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Today, Norman AUGUSTINE, former CEO of the main US Defense Company LOCKHEED MARTIN, came to give a talk at NUS on the challenges that Developed Nations are facing. After introducing with the fact that the technological advances recently have suppressed a lot of distance between people, he went on saying that a lot of work in developed nations is being outsourced. If outsourcing reduces costs for a given company in ...

Ok, if you workout  by doing the same stuff you find on all websites: forget about all that, it's bullshit. I mean it may work but it's obsolete and inefficient. You need to train smartly basing your action on science and research rather than recommendations of popular gorillas. When you look like him you are on the right path: Apart from the 1-set to failure workout method, heavily described ...

Scientific journals, even the most popular peer-reviewed ones, remain human organizations and therefore cannot avoid the human imperfection in rationality. The process of peer-reviewing consists of having other contributors of a research journal read and criticise on your proposed article prior to publication. Usually several researchers are solicited and hold the responsibility of making sure content and writing style meet the expectations of scientific research : proposing a form of ...

Microsoft Research and Microsoft Research Asia organize every year a conference called "Computing in the 21st century". The subtitle was "New Horizon of Computing". This year's version had no less than 3 Turing award winners (Turing awards are something like the Nobel Prize of computing), the Senior Vice President of Microsoft, and a Managing Director at Microsoft Research Asia and at the same time IEEE fellow (a very prestigious ...

There is a lot of buzz on Youtube on what is referred to as being a permanent source of energy: Perendev or Bedini motors. The mere idea of "free energy" and perpetual movement necessarily sounds idiotic to any scientist or researcher, yet the large popularity of any topic always leaves a glimpse of doubt to even the most sceptical and rigorous scientists. A plethora of videos indeed show motors ...

While sorting my desk I found back a summary that I had written based on the excellent yet simple NSF recommendations on writing a Research Proposal : Twelve Steps to a Winning Research Proposal by George Hazelrigg. To a large extent, this advice can be applied to business proposals as well, aiming for a contest or a grant. Here is an even shorter version: Show you have researched previous work. Your proposed ...

Try Anjappar ! Anjappar is a restaurant chain that sells Chettinaad dishes. Chettinaad is a region of southern India very renowned for their local cuisine. They have a stall at NUS (Prince George Park Residence), it was delicious. I rarely asked to shake the cook's hand but this time I did because great food deserves great appreciation. It was one of those dishes that just make you crazy at every ...

Research papers often present interesting results to the community by mentioning alongside the conditions under which they obtained these results. It is not generally advised to bring up the thousands of tries (generally failures) with a comprehensive list of the changes of parameters to obtain incrementally something successful. Some of those changes you do in experimental research may or may not yield any interesting improvement. But if people get to ...

Although Singapore and more specifically NUS seems to have absolutely NO IDEA what Linux is, you may want to set up Linux on your desk at some point of time. And a few days later you will, like me, realize you have not set your lab's printer and start struggle with that. I did, so you no need lah, just follow this: The printer is shared on a PC ...

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