tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89486702809328026642010-01-10T05:27:15.494+08:00Life as a Ph.D. studentJesse P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09416618731753442153noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8948670280932802664.post-90032191415771793092009-10-13T14:47:00.007+08:002009-10-13T15:06:30.161+08:00

The NUS Digital Library has a very comprehensive list of e-resources which includes many publishers like ACM, Springer, IEEE, etc. It's great but it does not really help since most of the time, we find papers through Google search results. Here's (a possible) workflow:Search keywords in GoogleFind an exact match that goes to the paper page in ACM, Springer, IEEE, etc.Go to the NUS Digital Library

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Happy 44th Birthday Singapore ;)Found the above image from Google Singapore

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is like trying to deconstruct a sweater into independent and usable separate colored balls of yarn.Images from here and here.

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I was playing around with iPhoto 2009 the other day and I find how Apple has made use of face detection to organize photos pretty fascinating.What probably started in the late 1990s (I'm just guessing), has gone a long way. Face detection has been in virtually all modern cameras for awhile now. Since January 2009, its also in photo management applications.What I find most fascinating about Faces

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If you are not already familiar with TiddlyWiki, do consider it for your day-to-day organization. Personally, I think its main strength is in its ability to be entirely portable and relatively extensible. But in this post, I'm going to talk ForeCiteNote. FCN is a project built on top of TiddlyWiki by my research group, WING. In short, its an academic's version of TiddlyWiki, which includes a

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Over the past few years, Spectral Clustering has become one of the more popular clustering algorithms. There are several known implementations to the method and therein lies the reason for its popularity: simple to implement, efficient to compute, and outperforms traditional clustering algorithms such as k-means.Here are some great papers on the matter:Ulrike von Luxburg (2007). A tutorial on

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Recently I was a guest blogger for the upcoming ACL-IJCNLP conference here in Singapore. Check out my post at their blog.Here is an excerpt:As a modern society, we interact with many things in our lives: from household appliances and mobile devices to pencil sharpeners and door handles. We take these everyday things for granted and interact with them seamlessly, but the truth is, there was a

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Let's hope this one lasts longer than my previous ones :-)

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