alatkins

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   by alatkins 16y ago

   I've been watching Lanyrd for a while now, and I think it has great potential. Anything that can bring some sort of order to the world of conferences would be a great thing - just ask any academic that needs to be on dozens of mailing lists
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   by alatkins 16y ago

   I really just wish that meme would die a graceful death. It was amusing at first, but hundreds of examples later, not so much.
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   by alatkins 16y ago

   Hey I just noticed this comment - thanks, I'm going to check out the authors you mentioned.
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   by alatkins 16y ago

   Could you recommend some of these other writers? Because I quite liked The Alchemist, though I'm dubious of some of Paulo Coelho's philosophical ideas at times.
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   by alatkins 16y ago

   The idea of using web browsers are some sort of compute nodes in a distributed system has been kicking around for ages (I should know, I implemented one for my honours thesis almost eight years ago!). The trouble with it is the limited type
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   by alatkins 16y ago

   Computer Modern & coffee stains. What a beautiful combo :-)
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   by alatkins 16y ago

   This is a pet peeve of mine. So often it seem to be one of the very first questions asked, it basically seems to be de rigueur these days (and I can understand why potential employers do it, from a negotiation standpoint). It's not that I t
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   by alatkins 16y ago

   Seconded, this is an excellent summary. I've tried many on this list (mainly use LyX), but a few I hadn't come across.
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   by alatkins 16y ago

   Just to add, the authors themselves note that "this is an observational study and cannot establish cause and effect."
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    by alatkins 16y ago

    Meh. You don't need too many fancy tools. The ones that got me through my PhD were: - LyX ( http://www.lyx.org ) for my thesis/conference papers etc. It's the greatest tool available for preparing any document longer than six pages and that
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    by alatkins 16y ago

    Yep - without wanting to sound all peace & love it doesn't hurt you to completely unplug every so often. Whenever I've taken a decent holiday where there's no net access (yes these places still do exist) it's done me the world of good.
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    by alatkins 16y ago

    A while back I read The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton, and enjoyed it immensly. de Botton has a real philosophical bent, and profiled a number of different occupations, and makes a lot of really insightful observations
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    by alatkins 16y ago

    Available on Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2274
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    by alatkins 16y ago

    He'd be referring to conference organising committees (open a conference procedings and look in the frontmatter). They're often used as a measure of peer esteem for academic performance evaluations (far less significant that publications, o
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    by alatkins 16y ago

    I'd go even further and say get a PhD only if you want to be a professor. If you just want to work on interesting projects in industry, a Masters degree might be a better RoI. Also consider the increased difficulty of re-entering the commer
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    by alatkins 16y ago

    I would highly recommend taking the time to learn LyX [ http://www.lyx.org ] rather than LaTeX itself unless your dissertation will contain a lot of equations. LyX is now a pretty mature piece of software that makes working with LaTeX ver