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I learned about the different kinds of grains long ago, when I was in primary school. Since then I have somehow managed to confuse myself about which grain is which. Here's to unconfusion! (All information and pictures are from Wikipedia; follow the links for details.)
| name | picture | comments |
|---|---|---|
| wheat /
Weizen (Triticum aestivum, Triticum durum, etc.) | ![[wheat]](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Illustration_Triticum_aestivum0.jpg)
| Used for bread, flour, couscous, beer, biofuel, … Needs good soil and climate, several species of wheat are used, main source of vegetable protein in human food. |
| barley /
Gerste (Hordeum vulgare) | ![[barley]](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Illustration_Hordeum_vulgare0B.jpg)
| Used for beer, whisky, animal feeding, … One of the first cultivated crops (together with einkorn and emmer). |
| oat /
Hafer (Avena sativa) | ![[oat]](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Illustration_Avena_sativa0.jpg)
| Used for animal feeding (e.g. horses), oat
flakes, porridge, … Can be grown in regions with relatively cold, wet summers. |
| rye /
Roggen (Secale cereale) | ![[rye]](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Illustration_Secale_cereale0.jpg)
| Used for bread, animal feeding, … Can grow on relatively poor soil and in colder climates. |
In the last days I have finished my first ever browser-based game: a puzzle, based on the classical fifteen puzzle. Cou can play the game here and download the source code from the program's homepage.
![[webpuzzle screenshot]](http://m.seehuhn.de/images/webpuzzle-0633.png)
![[Jochen on the Cam]](http://m.seehuhn.de/images/Spring2010019-0800.JPG)
Today, Martin and I finally finished our paper "Approximations to the Stochastic Burgers Equation". A preprint can be downloaded below, comments are very welcome.
It is of course
well known
that
water fluoridation
is a Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious
bodily fluids
. Still, I am surprised to learn that one of the
political parties running in the UK's upcoming
general elections
uses their opposition to water fluoridation as a campaign topic.
Can you guess which party this is? (for the answer click here)
Only one day after we submitted the revised version of our paper
Sampling Conditioned Hypoelliptic Diffusions
(see my previous blog
post), the article was accepted! It will appear in the
Annals of Applied Probability.
In order to address the referee's comments, we have prepared an updated version the following article:
I put up the slides from my talk at the Maths2010 conference in Edinburgh. Since I had only 15 minutes, the talk is nearly free of contents, but in compensation there are many nice pictures. I'm particularly fond of the torus on page 8 (which was surprisingly difficult to generate).
![[3D torus]](http://m.seehuhn.de/images/torus-0640.png)
This is a (some weeks old) photo of all twelve of me on Ilkley Moor.
![[apostels]](http://m.seehuhn.de/images/apostels-1024.png)
![[scrabble]](http://m.seehuhn.de/images/scrabble1-0600.png)
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