My next real break will probably occur in 2012. At least spring will get here sooner...
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Showing posts with label pies. Show all posts
Friday, April 1, 2011
"Spring Break"
My next real break will probably occur in 2012. At least spring will get here sooner...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Graphs of a blog of graphs
It's about time this happened, because there was no way I could let these pretty graphs just sit there. Blogger records visitor stats for the blogs it hosts and graphs them. So there are graphs of this blog's visitor traffic. Fig. 1 is a graph of visitor operating systems.
Fig. 1. Visitor operating systems for this blog
Compare that with the OS composition of another more high-traffic Blogger-hosted blog with stats I can access: the TA-run Brown ecology class blog (Fig. 2). Brown is rather maccy in general, but this is a really big difference!!
Fig. 2. Visitor operating systems for Brown ecology class blog
Finally, a general comparison is in order. As I did before when comparing my class diversity over time, this is basically a H' index. I wonder what Shannon et al. would think of my using their index to quantify diversity in ridiculous things, but it's the most familiar measure of diversity to me and here it is (Fig. 3).
Fig. 3. Diversity of this blog vs. the ecology blog
Of course, my real point in posting all these graphs is this idea: if I blog the graphs of the blog and then graph the blog of the graphs of the blog etc. etc. IT WOULD GO ON FOREVER!!!
Next time: web browser diversity!
As a side note: There is obviously some non-independence going on here (e.g. repeat visitors, of which I am sure there are many many many). But this is Blogger's fault and not mine and I am not making any statistical inferences here, so I'm going to pretend all is fine.
Fig. 1. Visitor operating systems for this blogCompare that with the OS composition of another more high-traffic Blogger-hosted blog with stats I can access: the TA-run Brown ecology class blog (Fig. 2). Brown is rather maccy in general, but this is a really big difference!!
Fig. 2. Visitor operating systems for Brown ecology class blogFinally, a general comparison is in order. As I did before when comparing my class diversity over time, this is basically a H' index. I wonder what Shannon et al. would think of my using their index to quantify diversity in ridiculous things, but it's the most familiar measure of diversity to me and here it is (Fig. 3).
Fig. 3. Diversity of this blog vs. the ecology blogOf course, my real point in posting all these graphs is this idea: if I blog the graphs of the blog and then graph the blog of the graphs of the blog etc. etc. IT WOULD GO ON FOREVER!!!
Next time: web browser diversity!
As a side note: There is obviously some non-independence going on here (e.g. repeat visitors, of which I am sure there are many many many). But this is Blogger's fault and not mine and I am not making any statistical inferences here, so I'm going to pretend all is fine.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Operation retrieve dive gear
Success. Did not get lost or stuck waiting for the next 2.5-hourly bus!
Not the most efficient, but I am still really thankful for public transport. And now my gear is ready to help me freeze while running transects in Nahant this week.
Also: I never knew Providence had a 'Nahant Street' but apparently it does. It is a tiny little street off Charles Street. I passed it on the bus today.
Not the most efficient, but I am still really thankful for public transport. And now my gear is ready to help me freeze while running transects in Nahant this week.
Also: I never knew Providence had a 'Nahant Street' but apparently it does. It is a tiny little street off Charles Street. I passed it on the bus today.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Networking at Benthics
(estimated in approximate number of hours spent)
I think we are all terrible at networking.
I think we are all terrible at networking.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
From the Benthics Meeting...
Out of 22.5 hours, this is the breakdown:
So ridiculously tired. But so worth it. The conference starts for real tomorrow!
Also: Mobile, AL is a pretty little city.
So ridiculously tired. But so worth it. The conference starts for real tomorrow!
Also: Mobile, AL is a pretty little city.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Biochemistry flashback
Every time I sit in my biochemistry lecture this semester I have flashbacks of learning some of the same stuff in the lecture theatre and the "Raffles Rooms" at RJC...something like 4 years ago (!!!). So while going over the lecture slides for the first exam I started keeping a count of 'old material' I learnt in JC1 and JC2 (= US grade 11-12) and 'new material', measured in numbers of content-bearing slides. Then, of course, I graphed it.
So...yeah. At least for the first third of the class, there is not that much new stuff. Plenty of re-learning things I forgot, and plenty of re-discovering that molecular-level things are awesome. So, yay for Singapore and the MOE's grand plan to push students into molecular biology and bio-tech-y things? I think that in the 3+ years since I took my A-levels, I've grown to appreciate the value of the strong background in molecular bio and genetics I got out of MOE's syllabus...at the same time, their attempt to push me in that direction obviously didn't work, and I'm glad it didn't :)
(This post is rightfully dedicated to Dr. Adrian Loo, who pretty much taught me everything in the blue part of the pie, answered all my questions on evolutionary biology and ecology, and enjoys getting students stuck in the mud...)
So...yeah. At least for the first third of the class, there is not that much new stuff. Plenty of re-learning things I forgot, and plenty of re-discovering that molecular-level things are awesome. So, yay for Singapore and the MOE's grand plan to push students into molecular biology and bio-tech-y things? I think that in the 3+ years since I took my A-levels, I've grown to appreciate the value of the strong background in molecular bio and genetics I got out of MOE's syllabus...at the same time, their attempt to push me in that direction obviously didn't work, and I'm glad it didn't :)(This post is rightfully dedicated to Dr. Adrian Loo, who pretty much taught me everything in the blue part of the pie, answered all my questions on evolutionary biology and ecology, and enjoys getting students stuck in the mud...)
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Squiddy
This is an old drawing that I made back in freshman year (in intro geology class, I believe). I think my squid drawing abilities are far better than my platypus drawing abilities.
The squid-with-big-gaping-hole-in-mantle is something that I notice everywhere, but when I re-discovered my old cartoon I decided to see how prevalent it actually is. So I ran a quick search for "squid" on Google Images, filtered by "clipart" to see. I excluded photographs and things that were clearly unrelated (e.g. things with the word 'squid' but no actual squid, squid-style multiplugs, people dressed as squids, etc) and put things that were labeled 'squid' but clearly not (e.g. octopuses, jellyfish, cthulhu) under the "Not a squid" category. This survey covers ~20 pages of Google Image results.
The squid-with-big-gaping-hole-in-mantle is something that I notice everywhere, but when I re-discovered my old cartoon I decided to see how prevalent it actually is. So I ran a quick search for "squid" on Google Images, filtered by "clipart" to see. I excluded photographs and things that were clearly unrelated (e.g. things with the word 'squid' but no actual squid, squid-style multiplugs, people dressed as squids, etc) and put things that were labeled 'squid' but clearly not (e.g. octopuses, jellyfish, cthulhu) under the "Not a squid" category. This survey covers ~20 pages of Google Image results.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
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