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What is the early history of the Dedekind eta function? In particular, why is it called the Dedekind eta function? Ramanujan's paper on the 24th power of the Dedekind eta function had appeared by 1916 and I have a reasonably good understanding what happened after that, in the other direction I know that by 1775 Euler had consider the Dedekind eta function divided by q1/24 in his work which led to the pentagonal number theorem, but what happened between Euler and Ramanujan that led to the introduction of the factor of q1/24 (which gives a half integer weight modular form) and the attachment of Dedekind's name to it?
I believe that Dedekind introduced this function in Schreiben an Herrn Borchardt über die Theorie der elliptischen Modulfunktionen which was published in Crelle's Journal in 1877. The complete references is Journal für reine und angewandte Mathematik, 83 (1877) 265-292 and it is reprinted in volume 1 of his collected works with a postscript by Fricke explaining that this work remained largely unknown for some time. He also cites a later paper by F. Klein with substantial overlap.
The relevant equation in the paper is equation (24). Right after it he bemoans his lack of luck in finding the explicit expression for the eta function from the definition or without the use of theta functions:
Perhaps Vladut's book gives infos on that, the old Enzyklopädie der mathematischen Wissenschaften usually contain detailed infos, then there are Klein's history books and Klein/Fricke's 2 vol.s on modular functions.
After some searching I found some relevant references:
H. Rademacher and A. Whiteman, "Theorems on Dedekind sums," Amer. J. Math. 63 (1941), 377–407.
Arias-de-Reyna, J. Riemann's fragment on limit values of elliptic modular functions. Ramanujan J. 8 (2004), no. 1, 57--123.
Dedekind's paper is titled "Erlauterungen zu den vorstehenden Fragmenten" and was published published in Riemann's collected works. In this paper Dedekind attempts to elucidate Riemann's "Fragmente uber die Grenzfalle der Elliptischen Modulfunctionen,"
It looks like Dedekind's introduction of the eta function was inspired by these fragmentary notes of Riemann. It would take me some time to parse the relevant issues (e.g. to what extent did Riemann know the Dedekind eta function, how might things have seemed to Dedekind, etc.) and I will not do so at the moment, but am happy to have found these for future reference.
I believe Dedekind introduced in the late 19th century in relation to elliptic functions and expressed them in terms of what is now known as Dedekind sums. Even though both the Euler function and the eta function are symmetric on the modular group, they may have been studied in different contexts where Dedekind's would be considered more directly related to modular forms.
In the pentagonal number theorem, there's no assumption or use of $x = e^{2\pi i z}$ in his function $\prod_n (1-x^n)$, and maybe it was not considered in relation to elliptic functions or modular forms at the time. Of course, the generalization of the pentagonal number theorem is to the triple product formula which is very much related to theta functions and modular forms as well.
If you notice on the wikipedia article for the Euler function, they mention the two being related by a "Ramanujan's identity."


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What is the correct word to describe the people who have not finished their work after the deadline?
For the antonym, there is finisher, but I can't find *unfinisher in the dictionary.
What is the correct word to describe the people who have not finished their work after the deadline?
For the antonym, there is finisher, but I can't find *unfinisher in the dictionary.
The word I use at work is just "late". They're all late.
Unfinisher doesn't exist, but non-finisher does.
Your question is a little ambiguous though. Are you looking for a word for people who do finish, but after the deadline (flaky), or for people who never complete the work at all (non-finisher)?
Occurring, arriving, acting, or done after the scheduled, expected, or usual time; late.
There's also under-performing which doesn't imply anything about deadlines, but describes people who don't meet the expectations.
A person who regularly fails to accomplish what is expected is often called an underachiever. This is not just limited to lateness but other poor showings.
This author suggests a neologistic phrase time optimist for someone who chronically believes that they have more time than they do.
The words finisher and deadline are not related, because deadline refers to a date and finisher refers to a state. A person is either a finisher or they are not.
Perhaps finisher vs procrastinator would be the best pairing.
John Smith always finishes before the deadline, but Mary Smith finishes after the deadline. They're both finishers; deadline is just a reference to a date. You have to apply logical rules for it to make any sense.
The opposite of finish is start, but there is no opposite for finisher. You could say Mary Smith is a starter but that has a completely different meaning than the opposite of finisher.
One could say the opposite of finisher is quitter. Since someone who never finishes must have quit.
Furthermore, the question in a way is in error, since a finisher could also be someone who always finishes after the deadline, but at least they always finish.
Procrastinator is someone who keeps delaying things.
In scheduling theory, The standard terminology for how soon an action's completion occurs before its deadline is called "earliness." How far an action's completion occurs after its deadline is called "tardiness." Earliness and tardiness are formally defined in terms of "lateness," as follows: lateness = completion time - deadline; earliness = max [0, -lateness]; tardiness = max [0, lateness].

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Every now and again I'll get the curiousty to see a movie I would normally have no interest at all in seeing..
For example, I am not a fan of the band Rush, I've tried honestly I have but I just can't get into their music. However, I was curious and watched their documentary and loved it...and still hate their music, my apology to hardcore Rush fans.
I'm probably one of the few people that will see a film, I have absolutely no interest in. It's my curiosity that gets me. I really don't have an answer as to why. I've watched many films in fact, simply because I wanted to maybe know what the big fuss was about. I want to see why it's either revered as being amazing or one of the worst pieces of poopy ever.
I'd like to see Heaven's Gate for example, I know I'd hate it, but visually, from what I've seen, I'd respect it.. Frankly, it's a movie I have had little desire to see but I want to see it anyway..
Thus comes One From the Heart. I've read the reviews and I don't think I've ever even seen even a single frame. I might have watched the trailer which I'm going to check out on youtube...
I don't have Netflix to rent the DVD, I only stream movies now, I also have the Hulu plus.. neither have it... I have money on my iTunes account and if I can get iTunes to work on my computer (Has anyone encountered this problem after the newest version? I downloaded it, it starts to load and stops in the middle? I'm using Windowz 7 on a very new computer... any ideas?) and maybe rent it. started after a friend of mine posted it's poster because he caught a rare screening of it in New York..
Should I plop the 7 bucks down on Amazon and buy a super cheap copy? I got PRIME and don't need to worry about the extra expense of shipping.
The double disc sounds cool, it gives you a tour of Zoetrope studios, I love that sort of thing...Makes me interested.
What are your thoughts? Is it worth seeking out?
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How the hell do I get iTunes to work? I've uninstalled it and reinstalled it and still, the shit don't work...


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e6 is a modified ruleset for D&D which makes level 6 the "epic" level in order to keep players at a sweet spot where they are on the verge of being powerful, but not ridiculously so.
e6 is a modified ruleset for D&D which makes level 6 the "epic" level - at level 6, they stop levelling, and instead gain feats via XP. This means heroes reach a point where they are powerful in the face of worldly dangers, and yet never reach ridiculous echelons of power.
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Knowing that sleep quantity and quality affects cognitive performance across many domains, why aren't pre-test sleep measures or intra-test measures of arousal a standard part of all cognitive test paradigms?
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Measures of arousal surely do play a role in subject performance on a wide variety of cognitive tasks. Generally, scientists can safely ignore this factor as it is assumed to introduce random noise between participants. From a hypothesis testing perspective, scientists are much more worried about factors that introduce systematic bias, or factors that skew performance in one condition but not another.
As an example, consider a psychologist that is testing whether some intervention has an effect on performance. If we assume that arousal levels throughout the sample are randomly distributed, it should not affect our ability to detect an effect of our independent variable. In fact, there are potentially infinitely other factors that may affect performance on a cognitive task. To name a few: prior experience, mood, fatigue, cognitive load, intelligence, or attention. Each one of these factors in turn is the result of numerous other incidental variables (for instance, my mood may be affected by the weather, or how long it's been since I've eaten).
