WsOTD: Meconium and Myrmecology

Poop is not only a Human problem. Other organisms were able to address this problem long before we found ways to build comfort rooms and septic tanks. A blog in Discovery site discussed some ways how eusocial organisms tackle the poop problem, read more here.

After reading the article, I got to learn the following words:

Meconium – noun - Meconium is the earliest stools of an infant. Unlike later feces, meconium is composed of materials ingested during the time the infant spends in the uterus: intestinal epithelial cells, lanugo, mucus, amniotic fluid, bile, and water. Meconium is almost sterile, unlike later feces, is viscous and sticky like tar, and has no odor. It should be completely passed by the end of the first few days of postpartum life, with the stools progressing toward yellow (digested milk). The term Meconium derives from meconium-arion, meaning "opium-like", in reference either to its tarry appearance or to Aristotle's belief that it induces sleep in the fetus. [from Wikipedia – Meconium].

Myrmecology – noun - Myrmecology (from Greek: μύρμεξ, myrmex, "ant"; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is the scientific study of ants, a branch of entomology. Ants are often chosen as a study group to answer questions on the evolution of social systems. All ants are highly eusocial. [from Wikipedia – Myrmecology].

Thought Insert: Wafer and Raisins

Lately, I am addicted to Loacker Sandwich Wafers and Champion (by National Raisin Company) Fruit Bites.

National Raisin Company Champion Fruit Bites

Loacker's Sandwich Wafers

Healthy Foodams!

Our Generation will go to space.

For weeks now, I have been thinking of possible topics for year-end blog articles. My little area in cyberspace must at least contain something before 2008 will turn over the spacetime to 2009. I am thinking of consolidating the knowledge (trivia, concepts and even patches of information as infotainment) I encountered and learned since January. Or maybe list certain topics I want to learn and to specialize next year. Or maybe anything that enters my chaotic mind. How about tracking my progress on certain physics and math subjects? Or maybe work on some future timelines?

I admit I really have this bad habit of jutting down things to do and creating elaborate timelines but not actually following them. In a day, I usually work on chaotic line up, unstructured process, or in short whatever my mind will tell me to do. So, there is really no point of doing a timeline. Anyway, maybe I should start with anything.

I have decided to start with this:


I am addicted to this new addition of Chowking to their beverage selection. Sjora is indeed refreshing.

On the burger side, Burger King also captured my tongue with this:



From:

What else? Chocolate... that would be from Max Brenner, the Mexican Spicy drink in their hug mug.





On technology, I said goodbye to my small notebook aka FM (MSIVR340) and welcomed my new huge lappy aka Ivan (HPG60).

Also, I have to say goodbye to my N70 and will welcome E71 this January (hopefully will give the unit soon).


Anyway, the items above are just my refresher. I can’t think and write on the main topic I am going to blabber here. My mind is telling me to write about Space Elevator, but actually my mind has a lot of things of the future lined up to be written. It’s not only about space elevator. It’s all about the future. Nevertheless, I’ll start with the space elevator.

Unknown to most of us, there is actually an existing consortium on this technology and because of this I realized that we are indeed serious in building this stuff. Few years ago, I read about this space elevator and I doubted that this can be built. Well, with the exponential trend of technology nowadays, I guess nothing is really impossible. Imaginations of science fiction writers and visionaries are concretely transformed to reality. In fact, right now, the International Space Elevator Consortium is already putting together the theoretical foundations for this technology. Who knows, a decade from now, we might already have the blueprint of the first space elevator. You can read more information from this website, the International Space Elevator Consortium.


You can check videos of this technology here and here.

I guess we are passed of the spermatozoan stage of our Space Age. In fact, we are actually already in the Gestation Stage of our Space Age, laying the foundations for our conquest of space. Soon we will be populating our system.

Let’s visit some of this preliminary works.

One good example above is the space elevator. In few years from now, the world will start materializing that dream.

We already have the ISS, the International Space Station, checking our survival in low gravity environment.




As well as, exploring all other technological needs we have to put in place before we embark on full space conquest.

On one hand, we are creating better and more efficient space machines such as satellites, shuttles, and droids.

Space tourism is also growing. Private companies are laying out their future plans and business expansions.






From: Universe Today, Space America

Google is also preparing for Space internet, connecting possible human space outposts in the future.

Technology is growing in exponential trend and is catching really fast with our vision to explore and conquer space. Theoretically, we are exploiting the power of spacetime already. It is just a matter of few decades that we are capable of manipulating spacetime for our advantage. We know the physics and math behind space exploration. What we are lacking right now is technology. But I have great confidence that we can achieve our dream of space soon. Nuclear reactors are shrinking in size. Research on alternative energy sources is speeding up also, giving positive results. Soon, we won’t be dependent on fossil fuels.

For me, I believe I can still reach the Infancy Stage of Human Space Age, when we are exploring planets of our system.

WOTD: Paroxysm

Paroxysm; noun

1. a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a diseases); convulsion ( a paroxysm of coughing)

2. a sudden violent emotion or action; outburst (a paroxysm of rage)

Merriam-Webster

With Madam

I just wanna share this pic to everyone!

With SSC Barkadahan!


Kulit!

Today's List

Yes. I am a sci-fi addict. These explain my hiatus.

The Big Bang Theory



Andromeda (Gene Roddenberry)


Farscape

Kainis

Wala lang... minsan kainis isipin paghindi ka masaya sa mga bagay bagay. I am hoping I can find joy in things soon. I lost the mirth of my heart.

Geek Oneliners

Inspired and digged by Pow, I just wanna share these geek one liners.

For Pow's oneliners check here.

From the net, check here.

My favorite so far:

"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs." - Robert Firth

The reason why

I think I know now the reason why Gen loves Winehouse's You Sent Me Flying. I think it is because of the Marlboro Red. Well, because of the thing Amy has with that cigarette in her song, I guess this song will be bookmarked in my mind forever.

Lent you outsidaz and my new Badu
while I was thinking you didn't have a clue
tough to sort files with your voice in my head
So then I bribed you downstairs with a malboro red
so now I feel so small discovering you knew
How much more torture would you have put me through?
you probably saw me laughing at all your jokes
or how I did not mind when you stole all my smokes

And although my pride is not easily disturbed
you sent me flying when you kicked me to the kerb
With you battered jeans and your beastie tee
Now I can't work like this with you next to me

And although he is nothing in the scheme of my years
it just serves to blugdeon my futile tears
And I'm not use to this, I observe, I don't chase
So now I'm stuck with consequences, thrust in my face
And the melodramas of my day delivery blows
that surpass your rejection it just goes to show
a simple attraction that reflects right back to me
so I'm not as into you as I appear to be

And although my pride's not easily disturbed
you sent me flying when you kicked me to the kerb
With you battered jeans and your beastie tee
Now I can't work like this with you next to me

His message was brutal but the delivery was kind
maybe if I get this down I'll get it off my mind
It serves to condition me and smoothen mi kinks
despite my frustation for the way that he thinks
and I knew the truth, when it came, would be to that effect
At least you're attracted to me which I did not expect
didn't think you get my number down and such
but I never hated myself for my age so much

And although my pride's not easily disturbed
you sent me flying when you kicked me to the kerb
With you battered jeans and your beastie tee
Now I can't work like this with you next to me

Darwin in QM

I just read this article this early afternoon and I can't stop thinking about it. I guess this is somehow true... I believe I will be a follower of this school.

Quantum Darwinism

"They key point is that not all quantum superposition states are created equal—some are more apt to survive in one particular environment than others. The act of information transfer from the quantum system to the environment serves two purposes. First, it destroys fragile quantum states that aren’t so well suited to their surroundings. This is einselection—environment induced super-selection—the process that selects these preferred states and spreads the information about them throughout the environment."

To read more click here FQXi (Origins).

