Particle clusters seem to occur at exponents of baseline energies for what we consider to be ordinary particles. The exotic particles we've found have been at the higher end.
If you look at the early work by Dr. Jay Phippen, you'll see the intentional constraints he places on the pair production is the solution set to 12 (actually, 11, one was an identity) Feynman-Dyson diagrams. I believe his thesis is on file at Utah State University. The initial computations were done at Los Alamos labs, back with the CDC Cyber was "hot stuff". During the mid 1980's, when he was my mentor, I ported his software and the matrix math for him to Sun Microsystems equipment, and he was able to reproduce the results, which got us really, really close to the predicted mass of the W particle.
It also let us tweak things substantially, trying a lot more Monte Carlo collision simulations in a shorter period of time, and given that the new hardware was capable of representing much larger numbers, it allowed the extension of the test energy rangers much higher (into the Higgs arena, and beyond).
FWIW, the collisions were simulations of relativistically invariant P-P and P-N collisions using the Berkeley Physics package, and the produced particle pairs were further constrained by the physics after they were produced (i.e. energy, angle, and so on as to what counted as an "allowable" pair).
I believe you can also find some references to it through my other faculty advisor, Dr. Robert Capener's work, although he abandoned his involvement in the U.S. atomic weapons program shortly after the neutron bomb was created, and concentrated mostly on CS after that.
So I think it's improbable that we have seen our last new particles.
In this case (there are certainly others), they are using deceptive reporting to mislead people on the current state of affairs. Ask yourself why they would do this. The answer isn't "because they are angels."
Nope. It's because it was a USA Today hit piece from 6 months ago, and educators, parents, and guidance counselors don't want to take responsibility for the input to the pipeline, and it's a slow news day.
They don't release the numbers because they don't want to be blamed for them, when they can only take whatever output comes out of the pipeline.
It's not like there are huge numbers of PhD CS people in the underrepresented minorities just sitting around twiddling their thumbs: everyone knows that the only people who get discriminated against for these jobs are people who are old (sorry... "not 'digital natives'... must use the code words), or who learned by doing, and so have no reasonable credentials with which to protect their employers in the event of a lawsuit.
It's also not like the CollegeBoard would not *gleefully* take the money of anyone who wanted to pay for the AP Computer Science test, or any other freaking AP test, period: they will happily take *all* your money if you are willing to give it to them.
No the problem is the input to the pipeline, and it's not being addressed, and so on slow news days, you get attack pieces on the people on the other end, as if they could magically make an Comparative Literate graduate into a software engineer.
can you give me an example of a home school kid infecting anyone because of lack of vaccines?
Measles at Disneyland.
Patient 0 for the Disneyland outbreak had just returned from the Philippines, which is a measles hot zone, and did not self-quarantine for a couple of weeks before mixing with the public, and so did not know he was sick.
Here are the WHO statistics on the number of cases of various diseases reported for various countries, through 2014:
The only way I even know the name is because George Bailey saved the pharmacist from poisoning a kid with it in "It's a Wonderful Life." And the last recorded case of it in Europe was decades ago. So did it go hide out for a while in Africa or something?
It's endemic in some populations; also: a bacteria, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, not a virus, FWIW.
Yes. There are large reservoirs of the bacteria in many North African countries, as well as Pakistan. What's only noted in a couple of places is that while the kid was "a resident of Olot (Girona)", the kids origin was as an adoption of an immigrant child.
To see the reservoirs, here is the World Health Organization data on reported cases by country through 2014:
If you care, you can also look at diseases other than Diphtheria, across the top of the chart. For example, there were 52'628 cases of measles in China in 2014, and there are rather large reservoirs in the Philippines as well (which is whre the person who was pation zero in the Disneyland measles outbreak had just travelled into the U.S. from, presumably infectious at the time they travelled. Somalia, India, Ethiopia, Viet Nam, and China also have significant measles reservoirs.
Of course, we don't perform health examinations or quarantines on people traveling from these hot zones into the U.S.
P.S. India, the U.S., and Australia are the top reservoirs for pertussis (whooping cough), so it'd be a good idea to check those people too, if they happen to be coming into your country.
Actually what will be the most interesting is that after three years NOTHING HAPPENS, that is to say that our knowledge of Physics is fairly complete. However nature has a way of surprising us.
