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urn:lj:klab.lv:atom1:eija loopy loopy loopy skaaarleta@gmail.com loopy 2021-07-20T21:41:07Z 2021-07-20T21:41:07Z urn:lj:klab.lv:atom1:eija:29756 2021-07-20T17:41:00 2021-07-20T17:41:00 2021-07-20T21:41:07Z 2021-07-20T21:41:07Z Word of the day: SCURRYFUNGE -- to rush around cleaning when company is on their way over. Example use: "If it weren’t for the occasional scurryfunge, my house would never get cleaned." urn:lj:klab.lv:atom1:eija:29686 2017-07-13T13:35:00 2017-07-13T13:35:00 2017-07-13T11:35:25Z 2017-07-13T11:35:25Z Word of the day: CHARETTE -- an intense period of activity immediately before a deadline. "Love" by Roy Croft urn:lj:klab.lv:atom1:eija:29372 2017-07-08T16:56:00 2017-07-08T16:56:00 2017-07-08T14:57:03Z 2017-07-08T14:57:03Z I love you, Not only for what you are, But for what I am When I am with you. I love you, Not only for what You have made of yourself, But for what You are making of me. I love you For the part of me That you bring out; I love you For putting your hand Into my heaped-up heart And passing over All the foolish, weak things That you can't help Dimly seeing there, And for drawing out Into the light All the beautiful belongings That no one else had looked Quite far enough to find. I love you because you Are helping me to make Of the lumber of my life Not a tavern But a temple; Out of the works Of my every day Not a reproach But a song. I love you Because you have done More than any creed Could have done To make me good, And more than any fate To make me happy. You have done it Without a touch, Without a word, Without a sign. You have done it By being yourself. urn:lj:klab.lv:atom1:eija:29126 2016-03-13T01:52:00 2016-03-13T01:52:00 2016-03-13T00:57:26Z 2016-03-13T00:57:26Z <div style="border: 2px solid #EBE8D5; border-radius:10px; padding: 0px 7px 0px 7px;"><h3 style=""><a style="text-decoration: none;color:#aaa;font-family:georgia,serif;font-style:italic;">loopy's quotes</a></h3> <div>&quot;No idea is above scrutiny and no people are beneath dignity.&quot;&mdash; <a title="Maajid Nawaz quotes" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6446041.Maajid_Nawaz">Maajid Nawaz</a> </div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes" style="color: #382110; text-decoration: none; font-size: 10px;">Goodreads Quotes</a></div></div> Chaikin & Lubensky "Principles of Condensed Matter Physics" urn:lj:klab.lv:atom1:eija:28841 2015-09-07T16:48:00 2015-09-07T16:48:00 2015-09-07T14:52:40Z 2015-09-07T14:52:40Z The use and understanding of matter in its condensed (liquid or solid) state have gone hand in hand with the advances of civilization and technology since the first use of primitive tools. So important has the control of condensed matter been to man that historical ages---the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age---have often been named after the material dominating the technology of the time. Nightwish feat. Richard Dawkins urn:lj:klab.lv:atom1:eija:28517 2015-09-03T16:48:00 2015-09-03T16:48:00 2015-09-03T14:49:37Z 2015-09-03T14:49:37Z “We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?” urn:lj:klab.lv:atom1:eija:28228 2015-07-17T14:30:00 2015-07-17T14:30:00 2015-07-17T12:30:45Z 2015-07-17T12:30:45Z Berliner Sprüche: Wat du heute kannst besorjen, jeht ooch morjen. urn:lj:klab.lv:atom1:eija:27955 2015-07-15T16:52:00 2015-07-15T16:52:00 2015-07-15T14:53:22Z 2015-07-15T14:53:22Z "On a scale from 1 to awesome, how awesome is this?" (Stephen Colbert to Neil deGrasse Tyson in the Pluto video.) urn:lj:klab.lv:atom1:eija:27738 2015-07-06T16:34:00 2015-07-06T16:34:00 2015-07-06T14:34:18Z 2015-07-06T14:34:18Z People found guilty of not using punctuation deserve the longest sentence possible. The Most Astounding Fact urn:lj:klab.lv:atom1:eija:27421 2015-06-03T18:53:00 2015-06-03T18:53:00 2015-06-03T16:53:29Z 2015-06-03T16:53:29Z <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D05ej8u-gU" class="video">Tu neredzi video.