It would be infeasible to test for all of these factors, but again, if we assume that each measure is randomly distributed throughout a sample, it won't make a big difference-- in fact, it's somewhat statistically convenient:
Many psychological measures are normally distributed, which allow us to run statistical tests that assume normality (e.g., t-tests!) The reason this is so is because what we are measuring is actually the sum of many independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) variables-- such as arousal, experience, attention, etc. The Central Limit Theorem tells us that the sum of all of these factors lead to a normally distributed measure.
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Summer employment dispatches: Joel Mallord L'14
Editor's Note: Each summer Penn Law students hone their skills through a wide array of private and public sector internships across the country and around the world. Generous financial support and fellowships for international and public interest work enable students to pursue diverse assignments in the U.S. and abroad. This dispatch from Joel Mallord L'14 is one in a series of firsthand accounts by Law School students about how their summer employment opportunities are preparing them for their legal careers. Mallord is working in Los Angeles as a summer associate at Irell & Manella LLP, where he hopes to begin his litigation career.
BigLaw and Life in Los Angeles
When I came to Irell & Manella LLP, I knew just a few things: they had a top-notch patent litigation practice, a main office in beautiful West Los Angeles, and a summer program consistently regarded as one of the best. After eight weeks at the firm, all of these have proven true. The work assignments, the summer program, and life in West L.A. have been fantastic.
The work at Irell is engaging, and the pace is reasonable. Work coordinators find interesting projects for the summer associates and check in periodically to see how the projects are going. My "anchor case"—for which I attend team meetings and receive all emails related to the case—is a high-tech life sciences patent dispute with make-or-break implications for both parties. On another recent assignment, I drafted a brief to defend our pro bono client's life estate interest from a party that purports to be a bona fide purchaser. Finally, on my current assignment I am researching a novel takings argument against a state administrative program. The firm tries to match projects to summer associates' interest, and, for me, it has done a fantastic job.
Irell also offers a great location. Born and raised in the suburbs, I never liked the idea of living in Los Angeles. The sprawl and the traffic were intimidating. But the experience has been fantastic. I live in Santa Monica, two miles from the beach and a mere 15-minute drive to work (during rush hour). I'm surrounded by fine dining, a thriving arts scene, and an active outdoor community. For lifestyle purposes, it's unbeatable.
Speaking of lifestyle, Irell's summer program has been incredible. Dinners and lunches are available every day at the best local restaurants. The firm treated the summer associates to a weekend on Catalina Island and another at a Palos Verdes resort. And while the events are plentiful, there is no pressure to attend when you can't make it, or when you just need to rest. Irell has found the right balance of work and relaxation.
Overall, my summer experience has exceeded my expectations. It has alleviated my concerns about Big Law and life in Los Angeles, and I can certainly see myself working for Irell after graduation.


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Gasser HeavenWritten by Mike Finnegan on October 7, 2012 Contributors: Wes Allison
Don Waldron once traded a fiberglass Model T body for a gennie steel '32 Ford five- window. The owner of the '32 thanked him for such a great deal. Don has owned 100-plus Willys race cars. The only reason you have one is because Don let you. American Racing asks Don for info about its own wheels. After a concert, Don watched the Beach Boys lose badly in a street race between their Stingray and a local Ridgecrest, California, hot rodder's 409-powered '57 Chevy. An off-the-cuff comment by Don made the band see the value of the 409, and a hit song was born. Don has never tried to build a hot rod. He just does it. He is the most interesting hot rodder in the world.
The street race really did happen, but we don't know for sure if Don inspired the boys--who didn't actually surf--to write that song. We know for a fact, though, that Don is magnetic. People with great parts are attracted to him like a greaser to PBR, which explains the waiting list to have his shop, Rods West, build Gassers for clients. It also explains the gold mine of vintage tin, engines, and speed parts surrounding the desert-based shop. Don's had guys buy parts from him and then end up moving cross-country to come work with him. In the '70s, not only did he convince his girlfriend's mother to park his '32 in her daughter's bedroom, but his future mother-in-law sanded the car down to bare steel for him--by hand! It was the first and last mother-son bedroom project build. Like we said, he's an interesting character, and so is his shop.
The dirt surrounding the wood-framed buildings of Rods West looks as if a junkyard fell from the heavens and landed perfectly into neatly organized piles of spare parts all waiting to be assembled into excellence. Don grew up handing out timeslips at Pomona in the late '60s, striping and lettering race cars in L.A. County during the '70s, and building hot rods since the '80s in Ridgecrest, California. He knows everyone, has seen things we've only read about in hot rodding history, and yet, incredibly, the drag racer, pinstriper, painter, engine builder, and chassis man is easygoing and amiable, without a hint of ego.
He doesn't work alone and has a talented shop crew that will follow him anywhere. Larry Wagner owned a Don Long Top Fuel Dragster from '71 to '73, crewed on Barry Setzer's Funny Car, and worked on Steve Davis' Sprint Car when he won the Ascot championship. He's now the senior guy at Rods West and is building a '50 Ford. Don's son, Sean, does all the final assembly and owns a '27 lowboy roadster and a '62 Nova wagon. Marty Knox tackles the majority of the fabrication and sheetmetal work, while Bruce Green does the wrenching and keeps the trucks and trailers in shape. Bruce owns several '73–'79 Chevy C10s. Jared Woodridge is the youngest of the bunch, willing to help anywhere he's needed, and is into all styles of hot rods. Randy Coffee does fab work and assembly on a part-time basis. He owns a '40 Willys pickup and is currently building a '59 Hilman wagon.
But Don's in charge, and he is opinionated, especially when it comes to building hot rods, so we picked his brain to discover his way of building a Gasser project. Here, we present Don's world, and the Gasser world according to Don.
The Five Wheels You Can Put on the Front of a Gasser
Don has spent the last two decades collecting and restoring racing wheels. Though he never worked at any of the wheel companies that built the sought-after wheels of the '60s and '70s, Don has become an authority on all things magnesium and aluminum. At one point--before Willys, Austins, Henry Js, and Chevys began popping up-- the yard around his shop was covered front to back in original wheels. He's sold the majority of them to racers and restorers but still maintains a decent stock of Daisies, Sprints, Cyclones, and real Torque Thrusts. Here's a look at the wheels Don says look right on a gasser.
(from left to right) Halibrand released the kidney bean–shaped wheels for sprint cars in late 1958 to early 1959. In 2000, Don worked with ET Wheels to reproduce the wheels with an important design change: the center of the wheel is 0.750- inch thick instead of the original 0.500-inch design, which was done to meet modern Department of Transportation standards. Like the originals, these are available in 15x4.5 and 15x6-inch sizes. An interesting bit of info from Don: Sprint Car racers sometimes flipped the left side wheels around for less ofset on that side of the car to improve handling around corners.
This is a vintage US Mag Indy slotted mag that was released in '67–'68. It was produced in 15x4.5, 15x7, 15x6 (very rare), 15x8.5, 15x10, 15x12, and 15x15 sizes.
Except for wheels made especially for his own race cars, Mickey Thompson didn't build any magnesium rollers in the '60s. The MT Medallion is a rare wheel produced between 1967 and 1969; the one-piece castaluminum wheel came in 14x6 and 15x8-inch sizes.
Don and ET Wheels owner Scott Russell finished this one-piece aluminum wheel last year. It's a copy of an American Racing 15x4-inch round spoke.
