Enzymind Labs

16:59:54

found a couple interesting books:

Lab on the web. Fjeldy. TK7835.f54. 2003 -about different university trying to implement electonics courses mainly through the web -more of a internet-course type thing but many interesting aspects of communicating, collarborated, and using shared hardware across the web.

and

The road to chaos. Ueda. TK7872.O7 U35. 1992. So supposedly Yoshisuke Ueda is supposed to be like the Japanese equavalence of Ed Lorenz (butterfly effect). Ueda's stuff is focused mostly around electronics version of systems which display chaos -very very interesting, I'm sure if I can soak up some of this stuff I will have some more instights into biological models.

12:59:48

cool got me some nonlinear lithium niobate crystals What am I going to do with em...not exactly sure, either play with modulating laser beam outputs electronically or these are supposed to also work for second harmonic generation -ie making green laser light from infra red...mental note to self *don't blind yourself playing with lasers.

10:11:47

yay:

14:52:24

All the ambitions I had yesterday for writing outlines of critical nonlinear science experiemnts and a historical timetable came to, almost entirely, nought. Maybe next time I plan to do something I should just tell myself, today I will just do whatever I feel like even if that is surfing ebay, wandering science library, or just looking blankly out the window.

Those two outlines are still good things that I want to do, but maybe in a little while. Only real thing i did of value yesterday was try and contact all the grad school (~10) that I'm interested in to get the application process started. Also read through part of a review book on GRE exams. THE WORST. on my first practice test i got 1/3 correct...

10:23:22

So I'm thinking that my last abstract was a dud.  Too much hyperbole and not enough goods.  Learning lesson.  Didn't get one possitive think from that so have to file away in head 'avoid that'.  Thinking im going to break this down into two big chunks maybe three or more but to start, two.  The first chunk will largely be the three experimental systems that I would like to try and develop for modeling nonlinear complex dynamics in biological systems ie: 1.) power law photography (will explain in more detail later; 2.) attractor geometry modeling of biological dynamics; 3.) high-dimensional low-level (image) feature database operations to model complex system subunit interaction.

16:21:52

Been reading an interesting book called 'flat and curved space times' QC173.65.E45 1988 . I keep coming back to being fascinated by special and general relativity, but cannot yet grasp ricci tensors etc, this book presents alot of the concepts using realatively straightforward geometrical visual examples that I can more easily conceptualize. I think I need to make a sticker for my computer: The speed of light is the same for all frames of reference (a lever); gravity = acceleration (another lever) ; (sqrt)mass = ((sqrt)energy)/light speed (deduction). I'm still getting stuck on square-root of energy or speed of light squared...

15:26:38

huh. thats kind of interesting. i'm getting lots of curious looks from fellow public library patrons -like I'm some kind of 'man from the future' because of my laptop -i do have an external hard drive and some other junk around me...I guess I've gotten so used to people using laptops all around me on campus that there are still places where its not so common place thus the long hard looks -and news cameras...weird...i think i need to travel do different countries for a while I really have no idea what reality is...

12:56:58

Whilst I'm in the stupor of recovering from less than exuberant enthusiam for my science, I've had some interesting books to look over.

Nonlinear optics has been an interesting distraction, I think part of the reson that I like it is that it, at least in the visible spectrum, is ...visual. Also something about lasers and how the kind of cross a lot of barriers -chemistry, physics, math, ...but to a lesser extent biology. There are models for chaos in laser-optical systems in terms of feedback, but I wonder if those kinds of nonlinearities can be used to model biology system dynamics.

Some journal articles of interest and/or relevance to enzymind labs.

COMPUTER RELATED

VISUALIZATION 

an interesting article on multi-resolution volume rendering using something called a 'wavelet-based time-space partitioning (WTSP) tree'. nice.

A Multiresolution Volume Rendering Framework for
Large-Scale Time-Varying Data Visualization

OTHER 

Making a science of the web. Science aug 2006.

See attached recent Science article, a relevant reference and good language for your proposal. I like how they state how much we don't know about how people do/will do science using web resources. Here's the "enhanced" web article, but I'm not sure you can access without a subscription.

I started a web page based on a Möbius band drawing, inspired by the recent bronze casting I did: Mobius bands and tilings.

13:41:25

found the email address, it was hidden in code: name at place dot institution

12:37:01

this might be kind of fun. I've been trying to find the email address for felice frankel but she appears to be unlisted -thought I might be able to get some tips on possible graduate programs or sources of funding.

12:16:31

OK did my best to make a trinity of aims. Still not happy with the 'methods' of evaluating results aspect but I think its another notch closer to being right.