Comments for Sanjay Kairam http://www.sanjaykairam.com/blog Graduate Student & Armchair Philosopher Wed, 04 May 2011 19:59:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on On Grad School, Creativity, and “Honoring Your Vomit” by Vlad http://www.sanjaykairam.com/blog/2011/04/grad-school-creativity-and-honoring-your-vomit/comment-page-1/#comment-571 Vlad Wed, 04 May 2011 19:59:30 +0000 http://www.sanjaykairam.com/blog/?p=308#comment-571 Nice post, Sanjay! Having done the grad school thing for quite a while, and being a bit of a creative person myself, I have to say that honoring your vomit, while it sounds disgusting, is very true. Getting ideas out, even if they fail, even if they don't succeed right away, is one of the most important things you can do to succeed. It's also one of the hardest things you can do in academia, because people will be shooting your ideas down, people won't have time, your collaborators won't deliver on work, you will get distracted with other projects, everything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong. That's the bad news. The good news is, if you smile and take a deep breath and just keep plugging, time and effort will act as a sieve and your good ideas will make it through. That is my piece of advice as I head into defense and post-Ph.D. life :) Nice post, Sanjay!

Having done the grad school thing for quite a while, and being a bit of a creative person myself, I have to say that honoring your vomit, while it sounds disgusting, is very true. Getting ideas out, even if they fail, even if they don’t succeed right away, is one of the most important things you can do to succeed. It’s also one of the hardest things you can do in academia, because people will be shooting your ideas down, people won’t have time, your collaborators won’t deliver on work, you will get distracted with other projects, everything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong.

That’s the bad news. The good news is, if you smile and take a deep breath and just keep plugging, time and effort will act as a sieve and your good ideas will make it through. That is my piece of advice as I head into defense and post-Ph.D. life :)

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]]> Comment on Visualizing Cross-Posting Behavior in Online Medical Communities by skairam http://www.sanjaykairam.com/blog/2010/11/visualizing-cross-posting-behavior-in-online-medical-communities/comment-page-1/#comment-359 skairam Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:29:26 +0000 http://www.sanjaykairam.com/blog/?p=251#comment-359 A screencast of what? You can click to the interactive version in the article (or <a href="http://sanjaykairam.com/projects/medhelp/project.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>) A screencast of what? You can click to the interactive version in the article (or here)

]]> Comment on Visualizing Cross-Posting Behavior in Online Medical Communities by Michael E. Gruen http://www.sanjaykairam.com/blog/2010/11/visualizing-cross-posting-behavior-in-online-medical-communities/comment-page-1/#comment-358 Michael E. Gruen Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:15:48 +0000 http://www.sanjaykairam.com/blog/?p=251#comment-358 I demand a screencast! I demand a screencast!

]]> Comment on One Habit of Highly Successful Mathematicians by Michael E Gruen http://www.sanjaykairam.com/blog/2010/05/one-habit-of-highly-successful-mathematicians/comment-page-1/#comment-293 Michael E Gruen Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:31:44 +0000 http://www.sanjaykairam.com/blog/?p=215#comment-293 I do the same thing with Evernote, whether I'm working or not. When I'm done putting out fires, I move things into piles and schedule a time to work on them. This happens about twice a month. I do the same thing with Evernote, whether I’m working or not.

When I’m done putting out fires, I move things into piles and schedule a time to work on them. This happens about twice a month.

]]> Comment on A MTurk Exploration of Activity Stream Usage by skairam http://www.sanjaykairam.com/blog/2009/06/a-mturk-exploration-of-activity-stream-usage/comment-page-1/#comment-287 skairam Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:45 +0000 http://sanjaykairam.com/blog/?p=51#comment-287 Hi Adrien, These results are mentioned briefly in a Workshop Paper "A Torrent of Tweets: Managing Information Overload in Online Social Streams" presented at CHI this year. You can find a copy of that paper on Michael Bernstein's website here (<a href="http://people.csail.mit.edu/msbernst/papers/microblogging-2010.pdf" rel="nofollow">PDF</a>), and my own at some point soon when I update it. Hi Adrien,

These results are mentioned briefly in a Workshop Paper “A Torrent of Tweets: Managing Information Overload in Online Social Streams” presented at CHI this year. You can find a copy of that paper on Michael Bernstein’s website here (PDF), and my own at some point soon when I update it.

]]> Comment on A MTurk Exploration of Activity Stream Usage by Adrien Joly http://www.sanjaykairam.com/blog/2009/06/a-mturk-exploration-of-activity-stream-usage/comment-page-1/#comment-286 Adrien Joly Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:35:49 +0000 http://sanjaykairam.com/blog/?p=51#comment-286 very interesting survey, thanks for sharing! did you publish these results in a scientific journal or conference? i would like to cite it in my phd thesis, for comparing these "casual" usage facts (mostly based on facebook) to the ones from my survey based on real-time microblogging usage (mostly based on twitter). very interesting survey, thanks for sharing! did you publish these results in a scientific journal or conference? i would like to cite it in my phd thesis, for comparing these “casual” usage facts (mostly based on facebook) to the ones from my survey based on real-time microblogging usage (mostly based on twitter).

]]> Comment on Analyzing Responses to Likert Items by Tweets that mention Analyzing Responses to Likert Items | Sanjay Kairam -- Topsy.com http://www.sanjaykairam.com/blog/2010/06/analyzing-responses-to-likert-items/comment-page-1/#comment-282 Tweets that mention Analyzing Responses to Likert Items | Sanjay Kairam -- Topsy.com Wed, 09 Jun 2010 23:33:59 +0000 http://www.sanjaykairam.com/blog/?p=225#comment-282 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Xavier Amatriain, Sanjay Kairam. Sanjay Kairam said: New Blog Post: Analyzing Responses to Likert Items: http://bit.ly/bF42gr (also may interest MTurk, Wikipedia, or Credibility fans). [...] [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Xavier Amatriain, Sanjay Kairam. Sanjay Kairam said: New Blog Post: Analyzing Responses to Likert Items: http://bit.ly/bF42gr (also may interest MTurk, Wikipedia, or Credibility fans). [...]

]]> Comment on One Habit of Highly Successful Mathematicians by Tummydoc00 http://www.sanjaykairam.com/blog/2010/05/one-habit-of-highly-successful-mathematicians/comment-page-1/#comment-264 Tummydoc00 Wed, 26 May 2010 01:21:05 +0000 http://www.sanjaykairam.com/blog/?p=215#comment-264 "Poisson’s little secret was lifelong, careful prioritizing". My Secret: Absolute prioritizing. You make 3 lists. 1. Monthly tasks. 2. Weekly tasks. 3. Daily tasks. You blindly execute these tasks. No stress. “Poisson’s little secret was lifelong, careful prioritizing”.
My Secret: Absolute prioritizing.
You make 3 lists.
1. Monthly tasks.
2. Weekly tasks.
3. Daily tasks.
You blindly execute these tasks. No stress.

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