Edit: Never mind; I am indeed doing the man an injustice, as shown by his comments here. I’ll leave the post up anyway, because I am still making a point I believe true, even if I’m arguing with a straw man.
Entries from October 2008
October 26, 2008
Victory is mine!
Ah yes! It was indeed the Dalitz model. The one I was fitting to, and keeping constant, is fairly realistic, being based on a study done last year. The one used to generate the signal Monte Carlo I was looking at is much more simplistic, and in particular doesn’t include any wrong-sign K*. Which is [...]
October 24, 2008
Numbers!
Ah! I found the source of the not-a-number problem. Great success! It turns out that you cannot permit parameters to range too widely. In particular, one part of my function is an exponential, convolved with a Gaussian resolution. To normalise this, you calculate an integral over the range of the time variable, which in my [...]
October 22, 2008
Progress
Well, I am making a little bit of progress. It turns out that, because of some subtleties in the configuration files, I was compiling one library and linking against another. Not good. I’ve got three different packages that I make modifications to, plus my own program that links them. Then, some of the packages use [...]
October 19, 2008
Debug: Successful. Next step: Uncertain.
I am seeing Very Strange Things.
The heart of my thesis is a log-likelihood fit, which I won’t explain here, because the problem is in computer science rather than mathematics. For this fit I rely on a library called RooFit, which has a class of objects called RooRealVar. I declare a large number of these [...]
October 18, 2008
Great Game XXXII: Siege of Warsaw
The war continues, and my war-luck returns with the freeing of the slaves. Arise, ye prisoners of starvation!
October 17, 2008
There Will Be War: The Black Letter
An ultimatum! This war eventually became known as “The War of the Tapestry” for the complex diplomacy that preceded it; here is only the public end result. The first big diplomatic crisis of the game. The cause of the crisis is that the two eastern kingdoms, Russia and Georgia, had consolidated their power and begun [...]
October 15, 2008
Great Game XXXI: Character Count II
CK’s breeding system means that the populations of some noble families tend to explode, while others are diven to extinction. This demographic effect will be important to my later development, so I like to keep track of it even though it’s not very story-related.
October 13, 2008
An idea for piracy protection
I wonder if this would be feasible? Offer your media – mp3s, computer games, whatever – for download for a reasonable price, with no intrusive DRM. Now, you know there are going to be pirate editions, although since many people are honest, if you make it easy for them to buy your product honestly, there [...]
October 13, 2008
Great Game XXX: Fifth Polish War
I’m transferring all these posts at once, with the intent of dribbling them out one-a-day later. I’m beginning to remember why I had my Ynglings be so harsh whenever they got the chance to overrun parts of Poland. Stubborn sorts! Not given to reasonable compromises like doing it my way and giving me the land [...]
