Science and productivity by Dr. Christine Corbett Moran
A week ago I hatched a plan to educate myself in a more structured manner on what exactly Wikileaks stands for, its history, and its possible futures with the idea of developing a more concrete and informed opinion (and since I have a habit of taking action with respect to my opinions, thereby guiding my Read More …
I’ve been intending on making a full writeup of recently read books, but have not gotten around to it as I tend to start a new book right after I finish the last (one of the many great things about being a Kindle user, more fangirling to come) and think “well… I’ll just wait until Read More …
Phygg featured on MIT Technology Review. Phygg was down for a bit today due to overload, upgrading my hosting and starting to do some analytics. Having your site go down is a tangy bitter shot of success and failure in the same glass. Here’s to steady uptime and a great phygg community to come! Read More …
It may not yet be a widely known fact but computer chips have stopped getting faster. But what if the average user doesn’t need all that performance? If desktop chipmakers are going to stay afloat there’s got to be a huge market for chips which scream. So what’s going to drive the CPU market? Read More …
My Sunday afternoon recover-from-jetlag hack was creating http://www.phygg.com. Phygg is designed to help sort through physics papers and discussion topics related to arXiv.org in the style of digg.com, initially focusing on astrophysics. I’m going to be using phygg to track papers I find interesting, so feel free to follow the rss feed. In addition, I’m hoping to convince a few of my astrophysicist colleagues to join in on the posting and voting, so stay tuned. Read More …
My introduction to QFT was incidentally very similar to http://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/so-is-the-universe-made-of-tiny-springs-or-isnt-it/. In the last post I told the story of my own struggles with quantum field theory and what it is supposed to mean. In this post (as promised), I want to let someone much more intelligent and eloquent tell the story of quantum fields. The Read More …
Tim O’Reilly describes it better, but I’ll do my best: Foo Camp is an invite only free event at tech publishing mogul O’Reilly’s corporate headquarters. Being invited meant a great deal to me. My biggest source of inspiration has always come from people, and a new friendship with someone who has an infectious spirit and story to tell can give me fuel–literally–for years. I’ve tried to do my best to give back some of the inspiration I stole from the pool to others while stocking up on protein packed chunks for exciting new projects. Foo was the perfect venue for this. Definitely life changing! Read More …
This is from memory, so may contain a few jumps of logic, but I needed to write a quick tutorial for getting code on the iPhone for my Kliq cofounder and figured that it may be useful for the internet-at-large. Read More …
I’ve been managing working with two startups part-part-time, mod a few sleepless nights, but both could benefit from a streak of full-time work, so when all the stars aligned with my personal and professional summer schedule I jumped at the chance and on a plane to San Francisco. I will arrive back in Zurich exactly coincident with the rest of my team for the true kickoff of my major PhD project. Read More …
I’m at a very specialized conference, on structure finding in cosmological simulations, outside of Madrid call haloes going MAD (MAD being the airport code for Madrid). At the end of a cosmological simulation we have a collection of particles, up to trillions these days, and to connect that to the observable universe we need to do some abstraction.