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Food Preservation and the Accidental History of Extremophile Research
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Fibonacci Flim-Flam.
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february 2010 by jtth

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Zero Intelligence Agents » UPDATED: Must-Have Python Packages for Social Scientists
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february 2010 by jtth

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The Wagnerian Method § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

Composers generally cope with this problem by writing lyrics for sopranos that are not essential to their operas’ plots. But Smith and Wolfe began to wonder whether some hadn’t found a better solution. They realized that composers could actually avoid the problem completely by pairing words with notes at which the vowel sounds resonated naturally in a singer’s mouth. Smith saw Wagner—a perfectionist notorious for writing long and demanding soprano roles—as an obvious candidate on which he and Wolfe could test their theory.

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january 2010 by jtth

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Ant Lovers Unite! Will Wright And E.O Wilson On Life And Games : NPR
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september 2009 by jtth

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Advice on designing scientific posters

A scientific poster is a large document that can communicate your research at a scientific meeting, and is composed of a short title, an introduction to your burning question, an overview of your trendy experimental approach, your amazing results, some insightful discussion of aforementioned results, a listing of previously published articles that are important to your research, and some brief acknowledgement of the tremendous assistance and financial support conned from others—if all text is kept to a minimum, a person could fully read your poster in under 10 minutes.

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august 2009 by jtth

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F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

F for fast. That's how users read your precious content. In a few seconds, their eyes move at amazing speeds across your website’s words in a pattern that's very different from what you learned in school.

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july 2009 by jtth

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Pop!Casts

Champion of the Earth honoree and biomimicry pioneer Janine Benyus has transformed the way we think about innovation and design. Benyus challenges us to study nature’s best ideas, then imitate its designs and processes to solve some of our greatest human challenges.

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july 2009 by jtth

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Heavens-Above Home Page
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The International Association for Computing and Philosophy

The IACAP exists to promote scholarly dialogue and research on all aspects of the computational and informational turn, and on the use of information and communication technologies in the service of philosophy.

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june 2009 by jtth

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Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Acoustic Black Hole Created in Bose-Einstein Condensate
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The Institute of Cognitive Science

The Institute of Cognitive Science (ICS) at CU-Boulder has gained an international reputation for its promotion of interdisciplinary research and training in cognitive science. The institute is known for theory development and the application of those theories to real-world problems. The institute also houses four research centers, the Center for Lifelong Learning and Design (L3D), the Center for Computational Language and Education Research (CLEAR), the Center for Research on Training (CRT), and the Interdisciplinary Behavioral Science Center on the Determinants of Executive Function and Dysfunction (DEFD).

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English Lexicon Project - Home Page
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may 2009 by jtth

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may 2009 by jtth

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The Last Question -- Isaac Asimov
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may 2009 by jtth

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PLoS ONE: The e-Index, Complementing the h-Index for Excess Citations
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may 2009 by jtth

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Findings - Ear Plugs to Lasers - The Science of Concentration - NYTimes.com

The book’s theme, which Ms. Gallagher chose after she learned she had an especially nasty form of cancer, is borrowed from the psychologist William James: “My experience is what I agree to attend to.” You can lead a miserable life by obsessing on problems. You can drive yourself crazy trying to multitask and answer every e-mail message instantly.

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may 2009 by jtth

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Chemical 'caterpillar' points to electronics-free robots - tech - 28 April 2009 - New Scientist
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may 2009 by jtth

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BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Obama vows investment in science

President Barack Obama has set the goal of devoting 3% of gross domestic product (GDP) to US science research.

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april 2009 by jtth

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Magic and the Brain: Teller Reveals the Neuroscience of Illusion

Now that on-the-job experimentation has taken an academic turn. A couple of years ago, Teller joined a coterie of illusionists and tricksters recruited by Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, researchers at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, to look at the neuroscience of magic. Last summer, that work culminated in an article for the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience called "Attention and Awareness in Stage Magic." Teller was one of the coauthors, and its publication was a signal event in a field some researchers are calling magicology, the mining of stage illusions for insights into brain function.

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april 2009 by jtth

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AuthorMapper - Scientific Research and Author Locations Globally

AuthorMapper searches journal articles and plots the location of the authors on a map.

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april 2009 by jtth

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Climate Change and Argumentative Fallacies

Sometimes, of course, the arguments are such that the specialists can develop and summarize them to the point that an intelligent layman can evaluate them. But often—and I feel pretty sure here—that’s just not the case. Give me a topic I know fairly intimately, and I can often make a convincing case for absolute horseshit. Convincing, at any rate, to an ordinary educated person with only passing acquaintance with the topic. A specialist would surely see through it, but in an argument between us, the lay observer wouldn’t necessarily be able to tell which of us really had the better case on the basis of the arguments alone—at least not without putting in the time to become something of a specialist himself.

