I visited the California Science Museum yesterday and in their planetarium they have a nice visualization of the the life cycle of stars. While I was there, I met Ben Oppenheimer who is a curator at the American Museum for Natural History and listed on the end titles of the Journey to the Stars. He has a wonderful site that you can visit here.

Ben has worked on some other cool visualizations as well, let's see if this embedded ht… Continue

I just came across Matt Raible's report on the OSCON'08.

A couple of tidbits from that post:

IT jobs are 2.3% of all jobs posted, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Technology oriented companies (e.g., Google, Yahoo, Sun) make heavy use of Open Source (40% of all jobs posted by Y!). Open source is growing faster in non-tech companies. Of the open source technologies in the enterprise, the highest share of jobs is… Continue

I came across a wonderful, somewhat tongue in cheek, posting by Edmund Freeman here. Anyone that has been asked to do an analysis to support decision making will recognize these principles. Here they go:

Certainty Principle: Certainty is inversely proportional to knowledge
Anyone that works with data will understand the limitations of data and any inference analysis or signal processing. When maki… Continue

I was looking for a classification of algorithms used in Computational Science and Engineering for Stillwater's trifecta. In all classification problems, selecting the right attributes is key. I was on the wrong path since I was trying to use a classification based on solver algorithm structure and that caused significant problems since it appears to cause a decoupling of the physical intuition of the original problems. So I started to look for others who have attempted to construct a structure… Continue

While researching climate models I came across a BOINC based community for climate prediction: climateprediction.net at http://www.climateprediction.net

From their website:

The aim of climateprediction.net is to investigate the approximations that have to be made in state-of-the-art climate models. By running the model thousands of times (a 'large ensemble') we hope to find out how the model responds to slight tweaks to these approximations - slight enough to not make the approximations any le… Continue