Well, the Russian billionaire Yuri Milnor created the Fundamental Physics Prize about a year ago. http://www.fundamentalphysicsprize.org/
The top prize is worth $3 million (meaning the breakthrough prize is not the largest science prize in history) and there are a number of smaller prizes worth $1 million each.
The article seems to be sorely lacking in details, and when it finally does mention the specific models, it seems that they only actually tried to get inflation out of toroidally compactified Type IIa String Theory, claiming that this was generic. If anything, this is the opposite of a generic situation. Toroidal compactifications preserve far too much supersymmetry to be generic, and as the article mentions, there are other reasons to expect that inflation won't be visible in the IIa theory. Additionally, the article fails to mention that there are a number of inflationary mechanisms in string theory that seem to be quite generic. Included in these are KKLT, KKLMMT, Brane Inflation, DBI Inflation, and many more stringy inflation models which I haven't mentioned. In fact, if anything, the problem currently seems to be that there are too many viable inflationary models in string theory.
I wholeheartedly agree that interning overseas is great. I'm a physicist in the summer between my undergraduate and graduate work and I got an internship in Italy with the INFN/DOE summer student exchange program. The pay is decent, and more importantly, it's a great way to get to see Europe without breaking the bank. And while the parent is missing public intoxication, I'm here in Europe enjoying all of it.
Google has a search appliance that is capable of searching files on a local network. This may be more than what you're looking for, but if this is a serious enterprise application, this seems just right. It's like having your own personal google.
In case you haven't been paying attention to the replies to the posts suggesting this in other SCO threads, there isn't any stock available to be shorted, so nobody can short SCO (or at least of those people who wanted to short after SCO filed suit, nobody can).
I'm not sure if this is what you're asking about, but firefox can be installed in any directory and does not require any system install. The machine I am using right now is a fairly well locked down semi-public machine running Windows 2003 Server, and I've just upgraded to firefox 0.9RC. I just installed everything in my personal space.
Um, not quite. If you had RTA, you would understand that the reason the radius of the universe is so large (relative to it's age) is the hubble expansion of the universe. According to current theory, the universe has been expanding since the big bag at an increasing rate. This expansion is not governed by special relativity, and a result of this expansion is that if something travelled 1 light-year in the early universe, it has now travelled something on the order of 1000 light-years. And yes, IAATP (I am a theoretical physicist (in training, at least))
I know that universities and labs are often looking to get rid of old equipment in order to make room for new equipment, so they often sell older stuff for very low prices, sometimes even free. For example, a couple of months ago, one of the national laboratories associated with my university was looking to get rid of some older equipment, which included a cray supercomputer (LN2 cooled, so you needed a ready supply) and several NMR setups. While these items were rather large (ie room-sized), I'm sure they were giving away smaller stuff too. Just check out your local university, especially any departments which have buildings being renovated or are otherwise moving.
This proof has been out for about 9 months, and so far has stood up to intense scrutiny. Perelman is considered one of the top mathematicians in his field, and other mathematicians believe his proof is likely correct, although it is still being scrutinized. I recently attended a lecture by Richard Hamilton, who has been leading a team going through the proof, and he showed the method used and which sections of the proof had already been verified. It appears that the Poincare Conjecture finally has been solved.
If you are interested in the method of proof, Perelman used the Ricci Flow, blow-up arguments, and surgery to prove the Thurston Geometrization conjecture (a theorem far more powerful than the Poincare Conjecture alone).
This semester, I purchased several of my books online from sellers in other countries. One of the books, which came from Hong Kong, arrived the morning after I had purchased it. I purchased the book for less than 1/3 of the US price, and the seller was still making enough profit to be able to overnight the textbook to me. If this isn't a sure sign of an overpriced book, then I don't know what is.
A slightly less draconian measure which my school has taken is, upon detecting virus activity from a given computer on the network, it is removed from the DHCP database and kicked from the network. The owner of the computer is then notified that their computer is infected with a virus and not allowed to reconnect to the network until they have demonstrated the problem is fixed. One should note that our network has on the order of 50,000 computers attached to it, so this is definetely a scriptable solution. Also, this allows for a mixed computing environment.