We have found particles at energies of x^1, x^2, and now with the W and Higgs, x^3. There's good reason within the standard model to believe that this progression will continue at least through x^4. It's fairly easy to see the energy ranges where the particles so far have clustered, and there really no rational reason that there won't be a cluster at even higher energies, based on the same Feynman-Dyson diagram solutions that resulted in use predicting the W and Higgs energy ranges. If you Monte Carlo at the higher energy ranges with the same constraints on the relativistically invariant pair production, the math shows particle spikes up to 10^5 (not that the LHC can hit those energies, but the math works...).
The best are 'software engineers' (heh) that write in a language that does garbage collection who think they know something about operating systems.
OMFG do NOT get me started on GC or this conversation will never end. Explicit memory management for people who know what the hell they are doing for $100, Alex!
First and foremost, how can you possibly have let yourself get into a situation where $210k/year has you three paychecks away from being out on the street? You need to make some adjustments to your living situation ASAP -- get your budget under control, eliminate outstanding debts, etc. You are near the very top of the industry for software engineering compensation -- it's not a matter of the market not being stable (there's very high demand), it's that you're quickly pricing yourself out of the market.
Actually, no. I routinely get 2X that offers.
And yes, he freaking needs to budget.
The problem is that "delayed gratification" is no longer a concept these days.
You need investing advice more than career advice. After 10 years of work you should have much more than a three month cushion - It sound like you have fallen into the trap of allowing your expenses to grow to consume all current income. That is going to be hard to reverse, and THAT is what you need some professional help with,
I totally agree.
I am more or less "retired", unless someone comes to me with exceedingly interesting work to do, I read, I paint, I draw, I write, I tinker, I vacation, I angel invest, I patent even more stuff, I spend time with smart people, I participate in interesting forums, and I learn more stuff, taking college courses if I have to, etc..
$4M in savings is more than enough to throw off the $200K+ a year (that's at only 5%) you are currently earning, and as long as you are conscious of cash flow, this just grows over time.
People who spend all they make are people who never had to eat Cream-O-Wheat with weevils in it, and live on Top Ramen, and Mac and Cheese, and Little Caesar's Pizza, when they were younger. Learn some freaking financial discipline. Come back and "Ask Slashdot" in another 10 years.
If we need to focus, we are told to put on headphones and the rest of the devs are to respect the headphones.
This would be a great idea. If you could play "silence" through the headphones, and actually *get* silence. And no, high decibel gauge pressure from noise cancellation that's never 100% effective anyway does *NOT* count as silence.
If a dongle joke permanently harms the female mind, then imagine what seeing an actual dongle will do! They will need years of therapy and counseling (paid for by Obama care) to get over it.
People offended by naked people would naturally fail the job interview as "not a culture fit".
It's the same way we picked people for Hellstrom's Hive...
The internet ones all created facilities that could have conceivably been used to build a "Silk Road". And by "conceivably", I mean "conceivably at the time", as in "Silk Road is not sufficiently non-obvious that it should be granted a patent".
The two pharmaceutical companies were involved in the development of drugs which were capable of being abused (one of which was heroin), and it's not like drug abuse was unknown at the time.
If not "before the fact", then at least accessories.
In the same way that gun manufacturers have been hauled into court for facilitating murders.
Except that he was the creator of the organization that facilitated all these illegal activities, not just a corner drug dealer.
Well, technically, on that note, DARPA, LLBL, the IETF, his ISP, A.G. Farbin, Bayer, Sandoz, Vint Cerf, and Tim Berners Lee are all accessories before the fact...
To the people who think this is not serious... these tests are also used to determine who does or does not get scholarships.
A full ride scholarship means you do not pay for tuition, books, or even living expenses, if you live in a dorm. Lesser scholarships may only cover tuition + books, or tuition.
Still, given all the bitching about student loan debt: consider that these people, *minimally* get out with one year less of loan debt.
If they can additionally either keep their grades up themselves, or have someone do it for them, they can keep renewing the scholarship, and graduate with zero loan debt, compared to the rest of the schlubs who are coming out with a quarter million or more in student loan debt.
