Often the types of programs I write take visible time to run. They are more like movies in that regard. They produce frames
Well, what should I do with my time for the remaining weeks in the new year. Well, its simple enough to know, if
Looking at my habits of reading and I hold my favorite authors to the highest standards. It's like since I knew they were
Once a citizen is handed income it gains responsibility to generate response taxable actions. Long story short how could I make money from
Well let me think, Santa Barbara to start.
Chosing between California, Texas and New York but obviously a Libra so
So a few days to about a week ago my post pregnancy vertigo came back. For three days Everytime I tried to move
Pico de guio and chips
Nachos with rice, cheese, cabbage, Pico de guio
Spanish rice
beef
Of course I do but not for everything and not all the time. But without it I become a less effective engineer. Things
Hire a handy man for the house.
So why was it important in the first place? It answered a question how do we turn binary data into a temporal compute
Hey wat are you doing? Are you building something? Always a time for inopportune questions. Only ask those if you can tell that
Any artist looks at the empty space around and considers what to make of it and how to go about making the nothing
Last night I felt sort of guilty for not continuing to work on my latest start-up or idea and instead watching a few
For as long as I can remember it has been a search for a thing to hold in my hands to read. That
It would be pretty amazing of a world if I could help myself if I was hurt or sick. If we want to
It's enjoyable to have holiday times. Remember about writing to the screen or not. One of my early papers was about studying how
its Christmas Eve. The morning of, the children are awake and busy. I don't normally have a write daily practice but as life
Writing the thesis chapter on communication feels so easily doable. I'm happy it's one of the main topics of my asynchronous thesis. Looking
Maybe taking things one day at a time and I could write and finish a chapter of my thesis. I know it's only
Every morning I do the same thing almost down to the minutes but that same thing changes from week to week anyways.
Having a new phone or computer really, feels like getting a totally new life. I can't wait to become a hummingbird image source.
/anaconda/envs/tensorflow/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tensorflow
Well it's not really necessary to run from the
Atlas Sailed is a start-up I have been working on for the past few months now. My cofounder and I just entered it in techstars
Shortly before graduating from Stonybrook University with my B.S. in physics, awesome news came along; accepted at University of California Santa Barbara for graduate studies
I approach projects with the goal of successful completion. I knew when I began pursing my degree it would require complete devotion and single
Scope without input
Octave and GNUplot are installed on my computer. I used MacPorts.
I made this picture using Octave & GNUplot.
This past week at the LTC has been quite productive. On Wednesday, Marty helped Gaby set up the AOM, and I was able
The crystal is subject to a compression waves, which are the acoustic wavelength.
Today was spent setting up my laser, AOM and photodetectors. I read a lab manual on how to use an AOM, and I wanted to
Recently I decided to stop writing daily updates. Writing daily reminded me that at times it is better to have a long term
This is the beginning of the fourth week of the REU program, and I believe it is time for me to pick a topic for
The morning started off with working on Shor’s Algorithm, as usual. I was writing a new section on the Controlled-U gate. There was
There was a talk about buying a new laser in the AM. In the afternoon I was reading about solar pumped lasers. Overall it (solar
Does it effect the polarization of light?
Does it have nonlinear properties?
What happens if I put in it an electric field?
Today was the completion of the Shor's algorithm paper, section 2, "Classical Factoring Algorithm's". Writing this paper is quite a time consuming process, and the
Another excellent day has passed. The morning began in a most productive way, with a through investigation of the general number field sieve algorithm for
I spent the day sorting optical elements. I kept Thor labs website up and looked for the names of the different elements, then placed them
The java IDE used at Stonybrook is installed on my computer, and I just wrote "Hello World!"
The book I'm reading on learning java
For the past few days I have been deep into my project on an optical Turing machine. My notebook is full of drawings of various
Programmable optical processor based on symbolic substitution
Karl-Heinz Brenner
Applied Optics, Vol. 27, Issue 9, pp. 1687-1691 (1988) doi:10.1364/AO.27.001687
Digital optical computing
Yesterday was a most exciting day. The morning was spent on Shor's Algorithm again. The final part I am working on is the classical algorithm
This morning I was continuing to study the phase estimation algorithm used in Shor's algorithm. Eventually I will post the paper, but until then I
On Friday I spent a good portion of the day reading more about LiNbO3. Later in the day I switched to working on revisions of
LaTeXiT is a utility for mac that lets you enter LaTeX anywhere. Once you enter the code, right click, select "Services" and convert your LaTeX
Silicon is the dominant material for the fabrication of integrated circuits
The fourth day of REU was an introduction to the linux computers. I printed out a nice cheat sheet of linux commands. I decided to
The photorefractive effect is incredible. When light from a split beam is shone in through the orthonormal sides of a photorefractive material the interference pattern
The first day was arrival and an AMO seminar. The AMO seminars are usually every Monday so this time the new REU group went to
The more I read about entanglement and single photon detectors, the less I think it would make a good summer project. I'd probably spend two
One of the books I was reading makes quite a big deal about entanglement. The opening question in the book is “What is Entanglement?”.
