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Showing posts with label rants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rants. Show all posts
Thursday, April 10, 2025

AI After the Bust

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I was a postgraduate student when the dot com mania hit. Everyone was trying to start an online business, and investors were throwing fistfu...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Down with middlemen!

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If there is one thing that the rise of e-commerce sites like eBay and Amazon.com has shown it is that the middleman is doomed. Entire booksh...
Thursday, September 27, 2012

The Problem with Academic Journals 7

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The following quote was in an email I received from the editor of a certain prestigious general science journal: "Your manuscript is ...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

On Being a Post-doc

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After completing a PhD, most people who wish to stay in academia end up doing one or more post-doctoral positions. Experience as a post-doc ...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Publishing and perishing under gameable metrics

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My alma mater is in the New Zealand news again , and again it is to do with gaming the metrics by which the research performance of New Ze...
Thursday, April 26, 2012

There's no un-gameable metric

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I've been a bit quiet on the blog front lately, mostly because I've been working like a dog on several projects, including writing t...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Publishing or perishing 2

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Or, big trouble in little USyd. In a previous post , I discussed the principle of "Publish or perish". This phrase is a succinct...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Common grammatical errors

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English is the result of Norman soldiers attempting to pick up Anglo-Saxon barmaids, and is no more legitimate than any of the other resul...
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