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Randomness, statistics and understanding

By On June 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment

So here I am, sitting in a statistics workshop, having finished all the exercises ahead of time, musing on how much easier all this stuff is once you understand where it all comes from. This made me think that I have found this workshop more understandable and simpler to tackle because I have pretty much [...]

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Eee PC & Eeebuntu

By On June 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I’ve been hankering after a netbook for a while. Not just new shiny gadget lust (though that is certainly part of it, I’m only human after all), but a small machine with good battery life would be ideal for on the road, and for all the chugging round campus (and beyond) to meetings I do [...]

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Experiments with MindMapping

By On May 28, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I’ve been experimenting with various forms of note taking recently. I keep my daily diary on my wiki, but struggle to capture my every note there, because of the editing overhead, and requirement to be online (which I often am not during meetings, for example). So I have tried

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Papers for iPhone, a brief review

By On February 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Papers, from Mekentosj, is a literature management program for Mac. It organises pdfs into a searchable library, and stores the appropriate metadata associated with scientific articles (which it retrieves from public repositories such as PubMed, though in practise you can tag any document with any metadata).

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