So it is the end of my third semester at Stonybrook. I am now technically a junior. I have four semesters remaining at college.
I have a 632nm half wave plate, and I needed to find the optical axis.
There were two things I wanted to try at the LTC. The first was to retry the quantum eraser experiment, using the steps as
Today’s visit to the LTC began with reading various web pages about Quantum Eraser experiments. To help understand the quantum eraser experiment I watched
There is a small square of glass at the Laser Teaching Center, and Dr Noe and I thought it could be a wave plate
Polarization is the orientation of the oscillations of the particles composing a transverse wave. The particles could be oscillating in an up
Simple Harmonic Motion (SMH) is derived from Newton's force law, F = ma and Hooke's spring law, F = -kx. If we start with -kx
Solid to Gas = Sublimination
Gas to Solid = Deposition
The primary difference between states of matter is the molecular structure.
A phase
Differential equations are equations involving derivatives. For example:
y''+xy'+2y = sin x
This is a second order, linear differential equation.
The order
Maxwells equations are four laws used to understand electromagnetism.
Gauss's law for electricity: A generalized form of Coulomb's law relating electric field to its
First class of Chemistry 131.
There are two types of matter. Mixtures and Pure. The difference between the two is that mixtures can be
“Slowing and stopping light using an optomechanical crystal array” from the Institute for Quantum Information at Caltech, is about an idea for
Link: Decoherence of floating qubits due to capacitive coupling.
I decided to read this paper because I saw a link to a different
The 14 day paper project is similar to an artist's “Sketch a day” challenge, except instead of drawing a sketch I am reading a
“Creation of a quantum oscillator by classical control”
The LIGO gravitational wave observatory uses mirrors as a method to detect gravitational waves. The
The paper “Parallel State Transfer and Efficient Quantum Routing on Quantum Networks” describes a theoretical model for the routing of quantum information in
Notes on “Cavity optomechanics using an optically levitated nanosphere” by D.E. Chang, C.A. Regal, S.B. Papp, D.J. Wilson, J. Ye, O.
Link to the Paper:
“Coherent population trapping resonances with linearly polarized light for all-optical miniature atomic clocks”
This paper is about
I was on Wikipedia, trying to find out about programs which produce a equation for a
One of the problem's assigned in Foundations of QM asked us to consider the number of modes of the ground state function of a
The Exponent That Looks Like a Cross
Creation and annihilation operators
exp ( ) Notation
Its just another form of
Today I stopped by the LTC and Dr Noe was explaining to me how a laser works by reflecting light back and forth between
The talk began with a diagram, of three overlapping circles, Quantum Information, Quantum Computing and Quantum Imaging. Sitting in the overlapping point of the three
I stopped by the Laser Teaching Center today, to talk with Dr. Noe. He had sent me two abstracts for two talk's this week on
The relation between the sizes of electrons .02 angstroms, Gold Nucleus 10-5 angstroms, and the radius of the atom .5 angstroms.
Very important, we
Classical Relativity
Stars and Planets are in constant motion
And so instead of absolute units we use relative units.
Someone on Earth
We reviewed Vectors today, how vectors can be used to describe a line in 2D and 3D space. <1,3> + t<1,1> or (1+t)i + (3+t)j
Previously in calculus we did things like y=mx+b with m being the slope and for x not varying much.
The goal of this class
I can search the NSF Website for various research topics and see what people are actually working on today.
What Has Been
Starter Pack for Arduino - 1.0
$65.00
"Arduino is an open-source electronics
QIT "Quantum mechanics is famously counterintuitive. (Einstein, despite making great contributions to quantum mechanics, never fully accepted it.) Quantum computers and communication systems exploit
In class today we were going over how mirrors and lens work. It reminded me of this very neat toy I saw, a Parabolic Mirror
We combine photonic and electronic band structure engineering to create a surface-emitting quantum cascade microcavity laser. A high-index contrast two-dimensional photonic crystal is used to form a
Use this for solving problem cases, where the limit on the right side exists or is +-infinity. These are problem Cases.
if guess2 –x < error { Square root found } guess = (x/guess + guess) /2 else, guess
U = mgh Wby Gravity = -ΔU ΔU = UFinal – UInitial = 0 – mgh = -mgh ΔU = -mgh
return_type name(int j, int i) { Body; return return_type; }You can declare
Today was a quick class since the Midterm is Friday. We went over conical pendulums.
int feet=6; int inches = feet * 12 printf(“%d feet =
Well, to get started, it's necessary to specify the dataset. The simplest dataset we have is simpleThis, with two entry's.
Well then whatnot. Suppose it's time to make lunch why not feeling relaxed about things. Being that it's about time to get my
It looks like graduation is not happening. 7 years of work (okay only 4 for the PhD ... I still have a masters
Not forgetting that all works are now one, and realizing the potential for a life to craft itself a plan for materialization, time
Is it possible to clear everything out of the way and start anew for some dedicated time only to arrive at completion a
The time for turning pages is long gone, yet the tale only just begins. Looking out across the hazy