Want to be like Hamming? Here's how: In summary, I claim that some of the reasons why so many people who have greatness within their grasp don't succeed are:
* they don't work on important problems,
* they don't become emotionally involved,
* they don't try and change what is difficult to some other situation which is easily done but is still important,
* and they keep giving themselves alibis why they don't.
* They keep saying that it is a matter of luck. I've told you how easy it is; furthermore I've told you how to reform. Therefore, go forth and become great scientists!
I am a PhD student, and it's pretty common to replicate experiments or calculations before doing your own, just to ensure that your experimental set up/code is correct.
So it's not really in your spare time, it's more of an integral part of the research process.
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Want to be like Hamming? Here's how:
In summary, I claim that some of the reasons why so many people who have greatness within their grasp don't succeed are:
* they don't work on important problems,
* they don't become emotionally involved,
* they don't try and change what is difficult to some other situation which is easily done but is still important,
* and they keep giving themselves alibis why they don't.
* They keep saying that it is a matter of luck.
I've told you how easy it is; furthermore I've told you how to reform. Therefore, go forth and become great scientists!
Source: http://paulgraham.com/hamming.html
http://lout.wiki.sourceforge.net/FAQ
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lout
It's a pity that this hasn't gotten more attention. Apart from the extensive use of @, the functional language that Lout uses seems pretty flexible.
Calling it a review is stretching it...in short, he installed it and noticed that it ran slow, which is probably because it is alpha software.
I use the desert scheme that comes with ViM, which is rather similar to Zenburn.
Rieman sounds like a place in Germany.
Maybe because Riemann was from Germany?
The fact that the author uses "we" gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling of being included in the work...
I am a PhD student, and it's pretty common to replicate experiments or calculations before doing your own, just to ensure that your experimental set up/code is correct. So it's not really in your spare time, it's more of an integral part of the research process.