There are three types of centralities: Degree centrality: measuring a node’s centrality by its in/out degree (i.e., how many in/out nodes are connected to a this node); Closeness centrality: measuring centrality by summing the distance from a given node to all…
Response to [Unreliable research: trouble at the lab]
Summary Overall, this article provides a holistic insight into how published academic studies are likely to be flawed, why, and why replication is not going to be easy. Nuggets Type I error: thinking something is true when it is not…
Response to ‘winter reading list’
Designing KDD-Workflows This paper talks about how to simplify configuring a KDD (knowledge discovery in database) for the users. The goal is to enable the automation of operator selection and task/method composition with simply a few clicks on the interface.…
Response to [Charting Past, Present, ...] by Abowd & Mynatt
One Sentence This paper summarizes three research themes of Ubicomp in its first ten years, points out some existing challenges and outlines future research agendas. More Sentences This paper summarizes three research themes of Ubicomp – natural interfaces, context-aware applications,…
Understanding the three memory systems by Tulving
In his paper ‘How Many Memory Systems Are There’, Endel Tulving mentioned ‘a ternary classification scheme of memory’ in which a ‘monohierarchical arrangement’ of memory is constituted of the following three kinds of memory: Procedural Memory Memory of how we…
Response to [Elaborations, Revisions, Dissents: ...] by John
GENERAL CITE This paper reviews Chandler’s work ‘The Visible Hand’ on explaining the rise of the modern business enterprise in the United States. In the first part of the paper, the author revisited Chandler’s finding: technologically based organizational innovations hastened…
Response to [The contribution of Robert. W. Fogel ...] by Eichengreen
GENERAL CITE This paper summarizes Robert W. Fogel’s contribution to bridging the gap between Economics and Economic History by emphasizing the theory-oriented and quantitative thinking in Studying Economic History. The paper also highlighted three main contributions by Fogel, namely, the…
Blahing from ‘Chrome for a Cause’
Recently Google let Chrome users donate by browsing. With ‘Chrome for a Cause‘, users can donate vaccinations, trees, books by accumulating the tabs in Chrome: the more tabs you open and use, the more donations you can make. I like…
I saw the beauty of research
I was amazed by this research. We can say, they merely rolled the pen and made up so many stuff. But what they actually did was they noticed such tiny details and developed it into something with great impact. We…