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
A California road trip with Hertz 24/7: good prices and new cars, but the management system is buggy—reservations cancel randomly, charges appear incorrectly, and you must remember to manually end your trip.
C++ or MATLAB for research?
Compares C#/C++ and MATLAB for research work, arguing MATLAB is better suited for rapid prototyping while compiled languages excel at building production systems.
Inspiration Fragments
Career insights: presentation skills matter as much as technical work, impact beats paper count, mindfulness boosts productivity, and reuse code with unit tests to debug less.
Sending Emails from Cygwin
Quick tutorial on configuring exim and email packages in Cygwin to send emails from Windows command line via SMTP server without authentication.