TRI means Toyota Research Institute BTW.
The Robotics team at TRI is working hard to close the gap between simulation and reality. For manipulation, one important piece is accurate simulation of rigid-body contact.
A relativistic version of the Schrödinger equation.
Correctly describes spin 0 particles.
The most memorable version of the equation can be written as shown at Section "Klein-Gordon equation in Einstein notation" with Einstein notation and Planck units:
Has some issues which are solved by the Dirac equation:
- it has a second time derivative of the wave function. Therefore, to solve it we must specify not only the initial value of the wave equation, but also the derivative of the wave equation,As mentioned at Advanced quantum mechanics by Freeman Dyson (1951) and further clarified at: physics.stackexchange.com/questions/340023/cant-the-negative-probabilities-of-klein-gordon-equation-be-avoided, this would lead to negative probabilities.
- the modulus of the wave function is not constant and therefore not always one, and therefore cannot be interpreted as a probability density anymore
- since we are working with the square of the energy, we have both positive and negative value solutions. This is also a features of the Dirac equation however.
Bibliography:
- Video "Quantum Mechanics 12a - Dirac Equation I by ViaScience (2015)" at youtu.be/OCuaBmAzqek?t=600
- An Introduction to QED and QCD by Jeff Forshaw (1997) 1.2 "Relativistic Wave Equations" and 1.4 "The Klein Gordon Equation" gives some key ideas
- 2011 PHYS 485 lecture videos by Roger Moore from the University of Alberta at around 7:30
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqoIW85xwoU&list=PL54DF0652B30D99A4&index=65 "L2. The Klein-Gordon Equation" by doctorphys
- sites.ualberta.ca/~gingrich/courses/phys512/node21.html from Advanced quantum mechanics II by Douglas Gingrich (2004)
One of the things Ciro Santilli really likes, see: Linux Kernel Module Cheat.
The conventional starting point is not at the E. Coli K-12 MG1655 origin of replication.
biocyc.org/ECOLI/NEW-IMAGE?type=EXTRAGENIC-SITE&object=G0-10506 explains:If it is a bit hard to understand what they mean by "origin of transfer" though, as that term is usually associated with the origin of transfer of bacterial conjugation.
This site is the origin of replication of the E. coli chromosome. It contains the binding sites for DnaA, which is critical for initiation of replication. Replication proceeds bidirectionally. For historical reasons, the numbering of E. coli's circular chromosome does not start at the origin of replication, but at the origin of transfer during conjugation.
See also: covariance.
Experiments explained by QED but not by the Dirac equation:
- Lamb shift: by far the most famous one
- hyperfine structure TODO confirm
- anomalous magnetic dipole moment of the electron
The "last" gene, and also an E. Coli K-12 MG1655 gene of unknown function.
Run output is placed under
out/
:Some of the output data is stored as
.cpickle
files. To observe those files, you need the original Python classes, and therefore you have to be inside Docker, from the host it won't work.We can list all the plots that have been produced under Plots are also available in SVG and PDF formats, e.g.:
out/
withfind -name '*.png'
The output directory has a hierarchical structure of type:where:
./out/manual/wildtype_000000/000000/generation_000000/000000/
wildtype_000000
: variant conditions.wildtype
is a human readable label, and000000
is an index amongst the possiblewildtype
conditions. For example, we can have different simulations with different nutrients, or different DNA sequences. An example of this is shown at run variants.000000
: initial random seed for the initial cell, likely fed to NumPy'snp.random.seed
genereation_000000
: this will increase with generations if we simulate multiple cells, which is supported by the model000000
: this will presumably contain the cell index within a generation
We also understand that some of the top level directories contain summaries over all cells, e.g. the
massFractionSummary.pdf
plot exists at several levels of the hierarchy:./out/manual/plotOut/massFractionSummary.pdf
./out/manual/wildtype_000000/plotOut/massFractionSummary.pdf
./out/manual/wildtype_000000/000000/plotOut/massFractionSummary.pdf
./out/manual/wildtype_000000/000000/generation_000000/000000/plotOut/massFractionSummary.pdf
Each of thoes four levels of
plotOut
is generated by a different one of the analysis scripts:./out/manual/plotOut
: generated bypython runscripts/manual/analysisVariant.py
. Contains comparisons of different variant conditions. We confirm this by looking at the results of run variants../out/manual/wildtype_000000/plotOut
: generated bypython runscripts/manual/analysisCohort.py --variant_index 0
. TODO not sure how to differentiate between two different labels e.g.wildtype_000000
andsomethingElse_000000
. If-v
is not given, a it just picks the first one alphabetically. TODO not sure how to automatically generate all of those plots without inspecting the directories../out/manual/wildtype_000000/000000/plotOut
: generated bypython runscripts/manual/analysisMultigen.py --variant_index 0 --seed 0
./out/manual/wildtype_000000/000000/generation_000000/000000/plotOut
: generated bypython runscripts/manual/analysisSingle.py --variant_index 0 --seed 0 --generation 0 --daughter 0
. Contains information about a single specific cell.
Very similar to OurBigBook.com!
People who worked on it:
- Udi Manber: project lead
- www.wired.com/2008/07/google-knol/ mentions various engineers. The original page had photos, including the full team photo, but these died, but are visible on the archive: web.archive.org/web/20151220002650/http://www.wired.com/2008/07/google-knol/.
- Ben McMahan: "Developed, launched, and maintained Knol", mentioned at:
- x.com/benjmcmahan
- www.benjaminmcmahan.com/ has email
ben.j.mcmahan@gmail.com
- Michael McNally (2007-2009), "project's technical lead": mentioned at: www.wired.com/2008/07/google-knol/,
- github.com/xiangtiandai Xiangtian Dai
xiangtian.dai@google.com
- Mohsin Ahmed: can't find any online profiles
Replying to a listener phone-in question WNYC radio, mediated by Brian Lehrer.
It was about to launch it seems, and it was not clear at the time that anyone could write content, as opposed to only selected people.
It was about to launch it seems, and it was not clear at the time that anyone could write content, as opposed to only selected people.
Jimmy then corrects that misinformation. He then clearly states that since there can be multiple versions of each article, including opinion pieces, like OurBigBook.com, Knol would be very different to Wikipedia, more like blogging than encyclopedia.
Google Knol: the future of academic journals? by Doug Belshaw (2010)
Source. Bibliography:
- Wikipedia & Knol: Why Knol Already Failed by gwern.net (2009). So there was some kind of monetary payment on the site. Interesting and sad.
One of the causes Ciro Santilli care the most about: motivation.
How to improve education? Simple:
- tax the fuck out of the rich people and companies: wealth tax and invest it in education
- invest intelligently as mentioned at what poor countries have to do to get richer:
- focus on fewer higher excellence schools that select the most promising poor students, rather than giving crappy average to everyone
- use OurBigBook.com
There are unlisted articles, also show them or only show them.