Language learning
Learning a language fluently is surprisingly more about social engineering than anything else. Read More …
Author: Corbett
Consumption
I recommend having a good mobile productivity setup, and having good tools for home, work and travel. Read More …
Ada Lovelace day
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science. I had a really tough time deciding which woman to profile (see my International Women’s Day post for a collection of links about women I admire), so I decided to go for three in the end Read More …
Green Supercomputing
The beginning of this week I spent in sunny Lugano, Switzerland at the High Performance Computing Advisory Council workshop and the kickoff meeting for my PhD project, the “Computational Cosmology on the Petascale” collaboration under the Swiss High Performance and High Productivity Computing initiative. The HPC advisory council workshop, which I unfortunately only got to Read More …
International Women's Day
Happy International Women’s Day 2010! I’ll be doing a longer post on Ada Lovelace Day March 24th (please consider pledging to make a post in your personal blog) but for now, here are some tasty links to bios and articles relating to gender issues, particularly women in the science and technology sector whom I admire. Read More …
And the data are
There will be many more posts about my primary research arena (computational astrophysics) over the next years. For a few months, however, I am pursuing a slightly different track, doing a project in pure observational astronomy between finishing my Master’s and beginning my PhD. Actually seeing stars and galaxies on a daily basis has been Read More …
Gmail workflow
I met up with my incredibly talented friend Nada for lunch at Google Zürich today. You can read about how lovely the Google offices are elsewhere on the internet. Nada works on the Gmail team, and she’s the second hacker at Google working on Gmail to deem me a “power Gmail user.” Never fear, it’s Read More …
Scientific Methodology
Any series of results should be able to be re-generated quickly (as measured in scientist-time not computer-time) based solely on meta-data provided–and this is the key point–as part of the results themselves. Read More …
SkyMall
I absolutely love the SkyMall magazine which comes in the seat pocket of most commercial flights. For the uninitiated, it’s an eclectic collection of gadgets and knickknacks, each with a catchy tag line, a marketing koan if you will, meant to drive you to the realization that this item will improve your quality of life Read More …
Productivity
My personal productivity philosophy is a cross between Getting Things Done and the Cult of Done. I dig the simplicity of the latter, the emphasis on above all done, but some self-reflection and hierarchy of methodology can help reduce the delay between thought and action. My basic principles are: Record goals as soon as they Read More …