Monthly Archives: October 2006

Her name was Lola

By mpj | Published: 12 October, 2006
According to Wikipedia Copacabana may refer to: Copacabana, Bolivia, a town on the shores of Lake Titicaca. Copacabana, a district of Rio de Janeiro, named after the Bolivian town. Copacabana (nightclub), named after the district in Rio. Copacabana (song), by Barry Manilow, named after the nightclub. Copacabana (musical), by Barry Manilow, named after the song. Now, if we get the Bolivian [...]
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I’m PSPACE-complete but I’ll reduce you to 3-SAT

By mpj | Published: 12 October, 2006
The Euclidean path integral over all topologically trivial metrics can be done by time slicing and so is unitary when analytically continued to the Lorentzian. On the other hand, the path integral over all topologically non-trivial metrics is asymptotically independent of the initial state. Thus the total path integral is unitary and information is not [...]
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Anything for science

By mpj | Published: 9 October, 2006
Professor Devendra Singh, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Texas, studied the physical attractiveness of Miss America beauty contestants and Playboy centrefolds over a period of 50 years. I’d really like to see how he formulated that in his research proposal to secure funding.
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