It is all about me!

you have nothign to prove, except theorems

I am off for the week. Not much of a productive week… given that it is Thursday and I haven’t really done anything.

Tomorrow at 7AM I will be on my way to the Lac. Then I will read some interesting papers, chill at the beach, climb mountains, have vegetables and barbeque and chill in the nature.
What should I pack?
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Leave comments and then I will check post-factum which would have been the most useful. Who knows, if all this stuff about causality backwards in time is true then you might be able to influence me as I am packing my bag.

I am feeling the vibe today. I believe. Or rather I have momentarily stopped doubting.
I have cool stuff to read and take notes, cool people to see, cool movies to watch and not too many things to feel typically-depressed.

And this is BEFORE I have had the coffee this morning!

Peace out to my peoples all over the world. Put your ears to montreal’s finest!

Another war is born. It doesn’t make sense to me. How can throwing rockets and bombs at each other solve anything.
I guess no-one hopes it will solve something. It is just a decision that someone made somewhere. There was a voice that popped up and said — shit what I am about to do is going to stir some shit…. oh what the hell let’s do it anyway.
Everything seems to me to be a big political popularity contest. Rather, everyone is fighting for a reputation.
Syria will get involved soon. Then Iran?
Why do these people fight? I don’t understand.

“I hate you because you are a Jew!”
“I hate you because you are an Arab!”
This seems to be the most part of the dialogue.

What pisses me off is the weird sense in which people suddenly have to take sides and form opinions relating to the events.
Hey you — you are half-jewish you have to stick with your own! And you, you are a muslim so you have to take up sides with your brothers! This division that has occured because of a small set of stupid people who want to fight each other is propagating like a porcelain-crack all over the earth.

Israel’s response is way out of line. A match has been sparked in a room full of gasoline …

It finally works. Zope+ZWiki+LatexWiki

Everything from scratch… who cares if we waste time or not!
I am following this video but also filling in the gaps that it doesn’t mention.

1. Make a directory somewhere to put the source code.
   mkdir ~/Installation
2. Get Python.
   curl 'http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.3/Python-2.4.3.tgz' | tar xzvf -

2. Get any auxiliary libraries that are needed to compile python. I needed zlib.
3. Compile zlib
4. Edit Modules/Setup and uncomment the zlib line
5.

The debian stable tree has Zope 2.7 in it. That kind of works.
Now I wanted something more recent and I looked at backports.org and they have Zope 2.8.
Ok but what about other packages….

Everything is a big mess now and the dpkg database is broken all over the place.
I am executing a apt-get remove --purge *zope* and then I will manually remove all that is there.
Then we start anew.
Let’s hope it will work!

Otherwise we will switch to .tar.gz installation. Sooner or later I would have to learn how to do that anyway!

Cause: Materazzi: “you’re the son of a terrorist whore”
Effect:

There is a new paper out: [quant-ph/0606225] The mother of all protocols: Restructuring quantum information’s family tree

Monday is going to be interesting… i better go to bed at some christian hour.

Idea 1: A universal web source editor. You type in text and you can mix any type of syntax. Latex, wiki shit, HTML, structired text or wiki

SMARTTYPE SMARTINPUT UNIVERSALEDITOR

Idea 2: There is a little period in WW2 when humanity took a downturn. The human race is all downhill from that point. The Nuclear Bomb.
The guilt of the bomb is on the shoulders of a set of brilliant physicits. Why didn’t he think more?
This is when humanity ackquired the power to destroy itself.
Why do you build weapons !!!!
It was because of Heisenberg and his work.
But really the guilt falls on one man

It was his idea to send a confidential letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt explaining the possibility of nuclear weapons, and to encourage the development of a program which could lead to their creation.

and then on everyone involved in the Manhattan project who didn’t take the time to think.
Some things you should take the time and think about them!

So first ethics lesson to physicists:
1. Don’t talk about important dangerous physics to politiciants.
2. Don’t build weapons.

