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   by ylem 16y ago

   I have a Kindle, Ipad, and android phone (Droid X). Kindle: Pro: One great thing about the kindle is battery life and how easy it is on the eyes. For reading fiction, it's great. Con: It is horrible for technical work--pdfs in particular
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   by ylem 16y ago

   I guess I've had better luck--the text translation is far from perfect--BUT, it has been sufficient for me to find out the gist of the message. Also, I get an email notification--for example, today, while I was at work, I got a call from a
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   by ylem 16y ago

   You might try sympy (a python project)--the community is very responsive. But, be prepared to get your hands dirty if there are some features that aren't present yet.
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   by ylem 16y ago

   What's the license?
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   by ylem 16y ago

   I started using IDL at one point (the facility used it) and hated the syntax--but, I will say that their licensing was cheap. Then, I moved to Matlab and ran into problems building maintainable code (to be fair, I think things improved aft
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   by ylem 16y ago

   ITK is developed by Kitware--are they a US company? Are either ITK or VTK open source? I have seen NASA devote resources to open source projects like matplotlib (an excellent python plotting package)
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   by ylem 16y ago

   Or OpenCV for that matter?
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   by ylem 16y ago

   I found this to be a rather good tutorial!
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   Watson wins the practice round on Jeopardy(usatoday.com)

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    by ylem 16y ago

    The LA times had an interesting series ( http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/22/local/la-me-schools-... ) on value added metrics in education that was interesting. The basic idea is that you look at the median achievement scores for stude
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    by ylem 16y ago

    I also found martial arts to be a great workout! Sparring was a lot of fun (especially against people from different styles) and burned a lot of calories. Now, I play badminton--it's not sparring, but it does move quickly :>
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    by ylem 16y ago

    I think there are a few factors at work: 1) In the developed world for people with good incomes and health insurance, people live in relative safety and misjudge risk. Many diseases are rare or nonexistent, so are not viewed as risks as c
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    by ylem 16y ago

    I don't know about scam, the search page itself is definitely lacking--all I found was geophysics. It could be that the original analysis is good, but the web page is lousy. When looking at median salaries for physicists, on the BLS site (
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    by ylem 16y ago

    Actually, given the differential in the unemployment rate between high school only and college graduates, I expect to see the fraction of people attending college to increase. Furthermore, given the job market for new graduates, I expect t
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    by ylem 16y ago

    It seems to me that these numbers are a bit strange--almost $9K/yr in medical/dental expenses--after insurance? Is this a reasonable expectation for a young couple (I say young because they're still paying off their student loans). Other
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    by ylem 16y ago

    I had a high school student who fell in love with this book!
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    by ylem 16y ago

    Has anyone checked to see if this works with Japanese, Korean, or Chinese? What about Arabic or Hindi? This would shed some light on whether it's likely to be tesseract or ocrpus....
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    by ylem 16y ago

    How do you judge that? If you write a paper and no one cites it, is it important (a tree falls in a forest...)? This is a serious question--I agree that h-index is vulnerable to fads, but if one adds aging (the effect of citations decays
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    by ylem 16y ago

    One article which I read recently was rather eye-opening: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/22/college-cost... In it, inflation adjusted prices of dental services are plotted against time, along with the price of higher educati
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    by ylem 16y ago

    I also thoroughly enjoyed my undergraduate research opportunities and they played a large part in how I chose my university. It's also an area where I think the US does very well--introducing students to research early in their careers.
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    by ylem 16y ago

    What are you basing your conclusion on? How do you evaluate the effectiveness of a researcher? Especially in an era where there are often ~200 job applicants for a given position? At one point people simply tried number of publications