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Anthropology edition; via....
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From Junot Diaz at the New Yorker....
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The half-an-hour of video that this blogpost points to is a must watch; I liked the two definitions of teacher given by J C Bose that Prof. Vaidya refers to towards the end of the movie. Link via Anant Observations....
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For Bio-informatics, apparently. But should be good for anybody from the science and engineering background too — though, personally, I would have added C. Link via Eric Drexler....
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In blogs:
To really work, Sierra observed, an entrepreneur’s blog has to be about something bigger than his or her company and his or her product. This sounds simple, but it isn’t. It takes real discipline to not talk about ...
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Here is Beteille on the economist K N Raj:
I cannot assess Raj’s contribution to economic science, nor is this the place or the time to do so. But he certainly was an inspiration to many both within and outside ...
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An interesting one from PNAS:
Vitrification and levitation of a liquid droplet on liquid nitrogen
Y S Song et al
The vitrification of a liquid occurs when ice crystal formation is prevented in the cryogenic environment through ultrarapid cooling. In ...
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Libby Gruner at Inside Higher Ed:
It’s an odd thing, writing a blog. Folks I know — or colleagues I don’t know, for that matter — can stumble across it in ways they’re unlikely to come across my academic work, ...
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Are all due to “stultifying presentations of information” argues Bruce Eckel:
After an hour of listening to this intensity, you’re hungry for another one. It makes you realize that most of the problems in our education system come from taking ...
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Days in an Indian Monastry is a book that I have wanted to read for quite some time now, though, I have not yet managed to find a copy. Here is Sriram on the sister and her book. While we ...
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Sriram Venkatkrishnan tells the story!...
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Especially if she is any good.
Says Michael Lewis in this piece; link via Abi....
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Sriram Venkatkrishnan writes about Venkataramana Das:
According to Prof. Sambamurthy, the maestro had some rare veenas in his possession including one made of sampangi wood and another, a gift from the Maharajah of Mysore that had a “metallic spring suspended ...
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FSP muses on whether papers with less citation means worthless paper (and, of course, concludes no):
My musings on this topic made me dive into my citation index to look at some of my low-citation papers to see if I ...
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Askoh Desai pays his tributes to the economist K N Raj who passed away recently, and who, not once but twice created wonderful institutions:
The plan and the annual budget apart, there was not much to do for an economist ...
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Henry Farrell, among other things also tells how to structure your essay at all these three levels:
You should structure your essay at three levels.
Macro-structure
This is the broad structure of the essay itself. Unless you feel very comfortable ...
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I just lo……ved this bit:
The eminent linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin of Oxford once gave a lecture in which he asserted that there are many languages in which a double negative makes a positive, but none in which a ...
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An interesting Q&A....
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That is more important, says Jeff....
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The data and the code are in public domain (via)....
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From an interesting article in SEED magazine on some sociology of research funding in US:
Over the last 40 years, the importance of fame in science has increased. The effect has compounded because famous researchers have gathered the smartest and ...
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Somak Ghoshal pays his tributes to Mallikarjun Mansur and his rare legacy....
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A couple of pieces in the Hindu literary review by Pradeep Sebastian: on Salinger and on Zadie Smith. During my next visit to Crossword, I should remember to look for that book of essays by Zadie Smith....
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Capitalism and mathematics are intimately related; mathematics functions as the grammar of techno-scientific discourse which every form of capitalism has relied upon and initiated. … feasible, in other words, to see in the realist account of mathematics an ideological formation ...
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Hindu has several pieces on the musician, painter and actor S Rajam who passed away recently:
Gowri Ramnarayan
Rupa Gopal
Randor Guy
Vijayalakshmi Subramaniam
Lakshmi Venkatraman
Plenty of interesting information and moving tributes in there; take a look!...
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Sriram Venkatkrishnan, in his blog, posts the tribute that he wrote for Sruti remembering Indira Menon, who, I understand, passed away last November....
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Titled Bunch of phonies mourn J D Salinger is short and a must-read....
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From Paper Cuts I learnt the news:
There will no doubt be a lot of tributes and appreciations to Salinger in the coming days — a notion that would surely have driven Salinger himself crazy. Here’s Holden, cranky as ever:
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At Current Science (pdf) — Abi, from whom I got the link, has excerpted the following passage, which I am reproducing here because it seems to contain something very interesting and relevant:
Do you see any difference in the way ...
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Edwige Danticat writes in the latest New Yorker:
One cousin had an open gash in her head that was still bleeding. Another had a broken back and had gone to three field hospitals trying to get it X-rayed. Another was ...
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All via Abi and his shared links.
[1] Writing is like golf:
I saw Simmons on a late night talk show recently, and I got really interested when the host asked him to talk about what it’s like to write ...
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Winston Churchill once praised the argumentational skills of the celebrated barrister and politician F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, by stressing their suitability to context: ‘The bludgeon for the platform; the rapier for a personal dispute; the entangling net ...
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Hindu reports on the passing away of Erich Segal whose Prizes is one of the books I enjoyed a lot....
