Enzymind Labs

I like browsing your notebook, hope you can keep more of these posted. I've got a milk crate full of my old notebooks, same style and format (less annotated). I like them most many years later, when I've forgotten some of the things I had pondered for days.

Lost my password to Enzymind for a while there, transitioning to a new laptop. I'm getting my digital life back together, enjoying having wireless access.

Don't let GRE scores get you down. Like SAT's they make no difference in the long run, but I can sympathize with that feeling in the short term. Make something, and it will last forever (at least in a digitized notebook). I spent, and still spend, a lot of mental effort attempting to not care what others think about me, which is satisfying the better I get at it.

2006-10-31 12:10:48

i found what may be a useful drupal module called 'collaborative editor '. however it does not seem to work with my current set up there might be conflicts due to my use of this tinymce editor widget. drupal gives me all kinds of angry red messages at the top of my screen which usually means that the code still has bugs and the drupal development page indicated this is still a work in progress.

It seems interesting because it would allow for multiple users to update and modify in 'realtime' text documents ie if someone has a document open on the site then another preson can also view that page watch modifications being made, and also type in content at the same time themselves.

2006-10-30 18:29:13

here's the 'intro' or at least first couple paragraphs of my current statement. My goal with this is to make it very clear and to the point. I will probably have 4-5 paragrahs in the final version with a detached last paragrah for specific schools, programs and professors.

I would like to attend graduate school in order to focus intensely on my scientific interests and have the best possible opportunity to realize the potential that I believe my project goals have. The general direction for the research that I would like to do involves understanding how the component pieces that make up a biological system come together to create a process that is more than the sum of its parts. My previous research experience has lead me to conclude that computational modeling and simulation is the most appropriate way to approach this question due to the extreme complexity involved with understanding the interactions of massive numbers of individual elements that a biological system is made of.

2006-10-29 10:41:59

looks familiar

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weird dreams last night. it seems as though its that half-sleep state where the dreams really increase in their vividness. it would be interesting to perfect the 'lucid' or awake dreaming induced by various stimuli such as interaural beats or visual stimuli of certain frequencies. its a strange place. especially when the 'stories' get extended and interrelated to a large extent. last nights this mornings involved some kind of frakas at a street intersection which resulted in sammy davis jr, and the arnold swartzeneggar -who was surprisingly short in the dream. I introduced sammy to arnold. and later apologized to sammy for my assuming that he didn't already know arnold.

whoa almost didn't post today...must...keep...enzymind...going...

so i posted a few pictures of my lab notebook from the past month or so.  its messy and mostly incomprehensible to anyone except me (sometimes me too).  covers some laser positioning engineering and stirling engine work...no biology or complexity or chaos...much of that kind of stuff may stay in the domain of the computer.  

did no gre studying today.  just didn't have the ...desire to.  test on monday.  quantitative section will not be great.  tomorrow will cram cram cram... 

2006-10-27  22:04:27

ive been thinking about ways to do this with genome sequences.  it would change quite a bit based on how many units compose a line... it seems 

2006-10-27 19:57:50

just mostly did more gre test prep today, after the mornings first successful infrastructure inspection (mark eating pizza in my tiny appartment).

so the gre is three parts:

writing assesment: 2 essays analytical and opinion 45min and 30 min

verbal: analogies, antonyms, sentence completion, and reading comprehension 30 min 30 questions

2006-10-26  18:30:22

Since i've been trying to reduce my daily food intake, ive been eating a lot less...noticed exercise is more strenuous.  interesting, guess fat burns less efficiently than blood carbohydrates...anyway to reward myself for dieting im going to havea pizza for breakfast tomorrow.  anyone who has any interest in enzymind is invited for pizza...and coffee. will start around 7am friday.  guests will be given a free tour of the enzymind research facilities.  email me if you want directions to this event.  psr5000@gmail.com

2006-10-26 13:29:11

2006-10-25 19:31:07

hey cool a laptop with no hard drive 32gb ram-drive; they're all gonna be like this soon -faster, better battery life...

2006-10-25 18:53:10

still got stirling engines on the brain. Weirdest thing just came outa nowhere. I was wandering around ebay, something jogged my memory 'hmm always wanted to build as steam engine as a kid' search 'steam engine'. yep steam engines...something about the water vapor and necessity of a boiler kind of turned me off. I notice a 'hot air' engine in the same section.

Nice functionality on the expandable menu. Worry about font contrast after the GRE's :) These improvements, even the little ones like putting the text editing controls on top, make the site more useable, and more likely to be used.

I posted a visual illusion (.avi move) I worked on in Atlanta, Ambiguous Triple Cube. I think it's original, at least I hadn't seen it before.

18:57:12

ok my brain is officially toast for the day.  at least in terms of GRE nonsense. 

anywho.  posted my latest batch of junk im selling on ebay. 

so far my ebay-bike has been excellent -everything, works, shifts crisply -i don't know if ive ever had a bike that shifted decently -they always had some kind of 'shifting issue' that i had to work around.  so this is nice.  front/seat shocks its like a cadillac.  not a bad deal...