Or you can download the attached pdf.

Alpha Male

Everyone wants to be the Alpha Male!

Sorry guys, I am not interested in competition. It's not my thing.

You can have whatever you want. I don't need them anyway.

(just me against the world)

Passacaglia

Since a baby, I already heard several thousands of music and songs. From pop, rock, metal rock, progressive, soul, classic, standard, jazz, acid jazz, experimental, gospel songs and other kinds or forms not mentioned here. For over a decade, I realized that there is only one kind of music that soothes both my heart and soul. I love to listen to something smooth, melodic, and rythmical, something that can make my soul cry.

Today, I found the right term that describes one kind of music that I really love. It's Passacaglia. Thanks to Secret Garden, because of them I discovered the term to call this form of music, especially those with modern twist.

Here are some examples of Passacaglia:

1. G.F. Handel - not heart breaking though, but still I love it.
2. Battlestar Galactica Theme Song
3. Johann Sebastian Bach
4. Handel-Halvorsen - I love this variation and this.
5. And this music by Secret Garden is perfect.

Also, aside from passacaglia, I think I am also considering Adagios in my list, just like the Adagio by Secret Garden.

Google and NASA are Working on an Interplanetary Internet

Check article here.

Take A Chance!

I hope she will understand.

"Take a chance, take a chance
Shall I take another chance on love?
Take a chance, take a chance
Shall I take another chance on love?
When it feels so right
That Im safe and warm inside
Take a chance and fall tonight."





Especially this:

"Guess my hearts on the borderline
Couldnt stand it not to work this time
Its hard to fight when it feels so good
If theres something, dont you think that we should."

A Line

“Take Care. Maybe one day you’ll escape your past. If you do, look for me.”

I cried. Yes I did.

You cried. Yes you did.

Why? Why it was necessary for us to walk away. Indeed, the train to 2046 will never bring us back. When we get there, we will not return to the point where everything started. Yes, we will continue wandering to some remote patches of our past, in separate ways.

“I once fell in love with someone. After a while she was gone. I couldn't stop wondering if she loved me or not. I went to 2046 hoping to find her there. But I never found her.”

The sky was gray. It was raining. I was standing there, waiting for the train. I thought you were going to meet me there. I waited. I waited for next hundred cycles. Finally, I went aboard 2046, the last train, the last cycle. The thought of you being there was killing me.

I arrived at 2046 station alone.

“Love is all a matter of timing.”

It could be that you went ahead in 2046. But I could never know and would never know. Maybe I got the wrong time. I got the wrong train.

My heart was telling me you were just around. Your voice echoed faintly in the air.

The sky was purple.

I can’t return to 2007 anymore. I can’t return to 2008. I am alone now. In 2046. Maybe, I should stop searching for her. They said when I go to 2046, I can capture my lost memories. I can get the wish of my heart, one way or another. I can see the rainbow.

“In love you can't bring on a substitute.”

Your kisses are haunting me. And my lips are craving for your lips. My tongue is searching for your tongue. And my body is looking for that energy that you and only you can provide, like the one we used to have when our bodies collide. And my soul is longing for your soul.

I am not sure. But, I am sure of one thing, only one thing, we should not have taken the 2046 train.

Us in the Future

Yesterday before veering away from the conscious realm, I thought of the advanced alien races in Stargate universe. I realized that they represent the different possible progenies of our species in the future. I thought that we would be like them if we would maintain certain attitude, mind-set or cultural disposition (in one way or another). Considering them not as aliens but us in the future, you will be surprised to notice that we might be like them in the future. Actually, this is not really surprising because our literary or artistic projection of alien species is still too human (like their physique and mentality).
Anyway, here are the reasons why I think of them as us in the future:

1. The Asgards – Very human for me. A thousand years of perfecting cloning, plus a thousand years of mastering consciousness-transfer, and a thousand years of mastering space-time, minus our interest of sexual reproduction (initiated by embracing of same-sex marriage, catalyzed by free society), multiplied by hundred times of utilizing the cloning and consciousness-transfer process, is equal to Asgard-like descendants of our species. If a dose of heightened pessimism injected to their society then our descendants is definitely like the suicidal geeks (the Asgards).

