User:Quietly
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my name is cody reisdorf, and i am a recent graduate of keene state college, in keene nh, with a bs degree in math-physics; i am originally from derry. my interests are mainly in theoretical physics, the theoretical side of computer science and computer generated visual effects. my current hope is to do graduate work in quantum computing. i am a scientific humanist, a cornucopian, and a strict physicalist, which i think implies that i subscribe to metaphysical naturalism. i am also an atheist, and more importantly an antitheist, which has some connection to my stance as a moral relativist, though people who know me would not consider me immoral, as some might suspect would be implied by these terms.
my screen name (when you delete the dash) is osculate-thought
the most interesting people ive found: Richard Feynman, Karl Popper, Bill Hicks, Bertrand Russell, Ann Druyan, Doug Stanhope
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[edit] interesting people
people i respect or just find interesting (i believe these people to be worth listening to. many of them are polymaths, and as such defy categorization)
[edit] physicists
Leó Szilárd, James Clerk Maxwell, Max Planck, Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Paul Dirac, Klaus Fuchs, Robert Oppenheimer, John Archibald Wheeler, Gerard 't Hooft, Andrei Sakharov, John Preskill, Lawrence Krauss, Steven Weinberg, David Deutsch
[edit] mathematicians
Bernhard Riemann, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Leonhard Euler, Emmy Noether, John Napier, Gottfried Leibniz, Jon von Neumann (polymath-computer science/mathematics/physics), René Descartes, Kurt Gödel (logician),
[edit] philosophers
Arthur Schopenhauer, Giordano Bruno, Baruch Spinoza, Ludwig Wittgenstein, J.L. Mackie, Peter Singer, Daniel Dennett, Paul Kurtz, Denis Diderot (the enlightenment)
[edit] writers
Isaac Asimov, Carl Sagan, Hunter S Thompson, Chris Hedges, Michael Shermer
[edit] biologists
Richard Dawkins, Kenneth Miller, David Attenborough, E. O. Wilson, Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley, Stephen Jay Gould
[edit] computer scientists
Bernard Chazelle, Alan Turing, Alonzo Church, Scott Aaronson, Claude Shannon (information theory), Peter Shor, Gregory Chaitin, John Koza, Bram Cohen
[edit] computer science, graphics oriented
Mark Stock, Ken Perlin (external), Paul Debevec(external). Paul Bourke, Ron Fedkiw (external), Jeff Han (external)
[edit] film makers
David Fincher, Brian Flemming, Jamie Babbit,
[edit] artists
Banksy, Gilles Tran, Frank Gehry,
[edit] comedians
Bill Hicks, Doug Stanhope, Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Louis C.K., Sean Rouse, Andy Andrist, Patton Oswalt, Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Stephen Colbert
[edit] hard to catagorize
Martin Luther King Jr (civil rights activist), Harold Edgerton (electrical engineering), Wernher von Braun (rocket scientist), Stanley Milgram (psychologist), Robert G. Ingersoll (orator), George William Foote (secularist/journalist), Janis Ian (musician), Helen Fisher (anthropologist), Timothy Leary, Noam Chomsky (linguist), Eugene Merle Shoemaker (planetary science/astrogeology), Richard Stallman (software advocate/programmer), Andrew Davidhazy (photography/science), Deborah Meier (education reform), Bill Nye (the science guy), Zell Kravinsky (philanthropist), Joycelyn Elders (professor of pediatrics/former surgeon general), Mike Gravel (politician, doomed, yet tenacious, presidential candidate), Marjoe Gortner (former evangelical minister), this list doesnt really end.
[edit] people/organizations/ideas i find seriously harmful to the human race
Ted Haggard, Kent Hovind, Bill O'Reilly, Catholicism, Neoconservatism, Dick Cheney (see taxi to the dark side), John Yoo (see this article), the discovery institute, the pseudoscientific 'theory' of intelligent design, Ann Coulter (i think she is nearly a self-defined bigot), Ben Stein (see Expelled:No Intelligence Allowed, dont actually bother seeing it, just read about it), Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Billy Graham, televangelism in general, Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins and their left behind series of books.
[edit] other ideas (which i tend to agree with or find interesting)
[edit] -ists and -isms
Physicalism, Inclusionists, Rationalism, Critical Rationalism, Secular Humanism (as well as scientific humanism), Progressivism, Activism, Skepticism, Brights, Freethought, Libertarian socialism, Cornucopian, Absurdism, Antimilitarism, International Humanist and Ethical Union, Empiricism, Consilience. ...okay, so they aren't all -ists and -isms.
[edit] interests
girls, Human behavior, sex, optics, CFD, QM, GR, FEA, math, RFID, HDRI, CCDs, physics, C.O.F.F.E.E., schlieren, telescopes, Arc welding, visual effects, interferometry, motion capture, zitterbewegung, computer vision, camera tracking, speed modeling, photogrammetry, differential geometry, ultra high speed imaging, genetic programming, information theory, number theory, set theory, Noether's theorem, Group theory, field (physics), quantum field theory, g-factor, symmetry in physics, girls.
[edit] resources for quantum computing
centre for quantum computation, a course at MIT, another course at MIT, notes at Caltech, qwiki, quantiki, loads of links, who what and where, courses, more who what where, John Preskill's page, institute for quantum computing.
[edit] particularly insightful and/or agreeable articles
am i an athiest or agnostic? by Bertrand Russell
Ann Druyan Talks About Science, Religion, Wonder, Awe . . . and Carl Sagan by Ann Druyan
what is science? by Richard Feynman
in praise of idleness by Bertrand Russell
theres plenty of room at the bottom by Richard Feynman
the reagan doctrine by Isaac Asimov
the metaphysician's nightmare by Bertrand Russell
vagueness by Bertrand Russell
theoy of knowledge by Bertrand Russell
the internet debacle by Janis Ian
what should a billionaire give - and what should you? by Peter Singer
a designer universe? by Steven Weinberg
the hydrogen hoax by Robert Zubrin
the easiest hard problem by Brian Hayes
inside the autistic mind by Claudia Wallis
memory by Joshua Foer
useful resources:
online LaTeX to pdf
physics news updates
quantum physics (at arxiv)
