As noted in my previous post, I will be starting as an assistant professor at Frostburg State University this fall. However, the process of getting hired was not an easy or fun one. I will just share a little bit of my experience and links to information I found useful in case it helps anyone…
Today was my first time using markdown for a manuscript methods section (see previous post on getting set up in markdown). It had lots of equations so using LaTeX to write the equations was quite nice. Here’s an example of the markdown code: \\[ \mu_{s,h,d,y} = \left\{ \begin{array}{1 1} \omega_{s,h,d,y} + \delta_{s}(t_{s,h,d-1,y} – \omega_{s,h,d-1,y}) &…
Online social networking was basically unheard of just a decade ago, now it’s integrated into the fabric of American society. Facebook pages advertised on the national news and twitter hashtags pop up everywhere. And it’s not just American society either, as evidenced by the use of Twitter for social organization during the Arab Spring. From…
This post is going out on a bit of a limb because I am not familiar with the pedagogical literature relating to teaching scientific computing. As such, I can only speak from my very limited experience. I’ve taken a couple short courses on scientific computing, but the only formal full-semester course I’ve taken was Introduction…
As those who know me IRL or follow me on twitter (@djhocking), I am advocate for open science. This includes data sharing, open source software, open access to code of analysis, and open source publishing. This is my first post on the subject. I actually started this post back on 02 April 2013 but then…
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