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[T]he University of Arizona… offered me a bond-free scholarship via an email. I replied to ask if there were any conditions attached, specifically a bond of employment. While the details were that I had to maintain certain grades in order to keep the scholarship money going for the whole duration of undergraduate study, there was ...
Thanks to The Online Citizen, I watched this amazing piece of media coverage about the poor in Singapore by Al-Jazeera.Look, it’s Chee Soon Juan and he’s not a rabid monster! And ooh, did she just utter phrases like “tightly-controlled media” and comments about “the government liking criticism even less than it does welfare”? Oh …
For once, I’ve read some positive news regarding Temasek’s investment in Merrill Lynch. The Financial Times of London has just announced a new wrinkle in the Temasek-Merrill de …
From Steven Krantz’s Through a Glass Darkly, posted on arXiv:A mathematician typically goes through most of his early life as a flaming success at everything he does. One excels in g …
Again, the Singapore press trots out, from the usual sources, the hackneyed complaint that people who break their bonds are morally deficient ingrates.There is nothing new in these arguments.What’s more interesting, though, lies beneath that veneer of smear. On the same day comes more comments on complacency:‘Our people must realise that being No.1 is very ...
People visiting your university for a conference shouldn’t have to read a campus map and a map of the town just to figure out where things are. How much would it have cost to put up strategic signs to tell people how to walk from the hotel to the lecture hall to the poster room, ...
density functional theory beta versionMy advisor told me about Kieron Burke's project to write a textbook on density functional theory. It's woefully incomplete, but very insightful.
Elia Diodati posted a photo:Once a smelly fishing port, the district of Tamshui in the north of Taipei is now one of the fastest-growing neighborhoods. This sunset panorama is taken near t …
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GoThere[cond-mat/0211443v5] A bird's-eye view of density-functional theoryLucid and well-written introduction to DFT as it is practiced today
In a moment of unbridled silliness, I doodled this Venn diagram in skitch.Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!
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Glass Castle: Born in 1965, you in essence grew up side-by-side with the nation of Singapore. Could you talk a little about the evolving expectations for women in society over your lifetime?Sylvia Lim: I did not feel it in my family as my parents treated boys and girls similarly. But I have seen evolution outside ...
Elia Diodati posted a photo:4th of July fireworks in Dodds Park in Champaign, IL
Elia Diodati posted a photo:4th of July fireworks in Dodds Park in Champaign, IL
Elia Diodati posted a photo:4th of July fireworks in Dodds Park in Champaign, IL
Elia Diodati posted a photo:4th of July fireworks in Dodds Park in Champaign, IL
My annoying labmate is absent, my advisor just sent out my second paper and is now reading the draft of my third manuscript, it’s sunny out - 78 F and low humidity to boot - and my parsley-cinnamon bagels actually turned out well.Ah, for more days like this.
In response to Mr Wang’s posting, I have to add that I have my own horror story about the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority.Somebody I knew died and I was involved with sorting up matters. At some point we found out that the ICA had recorded the wrong date on the death certificate issued to the ...
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