I managed to to get out last weekend with a few friends and we made it to Muir Beach on the North peninsula. The day was absolutely beautiful and we had a good time wandering around before heading back to Berkeley to watch the Superbowl. There are a few more pictures in the [...]
Just finished Pete Goss’ book Close to the Wind: An Extraordinary Story of Triumph Over Adversity in record time, about 3 days. Great story. Has little or no value aside from the entertainment, but that is just what I needed while sitting around in the airport. If you like sailing & reading then [...]
Testing out a new plugin for WordPress…
Proposed by Sam Vandervelde, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY.
First we let and . In other words, is the set of all nonzero rational numbers written in lowest terms. Find, with proof, the value of
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The first semester of my graduate school career is over — woohoo!!! I just finished my last exam on Friday. I don’t know what kind of grades I earned yet, but I am pretty happy with how classes went — I now have a pretty solid understanding of the basics of Quantum Mechanics [...]
I spent the Thanksgiving holiday in MT with my sister and the brother-in-law. It was pretty awesome — we spent the majority of the week I was there in a log cabin near Helena. We hiked, skied, drank, and ate some great food. A few sample pictures are below — the rest are [...]
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So I am living in Berkeley now and going to UCB (University of California at Berkeley) full-time. Life is good, though obscenely busy — I TA for a section of Chem 1A, I am actively looking for a research group to join, and I have two grad classes each of which is enough [...]
I just spent the past 2+ weeks out in Montana with my sister and her husband and it was absolutely amazing! A quick recap..
Went to the Tetons and hiked Granite Canyon trail (~16 miles)
Putzed around Missoula, MT and drank a lot of good beer
Camped at Peck Gulch on the Koocanusa Lake
Climbed at the Stone Hills [...]
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Back about a month ago while on a plane that was headed to Detroit I had an interesting chat with a guy named Rich. I forget many of the things he told me, but one of the things that I did remember was a strategy he had for problem solving. See, Rich’s job [...]
I bought a copy of Michael J. Fox’s new book, Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist, while at an airport about a month ago and I have just finished reading it. First off, it is definitely not the type of book I would usually read. Aside from the Feynman books [...]
Back in winter and spring of 2008 I took a semester off and worked full time for the European Space Agency in Greenbelt, MD as a programmer on the SOHO project team. They tasked me with exploring the feasibility and starting the coding on a new type of solar image viewing application. The [...]
