tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71865142024-03-23T18:13:45.904+00:00Great is Thy FaithfulnessUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger469125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186514.post-78353694070500784492009-06-02T16:05:00.002+00:002009-06-02T16:10:19.662+00:00conclusion<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Yt-IBJpEMzA&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Yt-IBJpEMzA&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />...goes the story of my cambridge (mis)adventure.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186514.post-89484129815385079642009-05-23T14:42:00.001+00:002009-05-23T14:42:33.515+00:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDMTBKjhs13SLgkVSPO7GoRHpoBo97U8lWjqG5_L_72uW14_HPnXA7t_zxnHxj3Ess2wfC27PKGskBBVYzdv_Ri0Qc-Zt9dpy_Admrx8lRGOe_VE-lYo0NoQb9BMhZNO8Sa2kUAg/s1600-h/algo.bmp"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 204px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDMTBKjhs13SLgkVSPO7GoRHpoBo97U8lWjqG5_L_72uW14_HPnXA7t_zxnHxj3Ess2wfC27PKGskBBVYzdv_Ri0Qc-Zt9dpy_Admrx8lRGOe_VE-lYo0NoQb9BMhZNO8Sa2kUAg/s320/algo.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339029782841053826" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186514.post-44111380266157957652009-05-22T00:14:00.004+00:002009-05-22T00:24:29.670+00:00natsci daysA tribute to the days when this<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiINOGkj4fJAjEh7DDUFWf4xDVI1PDva97J2QwqOHiJSD8bHwtQD1r1u-dgaQdJHHovibBGehF4fd2HcOSgFCliFl7ZAIBevPRI9s49yI5gTr9ta6u-s_D5XRrJ2fXY3T-8uTe-uQ/s1600-h/natsci.bmp"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiINOGkj4fJAjEh7DDUFWf4xDVI1PDva97J2QwqOHiJSD8bHwtQD1r1u-dgaQdJHHovibBGehF4fd2HcOSgFCliFl7ZAIBevPRI9s49yI5gTr9ta6u-s_D5XRrJ2fXY3T-8uTe-uQ/s400/natsci.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338435215255375154" /></a><br /><br />resulted in this<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuGiqkJOLPmAamnBuoPC4r28m-K5385_OAWdHKCYfsdWLRJ74nuDv1H3w9ysQPL2raRVU5nwxa696BvXTE1YMnv2sJWRYVhi9acYQdHzSlJaTHCxFnRzuVl3AS4nIWkpiaS7TMtg/s1600-h/Natsci2.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuGiqkJOLPmAamnBuoPC4r28m-K5385_OAWdHKCYfsdWLRJ74nuDv1H3w9ysQPL2raRVU5nwxa696BvXTE1YMnv2sJWRYVhi9acYQdHzSlJaTHCxFnRzuVl3AS4nIWkpiaS7TMtg/s400/Natsci2.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338436590244719234" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186514.post-54896491326545205522009-05-06T00:54:00.001+00:002009-05-06T00:54:51.863+00:00waverly hillsi so identify with lisa simpsons in this episode....<br /><br /><a href="http://wtso.net/movie/454-2019%20Waverly%20Hills%209-0-2-1-D'oh.html">wtso waverly hills</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186514.post-26863353216623865862009-04-06T20:03:00.001+00:002009-04-06T20:03:51.677+00:00<embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=1216928422676056694&hl=en&fs=true" style="width:400px;height:326px" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> </embed>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186514.post-54276900681174701262009-03-27T20:25:00.001+00:002009-03-27T20:28:42.900+00:00Websites from the US...<a href="http://www.ams.org/bull/">Bullitin of the American Mathematical Society</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.skymall.com/shopping/homepage.htm?pnr=ING">SkyMall</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186514.post-5549731355495523452009-03-15T05:02:00.001+00:002009-03-15T05:03:36.601+00:00Neural Networkswow <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyzOUbkUf3M">this</a> is cool...<br /><br />The guy's <a href="http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/MatlabForSciencePaper.html">webpage</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186514.post-70879757853138783392009-03-03T16:11:00.003+00:002009-03-03T20:35:48.804+00:00great, got 3 deltas (<45%). let's see what kind of miracles god intends to play now.<br /><br />just when i thought my life could not get any worse...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186514.post-32630512342613833312009-02-06T04:08:00.001+00:002009-02-06T04:09:59.444+00:00RepRap<a href="http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome">This</a> sounds awesome - a machine that creates stuff out of a polymer, that can recreate itself.