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*...at least, you can understand it if you understand the notion of a limit. Â Or so I think. Â If not, then I'm to blame! Borel's Paradox Consider a sphere equipped with lines of latitude (red) and ...

#borel #paradox

Docear http://www.docear.org/ , a tool to help you in your research, it has an interesting mind maps. Worth testing it, specially if you're a PhD student ;-)

#docear #research #phd

Mathematician Chris McKinlay hacked OKCupid to find the woman of his dreams.

Data Mining + Math + love + PhD (and some hacking) = Really amazing story ;-)

#okcupid #hack #phd

The essence of the Bayesian approach is to provide a mathematical rule explaining how you should change your existing beliefs in the light of new evidence. In other words, it allows scientists to combine new data with their existing knowledge or expertise

Kevin Murphy

#bayes

[Motivator of the day ;-)] Einstein's Ph.D. dissertation was a principled calculation meant to estimate Avogadro's number. He got it wrong. By a factor of 3. He still got a Ph.D. A Ph.D. is a small but significant contribution to human knowledge.

Matthew Might, CS professor

#phd motivator

Other suggestions for desperate PhD students...

Specially useful for procrastinators.

#phd #suggestions #procrastinator

I read an interesting post today by Matt Might on "10 reasons PhD students fail", and I thought it might be helpful to reflect on some of the barriers to PhD completion that I've seen. Matt's ideas...

I'm beginning my PhD, and I feel... lost. I don't know how to find my topic, how to begin the work. How much time should I dedicate to courses? To literature? Should I try to create a prototype and experiment on it?!

Here is what you should NOT do.

#phd #dummy #common mistakes

If you're beginning a PhD, this is the first rule. Don't worry about problems smaller than a gnat's back.

Confucius

#phd #confucius #zen

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