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summercomfort) wrote2003-01-09 05:41 pm
summercomfort) wrote2003-01-09 05:41 pm
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Disappointed: Maxwell's demon keeps watch over molecules. Nothing cool and fantastical out of mythology.
Hmm... what is it w/ the Stanford addies all being PO-Boxes? Do you actually have to go to the Stanford Post Office to get mail?
I'll probably do some casual HW tonight, and watch Run Lola Run in TANSTAAFL.
Oh, btw, I was in the usite, and I wrote two witty comments to peoples' entries. But there was an error. So witty comments all gone! And now no longer feeling witty. But Catherine, conejita, there *were* witty comments!
Oh, another addendum... about classes.
My soc teacher's discussion today was.... not. He's indeed a very good teacher, but after the rigorous discussion last quarter, it appears kind of ... lame. He made sure we understood the basic concepts, while last quarter's prof assumed that we did. And most of us did. I wish there's some middle way, though.
Maxwell's Demon is a simple beast: he sits at the door of your office in summertime and watches the molecules wandering back and forth. Those which move faster than some limit he only lets pass out of the room, and those moving slower than some limit he only lets pass into the room. He doesn't need to expend energy to do this -- he simply closes a lightweight shutter whenever he spots a molecule coming that he wants to deflect. The molecule then just bounces off the shutter and returns the way it came. All he needs, it would appear, is patience, remarkably good eyesight and speedly reflexes, and the brains to figure out how to herd brainless molecules.
Hmm... what is it w/ the Stanford addies all being PO-Boxes? Do you actually have to go to the Stanford Post Office to get mail?
I'll probably do some casual HW tonight, and watch Run Lola Run in TANSTAAFL.
Oh, btw, I was in the usite, and I wrote two witty comments to peoples' entries. But there was an error. So witty comments all gone! And now no longer feeling witty. But Catherine, conejita, there *were* witty comments!
Oh, another addendum... about classes.
My soc teacher's discussion today was.... not. He's indeed a very good teacher, but after the rigorous discussion last quarter, it appears kind of ... lame. He made sure we understood the basic concepts, while last quarter's prof assumed that we did. And most of us did. I wish there's some middle way, though.