Lazy Tiddlywiki Notebook Tutorial…

Suppose you want your own e-notebook because you can email it around to yourself as opposed to lugging around loose paper or fearing your notebook being torn to shreds or something. The best solution (best here meaning “requiring least work for most satisfaction”, i.e. laziest) would be TiddlyWiki.
So, what you do is you download it [...]

Programming Questionaire

Some compadres (numero uno and numero…2) filled out a questionaire that came about from the Emacs/Vi flame wars.

– How did you learn programming? Were any schools of any use? Or maybe you didn’t even bother with ending any schools ?
Well I first learned how to program in a High School course. [...]

Category Theoretical Harmonic Oscillators

If you haven’t seen the paper yet, I highly recommend reading it:
A categorical framework for the quantum harmonic oscillator Authors: Jamie Vicary
Abstract: This paper describes how the structure of the state space of the quantum harmonic oscillator can be described by an adjunction of categories, that encodes the raising and lowering [...]

Some Random Technical Papers to Read…

This post is roughly divided in two: the physics half, and the operating systems half (both are fascinating subjects, it’s something one just has to accept).
Math/Physics
1) “Operating Order Ambiguities Versus Representation“
2) “Deformation Quantization of Relativistic Particles in Electromagnetic Fields“
3) “The inevitable nonlinearity of quantum gravity falsifies the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics“
4) “Gauge Theory of [...]