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186514.post-65330047385751560662009-02-01T14:18:00.000+00:002009-02-01T14:19:14.909+00:00Quantum Physics Lectures<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wSitUq2lbcI&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wSitUq2lbcI&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186514.post-67488378421277616052009-01-06T07:59:00.002+00:002009-01-06T08:36:51.659+00:00backarrived in cambridge at slightly after 11. came up to my room and went straight to bed. it's quite comfortable now with the addition of the pillow and blanket from the plane.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186514.post-7428577920941412612009-01-04T17:42:00.002+00:002009-01-04T17:43:54.062+00:00going back for the very last timeyep, a post to jot down my ultimate trip back to Cambridge. facing exams and the cold when i return. hope supervisors will be approachable too. sigh...<br /><br />on another note, hch, <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/OnCampus/Story?id=6555853&page=1">this link</a> is for you. :DUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186514.post-264523870563520252008-12-29T16:52:00.004+00:002008-12-29T17:40:19.228+00:00palestineA <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6285051748819867080">documentary</a> about life in the Palestinian territory... My heart goes out to the kids in the video. without a future, and in such a claustrophobic place. the video lets one into the psyche of the Palestinian people, and why they behave the way they do. <br /><br /><br />Also read about a physics professor, Ghassan Andoni at <a href="http://www.birzeit.edu/academics/p/prog?prog_id=385">bir zeit university</a><br /><br />It's impressive that they have such a decent maths and physics program despite being in the midst of the conflict and isolation.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186514.post-2511592991091055722008-12-26T10:56:00.001+00:002008-12-26T10:59:44.568+00:00why hughes hall sucksbecause when I am unable to derive a and a+ when it is stated in a book that "the inverse expressions for a and a+ in terms of phi and pi are easy to derive but rarely needed", I have no where to turn to, and despite having taken the course the entire term, I do not yet know the answer, and it turns out that I require it to prove a set of important equivalence. damn it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186514.post-49602506070145524392008-12-26T09:38:00.002+00:002008-12-26T09:39:54.343+00:00for my geeky friends<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZtMJ5wo9yMm7hc6JeBHLy7ASH-v4vCkmdjA6zRP5eDCa7QXHSXZUy3kLvnXsHHa9Q3RlxJR9kWtbGpX9Dcs_GUIbWJm58FJ-0G1gR8T5eUvAsdi4KEoG8P-DntdSRU4ORzjMOYw/s1600-h/sandwich.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 360px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZtMJ5wo9yMm7hc6JeBHLy7ASH-v4vCkmdjA6zRP5eDCa7QXHSXZUy3kLvnXsHHa9Q3RlxJR9kWtbGpX9Dcs_GUIbWJm58FJ-0G1gR8T5eUvAsdi4KEoG8P-DntdSRU4ORzjMOYw/s400/sandwich.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284031136085204882" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7sCT3xqQ5o36jnM0QCjF2lIkzk9T2LZGafozE_L0jCHrmbcefeNpzAryF9WZw_0iCq7RDWgyQMtTLFq9hu-1lHYxaK0fHXqQip62ju-DryIWj84eM_eLRS6Sxn6u7bJk0qUslMA/s1600-h/matrix_transform.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 152px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7sCT3xqQ5o36jnM0QCjF2lIkzk9T2LZGafozE_L0jCHrmbcefeNpzAryF9WZw_0iCq7RDWgyQMtTLFq9hu-1lHYxaK0fHXqQip62ju-DryIWj84eM_eLRS6Sxn6u7bJk0qUslMA/s400/matrix_transform.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284031132338673154" /></a><br />a couple of xkcd comics that made me laugh... tag if it made you laugh too...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186514.post-6658635863772828982008-12-26T04:29:00.002+00:002008-12-26T04:32:44.551+00:00Interview with David Marhsalljust stumbled across an interview with <a href="http://thinkhappiness.blogspot.com/2006/08/meeting-david-marshall-in-1994.html">David Marshall</a> on the web. Looks like minister's pay was already an issue way back in 1994.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186514.post-66772354934642122972008-12-07T21:53:00.001+00:002008-12-07T21:53:35.187+00:00oh yes, a self reminder -to bring the guitar bag and a tie back with me when i returnUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186514.post-11464846949028819902008-12-07T21:37:00.002+00:002008-12-07T21:46:02.268+00:00you know i'm bored when...i start youtubing 'jingle bells' and posting the result here...<br /><br />http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KeyVQN2YUnY<br /><br />but <a href="http://subtle.vox.com/library/post/fret-killer.html">that guy's</a> kinda goood.