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Science Code Manifesto
Recently, one of the students here at U. Sydney and I had the frustrating experience of trying to reproduce a numerical result from a paper, but it just wasn’t working. The code used by the authors was regrettably not made … Continue reading
Posted in Computers, Programming, Scientific Publishing
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strike!
In a move that will undoubtedly bring the US Senate to its knees, the Quantum Pontiff is going dark from 8am to 8pm EST on Jan 18 to protest SOPA, PIPA, the Research Works Act and other proposed acts of … Continue reading
Posted in Computers, General, Open Science, Scientific Publishing, Society
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Could Elsevier shut down arxiv.org?
They haven’t yet, but they are supporting SOPA, a bill that attempts to roll back Web 2.0 by making it easy to shut down entire sites like wikipedia and craigslist if they contain any user-submitted infringing material. (Here is a … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Computers, Economics, Open Science, Politics, Scientific Publishing
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Hippy Software Licenses
One of my favorite software licenses is the Beerware license, here in a version due to Poul-Henning Kamp: /* * ————————————————————– * “THE BEER-WARE LICENSE” (Revision 42): * <> wrote this file. As long as you retain * this notice … Continue reading
Posted in Computers, Fragment, Funny Ha Ha
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Watson
Exciting times for machine learning and artificial intelligence fans: IBM’s Watson computer versus two of the flesh bound starting tonight, Feb 14, 2011, on the game show Jeopardy. And not just any humans, I guess, but Ken Jennings and Brad … Continue reading
Posted in Computers, Off The Deep End, Television
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Help Rod With His Summer Reading
Posted in Computer Science, Computers, Quantum Computing
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