Vic Beith developed this 10-spoke nod to the original spindle-mount wheels, which racers ran without front brakes. The new version is a one-piece cast wheel in 15x4.5 and 15x6-inch widths, behind which you can fit 11-inch discs. Don says it's an extremely strong design.
The Five Wheels You Can Put On The Rear Of A Gasser
01 This is a 16x10-inch American Racing magnesium wheel that Don restored by shot-peening it and then coating it in WD-40 so it would tarnish a dark charcoal color. 02 Note the porosity in this polished 15x10-inch American Racing roundedspoke wheel. It's notoriously difcult to maintain the finish on magnesium; it oxidizes faster than you can polish it. 03 The classic American Racing 200S (aka the Daisy, aka the Coke bottle) is shown here in a 15x10. The Two-Lane Blacktop '55 Chevy movie car made this one real popular. 04 Halibrand Sprints are hard to find and look perfect on the rear of a Gasser. The cast-aluminum wheels came in 15x8, 15x10, 15x12, 15x15, 16x8, 16x10, 16x12, and 16x13 sizes. 05 Every car seen in '70s and early '80s TV and movie car chases was probably wearing a copy of the Ansen Sprint slotted mag. The design came out in 1967–1969 in 14x6, 14x7, 14x8, 15x7, 15x8 15x10, 15x12, 15x14, and 15x15 sizes.
There Are Only Three Ways to Get the Front End in the Air
There are three methods of hoisting the nose on a straight-axle Gasser: twin parallel leaf springs, a single transverse leaf spring and hairpins, or a pair of coil springs with a four-link and a Panhard. Much of what car guys build is based on what they remember from when they were young. They may have seen a race car with a transverse-mounted spring and so that's what they want, which is fine, but there may be a better setup for their particular car. According to Don, a '55 Chevy should not have transverse-spring setup. Though it was done in the '60s, Don feels the car is too big and heavy for a single center suspension point. The mass of the car should be spread out on dual leaf springs. Don also incorporates a sway bar whenever possible to make the car handle more predictably on the street.
"I only have one question for new customers: How are you going to use the car? From there I can make a determination how the front suspension should be done." — Don Waldron
Don's Personal Wheel Collection
Decades of wheeling and dealing obsolete rollers has netted Don a room full of rare pieces that he plans to put to good use. He says he's currently got a small enough backlog of customer car builds that he can finally start thinking about building cars for himself again. The plan is to do one to two cars for clients a year, and then put these beauties under his own roadster, Willys, Austin, and other projects.
01 American Racing 200S: the S stands for satin and the 200 meant the wheel was guaranteed by AR to stay together at 200 mph. Other versions of this wheel include the CP200, which was a unique chrome-plated wheel with a cast-aluminum centersection that had several lugs to which the steel hoop could be welded. The 200P is the same as a 200S, except the top of the spokes and hoop are fully polished. These were available in 14x7, 14x8, 15x4.5, 15x7, 15x8.5, and 15x10. There was a two-piece magnesium version of the 200S built in 16x8 and 16x10 sizes that was really cool because you could take the narrow side of the 8-inch wheel and bolt it to the 10-inch wheel to make a 12-inch wide wheel. It also didn't have a conventional drop-center hoop because at the time, Top Fuel cars had issues with tires coming of the drop-hoop bead when the tires lost shape at high wheel speeds. Tire screws and bead-lock rings rendered this design obsolete. 02 Ever seen an American Racing Libre four-spoke? Probably not. It's a one-piece road racing wheel built in 1965 for European cars. It was available in cast aluminum and magnesium and only came in a 15x6-inch size. 03 The American Racing Torque Thrust came out in 1962 in magnesium and then in aluminum in 1964. This is probably the most replicated and mislabeled wheel ever produced. Torque Thrust D wheels were designed for '63–'67 Corvettes. The D stood for disc brakes; the wheel center was shaped to clear the early Vette brake caliper. According to Don, the wheel American Racing now calls a D is actually an R wheel, which stands for Road Racing. The R was designed for Shelby Mustangs. 04 This is an ultra-rare American Racing T70R double bead. Note the second rib on the wheel lip and the flanges around each spoke. The name came from the year the wheel was released: 1970. Don says these only came in 15x7s. 05 The standard T70 came without the extra rib on the lip and spoke flange accents. 06 American Racing also produced the more common T70R, a fully polished five-spoke without the double bead but with the spoke flange accents.
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01 There's a museum in Long Beach, California, with about 35 rare Willys race and show cars. Most of the parts for those cars came from Rods West. Three tractor-trailer rigs full, in fact. Don originally bought the Silly Willy 24 years ago for $700 from Long Beach. He says it wasn't a particularly successful racer, but he had a soft spot for it. He sold it to the guys at Automobilia, but then they wanted one of his Henry Js, so he ended up with the four-door again.02 Don just bought this original four-cylinder '37 Willys sedan as a driver. It has some rare options like an upgraded steering wheel, a radio, and a clock.03 Even the parts cars are cool. The Dodge 500 truck behind the green Willys only has 38,000 miles on it.04 This '33 Willys coupe is owned by Dave Miller, and while it has the usual chassis mods, it's retained its original frilled an polished front axle. A 327 with a 6-71 blower built by Blair's Speed Shop is backed up with a four-speed and an Olds rear end.05 This sign sat on Alameda Ave., outside of Lions Drag Strip. Bob Barnes bought it 20 years ago, and he and Don share ownership. Whoever croaks first is giving it to the other hot rodder. .06 The purple '41 Willys is owned by a client from Rhode Island whom Don has never met in person. The owner had the car delivered from a museum in Washington to the shop, where the body was pulled and the chassis received the Rods West touch. Fixtures were used to straighten the frame, then the center crossmember was boxed before the drop axle and mechanical clutch and brake linkages were added. The axle is a Don Long replica built from 2.00x0.250-inch DOM steel tubing. Note the blocks between the frame and axle. Don uses them to establish the correct ride height, then has Deaver Spring Company (DeaverSpring.com) in Santa Ana, California, arch the springs to match. A 392 Hemi, M22 Muncie four-speed, and Olds rear end spin the tires. The axle is an interesting combo of Olds axle tubes and Ford flanges and brake components. Fords and Olds 31-spline axles are identical, so the swap works well. Up front, Don went with Camaro rotors and calipers to make it easy to find needed parts.07 The Model A coupe has sat in the same spot next to the Nash for the past 24 years. The 74-year-old owner recently gave Don the green light to finish the build. He's got an old WWII drop tank for sale that should help finance the rest of the build.08 The '61 Chevy surf wagon also belongs to Bob Barnes. It used to be a four-door but was converted with two-door sedan quarter-panels and doors.
10 The red-and-white car is an Austin Devon four-door. Don built a Pro Street chassis in conjunction with Specialty Cars because there were so few two-door Austins available. He figures there are maybe 150 left in the world. The white '62 Biscayne is an original radio-' heater-' rear-seat-delete car that's getting a W motor and will be built like Don's favorite 409 cars of the '60s that raced at Inyokern.11 This Model A is powered by a Pontiac with a five-speed and is being built as a Gas Coup--style car.15 Out back, among the carcasses of old English and American iron, is an impressive display of vintage oil and fuel-pumping stations.The '39 Willys sedan came with dual leaf springs, so why would you want to put a transverse setup on it? Note the sway bar mounted between the framerails. It also has a Don Long--style axle.Coilover shocks started showing up in the late '60s on then-new Funny Cars. It's tempting for many builders to run coilovers with a four-link, but that isn't a vintage Gasser–appearing suspension. If you want a real race car setup, there is a price to pay: little to no ride if you set up the car stiff like a racer. A push-pull steering setup may be period correct, but it also has its own inherent problems. These days, Don advises to use a crossover steering setup if the car will be driven on the street. This '48 Thames runs a 427 with a BDS 8-71 blower, a Mike's Transmission full manual valvebody TH400, and a 9-inch with 4.56 gears.Don has built Austin Dorsets with all three front suspension configurations. This '48 A40 car originally came with A-arms, and because it's lightweight and has a narrow chassis that tapers in at the front frame horns, it's a good candidate for a transverse-mounted leaf-spring pack. If you put dual parallel springs on this one, the mounts are on the outside of the frame, and it looks weak.


