G Rob Burgess

The Ubernihilist

Research Interest

non-linear wave phenomena and instabilities in low-density plasmas
space plasmas or lab plasmas - basically I like looking at neon signs (lit survey and some calculations on Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities to follow)

New stuffs!

First track off of Lamprey Six's latest album "spidergoat" from Short Attention Span records!:

on soundcloud

mp3 - free to download and keep!

Art

Generate random art with a hash function!

javascript version with rob's secret hash function
(so secret, I forgot how it works!)

Physics

2D Ising model
(I don't know why I love grids of symbols like the above)
the FORTRAN code for the model, wrapped in html
Mathematical Methods for Physics by James Nearing
(pdf ~3Mb download)
My advisor, mentor and friend James Nearing wrote an excellent book of maths for physics students. He wanted it to always be available for free on the Internet, however the U Miami physics dept server is no more so here it is for you to enjoy. It is quite good. You can also buy a copy from Dover publishing from Amazon

Math(s)

Statistics

The beautiful student's t test probability algorithm
The above as a PDF
Perl Student's t test 'source' - I had a java and perl version of the above algorithm implemented in an online Student's T Test program, but this current web server, and I suppose modern web browsers, support neither, so here is the code for avid programmers who may want to translate it to something else. maybe I'll redo it as javascript or node.js (or Haskell) some day
funny R talk slideshow a funny-ish slideshow for a talk I gave on the stats language R for the biology department

Computer Stuff

Insects

Languages:

Music: On soundcloud (doesn't work for some people)

as mp3s if the above doesn't work

Fun: