B-log on IT
Via Tara Javidi I heard about a new blog on information theory: the Information Theory b-log, which has been going for a few months now but I guess in more “stealth mode.” It’s mostly posts by Sergio...
View ArticleLinkage (technical)
Having seen a talk recently by John Ioannidis on how medical research is (often) bunk, this finer corrective by Larry Wasserman was nice to read. Computer science conferences are often not organized by...
View ArticleActive learning survey
I’ve been starting work on a problem related to active learning, and I wanted to get caught up on the literature. Luckily for me, Sanjoy Dasgupta has a nice survey (non-paywall version here) from 2011...
View ArticleJob opening : Chair at the Hamilton Institute
Vijay Subramanian passed along this job opening in case readers know of someone who would be interested… FULL PROFESSOR, HAMILTON INSTITUTE, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY of IRELAND MAYNOOTH The Hamilton...
View ArticlePSA : ISIT submission formatting
If you, like me, tend to cart around old ISIT papers and just gut them to put in the new content for this year’s paper, don’t do it. Instead, download the template because the page size has changed...
View ArticleCRA Best Practices on Mentoring Postdocs
I just got the CRA newsletter, and it had a link to a document on best practices for mentoring postdocs: … data from the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) annual Taulbee Survey indicate that the...
View ArticleRIP Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz, who most recently made headlines for expropriating a large amount of information that was on JSTOR and making it available to the public, committed suicide. Cory Doctorow has a...
View ArticlePostdoc positions at UT Austin
The Simons Postdoc positions are open: The ECE department at The University of Texas at Austin seeks highly qualified candidates for postdoctoral fellowship positions, lasting up to two years, in the...
View ArticleNIPS casinos flooded
I had a rather dim view of the NIPS conference venue last year — the Harrah’s and Harveys casino/hotels in South Lake Tahoe. Nothing is more depressing than people playing the slots at 8 AM, smoking...
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On entitlement and the Mystery Hunt
The MIT Mystery Hunt ended a little over a week ago — the premise is that a coin is hidden somewhere on campus and teams have to solve a bunch of puzzles to find its location. The prize for winning is...
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