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Friday, May 06, 2011

Someone asked me to explain the Price equation today...

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I got an e-mail today asking for help understanding the Price equation , prompted partly by the recent RadioLab about George Price . The per...
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Friday, March 11, 2011

CS Education: C# in Mono / Java

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At least three times this year, I have found myself suggesting that perhaps it would be better to teach component-based software enginereing...
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Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Installing Adobe Digital Editions on Linux with Wine

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UPDATE: I have not had time to address the download issues some people have had when trying to install ADE. However, see the comments on th...
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Monday, March 07, 2011

MATLAB script to prove to you that the perfect squares are the switches that are toggled

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Evidently, this problem exists in both "switch" and "locker" forms. Assume that there are 100 switches are initially off...
Sunday, March 06, 2011

Another rant on the supremacy of rolling release cycles for OS distributions (why Arch beats Fedora and Ubuntu)

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As I sit here right now, I notice that my Arch Linux package manager ("pacman") is downloading KDE 4.6.1. KDE 4.6.0 was released...
Wednesday, March 02, 2011

These continuous enrollment policies remind you that schools are in the business of making money

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This memo below was sent out to all department chairs, graduate studies chairs, and graduate program administrative support staff at OSU. I ...
Friday, February 18, 2011

Dr. Bernoulli gets a job: Mathematics of the Job Search – Faculty Version

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I recently found out that the Duke Computer Science department had 404 applicants for the open position in their department. I mentioned t...
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Microsoft's version of Google Scholar?

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I accidentally ran into this today. Microsoft has their own version of Google Scholar : Microsoft Academic Search (aka Journalogy(.com)?): ...
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natbib-compatible BibTeX style (BST) file for Springer LNCS publications

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UPDATE: Additionally, if you prefer "References" instead of "Bibliography", you have to re-define the \bibname macro i...
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More Quick Reference Cards

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Remember that time when I was quick reference card happy [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ]? Today, I accidentally found another good quickref card blog ...