this is a wrapper on basecamp (www.basecamphq.com) that i built when i worked at a software house about 2 months back.
DEMO VIDEO of the AIR APPLICATION:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itb3XpdhrYY
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Monday, February 25, 2008
My new blog !
Hey ,
I've created my new/first blog.
If you are interested in blogging just about anything, do visit my blog.
cheers,
GP.
I've created my new/first blog.
If you are interested in blogging just about anything, do visit my blog.
cheers,
GP.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Literature Surveys
Sitting in a lab meeting the other day someone said "literature surveys are kind of a black art", and proceeded to discuss sort of how to go about doing one, from taking an interesting paper, following its references backwards to a seminal paper and then following citations forward from the seminal paper to current work.
I have yet to start a survey for class, but I do have one or two papers that I think are interesting, topic-wise. Does anyone have any tips or processes they use for doing literature searches/surveys?
Wes
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
outline of a thesis proposal
1. problem statement, why do you care?
2. what have others done? is there related work?
what are you going to do to go beyond the other work?
3. how would YOU attack the problem? what makes this approach promising?
4. evidence? how would you GET the evidence?
5. research plan - what needs to be done?
2. what have others done? is there related work?
what are you going to do to go beyond the other work?
3. how would YOU attack the problem? what makes this approach promising?
4. evidence? how would you GET the evidence?
5. research plan - what needs to be done?
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Isn't looking for an opening first is better than looking for an idea
how do we find out what people want ? , example what a company is looking for , which field are they willing to invest , which algorithm are they most interested in improving etc. ?
It would be much more rewarding to start from there and then try to solve a problem rather than look for a scattered idea in a field.....
It would be much more rewarding to start from there and then try to solve a problem rather than look for a scattered idea in a field.....
Friday, February 8, 2008
The Academic Career
On Wednesday we started discussing details of the academic career, such as salary expectations, appointment coverage, and negotiation during hiring. I've been doing some personal research on these topics, mostly because I'm using my degree to switch careers from industry into academia and I'd like to know up-front what the academic career is like, especially compared to industry. I honestly was surprised to learn that a starting salary for an assistant professor is in the low eighties, I was expecting it to be lower than that. I was also surprised to learn that summer support can be negotiated for the first couple of years. I'm hoping we can have some more discussion about this topic. I've been poking around Chronicle Careers and have found some interesting articles about this topic, a recent one being a new column about three new professors.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
points to ponder from Zobel, chapter 10
As I was reading Zobel's chapter 10, I was struck by several points. I'm not trying to summarize his chapter, but rather to list some talking points:
there is indeed a process of research, and papers should? and often do have a life cycle
insight is necessary, but only 1% - as Edison is famous for saying
you get to choose whether an insight is worth any investment of time and energy
a clear problem statement is critical - to help keep focus, and avoid distraction
when choosing a project, play to your own strengths (Zobel, p. 161)
every student-advisor relationship is different! students working on their own have their own advantages and disadvantages
we've discussed the importance of reading papers, and you'll get more practice
top of p. 167 has a nice list of questions that may be useful in reading a paper and preparing a summary!
setting milestones is very helpful! Zobel may say necessary!
explain the role of the hypothesis in scientific research - related to problem statement, next level of detail, and they drive the research activity e.g. experiments to run, prototypes to build, surveys to conduct
what are the obvious arguments pro or con with respect to a hypothesis? If the answer is obvious, it may still be wrong! But this may guide experimental design
Zobel's comments about formal studies and well-designed experiments are well-taken, but may be arguable. If a claim is too good to be true...
Checklist on pp. 182-3 may be useful!
there is indeed a process of research, and papers should? and often do have a life cycle
insight is necessary, but only 1% - as Edison is famous for saying
you get to choose whether an insight is worth any investment of time and energy
a clear problem statement is critical - to help keep focus, and avoid distraction
when choosing a project, play to your own strengths (Zobel, p. 161)
every student-advisor relationship is different! students working on their own have their own advantages and disadvantages
we've discussed the importance of reading papers, and you'll get more practice
top of p. 167 has a nice list of questions that may be useful in reading a paper and preparing a summary!
setting milestones is very helpful! Zobel may say necessary!
explain the role of the hypothesis in scientific research - related to problem statement, next level of detail, and they drive the research activity e.g. experiments to run, prototypes to build, surveys to conduct
what are the obvious arguments pro or con with respect to a hypothesis? If the answer is obvious, it may still be wrong! But this may guide experimental design
Zobel's comments about formal studies and well-designed experiments are well-taken, but may be arguable. If a claim is too good to be true...
Checklist on pp. 182-3 may be useful!
Friday, February 1, 2008
1st research paper analysis
on page 407 . right under the 'Average Degree of Seperation' heading the author writes..''i calculated exhaustively the minimum distance..... for all pairs of scientists in our databases for whom a connection exists "
which sounds quiet unbelieveable ... because looking at table
1 .total authors for MEDLINE = 1520251
hence he calculated 1520251 C 2 ..(where c means combination)which = 1.15 * 10 ^ 12
for just one database ...
and then he applied some minimum distance algorithm which has queit a big complexity of its own since the database is so large for EACH AND EVERY PAIR ?
and later he says that he paired all the authors from the databases.... meaning adding all the authors and calculating shotest distance for all pairs ? :S ?
it sounds a little vivid to me because an exhaustive computation of that is very very big, or did I not understand what he said.Can sme1 please help me out.
which sounds quiet unbelieveable ... because looking at table
1 .total authors for MEDLINE = 1520251
hence he calculated 1520251 C 2 ..(where c means combination)which = 1.15 * 10 ^ 12
for just one database ...
and then he applied some minimum distance algorithm which has queit a big complexity of its own since the database is so large for EACH AND EVERY PAIR ?
and later he says that he paired all the authors from the databases.... meaning adding all the authors and calculating shotest distance for all pairs ? :S ?
it sounds a little vivid to me because an exhaustive computation of that is very very big, or did I not understand what he said.Can sme1 please help me out.
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