I'm generating graphs, and have been since 8pm. They tend to start out looking messed up, like this:
And eventually looking much more reasonable, like this:
I stress eventually .
I think that if anyone understands how I feel about being stuck in an Athena cluster generating graphs all night, it is this disgruntled bull. Although the 22 other students in the cluster with me may have some idea as well.
...On an almost completely unrelated note, I recently learned a great mnemonic for the stock market types: Bulls attack by thrusting their horns up in the air and bears attack by swiping down. So a bull market is one in which the market is moving up and a bear market is one in which it's moving down!
But back to the bull in the picture. He isn't just any bull; he's from Honduras. And so he brings back some amazing memories of the trip I got to take last January with D-Lab. There have already be several blogs about how awesome D-Lab is. This one's a nice overview. I'm too sleepy to add much to them at this point, but maybe later I can tell you more about Honduras (There were all sorts of adventures, some of which involved crocodiles!). For now I'll just allow myself one more picture (of our rope pump!) and get back to work.
:) Remembering Honduras makes me happy... so does company. Let me know if you're out there working too!
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Posted by: Zak on December 2, 2008
I think the graph is for the Speed of Action Potentials as a Function of Internal Calcium Concentration...
It is written above the graph in the 2nd screenshot
Posted by: 0 on December 2, 2008
@ Anonymous (the first one) No, the pic's not from India. It's from a village called Claura in a remote area of Honduras. The area is so remote that the only way to get there was taking a boat several hours up the river
@Zak I was actually using both Linux and Windows all night, and half the time I wanted to throw the Linux box out the window. It can't even accept files via usb stick! But I had to use it to run the software I was using to model the Action Potentials.
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Posted by: mohit on December 2, 2008
>all night, and half the time I wanted to throw the
>Linux box out the window. It can't even accept
>files via usb stick! But I had to use it to run
>the software I was using to model the Action Potentials.
Which distro were you using? I have Ubuntu 8.04 and it's never failed me before in terms of hardware support. Perhaps you need to mount the drive before your distro could use it. Then again, it may simply be a driver problem- Linux.com's hardware support page (http://www.linux.com/feature/118497) has several useful links for determining whether your hardware works with GNU.
Posted by: Charlie Eppes on December 2, 2008
"And so he brings back some amazing memories of the trip I got to talk last January with D-Lab."
On an unrelated note, what else is eventual?
Posted by: Jimmy Dong on December 2, 2008
Nah. But it will be annoying to others when I start quoting him and they don't get it.
Posted by: 0 on December 2, 2008
@Jimmy Dong You are correct... for another 15 seconds or so until I fix it
Posted by: kimd on December 3, 2008
Do not defame Charlie Eppes.
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Posted by: Valeria on December 3, 2008
the last two pictures just emanate happiness.
Posted by: June on December 3, 2008
you were probably using a distro with a KDE desktop since that has had some problems reported with usb devices but the GNOME desktop is always reliable, Ubuntu uses GNOME but kubuntu uses KDE.....but these are the most commonly used distros apart from redhat so thats why im referring to those.....(personally i would prefer slackware when using linux....BSD otherwise but my top priority goes to my mac)......my advice...goto ubuntu.com and order a free copy of teh latest ubuntu cd (ignore any stability warnings-its gibberrish).....then when its installed goto the add/remove programs and install wine (and anything else that catches your eye) update and youre all set- everything will go smoothly and if you have a problem installing a linux version of something you can always use windows files on linux by opening it with wine.....problems solved and now you can get rid of windows
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Posted by: hm on December 5, 2008
Windows does have a lot of advantages over Linux based operating systems that a lot of zealots choose to ignore. Driver support and hardware compatibility is guaranteed by the vendor. Software works out of the box. Games work. For laptops, Windows has the upper hand in battery usage and hardware support.
Wine, VMWare, "recompiling the kernel -- even your grandma can do it!," emacs'ing configuration files and wading knee deep in support forums is all kinds of fun. Just not the kind of fun you need to be having when you're up at 3 in the morning with a paper due the next day and CUPS isn't working. I used to be a diehard zealot too, but the last couple of years I just don't have the time anymore -- Linux became a "weekend and wardriving" operating system for me =/
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Posted by: Timur on December 5, 2008
evidently you used the wrong kind of linux to be driven to windows.... you have to install external drivers in windows and its a pain in the neck googling for one that works......in ubuntu 8.04 and up the OS itself tells you which hardware needs drivers, where teh drivers are located, whether theyre secured or not and there's a little button that will install all of them......so no problem with hardware support......oh yeah linux is open-source and its software libre.......im repeating this........so you can do practically anything.......slackware even has its own version of mac's famous automator scripts........handwriting recognition has been around for quite a while.....all you have to do is ask for one on the linux forums or run the windows version through wine (it runs flawlessly)....and i dont knwo what onenote is but i do know what vista is: a monster flop.....ive used it......and i regret doing so......good thing i shifted back to my mac os x leopard on my laptop...and stuck in BSD for my PC......as for the battery life....windows has higher hardware requirements.....meaning it uses more at one time ......compared to linux which only politely asks for 256MB of RAM......vista-minimum 2GB.....more memory ....more power needed.......just 1 example should suffice......i feel sorry that you couldnt bear to expirement , i really do...(NOTE: I did not intend to offfend anyone during this argument)_
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Posted by: 0 on December 6, 2008
yea... but you really can't blame them since they have finals around this time. must be hectic...
hope that'll be me next year :-D
Posted by: deng on December 6, 2008
I'm dying too. I wish someone, ANYONE, would give us some sort of update, even if it's that they're 1/64th of the way through the apps...
Ahhhhhhhh!
Posted by: Brandon on December 6, 2008
Title:
"So, we're 1/64 of the way through the apps...."
Subtitle:
"The 20th might have been a bad estimate."
Posted by: Narce on December 6, 2008
I am from India and I graduated from my 12th in June 2008 and have already joined a college,but I wish to restart at MIT as a freshman by giving TOEFL and 2 SAT2s in Jan2009.Is it alright.
Reply soon!
Posted by: ak on December 8, 2008
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Posted by: kimd on December 8, 2008
I went to those links but they say you can "apply" as a transfer student once you have completed a year,i.e you are in your 2nd year.I haven't completed my 1st year and am applying now.So what should I do?In some places on your site it also says that you have to complete full 2 years to apply for a transfer student.
Please reply !
Posted by: ak on December 8, 2008
Also,I completed my 12th grade in 2008(June) and have joined a college but I really wish to restart at MIT as a freshman in 2009(fall).Is it alright if I apply as a freshman?
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Posted by: kimd on December 9, 2008
Please reply soon!Also please tell me about my interview problem!!!
Posted by: AK on December 9, 2008
Posted by: kimd on December 9, 2008
Help!!
Posted by: AK on December 9, 2008
Ignore the previous comment.
Just tell me which of these two will give me higher chances of getting in MIT,Math level 1 or level 2(of SAT2)?
Or should I give both with another subject(i.e.3SAT2 subjects)?
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