This seems like the perfect opportunity for Kevin Smith to make a small portion of the audience laugh during a "serious" scene and ruin the movie for the people who haven't seen it yet. Great prank. Wish I thought of that. At least, that's what I would have done if I were Kevin Smith, but then again, I'm an asshole.
Not that I'm upset, or angry, or trying to be a dick, but the "fortran is god's language" I stole from Tim Mattson over at Intel. He mentioned it during an openmp talk at SC05 here in Seattle. I thought it was funny and since I have to use fortran, I'm going to at least try to make myself feel better by spreading this propaganda.
C is good for number-crunching, but definitely not for anything touching strings.
While I can't say anything for using C with strings, the real number crunchers of the world agree that God's language is the only appropriate one, fortran.
I'm sure you'll be able to see pictures from this bad boy in 50 years when the true, clandestine nature of the project is revealed. I bet from that distance it could resolve individual hairs on my ass.
That's not entireley true. A collegue of mine just got his Ph.D. in applied mathematics for studying the long term effects of a short burst of radiation on a fetus. His research dealt with modeling the risk of getting colon cancer after getting an x-ray taken while the mother is pregnant. I think the result of his research was that if you have an x-ray taken in the ninth month of gestation, that x-ray is more likely to cause colon cancer in later life, whereas if it were in the first month, if the fetus gets to be 50 years old then the risk of colon cancer is what it is for a regular person. More likely to die early on though. His website doesn't have any of his papers on it, so I won't share.
LaTeX is absolutely indispensable for (Applied) Mathematicians. I know of no other way to get equations to "just work". And yes, I do it on my macbook too.
Patents on using wavelets for compression? Maybe I should (go back in time and) try to patent Fourier decomposition/compression. It's too bad there are people holding the rest of the world back because of a silly patent on using wavelets. They're pretty easy to do. Kind of thing a college student could do (Say a guy do the other day in class to tell the truth).
An aging plutonium based nuclear weapon has a lot of plutonium in it. Plutonium decays. When it does it makes helium. This helium makes bubbles in the plutonium. A lot of computational power is being used by DoE to find out if a nuclear bomb with holey plutonium can still explode. It's anincreadably difficult problem. You know that BlueGene/L machine at LLNL, they run this simulation on half the nodes (63k processors) and it take for ever. Maybe they just found out that after 40 years, your plutonium isn't what it used to be, and needs to be replaced. They simulate what happens to a block of holey plutonium when it gets compressed (nearly) instananiously (like when you make a bomb go off).
I heard about this at the supercomputing conference last November here in Seattle. Sounds like an interesting problem, with some neat challenges.
mmm... tasty eigenmodes abounding. Congratulations. We study this kind of crap all the time in the Applied Mathematics program at Univ. of Washington. Can't imagine it's so different for other programs.
That being said, I like the nice pictures. I've seen some interesting pictures where a thin layer of fluid is trapped between two cyliders. The inside cylinder is rotated and you can see through the outer one. At certain Reynolds http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_number numbers you get different forms, such as a stream going helicaly around the cylinders, much like a barbers pole. I think this picture might be in Garrett's "Atmospheric Boundary Layers" book (no, I will not help you find it. That would be cheating and I don't get any of the royalties, so I don't care.).
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THIS IS A DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE COMPUTER SYSTEM. USE OF THE SYSTEM IMPLIES CONSENT TO MONITORING. ANY UNAUTHORIZED USE OF THE SYSTEM WILL BE PROSECUTED.
Iron is the energy dead end. When a star runs out of hydrogen, it starts "burning" Helium, when it's out of Helium it starts "burning" boron, and carbon, and oxygen into heavier elements.
This is not entirely accurate. A star begins converting helium into beryllium when the pressure due to hydrogen fusion is no longer able to support the gravitational induced collapse of the star. It's all about balancing forces.
It is believed that often this will happen when hydrogen fusion is still taking place towards the surface of the star. In the end, it is quite likely that a large star will resemble an onion, with several layers where different nuclear reactions are taking place. So He -> Be can happen while H -> He is still happening in a star.
Robert vand de Geijn, a collegue of Mr. Goto's at the University of Texas (my alma mater) came to give a seminar talk to us grad students at the University of Washington Applied Mathematics Department last school year. He was talking about using a new language to program on supercomputers. He showed us slides of how his code stacked up with the state of the art MPI code. In his analysis he also showed off Goto's BLAS. One of the issues with a BLAS is that if the size of your matrices and vectors do not line up well the cache size you will spend a considerable amount of time fetching data from memory. This causes periodic dips in performance when compared to matrix size. GOTOblas significantly improves performance in the regard. This guy GOTO is insanely good at what he does. And quit trying to be funny with your pedantic goto jokes.
One of the issues here that seams to be overlooked is that the monorail project is completely seperate from the 1962 Worlds Fair Monorail. So to phrase it as "extending the 1962 Worlds fair Monorail into a city wide service..." would be false.