Since they seem to think they can handle the slashdotting, I've taken the liberty and searched through their site. This page has a number of links to pages which have large images and movies linked to. Hopefully, this will really provide them some load.
Well, I was thinking of this (/. article on PeltierBeer), but it turns out that it was wireless (battery operated), so I can't think of any wired beer glasses at the moment.
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Well, seeing as how Mathematical Sciences Research Institute overlooks the Advanced Light Source and the rest of Berkeley, where "The Hulk" was filmed, it's not too far fetched.
$4 is awfully expensive for a per cd levy. The levy is 40 times what one would reasonably expect to pay for the media. If anything, this will simply cause the black market for blank media to explode. I'm already opposed to such levys, since this assumes that the only possible use of the media would be for piracy. From what I can tell, the only effect this legislation will be to elimante all IT from Sweden, since backups will be prohibitively expensive. Immagine trying to backup a 4TB database. Even backing up to 8GB tapes, at $4/tape it works out to $2048 per backup, plus the pre-tax cost of the tapes. Of course, I haven't even touched on the myriad of other issues this type of legislation brings with it, since I'm sure others will do so. This legislation is rediculous. I can only hope that the $4/cd addendum was attached so as to prevent this from passing.
Why, turn it into a web server, of course. There was an earlier slashdot article on it here . I mean, what better use for a game boy advance than a web server, especially now that it's replacement has arrived.
Just thought you should be informed, PDF is an open format and does not require using Adobe writer. While the windows options may be limited, that is primarily because few windows programs have been written to create PDF output. In unix, it is fairly simple to write to PDF format and doesn't involve using any Adobe tools.
Just thought I'd point out, an aluminum-foil hat won't do anything. Aluminum foil isn't thick enough to stop the incoming radio waves. If want this to work, I reccommend using copper foil. The problem with aluminum foil is that the skin depth of aluminum is about 4 times the thickness of aluminum foil, meaning that not enough of the amplitude is dissipated traveling through the aluminum to make a difference. So next time you're worried about the aliens reading your brain (or other invasions of privacy), use a copper hat, not aluminum.
Further commenting on my own thoughts, what I would reccommend if you can afford it would be the following setup. Get yourself a micro-atx system w/ top of the line everything and a flat pannel display as your primary system (try one of these for example) and then get yourself an old cheap very slim & lightweight laptop (minimal drives/screen, maximal battery life) and install $distro on it and get a wifi card for it, using it as your cary around campus computer. It'll work great for your average ssh + xforewarding session to a computer with real power or for just typing up notes in $editor (I'm referring to classes in which you have highly linear, text based notes or for working on papers. As I already stated in the parent post, computers don't work well for taking notes in math/physics classes). At some point towards the end of the summer, after I've made some more money, I'll probably set myself up with a similar system.
I wholeheartedly agree. While a computer is important (I suggest a laptop light enough that you can cary it with you but with enough features that you can use it as your primary machine), nothing beats a pen and a notebook for taking notes. I never took notes in high school, but I realized the first day in my first college math class that I would need to take notes. There is no way to remember all of the theorems their proofs without notes, and unless you can type latex at 80+ wpm, go with the pen and paper. The same applies to most other science/engineering classes. There is just no way to get diagrams/formulae/complicated notation down fast enough in a computer.
I'm currently working for a small research group which is part of a particle physics experiment and we are running entirely on Redhat systems, using many excellent open source tools made available by CERN. In my experience, a Unix like environment works orders of magnitude better than a windows environment, especially when it comes time to automate events. I can't even imagine trying to do what we do in a windows environment. It would be an absolute nightmare trying to run most of the program we write.
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Apparently, LEGO Universe actually died because the cost of keeping the game G-rated was too high. http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2015/0...
