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  1. Slack cores/cluster anybody?

    02 November 2009 - 05:41 PM

    Do folks have a fast box (core duo) sitting idle or a bored cluster with nothing to do? Uncle Al could use a donation of, oh, 20,000 CPU-hrs in Linux. (Knoppix Live 5.3, not 6.x, is an excellent DvD boot for any box. Remember to start typing within 60 seconds at the first splash screen, at the bottom, knoppix lang=us dma [ENTER])

    Uncle Al is again crunching a monstrous iterative problem,

    http://www.mazepath....al/glydense.png
    Theory is -2 slope, 0.4633849 intercept.
    http://www.mazepath....al/gly2dens.png
    Needs more crunching to 35K radius.
    PURSUING THE LIMITS OF FAILED SYMMETRY

    Linux static file, about 5 MB of output, excecutes in RAM, only uses a hard or flash drive to hold the program and results. If you want to compile the C++ source file yourself, that's also OK.

    My AMD FX-55 is crunching dense out to 20,000 A radius (finish around March). A Canadian core-duo Mac is doing 20K-25K (60 overnights). 25K-35K is open. Execution time increases as (radius)^2. Windoze is 40% slower in the same iron. Got crunch?

    Here or xenophage'usual connector'gmail(give it a dot)com

  2. The Simple View

    16 August 2009 - 11:23 AM

    Amusing Ourselves to Death by Stuart McMillen - cartoon Recombinant Records

    "In 'Brave New World' people are controlled by inflictng pleasure."

  3. Shameless Request

    14 August 2009 - 08:08 AM

    Organic chemist Uncle Al is competing in a public physics essay contest, "What is Ultimately Possible in Physics?" FQXi Community His entry is exceptionally wicked! All of physics could be slightly wrong for a *testable* chemical footnote.

    A lighthearted summary plus voting instructions are here, UNDER SATAN'S LEFT FOOT Feel free to vote for anybody and everybody, but please vote for Uncle Al! "10" is the highest public vote rating.

    http://www.mazepath....eal/bitrypt.png
    A cute molecule as stereogram while we are waiting

  4. [Paper] Pursuing the Limits of Failed Symmetry

    08 August 2009 - 01:37 PM

    FQXi Community
    The contest
    FQXi Community
    Contestants to date

    FQXi Community
    Uncle Al's entry (~12 down the previous URL)
    UNDER SATAN'S LEFT FOOT
    Summary of Uncle Al's entry and a procedure guide to public voting

    Less than two months remain to enter your paper, 02 October submission deadline. If you wish to leave tracks in the sands of time you must wear work boots. Lace up those steel-toed ballet slippers!

  5. Physics essay contest!

    31 July 2009 - 02:26 PM

    The Foundational Questions Institute is sponsoring a public physics essay contest,

    FQXi Community
    "What is Ultimately Possible in Physics?"

    UNDER SATAN'S LEFT FOOT
    Uncle Al snapped at the bait! (colorful fella, that Uncle Al)

    Kindly vote and rate Uncle Al's entry at the FQXi website as described in the link immediately above. Thank you!

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    Turtle 

    20 Feb 2011 - 14:21
    happy birthday al!! how's every little thing this time?
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    Little Bang 

    18 Feb 2010 - 05:21
    Unc, look at this and tell me what you think. [url]http://hypography.com/forums/strange-claims-forum/22596-photon-creation.html#post292772[/url]
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    UncleAl 

    01 Feb 2010 - 07:21
    Look at the parity experiments? The mathematics of geometric parity divergence applied to chemistry was published. The cheminformatics community has been powerless to systematically label the central five stereocenters in [6.6]chiralane, [url]http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/schwartz.png[/url] [url]http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/schwart3.png[/url] [url]http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/chiralane.pdf[/url] [url]http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/parity.pdf[/url] The parity physics experiment were also published, Physics ignored it, but now there are four classes of experiment, 1) parity Eotvos, 2)parity calorimetry, 3) parity gyroballs, and 4) party molecular rotation spectra, [url]http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/twistene.png[/url] I'll write it up and take a crack at Phys. Rev. D end of February or so.
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    Little Bang 

    23 Jan 2010 - 07:36
    Do you think anyone will look?
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    UncleAl 

    22 Jan 2010 - 14:45
    Copper and silver form a wide range of alloys. Stripping copper from the contact interface could be difficult. In principle you could selectively dissolve the copper as anode with a suitably low voltage. Chemical etching might work, [url=http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cm950464%2B]Microcontact Printing of Alkanethiols on Copper and Its Application in Microfabrication - Chemistry of Materials (ACS Publications)[/url] "Since aqueous FeCl3/HCl solutions only dissolve bare copper" Try it on a small spot before committing.
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    Arjun 

    11 Dec 2009 - 21:16
    Hello Sir, Iam not from a science background but i desperately need to know how to separate copper from silver without any change in the silver.The silver is in a closed 3-D shape with a hole at the bottom and no change can be made on it.The copper is the inner wall of it.Please advise.I have an electro plating plant at my disposal. THANK YOU
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    UncleAl 

    31 Oct 2009 - 10:53
    Six fullerenes are perfectly chiral: Point group T: C44, C52, C92, C100 Point group I: C140, C260 [url=http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/chiralan.htm]Parity Divergent Molecules[/url] middle If you want a listing by carbon number and point group symmetry of all allowed fullerenes through C260+, it's a 4 MB ZIP archive. However... their structures are only crudely minimized. You'd have to run each coordinate set of interest through BABELwin into *.hin format and then MM+ mininmize in HyperChem-Lite after auto-assigning atom types.
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    Pyrotex 

    28 Oct 2009 - 08:46
    Uncle Al, at last we meet (in a manner of speaking). It is an honor. I thoroughly enjoy your posts, as well as your rapier wit. I suspect you know a great deal about one of my interests: fullerene chemistry. I must say however that my interests are tempered by the sobering fact that as a NASA "rocket scientist", I am (by definition) not an expert in anything. :( Take care. :wave2:
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    Turtle 

    06 Aug 2009 - 13:13
    i agree definitely Datura. maybe Datura discolor ? [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura_discolor]Datura discolor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url]
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    Turtle 

    03 Aug 2009 - 15:12
    on the Datura id Al, i don't think D. metel because of the very thorny fruit Destrb has photographed. according to wicked pediac :evil: D. metel has lumpy fruit with few thorns. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura_metel]Datura metel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url] i see at the same link that D. metel has oval leaves, and again Distrbt's photo not oval but lobed.:clue: :sherlock: over... as to shoes falling identically, not in a wind they don't. :fan: :ideamaybenot:
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    Turtle 

    02 Aug 2009 - 05:25
    i got the contest page read last night, very cool idea, and your entry intro and the comments you have accrued. i have to go back to your full pdf but i'm presuming it is the experiment as you have described it here before. anyway, so-far-so-good and i voted my concience with a big phat 10. :D maybe now, someone [U]will[/U] look. :sherlock:
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    Turtle 

    01 Aug 2009 - 16:55
    the last thing either of us wants is to look like everybody else. :hyper: i saw the new thread & will be reading the link & your entry soon. always my pleasure to get your spin on things. :spin:
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    pamela 

    01 Aug 2009 - 12:56
    hello uncle al, i dont believe we have met- i am Pamela i am enjoying your posts as well as your essay-thank you:)
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    Turtle 

    04 Dec 2008 - 12:33
    Any luck with the clusters Al? :smart:
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    Turtle 

    01 Apr 2008 - 10:12
    Lovin' the beard Al. I keep trying to grow one, but I can never find the time to not shave. :gun4:
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