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That sounds like you could potentially get a very interesting game out of that if it's fun to play as well as trippy.
I'm thinkin about some kind of game that lets people jam together. If anyone has ever jammed with someone on the piano - one person on bass one on melody - you know how fun it is when stuff starts to sound good. I've had that joy, and I totally suck at piano. I want to tap into that somehow.
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So far, I'm kind of thinking of players being given a specific volume of space, and the player 'drops' instruments into the space to define it's characteristics, adjusting the notes to change elements like color (Good reading can be found here, for example;http://homepage.tinet.ie/~musima/vis...isualmusic.htm). It'd basically be 'painting with sound', and I'm not really sure how to define that as a GAME rather than just a cool plaything.
I can't imagine it being a 'home decor' game... "The Sims" with music instead of paint and sims. I've recently been tinkering with Hanafuda cards (Looking for a really pretty set, the girlfriend and I are considering mounting them and framing them as an interesting bit of art), and for some reason I keep thinking "flower arrangement but with music"... but that's just an idea without any real design behind it.
But, I'm not deterred. I still have a week and a half to play with it, and I like how the abstract context of this challenge has me in a completely different mode of thought. If nothing else, I'm slowly crawling out of the rut I feel I've been in, creatively, for the last few months.
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I'd like to ask if an entry could include a link to a youtube file. I want to make sure that it's clearly understood how music applies to the game, and the best way to do that is to use a gameplay mockup.
If not, then I guess I'll have to make do with words, but it's a lot tougher to explain XD
Yeah, won't be able to do this since basically every good idea I've got that integrates music and gameplay is being thrown into my game. I could just turn my GDD into a few hundred words for the challenge...
...but then I'd have to kill you...
...and I'd feel like I'm cheating...
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Music, unlike other game design subjects, is a lot more delicate and tends to be wordy when explained in text. I think it would be best if I used a video to demonstrate how music applies to the design. I also want to make sure I meet the 500 word count rule, since that's also part of the challenge.
The video will be made by me, with original art assets. If anyone has any qualms about it, I'd be glad to use words instead.
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Well, it's just to the point of what has been brought up before: the guidelines specify text.
There are two issues with going further:
Some people submit screen mockups, etc. People who do not (either because of time or artistic know-how, etc.) are worried they'll suffer in judgment against art-intensive submissions.
Also, people who are participating purely for the sake of the exercise, rather than submitting their own existing designs/projects, are working with basic concepts and tools -- they don't have the depth of involvement to make something like a YouTube mockup make sense. And they only have two weeks...
I think I'm going to have to say that it'll be cool if you submit it ALONGSIDE your written submission, so it's clear that you're following the same guidelines any other entrant is adhering to.
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I just remembered, I was once struck by an idea for a music-themed game that I may as well try dragging out again. The inspiration for this game is parts Touhou Project, Audiosurf, and Vocaloid.
The idea would be to create a top-down shooter that creates levels for the game based on musical tracks that you provide to it, somewhat as Audiosurf does. The game would attempt to create unique levels using a large library of art, bullet types, character types, and so on. You would first need to drop a song into the game to be analyzed* in various ways, during which the game would create a level file that could be accessed at any time afterward. The level would then be played with that song as the backdrop.
Analyses would include:
* Tempo analysis: Analysis of the speed of the piece. When the tempo is faster, enemies will move quickly and thus be more difficult to hit. When the tempo is slower, enemies will move slowly and be easier to hit but will have more health to compensate.
* Spectral analysis: Analyze the balance of low, middle, and high frequencies. When low frequencies (bass) are dominant, enemies will be larger and thus easier to hit but have more health to compensate. When high frequencies are dominant, enemies will be smaller and thus more difficult to hit. Mixing of different sizes will be common.
* Amplitude analysis: Analyze the loudness of music relative to the maximum possible. When the music is loud, bullets fired by enemies will be smaller and move more quickly. When the music is soft, bullets will be large but move slowly. "Large" may also indicate longer laser-type effects or other variations. This analysis will also be combined with the spectral analysis - songs with quiet bass will still have occasional large enemies, but they will fire slow bullets to match the quiet of the bass.
* Pitch analysis: Analysis of the root pitch of the piece. This will be added mostly to provide variety. For songs in the key of C, enemies will follow patterns and shoot bullets common to classic shooters. The key of B flat or G might grant enemies that shoot "lasers" rather than bullets and follow somewhat abberrant patterns, while the key of F# might provide very chaotic, erratic enemies.
* Scale analysis: Analysis of the second and third most common tones other than the root to provide superficial differences. For example, the scale of the piece might set the player in a factory environment fighting robots instead of an ethereal environment fighting elemental sprites.
We want the player to be able to complete the entire song (I hate getting cut off before a song ends), so the player cannot be killed during the game. Instead, hurting the player will daze it, preventing it from attacking and slowing its movement for a time. The main penalty is that enemies might get away while you are prevented from attacking. When a group of enemies (or single large enemies) is killed, it will drop a power-up that boosts strength, size, or frequency for your main or secondary weapon or provides additional "bomb" uses, so the player must try to stay unharmed while staying in line to attack targets.
The actual goal of the song is to defeat the boss. The system will attempt to find the point where the last verse or chorus begins in the song and place the boss at that point. The boss will appear with a timer showing how long until the song ends. If you haven't collected enough power-ups during the level, then you may be unable to deal enough damage to the boss before the song ends.
The player characters will also be able to customize from a number of audio-themed weapons. Each main weapon has a distinctive sound that sounds similar to an electronic music box. Firing your secondary or temporary weapons alongside the main weapon will alter its tone - if you have the Distortion secondary weapon and the Delay shield, your main weapon will sound distorted as you fire it, while the background music track will be echoed when you throw up the shield.
Instrument - main gun:
Arpeggiator - Fires many small bullets in a wide, fanning cone. Gun sounds like an arpeggiated synthesizer.
Drum Machine - Fires large, single bullets in a forward line. Gun sounds like random drum effects.
Oscillator - Fires a sine-wave laser with weaker damage but a wide horizontal breadth. Sounds like a sine-wave tone, transforms into a square wave as it powers up.
Sampler - Fires a thin laser with rapid firing rate. Sounds like various wind or string instruments sampled and looped together.
Effects - side guns:
Distortion - Fires a wide, medium-powered wave ahead of you that covers a 60-degree arc but only travels a short distance away from you.
Flanger - Fires a moderate damage laser that changes direction according to the direction that you move in (moving right rotates the laser toward your 3 o'clock side).
LFO - Fires strong single bullets at a very slow pace.
Modulator - Fires two very weak, rapid-fire lasers at 30-degree angles forward.
Destructive Effects - temporary offenses (bombs):
Chorus - Temporarily adds a "shadow" to your main weapon that increases its size by a fixed amount.
Feedback - Creates a "shadow" of every enemy bullet on the field, which reflect back toward the screen and hurt enemies instead of you.
Overdrive - Charges and fires a single powerful bolt straight in front of you.
Vocoder - Temporarily creates a wave of damage in a sphere all around you that deals strong damage.
