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by wgrover 14y ago
I like your assessment of LabVIEW. I find that if your code is turning to spaghetti, you're not using enough sub-VIs. Try to find blocks of code that accomplish one thing and put that code in its own VI. As a bonus you get to design a li
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by wgrover 14y ago
You're right, the auto-wire-organizer tool is fantastic. Every time I use it I wonder what algorithm LabVIEW is using to rearrange things - not an easy problem computationally I'm sure. I use it for small sub-VIs but I find that if I use
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by wgrover 14y ago
You might find graphical programming languages like LabVIEW interesting; here's a little tutorial that shows what LabVIEW programs look like: http://www.ee.buffalo.edu/faculty/paololiu/edtech/roaldi/tut... "Wires" that carry values are co
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by wgrover 14y ago
As Fernando noted, if you use matplotlib regularly, check the price on a MATLAB license (looks like USD $2150.00 for a single commercial user) and then consider donating to John's family: http://numfocus.org/johnhunter/
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by wgrover 14y ago
Didn't know about that one - thanks for the tip!
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by wgrover 14y ago
Sounds good. I can't tell you how thrilled I am to have a book like this coming out. I'm very interested in using it as a text for an instrumental analysis class I'm putting together. Thanks so much!
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by wgrover 14y ago
wesm, do you cover using cloud-based computing resources for tackling computationally intensive data analysis problems? I use Python and PiCloud to turn what is an hours-long data analysis problem on my Mac into a minutes-long job on Amazo
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by wgrover 14y ago
Thanks twoodfin, and point taken. "Science education has no value in Tennessee" is of course hyperbole too. I tried to clarify these with the last paragraph ("I know that Tennesseans really do value science...") with debatable success. I
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by wgrover 14y ago
That's what makes it hard to criticize this bill - of course teachers should encourage debate and critical thinking. And there are lots of subjects in science that merit debate. But the authors of the bill have a specific subject in mind
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by wgrover 14y ago
You're right, science keeps chugging along and I don't feel particularly persecuted as a scientist, as validating as that would be! :) For me it comes down to the fear that because of this law, the rest of the world will view Tennesseans a
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by wgrover 14y ago
Thanks - I wasn't as specific as I should have been because this was originally written as a "letter to the editor" for a couple newspapers, so I tried to keep things short. I'll make some edits accordingly. For me, what's troubling is the
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Why I can't return to Tennessee(wgrover.com)
18 points by wgrover 14y ago|12 comments
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by wgrover 15y ago
More discussion about petridish.org on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3680033 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3680002
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by wgrover 15y ago
That's a real risk. But the longer I'm in science, the more I believe that "ideas are cheap, follow-through is everything." If I'm scooped, it's not because someone else had the same idea (probably lots of people had that same idea); it
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by wgrover 15y ago
My favorite thing about this is how it exposes non-scientists to the first (and IMHO most exciting and least appreciated) phase of research - thinking up experiments.
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by wgrover 15y ago
For anyone interested in going, I highly recommend hearing Ed Boyden's talk on "Engineering the Brain." Fantastic research and an amazing guy.
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by wgrover 15y ago
Sounds good. Any example content you can put on the signup website now (a single sample story, a sample contents listing, anything) might go a long way in convincing people to sign up.
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by wgrover 15y ago
Add a link to the current issue of the newsletter, so folks know what to expect before signing up. [EDIT: I see the first issue will be the 17th, cool; well maybe add a link to that when it comes out]
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by wgrover 15y ago
Very cool, but about eight orders of magnitude away from nano.
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by wgrover 15y ago
There's a similar demo at the Exploratorium in San Francisco - you can drop disks of different materials (and with different cutouts) through the electromagnet and see the different rates at which they drop. I recall it also had a thoughtf
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by wgrover 15y ago
LEGO's "Creationary" game always gives me pause. I suppose it's 3D "Pictionary" but the name makes me think it'll be about disproving evolution... http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Creationary-3844
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by wgrover 15y ago
Making this into a game was the first thing I thought. It could be as simple as having a game mode that puts a small country map in the corner; you click where you think the view is and receive a score based on how close you are. This cou
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by wgrover 15y ago
Cheers for including Scratch (a graphical programming language aimed at kids). Scratch is worth playing with, if only to witness the potential (and drawbacks) of graphical programming languages. Now back to my LabVIEW code...
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by wgrover 15y ago
Nice lessons here for parents. Thanks for sharing and my heartfelt sympathies for your loss.
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by wgrover 15y ago
Seeing Leslie Lamport's first paper (about braids, for a high school math journal) makes me want to put together a list of computer scientists' first papers. Now I've got two favorites: Leslie Lamport, "Braid Theory": http://research.mic
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by wgrover 15y ago
I was going to make a Brookline joke, glad I didn't! :) Of course you're correct and I commend you for your knowledge of local geography and history. BTW, If you haven't read "Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston," I bet you'
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by wgrover 15y ago
In the author's defense, Cambridge is surrounded on three sides by Boston (Charlestown to the east, Back Bay to the south, and Allston to the west, all part of Boston).
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by wgrover 15y ago
Out of the MIT Media Lab: Processing: http://processing.org Scratch: http://scratch.mit.edu Out of Mass General Hospital: MUMPS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS
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by wgrover 15y ago
"you may not download an entire issue of a journal" I didn't know this. It's as if the New York Times told paid subscribers they can only read 90% of any one issue.
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Why do we need a "Github for Science"? Imagine "Science for Github"(wgrover.com)
4 points by wgrover 15y ago|0 comments

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