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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 08:25 pm domain coloring request (and two images)
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[info]gaspaheangea, posting in [info]mathart
Hi, I'm trying to determine if the following function is modular or not, and



if someone out there could domain color it for me, I'd be most thankful. (tau is in the upper
half plane only, it's zero at rational reals, and I think it's nonconvergent for irrational
reals, but I'm not certain. p_{m} is the mth prime (2,3,5,7,...)

here's something else I'm working on:

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Nov. 17th, 2009 @ 12:10 am SSL Renegotiation Attack Becomes Real
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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 11:26 pm Microsoft Open Sources .NET Micro Framework
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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 11:26 pm Optical Mice Used To Detect Counterfeit Coins
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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 03:23 pm Etymology in the most recent issue of National Geographic magazine
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[info]gwoman, posting in [info]word_ancestry
Current Mood: cheerful
While reading through my beloved NatGeo today, I came across this mini-article on etymology called "New Word Order." Since it's only a page (and most of that is a graphic), I thought I'd share it with you all. :)

You may have to click on the actual picture a few times before it is big enough to read, just fyi. )
Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 03:19 pm if you have a cell phone...
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[info]edbook
Cell Phone Numbers go public this month. All cell phone numbers will be released to telemarketing companies.

To prevent this, call 888-382-1222. It blocks your number for five years. Call from the cell phone number you want blocked.

Pass it on!


Peace
Nov. 17th, 2009 @ 02:03 am Lisboa Oriente
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+1 )

Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 02:48 pm sneeze
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[info]gwoman, posting in [info]word_ancestry
Current Mood: cheerful
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sneeze, v. & n. [sneez, snēz]
-Scholars are not absolutely certain, but they theorize that English sneeze ultimately comes from prehistoric Indo-European pneu- 'to breathe.' If this is not in fact the true ancestor, then scholars believe the ancestor to be of similar form and also of imitative origin. However, sneeze's etymological trail does become more solid by the time of Proto-Germanic fneusanan 'to sneeze,' from which sprung Old High German fnehan 'to breathe' and niosan 'to sneeze,' Old Norse fnysa 'to snort,' Middle Dutch fniesen 'to sneeze,' and Old English fneosan 'to snort, to sneeze.' This Old English word, first appearing around 1000 CE, transformed into Middle English fnesan 'to sneeze' after only approximately 150 years. By 1333, though, spelling and pronunciation had changed to sniesen, snesen. The leading theory on why this alteration occurred says that the initial f sound in fnesan was gradually dropped, producing nesen in the early 1300's, which was then influenced by similar words in English (snort, snore) and possibly in Old Norse. The noun form of sneeze is known from 1382 as nesing, then changed to neesing by 1609, with sneezing finally appearing in 1646.
Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 10:35 pm Are There Affordable Low-DPI Large-Screen LCD Monitors?
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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 09:35 pm Intel Allows Release of Full 4004 Chip-Set Details
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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 08:30 pm DNSSEC Implemetation Held Up By Tech Delays
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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 08:30 pm 100 Million-Core Supercomputers Coming By 2018
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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 03:01 pm Renewed Hope for an AIDS Vaccine
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The long search for an AIDS vaccine has produced countless false starts and repeated failed trials, casting once bright hopes into shadows of disenchantment. The now familiar swings appeared in high relief this past fall, with news of the most recent, phase III trial in Thailand . Initial fanfare for a protective outcome gave way to disappointment after reanalysis showed that the protection could be attributed only to chance. But rather than dashing all hopes for an AIDS vaccine, the trial has heartened some researchers, who see new clues in the battle against the fatal illness. [More]

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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 07:29 pm Russia Recalls Modern Warfare 2
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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 06:25 pm Mark Cuban's Plan To Kill Google
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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 11:01 am Union Filesystems headache
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[info]darkmatterhari, posting in [info]linux
Current Mood: frustrated
I'm trying to set up a union filesystem to serve up a boot image for PXE thin clients. So far I've been completely unsuccessful in anything more that beating my head against my desk.

I'll be running it on Debian (lenny) and for now I'm just working with the union idea in a test VM. The PXE and NFS stuff will come after I prove that this can reasonably work.

I'm working with unionfs-fuse but I'm also open to funionfs. I looked at aufs but I think it's more complexity than we need. I'm pretty sure I've got the basic idea here but it doesn't seem to be working so I could be wrong in my understanding.

