"Imagine a warp bubble... " ? Remind me - is this a variation on "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of..." ? This is moderated as interesting? (Thank goodness not "Insightful")
Oh please tell me you are one of the following
joking
nuts
Alan Sokal repeating the "Social Text" spoof for/.
(Yeah right - like we actually need someone to tell us how good we are at moderating:))
This chap isn't exactly a physicist - but some of the "Crackpot Index" is applicable here. Nice set of criteria for determining plausibility: Physicist John Baez's Crackpot Index
--- RK
Saving Real streams ...
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Real Problems
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You could try StreamboxVCR. The beta version of this is still available on some sites. Real sued the company and the product was never officially released. The beta version was hacked to prevent a "call-home" feature (which would otherwise prevent it from working now).
There is a rather simple way of generating a "fair" event (i.e. probability 1/2) using an unfair coin. Instead of calling on a single toss, you call on a sequence of 2 tosses (H on first, T on second OR the other way around). You toss the coin twice - and reject the pair of tosses if you observe both H or both T. Even if the coin is biased - the probability of HT versus TH are equal. (This of course does not address the question of "Does the starting side have a greater probability of showing up finally?" - but that is now irrelevant. You always start with the same side showing up since the fact that the toss is biased is no longer of any consequence.
This is a very common idea in statistics - the "order" HT versus TH is what is called an "ancillary statistic".
Actually Turnitin doesn't own the papers - it passes them on to trick_turnitin.com, where students can register and download papers. With the guarantee that Turnitin will give a nice "absolutely original work" rating to anything you buy from trick_turnitin.com.
Now _that_ would be a cool business plan - fleecing both the kids and the profs.
--- RK
But this still does not prevent people from
_sending_ you unsolicited email - you just have an easy job creating the filter. The spammers don't care that much if you read their email or not - but they sure would like to know if there your email address is a valid one.
--- RK
More about normal numbers ...
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It is not hard to prove that essentially any number is a normal number - in the sense that any number you pick at random between say 0 and 1 (uniform distribution) (More precisely, the set of normal numbers in [0,1] is a set of full measure - one proof goes via the strong law of large numbers - ask your local probabilist for an explanation). What is hard is showing that a particular number is a normal number (I didn't even know that one had any explicit examples).
Normal numbers being essentially all numbers is more subtle than the fact that "essentially all numbers are transcendental". The set of non-normal numbers is actually uncountably infinite (not countably infinite like algebraic numbers).
There is some work that is already in progress for integrating TeX (and LaTeX) with the Web. One procedure is to convert LaTeX to HTML - done by programs like latex2html . What the original post is asking for - is done by HyperTeX.
One reason that LaTeX would not be popular is the way it forces you to write well structured documents - something that can be done in HTML if you wish, but you won't be forced to do so. The more common objection to LaTeX - cryptic commands and no WYSIWYG editor - LyX provides a decent enough WYSIWYG editor.
I was wondering how the rocket-to-moon business is related to the technology used in missiles.
FYI, missile development is done not by ISRO but by DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organization). DRDO still has problems with some missile projects (See http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/MISSILES/News/00-J une.html for some info about a recent ship-launched ballistic missile test).
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Oh please tell me you are one of the following
(Yeah right - like we actually need someone to tell us how good we are at moderating
--- RK
This chap isn't exactly a physicist - but some of the "Crackpot Index" is applicable here. Nice set of criteria for determining plausibility:
Physicist John Baez's Crackpot Index
--- RK
You could try StreamboxVCR. The beta version of this is still available on some sites. Real sued the company and the product was never officially released. The beta version was hacked to prevent a "call-home" feature (which would otherwise prevent it from working now).
Google for StreamboxVCR.
There is a rather simple way of generating a "fair" event (i.e. probability 1/2) using an unfair coin. Instead of calling on a single toss, you call on a sequence of 2 tosses (H on first, T on second OR the other way around). You toss the coin twice - and reject the pair of tosses if you observe both H or both T. Even if the coin is biased - the probability of HT versus TH are equal. (This of course does not address the question of "Does the starting side have a greater probability of showing up finally?" - but that is now irrelevant. You always start with the same side showing up since the fact that the toss is biased is no longer of any consequence.
This is a very common idea in statistics - the "order" HT versus TH is what is called an "ancillary statistic".
I can already see it happening - hackers coding Aibo-s that maul the neighbours.
Actually Turnitin doesn't own the papers - it passes them on to trick_turnitin.com, where students can register and download papers. With the guarantee that Turnitin will give a nice "absolutely original work" rating to anything you buy from trick_turnitin.com.
Now _that_ would be a cool business plan - fleecing both the kids and the profs.
--- RK
But this still does not prevent people from
_sending_ you unsolicited email - you just have an easy job creating the filter. The spammers don't care that much if you read their email or not - but they sure would like to know if there your email address is a valid one.
--- RK
It is not hard to prove that essentially any number is a normal number - in the sense that any number you pick at random between say 0 and 1 (uniform distribution) (More precisely, the set of normal numbers in [0,1] is a set of full measure - one proof goes via the strong law of large numbers - ask your local probabilist for an explanation). What is hard is showing that a particular number is a normal number (I didn't even know that one had any explicit examples).
Normal numbers being essentially all numbers is more subtle than the fact that "essentially all numbers are transcendental". The set of non-normal numbers is actually uncountably infinite (not countably infinite like algebraic numbers).
There is some work that is already in progress for integrating TeX (and LaTeX) with the Web. One procedure is to convert LaTeX to HTML - done by programs like latex2html . What the original post is asking for - is done by HyperTeX.
One reason that LaTeX would not be popular is the way it forces you to write well structured documents - something that can be done in HTML if you wish, but you won't be forced to do so. The more common objection to LaTeX - cryptic commands and no WYSIWYG editor - LyX provides a decent enough WYSIWYG editor.
You are right - something related to the traffic thing was on Slashdot earlier.
h tml
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/08/05/1656256.s
I think this is similar to an earlier story on Slashdot - about studies at Los Alamos that used phase-change stuff from physics to model traffic flow.
h tml
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Here is the Slashdot story link, but the original article link seems to be dead.
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/08/05/1656256.s
PS: And would someone add the site referred to in the quickies to the list of sites which disable the "back" button"
I was wondering how the rocket-to-moon business is related to the technology used in missiles.
J une.html for some info about a recent ship-launched ballistic missile test).
FYI, missile development is done not by ISRO but by DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organization). DRDO still has problems with some missile projects (See
http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/MISSILES/News/00-
Remove the " at the end of the URL.
/ dp062800.htm
This is the correct one:
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases