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Elements of Ph.D., Volume 5

Hubris’ Prediction (no false negatives known) : The moment your advisor says you did a good job, you will stop doing anything for a week.

Posted on 28 May 2010 † Matteo § English § Nerd § University ‡ Comments (0) °

Elements of Ph.D., Volume 4

Conjecture of the incremental forgetting: If you don’t keep a lab notebook, you’ll soon forget about everything you think of. If you do keep one, you’ll soon forget to write on it. Comment on the above conjecture: There is widespread belief that the conjecture of the incremental forgetting is true. If you can prove the [...]

Posted on 16 May 2010 † Matteo § English § University ‡ Comments (0) °

Geoloc Test

Test…. Update: Yes, it worked now. Good.Posted from Providence, Rhode Island, United States.

Posted on 12 May 2010 † Matteo § English § Nerd ‡ Comments (0) °

Geekiest

I am a geek and I am trying the new WP for Android with geolocation. Update: It didn’t work. Is this a problem of the theme I’m using? Maybe. Update2: It worked (but setting the location to San Diego, CA (I’m not there)) when updating the post from my desktop. More updates to come.Posted from [...]

Posted on 12 May 2010 † Matteo § English § Nerd ‡ Comments (0) °

MapReduce/Hadoop Algorithms

Everyone needs a project for the summer, and I am no exception. Apart from working on my main research topic (don’t ask me about it, I’m just making this up ), I’ll try to use my free time to write a series of posts on algorithms for MapReduce / Hadoop (MR/H). This will not be [...]

Posted on 12 May 2010 † Matteo § English § MapReduceHadoop ‡ Comments (1) °

Elements of Ph.D., Volume 3

1st year conjecture on the relevance of research: The relevance of your research will become evident to you only after you got scooped.

Posted on 09 May 2010 † Matteo § English § University ‡ Comments (0) °

Elements of Ph.D., Volume 2

Lemma of the Choice for Grad Students: If you wake up late, your morning will either be very productive or a total waste of time, each with probability 0.5.

Posted on 04 May 2010 † Matteo § English § University ‡ Comments (0) °