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by ylem 11y ago
But will it cause him any problems if he wants to come to the US to work or go to school in the near term after his internship? From what I remember, don't J1 visas require you to return to your home country for a certain period of ti
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by ylem 12y ago
Very cool! I'd like to develop something similar for viewing crystal structures (more solid state). Are there any particular challenges that I should be aware of? The last time I made a viewer was using VTK for the desktop...
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A microscope in his living room leads to a nobel prize(arstechnica.com)
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by ylem 12y ago
I read this as part of a science fiction class back in college. It was amazing and well thought out!
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by ylem 12y ago
I would support the "superdoc" idea--but I also think that in some fields, we need to allow graduate students (and postdocs) a certain amount of time for career development. If someone wants to do a PhD in physics because they l
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by ylem 12y ago
Actually, the string theory group at Rutgers rather impressed me. Given the extremely weak job market for string theorists, they decided to limit the number of students that they took on to the very few that they thought would have a chan
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by ylem 12y ago
Here's a link to the nature article: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...
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by ylem 12y ago
Incidentally, he passed away recently. He had a varied career and was actually my pediatrician and encouraged my interest in astronomy. I only learned at his death about his contributions to systems theory...
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by ylem 12y ago
Another interesting article is: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201... I like that the professor in this example tries to engage his students despite the conflict with their religious
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by ylem 12y ago
I thought the Catholic church was ok with evolution, the big bang theory, etc.
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by ylem 12y ago
Some people have brought up the idea that people should not enter into a PhD program if they are interested in money. I agree, but the problem goes beyond that. For those of us who are fortunate to find permanent positions doing research
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Copyright in the music industry gets worse(slate.com)
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Building my own email app to reach Inbox Zero(slate.com)
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by ylem 12y ago
Say, does anyone know if there is any open source software that would do this (or for that matter, any software that isn't ridiculously expensive)? Years back, I ran a workshop (applying group theory to understanding magnetism) and we
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by ylem 12y ago
I remember looking at his work when I was a grad. student. Some of it was amazing. For example, I remember once he set up an apparatus to grow crystals using chemical vapor transport. To know when it was finished, he sealed wires to insi
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Grants and job imbalances in academia(arstechnica.com)
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by ylem 12y ago
I agree--I once used a library and noticed that it was missing some functionality. The mailing list had a number of people requesting this functionality. I found an older piece of code with the functionality and updated it to the language
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by ylem 12y ago
In my experience, in the US, it is normal to reimburse physics graduate students. I won't say how many of us there were to a room at times, but we were reimbursed....
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by ylem 12y ago
This is an interesting problem. On the one hand, there are merits to a referee being anonymous to the submitter. Part of this may be to avoid reprisal for younger referees, but even for more established referees, you may be freer to com
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by ylem 12y ago
I'm a permanent staff member and I do actually check "algebra" and integrals when reviewing papers. Especially "technique" papers, because after the initial paper, people tend to make black boxes, so if the initial
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by ylem 12y ago
Why? I ask because I switched from using Matlab to using python. I found Matlab was great for getting things done, but it was difficult to maintain/distribute larger projects--much less deal with interfaces to the web, etc. I also f
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by ylem 12y ago
Wow! I have participated in peer review and the system can work--here, it seems like the editors were lazy. I wonder how many papers a typical editor is responsible for per day? I can understand researchers wanting to exclude groups tha
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by ylem 12y ago
I believe there are bindings to plot.ly
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by ylem 12y ago
I have to start by saying that I’m incredibly impressed not only by the article, but by the level and tone of the discussion here. I am a vegetarian, agnostic, non drinking, black physicist. Like many of you, I grew up reading fantasy
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by ylem 12y ago
Student debt? But for grant review (I have reviewed NSF proposals before), I'd say that one of the biggest challenges is that there are a lot of people chasing a rather small amount of money (in the physical sciences). I think our c
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by ylem 12y ago
One exciting thing is happening in my field: http://proceedings.dtu.dk/fedora/repository/dtu:233/OBJ/DOIu... The TL;DR is that one international user facility is creating a universal locator for data tha
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by ylem 12y ago
I have seen some taxi companies trying to add convenience--for example, I tried using TaxiMagic when I was in Denver for a conference. When it worked, it was great! I could see the car on the map as it arrived...But, the next time, I tri
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by ylem 12y ago
It's interesting, I remember listening to NPR awhile back and they had a story about how high end restaurants are experimenting with a "ticket" system for reservations. Part of the problem is that even for restaurants where
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by ylem 12y ago
I guess it would depend on your throughput rate. We've been using a port of jqplot: https://github.com/scattering/jqplot.science You can see it in action at: http://ncnr.nist.gov/ipeek/ We d
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by ylem 12y ago
For work, we had to fork jqplot to add features like heatmaps, zooming, etc.: https://github.com/scattering/jqplot.science We also have the notion of "interactors" which allow you to add draggable widgets to

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