Tweet As an ultimate LaTeX addicted, I hate to admit that there is nothing in the TeX universe comparable to the amazingly simple and intuitive revision tracking system that Microsoft implemented in Word. OpenOffice apparently has an equally powerful version control system built in its Writer. Those of you who ever ventured into the territories [...]
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Tweet I’m now at the Max Planck institute for Human Development, Berlin. I’ll be working on the large Knowledge Collider project (LarKC), an EU grant that aims to create a platform for real-time reasoning on the semantic web. The semantic web is being around for years, but only now it’s getting enough momentum. This is [...]
Tweet Jose posted an article last week about one person’s PhD experience, highlighting many of the common difficulties encountered when doing what’s largely a self-directed research project. There are loads of books about how to finish a PhD that expand on these questions – of supervisors, organizing your time and so on – but I’ve [...]
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Tweet Recently I met with someone who is the editor for one of the top journals in my field. We discussed what would increase your chances of pleasing a journal editor. He gave me three clear pointers that I thought would be interesting to the readership here. But, I also think I’m going to try [...]
Tweet Just learned that Randy Pausch has passed away. Most of you will have been exposed to his extremely moving talk on ‘how to get the things you want’ at CMU, his last lecture, when he was diagnosed with cancer and give only a few months to live. What I didn’t know is that he [...]