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Of Science and Handbags: March 2011
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Of Science and Handbags. Monday, 28 March 2011. The Fukushima nuclear reactor on 16/03/11 (Digital Globe 2). It was reported that the levels of radiation emanating from reactor 2 of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has reached 10 million times that of normal (see The Guardian. Happening so quickly there is precious little time for the relevant authorities to play to the gallery. Posted by Chicki peckpeck. Wednesday, 16 March 2011. Or "have you just come back from the weekend/somewhere nice? There are ...
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Of Science and Handbags: Fat cats and dead rats
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Of Science and Handbags. Monday, 4 April 2011. Fat cats and dead rats. Today I went to the first of a two day course titled 'Career Management for Researchers - Broadening Horizons'. The aim of the course is to recognise that with so few academic positions available nationwide, it is necessary for university staff on contract employment (such as yours truly) to think about the transferrable skills we have in order to find permanent employment elsewhere. Memories of a quip from an ex-colleague enters my m...
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Angular Unconformities: April 2011
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Friday, April 29, 2011. Flag reflected in rain puddles. University of Michigan, April 2011. How can you miss Oregon when it's been raining every day in Michigan for the last couple weeks? I wish our flag didn't trigger those associations so easily. One of the more painful moments for me is to watch the Olympics or the World Cup and watch fans waving their nations' flags with joy and pride. I can cheer for our athletes, but it's hard for me to wave our flag; it's been coopted by the uglier nationa...It's ...
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Reprobatio Certa: November 2011
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Rejection letters, correspondence, and miscellanea from the otherwise empty annals of the. Journal of Universal Rejection. Tuesday, November 29, 2011. To the editor,. Attached, please find my submission to The Journal of Universal Rejection. This Article Should Not Be Rejected By. The Journal of Universal Rejection. The article is a 2-page proof that the article should not be rejected from your journal (prepared, of course, for blind review). Thanks very much for your consideration. Links to this post.
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My Research Diaries: November 2012
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Things that make me think, Things that excite me, Things I yearn to learn. Sunday, November 25, 2012. TREC tracks and their meanings: A high level overview. There are multiple tasks and sub-tasks in this track of TREC. These include blog distillation and then opinion polarity. There are about 100,000 blogs in this dataset and 50 queries for which opinion polarity was provided as ground truth. These opinions are categorized into (relevant, not relevant, negative, positive, mixed). DNA and RNA sequences (g...
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My Research Diaries: December 2012
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Things that make me think, Things that excite me, Things I yearn to learn. Thursday, December 27, 2012. Trying to revive the C3M algorithm. Here are some of the claims made by their paper " Concept and Effectiveness of the Cover Coefficient Based Clustering Methodology for Text Databases by Fazli Can and Esen OZkarahan". A) Clusters are stable. B) Algorithm is independent of order of documents, hence, we will always a unique clusters. C) The memory overhead is really low. Creating the C matrix. For each ...
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My Research Diaries: Data Science Lightning Talks: #GHC14
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Things that make me think, Things that excite me, Things I yearn to learn. Friday, October 10, 2014. Data Science Lightning Talks: #GHC14. The lightning talks at GHC's Data Science track were super fun and covered a wide range of topics. Although data scientists or machine learning folks already know most of these concepts, its great to get a refresher. As a plus the passion of the speakers was contagious. Trusting User Annotations on the Web for Cultural Heritage Domains Presenter by. This was a fun end...
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My Research Diaries: May 2014
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Things that make me think, Things that excite me, Things I yearn to learn. Thursday, May 1, 2014. Building Apache Spark Jars. I already have a cluster of spark set up on a set of machines. Let me call this the "lab" cluster. This lab cluster came pre-installed with Hadoop. I want to run spark jobs (written in scala) on this cluster. There are two ways to do it. A) Running sbt run. From the root of the sbt project that contains the scala code. B) Run the fat jar created by sbt assembly as follows.
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My Research Diaries: April 2013
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Things that make me think, Things that excite me, Things I yearn to learn. Thursday, April 11, 2013. Surviving the PhD program. A great resource for those who are procrastinating on writing. This webpage also contains tons of other helpful material, like balanced-life chart, tools on staying organized, positive affirmations on writing and so on. Life is easier when you can laugh at yourself. Here are some daily affirmations. For doctoral students. But I stayed away from PhD comics. As much as I could.
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International Collaboration of Early Career Researchers. Journal of Universal Rejection. Statnotes: Topics in Multivariate Analysis. Eldis development policy, practice, and research. Global Forum for Health Research. International council for science. Need a new job? Other blogs you should read. Cochrane Collaboration consumers blog. Science blogging in theory and practice. To support and connect early career researchers in health and medicine. Join 106 other followers. Find us on Facebook. June 29, 2011.
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