Last weekend, half of my RSS, FriendFeed, and Twitter feeds assembled in Berkeley for the first major conference ever devoted to open science** – the Open Science Summit 2010. The talks ranged from invigorating to completely inappropriate, but the real action was not on stage; it was in the hallways. Put a couple hundred hackers, [...]
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…or at least from the frontiers of half-baked undergraduate projects. Beginning this week, I’ll be posting research progress reports any day during which I work on a research project. For the vast majority of humanity, these will be about as exciting as reading the user manual for your printer. However, I have two main motivations [...]
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