The Asgards

2. The Ancients – If we continue our religious frills, still embedded in our culture, like for a thousand years and we still worship and afraid of spirits and stuff like that, then I guess we cannot escape the line treading the Ancients track. After ten thousands of years, we are capable of ascension (of course with the help of technology) and we will abandon our visible and tangible realm. We will be contented living in the higher dimension a strict non-interference policy with the less advanced civilizations.

The Ancients/Lanteans

3. The Nox – This is the kind of progeny that would fit the nonviolent environmentalist group of recent Homo sapiens sapiens. They will live in invisible floating cities and would not harm any single organism even that organism will threaten their existence. Don’t worry no one will dare to threaten them because they will too hard to find. Take note, this progeny of our species has zero death rate because they know how to give life to their deads.

The Nox

4. The Furlings – If we become so advance and so tired of intergalactic publicity I guess this line is the right line for us. This is the perfect progeny of our species when we all become hermits and retired celebrities. No one in the galaxy will see us in person but they know that we exist.


5. The Wraiths – The intervention of mad geneticists will really lead our descendants to this line. Hammering one part of our genes here, another part there, wielding some genes here and some there, infusing some codes here and some codes there, then I guess our descendants will be happy feeding on the life force of the insects (much greater than us, just to assure stable food supply chain).

Wraiths

6. The Replicators and Asurans. Our dependence on computers is undeniably increasing. Moore’s law can explain the way we expand out extrasomatic computing abilities. If we maintain this trend, then several thousand years from now our species will create toys like us. And we will become not contented so, we will find ways to transfer our consciousness to these toys, making as perfect Replicators or Asurans.

The Replicators

7. The Goa’uld or Tok’ra – Our quest for panacea will send us to the other planets and discover a symbiote that will cure all of our biological vulnerabilities. By assimilating this symbiote in our system will surely put our descendants in the existence like those of Goa’uld or Tok’ra. It depends. If they will be voracious eaters of power then they will definitely be Goa’uld. If they are willing to co-exist in symbiotic relationship then they will be like the Tok’ra.

Goa'uld

The Symbiote/Parasite

Tok'ra

8. The Aschens – The earth becomes horridly dry and not got for all of our vegetations, and then the food supply of our descendants becomes scarce. We need to travel to some planet, befriend them and slowly sterilizing their population and take over their planet where we can grow and harvest food. This is the selfish us in the future.


I am seeing these aliens as our eventualities in the future. They are just us in different timeframe.

At Last After 2 Years

My fascination (interest) on travelling from planet to planet through a wormhole in a ring was sparked way back in 1995, when I saw the movie Stargate on betamax. One thing I liked about my dad when we were still kids was his unfaltering motivation in bringing us to some bizarre, unique, weird and fantastic worlds of different movies such as Star Wars, Ewoks, Conan the Barbarian, Never Ending Story, Labyrinth, Batteries Not Included, Superman, Terminator, Predator, Robo-cop and many other sci-fi and fantasy movies, and of course Stargate. And everything started there.

Around January of 2006, I spotted a picture of a ring (like the one in Stargate: The Movie) printed on a cover of a bootleg DVD in the black market. At first I thought it was Stargate: The Movie but when I read the title, it said Stargate SG-1. I was thinking if it was related to Stargate: The Movie. Nevertheless, I purchased it and said to myself that I should give it a try.
Then there, my addiction started in “The Children of Gods.” After Season 1, I hunted the other seasons of this series, asked several vendors in the black market, scoured isohunt for torrents, and asked some from friends. Luckily, I met a vendor selling a limited edition box (of course bootleg or pirated) containing seasons from 1 to 7. The remaining seasons were pulled from the immense sea of virtual data of p2p. After watching all 10 seasons, I could say I had been a valuable member of SG-1 team.

