PONGOUT

SWEET JESUS THIS IS AMAZING
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The Definitive Guide to Taking the SATs and ACTs for the Nervous Testtaker

My tutor told me the day before my SATs that I wouldn't break 2000. Well, I did. I don't know how, because I hated preparing for the test and I usually just fucked around instead of preparing.
I ended up scoring pretty high.
Anyway, for anyone who's interested in what I do before each test, maybe this guide will help you.

MOST IMPORTANT- REDUCE STRESS!
Kvetching about your standardized tests will get you nowhere, but sometimes people can't just eliminate their stress. However, here are a few things I do to relieve stress a bit:
1. Take your mind off the test.
-The less you think about the test, the less stressed you get. Try going out for dinner the night before instead of taking one last practice test.
-The morning of the test, think about how great it'll be after the test is over.
-Sleep less. This works especially well for the SATIIs because they're shorter and for the ACTs which require less reasoning. If you think about being tired, you don't think about testing
2. Do something stress relieve-y.
-Bike to the test center
-Squeeze those stress reliever ball things
-(or the other balls... You know what I'm talking about...)
-Listen to music you'd normally listen to to get to sleep!
-Take a good shit. Really, it's great before a test.

RITUALS/PLACEBOS
Hey, if you think it's working for you, it'll work for you.
1. Lucky writing utensil!
2. Talisman of sort?
3. Anything you do for luck really.

ATTIRE/HYGEINE
Don't dress to impress. It's a test for chrissakes.
1. Take the test in PJs. It's fantastic.
2. Shower or brush your teeth right before the test. If you don't feel clean you won't focus on the test.
3. Guys- wear boxer briefs. Maximum Support!
Girls- your most comfortable undies. Comfort starts from underneath!

PHYSICAL PREPARATION
1. Eat enough so you aren't hungry for breakfast, but don't eat so much that you feel full. Feeling hungry or full only takes your mind off the test.
2. Don't sleep too much or too little. Either way, you'll be tired. Don't go to bed at the crack of dawn, but don't go to bed as if you were in preeschool.

MENTAL PREPARATION
1. Don't cram. You'll forget all of that stuff at the time of the test anyway.
2. It's only as fun/boring/stupid as you make it. Go into the test center and act like you're just hanging out with your friends. Convince yourself the test is fun and maybe it'll be fun.

oh yeah, and maybe sign up for a tutor or something. that shit don't help anyway.

But seriously, just try to make yourself as happy, relaxed, and comfortable as possible and your 650+s and 30+s will come.

HEY

IF YOU READ THIS YOU'RE GAY

Fucking Consumer...

Electro's the music rage with all of the Frenchies and their Justice and DatA and Danger and SebastiAn and Kavinsky and Arpanet and Daft Punk's new album looming in the distance and so on and so forth...
But today, I'm listening to something new... or rather, ten years old.
I'm digging back to the roots of this Synthpop Electroclash French Electro House Condominium business with I-F's Space Invaders are Smoking Grass, the originator of the Electroclash movement.
Enjoy!
I-F - Space Invaders are Smoking Grass

So Alice and Bob...

I was going over some random notes I had from one of my physics classes and found an article about quantum teleportation. I decided to wikipedia it to get a little more information. I've never heard of such complex theories stated using situations.
This is quoted directly.

"Suppose Alice has a qubit that she wants to teleport to Bob. This qubit can be written generally as:

Our quantum teleportation scheme requires Alice and Bob to share a maximally entangled state beforehand, for instance one of the four Bell states

,

,

,

.

Alice takes one of the particles in the pair, and Bob keeps the other one. The subscripts A and B in the entangled state refer to Alice's or Bob's particle. We will assume that Alice and Bob share the entangled state .

So, Alice has two particles (C, the one she wants to teleport, and A, one of the entangled pair), and Bob has one particle, B. In the total system, the state of these three particles is given by

Alice will then make a partial measurement in the Bell basis on the two qubits in her possession. To make the result of her measurement clear, we will rewrite the two qubits of Alice in the Bell basis via the following general identities (these can be easily verified):

and

The three particle state shown above thus becomes the following four-term superposition:

Notice all we have done so far is a change of basis on Alice's part of the system. No operation has been performed and the three particles are still in the same state. The actual teleportation starts when Alice measures her two qubits in the Bell basis. Given the above expression, evidently the results of her (local) measurement is that the three-particle state would collapse to one of the following four states (with equal probability of obtaining each):

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• 
• 
• 

Alice's two particles are now entangled to each other, in one of the four Bell states. The entanglement originally shared between Alice's and Bob's is now broken. Bob's particle takes on one of the four superposition states shown above. Note how Bob's qubit is now in a state that resembles the state to be teleported. The four possible states for Bob's qubit are unitary images of the state to be teleported.

The crucial step, the local measurement done by Alice on the Bell basis, is done. It is clear how to proceed further. Alice now has complete knowledge of the state of the three particles; the result of her Bell measurement tells her which of the four states the system is in. She simply has to send her results to Bob through a classical channel. Two classical bits can communicate which of the four results she obtained.

After Bob receives the message from Alice, he will know which of the four states his particle is in. Using this information, he performs a unitary operation on his particle to transform it to the desired state :

• If Alice indicates her result is , Bob knows his qubit is already in the desired state and does nothing. This amounts to the trivial unitary operation, the identity operator.

• If the message indicates , Bob would send his qubit through the unitary gate given by the Pauli matrix

to recover the state.

• If Alice's message corresponds to , Bob applies the gate

to his qubit.

• Finally, for the remaining case, the appropriate gate is given by

Teleportation is therefore achieved.

Experimentally, the projective measurement done by Alice may be achieved via a series of laser pulses directed at the two particles."

Hey, thanks wikpedia. I'm glad to know that two random computer engineers know so much about quantum computing that if necessary Alice and Bob could stay in touch via quantum teleportation.

Someone may think "oh, but Ryan, it's so much easier to understand quantum computing this way!" Yeah, well. I always thought situations were more for, say, "Alice has five apples. She gives three to Bob. How many apples does Alice have now?"

I GOT A 35

I got a 35 on my ACTs!
Math- 34
English- 36 (Essay -12)
Reading- 33
Science- 35
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HELLO DOLLY

I don't know how to un-RSS feed my blog to my facebook, but as is tradition I will be posting my SAT scores on my blog.
If you don't like it, fuck you, no one said you had to see them.
Biology-M 780
Mathematics Level 1 770