Mastering Effects - temporary defenses (shields):
Delay - Freezes the bullets in a large sphere around you so that you can navigate around.
Filter - Destroys all enemy bullets in a sphere around you.
Limiter - Puts up a shield that persists around you for a moment. Bullets inside the shield are immediately shunted to outside of the shield, and no bullets can enter the shield while it is up.
Reverb - Bullets in a small sphere around you are reflected away, damaging enemies if they are hit by the reflections.
** Here's a couple of samples of analysis software that were quickly googled:
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The music-generated level thing is cool, but I'd be careful with it because it doesn't add anything to the game play itself. It's just an algorithm for creating random levels. You could achieve the same effect without using a song.
However, the boss that only lasts as long as the chorus is cool, and so are some of those weapons. Maybe you could have a weapon that interacts with the level song that in turn manipulates the level itself.
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Not only are museums and aquariums great places to learn but many also offer volunteer opportunities for kids and teens. Call the museum or aquarium in your area to find out what's available and what the requirements are. Opportunities vary greatly from museum to museum, so contact the one you're interested in and ask what volunteers do. At the National Aquarium in Baltimore, high school volunteers need to be at least in their junior year of high school and are recommended for the volunteer positions by their science teachers. Not all places have such tough requirements.
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Just when I thought I couldn't love Kansas anymore than I already do, I happen upon the 25th Annual Kansas Championship Ranch Rodeo in Medicine Lodge. I fell hard and fast for the historic area, from its captivating landscape and openness of the people to the peaceful pace of life. A trip there envelops you in natural beauty, reminiscent of the Flint Hills in the same quiet, breathtaking way.
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How can I determine whether my processor is 32-bit or 64-bit? My processor is AMD Phenom 8450 triple-core.
You could search google/newegg for your particular processor, if you know it by name, and read the specs. The specs on your processor says: 64-Bit Support: Yes. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103254
But i'd vote for someone else's answer if they could give a quick and easy way to check this without having to know your processor's model. Maybe it says in the bios on boot up?
Another way would be to use CPU-Z. In addition to bitness (AMD64 or EM64T) of the processor, it will display other useful characteristics of the processor.
Another way would be to check directly on the website of the manufacturer. Intel has a database of its processors here and it's quite nice. Unfortunately, AMD does not have such nice interface, but you can always go to their homepage and poke around. Here is the list of their desktop processors. VIA's processors seem to be listed here.
Google for the processor's name. I found a wikipedia article about AMD processors.
It states, that the 8450 supports AMD64, which means it is a 64Bit processor.
You can use this program created by Steve Gibson of Gibson Research Corporation called SecurAble. This tool will not only tell you if it is a 32/64 bit processor, it will also tell you if the CPU supports hardware DEP protection and if it supports Hardware Virtualization.
The program requires no installation at all. It simply uses a signed driver and communicates with the processor.
To the best of my knowledge all Phenom series are AMD/64. If you need assurance and you're using a Linux or BSD OS take a look at what dmesg says on bootup.
What OS are you on?
In Linux / Mac OS X all you have to do is open a terminal and type
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Look in the System Summary
The System Information tool will display detailed information about your Windows operating system. Once opened it will show the "System Summary" – it's an overview of your computer and operating system.
Look for the System Type Item
On the right hand side of the window you will see a list of items. Look for the item called "System Type".
The value of this item will tell you whether your computer is 32-bit or 64-bit:
Phenom x3 processors are basically quad-cores with one core locked (mostly due to defects). These are all 64-bit. PS - If you're interested, you should google to see and try to unlock your fourth core. A lot of AMD x3 have a working fourth core that can be unlocked to make your processor a quad core.
You don't know external 3rd party software. You can just use the terminal prompt to check it.
If you are using Linux:
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Return if 64 or 32
If you are using Windows. Open command prompt and run the command:
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Looking at previous question, I begun to think and came upon the following more solid question: Let $SU_q(N)$ be the usual quantized coordinated algebra of $SU(N)$. Now consider, for some fixed value of $q$, the element $$ v := \sum_{i=1}^k \lambda^i(q) v_i \in SU_q(N), $$ where each $\lambda^i(q)$ is some polynomial function in $q$, and each $v_i$ is a product of some subset of the generators of $SU_q(N)$. It has the obvious corresponding element in ${\cal O}(SU(N))$: $$ v' := \sum_{i=1}^k \lambda^i(1) v_i.$$ It seems to be for me obvious that if $v =0$, then we must necessarily to have $v' = 0$. However, I can't see how to prove this with care?
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I'm not sure whether this question belongs here but I don't know where else to ask it : do WordPress designers/developers usually create a dashboard theme thumbnail when they completed the WP theme for their client? If so, do they put their own logo on it or a screenshot of the home page?
Thats entirely up to to you.
I generally create a theme thumbnail from the PSD file, or, when the theme changes a lot between designing and developing, I tend to create one from a screenshot.
Look at the Themes Directory, you can see some of the developers actually don't use a screenshot but some other image.
If you want to put your own logo in the theme thumbnail, thats okay.
I do. I'll usually take screen shot of a distinctive part of the header and slant it slightly (Maybe rotate it 10 degrees or so.) Then Put a Stripe over the bottom with the Title of the theme. It's certainly not necessary but I find it to be a fun part of developing a theme.
I usually start by dragging the existing thumbnail over in to Photoshop, deleting the background, and starting over.
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From left: Rodney Green, Kade Stringfellow and Matthew Cook / KFVS via Butler County Sheriff's Office
(CBS/AP) ST. LOUIS - Authorities are looking for two murder suspects and a third man who escaped from a southeast Missouri jail overnight. All three inmates were awaiting trials and are considered armed and extremely dangerous.
"With the severity of their crimes they were being held for, we do believe it's possible they may have the capability to get their hands on weapons," said Frank Casteel, 911 director for Butler County.
Authorities said 29-year-old Matthew Cook, 23-year-old Kade Stringfellow and 40-year-old Rodney Green escaped around 11:30 p.m. Monday through the ceiling at Butler County Jail in Poplar Bluff. Casteel said jail employees discovered that the inmates were missing a short time after the escape.
Cook is charged with first-degree murder, robbery and other crimes in the Feb. 19 killing of 34-year-old Sean Crow in a McDonald's parking lot in Advance, Mo.
A probable cause statement from Stoddard County deputy Hank Trout said Cook sent a text message to the victim using the cellphone of a woman they both knew, asking Crow to meet at the restaurant. Crow was found slumped over in his pickup truck the next day, dead of a single shot to the head from a .22-caliber pistol. Surveillance video helped lead police to Cook and a man who was with him.
Stringfellow is charged with second-degree murder in the July 2012 death of his infant son, Karson. A probable cause statement from New Madrid County deputy Danny Ware said medical workers became suspicious due to the child's injuries and inconsistent statements by Stringfellow, who claimed he slipped and fell while holding the infant.
Doctors at St. Louis Children's Hospital determined that the child had bleeding in the brain and both eyes, and multiple fractured ribs and other injuries that they believed were the result of abuse.
Green is facing multiple charges for allegedly breaking into a rural Butler County home in February, holding a husband and wife at gunpoint, then shooting them after a struggle before getting away with their pickup truck. The man was struck in the thigh and his wife was shot in the hand. Both survived.
Green was captured days after the burglary when a state trooper spotted him driving on a rural road and gave chase. The chase ended when Green's car struck a utility pole and a tree.