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april 2009 by jtth

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Voodoo Correlations: Have the Results of Some Brain Scanning Experiments Been Overstated?: Scientific American

VUL: We use that term as a humorous way to describe mysteriously high correlations produced by complicated statistical methods (which usually were never clearly described in the scientific papers we examined)—and which turn out unfortunately to yield some very misleading results. The specific issue we focus on, which is responsible for a great many mysterious correlations, is something we call “non-independent” testing and measurement of correlations. Basically, this involves inadvertently cherry-picking data and it results in inflated estimates of correlations.

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february 2009 by jtth

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The Semantic Apocalypse « Speculative Heresy
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february 2009 by jtth

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well-formed.eigenfactor.org : Visualizing information flow in science

Interactive visualizations of scientific influence as measured through Eigenfactors.

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february 2009 by jtth

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Damn Interesting » On the Origin of Circuits

It seems that evolution had not merely selected the best code for the task, it had also advocated those programs which took advantage of the electromagnetic quirks of that specific microchip environment. The five separate logic cells were clearly crucial to the chip's operation, but they were interacting with the main circuitry through some unorthodox method– most likely via the subtle magnetic fields that are created when electrons flow through circuitry, an effect known as magnetic flux. There was also evidence that the circuit was not relying solely on the transistors' absolute ON and OFF positions like a typical chip; it was capitalizing upon analogue shades of gray along with the digital black and white.

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december 2008 by jtth

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The “broken windows” theory of crime is correct | Can the can | The Economist

Clearly, cyclists are easily influenced by their surroundings.

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november 2008 by jtth

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magicnumbermachine - Magic Number Machine
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Intentional action and Asperger Syndrome | Psychology Today Blogs

Try it for yourself. My perception of intentionality isn't 'normal.'

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november 2008 by jtth

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Edsger Dijkstra - Discipline in Thought - good coders code, great reuse
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The McCollough Effect - An On-line Science Exhibit
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november 2008 by jtth

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Study finds genomic changes in the brains of people who commit suicide
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october 2008 by jtth

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Evolved Virtual Creatures
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october 2008 by jtth

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The fallibility of scientific journals | Publish and be wrong | The Economist
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october 2008 by jtth

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Complex Systems Group | IU Department of Informatics | Main / HomePage browse

The Complex Systems Group (CX) at Indiana University is part of the School of Informatics. The group was established in 2004 as the first of its kind in the university, although it was not formalized until the formation of the Department of Informatics within the School. CX is meant to foster interdisciplinary research in all areas related to complex systems. It is currently under the coordination of Alessandro Vespignani, Professor of Informatics and Physics.

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october 2008 by jtth

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BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | In conversation with... a computer program
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october 2008 by jtth

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Stress: Portrait of a Killer » National Geographic Documentary with Robert Sapolsky (Stanford University)
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october 2008 by jtth

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Browse the Artifacts of Geek History in Jay Walker's Library

If I saw this place I'd think I died.

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october 2008 by jtth

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Kevin Kelly -- The Technium

The Baby Boom generation (a world-wide phenomenon) has an expected life span of about 80 years. Born about 1950, most baby boomers should be dead by 2040. However all kinds of other powerful things are expected to happen by 2040. China’s economy is due to overtake the US in 2040. 2040 is the average date when the Singularity is supposed to happen. 2040 is when we expect Moore's Law to reach the computational power of a human on a desk top. 2040 is also about when the population of the world is supposed to peak once and for all, and environmental pressure decrease. This grand convergence of global scale disruptors are all scheduled to appear – no surprise – at exactly the date of this generation’s Maes-Garreau Point: 2040.

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october 2008 by jtth

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CAIDA : tools : visualization : walrus

Walrus is a tool for interactively visualizing large directed graphs in three-dimensional space. It is technically possible to display graphs containing a million nodes or more, but visual clutter, occlusion, and other factors can diminish the effectiveness of Walrus as the number of nodes, or the degree of their connectivity, increases. Thus, in practice, Walrus is best suited to visualizing moderately sized graphs that are nearly trees. A graph with a few hundred thousand nodes and only a slightly greater number of links is likely to be comfortable to work with.

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october 2008 by jtth

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White roofs, streets could curb global warming

If the 100 largest cities in the world replaced their dark roofs with white shingles and their asphalt-based roads with concrete or other light-colored material, it could offset 44 metric gigatons (billion tons) of greenhouse gases, the study shows. That amounts to more greenhouse gas than the entire human population emits in one year, according to a recent article in the Los Angeles Times. The strategy could also offset the growth in carbon dioxide emissions, which account for about 75% of greenhouse gases, for the next 10 years.

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september 2008 by jtth

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Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » Towards a Culture of Responsible Psychoactive Drug Use

The caretakers of erowid discuss their topic well.

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september 2008 by jtth

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How To Spot A Psychopath :: Light-Bulbs Of DOOOOOOMMMM! :: September :: 2008

Executive summary: The second you read someone saying that metallic mercury is an incredibly potent neurotoxin, you know you’re looking at bullshit.