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? )

Update: Okay, I've got the union working but the copy-on-write/editing part is still screwed up. I think I was getting confused between unionfs-fuse, funionfs, and unionfs as I was struggling to find documentation for any. I rolled back my vm to the base Debian image, installed unionfs-fuse through apt-get, and am now here:
Updated issue )
Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 05:18 pm If the Comments Are Ugly, the Code Is Ugly
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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 11:33 am Philadelphia, PA
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Please Clean and Repair Me
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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 04:12 pm Becoming Agile
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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 10:36 am A Search For Honest Opinions
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[info]arlene273, posting in [info]deviantart
Current Mood: contemplative
Most of you know I adore photography, and that means both sides of the camera.
Over the last year, I have had several photo shoots, and have more coming soon. (A super hot one right after Thanksgiving).

I have been told a few times recently that I should put together an online portfolio for my modeling pictures. For other photographers to find me, and to show off my creativity and ideas in general.

Well, if you know this much about me, you probably also know that I have a creative form of ADD or something. I'm not simply one or two forms of artistic. So I have my photography posted on my Flickr, my coloring and my favorite photo manipulations posted on my DeviantArt, and most of my favorite pictures from any given modeling shoot on my Myspace. I also have my twitter which will generally have links to my new things posted any given place.

The generally suggested place for my modeling portfolio would be Model Mayhem, which I don't currently have an account.

So the question I am asking is: Do you think I should have a separate account on a separate site for my online modeling portfolio, or should I piggy-back one of the sites I already have? If I were to piggy-back one of my current accounts it would be DeviantArt. I would have a separate folder though, so not to take away from my coloring work that already gets posted there. What do you think?
Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 03:11 pm Apple Patents 'Enforceable' Ad Viewing On Devices
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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 03:11 pm Most Security Products Fail To Perform
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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 10:11 am My Most Recently Colored Pieces
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[info]arlene273, posting in [info]deviantart
Current Mood: creative
Please feel to click them and visit my deviantart to see them bigger. I have several pieces I am working on at the moment. Hopefully they will be posted soon. I find that the more pieces I do, the more of a perfectionist I get about my work and techniques.



The Dependents Cover Colored
by ~arlene2 on deviantART



Test Page 1 Colored
by ~arlene2 on deviantART
Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 05:09 pm (no subject)
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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 02:08 pm Copyright Time Bomb Set To Go Off
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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 05:41 am Nov 09 Photo Challenge - CLOUDS WITH A TWIST - Post this Friday and Saturday
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[info]braddumm, posting in [info]behind_the_lens
Thanks to [info]bioskiss (Maslova Viktory) for her fantastic photo that will help me to describe the subject matter for this challenge:
Mavlova Viktorys (BIOKISS) Cloud Photo

Thanks to [info]texwriterbear (Sean Kramer) for the subject matter for this challenge. This month we'll examine your favorite photo of CLOUDS...but with a twist...add an additional subject matter. If we look through the recap post after the challenge is over, I don't want just a bunch of cloud pictures...even if the clouds are extraordinary, they'll all run together! Use a secondary subject matter and yours will stand out. Use your best creativity to find a subject that will complement the cloud component. The combination should draw the viewer into the photo. See, in the announcement photo above, how the photographer has you looking at the clouds...but the subject of the woman and the toy bear are what make you "feel" the photo. Remember to think outside the box and use components that will make it make it your own.

more under cut )
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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 11:35 am The First Windows 7 Zero-Day Exploit
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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 08:01 am Public School Teachers Selling Lesson Plans Online
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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 10:48 am (no subject)
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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 10:46 am (no subject)
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люлилюлистояла
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Подъезд
Nov. 15th, 2009 @ 11:19 pm CS Grad School Advice -- What to choose as a field of interest?
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[info]aetled, posting in [info]mathematics
I couldn't find an active Computer Science LJ and figured there were some CS students here =), so here goes:

I'm applying to computer science graduate schools, but I'm not sure what subfield (e.g., AI, Theory, Computer Architecture) to talk about in my research interests. Does anyone know how much it matters?

It's not that I don't know what I want to study -- I do. (Theoretical Computer Science, in particular, complexity theory.)

The problem is, I focused a lot more on machine learning and NLP as an undergrad (most of my undergrad research was in it, and 2 of my recs are from my supervisors), so I think my application looks a lot stronger to a Machine Learning person than to a theory person. (I do have a decent theory background -- I majored in math, took some advanced theory classes, and did research with a combinatorics professor [though it didn't go anywhere] -- but I don't think I'm currently as strong].

So should I say that I want to study Machine Learning (I'm stronger in it, but not really interested anymore) or Complexity Theory (less experienced, but it's what I want to study). How much does it really matter -- is it easy to switch once you're actually admitted? (Not sure how choosing an advisor really works...)
Or should I say I want to study both? (It's a good possibility, but I'm wondering whether it will dilute my research statement and make it sound rather rambly and less focused.)

