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Japanese companies seek international graduates(nytimes.com)
46 points by ylem 12y ago|32 comments
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by ylem 12y ago
I was in Mumbai a few years ago to give a workshop. The fares to get too and from my hotel would vary greatly and some of the participants strongly suggested that I use tabcab ( http://www.tabcab.in/index.html ). It was a b
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by ylem 12y ago
It may not be killer, but tortoiseGit has been good enough for my windows needs...
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by ylem 12y ago
I think it could be a question of who he compares himself against. For example, if he's comparing himself to Field's medalists, then he might feel that he comes up short.
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by ylem 12y ago
But Fortran 90 is much more readable than 77 :-p The downside is that binding fortran 90 (95, 2003) to python is much more painful...
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by ylem 12y ago
Penflip looks interesting! I'll have to play with the math jax options, but do you have any examples of it being used with figures and equations? Any plans for reference management?
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by ylem 12y ago
This is actually rather cool! There has been a movement in some fields towards reproducible research ( http://reproducibleresearch.net/ ). If people were required to provide source code in their publications (by funding a
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by ylem 12y ago
As a current scientist, I have mixed feelings. I'm a neutron scatterer and at an increasing number of facilities, our raw data is available to the public as we take it (or after an embargo period) unless it's proprietary (that is
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by ylem 12y ago
As a referee you are asked about impact and correctness.
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by ylem 12y ago
I'm a physicist and a see a few problems with this. Currently, refereeing is essentially community service. Have you talked to any editors at journals such as the Physical Review or New Journal of Physics? I would imagine that the
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by ylem 12y ago
The article is a bit long, but it actually doesn't do what you claim. It uses one standardized test called PISA ( http://www.oecd.org/pisa/ ) that is given to students around the world. In particular, it looks at
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by ylem 12y ago
For windows, I have been using python(x,y)--it's huge, but it works :-)
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by ylem 12y ago
Actually, there can be unintended consequences. The article is long enough that I no longer feel a need to buy the book...
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by ylem 13y ago
I suppose one way around this would be the NSF to require any grant awardees to deposit their structures in a publicly accessible database...But, I'm a bit surprised--is there nothing like arxiv.org for chemistry? Why not?
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by ylem 13y ago
I skipped 6th grade and I'm still glad that I did so. I spent years before in school just being incredibly bored. Some years, I would write plays for my fellow students to perform, sometimes I would take "advanced" math, b
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by ylem 13y ago
Here, there are two pain points--one is that this is a "minor" version change of the core library and the second is that there is no electronic version. If there were an electronic version, I would still buy it, but it's no
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by ylem 13y ago
I've been using jqplot recently, which is rather pleasant.
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by ylem 13y ago
I signed up, but no code yet...
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by ylem 13y ago
Besides your graphical interface, will you expose an api?
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by ylem 13y ago
tried something like this with studybrunch.com--though we weren't directly targeting MOOCs. We ran into a chicken-egg problem...
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by ylem 13y ago
I've seen cases of people without phDs at national labs who are doing research--but it's rare. I would suggest that you figure out who the actual researchers are who are involved with the project and contact them (personally, I w
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by ylem 13y ago
I have to comment on this--my advisor told me very early on not to become a technician--to understand what I was doing and why. At least in physics, the usual pattern is to give a student a project to work on--as they advance, they gain mo
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by ylem 13y ago
What adding about some ability to browse? It is fast!
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3-D printing saves a life(arstechnica.com)
1 points by ylem 13y ago|0 comments
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by ylem 13y ago
One other thought--you might also want to search a person's geographic area and see if you can find the best deals on the ingredients for recipes :-p But, generally--wow!!!
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by ylem 13y ago
This is awesome! You might also add an option to buy some of the ingredients online :-p (for example, services like Peapod if the person is in that region)
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by ylem 13y ago
I'm sorry, but this attitude is just wrong. In order to trust results, scientific source needs to be verified. I'm a physicist and I've seen people not share code for a few reasons: 1) The code smells bad--I've had code that's useful, bu
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A successful nonprofit marketplace for books(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by ylem 13y ago|0 comments
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Potential landmines for education based startups?(slate.com)
1 points by ylem 14y ago|0 comments
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Internet sales tax(nytimes.com)
1 points by ylem 14y ago|0 comments

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