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Boehner Claims Student Loan Reform Will 'Eliminate Every Bank In The Country'
This weekend, Democrats plan to vote on their health care reform reconciliation package, which also includes student loan reform. The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act (SAFRA), which would cut billions of dollars in senseless subsidies to private student lenders, passed the House last year. As of yesterday, it has a corresponding senate counterpart, which will be included in the reconciliation bill.
Currently, the federal government gives billions of dollars to student lenders to originate loans, and then guarantees loan repayment up to 97 percent, so the lenders are essentially useless middlemen that aren't exposed to any of the loan risk. This is corporate welfare at its finest. So in order to build opposition to the bill, both the lenders and Republicans in Congress have been borrowing a tactic from the health care debate by falsely characterizing student loan reform as a "Washington takeover" of lending.
But House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) took this a step further last night, saying that student loan reform would actually "eliminate every bank in the country and all student loan lenders," replacing them with the government:
Well, if you look at this student loan provision in there, they eliminate every bank in the country and all private student loan lenders so the government can do it instead.
This is just astoundingly wrong. On a very basic level, it could only be true if the sole thing banks did was make student loans, which is obviously not the case. The day after student loan reform passes, banks will still be there, cashing checks, taking deposits, making home loans, and on and on.
But the greater point Boehner was trying to make is that student loan reform is somehow a new expansion of government into the private economy. Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) echoed this sentiment yesterday, saying that student loan reform amounts to "seizing control of industries and squeezing out private competition." But the government already provides the money for the loans and guarantees the lenders against loss, in addition to directly making millions of loans every year. So student lending is, for all intents and purposes, already a federal program.
In fact, the subsidized private program that Boehner and Enzi want to preserve is called the Federal Family Education Loan Program. By cutting the middlemen out of the process, the government will not only save billions of dollars to be used for deficit reduction, but will also have the money to increase Pell Grants and thus boost the number of college graduates. According to an analysis by CAP Senior Fellow Ulrich Boser, the boost in incomes due to student loan reform will top $100 billion.
And at the end of the day, the bill doesn't even cut private lenders completely out of the loop, as they still would be contracted to service the loans (collect payments, etc.). But Boehner has decided that this is his week to go all out for the bankers — telling them to stand up to "punk staffers" trying to write new regulations — so it's really not surprising that he's willing to distort student loan reform to argue for his bank-friendly policies.
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A rural Leavenworth man has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for four drug distribution charges, a prosecution official said.
Michael Roberts, 37, was sentenced Wednesday in Leavenworth County District Court. He was sentenced to 136 months in prison for two counts of distribution of methamphetamine and two counts of distribution of marijuana.
Roberts reportedly sold drugs to a confidential informant, which led to a search of his residence Oct. 30, according to County Attorney Todd Thompson.
Inside the residence, members of the Leavenworth County Sheriff's Office found methamphetamine, various pills and drug paraphernalia. A security camera also had been set up at the residence.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Planned Parenthood appealed a federal court ruling that allows Texas to withhold state women's health care funding from its clinics.
A Planned Parenthood statement says its Texas affiliates joined to ask the entire 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a three-judge 5th Circuit Court panel's decision. That decision struck down a lower-court ruling that blocked the state from withholding funding to Planned Parenthood from the state Women's Health Program.
The petition contends the panel's Aug. 21 ruling, in making its ruling, violated U.S. Supreme Court precedents. The petition asks for a full rehearing by the entire appeals court.
There was no immediate response from the New Orleans-based appeals court.
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Recently, my two-year-old son has been taking off his diaper at nap time. It's usually full and dirty and makes a big mess. He has managed to do it while wearing all types of pants (even overalls). This only happens at nap time. Does anyone have any advice?
Duct Tape (aka Duck Tape). We actually had to do that a couple times. Of course be sure you check on your son frequently, because he may have an aversion to having the stinky diaper on - he may be developing a diaper rash. Also be sure the tape doesn't get on his skin as it will probably irritate his skin.
Our son got through it after a while and we didn't use the tape for long.
Take a one-piece pajama, the sort with long arms and legs, but without feet, that has a zipper running from one leg to the top, and put it on backwards. It's completely tamper-proof, easy to "service", and ought to be equally comfortable.
We have tried many of the other suggestions (diaper backwards, onesie, onesie plus some kind of trousers, "duck" tape, sleeping bag), but they were all found out after a short while. If he gets the backwards pajamas off, he'll be ready to join a circus.
It is a tough transition that affects sleep, your entire schedule really and means messes and accidents for awhile, but think about this: once you bite the bullet and make the transition, you won't be buying diapers anymore, (although you'll still be lugging around a big bag of kid stuff), having to find places to stop and change the diaper will be in the past and although you will still need to find potties, you can plan ahead by asking him to go when you ARE near a potty. This will reduce accidents, rushing around in a panic, and is an introduction to teaching him about "planning ahead" for other things in life too.
For the actual potty training - there are LOTS of ways to go about doing it. You are even lucky enough to have him telling you he wants to potty train when it is summer and he can safely and comfortably play naked at times (immediate understanding of the "prefeeling" before peeing and the other one, because he will see it happen) A quick search will give you lots of options for techniques and I believe there are a number of questions about potty training right here on stack exchange.
I personally think the best way is to get them comfortable with the toilet (its sounds, sitting on one, washing hands after . . .) by spending time in the bathroom together singing songs, play hand clapping games, I used to sing to my 2's class, "tinkle tinkle in the potty, get that stuff out of your body, it is so much better for you, to use the potty for your pee pee and your poo, tinkle tinkle in the potty. . . It always got a laugh.
I would also suggest you spend this time in the bathroom (and out) reading books about going potty. There is a book with Elmo with buttons (that make noises like the toilet flushing and water running in the sink) that talks about buying "big boy pants" and the whole process as well as an episode that can be purchased all about potty training where Elmo helps (I think it's baby bear's little sister if I remember correctly) with her potty training and we meet Elmo's dad etc. There is even a song called "accidents happen". There is also "no more diapers for ducky" (another book) and a set of books that is something like "the potty book for boys" and "the potty book for girls" that are all really good (plus numerous others)
Any time he goes poop in the diaper, have him watch you roll the poop off the diaper and into the toilet while you talk about how poop and pee belong in the toilet and then flush it together. I am not a fan of "rewards" or "punishments" there are natural rewards like, not feeling "icky" and the reward of the independence that comes with being diaper free and becoming a "big boy" that are likely to work with your kid (simply talk about them), but rewards work really well for lots of kids too.
Good Luck!
Sorry, I couldn't help laughing out loud :-) Been there, done that, but the pants thing has always worked for us. Sometimes easier said than done, but you can try moving nap time so he can finish it with a clean diaper, or maybe try a heavier duty/more absorbent brand. It sounds like he's just uncomfortable.
I put the diaper on backwards AND used duct tape with my daughter. We started potty training IMMEDIATELY when she started peeling off her diaper.
My son? He could care less about taking off his diaper. He wants to try to climb up the drapes.
I find that putting a Onesie and overalls on our 20-month-old son usually does the trick. Overalls over the diaper still allows access from the top. But with the combination of the two, he'll have to work his way from the top and bottom.
We actually used a Onesies, then pants, then another Onsie with overalls on top (it was during winter). He gave up after that.
We used the sleeping bag type outfits - you know, the ones with holes for arms and head. These not only removed any possibility of removing the nappy, but also stopped our kids waking up because the had kicked their covers off, and stopped them getting out of bed at 4 in the morning and wandering!
(they learned to climb out of a cot at a very early age, so this was essential, the little monkeys)
You can try putting the diaper on backwards which may only work for a little while.
Masking tape has been working pretty well for our daughter with the same issue (any time, day or night). We have to wrap it all the way around her waist so she doesn't take it off. I'm glad she's almost ready for toilet training. Good luck!


