Showing posts with label statistical mechanics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label statistical mechanics. Show all posts

Sunday, October 21, 2018

Let's read: weird things on arXiv: ponies, particle card games, statistical mechanics of poker

Search "pony" on arXiv, there are two results:

Complementarity of Resonant and Nonresonant Strong WW Scattering at SSC and LHC, Michael Chanowitz (Submitted on 6 Oct 1992), with a comment:
Comments: 8 pages (figures on request by Pony Express), LBL-32938
No-clicking Event in Quantum Key Distribution, W.-Y. Hwang, I.-T. Lim, J.-W. Park (2008)
with the memorable phrase
quantum Trojan-pony attack
I see that arXiv is yet unponified. No matter. Try "card game", magic happens!

Let's Read: Neuropath (Bakker, 2009)

Neuropath  (Bakker 2009) is a dramatic demonstration of the eliminative materialism worldview of the author R. Scott Bakker. It's very b...