Comments for Nerd Wisdom http://nerdwisdom.com Algorithms, Physics, AI, Games, Biology, Software, etc., with Reviews and Explanations Mon, 16 May 2011 14:33:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Using Illusions to Understand Vision by Charlie Dean’s Blog » Sunday Follow-up http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/09/06/using-illusions-to-understand-vision/#comment-21862 Mon, 16 May 2011 14:33:36 +0000 http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/09/06/using-illusions-to-understand-vision/#comment-21862 [...] you want to stare at the checkerboard some more, you can go to the Nerd Wisdom blog, which is the blog of an MIT professor. There are links to more optical illusions [...]

]]> Comment on More on Leopard by Werner http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/31/more-on-leopard/#comment-21589 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:18:46 +0000 http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/31/more-on-leopard/#comment-21589 Revive Nerd wisdom, Jonathan!

]]> Comment on Programming in NetLogo by Anonymous http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/09/14/programming-in-netlogo/#comment-21127 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:38:02 +0000 http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/09/14/programming-in-netlogo/#comment-21127 Yes, Netlogo is great for a beginner like me.

]]> Comment on Generalized Belief Propagation by Jiang http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/08/05/generalized-belief-propagation/#comment-20202 Thu, 25 Nov 2010 19:10:50 +0000 http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/08/05/generalized-belief-propagation/#comment-20202 I am interested in looking at the video, but the MSRI archive link is no longer valid, any other way to retrieve the lecture?

]]> Comment on SICM on Mac OS X by Jonathan Yedidia http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/17/sicm-on-mac-os-x/#comment-19943 Sat, 25 Sep 2010 21:18:50 +0000 http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/17/sicm-on-mac-os-x/#comment-19943 I’m sorry it didn’t work for you. I’m guessing that my instructions will only work for an Intel Mac. Especially since scmutils-200609-06-ix86-gnu-linux-sarge.tar.gz has “ix86″ in it.

]]> Comment on Richard Feynman by Yves Messer http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/08/31/richard-feynman/#comment-19513 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:25:31 +0000 http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/08/31/richard-feynman/#comment-19513 As an admirer of Richard Feynman and an artist passionate about science, I have completed his painted portrait viewable at
http://ymesser.blogspot.com/2010/08/portrait-of-richard-feynman.html
I also have in recent years completed the portrait of Professor Stephen Hawking who granted me with the privilege to meet him in his Cambridge’s offices here in the UK.

Indeed I am seeking a dialogue between Scientists and Artists. Both scientific giants like Einstein or Feynman were also artists!

Thank you

]]> Comment on Using Unambiguous Notation by John Armstrong http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/19/understanding-physics/#comment-18479 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:06:13 +0000 http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/19/understanding-physics/#comment-18479 Not surprising that they say the same about differential geometry: Lagrangian mechanics is written in differential geometry.

]]> Comment on Using Unambiguous Notation by The Role of Programming in the Formulation of Ideas « Mathematics under the Microscope http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/19/understanding-physics/#comment-18467 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:32:45 +0000 http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/19/understanding-physics/#comment-18467 [...] [from Nerd Wisdom] [...]

]]> Comment on Guest Book by mtgrares http://nerdwisdom.com/guest-book-for-comments/#comment-18084 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:08:32 +0000 http://nerdwisdom.com/guest-book-for-comments/#comment-18084 I saw that you like Magic: The Gathering and the Marvel TCG. I wrote a program that lets you play Magic against the computer with rules enforcement. Currently there are over 2,700 cards ranging from old power cards like Ancestral Recall and Lightning Bolt to newer cards like planeswalkers. The user interface is basic, but it does let you download all of the cards pictures and view them while playing the game.

Forge Google Webpage
My blog about Magic and computer programming

]]> Comment on The Hubbard Model by Xinguo Ren http://nerdwisdom.com/tutorials/the-hubbard-model/#comment-16814 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:13:27 +0000 http://nerdwisdom.com/the-hubbard-model/#comment-16814 this is really a nice tutorial of the two-site Hubbard model. The relevance of this model to the hydrogen molecule dissoication problem is of great interest. The problem is essentially how to correctly discribe the ground state as U/t increases. This poses a big problem to Kohn-Sham density functional theory, which simply can’t discribe this dissociation process. Many fundamental problems of KS-DFT can be already be understood from such a simple two-site model.

]]> Comment on Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: Videos and Textbook by Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: Videos and Textbook « Nerd Wisdom « Chicago Mac/PC Support http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/08/17/structure-and-interpretation-of-computer-programs-videos-and-textbook/#comment-16645 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:16:59 +0000 http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/08/17/structure-and-interpretation-of-computer-programs-videos-and-textbook/#comment-16645 [...] of Computer Programs: Videos and Textbook for those of you who like historical video.  Click here to read [...]

]]> Comment on Combinatorial Game Theory by Kyle http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/08/29/combinatorial-game-theory/#comment-16027 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:45:21 +0000 http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/08/29/combinatorial-game-theory/#comment-16027 For those fans, I’m trying to start a dedicated CGT blog at http://combinatorialgametheory.blogspot.com/
:)

]]> Comment on Connect6 by Dariusz Stachowski http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/23/connect6/#comment-11631 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:31:25 +0000 http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/23/connect6/#comment-11631 You may be interested to know that Connect6 is one of the games supported by the GoRilla game editor which is available at http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/dashstofsk/gorilla.html

]]> Comment on SICM on Mac OS X by Meinhard E. Mayer http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/17/sicm-on-mac-os-x/#comment-11385 Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:34:22 +0000 http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/17/sicm-on-mac-os-x/#comment-11385 I just accidentally ran across this thread and wanted to let you know that a precompiled version of scmutils has been available for some time at
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/scmutils-tarballs/

This version runs only on Intel Macs, with OS 10.5

]]> Comment on Computing Free Energies by Interested Reader http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/03/computing-free-energies/#comment-10985 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:05:53 +0000 http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/03/computing-free-energies/#comment-10985 There is a discussion of the paper on http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=297231.

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