Dalton
@gdaltonbentley
Retired electronics/software engineer, IT business owner (retired, Southwest PC Solutions), former musician and recording engineer (Dalton Bentley Music). I admire Ronald Fisher but also cherish the American Republic (so annoy everyone).
I frequently listen to his 12-bar blues "West End Blues," recorded with His Hot Five on June 28th, 1928, with OKeh Records. Armstrong's unaccompanied opening cadenza on the trumpet, as well as his scat vocal chorus in a duet with the clarinet changed jazz from dance-oriented to skill and emotion.
Watch pot of stew boiling turbulently on the stove. Consider surface of Sun roiling at 10913 degrees F, hotter ionized plasma below boiling up. Magnetic field concentrations (plasma flow is an electric current so generates mag field) trigger Kelvin-Helmholtz vorticies:
I detest the pollution of human reason and knowledge through the fraudulent propagation of AI parrot output (it will be remembered as one of the most evil movements in human history). However, to avoid clickiing on suspect SERP links, I found useful the DuckDuck AI summary:
Share my environment with you. Quick shot out my west window (New Mexico, US) to west-northwest at 0814 utc-6 this morning with Canon SX400 IS:
Terence Tao (world-renowned mathematician) is currently working on collaboration with humans and AI focusing on formalizing proofs, coding them for verification by proof systems (e.g.,see my 2021 Isabelle prover tutorial www.southwestpcsolutions.com/IsabTut.pdf ) AI Aletheia may help here:
Used to love going to White Sands as a kid in the early 60's. Captured a white horned toad there then, which dripped red blood from its eyes when it was angry. Went back in 2015 (but saw no toads):
Ran across comic while revisiting data dimension reduction in Huber and Holmes "Modern Statistics for Modern Biology." Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Abbot was published in 1884 (and familiar to anyone considering interdimensional perception). imgs.xkcd.com/comics/flatl...
In 1950's von Neumann assumed that brains process numbers, i.e., compute (but brains are not digital computers, and computers only process symbols anyway) and his error continues to present. In 2012 DARPA (US gov) had the SyNAPSE program to developing low-power electronic neuromorphic computers:
I added the French search engine Qwant address to my available search engines (use the full url www.qwant.com so you don't have American search "accidentally" blocking it). SERP this morning on a 1959 medical paper I wanted:
Think of dropping a ball bearing on a sheet of rubber---then imagine walking around the circle circumference on the sheet vs walking all the way down the stretched warped sheet and back up to the opposite side, that long walk is the diameter. Could we fix QFT fermion infinity charge at 1/r?
Read Nevill Mott's 1977 Nobel lecture "Electrons in Glass." Glass is transparent because visible light quanta have insufficient engery to excite glass electrons to jump a forbidden gap between valence band and conduction band. This figure from a lecture by Pierre Lucas clarifies:
Reading paper on lattice gauge theory and mass and surprised to find W. Heisenberg had developed a lattice world concept in 1930s, e.g., to tame the UV divergence in electron self energy. Danish inventor and poet Piet Hein created a geometric puzzle (Soma) after hearing a Heisenberg lecture then:
I have written many technical articles over the years and got a kick out of the metaphor applied to such tasks by Alfred Watkins in the preface to his 1920 "Photography - Its Principles and Applications"
1971 I was playing a 1955 Gibson Les Paul jr. at a gig at a Holloman AFB teen club. As I recall we were playing Black Sabbath's song "Sweet Leaf," which our drummer sang. I was running an Ampeg 100 watt head and 4 12-inch speaker bottom, while the bass player ran Acoustic 371 1 18-inch folded horn.
Ran across a useful website (by William J. Claff, a retired software engineer who helped develop Lotus123 in 1989) for optical lens analysis, photonstophotos.net It offers an Optical Bench where you can display parameters of lens files, complete with ray tracing:
I suggest everyone over the age of 60 begin doing the Alfred E. Neuman version in response:
Working with open-source vector graphics program, Inkscape, lately. Impressed with the built-in XML editor to use on open SVG file (or imported aligned pdf):
Pleased to get some preliminary function from ImageJ plugin SE_MTF (written by Carles Mitja and friends at the Image Quality Laboratory, UPC, Spain) today. Edge spatial response shown for ROI 63 x 189 of slanted edge SEMTFbmp1.tiff. Next: scan a double-edge razor blade on Canon scanner and analyze.
If there is any civilization remaining following the present era, they will view this type of thing as appallingly crude:
Really precise experiment at remarkable low energies. The key is "In scintillating materials, the ensuing dense cascade of secondary recoils dissipates a fraction of its energy as detectable light," or in your case ionization energy detected by HPGe 1 kg diodes.
Kept hearing the lyric and melody "O bury me not on the lone prairie" playing in my head this morning, though haven't heard the old cowboy's lament in decades. Dunno...view to northwest out my window is desert, not prairie:
Nice job. World sea level will likely rise by 5 ft by 2100 per Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report. From EPA a figure shows ongoing coastal flooding off US through 2023 (flood days per year):