Stargate SG-1

I was hooked to this series not because of the casts or because of the special effects. I was hooked because each episode pushed me to imagine myself as a member of SG-1 discovering new planets, new worlds, new cultures and thousands possibilities of life in other corners of our galaxy. From Goa’uld arc (innovative fictional extension of ancient mythologies, from Egyptian, to Norse, to Chinese), to Anubis arc (bridge of Egyptian mythology and Arthurian legend), and finally Ori arc (Arthurian mythology), Stargate SG-1 never failed to fill up my imagination with thousands possibilities of civilizations beyond Earth.

The Original SG-1 Team

The New SG-1 Team

Of all the races of this universe, I think the suicidal race of Asgards is the most interesting (in my opinion). The whole race, their whole population committed suicide because they reached the peak of their civilization. Isn’t it interesting? Well, I guess this something worth noting. I could certainly tell we can learn a lot from the Asgards, not to mention the effect of cloning and memory transfer (we are going to lose our appetite for reproduction).

The Asgard

After two years, I finally ended this adventure with Stargate SG-1 team. Last month, I watched the Continuum, a direct-to-DVD conclusion of the Baal’s arc (Goa’uld arc). And today, I just finished The Ark of Truth, the direct-to-DVD conclusion of the Ori’s arc.

Well, I conclude, I am happily satisfied.

(Lookign forward to finish Stargate: Atlantis and for Stargate Universe)

For Fun: The Profit-Incentive-Outage Problem

I have been working on my business plan for more than three months already and I am not yet halfway done. I spent so much time in the design of my presentation template compared to the time I spent for the financial aspects of my plan. Let’s say in a week it takes me 4 days to finalize the powerpoint design and 1 day to complete my financial figures. It does not mean I don’t know how to design the template. I just can’t make up my mind on which design I am going to use.

Anyway, last Monday, October 20, 2008, while working on the financial statement of my department, I bumped on a problem that occupied my mind for most of the time this week. I believe this problem is a game-like problem and somehow connected or related to my interest. For a year now, I have been engrossed by the concept of game theory on social sciences. Because of this, I easily recognized that the problem, which stopped me to work on my business plan for a week, is a certain version of social games.

I call it, the Profit-Incentive-Outage Problem. Technically, it is a management/business problem, but I have this gut feeling that its nature is the same as any game. For now, I don’t have any concrete idea of the problem and how it is categorized according to the formal criterion of hard mathematics or economic theories. I treat it is a simple business management.

Here’s the problem:

The Profit-Incentive-Outage Problem

How can the management minimize the expenses on a given Incentive without compromising the satisfaction of the employees on the given incentive as well as their performance?

Actually, this is not a simple problem. It is complicated business management numbers analyses especially when we consider the actual implementation of it.

To simplify my view on this problem, I considered the recent Perfect Attendance incentive we have here in our company. In our company, we give PHP 2,000.00 to all employees who are present (no excused and unexcused absences) and no tardiness in a month. For small-value campaigns, the incentive amount is quite high and it eats out considerable amount of the profit especially majority of the team members are availing this incentive and the monthly revenue is almost constant or the revenue is not directly related to performance.

Thinking on this problem, I realized the following points:

1. This problem has a game-like nature with management and employees as players. The management always focuses on minimizing the incentive expense without compromising the employees. On one hand, the employees will always aim for a higher return of money from the incentive/s.

2. This incentive program will not work and will not give optimized returns if the management won’t manage the paid leaves of the employees very well. If the leaves of the employees won’t be managed carefully, the existence of the incentive program defeats its purpose, which is to increase monthly revenue (for the campaigns being billed on employee per hour attendance).