Well, the Russian billionaire Yuri Milnor created the Fundamental Physics Prize about a year ago. http://www.fundamentalphysicsprize.org/ The top prize is worth $3 million (meaning the breakthrough prize is not the largest science prize in history) and there are a number of smaller prizes worth $1 million each.
The article seems to be sorely lacking in details, and when it finally does mention the specific models, it seems that they only actually tried to get inflation out of toroidally compactified Type IIa String Theory, claiming that this was generic. If anything, this is the opposite of a generic situation. Toroidal compactifications preserve far too much supersymmetry to be generic, and as the article mentions, there are other reasons to expect that inflation won't be visible in the IIa theory. Additionally, the article fails to mention that there are a number of inflationary mechanisms in string theory that seem to be quite generic. Included in these are KKLT, KKLMMT, Brane Inflation, DBI Inflation, and many more stringy inflation models which I haven't mentioned. In fact, if anything, the problem currently seems to be that there are too many viable inflationary models in string theory.
I wholeheartedly agree that interning overseas is great. I'm a physicist in the summer between my undergraduate and graduate work and I got an internship in Italy with the INFN/DOE summer student exchange program. The pay is decent, and more importantly, it's a great way to get to see Europe without breaking the bank. And while the parent is missing public intoxication, I'm here in Europe enjoying all of it.
Google has a search appliance that is capable of searching files on a local network. This may be more than what you're looking for, but if this is a serious enterprise application, this seems just right. It's like having your own personal google.
In case you haven't been paying attention to the replies to the posts suggesting this in other SCO threads, there isn't any stock available to be shorted, so nobody can short SCO (or at least of those people who wanted to short after SCO filed suit, nobody can).
I'm not sure if this is what you're asking about, but firefox can be installed in any directory and does not require any system install. The machine I am using right now is a fairly well locked down semi-public machine running Windows 2003 Server, and I've just upgraded to firefox 0.9RC. I just installed everything in my personal space.
Um, not quite. If you had RTA, you would understand that the reason the radius of the universe is so large (relative to it's age) is the hubble expansion of the universe. According to current theory, the universe has been expanding since the big bag at an increasing rate. This expansion is not governed by special relativity, and a result of this expansion is that if something travelled 1 light-year in the early universe, it has now travelled something on the order of 1000 light-years. And yes, IAATP (I am a theoretical physicist (in training, at least))
I know that universities and labs are often looking to get rid of old equipment in order to make room for new equipment, so they often sell older stuff for very low prices, sometimes even free. For example, a couple of months ago, one of the national laboratories associated with my university was looking to get rid of some older equipment, which included a cray supercomputer (LN2 cooled, so you needed a ready supply) and several NMR setups. While these items were rather large (ie room-sized), I'm sure they were giving away smaller stuff too. Just check out your local university, especially any departments which have buildings being renovated or are otherwise moving.
This proof has been out for about 9 months, and so far has stood up to intense scrutiny. Perelman is considered one of the top mathematicians in his field, and other mathematicians believe his proof is likely correct, although it is still being scrutinized. I recently attended a lecture by Richard Hamilton, who has been leading a team going through the proof, and he showed the method used and which sections of the proof had already been verified. It appears that the Poincare Conjecture finally has been solved.
If you are interested in the method of proof, Perelman used the Ricci Flow, blow-up arguments, and surgery to prove the Thurston Geometrization conjecture (a theorem far more powerful than the Poincare Conjecture alone).
This semester, I purchased several of my books online from sellers in other countries. One of the books, which came from Hong Kong, arrived the morning after I had purchased it. I purchased the book for less than 1/3 of the US price, and the seller was still making enough profit to be able to overnight the textbook to me. If this isn't a sure sign of an overpriced book, then I don't know what is.
A slightly less draconian measure which my school has taken is, upon detecting virus activity from a given computer on the network, it is removed from the DHCP database and kicked from the network. The owner of the computer is then notified that their computer is infected with a virus and not allowed to reconnect to the network until they have demonstrated the problem is fixed. One should note that our network has on the order of 50,000 computers attached to it, so this is definetely a scriptable solution. Also, this allows for a mixed computing environment.
