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Animated graphic on why you should shut off your work computer(flowingdata.com)
5 points by merraksh 16y ago|2 comments
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by merraksh 16y ago
Scientists sometimes do publish their software. An example: in Operations Research, the COIN-OR initiative ( http://www.coin-or.org ) is a growing set of (Open Source) tools for solving OR problems. Also, in certain disciplines, not only pa
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by merraksh 16y ago
This can be cast as a shortest path problem. Implementations on huge graphs (several million nodes), i.e. larger than the one defined by a dictionary, are very efficient and usually take advantage of both the source and destination rather t
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Keyboard shortcuts for Google Instant(downloadsquad.com)
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by merraksh 16y ago
The real problem with being put in a unique position to do important work is that you're under the gun to do important work. But so are you as a professor, at least up to tenure. I agree it is a double edged sword. It is intuitive that a
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by merraksh 16y ago
Yet postdocs are in a unique position and do important work, no matter if they continue in Academia or not (Discmaimer: I was a postdoc up to some years ago). They usually have little teaching or service duties and can devote all of their t
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by merraksh 16y ago
This reminds me of a recent post on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1731459 The postdoc thought it was subtle enough to kill those cultures with ethanol, and thought everybody else wouldn't be clever enough to catch him. But the g
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by merraksh 16y ago
Indeed Operations Research is a bit more than just Constraint Programming, but this is interesting (I'm an OR guy). A much larger framework with open-source software for OR is Coin-OR: http://www.coin-or.org/
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by merraksh 16y ago
At the beginning I learned most of it from the Not-so-short introduction (link in another reply to your comment), but LaTeX is too large an animal to handle it with a reference manual. I find most of the answers I need on the web. Also, you
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by merraksh 16y ago
A technical suggestion: learn to use LaTeX as soon as you can, and consider having BibTeX collections of the papers you read.
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Google doodle balls bounce on Google home page today(google.com)
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by merraksh 16y ago
One of the most important balances you are advised to learn as a tenure-track and a tenured professor is that between research and teaching. The college measures your performance, and hence decides if you get tenured, based, among others, o
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by merraksh 16y ago
M-1 M-q: justifies text, adding spaces between words.
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The billion dollar-o-gram(informationisbeautiful.net)
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Best blogs of 2010(time.com)
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by merraksh 16y ago
In the perfectly spherical earth hypothesis, being the center of mass in the black hole, wouldn't there be a resulting force towards the center, although very small? [EDIT] Hmm I think I see the point. The resulting force would be proportio
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by merraksh 16y ago
Making the arrow keys usable makes it even nicer. Well done!
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José Saramago, Nobel Prize-Winning Writer, Dies(nytimes.com)
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by merraksh 16y ago
You can do it with soda cans too: http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-increase-wireless-signal-s...
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by merraksh 16y ago
A good understanding of Graph Theory would help too. The books "Graphs and Hypergraphs" by Claude Berge and "Random Graphs" by Bela Bollobás are among the most important in the area.
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by merraksh 16y ago
...and if you are disappointed at the smaller set of packages available as opposed to other distros, visit http://slackbuild.org to get a broader choice.
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by merraksh 16y ago
The optimal solution, i.e. the human's trajectory, is a function and therefore has to be found through variational calculus. Not sure there is an analytical one, but the optimum should be quite easy to find numerically.
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by merraksh 16y ago
You turned into a cat! A SMALL cat! You violated Conservation of Energy! (Chapter 2) Energy? I'd rather call it a violation of conservation of mass.
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by merraksh 16y ago
Would you (or did you) use them for hiking as well (on very light slopes and soft grounds, obviously)? My running shoes are old, so I am considering going barefoot. Using them for hiking too would be nice, but I can't imagine if there's any
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by merraksh 16y ago
Not sure if it is available for Linux yet. One can try yuuguu, but it's only free for up to 100 minutes/month: http://www.yuuguu.com/features/skype-integration
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The Hirsch conjecture has been disproved(gilkalai.wordpress.com)
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Announcing 500 billion digits of e(numberworld.org)
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by merraksh 16y ago
I was surprised not to find "heisenbug". It's on Wikipedia, along with other families of bugs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unusual_software_bug
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by merraksh 16y ago
Domingo (Spanish, Portuguese) and Domenica (Italian) probably refer to Dominus, Lord, as Sunday is the Lord's day in the Christian tradition.
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by merraksh 16y ago
Genetic algorithms usually do exploit the structure of the problem in order to make crossover/mutation more efficient. This is indeed what the OP says: For more difficult Sudoku puzzles, I would definitely go with the permutation genome

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