Hvem kan fikse foruten teip,
hvem kan skru uten skrujern,
hvem kan rive ned veggen sin
uten å fyre med den?
Monthly Archive for September, 2004
Dårleg gjort av Akademika å ha sal på bøker eg vil ha men ikkje kjem til å få tid til å lesa.
No er eg kul, no!
Ok, let’s push BookCrossing again. The basic consept is that you’re not going to read that book again, it’ll just collect dust in your bookshelf forever. Why not let a complete and random stranger enjoy it? Because she’s an uneducated dolt?
Tilbake i Oslo. Regnar. Kaldt. Mørkt. Traktekaffi. Store koppar. Frender og fag.
Har levert sluttrapport og adgangskort, mista flybilletten, fått sluttoppgjeret, fått ordna flybillett heim og fått GT. Er trøytt.
The ego has landed.
C++ books (learn it-books, not big library references) usually don’t cover complex numbers. Understandable because I expect you don’t really need them when you write a word processor, but also very annoying, since I, a student of the glorious natural sciences, do need them, and generally prefer to use them even if I don’t have to.
Take the Mandelbrot set, which I’ve discussed earlier. So simple in complex notation. So clumsy in real notation.
Z0 = 0
Zn+1 = Zn2 + c
The Mandelbrot set is the set of those points c in the complex plane where Z∞ does not tend towards infinity.
So simple and natural in Python and Matlab. But there is hope. More typing, of course, than in that sensible language, but there are, indeed, complex numbers in C++.
Got The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion and The Rise of Endymion from Amazon today. I’m all warm and fuzzy.
And I bought The LaTeX Companion (2nd ed). Huggy.
I hereby introduce the first draft of the introduction of my final report. It’s so vague and poetic I’m all dizzy.
The LHCb is an experiment that attempts to measure charge-parity-violation in the decay of bottom quarks. The violation of conservation of charge and parity is a phenomenon that sets matter and antimatter apart: Unlike what was first thought when antimatter was discovered, matter and antimatter are not identical except that the charge is inverted. Matter and antimatter versions of the same particle decay in ways that are subtly but crucially different.
Nettradio er ganske så genialt. Særleg med såpass bra greier som NRK trass alt produserer, men eg skal vedgå at nettradiooplegget dei har på nettsida si ikkje er stort å skryta av. HiØf sitt nettradio-opplegg er derimot fint. Dei har ogg.