Thanks!
Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 05:52 am Nvidia's RealityServer 3.0 Demonstrated
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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 05:36 am M57: The Ring Nebula
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It looks like a ring on the sky. It looks like a ring on the sky.


Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 12:01 am Squirrel
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[info]thebiblioholic, posting in [info]behind_the_lens
IMG_6862

I saw this guy through a hole in a tree stump. See below:
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Nov. 15th, 2009 @ 08:18 pm Calculus: Volumes of Revolution
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[info]borrowtheworld, posting in [info]math_help
I am struggling with this problem:

Find the volume of the solid obtained by rotating the region enclosed by the graphs about the given axis: y=16-x, y=3x+12, x=0, about x=2


Since I am rotating about x=2 should I put the equations in terms of x?
Using the washer method how would I know which is the inner and the outer radius?



-Thanks!
Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 03:28 am Free Software For All Russian Schools In Jeopardy
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Nov. 15th, 2009 @ 06:58 pm .
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[info]duccio, posting in [info]doorwindowwall


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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 01:16 am "Mandelbulb," a 3D Mandlebrot Construct, Discovered
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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 12:25 am UN Officials Remove Poster Mentioning Chinese Firewall
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Nov. 15th, 2009 @ 06:45 pm (no subject)
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[info]fruiterian, posting in [info]_scientists_
This is a random question, but I was wondering: what sorts of tips, tricks, and programs do you use in order to organize collections of journal article PDFs? I'm undertaking a rather large undergraduate thesis this year, and I'm already gathering a rather large collection of literature to refer to as I'm working for that. Right now what I'm doing is tagging stuff in the file name along with a brief description of the title (example: [ecdysone][fat]inducible-functions), but that's still missing stuff like authors and years which would be useful, but I find when I use file names like that I end up opening a lot more files to find what I need. Even the system I'm using now I usually end up opening more files than I'd like to find what I want. And I hate going through and renaming files after I go on an article downloading spree...

I just downloaded Mendeley Desktop and it seems rather nice, but almost a little too overpowered for what I want to do right now. I want to be able to find the articles I need at a given moment, but I don't really need to annotate them digitally, as I print out the articles I want to take deeper notes on, and I don't need an online backup of them or anything as I have multiple backups on my own external drives. Are there any other programs of a similar sort that are OS X compatible?


Also, another random question but I figured I'd tack it on. I'm planning on applying to graduate school while taking a year off next year. It would be for a Ph.D in some sort of molecular biology program; I'm particularly interested in epigenetics (and I'm aware of all the silliness that undertaking a Ph.D entails, what with lack of employment and misery). I've started talking to my advisors here about possible schools, but I was wondering how all of you who have gone through the graduate admissions process have approached making that list? My grades are quite good, I haven't taken the GREs yet but I will be studying my ass off for them during winter break, and I'll have a solid two years of continuous research on the same project complete by the time I graduate along with the aforementioned thesis. The professor who I do research with suggested I could probably get into a top tier school, and I know a lot of the schools doing research in epigenetics are top tier or very close to it. How did you manage to balance your own interests and institutional reputation?

(If this isn't an appropriate place to ask such a question, tell me and I'll edit it out of the entry. I was going to try [info]applyingtograd but they seem to be much more humanities driven.)
Nov. 15th, 2009 @ 11:31 pm Genentech Puts Words In the Mouths of Congress Members
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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 12:35 am (no subject)
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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 12:34 am (no subject)
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Moscow
Nov. 15th, 2009 @ 09:17 pm "Pathfinders" Take Shape For Galileo, Europe's GPS
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Nov. 15th, 2009 @ 09:17 pm New Dating Sites Match People Through DNA Tests
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Nov. 15th, 2009 @ 04:03 pm Italy, Orvieto
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Nov. 15th, 2009 @ 03:38 pm Forest of Shadows
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Shadow Trees
Canon 5dmkII * Canon 50mm f/1.4


The treeline on the west bank of the Chagrin River in Willoughby, Ohio casts shadows onto the cliff face of the east bank.

Panoramic )
Nov. 15th, 2009 @ 01:01 pm Nanodevices Bend under the Force of Light
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[info]sciam

A team of researchers has fabricated a micron-scale device that deforms significantly under the force of light, a technology that could form the basis for tiny light-actuated switches or filters in future optical devices. [More]

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Nov. 15th, 2009 @ 11:34 am Indiana War Memorial.
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