I know I'm the only one writing on this blog, but this time I think I've an interesting topic to share with you guys.
Yesterday I attended a lecture by John M. Chambers, one of the guys who invented S.
He talked about the interface between R and object-oriented programming languages, such as C++, python, java, ..., in a much easier way than using .C or .Call functions.
Also, he talked about object-oriented programming in R.
If you're interested in these topic I can share some links:
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rcpp/index.html (package to interface R with C++)
http://www.omegahat.org/OOP/ (package for object-oriented programming in R)
Bustra, give it a try! :)
cheers!
Friday, November 19, 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
The Big game is coming...
The big game (Cal vs. Stanford) is coming and the campus is setting up the right atmosphere...
(maybe a little trashy...)
Monday, November 15, 2010
Unmasking a Psychologyst
Hey guys!
This morning I was reading la Repubblica and I found this:
http://www.repubblica.it/scienze/2010/11/12/news/veggenti-9050929/?ref=HRERO-2
and, eventually, this:
http://dbem.ws/FeelingFuture.pdf
Now, I started reading and immediately I had the feeling that there is something wrong with the statistics there... (I didn't read the whole paper, though)
Since the journal has a high impact factor (number 3 within psychology journals), it would be nice to unravel the mystery showing (if it's the case) that it's all about bad use of statistics...
I know... I have a lot of time to waste...
but if someone is interested, let me know!
This morning I was reading la Repubblica and I found this:
http://www.repubblica.it/scienze/2010/11/12/news/veggenti-9050929/?ref=HRERO-2
and, eventually, this:
http://dbem.ws/FeelingFuture.pdf
Now, I started reading and immediately I had the feeling that there is something wrong with the statistics there... (I didn't read the whole paper, though)
Since the journal has a high impact factor (number 3 within psychology journals), it would be nice to unravel the mystery showing (if it's the case) that it's all about bad use of statistics...
I know... I have a lot of time to waste...
but if someone is interested, let me know!
Monday, November 8, 2010
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Perfect world of research
Hi guys, this is really funny.
Living in the US in an international and scientific environment is a wonderful experience that is teaching me a lot of things about science and life as well. More and more the "perfect world of Research" is becoming just a work, made of compromises and things not totally fair. Like the one I'm gonna tell you...
I was at lunch with one of my friend, that as almost all my network here is a young and smart scientist. Zrinka is a postdoc at the Department of Radiation Oncology here at Duke. She published a paper last year: "The novel amidocarbamate derivatives of ketoprofen: synthesis and biological activity" on Medicinal and Chemistry Research available here. Notice the received date of the paper: 16 July 2009.
What happened few months later is amazing. Two indian guys Prasanta Kumar Sahoo and Pritishova Behera saw her paper while it wasn't still accepted for publication. What they did? They cut&paste the whole paper, changed the author's names (clearly!) and slightly changed the title. They submitted to the European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry the copied paper with title "Synthesis and biological screening of some novel amidocarbamate derivatives of ketoprofen"! The paper, received the 15th of September was eventually accepted and published! And it is still available here!Amazing, but it is not the end of this story.
Maybe Prasanta Kumar Sahoo and Pritishova Behera were not totally happy about "their" pubblication result. Hence they decided to submit the same paper, again changing sligthly the title in "Cytostatic Activity of Some Novel Amidocarbamate Derivatives of Ketoprofen" to the Journal of Cancer Therapy, which again accepted their paper. Received date April, 19, 2010. Note that "their" first copied paper was already published when they submitted for the second time.
The last paper is no more available online, since Zrinka realized what was happening after a google search. She and her coauthors wrote to all the journals involved and one replyed dropping the fake pubblication, while the other still did nothing (sad, isn't it?). After few days she also received an email from Dr. (maybe just Mr.) Sahoo that's hilarious!
Riccardo & Maestro, could you please send me your working paper about clustering via nonparametric density estimation? ;)
Living in the US in an international and scientific environment is a wonderful experience that is teaching me a lot of things about science and life as well. More and more the "perfect world of Research" is becoming just a work, made of compromises and things not totally fair. Like the one I'm gonna tell you...
