Monthly Archives: March 2010

Presentations and table sizes

When preparing a presentation for a meeting I am skipping tables wherever possible, and replace them by a suitable graph or plot. This helps the audiences the grasp the content more easily and less explanations are usually necessary (given that

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Microsoft inconsistency

I try to avoid Microsoft products whenever possible, but for presentations PowerPoint is still the best solution for me. Today I prepared a talk for a meeting this week and I tried to add a graph, which I produced in

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Fedora 12 and CUDA

Other than in a prior post I found it rather easy to install the driver under Fedora 12 and I even got CUDA working. NVIDIA’s Linux driver installs without any problem and the CUDA Toolkit also installs smoothly. The only

Posted in computer, programming

Tokyo sky tree has surpassed 300m height

For those of you who don’t know what it is, please check this site for more information about the Tokyo Sky Tree (an English page is available there as well). Anyway, it seems that at the end of the last

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Peer review times

As scientists we are expected to publish paper in so-called peer-reviewed journals which is supposed to ensure the quality of publication. Most of the journals are quite well organized and for nearly all my papers I had results from the

Posted in math, paper

Dry air and bad curry

Last weekend I went to Toyama by ANA since it is the only airline which serves that local airport from Tokyo (Haneda). The first flight HND->TOY took roughly 50 minutes and reading the airline journal in the seat pocket gave

Posted in Food, travel
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