3. For me to create a model, certain assumptions must be stipulated: (a) given that agents have the option to take leaves at the maximum of 22 days and minimum of 1 day in a month; (a) given that agents have the freedom to choose different combinations of absences every month in a year; (c) given that the management has no control on the management of leaves of the agents (it means no other parametric constraints); (d) given that all other costs as constant and only revenue and incentive costs as dependent variables, dependent on the leaves frequency of the agents in a year; and (e) given that the incentive rate is constant.

With all these assumptions, for several days, I worked my mind on coming up a good model for this (actually until now, I don’t have a good model of this problem). I am actually looking for points where the profit is optimized while giving the employees considerable amount of incentive. Honestly, I did not know where to start.

Just to begin somewhere, I did several combinations of availed leaves of an agent in a year and the table looks like this.


Zero means that for that month the agent did not avail any leave. 600+ combinations (scenarios) were made.

I thought of graphing the numbers resulting from this table expecting to see a pattern or recognizable form. This is the only way to see how things will go and if we can lay out a good model out of the numbers.

Initially, I thought of plotting the % of Revenue spent for the incentive against the Average annual outage (which is the total days out of the office over 12 – total number of months in a year).

And here’s the graph:

The graph is boring except for the visible aspect that the points are in discreet values. If we connect the dots horizontally we can see that for every % revenue the agent can get any combination of leaves. I am not seeing any insight on this graph so, I replotted the numbers using the average monthly leave frequency. Average monthly leave frequency is the average number of days a certain agent being on leave in a month.

And I got this graph:

Now, this one looks better. I can clearly see the limits of each line (when the dots are connected horizontally).

One example insight I can get here, at 0.00% of Revenue level, an agent is forced only play around the average monthly leave frequency of 1.00-2.50 (this is also the reason why I set the average monthly outage of my team to 2.5).

I am sure this graph can tell me more. But I don’t have the time yet to play around with it, especially now that the company business planning is near.

Also, I must consider the following notes:

1. Things will get complicated if the incentive rate is not constant and it is dependent on performance (as well as revenue dependent on performance).

2. The graph seems discreet (horizontally) because we use discreet values.

3. The graph is definitely discreet vertically. This will change if we used continuous values for all variables.

I guess, blogging it is good for now. At least, I captured my thoughts on this matter and revisit this problem someday.

For those, who has a solution to this problem please PM me. I am dying to know more about this kind of problem.

Also, don’t ask me about the equation. Just like what I told Pow, I have the graph, but I don’t have the equation.

She's Here

Gen is here in PH! Happy!

And she gave me this:


I promise Gen, I will set aside all my readings now and prioritize this. I am excited to read this. :D

On Paradigm

Inside the cab, work-bound from Bo’s Café Katipunan, the driver was blabbering about the widening of Tandang Sora Avenue and it’s incapacity to hold dense volume of traffic in and out of Katipunan especially during the rush hours. I was aware he was saying a lot of things but I did not pay attention to him. My neurons were busy processing, reconnecting, relating, associating or whatever mode of abstract digestion of my jagged thoughts on political science, mathematics (category theory) and physics.

It’s all because of James Case’s Competition. I read the section of his book tackling the concept of “paradigm,” as to how it developed and how it is being utilized right now in all aspects of scientific fields. At first I was not really thinking about the connection of social sciences to the use of “paradigms” in physics or math. My mind was instead busy digging the unknown corners of my memory space.



For several times, as far as I could remember, I already pointed to some of friends that in every system there is always an anomaly that will give rise to another system. I did not know that I was referring to Kuhnian philosophy of scientific revolution. An anomaly in an existing paradigm will give birth to another paradigm. Thanks to James Case for reminding me of Thomas Kuhn’s work, the Structure of Scientific Revolution. I read his work several years ago. It’s just fair for me not to remember anything because I did not internalize it when I was reading it. Maybe I just read it out of curiosity, devoid of valid ground of reading.

Because of the structure and nature of “paradigm,” I couldn’t avoid associating it to any field of social sciences. While the cab driver continued whining about the traffic system of our country, knols of social sciences and mathematics were colliding and exploding inside my mind. And my brain is telling me the following:

1. Maybe we can utilize the concept of paradigm in social sciences to give it a mathematical structure, like for example building the structure/s of different economic paradigms, or of political (governance) paradigms.