My quesiton… and I am oing to be researching this further….. why… why do you keep going with the research AFTER the Germans have been obliterated? There is no more German nuclear threat. WHY oh WHY do you go on and finish the project.
Just quit. Go fuckin’ home. Take the torture and the murder of your family and everyone you know and save humanity. If the leading 10 physicists refused to teach, work and even remotely touch nublear physics for bomb purposes then there never would have been an atom bomb.
Just say it can’t be done. LIE.
Because after 5:29:45am on July 16, 1945 the door cannot ever be closed again. THEY have seen. They want more….

An interesting hisorical lesson for h4k3rs: WW2

I leave you all with the story of: Ares and Athena
[a short exerpt from the book Cryptonomicon about something deep]
[10 min reading but more thinking]

I had the best weekend ever.
Friday I went out to see a free Jazz show. It was pretty bad actually…. but free. Then I had dinner with my chick1. Not really a date though … kind of a friend of a friend that I am auditing.
Saturday I went to the demo, watched a game or two and then went to see Bedouin Soundclash at the metropolis.
How many beautiful people there were at this show I cannot describe. Most important of all it was beautiful and smart people. At least they looked intelligent. I was there with chick2 and her firends. Arlo came alonog too and he was cruising the whole set of chicks like a random variable. He split off at some point and had a very very good time apparently. I left with chick2 but she refused to come-up for coffee despite my classy line:

Is there any type of food or drink that I can offer in order to lure you upstairs.

Classy I know. But chick2 is fun and she probably knows where I stand anyways.

Good times in the summer. Good times. No sex but I am having much better times than hanging out with my guy friends.

Sunday morning I woke-up kind of early and Arlo was up. I got to hear the whole story of the two chicks he picked up at the show. He pulled a pretty classy line himself Saturday night. These two chick heavily tipsy litteraly fell on us as the crowds started to move about at the end of the show. One of the chix asks me: “What is a good place to go party after this?” and then arlo goes:

his house!

So Sunday I got to hear the remaining of the story and then we went to the Mont-Royal to chill in the sun. It was the most beautiful weather I have ever seen. There were clouds and a good strong wind to break the intense heat of the sunshine. The temperature was ideal and again I was surrounded by the beautiful people. chick2 came too later in the day and we smoked a shisha. Crazzy russian Dave showed-up too and I introduced the horde of CS and Math people to the horde of annoying but pretty jewish french students that were the friends of chick2’s friend. I am not sure if anybody liked anybody but there was a very good conversaton behind me at some point as I was almost falling asleep in the sun.

CrazyRussianDave: I have a plan. (says as introduction to this hot girl that is sitting nearby)
HotChick: (looks at him, considers him too hairy, arab-like and therefore un-attractive) I don’t like your plan.
CRD: Ok then, I have another plan.
HC: I don’t like that one either.
CRD: Ok, well I have as many plans as you don’t like + 1.

Then they both identified themselves as genuine Israel-returning-hebrew-speaking-jews and it the plan was heard. I have to aks if anything became of that intermingling of two non-overlapping sets.

After this I headed back towards parents-home where I ate and talked about Quantum Information with my dad. It is funny how the simplify method evolves when you try to explain the concepts. My dad is a smart guy and he has enough math background but there is the time contraint…. how do you present quantum informaiton theory, quantum computationa and quantum cryptography over a brief conversation without pen and paper. (Hell.. i am not sure if pen and paper will help !)
This is like what sifu talks about: “You say a few words but it means something.”
Well I reassured him that I am working on something important and fundamental even though i am not at CERN.

Then I headed back to home-home where i chilled with Arlo on the balcony and discussed the evil man ruined my scientific confidence in myself and ruined my career in academia.
Sure it is good to be humbled at some point. Sure it is good to have no EGO. I am all for that.
What I miss though is the CONFIDENCE that I had before U2 and before meeting the insane challenges that I field so miserably. Ever since then I have no confidence in my scientific abilities to achieve greatness. I still have the unpleasant EGO which so many people point out but it is now the stupid-empty ego without confidence.
My point was that people like Cassidy, Josh and chick2 are cool because they remind me that nothing is impossible and that the only limits that exist in our lives are the ones set by ourselves.

Now I need time and some reading of a quality thesis.

This productive week starts with the period at the end of this sentence.