User:Ceo14
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About Me:
I am from West Des Moines, Iowa. I am studying (mechanical) engineering at Duke.
How to Pronounce My Name
It sounds like it looks, no surprises. Crystal Owens (with the International Phonetic Alphabet) is 'Krɪstʌl 'Oʊ~oɪ̈ns. Phonetically, it's "Crystal" (like the rock) "Oh"-"wins" with the stress on the first syllable of each word.
Best MATLAB Demo
"Bending Truss" is my favorite demo because it is both entertaining and useful. Most of the other demos are instructional or pretty pictures. "Bending Truss" shows a simple model of something real and then draws how it is calculated to move. Of everything shown in the demonstrations, it is the one I would most like to be able to program myself.
Grand Challenges External Link
- Relevant to Reverse-Engineering the Brain
- Reverse-Engineering of Human Brain Likely by 2030, Expert Predicts, Priya Ganapati, Wired Science, created 16 August 2010, accessed 17 September 2011 (Reverse-Engineering the Brain)
For fun
A 120 wire cable has been laid firmly underground between two telephone exchanges located 10km apart. Unfortunately, after the cable was laid it was discovered to be the wrong type: the individual wires are not labeled. There is no visual way of knowing which wire is which and thus connections at either end are not immediately possible.
You are a trainee technician and your boss has asked you to identify and label the wires at both ends without ripping it all up. You have no transport and only a battery and light bulb to test continuity, and tape and a pen for labeling the wires.
What is the shortest distance in kilometers you will need to walk to correctly identify and label each wire? (source: http://brainden.com/)