In my opinion, the monorail would be a good idea if it were used to allow commuters from across Lake Washington (Bellevue, Redmond, Issaquah) or from the north (Everett, Lynnwood, etc.). As far as I can tell, the biggest issues for Seattle in terms of traffic are congestion on Interstate-5 and Interstate-90. The current monorail does nothing to alleviate the bigger problem. It's a $5bn bandaide for a $250k bus problem.
Not only that, but the areas that the monorail would service aren't worth it. The bus system isn't ideal, but could asymptotically approach perfection for a lot less money.
Here's another example of Seattle having it's head so far up it's ass:
The city made a tunnel (construction: 1987-1990) to go through downtown to take some buses off the streets. They built the tunnel with light rail in mind and in the road surface. The city closed the tunnel yesterday to make changes to allow light rail to go through the tunnel. This involves lowering the road surface 8 inches below where it sits today. Other option were to build up the sidewalk in the tunnel, find a better light rail car, or build small ramps (like San Francisco did) where the cars will stop. The tunnel will be closed until 2009 to allow for construction.
Moral of the story, the people in charge of transit in Seattle have no clue what they're doing. They would rather cripple downtown traffic than find a better solution to the problem. Light rail will be the key to getting Seattle moving, but it's going to take 20 years before it starts working. As for me, I try not to go downtown as much as possible, and when I do, it's on a bus.
Wealthy people of Seattle, grow up and take the bus.
If people are so ticked of about GIMP's UI, how about using GIMPshop, you can even have Photoshop shortcuts. I imagine that Adobe spend quite a penny on UI, so why not steal what they've shown to be good.
One of my favourite pubs in Austin, TX called the Draught House does precisely this. I've never seen that many people using laptops, but then again I only ever go at night when it's beer drinking time and not surf the webtime. It's all about priorities. I think they also use a portal of some kind to keep tabs on how long you've been online. I don't live in Austin anymore so I only go a couple times a year now. boo hoo.
Used to deliver for these guys. They're a bunch of jerks. Their service area is limited to a good chunk of central Austin (TX) and most customers are from the University of Texas. How about discussing the terrible situation plaguing the delivery trade with asshole students tipping only 5 cents for a couple burritos delivered to their door. Bunch of philistines.
(Might be closed down for the summer)
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This seems like the perfect opportunity for Kevin Smith to make a small portion of the audience laugh during a "serious" scene and ruin the movie for the people who haven't seen it yet. Great prank. Wish I thought of that. At least, that's what I would have done if I were Kevin Smith, but then again, I'm an asshole.
Not that I'm upset, or angry, or trying to be a dick, but the "fortran is god's language" I stole from Tim Mattson over at Intel. He mentioned it during an openmp talk at SC05 here in Seattle. I thought it was funny and since I have to use fortran, I'm going to at least try to make myself feel better by spreading this propaganda.
C is good for number-crunching, but definitely not for anything touching strings.
While I can't say anything for using C with strings, the real number crunchers of the world agree that God's language is the only appropriate one, fortran.
Sure it does! As a Single User Vehicle.
You left out the mouse and bowling ball. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg
I'm sure you'll be able to see pictures from this bad boy in 50 years when the true, clandestine nature of the project is revealed. I bet from that distance it could resolve individual hairs on my ass.
That's not entireley true. A collegue of mine just got his Ph.D. in applied mathematics for studying the long term effects of a short burst of radiation on a fetus. His research dealt with modeling the risk of getting colon cancer after getting an x-ray taken while the mother is pregnant. I think the result of his research was that if you have an x-ray taken in the ninth month of gestation, that x-ray is more likely to cause colon cancer in later life, whereas if it were in the first month, if the fetus gets to be 50 years old then the risk of colon cancer is what it is for a regular person. More likely to die early on though. His website doesn't have any of his papers on it, so I won't share.
LaTeX is absolutely indispensable for (Applied) Mathematicians. I know of no other way to get equations to "just work". And yes, I do it on my macbook too.
Patents on using wavelets for compression? Maybe I should (go back in time and) try to patent Fourier decomposition/compression. It's too bad there are people holding the rest of the world back because of a silly patent on using wavelets. They're pretty easy to do. Kind of thing a college student could do (Say a guy do the other day in class to tell the truth).
Interesting, I can totally see the similarity.
An aging plutonium based nuclear weapon has a lot of plutonium in it. Plutonium decays. When it does it makes helium. This helium makes bubbles in the plutonium. A lot of computational power is being used by DoE to find out if a nuclear bomb with holey plutonium can still explode. It's anincreadably difficult problem. You know that BlueGene/L machine at LLNL, they run this simulation on half the nodes (63k processors) and it take for ever. Maybe they just found out that after 40 years, your plutonium isn't what it used to be, and needs to be replaced. They simulate what happens to a block of holey plutonium when it gets compressed (nearly) instananiously (like when you make a bomb go off). I heard about this at the supercomputing conference last November here in Seattle. Sounds like an interesting problem, with some neat challenges.
mmm ... tasty eigenmodes abounding. Congratulations. We study this kind of crap all the time in the Applied Mathematics program at Univ. of Washington. Can't imagine it's so different for other programs.
That being said, I like the nice pictures. I've seen some interesting pictures where a thin layer of fluid is trapped between two cyliders. The inside cylinder is rotated and you can see through the outer one. At certain Reynolds http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_number numbers you get different forms, such as a stream going helicaly around the cylinders, much like a barbers pole. I think this picture might be in Garrett's "Atmospheric Boundary Layers" book (no, I will not help you find it. That would be cheating and I don't get any of the royalties, so I don't care.).
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$ cat /etc/motd
THIS IS A DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE COMPUTER
SYSTEM. USE OF THE SYSTEM IMPLIES CONSENT TO
MONITORING. ANY UNAUTHORIZED USE OF THE SYSTEM WILL
BE PROSECUTED.
$
The Mac runs BSD out of the box, natively.
This is not entirely accurate. A star begins converting helium into beryllium when the pressure due to hydrogen fusion is no longer able to support the gravitational induced collapse of the star. It's all about balancing forces.
It is believed that often this will happen when hydrogen fusion is still taking place towards the surface of the star. In the end, it is quite likely that a large star will resemble an onion, with several layers where different nuclear reactions are taking place. So He -> Be can happen while H -> He is still happening in a star.
I mean, isn't this what Jeffery Dahmer did to his victims?
Robert vand de Geijn, a collegue of Mr. Goto's at the University of Texas (my alma mater) came to give a seminar talk to us grad students at the University of Washington Applied Mathematics Department last school year. He was talking about using a new language to program on supercomputers. He showed us slides of how his code stacked up with the state of the art MPI code. In his analysis he also showed off Goto's BLAS. One of the issues with a BLAS is that if the size of your matrices and vectors do not line up well the cache size you will spend a considerable amount of time fetching data from memory. This causes periodic dips in performance when compared to matrix size. GOTOblas significantly improves performance in the regard. This guy GOTO is insanely good at what he does. And quit trying to be funny with your pedantic goto jokes.
I have not found any "silently distributed updates as fat-binaries." If anyone could point one out, that would be excellent.
One of the issues here that seams to be overlooked is that the monorail project is completely seperate from the 1962 Worlds Fair Monorail. So to phrase it as "extending the 1962 Worlds fair Monorail into a city wide service..." would be false.
In my opinion, the monorail would be a good idea if it were used to allow commuters from across Lake Washington (Bellevue, Redmond, Issaquah) or from the north (Everett, Lynnwood, etc.). As far as I can tell, the biggest issues for Seattle in terms of traffic are congestion on Interstate-5 and Interstate-90. The current monorail does nothing to alleviate the bigger problem. It's a $5bn bandaide for a $250k bus problem.
Not only that, but the areas that the monorail would service aren't worth it. The bus system isn't ideal, but could asymptotically approach perfection for a lot less money.
Here's another example of Seattle having it's head so far up it's ass:
The city made a tunnel (construction: 1987-1990) to go through downtown to take some buses off the streets. They built the tunnel with light rail in mind and in the road surface. The city closed the tunnel yesterday to make changes to allow light rail to go through the tunnel. This involves lowering the road surface 8 inches below where it sits today. Other option were to build up the sidewalk in the tunnel, find a better light rail car, or build small ramps (like San Francisco did) where the cars will stop. The tunnel will be closed until 2009 to allow for construction.
Moral of the story, the people in charge of transit in Seattle have no clue what they're doing. They would rather cripple downtown traffic than find a better solution to the problem. Light rail will be the key to getting Seattle moving, but it's going to take 20 years before it starts working. As for me, I try not to go downtown as much as possible, and when I do, it's on a bus.
Wealthy people of Seattle, grow up and take the bus.
If people are so ticked of about GIMP's UI, how about using GIMPshop, you can even have Photoshop shortcuts. I imagine that Adobe spend quite a penny on UI, so why not steal what they've shown to be good.
any one want to give me $4bn? just thought I'd ask.
One of my favourite pubs in Austin, TX called the Draught House does precisely this. I've never seen that many people using laptops, but then again I only ever go at night when it's beer drinking time and not surf the webtime. It's all about priorities. I think they also use a portal of some kind to keep tabs on how long you've been online. I don't live in Austin anymore so I only go a couple times a year now. boo hoo.
Used to deliver for these guys. They're a bunch of jerks. Their service area is limited to a good chunk of central Austin (TX) and most customers are from the University of Texas. How about discussing the terrible situation plaguing the delivery trade with asshole students tipping only 5 cents for a couple burritos delivered to their door. Bunch of philistines. (Might be closed down for the summer)
... move. Join the rest of civilization, and stop taking up so much space.
These rumors have been around since the dawn of mac. Take them worth a grain of salt.