ITT you name any topic and I will, for free, find and upload academic papers on them for you.
I love this server being all paid up.
Awhile ago I heard about some kid writing his thesis or big final math project for his degree, on a lengthy proof that basically said 1+1=3. Or maybe it was something less exciting like 1+1=2. At any rate, it was quite long, as I heard it. If you can't find that, anything with a flavor of strange will do.
I dont suppose you have a name? Only the search isn't coming up with much....
No idea. Could have been a made up story, or one of those "A friend of a friend's cousin did this" type things. Like the kid who had four hours to write an essay on "What is Bravery" and he sat there writing nothing for four hours, and in the last minute, he scribbled "THIS IS BRAVERY!" and got an A on the paper. If you can dig up something similar to the Calvin & Hobbes = Fight club treatise I'd be quite thrilled.
"Listen, Little Man!" by Wilhelm Reich.
Will check in a bit. Am deciding whether to write about EU-Russian relations on an empty stomach, or get something to eat.
Nope, not there sorry.
Any Reich at all?
Only things written about him.
OK, so its not great on that front. But fuck me, I have a huge file filled with nuclear strategy papers now....
Anything on acoustics and microphone phase cancellation?
Okay, a few years back I read a magazine article which talked about this paper I've been trying to track down.
Basically they had two groups of kindergarteners who drank water bottles at lunch. Group A was composed of kids who got new water bottles every day. Group B was composed of kids whose parents refilled the same bottles every day. They tracked these kids over the years, and by grade 5, group B's test scores were significantly lower than group A's.
They cited the plastic molecules in the water having a sort of retardation effect over time. The conclusion was that you shouldn't drink out of the same bottle for more than a month or so.
Sort of reminds me of the lead used in Rome's aqueducts and the theory that Romans were gradually retarded.
I've been using this article like mad in conversation, but I'd like to read the actual reference behind it so I'm not totally talking out my ass. If you could dig that up somehow, I will give you a cookie.
Cram,
its not looking good, so far. I can't find much, because of the search bringing up every useless paper with the word "child" in it.
LMNO,
got 19 or so papers. Anything in particular, or just all of them?
I dunno. Something that might hvae practical real-world applications.
For, say, recording three incredibly loud instruments in a 10m x 5m concrete box.
How about "A 3D Sound Primer: Directional hearing and Stereo Reproduction"?
I can also throw in "3-D Sound Spatialization using Ambisonic Techniques", " A Kepstrum Approach to Filtering, Smoothing and Prediction with Application to Speech Enhancement" and "Active Shielding and Control of Noise" .
The first and the third, please.
Thankee-sai.
http://mihd.net/vh5crx
http://mihd.net/h86fbu
Thanks.
Holy shit, that first one has a lot of math.
Yeah, its meant to be a mathematical formula for how it works or something. Maybe 000 can have a look, he may find it interesting.
Quote from: LMNO on April 25, 2007, 04:40:15 PM
Thanks.
Holy shit, that first one has a lot of math.
That's really all acoustics is, is math. Sound wave refraction/dissipation and frequency absorbtion based on materials, shape, environment and placement. There's really only a few necessary formulas, but the constants for different materials to plug into those equations ends up looking like logarithm tables if you're not careful.
I enjoyed my acoustics classes at Berklee. 8) Fun stuff!
Yeah, I got an A in both the Acoustic and Electronic parts.
Okay... can you dig up anything on the Melioration Principle? It's a behavior psychology idea which basically states that organisms engage in whatever behavior gives them the best reward. And they keep doing that until a competing behavior offers a better reward.
You can use this to describe specific things - like at what point do you stop scratching an itch, or at what point do you stop eating the steak and take a bite of mashed potatoes
But I'm toying with writing an article about how this affects broad things like why we're Discordian and not something else. Or perhaps how seeking rewards and reenforcement is a bar of the Black Iron Prison.
A literature review would be helpful.
according to a brief google search, Richard J. Herrnstein, Drazen Prelec wrote a paper on Melioration as it relates to economics. That might be what I'm looking for.
Cain Pimps Information ITT :mittens:
Cram:
http://mihd.net/074mcu
Thats the specific one that you mentioned.
Got anything on terahertz transducer arrays for molecular spectroscopy? I'm specifically looking for anything to do with "security" applications.
Afraid not. I tried several variations, but nothing specific came up.
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As a note, I have connections to a rather large database as well.
Don't know if I can link it here, but if anyone wants to try, I will look it up.
It may be subscription to view (I know JSTOR is), so I download and then upload to mihd.net
Got anything about chargin mah lazorz?
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1) i posted proof for 2 + 3 = 5 a while ago, but you gotta search for it yourself. a good keyword could be "successor"
2) i know what a kepstrum is, but i thought it was spelled cepstrum. it's like "spectrum" only reversed. srsly. it's for detecting formant frequencies in speech. if you want to experiment with it, there's a program written by some dutch professor called "Praat" ("talk") which you can download for free (i think), google for it.
a i see, "kepstrum" is "complex cepstrum" .. i dunno what that is for, but basically, you take the FFT of the signal, square it, and iFFT it back, as far as i know. then you get some new signal (which doesn't sound like anything) but you can use it for analyzing the sound.
LMNO, i did a lot of computer programming with DSP (writing very simple software synthesizers, sound effects and filters), i learned most of what i know from this tutorial: http://yehar.com/dsp/dspstuff.txt it's still got math, but it should explain you the basics for learning about the more difficult DSP math (and i presume you are already familiar with fwe parts about sampling and frequencies, but after that it picks up pretty fast. if you like i also have a large book on PDF called "music and mathematics" which is AEWSOME in a sort-of goedel-escher-bach kind of way.
1+1 = 3
I think I may have found something
http://quantumtantra.com/bell2.html
Quote from: Cain on April 27, 2007, 11:45:00 AM
1+1 = 3
I think I may have found something
http://quantumtantra.com/bell2.html
Thanks for that, Cain. Go figure it's quantum mechanics and non-locality that would make 1+1=3!
I found it through pure luck, too. I was browsing Grey Lodge's G-Podcasting site, looking to see if there was anything new, when I saw 1+1=3 leap out of the page at me.
Ah, so it was both on the page, and leaping out at you at the same time you say? A fine example of non-locality.
Just in case this is all still in operation -
Can't remember the name of the researchers, but there has been studies that allegedly show positive results in the treatment of Schizophrenia with a combo of fasting and "vitamin therapy".
There's heaps of info on the nets, but little in the way of the actual studies.
Help?
Quote from: Deepthroat Chopra on June 01, 2007, 05:29:47 AM
Just in case this is all still in operation -
There has been studies that allegedly show positive results in the treatment of Schizophrenia with a combo of fasting and "vitamin therapy".
There's heaps of info on the nets, but little in the way of the actual studies.
Help?
Some researchers include Hoffer, Riordan, Horrobin, and Deutsch, Ananth, & Ban.
Its not. Go away.