I was at lunch with one of my friend, that as almost all my network here is a young and smart scientist. Zrinka is a postdoc at the Department of Radiation Oncology here at Duke. She published a paper last year: "The novel amidocarbamate derivatives of ketoprofen: synthesis and biological activity" on Medicinal and Chemistry Research available here. Notice the received date of the paper: 16 July 2009.
What happened few months later is amazing. Two indian guys Prasanta Kumar Sahoo and Pritishova Behera saw her paper while it wasn't still accepted for publication. What they did? They cut&paste the whole paper, changed the author's names (clearly!) and slightly changed the title. They submitted to the European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry the copied paper with title "Synthesis and biological screening of some novel amidocarbamate derivatives of ketoprofen"! The paper, received the 15th of September was eventually accepted and published! And it is still available here!Amazing, but it is not the end of this story.
Maybe Prasanta Kumar Sahoo and Pritishova Behera were not totally happy about "their" pubblication result. Hence they decided to submit the same paper, again changing sligthly the title in "Cytostatic Activity of Some Novel Amidocarbamate Derivatives of Ketoprofen" to the Journal of Cancer Therapy, which again accepted their paper. Received date April, 19, 2010. Note that "their" first copied paper was already published when they submitted for the second time.
The last paper is no more available online, since Zrinka realized what was happening after a google search. She and her coauthors wrote to all the journals involved and one replyed dropping the fake pubblication, while the other still did nothing (sad, isn't it?). After few days she also received an email from Dr. (maybe just Mr.) Sahoo that's hilarious!
(somebody suggest me to drop this part...)
Riccardo & Maestro, could you please send me your working paper about clustering via nonparametric density estimation? ;)
Friday, October 29, 2010
Pictures
I have not posted any photo of my new workspace yet... here you are:
my desk:
and "You knooow?", always with me... :-)
my desk:
and "You knooow?", always with me... :-)
Monday, October 25, 2010
Vital Statistics
Interesting comment appeared in Nature about the role of the statistician in science:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7318/full/467914a.html
cheers!
davi.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7318/full/467914a.html
cheers!
davi.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
News from Evanston
Hi guys,
is it all OK, wherever you are?
I would like to give you some updates from Evanston, since I've some time. But, to tell the truth, I'm quite tired, perhaps due to the jet-lag, but more probably because I've spent all day walking into the Campus among several offices, in order to have an account, an ID... but it is just like in Italy, everyone says to go to the next office, and no-one solves anything... At the end, they told me to wait until Monday... I'll see...
Moreover, I see two apartments, and I just choose to join into the second one, with a young guy who study biology... at the end, also in US I'll be in the same room with another person... but I'm sure I'll be all OK.
I will give you more precise information about Evanston and Northwestern University as soon as I discover, until now I know NU is really big (obviously the offices where they send me time by time were on opposite side of the campus...), while its Statistics' Department is very small, nothing compared with our...
Take care!
is it all OK, wherever you are?
I would like to give you some updates from Evanston, since I've some time. But, to tell the truth, I'm quite tired, perhaps due to the jet-lag, but more probably because I've spent all day walking into the Campus among several offices, in order to have an account, an ID... but it is just like in Italy, everyone says to go to the next office, and no-one solves anything... At the end, they told me to wait until Monday... I'll see...
Moreover, I see two apartments, and I just choose to join into the second one, with a young guy who study biology... at the end, also in US I'll be in the same room with another person... but I'm sure I'll be all OK.
I will give you more precise information about Evanston and Northwestern University as soon as I discover, until now I know NU is really big (obviously the offices where they send me time by time were on opposite side of the campus...), while its Statistics' Department is very small, nothing compared with our...
Take care!
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
I miss you so much
Dear all,
I miss you so much. I think I start working on December-January, for one year. They will give me some datasets to analyse about the tourists appreciation of Venice-museums (Osservatorio civico dei musei). Meaby we get also a variable which is the mean-time in which the tourists look for a given picture, it's amazing. I'm in love with Menardo il Rosso.