Further, fraudulently obtaining a scholarship this way means one less scholarship for a truly academically gifted person, who ends up paying the freight themselves, and if they do not come from a silver spoon background, it means they graduate with debt they would otherwise not have had. Even if they are a silver spoon case, they've lost the time value of money spent out of pocket, which translated to a smaller inheritance/trust fund/whatever.
This is, in fact a big deal. We are talking really large amounts of money here.
As a final consideration, this: the people taking these tests over and over for different people each time: they've had a *hell of a lot* of practice at this point. They are likely very, very good at it.
Those angry mobs won't be a match for microwave beams and high-velocity projectiles. We're not in 1800 anymore. Revolutions today in the Western world are impossible.
No, we'd be in 1400 again, if they started using those tactics (think Lorenzo de Medici).
It'd be time to hire food tasters, and hop it wasn't something slow-acting.
Yeah I never heard it called "Obamaphone" before this article.
Watch a little Fox "News"...
Sorry. No, I won't. I don't watch "infotainment", and that includes both "news" programs from Fox and MSNBC, which both just try to confirm the existing biases of the people who are already in their target demographic. Well, that, and they manufacture "sound bites".
Unless you want to bring back real news programs, I'm entirely uninterested in current television "news".
Guess that explains how I missed that little "gem".
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Particle clusters seem to occur at exponents of baseline energies for what we consider to be ordinary particles. The exotic particles we've found have been at the higher end.
If you look at the early work by Dr. Jay Phippen, you'll see the intentional constraints he places on the pair production is the solution set to 12 (actually, 11, one was an identity) Feynman-Dyson diagrams. I believe his thesis is on file at Utah State University. The initial computations were done at Los Alamos labs, back with the CDC Cyber was "hot stuff". During the mid 1980's, when he was my mentor, I ported his software and the matrix math for him to Sun Microsystems equipment, and he was able to reproduce the results, which got us really, really close to the predicted mass of the W particle.
It also let us tweak things substantially, trying a lot more Monte Carlo collision simulations in a shorter period of time, and given that the new hardware was capable of representing much larger numbers, it allowed the extension of the test energy rangers much higher (into the Higgs arena, and beyond).
FWIW, the collisions were simulations of relativistically invariant P-P and P-N collisions using the Berkeley Physics package, and the produced particle pairs were further constrained by the physics after they were produced (i.e. energy, angle, and so on as to what counted as an "allowable" pair).
I believe you can also find some references to it through my other faculty advisor, Dr. Robert Capener's work, although he abandoned his involvement in the U.S. atomic weapons program shortly after the neutron bomb was created, and concentrated mostly on CS after that.
So I think it's improbable that we have seen our last new particles.
In this case (there are certainly others), they are using deceptive reporting to mislead people on the current state of affairs. Ask yourself why they would do this. The answer isn't "because they are angels."
Nope. It's because it was a USA Today hit piece from 6 months ago, and educators, parents, and guidance counselors don't want to take responsibility for the input to the pipeline, and it's a slow news day.
They don't release the numbers because they don't want to be blamed for them, when they can only take whatever output comes out of the pipeline.
It's not like there are huge numbers of PhD CS people in the underrepresented minorities just sitting around twiddling their thumbs: everyone knows that the only people who get discriminated against for these jobs are people who are old (sorry... "not 'digital natives'... must use the code words), or who learned by doing, and so have no reasonable credentials with which to protect their employers in the event of a lawsuit.
It's also not like the CollegeBoard would not *gleefully* take the money of anyone who wanted to pay for the AP Computer Science test, or any other freaking AP test, period: they will happily take *all* your money if you are willing to give it to them.
No the problem is the input to the pipeline, and it's not being addressed, and so on slow news days, you get attack pieces on the people on the other end, as if they could magically make an Comparative Literate graduate into a software engineer.
can you give me an example of a home school kid infecting anyone because of lack of vaccines?
Measles at Disneyland.
Patient 0 for the Disneyland outbreak had just returned from the Philippines, which is a measles hot zone, and did not self-quarantine for a couple of weeks before mixing with the public, and so did not know he was sick.
Here are the WHO statistics on the number of cases of various diseases reported for various countries, through 2014:
http://apps.who.int/immunizati...