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A finite dimensional commutative algebra is a finite product of commutative local algebras. Why? In fact, every commutative semiperfect ring is a basic ring and isomorphic to a finite product of local rings, but I do not how to prove it.
A slightly different proof than that of rschwieb. Let $R$ be a finite dimensional commutative artinian algebra.
Remark. The same proof works similarly if $R$ is not an algebra over a field, but has finite length.
Because it is Artinian, and commutative Artinian rings factor this way. Here is a sketch.
For each idempotent $e$ in a commutative Artinian ring $R$, the ideal $eR$ is actually a subring with identity $e$, and also an algebra, if $R$ is. Consequently $(1-e)R$ is also a subring, since $1-e$ is also idempotent, and $eR\oplus (1-e)R=R$.
Now imagine breaking these idempotents into smaller ones: $e=f+g$ with $fg=0$. Under these conditions, $eR=fR\oplus gR$, and the original ideal is broken down to two smaller ideals.
Using the Artinian hypothesis, you can show that this process of breaking down cannot continue indefinitely, and you must arrive at idempotents such that $eR$ cannot be broken down any further. This turns out to be equivalent to $eR$ having only the trivial idempotents $0$ and $e$. Now a commutative Artinian ring with only trivial idempotents is local.
So what is the end result? $R$ decomposes into a finite product of $e_iR$, all of which are finite and local (algebras).
(I thought I had an elementary proof handy but it's not coming to mind, so here's an off the cuff version.)
Proof sketch: This is trivially true when $R$ is semisimple (a.k.a semisimple Artinian) because commutative semisimple rings are products of fields, and "no nontrivial idempotents" means it consists of exactly one field.
$R$ is local iff $R/\mathrm{Nil}(R)$ is local. $R/\mathrm{Nil}(R)$ is semisimple. Any idempotent of $R/\mathrm{Nil}(R)$ lifts to one in $R$.


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How would a realist interpretation of the Mermin-Peres square with counterfactual definiteness and the existence of states prior to measurements look like?
It's possible to save realism.
It's counterfactual definiteness which has to be sacrificed so that realism may live!!!
Retrocausality is one such way. The square knows in advance which row or column will be selected, and it instantiates real states only for those observables in that row/column.
Superdeterminism is another way. The experimenter may think he has free will in selecting which row or column, but he's deluded. The choice is FATED and PREDESTINED, and the square can divine the fate.
It's the rules of causality which have to be broken to save realism.
So you see, real definite states are still possible prior to measurements.
Many worlds is realist.
In MWI, a Platonic realm really exists, and there's actually a Hilbert space in it, and there's an actual physical state vector in it. It describes the actual state of the square. Too bad there's no preferred basis for splitting for the square prior to measurement. Then, measurement entangles it with everything else, and so, the actual physical state vector can only be the universal wave function of the entire universe.
No preferred basis. But give me a basis, and there is an objective complex value for its component along a chosen basis vector. If you want it up to 8 significant digits, it can be $(7.1947279 - 7.4624267 i)\times 10^{-72}$, and if you want more significant digits, those are also objectively real.
That's realism for you, nonlocal realism where everything in the universe are entangled with each other.
The nobel laureate Gell-Mann and the renowned cosmologist Hartle came up with a "sense"ible "real"ist interpretation which doesn't "break" causality at http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.0767 .
There's no need to "break" causality by retrocausality or superdeterminism. No, no! Negative probabilities are enough. So, quantum mechanics is a "real"ist theory where probabilities may be negative. There is a "real" "actual" state out there. It's just that the probability for this "real" state may sometimes be negative. However, the authors are not clear on whether "real" implies real or not. :-0 How can we get away with negative probabilities? Well, probabilities are nothing but betting strategies! The whole world is a casino and we're all gamblers! Any fine grained choice of histories which admits negative probabilities is an inadmissible gambling game. So, the "actual" state may have negative probabilities, but we can never perform fine grained enough measurements to determine that. Good for us gamblers. It prevents us from losing money in a guaranteed manner in the grand casino.
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In the n-lab entry about shape theory one can read that
Strong Shape Theory [...] has, especially in the approach pioneered by Edwards and Hastings, strong links to proper homotopy theory. The links are a form of duality related to some of the more geometric duality theorems of classical cohomology.
I would be interested in any reference where I can find a precise formulation of this duality.
EDIT: according to Gjergji Zaimi's answer the duality might be an improvement of Chapman's complement theorem. One can find it as Theorem 6.5.3 on page 230 of the book by Edwards and Hastings ("Cech and Steenrod Homotopy Theories with Applications to Geometric Topology"). Nevertheless, it seems to me that what was meant on the n-lab entry was more a cohomology type duality (like an instance of Verdier duality in the $(\infty,1)$-ctageorical context). Am I completely wrong?


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This will be fixed in the next build, rev > 2013.5.14.1013.
I took Tim Stone's advice and used the
The problem here is that the site uses pure JavaScript to pop the user down to the appropriate comment, highlight it, and fade the highlight away. The link uses the comment
As for the redirection issue mentioned (I think, I kind of skimmed the comments): When you embed a URL to a comment as a link inside another comment or post, that URL becomes hard-coded (it doesn't automatically change to correct the URL). So, if you start with the title
Since the URLs do not match before the
animuson is right, there's nothing to properly handle the hash change in the current JavaScript, which would be necessary for this to work given the way it's implemented.
With that in mind, throwing
to be removed from the current comment link HTML, since it makes me sad-face.
There's also a larger problem of getting a comment link from an answer if you accessed the answer by a direct URL, since if the question slug changes in the interim you get redirected to the new answer URL, instead of the comment.
That becomes even more problematic if I were to instead get a comment link from the question in such a case, since you don't end up at the right post (you should end up on this comment). A similar scenario could probably come about on questions with more than one page of answers, as well, although that's pretty edge-case.
Making the comment link URLs fully qualified would alleviate some of those issues, though it might cause unnecessary redirects as a result. This happens anyway when you link to answers within the same post currently, so perhaps that's not a huge issue.
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Beginning in 1971, the Turbomachinery Laboratory of Texas
A&M University (TAMU) organized the first of now 41
consecutive annual turbomachinery symposiums, now known as the
TAMU Turbo. In 1984, Texas A&M added an International Pump
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and highly experienced teachers. They were the tutors to the
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engineers. As members of the TAMU Turbo and TAMU Pump advisory
committees, recognized leaders in the fluid machinery and power
generation communities share the task of providing guidance to
presenters and attendees. Some leaders are equipment users;
others are manufacturers or vendors. Virtually all job
functions and user industries are represented at these
The TAMU Turbo symposium was established as a forum for
users and manufacturers of industrial turbomachinery. Because
of many overlapping areas of interest, the program continues to
focus on commercial turbomachinery users within the oil and
gas, petrochemical and utility
industries. Both symposiums have very wide scope and content.
The decision to co-locate TAMU Pump and TAMU Turbo events has
proved to be successful.
The most recent symposiums featured lectures, tutorials,
case studies, discussion groups and short courses, as well as
exhibits of the latest services and full-sized equipment. As in
past years, the two meetings emphasize technology and troubleshooting.
Approximately 3,000 attendees registered for the 2012
Representatives of Hydrocarbon Processing attended the
September 2012 events. The technical sessions (lectures,
tutorials, discussion groups and case studies) provided
opportunities for attendees to expand their personal and
professional needs and interests. Moreover, the exhibits
featured products from many key manufacturers. Because
exhibiting companies send their first-team players
to this symposium, attendees were able to touch
base with executives and even CEOs of companies with
stellar credentials. Executives answered questions from
first-time attendees and, a scant few minutes later, greeted
the occasional octogenarian who wandered through the 300
exhibits. There was knowledge transfer in the exhibit hall, but
there was also the occasional commiseration. Some things were
different; there was change, and not all changes affected all
parties equally.
