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Archive for April, 2006

Google Scholar

Sunday, April 30th, 2006

I must say, having been a long time CiteSeer user, Google Scholar is a real breath of fresh air. It is yet another academic search interface, although this time its done right (unlike Rexa which is waaaay too inaccurate). Its a great interface and you can actually find whatever your looking for, its quite amazing!
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LaTeX Presentations

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

Now you can design presentation templates in Inkscape and use them as a LaTeX style. From the LaTeX Presentation Designer website:
The package contains a documentclass called “presentation” which takes as an argument a slide style. The package also provides a simple python program that can interpret SVG files generated by Inkscape and build a slide […]

Getting to know R Graphs

Friday, April 7th, 2006

Check out the R Graph Gallery which includes not only detailed descriptions of graphs you can produce in R, but also R source! Props to Martin for the link.

What’s in a name?

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

Dennis Forbes gives a fantastic analysis of one of the biggest databases on the Internet - the DNS records. His analysis includes insights into domain name length, personal and family name usage and other characteristics. For example, did you know that all 2- and 3-letter domains are taken? Dennis is planning a second part […]