</a> PRX 4, 011036 (2014) urn:lj:klab.lv:atom1:eija:27183 2015-06-03T15:51:00 2015-06-03T15:51:00 2015-06-03T14:04:23Z 2015-06-03T14:04:23Z "[...] the low-energy Hilbert space for n Fibonacci particles with trivial total topological charge has a dimension given by the (n-1)th Fibonacci number. Consequently, the asymptotic dimension per particle, usually called the quantum dimension, is the golden ratio φ = (1+sqrt(5))/2. Perhaps the most remarkable feature of Fibonacci anyons is that they allow for universal topological quantum computation in which a single gate---a counterclockwise exchange of two Fibonacci anyons---is sufficient to approximate any unitary transformation to within desired accuracy (up to an inconsequential overall phase)." "[...] a 128-bit number can be factored in a fully fault-tolerant manner using Shor's algorithm with ≈10^3 Fibonacci anyons. In contrast, performing the same computation with Ising anyons [also non-Abelian but non-universal] would entail much greater overhead since the algorithm requires π/8 phase gates that would need to be performed nontopologically and then distilled [...]. For a π/8 phase gate with 99 % fidelity, the scheme [...] requires ≈10^9 Ising anyons to factor a 128-bit number." urn:lj:klab.lv:atom1:eija:27088 2015-05-20T14:02:00 2015-05-20T14:02:00 2015-05-20T12:03:05Z 2015-05-20T12:03:05Z Andris Beerzinsh does not pass the Turing test. urn:lj:klab.lv:atom1:eija:26836 2015-05-18T13:36:00 2015-05-18T13:36:00 2015-05-18T11:36:41Z 2015-05-18T11:36:41Z If I remember correctly, I have a good memory. urn:lj:klab.lv:atom1:eija:26402 2015-05-18T00:13:00 2015-05-18T00:13:00 2015-05-18T11:37:31Z 2015-05-18T11:37:31Z There's a fine line between a timeless wisdom and a banality, but I think Sam Harris is on the right side of it. Words to live by: <a href="https://youtu.be/T3JzcCviNDk" class="video">Tu neredzi video.</a> urn:lj:klab.lv:atom1:eija:26221 2015-05-13T14:13:00 2015-05-13T14:13:00 2015-05-13T12:14:42Z 2015-05-13T12:14:42Z Handwaving is my favourite type of proof. Hofstadter's Law urn:lj:klab.lv:atom1:eija:25930 2015-05-09T14:50:00 2015-05-09T14:50:00 2015-05-09T12:51:00Z 2015-05-09T12:51:00Z It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. Jerome K. Jerome urn:lj:klab.lv:atom1:eija:25647 2015-05-09T14:34:00 2015-05-09T14:34:00 2015-05-13T12:15:38Z 2015-05-13T12:15:38Z Idling always has been my strong point. I take no credit to myself in the matter -- it is a gift. Few possess it. There are plenty of lazy people and plenty of slow-coaches, but a genuine idler is a rarity. He is not a man who slouches about with his hands in this pockets. On the contrary, his most startling characteristic is that he is always intensely busy. It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely and occupation then, and a most exhausting one. urn:lj:klab.lv:atom1:eija:25350 2015-05-05T19:23:00 2015-05-05T19:23:00 2015-05-05T17:24:13Z 2015-05-05T17:24:13Z Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod. urn:lj:klab.lv:atom1:eija:25313 2015-04-14T13:36:00 2015-04-14T13:36:00 2015-04-14T11:36:59Z 2015-04-14T11:36:59Z A mathematician named his dog Cauchy, because it left a residue at every simple pole. Winnie the Pooh urn:lj:klab.lv:atom1:eija:24977 2015-04-07T18:26:00 2015-04-07T18:26:00 2015-04-07T16:27:33Z 2015-04-07T16:27:33Z How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard... urn:lj:klab.lv:atom1:eija:24738 2015-04-01T10:14:00 2015-04-01T10:14:00 2015-04-01T08:14:51Z 2015-04-01T08:14:51Z Pretentious? Moi?! Leonard Cohen urn:lj:klab.lv:atom1:eija:24068 2015-03-29T18:46:00 2015-03-29T18:46:00 2015-03-29T16:47:04Z 2015-03-29T16:47:04Z Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in. ImKa urn:lj:klab.lv:atom1:eija:24034 2015-03-29T18:34:00 2015-03-29T18:34:00 2015-03-29T16:35:05Z 2015-03-29T16:35:05Z Apturi manu grimstošo kuģi, tas pilns ir līdz malām ar pārdomu kravām un atbildēm noklusētām. A. Bergmanis "Mīlestība" urn:lj:klab.lv:atom1:eija:23586 2015-03-29T18:22:00 2015-03-29T18:22:00 2015-03-29T16:23:32Z 2015-03-29T16:23:32Z Ja tev nekad neapniks Rītos ar mani kafiju dzert, Ja man nekad neapniks Tevi ik rītus sev blakus skatīt, Ja tev nekad neapniks Pa diviem vienu kartupeli ēst, Ja man nekad neapniks Būt greizsirdīgam, lai to nemani, Ja tev nekad neapniks Baidīties mani zaudēt, Ja tev nekad neapniks Vērot pasauli manām acīm, Ja man nekad neapniks Tavā savu pasauli ieraudzīt, Tad tā būs mīlestība. James May urn:lj:klab.lv:atom1:eija:23315 2015-03-26T13:45:00 2015-03-26T13:45:00 2015-03-26T12:45:52Z 2015-03-26T12:45:52Z Former TV presenter only remembered for saying 'Oh cock'. Or was that the other bloke?