My daughter found out that we were going to name her Natalia, because of my Great Grandmother, but we named her Leza, after my wife's Grandmother. She liked Natalia, and told the administration in High School to write in her Diploma: Leza Natalia Cantoral.
She has chutzpah!
When I saw Natalia Lafourcade (below), I thought of my little girl.
Monday, December 5, 2011
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Stock Market?
I have a friend from Lucent. He studied Physics at the University of Colorado. Now he is working for the financial sector in Chicago. If I am right, and all Theoretical Physics is sophisticated curve fitting, I wonder if I can just as well fit financial behavior?
I'm reading an econometrics paper in arXiv. I was inspired by this year's Economics Nobel Prize in Cause and Effect in Macroeconomics. NYT.
I was biased against finances, I thought there was no way to guess right.
Now I wonder.
BTW, I'm studying R.
I'm reading an econometrics paper in arXiv. I was inspired by this year's Economics Nobel Prize in Cause and Effect in Macroeconomics. NYT.
I was biased against finances, I thought there was no way to guess right.
Now I wonder.
BTW, I'm studying R.
Saturday, December 3, 2011
“life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places”
Ernest Hemingway
Today I am supposed to be downtown Chilpancingo breaking a Guinness World Record. "Mexico Seeks New Guinness Record For Moon-Gazing With Telescopes".
I won't go.
Many years ago, I was 19 or 20, I don't remember, I found myself reading USSR propaganda; I completely forgot I had to be in soccer training. I played at a UNAM's junior team. UNAM soccer is strong, they've been champions of the Mexican Professional Soccer League; here is the Wikipedia link: Pumas.
Another break in my life path, another fork in the road, happened in 1998; when I left BUAP, to join Alcatel-Lucent.
Today I change path direction again. Following Roberto Bolaño, Abandon Everything, Again.
My acclimation period in Chilpancingo is over. I have to keep working on my PyChilpo project.
Classes Over!
For all practical purposes I am thinking of the next term rather than the present one. One of my Simulation class students [link], is not coming next week, they are 2 only. Then I leave to Chicago, December 15. I have a Physics class that is used basically to teach my stuff of a New Scientific Method [link], then I have an "Analysis of the Contemporary World" class [link]. That's it!
These are the sunrise and sunset times, that day in Chicago.
So starting today, I am working on my stuff, even during my days in Warrenville.
I am reading Bill Byers' "How Mathematicians Think" [link].
The aha moment is crucial. Professor Wiles had it to solve Fermat's Conjecture in 1993, [link]. I cannot pinpoint a year, but I can put it around the past six months. Definitely Professor Fivel's post in the arXiv was crucial, [link].
I grant that it is not a discovery of: How is the Universe?, but rather of: How is it that we know it? But in any case, I am hopeful that something will come of it. On the other hand I do not have too much time left "Waiting for Godot", [link].
There are not mathematical equations or programs "up there" waiting for us to go fetch them. We have to make them, and the sooner I start, the better.
For starters I have two principles. The Principle of Fit (PF), and the Principle of Leibniz (PL). The first I have already described in this blog, we sort out all programs and equations, until we find the best fit to data, the second is described by Gregory Chaitin, [link], i.e., another requirement by the New Kind of Science here advocated, similar to Wolfram's [link], is that it has to be the shortest program.
From these humble beginnings, I hope to build a Numerical Computation Platform [link].
These are the sunrise and sunset times, that day in Chicago.
So starting today, I am working on my stuff, even during my days in Warrenville.
I am reading Bill Byers' "How Mathematicians Think" [link].
The aha moment is crucial. Professor Wiles had it to solve Fermat's Conjecture in 1993, [link]. I cannot pinpoint a year, but I can put it around the past six months. Definitely Professor Fivel's post in the arXiv was crucial, [link].
I grant that it is not a discovery of: How is the Universe?, but rather of: How is it that we know it? But in any case, I am hopeful that something will come of it. On the other hand I do not have too much time left "Waiting for Godot", [link].
There are not mathematical equations or programs "up there" waiting for us to go fetch them. We have to make them, and the sooner I start, the better.
For starters I have two principles. The Principle of Fit (PF), and the Principle of Leibniz (PL). The first I have already described in this blog, we sort out all programs and equations, until we find the best fit to data, the second is described by Gregory Chaitin, [link], i.e., another requirement by the New Kind of Science here advocated, similar to Wolfram's [link], is that it has to be the shortest program.
From these humble beginnings, I hope to build a Numerical Computation Platform [link].
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