I’ve been working on this paper for some time, and it’s become clear that if I’m to finish it by the deadline I must make a dogged effort to devote time to writing it regularly: writing occasionaly for hours at a time hasn’t been working for me.
Today is the first day. I intend to do [...]

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I finally got access to our new supercomputer, “ducky”, but it’s running AIX which is a total pain in the ass. Now I remember why UNIX kind of went away for a little while — all of these proprietary unixes, none of which are quite compatible with each other. I’m spoiled by Linux / BSD [...]

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btice
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*g_1mm.par
Apr 16 09:24

11059
btice
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*g_2mm.par
Apr 16 09:27

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btice
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*g_4mm.par
Apr 16 09:27

11061
btice
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*g_6mm.par
Apr 16 09:28

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btice
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*g_8mm.par
Apr 16 09:29

The queue’s not too full on easter. The cluster has been very busy for the last few months, which makes it hard to set up new simulations because you can’t interactively test the job scripts. Today things [...]

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There’s a great article on spiked science covering the recent stem cell fraud and why peer review ultimately succeeds in keeping research honest.  The scientific tenet that for research to be valid, it must be reproducible by others is pivotal in this.
spiked-science | Article | Peer review and ‘media science’
As we have seen, [...]

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Users of the GTD methodology should know that only two things go on your calendar: things that must be done on a certain day, and ‘tickler’ type reminders, if you choose to put them there.  Items that need to be done but don’t have a specific date associated with them belong on Next Action lists, [...]

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