This mug was straight trippy mane, yadig?

5/24/2013 12:23:03 AM

5/24/2013 12:24:03 AM

I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.

5/24/2013 12:39:59 AM

One of my favorite reads ever- "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" is a collection of his short writings and some transcribed speeches. Guy has some hilarious stories and some fascinating points of view. I need to read that again soon.

5/24/2013 12:43:14 AM

second central moment to the mean less one. if you can tell me what this value is for a purely-poisson distribution I have a paper for you to read

5/24/2013 1:43:42 AM

Well the second central moment (a.k.a. the second moment around the mean) is known as the variance (square of the standard deviation), and for a Poisson distribution with parameter L, both mean and variance are L: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution

5/24/2013 6:48:39 AM

I would generally think that a moment would be about the mean. Seems even more redundant to say the central moment in addition to that.

And does paerabol just want us to subtract 1 after that? not clear on that.

Or maybe the 2nd moment about {the mean minus 1}

[Edited on May 24, 2013 at 10:55 AM. Reason : ]

5/24/2013 10:54:42 AM

Quote :

"To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in. "

Quote :

"God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. Now, when you finally discover how something works, you get some laws which you're taking away from God; you don't need him anymore. But you need him for the other mysteries. So therefore you leave him to create the universe because we haven't figured that out yet; you need him for understanding those things which you don't believe the laws will explain, such as consciousness, or why you only live to a certain length of time — life and death — stuff like that. God is always associated with those things that you do not understand. Therefore I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out. "

5/24/2013 11:19:22 AM

Awesome feller!

Him and Dave Brubeck went through crazy similar hair phases.

[Edited on May 24, 2013 at 11:28 AM. Reason : !]

5/24/2013 11:26:35 AM

anyone with even a passing interest in the universe should watch his Cornell lectures. it's not too much of an overstatement to say that with the right mindset they can be life altering.

5/24/2013 11:38:55 AM

Quote :

"If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week."

- Dick Feynman in response to a lecture given by Mathematician Mark Kack


lol Mark Kack had a damn good comeback though

Quote :

"Precisely the week in which God created the world."

[Edited on May 24, 2013 at 12:18 PM. Reason : angry feet]

5/24/2013 12:12:25 PM

He has a great response to some idiot reporter asking about magnetism.

5/24/2013 2:10:23 PM

I'm a mathematician, so the following quote kinda irks me...but it's still pretty bad-ass

Quote :

"Physics is to math as sex is to masturbation."

5/24/2013 2:21:01 PM

Murray Gell-Mann talks about Richard Feynman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnMsgxIIQEE

5/24/2013 2:52:49 PM

SO MUCH WIN MANE

6/12/2013 11:25:46 PM

I was admittetly being intentionally vague. The Feynman-Y parameter is just a ratio of the variance to the mean of a distribution, minus 1. It's a measure of excess variance, so a purely-Poisson distribution (where the two are at unity) yields Y=0

6/13/2013 9:00:24 AM

Is this the dude from lost?

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

6/13/2013 9:24:57 AM