twittering on 2010-10-02

  • listening to carla gomes talk about computational sustainability – aim to apply tech from compsci to sustainability research. #ghc10 #
  • Big challenge: establish interdisciplinary relationships and collaborate across fields (computational sustainability) #ghc10 #
  • loving carla gomes' use of smilie and frownie faces on slides about "diffusion process as local stochastic activation rules" #ghc10 #
  • Referencing this paper: http://bit.ly/aF5BbH in solving problem of land buying to increase population of endangered birds #ghc10 #
  • Building poverty maps is similar to species maps, and modeling process of migration – influencing cascades, picking best strategy #ghc10 #
  • Leadership: always think about how to generalize what you are doing. -Carla Gomes #ghc10 #
  • Imposter syndrome thought to be esp common wih women, but found to occur equally with men. #ghc10 #
  • "'You have just processed a petabyte of data.' Oops." #ghc10 #mapreduce #
  • PSA: biotch-wings http://www.flickr.com/photos/gailcarmichael/5041609463/in/set-72157624932418433/ #ghc10 #
  • In a talk on mentoring challenges and they are acting out a skit. Awesome!! #ghc10 #
  • OH: you should focus on the lack of spatial awareness as a commonality #ghc10 #
  • Enjoying the #ghc10 afterparty #