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In email readers is that if I can mark the messages to be deleted after a particular date/time. I use squirrel mail and gmail. As far as I know, both do not give such an option. More often than not, ...
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Tom Slee and Whimsley’s turn at analysing the actions of Google:
In his posthumously published Power and Prosperity, Mancur Olson tells a story of China in the 1920s, when the warlord Feng Yu-hsiang defeated “a notorious roving bandit called White ...
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Nicholas Carr does the math for you!
Do the math. Sit down right now, and add up what you pay every month for:
-Internet service
-Cable TV service
-Cellular telephone service (voice, data, messaging)
-Landline telephone service
-Satellite radio
-Netflix
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Kerry Ann Rockquemore has some career advice:
The beginning of a busy spring semester is a great place to start with the first mistake many new faculty make: assuming that the time management and writing strategies that worked for you ...
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Nicholas Carr:
Reading through these wealthy, powerful people’s glib statements on privacy, one begins to suspect that what they’re really talking about is other people’s privacy, not their own. If you exist within a personal Green Zone of private jets, ...
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How authorships in papers are to be decided is something that every researcher learns more by observation and personal experience than by any set standards. And, more often than not, the research and lab culture that one hails from has ...
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What makes mathematics hard is both how easy it is to make mistakes and how difficult it is to hide them. Contrast this with poetry. It’s as easy to make mistakes in poetry — write stunningly bad poetry — as ...
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From Ram Guha:
The challenge that confronted Gandhi on his return was to convert a campaign of urban elites into a mass movement. Till then, it was easy for the British to dismiss the Congress as a front for lawyers ...
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Nicholas Carr:
Like many other Western companies, Google has shown that it is willing to compromise its ideals in order to reach Chinese consumers. What it’s not willing to compromise is the security of the cloud, on which its entire ...
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A R Venkatachalapathy goes in search of “Ash Durai” who
was the first and, as subsequent history showed, the last British official to be assassinated during the course of the freedom struggle in south India
and his assassin, “Veera Vanchi” ...
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Atul Gawande, in his latest piece, says yes:
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the bill makes no significant long-term cost reductions. Even Democrats have become nervous. For many, the hope of reform was to re-form the health-care system. If ...
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Is nicely captured in this must-read piece of Malavika Karlekar:
As one would expect, children, particularly those who travelled in the first class, were immune to such grown-up fears; for them, there was little to rival a train ride. Colonial ...
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Bruce Eckel’s piece titled Wrong correctness. Take a look!...
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This time, when we were in Udupi on vacation, accidentally, we picked a CD of Devaranama by Ranjani Hebbar called Ranganathana Noduva Banni. We decided to buy this CD primarily because it contained a vachana of Basaveshvara (which is very ...
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An interesting one from H Liang and L Mahadeavan:
Long leaves in terrestrial plants and their submarine counterparts, algal blades, have a typical, saddle-like midsurface and rippled edges. To understand the origin of these morphologies, we dissect leaves and differentially ...
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Matt Welsh at Volatile and Decentralized has some nice pointers:
When reviewing so many papers, it is amazing to me how many authors make simple mistakes that make it so much more difficult to review (let alone accept!) their papers. ...
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I wanted to go through the Five Whys exercise with Ryan and his staff. Five Whys is a problem-solving technique developed by Toyota after World War II to improve its manufacturing process. The idea is to ask “Why?” five times ...
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From this must-read of Jonah Lehrer (via Abi):
Dunbar came away from his in vivo studies with an unsettling insight: Science is a deeply frustrating pursuit. Although the researchers were mostly using established techniques, more than 50 percent of their ...
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An interesting paper from the latest PNAS:
A feeling for the numbers in biology
Rob Phillips and Ron Milo
Although the quantitative description of biological systems has been going on for centuries, recent advances in the measurement of phenomena ranging ...
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Martin Schwartz on the importance of stupidity in scientific research:
I recently saw an old friend for the first time in many years. We had been Ph.D. students at the same time, both studying science, although in different areas. She ...
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I have written about Bala in this blog here, here and here. His enthusiasm was infectious and my interactions with him — both in person and through mails was always very elevating. Through this post at Scholars Without Borders, I ...
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From this must-read post of Dr.Free-Ride:
Trying to interfere with peer review is always a bad call.
If you don’t thoroughly document your code, no one but you will have a clear understanding of what it’s supposed to do.
It’s ...
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A piece by D Balasubramanian in The Hindu. I am disappointed though that there are no references either to the works of Raghavendra Gadagkar or to his classic Survival strategies....
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Absolutely hilarious; thanks to Phani for the email pointer....
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Here is a list; via Swarup....
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Here is some useful info:
A new study of married couples, however, has found physiological evidence for one technique to diffuse tension: choosing the right fighting words.Couples who used analytical language, such as “think,” “understand,” “because,” or “reason,” during heated ...
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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 problem into one of graph theory; and, apparently, he is also the ...
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Dentistry — from Onion of course!
