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Comment on Back to the Future Redux by Stuart Mason Dambrot

Stuart Mason Dambrot — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 05:21:29 +0000

In your honor, dear sister, I am adding a glossary

Comment on Back to the Future Redux by Stuart Mason Dambrot

Stuart Mason Dambrot — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 05:20:25 +0000

I’ll let you know just before it arrives.

Comment on Art & Science: The Same, Only Different by Craig Mattoli

Craig Mattoli — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 11:56:13 +0000

When I was a child, I would reporduce things that I saw, using tinkertoys, building blocks, or drawings. I also collected horses and riders, and my dad put up a platform on which I could arrange my horses, soldiers, and other things…what people, in art, today, call installations [hate that word and concept]. I was also good at math, but the inductive, not deductive side, as I learned later when I happened to see standard test scores. When I went to college, I majored in physics, math, and linguistics. To me, the models that I made, in mathematical physcis, were an art form, just like sculpture. During physics graduate school, after making some new models in mathematical physics, I discovered the concept of arbitrage, and I went to finance graduate school, wrote a thesis, A Generalized Stochastic Approach to Market Analysis, using the models of physics [much of which financial models have always been since Von Neumann got invloved in the early 1900's] from quantum field theory, which was the reason that I got interested in arbitrage to begin with.
When people ask me the connection between physics, art and finance, I say they’re all the same. I am gald that someone else seems to understand. In the end, what we think of is probably limited by our brain’s wiring, on the one hand, and creativity is just variations on a theme…the sun and moon have always been in the sky, seen by man, but it took thousnads of years to finally make them into the wheel.

Comment on Back to the Future Redux by Stuart

Stuart — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:13:37 +0000

Vindication on the way… express from the future.

Comment on Back to the Future Redux by Donna Dambrot

Donna Dambrot — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 02:45:42 +0000

I wish I knew what you were talking about, it sounds really interesting!

Comment on DARPA militarzing the paranormal (no, really) by Flannel Sheets

Flannel Sheets — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:41:12 +0000

i have always been interested in the paranormal and the occult, that is why i bought some trifield meter and emf meters ;,:

Comment on DARPA militarzing the paranormal (no, really) by Stuart Mason Dambrot

Stuart Mason Dambrot — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 20:38:47 +0000

Right, except that we invent myths, gods, demons, and other “supernatural” and “paranormal” concepts to explain what we don’t understand. The universe is real, and so are we. Something being temporarily beyond our current understanding does not make it mystical…simply a mystery.

Comment on DARPA militarzing the paranormal (no, really) by Data Recovery :

Data Recovery : — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 17:51:32 +0000

my sister is a firm believer in the supernatural and the occult as well as on paranormal activities too`~;

Comment on Artificial Life: Cell on a Chip by Stuart Mason Dambrot

Stuart Mason Dambrot — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:36:08 +0000

You seemed to have missed something. Note that I wrote: “Funding and serendipity aligned, bioengineered heparin may enter clinical trials within five years.” (emphasis added)

Comment on Artificial Life: Cell on a Chip by Ron

Ron — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:32:15 +0000

I imagine it will be a lot more than five years. Clinical trials take longer than that, independent of the need for further development.