Electron Band Structure In Germanium

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

A revealing paper on the electron band structure in Germanium:

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/hall.html

~~ Paul

[hammegk]

LOL.

BTW, what is CS?

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

Computer Science, I think.

~~ Paul

[espritch]

That was hilarious. I especially loved the graph showing the temperature/resistance relationship data. I looked at it and just busted out laughing. :D

P.S. As a computer science major, I can attested that CS is somewhat overrated as a means of wealth generation. :(

[hammegk]

Originally posted by espritch

P.S. As a computer science major, I can attested that CS is somewhat overrated as a means of wealth generation. :(

Yet you have some chance to attract venture capital to fund your ideas, and perhaps the opportunity to go public if you are a good enough salesman.

[TillEulenspiegel]

That's so freekin funny I almost peed my-self.
It reminds of a lab experiment I did on materials ( for my EE ) I did the experiment and recorted/plotted the results. I knew just by looking the plot it was off, but was being taught by professor Anal and recorded the data as shown. The report was kicked and I showed the Prof that the equipment ( which hadn't been calibrated in five years) was to blame, he insisted it was my fault. I learned that day not to bother with the truth, give 'em what they want. From then on I just did the textbook math added an error rate of %2.5 ( for that "real world flavor" ) and never had a problem again.

[uneasy]

:roll:
I loved that graph. I remember that feeling of just not caring and plotting any old stupid line to some stupid data in some stupid lab.

And as to that faulty lab equipment and bogus results, I know how that is. Once I got fed up and put all variable resistors in some stupid circuit and adjusted them until the stupid thing did what it was supposed to. This greatly disturbed the stupid professor, but I was the only one getting the right results because I think all the stupid measurements were off. Stupid labs. :)

[ceptimus]

I used to have similar problems in chemistry practical tests. The textbook said I would end up with, say, some green crystals, but I always managed to make a brown sludge. After writing the closing line, "This was most likely due to impurities in the reagents", for the tenth time, I resolved to cheat in all future practicals.

[BTox]

Originally posted by espritch
That was hilarious. I especially loved the graph showing the temperature/resistance relationship data. I looked at it and just busted out laughing.


I've generated data like that. Didn't have the balls to attribute a nice regression like that, tho!

[RussDill]

He forgot to mention the crappy program used to make the graph that doesn't do anything you want, and crashes every 5 minutes. I forget what the software was called though, but we all "got to" use it for "free"

[Matabiri]

See also "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline" by Isaac Asimov (in one of the Early Asimov bokos, I think). He was trying to write his doctoral dissertation, and in frustration at having to "dumb down" his writing style to that required by scientific writing, he dashed off this mock paper about a chemical that dissolves in water slightly before the water is added. Worth reading by anyone who has to write papers.

[TillEulenspiegel]

It appears we all we to the same University.
There are psudo-random scientific papers based on an engine called DADA . There's different engines , I like this one's flavor. I wish I had it when I went to school =) . below is an example of the generated work:

Madonna and the textual paradigm of expression

If one examines predialectic feminism, one is faced with a choice: either accept modernism or conclude that reality must come from the masses. In a sense, the subject is contextualised into a textual paradigm of expression that includes consciousness as a paradox. The primary theme of the works of Madonna is the role of the observer as artist.

The characteristic theme of Dietrich's[2] model of textual narrative is not theory, but pretheory. However, if the textual paradigm of expression holds, we have to choose between structuralist discourse and the submaterialist paradigm of discourse. Derrida uses the term 'modernism' to denote the rubicon, and therefore the defining characteristic, of cultural society.

Thus, Foucault suggests the use of the textual paradigm of expression to analyse and read narrativity. Reicher[3] implies that we have to choose between capitalist narrative and subtextual capitalist theory.

But the subject is interpolated into a textual paradigm of expression that includes art as a reality. Debord promotes the use of structuralist discourse to challenge hierarchy. However, the main theme of the works of Madonna is the role of the writer as observer. Marx uses the term 'the textual paradigm of expression' to denote the rubicon, and some would say the dialectic, of postdialectic sexual identity.

Thus, the primary theme of Werther's[4] analysis of modernism is not discourse as such, but neodiscourse. Foucault uses the term 'modern appropriation' to denote the paradigm, and thus the economy, of posttextual class.

Full text here:http://www.elsewhere.org/cgi-bin/postmodern

Links here:http://www.angelfire.com/zine/dadamonster/links.html

[uneasy]

Originally posted by TillEulenspiegel
It appears we all we to the same University.
There are psudo-random scientific papers based on an engine called DADA . There's different engines , I like this one's flavor. I wish I had it when I went to school =) . below is an example of the generated work:

Madonna and the textual paradigm of expression
One thing missing is the opening clause "Lately there has been much interest in Madonna and the textual paradigm of expression..." with 1-3 footnotes referring to papers also written by the author of this paper.

[Soapy Sam]

Thanks Paul. That made my day. So horribly true.