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186514.post-48951582744965308522008-12-07T20:13:00.001+00:002008-12-07T20:13:22.605+00:00great circle of life in action<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VUWQFF0RJN4&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VUWQFF0RJN4&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186514.post-40125998461949659452008-12-07T17:10:00.002+00:002008-12-07T17:12:38.278+00:00Comic Relief<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20080920.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 468px; height: 753px;" src="http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20080920.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Found a great website for comics, after <a href="http://xkcd.com/">xkcd</a> - <a href="http://www.smbc-comics.com/">this</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186514.post-22236556683052360932008-12-04T00:33:00.002+00:002008-12-04T00:40:00.203+00:00sick. and miserablearh down with fever and headache just when i could least afford it. not able to sleep, yet not able to work. <br /><br />left with two example classes and the project plan, and found that my supervisor is away in pueto rico. man. need to discuss the project with him and get him to sign the project plan. <br /><br />plus trying to run the simulation on my own computer, as the simulation room is always locked. but having some difficulty setting it up. arh.<br /><br />lord, when will i finally see rest???Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186514.post-81604855683739947952008-12-02T23:48:00.002+00:002008-12-02T23:49:58.120+00:00why hughes hall sucksbecause i get stuck on trivial matters like converting from SI units to Natural units, and there is no one that I can turn to to confirm, and I spend the whole night stuck at this when there is an entire particle physics example sheet i need to complete for tomorrow.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186514.post-54334945331402365722008-11-30T01:00:00.002+00:002008-11-30T01:41:47.589+00:00The term gone byWow, into the last weekend of term already. <br /><br />Will be a really hectic end to the term, after an uncharacteristically relaxed 5th week with a few lectures canceled. Making up for it now with 4 supervisions to complete before I leave. But that's not all. <br /><br />Stuff that needs to be done next week -<br />1) project proposal, bu 5 Dec<br />2) collecting payments, and tidying up cf accounts, including arranging for word alive payments and possible alteration of booking<br />3) planing games for houseparty<br />4) changing flight dates, maybe.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Work this term</span><br />Work has been good - it's not that I'm coping any better, but I am at the very least progressing through some parts of the course. Found several people to ask when stuck at stuff, and have very helpful supervisors. Would really like some time during the holidays to work and have them around, but I dont know if I might be in the mood to work when it's so cold, and when meals won't be that regular at college. Also there may be a fee for changing flight dates, will have to weigh these factors. <br /><br />QFT, QCMFT, and particle physics are really nice courses. have really good lecturer for particle physics, and awesome supervisors for QFT and QCMFT. Glad to be given this opportunity to learn these subjects with the resources available, but kinda feel like I'm not making the most of it. I feel the urgency to learn as much as I can here while i have access to these resources, before I have to do it on my own if I go back home after this. <br /><br />On the other hand, I can't wait for this hectic lifestyle to be over. Hope to enjoy the comfort of staying at one place permanently, and feel at home in it. Though I fear that the lack of resources may stifle, and that I'll miss the things I take for granted here when I'm back home - the space, freedom, and managing my own life. <br /><br />yeah, just reflection arising from the anticipation of impending doom of the last week...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186514.post-54170502248666633182008-11-25T11:45:00.001+00:002008-11-25T11:48:29.520+00:00Online Condensed Matter Field Theory Textbook<a href="http://users.physik.fu-berlin.de/~kleinert/kleiner_reb1/contents.html">Kleinert, H.: Gauge Fields in Condensed Matter,World Scientific (Singapore, 1989)</a><br /><br />Singapore? 1989? Gauge fields in condensed matter? hm...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186514.post-18338835746256921822008-11-24T00:09:00.001+00:002008-11-24T00:09:27.466+00:00lolcatz<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xjdvpHBNfo4&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xjdvpHBNfo4&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0