While our friend Bill may think that 512k should be enough memory for anybody, are you sure you didn't mean 512Mb?
take, for example, this 6.6MB mpeg video (Warning, direct link to video).
Since they seem to think they can handle the slashdotting, I've taken the liberty and searched through their site. This page has a number of links to pages which have large images and movies linked to. Hopefully, this will really provide them some load.
Sorry about being nitpicky (sp?), but the complex plane is denoted C, whereas Z is the set of integers (comes from the German word for integer).
Well, I was thinking of this (/. article on PeltierBeer), but it turns out that it was wireless (battery operated), so I can't think of any wired beer glasses at the moment.
Well, seeing as how Mathematical Sciences Research Institute overlooks the Advanced Light Source and the rest of Berkeley, where "The Hulk" was filmed, it's not too far fetched.
$4 is awfully expensive for a per cd levy. The levy is 40 times what one would reasonably expect to pay for the media. If anything, this will simply cause the black market for blank media to explode. I'm already opposed to such levys, since this assumes that the only possible use of the media would be for piracy. From what I can tell, the only effect this legislation will be to elimante all IT from Sweden, since backups will be prohibitively expensive. Immagine trying to backup a 4TB database. Even backing up to 8GB tapes, at $4/tape it works out to $2048 per backup, plus the pre-tax cost of the tapes. Of course, I haven't even touched on the myriad of other issues this type of legislation brings with it, since I'm sure others will do so. This legislation is rediculous. I can only hope that the $4/cd addendum was attached so as to prevent this from passing.
Note: IANAROS (I Am Not A Resident Of Sweden)
Why, turn it into a web server, of course. There was an earlier slashdot article on it here . I mean, what better use for a game boy advance than a web server, especially now that it's replacement has arrived.
Just thought you should be informed, PDF is an open format and does not require using Adobe writer. While the windows options may be limited, that is primarily because few windows programs have been written to create PDF output. In unix, it is fairly simple to write to PDF format and doesn't involve using any Adobe tools.
Just thought I'd point out, an aluminum-foil hat won't do anything. Aluminum foil isn't thick enough to stop the incoming radio waves. If want this to work, I reccommend using copper foil. The problem with aluminum foil is that the skin depth of aluminum is about 4 times the thickness of aluminum foil, meaning that not enough of the amplitude is dissipated traveling through the aluminum to make a difference. So next time you're worried about the aliens reading your brain (or other invasions of privacy), use a copper hat, not aluminum.
Further commenting on my own thoughts, what I would reccommend if you can afford it would be the following setup. Get yourself a micro-atx system w/ top of the line everything and a flat pannel display as your primary system (try one of these for example) and then get yourself an old cheap very slim & lightweight laptop (minimal drives/screen, maximal battery life) and install $distro on it and get a wifi card for it, using it as your cary around campus computer. It'll work great for your average ssh + xforewarding session to a computer with real power or for just typing up notes in $editor (I'm referring to classes in which you have highly linear, text based notes or for working on papers. As I already stated in the parent post, computers don't work well for taking notes in math/physics classes). At some point towards the end of the summer, after I've made some more money, I'll probably set myself up with a similar system.
I wholeheartedly agree. While a computer is important (I suggest a laptop light enough that you can cary it with you but with enough features that you can use it as your primary machine), nothing beats a pen and a notebook for taking notes. I never took notes in high school, but I realized the first day in my first college math class that I would need to take notes. There is no way to remember all of the theorems their proofs without notes, and unless you can type latex at 80+ wpm, go with the pen and paper. The same applies to most other science/engineering classes. There is just no way to get diagrams/formulae/complicated notation down fast enough in a computer.
I'm currently working for a small research group which is part of a particle physics experiment and we are running entirely on Redhat systems, using many excellent open source tools made available by CERN. In my experience, a Unix like environment works orders of magnitude better than a windows environment, especially when it comes time to automate events. I can't even imagine trying to do what we do in a windows environment. It would be an absolute nightmare trying to run most of the program we write.