Because of their relevance, the two symposiums have
obviously grown in size and complexity. In 2012, there were 11
short courses (Table 1), 19 discussion groups,
and, of course, a highly appropriate and valuable product
exhibit show.
TAMU Pump attendees could choose from six additional lectures,
as listed in Table 2. This program was focused
on pump users. Suitable courses, tutorials and case histories
were again part of TAMU Pump. The discussion groups were led by
engineers or senior technicians with vast experience; these
leaders facilitated discussion from the floor. Attendees from
the US and many countries actively participated in the
discussion groups. Many attendees used this forum to obtain
sound advice from their peers on problems of immediate
importance. This author and HP believe that,
collectively, the two symposiums are the most valuable events
of their genre. Fluid-machinery users should continue to attend
both TAMU Turbo and TAMU Pump, especially since they share the
same timing and location.
Although the two events have considerable synergism, they do
differ. The TAMU Turbo advisory committee members are not the
same individuals forming the TAMU Pump board. Each of the two
committees are made up of what many consider highly
knowledgeable members. Unfortunately, TAMU Pump has recently
been quick to reject certain presentation offers. For example,
one presentation was encouraged by pump users seeking
explanations regarding repeat pump failures. Rejecting solid
information by acknowledged experts who had documented years of
failure-reduction experience is disappointing; more important,
members of the TAMU Pump Advisory Committee should be user
advocates that are both knowledgeable and impartial. The
users goal is high equipment reliability and low-failure rates.
The manufacturers goals are aimed at sales and profits.
Finding a balance that serves both parties is a leadership
challenge. Participating manufacturers should be encouraged to
be more open about their productsgood and bad. Formal
presentations should supplement the many informal discussion
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, advisory committee
members had the experience, desire and motivation to work
closely with old and young potential presenters. Senior
advisory committee members contributed wisdom and maturity;
they also insisted on evenhandedness and civility of discourse.
The same attributes are needed at a time when the dissemination
of solid facts will help a hard-pressed pump user community
eliminate dangerous repeat failures. For a pump user symposium
to add more value, steps might be taken to elevate the tone of
the discourse and to remember how Karassik, Jackson and Nelson
communicated respectfully, authoritatively and without bias. We
should all try to imitate them.
Although the program for September 30October 3, 2013,
will not be finalized until March, TAMU Pump has taken steps to
emphasize pump failure avoidance topics. For starters, the
advisory board is giving consideration to repeating a
well-attended tutorial that had received positive reviews in
2012. Put it on your calendar if repeat pump failures are one
of your concerns.
Both symposiums can be superb training venues for your fluid
machinery professionals. As they then return to your facility
after attending in 2013, why not ask them to hand in more than
the traditional request for travel expenses? Ask them to submit
a 200-word summary of what they have learned and what others
are doing different from the way we do it here.
That is one method in which you can get top dollar for your
training outlays. HP
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In reading "Divergences perceived" I did find echo to a similar circumstance. A case event that culminated in a paper reject unless it was "modified" to make a third party OEM machinery engineering void of any blemish. This "modification" almost voided the focus of the paper which discussed the roots of an unusual shaft resonance that made a building shake.
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It is not clear which 2012 Turbo Pump short-course topic included "the well-attended tutorial" ... "emphasiz(ing) pump failure avoidance topics." Is it "Pump cavitation physics, prediction, control and troubleshooting"? I'd like to consider submitting a reliability paper, including Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA), if it's not too late. CW Knudsen email@example.com
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I just saw the article in Hydrocarbon Processing about the Pump & Turbo Symposia 2012. It's awesome! Thanks so much!Bethany WomackMarketing Director, Turbomachinery LaboratoryTexas A&M University
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We all know that subatomic particles exhibit quantum behavior. I was wondering if there's a cutoff in size where we stop exhibiting such behavior.
From what I have read, it seems to me that we still see quantum effects up to the nanometer level.
We all know that subatomic particles exhibit quantum behavior. I was wondering if there's a cutoff in size where we stop exhibiting such behavior.
From what I have read, it seems to me that we still see quantum effects up to the nanometer level.
The classic experiment demonstrating quantum effects, the 2 slit experiment, has been preformed with subsequently larger and larger particles as our technology available to do it advanced. Originally, it was performed with electrons, which are just as much matter as any other matter, but are extremely small. The largest particle it has been demonstrated with are Buckminsterfullerene, which contain 60 Carbon atoms. For size comparison:
$$m_e = 5.485 x 10^{-4}u$$ $$m_{buckyball} = 720.642 u$$
There is a good reason that the experiment gets more difficult with increasing mass, and to be sure, the buckball experiment was quite an accomplishment. To the basics of quantum mechanics:
$$\Delta x\, \Delta p \ge \frac{\hbar}{2}$$
Alternatively, the de Broglie wavelength is:
$$\lambda = \frac{h}{p} = \frac{h}{m v}$$
I believe that in order to obtain the same wavelength with the same mass you have to decrease the velocity. The reason this could be problematic for such experiments is that it is hard to successfully create the conditions needed with a large and slower moving particle, such as needing a better vacuum.
There is no known cutoff in "size" where systems stop exhibiting "quantum behavior". I put those words in quotes, because "size" can mean different things to different behavior, and you weren't explicit about what you mean by "quantum behavior".
Folks have seen double-slit interference with molecules made up of ~60 atoms (I think recent experiments may have increased this number). If you were to try to do the same thing with a baseball, as far as anyone knows there's no fundamental reason why it wouldn't work, but the experiment is far beyond our technical abilities (it would take a length of time greater than the age of the universe to do the experiment, nobody knows how to isolate the baseball from the environment for that length of time, etc. etc.).
Superconducting rings have been built with diameters of a few centimeters (probably bigger) and still show flux quantization, which is a quantum-mechanical effect due to the electron wavefunction. Those rings are definitely bigger than a few nanometers, and I'd consider it "quantum behavior".
Folks have shown quantum-mechanical entanglement between two light beams that were separated by kilometers (in EPR tests). A kilometer sounds like a big "size" to me, but maybe that's not what you meant?
Take your pick as to what's the biggest "size" here, but as far as anyone knows, there's no size cutoff to quantum mechanics. However, depending on the kind of experiment (2-slit interferometer, etc.) it definitely becomes more and more technically difficult to perform the experiment as the system is scaled up.
There are definitely circumstances where we see quantum behaviors at rather large scales like, for example, in superconductors. In BCS theory cooper pairs are described by a macroscopic wave-function which, to my knowledge is valid for the bulk superconductor no matter how large it is.


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etc. is not informal. In fact it is better than its expansion, which sounds rather awkward. It is perfectly ok to use etc. in an academic paper.
Just note, however, that both of them are very sparingly and carefully used in serious writing. Try to list fully or describe the list instead.
I would recommend not using etc. in an academic paper. And if you do, please be sure you are using it correctly. See this good explanation about using etc. Here's an excerpt:
As an editor, I would almost always ask for a revision of a sentence that contains etc. It usually can be reworded more precisely and better without using this word. And quite honestly, many authors use it incorrectly.
I think the problem is not the phrase itself, but the fact that it assumes the reader will know what "the rest" is. As a rule, in academic papers, this is a difficult assumption to make, because the nature of an academic paper is to define and spell out information.
So if it is appropriate to include this at all, then the expression "etc." is fine - it is not the formality that is the issue, but the implications.
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