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OpenScience / Science
Where’s the Fun in Home Experiments?
Wired magazine has an article called “Don’t Try This at Home” which starts by describing a recent CPSC raid on the house of the family that runs United Nuclear. We’ve mentioned UnitedNuclear before. They’re one of the few companies still … Continue reading
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Fast interpolation code?
Here’s a question for everyone who does numerical computation. Has anyone released an open-source 1-d interpolation algorithm with assembly code for the various kinds of processor SIMD extensions (i.e. SSE2, 3DNow, AltiVec)? Most (if not all) scientific codes make repeated … Continue reading
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Adium X
A brief break from the ongoing discussion to point out Adium X, which is an open source IM tool for Mac OS X. The cool thing about it is that if you happen to have the OS X Equation Service … Continue reading
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Making Money from OpenSource Science Software. III. Sell Services
This is the third post in a series exploring how scientific software companies might be able to make money while still keeping their code open. The previous articles are: How to make money from Open Source scientific software Sell Hardware … Continue reading
Making Money from OpenSource Science Software. II. Sell Hardware
This is the second post in a series in which I’m trying to figure out a general strategy for developers of open source scientific software to make a living without closing the source to their codes. The canonical examples of … Continue reading
How to make money from Open Source scientific software
One of my graduate students just got offered a job at computational chemistry software company. I have a lot of respect for this company; they make very good, very fast, and very capable products. They also hire real scientists and … Continue reading
JSpecView
JSpecView, a Java-based viewer for spectral data in the JCAMP-DX format has just been released under the LGPL license. [tags]spectroscopy, java[/tags]
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Freakishly good rant involving monkey urine
I won’t even post a summary. Just read Evil Monkey’s inspired rant over at NEUROTOPIA. [tags]science, graduate school[/tags]
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Allegra Goodman’s Intuition
I’ve known Allegra Goodman since she and her husband and I were all thrust into the same rainy and damp nine months in Churchill College, Cambridge. If I’d trust anyone to observe and write about life among scientists correctly, it … Continue reading