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Informationstheorie

24 August, 2010 in category Mathematics for non-mathematicians, computers, deutsch, mathematics by Konrad.

Vortrag aus einem Seminar über die Rolle der Informationstheorie in den Naturwissenschaften zu den Themen Entropie, bedingte Entropie, Bayes, Kanalkapazität

Mass renaming papers with BibTex+JabRef export filters

28 June, 2010 in category LaTeX, english, mathematics by Konrad.

I wrote a JabRef export filter that takes a BibTex file with file links and writes a linux shell script to rename the files systematically according to the scheme [bibtexkey] – [authors] – [title].[extension].

Interesting new homotopy blog: Chromotopy

16 June, 2010 in category english, mathematics, web by Konrad.

I just found, purely by luck, a recent blog about chromatic homotopy theory and various other mathematical topics. It’s a group blog called Chromotopy, written by Brendan Pawlowski, Eric Peterson, Erik Davis and Stephen Checkoway. They started February 2010.
The first posts (from Feb 2010 to June 2010):

Grand opening
Schreier theory
Jordan type of a modular representation
Bundles for [...]

A survey of GNU/Linux shortcomings

14 February, 2010 in category android OS, computers, english, web by Konrad.

Sadly, Ubuntu is not perfect. A wish-list of future Ubuntu features/applications. Some are available on Windows or Mac OS X, most aren’t.