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september 2008 by jtth

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Press Release - 11 September 2006 University of Bath

Drivers pass closer when overtaking cyclists wearing helmets than when overtaking bare-headed cyclists, increasing the risk of a collision, the research has found.

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september 2008 by jtth

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PARI/GP Development Headquarters

PARI/GP is a widely used computer algebra system designed for fast computations in number theory (factorizations, algebraic number theory, elliptic curves...), but also contains a large number of other useful functions to compute with mathematical entities such as matrices, polynomials, power series, algebraic numbers etc., and a lot of transcendental functions. PARI is also available as a C library to allow for faster computations.

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august 2008 by jtth

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BBC NEWS | Health | Brain's counting skill 'built-in'

Humans have an in-built ability to do mathematics even if they do not have the language to express it, a research team has suggested.

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august 2008 by jtth

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Warp Speed Engine Designed : Discovery News : Discovery Channel

That means that the ship would arrive at its destination faster than a beam of light traveling the same distance, but without violating Einstein's relativity, which says that it would take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate an object with mass to the speed of light, since the ship itself isn't actually moving.

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august 2008 by jtth

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Seedmagazine.com | Revolutionary Minds | The Re-envisionaries

The ideas in the 'immunocomputing' feature are pretty fucking revolutionary and brilliant. Like modeling the ground instead of the figure, for the sake of modeling the figure. Wow.

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august 2008 by jtth

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UPDATED: 10 Must-Have Python Packages for Social Scientists <> Zero Intelligence Agents
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july 2008 by jtth

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30 Most Incredible Abstract Satellite Images of Earth : Environmental News Blog | Environmental Graffiti

We thought that it, in case you missed the exhibition, it would be amazing to dig up these images and provide some wallpapers for you to download. All images are used courtesy of NASA.

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july 2008 by jtth

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McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Physical Theories as Women

3. Quantum mechanics is the girl you meet at the poetry reading. Everyone thinks she's really interesting and people you don't know are obsessed about her. You go out.

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july 2008 by jtth

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Overcoming Bias: Planning Fallacy

So there is a fairly reliable way to fix the planning fallacy, if you're doing something broadly similar to a reference class of previous projects. Just ask how long similar projects have taken in the past, without considering any of the special propertie

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june 2008 by jtth

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eigenfactor.org - ranking and mapping scientific journals

linked via http://eigenfactor.org/advanced.php

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june 2008 by jtth

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Classical Computer Science Texts
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Memory Loss - Aging - Alzheimer's Disease - Aging Brains Take In More Information, Studies Show - Health - New York Times

the aging brain is simply taking in more data and trying to sift through a clutter of information, often to its long-term benefit. (linked via http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/news_single.html?id=8707)

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may 2008 by jtth

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The Scientific Activist: Why Are Veins Blue?

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april 2008 by jtth

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Journal of Machine Learning Research Homepage

The Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) provides an international forum for the electronic and paper publication of high-quality scholarly articles in all areas of machine learning. All published papers are freely available online. (linked via htt

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april 2008 by jtth

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Seed: Suspending Life

If almost every species on Earth was killed some 250 million years ago, how did our ancient ancestors survive and evolve into us?

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april 2008 by jtth

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Scientists Use Brain-Boosting Drugs | Scintilla

linked via http://scintilla.nature.com/

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april 2008 by jtth

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What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic

This paper presents a tutorial on those aspects of floating-point that have a direct impact on designers of computer systems. It begins with background on floating-point representation and rounding error, continues with a discussion of the IEEE floating-p

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april 2008 by jtth

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Obsolete Microkernel Dooms Mac OS X to Lag Linux in Performance

However, I think we've come to a point where the record speaks for itself, and the microkernel project has failed. Yet this still doesn't cleanly vindicate Linux merely because it has a monolithic kernel. Sure, Linux need no longer envy Darwin's microkern

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Psychonomic Society Publications

The Psychonomic Society promotes the communication of scientific research in psychology and allied sciences. Its members are qualified to conduct and supervise scientific research, must hold the PhD degree or equivalent, and must have published significan

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april 2008 by jtth

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CSE 214 - Lecture Notes

some nifty lecture notes about data structures. they're very concise.

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march 2008 by jtth

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For Scientists, a Beer Test Shows Results as a Litmus Test - New York Times

Wow.

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march 2008 by jtth

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Installing SciPy/Linux -
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UMFPACK: unsymmetric multifrontal sparse LU factorization package

UMFPACK is a set of routines for solving unsymmetric sparse linear systems, Ax=b, using the Unsymmetric MultiFrontal method. Written in ANSI/ISO C, with a MATLAB (Version 6.0 and later) interface. Appears as a built-in routine (for lu, backslash, and forw

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march 2008 by jtth

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Installing SciPy/Mac OS X -

A guide to installing SciPy, NumPy, and some libraries to make them really, really fast.