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Two things about Euler that I learnt today
From Rolf Jeltsch’s colloquium in the Mathematics Department are the following: [1] Euler was probably one of the earliest mathematical modellers: for example, he turned the Koenigsburg bridge p… more →
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Two things about Euler that I learnt today
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Guru wrote 2 weeks ago: From Rolf Jeltsch’s colloquium in the Mathematics Department are the following: [1] Euler was … more →
Galleons, pirate and the flying boat
Guru wrote 5 months ago: Must-read of the day from Bruce Eckel: Along comes Google, the pirate. It uses a new kind of ship, s … more →
Wikipedian production: social or anti-social?
Guru wrote 5 months ago: Nicholas Carr, as usual, is very provocative: Scott Caplan, a communications professor at the Univer … more →
HowTo: web publish your book!
Guru wrote 5 months ago: D J Amy has some suggestions: I have a few practical suggestions for anyone considering putting a bo … more →
Personal experiments on doing science cooperatively
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Guru wrote 6 months ago: JS: Can you explain your experiment in cooperative science, and what motivated you to do it? SC: Wel … more →
The death and re-birth of books
Guru wrote 8 months ago: The contemporary moment wherein the book on dead trees is (probably) dead and is being reborn on the … more →
Complete documentation of how a research problem is solved
Guru wrote 8 months ago: Via Abi, I learn that the massively collaborative math project that I wrote about a while ago has re … more →
On forcing volunteers
Guru wrote 9 months ago: Bruce Eckel: When the concept of “forcing” is introduced, it breaks that unity and says … more →
Having the cake, and eating it too!
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Guru wrote 11 months ago: PNAS announces that it will allow authors to keep copyright for the articles published in the procee … more →
Good hands for experiments, open access costs and the importance of science
Guru wrote 1 year ago: Over at Biocurious Andre and Philip have a few must-read posts! [1] PhilipJ on Open Access as a stra … more →
Abuse of anonymous peer review and ways of overcoming it!
Guru wrote 1 year ago: Arunn at Unruled notebook has a piece on what looks like the abuse of anonymous peer review and anot … more →
Scientific Linux
Guru wrote 1 year ago: I knew of several linux distributions and flavours; however, till I saw this piece, I was not aware … more →
Biggest barrier to open science is ...
Guru wrote 1 year ago: Centralization, says John Hawks: More broadly, the entire system of credit in science is based on be … more →
A text book for zero dollars
Guru wrote 1 year ago: Inside Higher Ed alerts to the publication of a statistics text book online, for free: Proponents of … more →
Publishing books under open access
Guru wrote 1 year ago: Kim Christen at Long Road brings some good news about the more nuanced author agreements that some l … more →
A couple of Linux links!
Guru wrote 1 year ago: Oh! It feels so good to be back with a Linux (or, should I say Gnu/Linux?) machine after using Windo … more →
I have an eee pc!
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Guru wrote 1 year ago: Got an 8 GB one; started loading gcc, gsl, fftw3, gnuplot and so on. Did some more tweaking to chang … more →
A must-read interview with Knuth
Guru wrote 1 year ago: Via Brad DeLong, I learnt about this interview of Andrew Binstock with Knuth, in which, as the one p … more →
Linux is Grandma ready!
Guru wrote 1 year ago: Greg Laden explains why! It is one of the ways I contribute to OpenSource: I keep my Linux Laptop ha … more →