2. We are not sure which will come first, the mathematical structure or the paradigm?

3. Maybe the creation of a more fundamental paradigm of different paradigms of social sciences will provide as an easy path to connect different paradigms within the social science structure.

4. Will Category theory help us to give a more mathematical description of social sciences? I think it will. It exists to provide us a more sensible and consistent description of things in terms of model and structure.

5. There are other things we can include also, like evolutionary physics might present to us some ideas on how a paradigm shift happens and why it happens. Or maybe it can shed light to why there is history. It is weird but I cannot avoid linking the unfolding of history to the concept of sum-all over history of quantum mechanics.

6. Kuhnian’s structure of scientific revolution is universal. Is it?

7. I’m nuts. I am thinking a lot of things but I don’t have a rigid training on the foundations of physics, mathematics and social sciences.

8. Am I interpreting Thomas Kuhn's work correctly?

9. I am really nuts. I'm crazy.

Anyway, I will include in my laundry list Thomas Kuhn’s work.

Wish List

I know I currently dwell in my comfort zone. And this is something that terribly bothers me. I guess everyone knows what happens when we are in our comfort zone. It means stagnation, no growth, boredom, a point where life ceases to exist.

For four years now, I feel I betrayed myself, forcing it to settle in a zone I know I won’t be happy. It has good effects and reasons though. I am not having much problem of what to eat next day or how I am going to survive. But does this comfort mean something to me?

Somehow it means something but it is not enough to answer the doubts of my existence, it is not enough to quench my thirst for fulfillment.

I am somewhat happy but what I am now is not enough to satisfy my reason of existence. I am human after-all, did a lot of bad decisions and diverted my track from the straight word-line laid out eversince I was gradeschool.

I know I learned a lot in this comfort zone. And I am blessed enough when we talk about blessings. But deep within me I long for something that I abandoned long time ago. Also I know I have been writing about this over and over again. This is not for your benefits, as my selfish self would argue. This is entirely for my own sake. I need to remind myself that I still have hope. Things can still be corrected or if not corrected can be brought into new dimension.

What can I do? Well, maybe by starting with this wish list I can spark something new in my life, a little light that will forever illuminate my future.

Future Workplace:

Let’s start with UPD-NIP (of course):

NIP Building Model

NIP Research Wing

I guess I need to re-enter the academia before I can continue with the rest of my wish list. All of us need to start somewhere and for me this should be the right start for me.
Next in the list are the following:

Perimeter Institute, Canada

People in this institute are busy weaving the mathematical fabric of the universe.

I like the architecture, so algebraic. Is it commanded by group theory?


Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics

The myriad possibilities of physical equations are happening here.

Main Building

ICTP Campus Map

European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)

The birthplace of the web (worldwideweb).

CERN

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

On high energy!

Fermilab

Or I could also work in these institutions.

At least, someday, I can visit these institutions, if I can't really work in any of these.

Asian Development Bank – PH

I am not sure if math and physics are heavily utilized here. Everytime I see this building I am very compelled to work here.

Asian Development Bank, Mandaluyong City, Philippines

In my list, I also include some centers or institutes for Complex Systems or Homeokinetics, NASA, as well as United Nations.
I am dreaming. :D

Aside from that I have also my list of things to do, things I wish to do.

Mathematics: Category Theory

Isomorphism

Physics: Complex System (Homeokinetics)

Physics: Quantum Physics, Field Theory and Particle Physics

Others: I want also to be a space explorer or interplanetary ambassador, I am very sure we will need a job like this in the future.

Space Ambassadors

I am really dreaming. Wake up, Kent!

Love them!

Discovered two things in the internet and I love them!

First - it's a graph


Check here to discover what it is.

And this one - is a 3D browser.





To know more about this browser check here.