> This observation, which has a significance of 5.9 standard deviations, corresponding to a background fluctuation probability of 1.7x10^-9, is compatible with the production and decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson.
Technically it could be another particle with a 126GeV mass, though that's hopefully something more experiments will show one way or the other.
I do wonder if the higgs is a funny creature in that it has a sort of quantum echo. By that I mean that it is in more than one place at once, this would also help explain why gravity is as weak as it is. If that is the case then you could think of the higgs as being like a bouncy ball with the decay of the various bounces all actualy happening at once (may explain those fluctuations). Though if you were to observe a bouncy ball and sample its movement slow enough then they would appear to be as one event. Just my theory of things and I hope more is proven given the higgs will help to one day make the theory of gravity a fully understood fact. My physics was formaly high-school level and the rest is from a passing interest of all things science so if I appear to be so wrong then maybe somebody could point out the details so that I may not make the same mistakes again.
The Higgs boson is not thought to be related to gravity, beyond giving mass to some particles. The Higgs particle is the "chunky" form of the Higgs field, just like a photon of light is a little chunk of electric field that has broken off and gone into business for itself.
If you have more questions about physics, ask /r/physics on Reddit. They people there are very nice and include several serious physicists.
That's the hope. New result from the Tevatron just showed that this thing appears to decay to matter, too (not just gauge bosons) http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0512051. It is looking very Standard Model like. An outside hope is that it doesn't couple to leptons. The CMS Higgs to tau tau result hinted as much, but it is very preliminary, unconfirmed by ATLAS. Measuring Branching Ratios (the rates that the new particle decays to different final states) will be a test of how Standard Model-like this new particle is. Here is CMS' paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1207.7235
He called it the "Yoyo" technique[1]. It doesn't work very well anymore, because Google's results are all quirky these days (you don't actually get what you literally search for, but what Google guesses what you intend to find).
[1] http://www.searchlores.org/yoyo1.htm (try to read past the preachy anti-commercialism, he could get kind of hot about that--whether you agree or not, there's troves of knowledge to be gained from that site)
fastmail's non-free service, maybe? I got it a very long time ago, mainly for the .in email address. It's been no-frills, fast, and (mostly) reliable. I'm still not sure I'd recommend it to a gmail user, but its been a good email account to have.
Careful - don't rely on fastmail for XMPP. I switched to them based on them having that, since I used it a lot with Gmail. Then I found out that fastmail is running some super wobbly XMPP server which kicks you off any time you really get going really quickly in a conversation.
I've opened multiple tickets, and all they can say is "sorry" and "we know about it" and "we're working on it", but actual fixes still haven't come. Having a solid chat experience obviously is not high on their priority list.
Late reply, sorry. I never even knew they had the option of an XMPP server. For what it's worth, I find the mail experience to be both reasonable, and pretty much fat-free, which I guess is all I really need.
I moved my domain and imported all emails from Fastmail to Google Apps because of:
1) Deficient search, the more email you keep, the more you rely on search to find something from few days to few years ago. Incredibly painful with Fastmail.
2) Lack of calendar. It's just so more convenient to have your calendar integrated with email.
3) Lack of Exchange ActiveSync support (as in protocol). This protocol allows to sync email, calendar and contacts from the same account. All these things I want to be synced to my phone. Keeping contacts and calendar in Gmail (because it has ActiveSync support) and email in Fastmail was becoming more and more frustrating.
For what it's worth - and not to distract from your real point - Exponential (or the more general Lyapunov) stability are a better explanation of instability. Stiffness is more a property of the method used to solve the ODE, rather than of the ODE itself.
Stiffness is a property of certain dynamical systems, which certain ODE solvers are better suited for. That said, "stability" is an ugly word in numerical methods, particularly for differential equations, as it could mean a number of things. I think this is the source of the confusion here.
If I remember correctly, I (reluctantly) had to switch to t-bird back in the day because it didn't do STARTTLS+IMAP. It was perfect, otherwise. I'm yet to see a faster way to search through mail.
Wow, there are a lot more EDA programmers on HN than I'd expected, some of whom I even recognise by name.
On topic, it's probably easier to embed Lua than Tcl, though you may miss some of the libraries. The language is cleaner (in some sense). For an EDA application, the only real problem is what your customer is supposed to do with 20+ years of scripts that they've written that are specific to their flow :)
