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Subwiki:History of subject wikis. This page describes important historical milestones in the historical development of subject wikis. Due to imperfect records, precise dates are not available, but information is available up to the month. The Group Properties Wiki. Was created at this URL: http:/ editthis.info/groupprops. The Group Properties Wiki was moved to this URL: http:/ groupprops.wiki-site.com. And other wikis such as Commalg and Diffgeom were created at wiki-site.com. A day after the upgrade).
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Kaleidoscope: April 2010
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Reporting on the reflections I see in this palace of mirrors called life. Monday, April 19, 2010. I rarely take serious note of any political event in India. Definitely not seriously enough to write a blog about. And never have I blogged about any one single person centric event. But this time with this forced resignation of Sashi Tharoor, I am seriously perturbed. The basic point that is far from clear is, what is the crime? In no allegation that I hear people putting up against him is there a crime!
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Kaleidoscope: October 2009
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Reporting on the reflections I see in this palace of mirrors called life. Friday, October 30, 2009. An article that TIFR student magazine "Imagine" did not publish. I am dis illusioned. Among many other expected abilities missing from the editors they definitely seemed to lack an understanding of the sensitivities of authors.}. These are those times when I really feel the importance of open-access movement and the great need for blogs in this society when I am faced with the extreme ghetoism. The article...
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Miscellanea | What Is Research?
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May 29, 2010. Filed under: Teaching and learning: dissemination and assimilation. 8212; vipulnaik @ 1:27 pm. Tags: cognitive load theory. Some things I’ve been reading about:. These are tests designed to determine the extent to which people have an understanding of basic concepts in a particular area. The Wikipedia article on concept inventory. For Force Concept Inventory, including this paper by Hestene, Wells, and Swackhamer. Here is the Wikipedia entry on open notebook science. About the Moore method&...
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Math websites falling into disuse? | What Is Research?
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October 31, 2009. Math websites falling into disuse? 8212; vipulnaik @ 3:06 pm. Since I recently blogged. Website, I’ve been wondering what happened to various other math websites that once looked promising, and how they’re faring. Some of them seem to be going strong, but none of them seem to have been exploding in popularity. About Tricki, the Tricks Wiki. Which went live in April 2009 (see the annoucement by Tim Gowers. Which I run, has Alexa data. And on Terence Tao’s blog since August 2009. I rememb...
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Math overflow | What Is Research?
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October 26, 2009. 8212; vipulnaik @ 10:26 pm. In recent times, the Math Overflow. Website has been getting a lot of “press”, which is to say, it has been mentioned in some highly prominent math blogs. It was reviewed in Secret Blogging Seminar. By Scott Morrison, who is also involved with Math Overflow, and it was mentioned by quomodocumque. Software, which is used for many other websites, such as Stack Overflow. Funding for the website is being provided by Ravi Vakil. 4 Comments ». Minor nit: it would b...
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Math overflow: further notes | What Is Research?
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January 14, 2010. Math overflow: further notes. Filed under: Culture and society of research. 8212; vipulnaik @ 12:17 am. A while back (also see the general backgrounder on math overflow on this blog. At the time, I hadn’t joined Math Overflow or participated in it. I joined a week ago (January 6) and my user profile is here. Below are some of my observations. Surprising similarity of questions with questions I’ve asked in the past. And you can also see my blog post about the discovery here. Two things s...
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Planetmath and Mathworld losing out to Wikipedia | What Is Research?
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May 28, 2010. Planetmath and Mathworld losing out to Wikipedia. Filed under: Web structure. 8212; vipulnaik @ 10:59 pm. As I’ve mentioned earlier (such as here. It has seemed to me for some time that both Planetmath. From the preliminary results. In response to a question on how Planetmath and Mathworld compare with Wikipedia, the nine free responses were:. Planet math is slow! Mathworld has more graphics and less maths. Material is generally better presented on Mathworld, but the topics are more limited.
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Kaleidoscope: February 2010
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Reporting on the reflections I see in this palace of mirrors called life. Friday, February 19, 2010. I recently observed that neither on my home-page nor on my blog I had ever written about my adventures in Germany 2 years ago when I went there as a part of the Indian delegation to the Lindau Nobel Laureates-Students interaction program. I was selected to that meeting towards the end of my 3yr BSc.(Hons.) degree in CMI. It is a joint program between DFG. Never mind the many "." in the mails. The boat tri...
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Kaleidoscope: December 2009
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Reporting on the reflections I see in this palace of mirrors called life. Tuesday, December 8, 2009. Homi Bhabha Centenary Symposium, Examination systematics and Ramakrishna Mission. Let me just jot down a few things that have been intriguing me off-late from my latest trajectories of life. The topics covered are in this sequence. 1 Homi Bhabha Centenary Symposium. 2 Examination systematics (inspired from the state in TIFR). First 9 reflections about the Homi Bhaba Symposium lectures that are going on in...