all we know is reading this article right now after she typed her own name in google. Lets try to keep it funny without knocking her position or status.
Over and over again, I hear the term discipline. But for me disciplane doesn't work. Its all about commitment. I have wrestled with accomplishing my goals and I am proud of my results. Here is my philosophy:
/. already did a good job defining his self-image and he already decided for himself where he stands. So hes good for step 1.
Like many things in life, getting stuff done is ultimately about 1) the image you choose for yourself and 2) your commitment to it.
1) The image you choose for yourself is all about how you want to percieve yourself. It is the "I want to be_____" where the blank can be anything from "hardworking and efficient" to "not such an asshole" The most important thing is that your self-image has to come from you. YOU decide your image and YOU decide for yourself if you are reaching that image. What other people think and tell you cannot matter. For example, the person who submitted to ask
2)Be committed to your self image.
Discipline is all about punishment and restraint. whereas commitment is all about valuing yourself and your self-image. I prefer to be committed to myself than to discipline myself. Being committed includes finding out what it takes in the real world to attain your self image (i.e. doing the research necessary to find out how to be more efficient). Furthermore, being committed to yourself means not letting other people judge your progress. Don't let anyone say your finished when your not or vice-versa. Staying committed means you have to both value AND judge yourself. This is the hardest part but its worth it.
Stick to these steps and always stay committed. Envision what you will be like as an efficient person and then strive for that. But stay committed. It is very rewarding to stay committed to yourself and it almost always produces good results.
Read Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco for more info.
A quick browse of SCO's website reveals this page promoting "United Linux"
"United Linux is an enterprise-grade Linux with real-world power."
From another page on SCO's website: "The UnitedLinux initiative has full support from industry companies such as AMD, Borland Software Corporation, Computer Associates, Fujitsu Siemens, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IBM , Intel, NEC, Progress Software, and SAP".
Sounds to me like bashing Linux may be a little counterproductive. :0)
Try either
MuLinux
or
PicoBSD
to get started with a minimilist distro. Pico BSD runs on a single floppy, and I think MuLinux requires at least two. Onoe advantage of MuLinux is that it can actually run X after a few more floppys. I had both of these running at one point on a Laptop w/ 8 megs of ram.
Enjoy.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/EllipticCurve.html
It was also use by Anrew Wiles in 1993 to prove Fermat's famous last thereom.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FermatsLastTheorem.ht ml
Enjoy!
You don't even need to be pulling anywhere near this much. Sending spam requires almost absolutely 0 effort. I know a lot of people who would settle for 5 bux if all they had to do was click a computer for an hour or two.
When Moffett Field (now NASA AMES Research Center) in the Bay Area had an open house many years ago, I stopped in the Computer Mueseum/Wharehouse...
I will never forget looking at a bookshelf-sized board of ram. They were quite literally wires crisscrossed with small cheerio sized hunks of metal at each intersection. You could charge these cheerios on and off (creating 0s and 1s) by sending electricity through a wire on its x or y coordinate.
It was soo cool. I could sit and count the number of bits on that board of ram. Imagine countin todays 128 Mb that come standard.
Does anyone know if its still there?
Is a UNIX-like OS!
Everything he describes is Unix or Linux.
-No Registry
-Run server applications as users
-Configurable installation
-Seperation of Protocols etc../
I find it ironic that Bill Gates is being lectured on how to design a 30+ year old operating system.
The power of Linux, in my opinion is in the command line and taking advantage of old hardware. My 486 w/ 16 megs of ram sux running windows. I put Slackware 7 on it and it screams, that is if you don't use X. If you are looking for a smooth GUI stick to a Mac. But the power and control that the GNU set of programs and utilties offer is just intense. For programming, mail, webservers the command line is where its at, especially when it comes to resurrecting old hardware.
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/stinger.ht m
Some tidbits: The missiles have a range of 1 - 8km. They are heat seaking and weigh only 12.5 pounds and are 5 feet by 1 foot in size. The US gave tons of these out like lollipops to Bin Ladin and other Afghanis when they were fighting the Russians for us. How hard would it have been to shoot one of these from miles away off in some boat in the middle of the bay? Just food for thought.
Wouldn't it be tragic if this crash were a result of our own weapons? It might explain the mysterious "two explosions" we hear about.
I did the identical but I had a 200 meg harddrive instead of a 40. Slakware is my hero.
Just post the RIAA's IP address. That will teach 'em to try a Denial of Service :)
/. effect here we come.
"The difference betweeen genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." Albert Einstein
I have a powerbook 100, and a Mac Color Classic. They are the sweetes looing things ever, yet I still am unable to find a Unix=like kernal that will run on them! Is there some slimmed down OS X that will run on 6800 processor? I know such things exist for Wintel 286's and such, why is old Mac hardware left in the dust?
I use PGP freeware 7.0.3
Whats the difference between what I have and the PGP that costs money to buy and GnuPG?
If they all do the same thing why not just use a free one?
I know this is hard for /. 'ers to imagine but i've had great success talking to my senator face to face. Mine gives talks at the local university. I stuck around after a talk and followed him out to his car. We had a good 10 to 15 minute conversation. Give it a shot. People are a lot more responsive to faces than they are e-mails.
I'm thinking major cool pool party!
Myabe if their wireless you could play water polo with the speakers.
:-)
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." --Albert Einstein
Forgive me.. but DUH!! Napolean had this type of stuff.. its called a one time pad!!! The idea is simple.. Alice and Bob agree before hand on a truly random password longer (or as long) as your message and then use this "password" to encrypt and decrypt...
/.
anyone can do that..
try creating a secure Public Key Cryptosystem like Diffie and Hellman
i.e.: Alice has never met Bob before and wants to communicate securely just on the internet while
being wiretapped..
Solve that and post it on
(Hint.. its called PGP)
Theres so much you can do with stuff like that. My main linux box is running Slackware Linux on a 33 mhz 486 chip with 32 megs of ram.
That said, if you still can't use them, ask around, I know as a fact someone like me can!
Lego is good, but as one post said, lately they're almost models. With all the funky specialized parts that come in today's Star-Wars-whatever kits, its pretty hard to be creative (and often harder to find regular old blocks).
Brio on the other hand, is pure and simple. You build a railway out of wooden train tracks and you play!
I grew up on these! I would spend hours designing the most intricate tracks winding in and out of furniture. I had whole cities and towns and commuter expresses. Later I even designed some of my own pieces. Brio is safe and has been around forever! Check it out!