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by zeta
January 2nd, 2006, 12:57 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: what to do?
Replies: 135
Views: 135251

what to do?

Thanks N, that is helpful. You do care
by zeta
January 1st, 2006, 10:33 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: career path for phD without too much C++ experience
Replies: 1
Views: 125294

career path for phD without too much C++ experience

<t>benecia, I defended my PhD in Oct and am now in a fellowship for a couple of years. I didn't know aboutQF before Sept and tried for a couple of positions. The best interviews I had were for research positions(ie., further away from the front desk) and the worst were for C++ developer. In general ...
by zeta
January 1st, 2006, 9:51 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: visualization (3D or other)
Replies: 17
Views: 127055

visualization (3D or other)

Here's an example of the rich detail available with POVray:povray hall of famewhich also serves to illustrate that POVray is primarily an animator's tool!
by zeta
January 1st, 2006, 9:43 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: visualization (3D or other)
Replies: 17
Views: 127055

visualization (3D or other)

<t>dawnraider, there's no interface (as far as I know) for POVray, but it's freeand relatively easy to use, if you have some geometry and basic math. I don't know what sort of data you guys visualize exactly, but depending on the project,I take a data file and use awk to write the POVray script whic...
by zeta
January 1st, 2006, 9:28 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: what to do?
Replies: 135
Views: 135251

what to do?

<t>N, there's very little I can prove, not being a matha-magician like yourself. I have every intention of sticking with physics, that's difficult enough for me. But back to my question, is there an analoguein finance for the Hamiltonian (anyone)? If there is then there are obvious ways to apply gro...
by zeta
January 1st, 2006, 5:36 pm
Forum: Brainteaser Forum
Topic: entropy and information
Replies: 4
Views: 126352

entropy and information

(This is from sveshnikov) A number of shots are fired at two targets; two shots at the first targetand three at the second one. The Probs of hitting target in one shot are 1/2, 1/3 respectively. Which target has the more certain outcome? (hint: the subject title)
by zeta
January 1st, 2006, 5:14 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: I love lists...
Replies: 23
Views: 138675

I love lists...

Some very fruitful research, and I honestly didn't know that about lou and andy. Personally little britain scares the bejabbers out of me; is it accurate?
by zeta
January 1st, 2006, 5:00 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: what to do?
Replies: 135
Views: 135251

what to do?

<t>Cuch I want to better answer your questions, but I lack the knowledge of QF. Here's my latest thinkingand then maybe you/folks can help me out. I realize the wheels fell off the wagon some time back withthis thread, but it's entertaining all the same ED: for me anywayI think the two main branches...
by zeta
January 1st, 2006, 3:49 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Pet Hates
Replies: 2
Views: 124814

Pet Hates

I agree on rights vs responsibilities; western society at least seems to makedecisions selfishly not corporately ie., my interests vs the greater good.Can't comment on management b/c I'm in academia where anarchy tends to bethe order of the day
by zeta
January 1st, 2006, 3:26 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: visualization (3D or other)
Replies: 17
Views: 127055

visualization (3D or other)

<t>I'm new to QF, but in addition to the packages mentioned here, if dabbling yourselfuse OpenDX. You can program visually and quite literally it will take any input dataappropriately formatted, irregardless of dimensions. When I worked at a shock tunnelwe used it to solve/visualize weak/strong shoc...
by zeta
December 31st, 2005, 2:07 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: what to do?
Replies: 135
Views: 135251

what to do?

<t>Is there an emoticon for nervous laughter? There damn well should be!Fellas (for the taxonomists) I'm a humble condensed matter, computational physicist and we are (sadly)constrained to reality. I use spectroscopic tools like NMR and do simulations of experimentalspectra (I measure things) and al...
by zeta
December 30th, 2005, 10:24 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: what to do?
Replies: 135
Views: 135251

what to do?

Euclidean because I have a prayer of visualizing it Got to go, happy new year one and all!
by zeta
December 30th, 2005, 10:04 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: what to do?
Replies: 135
Views: 135251

what to do?

TJ I just checked the other thread; don't you mean 'read Ecclesiastes?' maybewe can finish that elsewhere...
by zeta
December 30th, 2005, 9:50 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: what to do?
Replies: 135
Views: 135251

what to do?

<t>Not everybody shares that confidence for string theory nor the geometrical approach, and what I was proposing chiefly was a model for the interaction. I mention GR because N brought up a group with a metric more germaine to special relativity. And I have never heard Riemann geometry treated so di...
by zeta
December 30th, 2005, 8:50 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: what to do?
Replies: 135
Views: 135251

what to do?

<t>Well TJ until today I had believed that the general and quantum theories were still unreconcilable, but I must defer to others more experienced in the art!What I was proposing for anyone interested was something along the lines of canonical quantization, eg., like the harmonic oscillator, constru...