NEW YORK—Inside the Montessori School of Dentistry, you won’t find any old-fashioned cotton swabs, or so-called periodontal charts, or even any amalgam fillings. That’s because at this alternative-learning institution, students are being encouraged to ...
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Here are the ten simple rules for choosing between academia and the industry:
1 Assess your qualifications
2 Assess your needs
3 Assess your desires
4 Assess your personality
5 Consider the alternatives
6 Consider the timing
7 Plan for ...
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Paul Graham:
In the past when I bought things from Apple it was an unalloyed pleasure. Oh boy! They make such great stuff. This time it felt like a Faustian bargain. They make such great stuff, but they’re such assholes. ...
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Zuska explains how:
Wilson wasn’t saying science IS a religion in the sense that there’s no real underlying objective reality, everything’s all taken on faith, and we all get together and worship the Flying Spaghetti Monster at Friday seminar. But ...
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In The Telegraph....
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I recently bought Ullas Karanth’s A view from the Machan: how science can save the fragile predator. This is a paperback published by Permanent Black and is nicely illustrated by Maya Ramaswamy. From the book I learnt about the writer ...
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Dave Munger at Cognitive Daily:
When you’re studying during nearly every free moment, what’s the best way to clear up your mind and refocus yourself for the next round of studying?
One old idea that has re-emerged recently is called ...
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Joel Spolsky as to why you should grow at break-neck speed if you do not want to disappear:
Then I came across a quote from Geoffrey Moore, who is best known for his best-selling book Crossing the Chasm, which is ...
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Peg Boyle Single has started a four part essay on dissertation writing. The first piece debunks two popular myths about writing. The second one talks about deliberate practice:
So what is deliberate practice? It is not inherently fun nor is ...
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Robert P Crease tells why, here, in this must-read piece:
In my own encounter with Feynman – which, incidentally, is recounted in the epilogue to James Gleick’s biography Genius – I asked him questions about episodes of his intellectual development. ...
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Sriram Venkatkrishnan has a nice piece in the Hindu:
Within a year, Nagarathnamma was to discover that she, and other women, would not be allowed to participate in the Tyagaraja Aradhana, then considered a male preserve. There began a battle ...
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Frigo and Johnson’s FFTW is a software that I have used extensively and continue to use. Today I learnt of another FFT that is faster than that of FFTW (pdf):
My djbfft software at [cr.yp.to] computes power-of-2 discrete Fourier ...
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Although it is increasingly difficult to gauge what people can be expected to know, it is probably safe to assume that most readers are familiar with Ockham’s razor – roughly, the principle whereby gratuitous suppositions are shaved from the interpretation ...
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I found this nice blog of Michael Nielsen thanks to a pointer from MR. One of the pieces of Nielsen that I am reading and enjoying lot is the one about doing science online. Nielsen talks in the piece about ...
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வாலு போச்சி கதஂதி வந்தது டும்டும்டும் was one of our favourite stories from our grandma. Nicholas Carr describes a similar situation in the communications industry:
After email took hold in offices, you always had a few doofus laggards who continued to ...
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Clearly, the universe itself must have decided last month that this blog was so abhorrent to it, it would employ quantum post selection effects to force me to procrastinate whenever I would otherwise have posted something. An obvious corollary is ...
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Dr. D Balasubramanian in the Hindu....
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An interesting paper:
Theoretical examination of quantum coherence in a photosynthetic system at physiological temperature
A Ishizaki and G R Fleming
The observation of long-lived electronic coherence in a photosynthetic pigment–protein complex, the Fenna–Matthews–Olson (FMO) complex, is suggestive that quantum ...
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Here are some pointers; link via Zapperz....
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Here!...
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Here is Terence Tao at the AMS Grad Students blog:
Q: You have collaborators in several fields. What is the most important element to having a successful mathematical collaboration, especially between fields?
A: I feel that collaboration is most productive ...
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To expect a young scientist to recruit and train students and postdocs as well as producing and publishing new and original work within two years (in order to fuel the next grant application) is preposterous. It is neither right nor ...
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… I’d rather offend people needlessly than use needless words …
That is Paul Graham, here....
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S J Turner et al, explain here! A good piece....
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Here is the piece in Nature. The videos that form part of the supplemntary material are a must watch. Hat tip to Eddie (go to the bottom of the page for his photos and slightly dated profile) for sharing the ...
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I think the answer is a resounding yes — after seeing this:
So why are you called noiseofindia?
noiseofindia is short for NOISE.
NOISE = NOISE Of India Special Edition.
This is a recursive name – similar to:
GNU = ...
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I heard the news from SWB. Here is the Hindu report. I used to enjoy her writings at the Hindu magazine and literary review....
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Murray Gell-Mann seems to say so:
Then how did you settle on physics?
After my father gave up on engineering, he said, ‘How about we compromise and go with physics? General relativity, quantum mechanics, you will love it.’ I thought ...
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From Inside Higher Ed — Teresa Magnum’s Career Advice column:
… you’ll want to include
Your name and contact information: address, email, various phone numbers.
Educational history: Note undergraduate and graduate degrees with schools and dates. If you haven’t received ...
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