vsingh

This is neat stuff. Coincidentally, I just submitted my undergraduate thesis today, on the topic of carbon nanotube transistors. Our devices use multi-walled nanotubes, which are ~50nm in diameter. These things look to be an order of magnitude smaller than that.

On a more personal note, let me add: writing your thesis.

Somewhat tangential, but: I'd love to have a script that automatically downloads the FLV file for every YouTube video I've bookmarked in del.icio.us. My collection of videos is slowly leaking away due to takedown requests.

Heh. Fair. I guess I did overreact a bit to your comment. :)

Notwithstanding your objection to my use of poetic license, let me refocus: I argue your revulsion of TED's smugness is similar to other people's revulsion of our culture here. I once said:

"It surprises me that people can indict others with the adjective 'holier-than-thou' and not feel ashamed of themselves. The word screams, 'I'm going to bring you down to my level!'"

Smug, holier-than-thou, arrogant, self-righteous: one can easily inflict these words on pg for unashamedly littering his essays with references to Leonardo da Vinci and Jane Austen and Copernicus and Kelly Johnson. At times I've felt put off by the way he does this, but I'm rational enough to know this emotion - the emotion that coerces us to prevent our fellow apes from rising above their proper place - is wrong, at least in this case.

So what if TED is smug? They deserve to be - many of their videos are really, truly interesting. As an example, I recently enjoyed the one on African Aid: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/159. I'll warn you in advance that he's a very captivating speaker - it's hard to stop watching after you've begun.

So what if they're smug? We're smug - wasn't it only a little while ago that reddit was excoriating us for being a bunch of smug, elitist bastards? And we replied, "Yeah! That's the point!"

Does he really claim to have a complete unified theory of physics, or is that just media hype?

It surprises me that people can indict others with the adjective "holier-than-thou" and not feel ashamed of themselves. The word screams, "I'm going to bring you down to my level!"

Alright, I asked for help in #io, and it looks like there was some known problem with SIMD due to a recent patch.

In order to fix it for now, go to libs/basekit/source/UArray_math.c, and comment out the line:

    #define IO_USE_SIMD 1

That should do the trick.

Yes, I get those errors too.

The first error that shows up after executing 'make' is:

    In file included from source/simd_cph/include/simd_cp_x86.h:47,
                     from source/simd_cph/include/simd_cp.h:115,
                     from source/UArray_math.c:13:
    /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/include/xmmintrin.h:34:3: error: #error "SSE instruction set not enabled"

I'll ask in #io - perhaps they'll know what to do.

Does anyone know how to compile this on Ubuntu?

I Googled and found two guides, but neither of them worked. I'll post the particular compiler error I got when I get home.

I uploaded it to scribd for the lazy among us:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/941859/Brain-drugs-boost-try-for-m...