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by _corbett 16y ago
1) once a day, for five minutes 2) http://news.ycombinator.com/news opening articles/topics in tabs, things which I find interesting I look at the comments and possibly comment myself.
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no! it's a lot of fun.
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I think he qualifies as a startup more than many "startups" taking rounds of funding never achieving revenue
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by _corbett 16y ago
nice work! I love seeing businesses which don't rely on big capital.
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Jobs at his best.
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I've used Mendeley (and use papers.app when I'm on a mac) and it has helped me more with organizing papers than in filtering them. What you see as an academic in the morning is a 100 papers staring you in the face and you fall back on patte
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by _corbett 16y ago
if you could convince labs themselves to pay for it, it'd be a money maker, although this may require more direct marketing at first. many academic institutions hold subscriptions/licenses in the $10k range.
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by _corbett 16y ago
I've faced the same problem with info overload, even with the new astrophysics subfields introduced by arXiv. I am an active user of papers.app and have used Mendeley in the past; it helps with organizing but filtering is still a challenge.
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by _corbett 16y ago
write in cursive.
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Thanks for the feedback, yea I will probably be blogging more often in the fall, esp. wrt language learning as I'll be starting to learn French in September. I'm usually based in Switzerland which helps with the immersion issue, it's practi
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by _corbett 16y ago
TLDR: attack learning a language from as many angles and media as possible, multitask language learning with other goals (walking/exercise, travel, movies to see etc). -- I've studied over 10 languages, and have known 5 fluently at one poin
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Galicia Launches MS in Supercomputing(hpcwire.com)
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I also once took the course on which this book is based at MIT. A programmer by trade at the time, I found out a bit more about my learning style. Namely, I was able to relatively easily complete the assignments without developing a very de
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by _corbett 16y ago
Hi there. I'm working on something similar. We're not starting out with questions, simply with friends-of-friends whom you haven't yet met, but there are a lot of interesting next steps we are contemplating, that being one of them. Consider
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by _corbett 16y ago
Stayed up all night chatting politics with a friend in SF to preempt jetlag from flying to Poland, proceeded to fly to Poland, slept on plane 1/2, fixed niggly bug on plane 2/2, touched down in Warsaw, went to the Chopin museum, had some ve
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by _corbett 16y ago
I recently started using freckle (letsfreckle.com). The timer is great, as is the freeform project creation and logging.
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the answer, from a supercomputer user/programmer/scientist's perspective (for now) is a hybrid of the two. some portions of a parallel program are very easily ported to the GPU, and net a huge speedup right away, others require a complete r
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by _corbett 16y ago
I use pomodoro.app on my Mac, the timer function on my iPhone, and may download a dedicated iPhone app at somepoint. I personally don't currently use the history feature of pomodoro (what previous tasks were, how many were completed, etc.).
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by _corbett 16y ago
I usually love Sundays for working, because they are so uninterrupted that I can really knock things out. today I was traveling so... not so much. Woke up at 7:30 to go into office, respond to some emails, printed out boarding pass, grabbed