It all begins from the blog post 3 qualities of successful Ph.D. students: Perseverance, tenacity and cogency. I put it in our mailing list and here are some insightful disucssion (with authors' permission).
Experience about Hertz 24/7
Hertz 24/7 is basically Hertz's zipcar. Register to get $75 credit, can be combined with Columbia's Gold Plus Rewards. Also swipe the key nob (an RFID chip) and good to go. I rent a car in my California trip around July 4th, and share some experience with you here …
C++ or MATLAB for research?
I used to be (and still am) a big fan of C#/C++, and wrote all the research codes in these languages. But after reading this post by Olivier Duchenne discussing about MATLAB's advantages, my view is changing and think MATLAB may be a better candidate for research...
Why did …
Inspiration Fragments
Presenting your work is as important as doing the work itself, if not more. Treat every meeting with the supervisor as a precious opportunity to practice the ability to present your idea and convince others. Spend hours to polish our logic, slides, language, pronunciation, expression, answer to possible questions, even …
Sending Emails from Cygwin
Googled a lot but couldn't find tutorials about how to send emails from Windows command line. After playing with the mail tools in Cygwin, found it's pretty straightforward and put it up here for future reference.
- Install cygwin if you don't have it. (It's handy if you are familiar with …