A new paper, “On the Generation of Random Numbers.” Postscript available here. What do you think should I submit it to the arXiv?
Turducken?
Juiciest paper on the arxiv yesterday? 0707.3101: “Excision Without Excision: the Relativistic Turducken” by D. Brown, O. Sarbach, E. Schnetter, M. Tiglio, P. Diener, I. Hawke, D. Pollney.
Many Universes, But Not All Lead to Salvation or the Simpson's Movie
It
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is
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coming!
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Maybe, finally, after all these years of waiting, we will learn just exactly what “Quantum Presbyterianism” is:
Homer: [opens door to find Kang and Kodos standing there] Hello — oh great. Mormons.
Kang: Actually, we’re Quantum Presbyterians…
I’m thinking it involves a doctrine which says that you are spiritually doomed to branches of the wavefunction which are condemned by God, but the divine intervention of God can lead you to those branches which are not condemned. Or something like that.
“Spider pig, spider pig…”
The Quantum Theory of Dick Cheney
Doctor Wilbur Von Philbert explains the laws of the quantum cheneyverse. Surely a theory of quantum government will appear on the arxiv soon, no?
Update: Robin points out this relevant link.
Reviewing Ratio?
Since that last poll got more than three total responses, and I’m here refereeing a paper, here is another poll for your amusement:
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Tetris?
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Family Friendly Damnit
Via Uncertain Principles who got it from Cocktail Pary Physics, I find that this blog is rated
Who's Hot Tonight? Strindberg's Hot Tonight.
A classic: Strindberg + Helium. The problem is everytime I rewatch those flash animations, I can’t get Helium’s voice out of my head for days. Argh!
Unique Models
Sure, arXiv:physics is great for entertaining papers. But so is arXiv:cs. For example,
take 0706.1926:
Title: Towards understanding and modelling office daily life
Authors: Michele Bezzi, Robin Groenevelt
Measuring and modeling human behavior is a very complex task. In this paper we present our initial thoughts on modeling and automatic recognition of some human activities in an office. We argue that to successfully model human activities, we need to consider both individual behavior and group dynamics. To demonstrate these theoretical approaches, we introduce an experimental system for analyzing everyday activity in our office.
Sorry, I looked: there are no histograms of TPS reports per day in the paper.
Robust Bacon
I’m currently visiting the Perimeter Institute for a workshop on fault-tolerant quantum computing. The workshop is great, but the coolest thing is that I get to wear a badge which calls me fault-tolerant:
Am I robust? I certainly don’t feel robust, indeed every day it seems entropy finds yet another way to sneak attack me 🙂