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		<title>Haskell snippet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 09:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just some snippet of Haskell code today to return the last but one element of a list. The first implementation uses the built-in functions last and take. The second implementation below uses the built-in functions head and drop. Filed under: Haskell, programming Tagged: Haskell, programming<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mvngu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4385998&amp;post=1925&amp;subd=mvngu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Originality in research</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We never think entirely alone: we think in company, in a vast collaboration; we work with the workers of the past and of the present. [In] the whole intellectual world &#8230; each one finds in those about him [or her] the initiation, help, verification, information, encouragement, that he [or she] needs. &#8212; A. D. Sertillanges [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mvngu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4385998&amp;post=1916&amp;subd=mvngu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Spies Prize: Robert Bradshaw</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year, Robert Bradshaw is the winner of the Annual Spies Sage Development Prize. Congratulations, Robert! Here is the prize citation: Robert Bradshaw has been an extremely active and productive Sage developer for over five years. Additionally, he has been a leader, both in maintaining the community and in important design decisions. He is probably [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mvngu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4385998&amp;post=1911&amp;subd=mvngu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Research projects</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 13:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following on from a previous post that explored the notion of &#8220;academic&#8221; in academic projects, I now turn to the keyword &#8220;project&#8221;. In the Meliorist Model, a project is a set of actions leading from a current state to a desired goal. Within the context of academic projects, the existing situation is the current state [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mvngu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4385998&amp;post=1902&amp;subd=mvngu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s academic</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 12:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is a follow-up to a previous post entitled &#8220;Undergraduate projects&#8221;. Here, I want to explore the question of what renders a computing project academic. Many degrees at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels require a research component as part or all of the degrees. Examples include Honours, Master&#8217;s, MPhil, and PhD. My primary focus [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mvngu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4385998&amp;post=1892&amp;subd=mvngu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Documenta Mathematica now mirrored at sagemath.org</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 11:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m delighted to announce that the journal Documenta Mathematica is now mirrored on the Sage website at http://www.sagemath.org/documenta/. Documenta Mathematica is an open access mathematics journal. It is open to all fields of mathematics. Articles are refereed in the traditional anonymous peer review model, which is what any respectable journal does. Filed under: mathematics, Sage [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mvngu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4385998&amp;post=1886&amp;subd=mvngu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 09:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this post, I set the stage for a discussion of the question: What is an academic project in the field of computing? This question will not be dealt with in this post, but possibly a future post. For an understanding of what constitutes an academic computing project, we should think back to the various [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mvngu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4385998&amp;post=1879&amp;subd=mvngu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DaMN book now on Softpedia</title>
		<link>http://mvngu.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/damn-book-now-on-softpedia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My book-in-progress Algorithmic Graph Theory, co-authored with David Joyner and Nathann Cohen, is now listed on Softpedia. These days I rather refer to the book as the DaMN book. The name is taken from the first letter of the first name of each author. Filed under: documentation, education, graph theory, mathematics Tagged: book, DaMN, graph [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mvngu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4385998&amp;post=1872&amp;subd=mvngu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bubbles and gullibility</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 11:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Odlyzko [1] proposed a measure of gullibility, called the gullibility index, as a quantitative tool for developing realistic economic models. He argued that gullibility and innumeracy are strongly correlated, where innumeracy is understood to mean &#8220;the inability to reason with numbers and other mathematical concepts&#8221;. For example, answer the following question. What weighs more: a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mvngu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4385998&amp;post=1867&amp;subd=mvngu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Equality and its implications</title>
		<link>http://mvngu.wordpress.com/2011/06/12/equality-and-its-implications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 09:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an installment of my reading journal on ethics. The topic of this installment is the chapter &#8220;Equality and Its Implications&#8221; of the book Practical Ethics by Peter Singer [2, pp.16--54]. Compared to some authors on philosophy, I find Singer&#8217;s writing to be usually (but not always) approachable and mostly free of jargons that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mvngu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4385998&amp;post=1735&amp;subd=mvngu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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