In the meanwhile (waiting for December to start my job), I go to all the public conferences. Yesterday evening "Psycoanalysis conference" in the public library. I learn a lot of things, for instance, the greek term "Entelechia" it is a very marvellous word, foud out by Aristotele. In psycoanalysis it means that the person follows his own interior rules to develop himself without looking at others. Since I am in love with my city, tomorrow I will go to partecipate to some courses at the University (we have our own university in Mestre!!), one about Art History, and the other about Psycoanalysis.
So, that is my program.
I really hope all of you are fine, I really appreciated the last two years with all of you and I have to thank Monjed to all the things he teaches me about his beautiful culture.
I wish you all the best,
Marlies
I miss you so much. I think I start working on December-January, for one year. They will give me some datasets to analyse about the tourists appreciation of Venice-museums (Osservatorio civico dei musei). Meaby we get also a variable which is the mean-time in which the tourists look for a given picture, it's amazing. I'm in love with Menardo il Rosso.
In the meanwhile (waiting for December to start my job), I go to all the public conferences. Yesterday evening "Psycoanalysis conference" in the public library. I learn a lot of things, for instance, the greek term "Entelechia" it is a very marvellous word, foud out by Aristotele. In psycoanalysis it means that the person follows his own interior rules to develop himself without looking at others. Since I am in love with my city, tomorrow I will go to partecipate to some courses at the University (we have our own university in Mestre!!), one about Art History, and the other about Psycoanalysis.
So, that is my program.
I really hope all of you are fine, I really appreciated the last two years with all of you and I have to thank Monjed to all the things he teaches me about his beautiful culture.
I wish you all the best,
Marlies
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
ALMOST BACK TO ITALY!!!
Hey ragazzi,
is everything fine? I hope so for Monjed, who's the only one I don't really talk with if not through this blog (Monjed, skype!!!!), for the others I know it already, you're all fine (bloody Tony, he never dies!!!).
I'm also fine, and preparing myself to come back to Italy. I still have two weeks here; next friday there's going to be my goodbye party, then I'll spend the last weekend (23rd-24th) in Germany with my friends and on the monday morning (25th) I'll take my super Focus and drive back to Padova.
This was just for you to know my plans; I know I'll find only Bustra and Monjed in the office, Riccardo is leaving the week before (maledetto, you could have waited for the last spritz together!), luckily Tony is still in the middle of nowhere, Maestro I'm looking forward to see you (December, right?), and Marlies we see each other very soon!
Ah, yesterday I bought the helmet and the jacket for the motorbike, now I only need to buy the motorbike itself... and then all the parking spots at the depatment will be Bustra's and mine!!!!
Ciao semi (tranne la Marlies)!!!
Checca
is everything fine? I hope so for Monjed, who's the only one I don't really talk with if not through this blog (Monjed, skype!!!!), for the others I know it already, you're all fine (bloody Tony, he never dies!!!).
I'm also fine, and preparing myself to come back to Italy. I still have two weeks here; next friday there's going to be my goodbye party, then I'll spend the last weekend (23rd-24th) in Germany with my friends and on the monday morning (25th) I'll take my super Focus and drive back to Padova.
This was just for you to know my plans; I know I'll find only Bustra and Monjed in the office, Riccardo is leaving the week before (maledetto, you could have waited for the last spritz together!), luckily Tony is still in the middle of nowhere, Maestro I'm looking forward to see you (December, right?), and Marlies we see each other very soon!
Ah, yesterday I bought the helmet and the jacket for the motorbike, now I only need to buy the motorbike itself... and then all the parking spots at the depatment will be Bustra's and mine!!!!
Ciao semi (tranne la Marlies)!!!
Checca
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Monday, October 4, 2010
If you want to waste 5 min of your time...
...try this!
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
And go further on the web page to see what happens somethimes in this fake world of research! Now I know how Bustra(TM), Cane and other strange fools were able to get a job!
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
And go further on the web page to see what happens somethimes in this fake world of research! Now I know how Bustra(TM), Cane and other strange fools were able to get a job!
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