Just came home from doing homework for 20 hour straight.  I only came home so I could take a shower and hopefully sleep 3-4 hours.  Then I get to go back to my office and work for another 8-10 hours.

Really enjoying the best years of my life right now.

I just got a memo about some stuff with filing my taxes. I think the first paragraph wasn't thought through very thoroughly.

Our payroll records indicate that during calendar year 2007 Caltech paid you a total of $6501.00 in fellowship stipends.
You have provided no services in exchange for these stipends.

(Emphasis mine.)

If a partition is defined using the formula tab, then clicking ON the "Create a neighbor partition" checkbox would change the partition so that instead of the partition containing points satisfying the formula, the points in contained in the partition would be those points neighboring the points satisfying the formula. Instead of just those ( Read more... )

A recent study of this subject concludes that bioscientists experience a "huge lifetime economic disadvantage": on the order of $400,000 in earnings discounted at 3% compared to PhD fields such as engineering, and about $1 million in lifetime earnings compared with medicine. When expected lifetime earnings of bioscientists are compared with those ( Read more... )

I was reading an article in Nature: Materials today when an author referred to some videos on his website. Here is the guy's site and if you don't want to read what he has to say, at least watch the two totally cool videos here and here.

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