The Philippines has the highest incidence of measles of any country (but China, with a vastly larger population, is not that far behind).
The only way I even know the name is because George Bailey saved the pharmacist from poisoning a kid with it in "It's a Wonderful Life." And the last recorded case of it in Europe was decades ago. So did it go hide out for a while in Africa or something?
It's endemic in some populations; also: a bacteria, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, not a virus, FWIW.
Yes. There are large reservoirs of the bacteria in many North African countries, as well as Pakistan. What's only noted in a couple of places is that while the kid was "a resident of Olot (Girona)", the kids origin was as an adoption of an immigrant child.
To see the reservoirs, here is the World Health Organization data on reported cases by country through 2014:
http://apps.who.int/immunizati...
If you care, you can also look at diseases other than Diphtheria, across the top of the chart. For example, there were 52'628 cases of measles in China in 2014, and there are rather large reservoirs in the Philippines as well (which is whre the person who was pation zero in the Disneyland measles outbreak had just travelled into the U.S. from, presumably infectious at the time they travelled. Somalia, India, Ethiopia, Viet Nam, and China also have significant measles reservoirs.
http://apps.who.int/immunizati...
Of course, we don't perform health examinations or quarantines on people traveling from these hot zones into the U.S.
P.S. India, the U.S., and Australia are the top reservoirs for pertussis (whooping cough), so it'd be a good idea to check those people too, if they happen to be coming into your country.
Actually what will be the most interesting is that after three years NOTHING HAPPENS, that is to say that our knowledge of Physics is fairly complete. However nature has a way of surprising us.
We have found particles at energies of x^1, x^2, and now with the W and Higgs, x^3. There's good reason within the standard model to believe that this progression will continue at least through x^4. It's fairly easy to see the energy ranges where the particles so far have clustered, and there really no rational reason that there won't be a cluster at even higher energies, based on the same Feynman-Dyson diagram solutions that resulted in use predicting the W and Higgs energy ranges. If you Monte Carlo at the higher energy ranges with the same constraints on the relativistically invariant pair production, the math shows particle spikes up to 10^5 (not that the LHC can hit those energies, but the math works...).
Everyone has biases and that isn't a reason to not listen to what they are saying.
Actually... that's kind of the perfect reason to not listen to what they are saying.
Yes... but they're FRENCH. F R E N C H.
I'm all for nuclear power, but OMG! F R E N C H!
Orange County parent groups to monitor Orange County Public Schools Monitoring Students On Social Media.
Do As I Say, Not, As I Do....
Anonymous is watching...
When you put it like that, it sounds like the person might have outside pressures impacting his professional affairs.
Hookers and DICE?
The best are 'software engineers' (heh) that write in a language that does garbage collection who think they know something about operating systems.
OMFG do NOT get me started on GC or this conversation will never end. Explicit memory management for people who know what the hell they are doing for $100, Alex!
First and foremost, how can you possibly have let yourself get into a situation where $210k/year has you three paychecks away from being out on the street? You need to make some adjustments to your living situation ASAP -- get your budget under control, eliminate outstanding debts, etc. You are near the very top of the industry for software engineering compensation -- it's not a matter of the market not being stable (there's very high demand), it's that you're quickly pricing yourself out of the market.
Actually, no. I routinely get 2X that offers.
And yes, he freaking needs to budget.
The problem is that "delayed gratification" is no longer a concept these days.
Just got asked about helping with the Fukushima cleanup. I'm in, in case anyone cares.
You need investing advice more than career advice. After 10 years of work you should have much more than a three month cushion -
It sound like you have fallen into the trap of allowing your expenses to grow to consume all current income. That is going to be hard to reverse, and THAT is what you need some professional help with,
I totally agree.
I am more or less "retired", unless someone comes to me with exceedingly interesting work to do, I read, I paint, I draw, I write, I tinker, I vacation, I angel invest, I patent even more stuff, I spend time with smart people, I participate in interesting forums, and I learn more stuff, taking college courses if I have to, etc..
$4M in savings is more than enough to throw off the $200K+ a year (that's at only 5%) you are currently earning, and as long as you are conscious of cash flow, this just grows over time.
People who spend all they make are people who never had to eat Cream-O-Wheat with weevils in it, and live on Top Ramen, and Mac and Cheese, and Little Caesar's Pizza, when they were younger. Learn some freaking financial discipline. Come back and "Ask Slashdot" in another 10 years.
OK, I've taken the cake.
What can I do with it, apart from either having it or eating it?
If we need to focus, we are told to put on headphones and the rest of the devs are to respect the headphones.
This would be a great idea. If you could play "silence" through the headphones, and actually *get* silence. And no, high decibel gauge pressure from noise cancellation that's never 100% effective anyway does *NOT* count as silence.
Obviously they should have seen Einstein's desk.
Here's a pretty good picture of what it typically looked like:
http://blogs-images.forbes.com...
If a dongle joke permanently harms the female mind, then imagine what seeing an actual dongle will do! They will need years of therapy and counseling (paid for by Obama care) to get over it.
People offended by naked people would naturally fail the job interview as "not a culture fit".
It's the same way we picked people for Hellstrom's Hive...
The internet ones all created facilities that could have conceivably been used to build a "Silk Road". And by "conceivably", I mean "conceivably at the time", as in "Silk Road is not sufficiently non-obvious that it should be granted a patent".
The two pharmaceutical companies were involved in the development of drugs which were capable of being abused (one of which was heroin), and it's not like drug abuse was unknown at the time.
If not "before the fact", then at least accessories.
In the same way that gun manufacturers have been hauled into court for facilitating murders.
An adult (yes, he _was_ over 18) who molested his pre-pubscent sisters
paid a "judge" to expunge the on-going criminal records citing those facts...
Oh, wait, those aren't the facts? Well we'll just look at the records and sort
these thigns out - oh, wait - the records are gone!
Too bad he didn't live in Europe; sending a "Right to be forgotten" email to Google is a heck of a lot cheaper.
Except that he was the creator of the organization that facilitated all these illegal activities, not just a corner drug dealer.
Well, technically, on that note, DARPA, LLBL, the IETF, his ISP, A.G. Farbin, Bayer, Sandoz, Vint Cerf, and Tim Berners Lee are all accessories before the fact...
I don't know too many drug dealers who pocket $142 million. I feel that might have something to do with the decision.
This makes me wonder. Does anyone know how much the State of California collected in sales tax on pharmacy sales last year?
Sounds good until you hit a latency spike. I'd hate to be getting sutured up and see the ping times climb to 2000 ms.
If only you could LEASE a LINE... (hint hint)
To the people who think this is not serious... these tests are also used to determine who does or does not get scholarships.
A full ride scholarship means you do not pay for tuition, books, or even living expenses, if you live in a dorm. Lesser scholarships may only cover tuition + books, or tuition.
Still, given all the bitching about student loan debt: consider that these people, *minimally* get out with one year less of loan debt.
If they can additionally either keep their grades up themselves, or have someone do it for them, they can keep renewing the scholarship, and graduate with zero loan debt, compared to the rest of the schlubs who are coming out with a quarter million or more in student loan debt.
Further, fraudulently obtaining a scholarship this way means one less scholarship for a truly academically gifted person, who ends up paying the freight themselves, and if they do not come from a silver spoon background, it means they graduate with debt they would otherwise not have had. Even if they are a silver spoon case, they've lost the time value of money spent out of pocket, which translated to a smaller inheritance/trust fund/whatever.
This is, in fact a big deal. We are talking really large amounts of money here.
As a final consideration, this: the people taking these tests over and over for different people each time: they've had a *hell of a lot* of practice at this point. They are likely very, very good at it.
Those angry mobs won't be a match for microwave beams and high-velocity projectiles. We're not in 1800 anymore. Revolutions today in the Western world are impossible.
No, we'd be in 1400 again, if they started using those tactics (think Lorenzo de Medici).
It'd be time to hire food tasters, and hop it wasn't something slow-acting.
Yeah I never heard it called "Obamaphone" before this article.
Watch a little Fox "News" ...
Sorry. No, I won't. I don't watch "infotainment", and that includes both "news" programs from Fox and MSNBC, which both just try to confirm the existing biases of the people who are already in their target demographic. Well, that, and they manufacture "sound bites".
Unless you want to bring back real news programs, I'm entirely uninterested in current television "news".
Guess that explains how I missed that little "gem".