Comments on: Suggestions?

By: dmolnar

dmolnar — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:05:38 +0000

Thanks for putting this up. I found this via hunch.net. Suggestions:

1) I liked the pointer to the arXiv mailing list. More “little things” about being a grad student would be helpful. Maybe a post soliciting what people think are high-quality mailing lists or announcement lists to monitor? A wiki would work for this as well.

For my part, I subscribe to the ECCC announcement list, as well as the Institute for Advanced Study seminar announcement list, the NY metro area crypto announce list, the Berkeley theory mailing list & security seminar list, along with a few others. I also check eprint.iacr.org regularly, since it doesn’t seem to have an announcement list.

2) Conference reports, if anyone feels up to it. I find these useful for the cases when I can’t attend myself. You can learn a lot about where a subfield is going this way. Ideally you would see more ideas flowing across subfields as people become interested enough by the report to invest time in reading papers.

3) I was about to suggest “what are you reading,” but that feels a little dangerous sometimes. If I’m working on a problem, I may not want to announce that to the world just yet. Certainly posting what I’ve been reading recently might act as such an announcement inadvertantly. Not that everything I read is relevant to current problems…

-David Molnar

By: abie

abie — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:59:24 +0000

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By: Maverick Woo

Maverick Woo — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 21:42:05 +0000

Actually, you can also add the links yourself. Try clicking this.
(But then I have already added the link.)

Right now I am not populating the link section manually since this is a stupid O(n^2) way of doing things (imagine each blog has to add each other blog). There should be one syndication and I am figuring out if it is possible.

By: Kedar Dhamdhere

Kedar Dhamdhere — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 21:07:22 +0000

This url vanished from last comment: http://geomblog.blogspot.com/

By: Kedar Dhamdhere

Kedar Dhamdhere — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 21:06:47 +0000

Can we add in Other Theory Blogs?

By: Maverick Woo

Maverick Woo — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:15:49 +0000

Now although TicTac is too broken and I don’t have time to fixed it, I tried the Almost Spring theme. It works quite well but it doesn’t show the author of an entry by default. Still working.

Another thing I like about TicTac is that it shows a calendar, but then it is not very useful right now (it would be wonderful if it can show events).

This, btw, is the TicTac site.

By: Maverick Woo

Maverick Woo — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:13:16 +0000

So far I also noticed that Ordered List doesn’t seem to work in the Wuhan – TicTac theme (you can’t see the item numbers).

One
Two

And inside a page (like the service guide) even Unordered List doesn’t work. Maybe we will switch to another theme later.

By: biglou

biglou — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:08:06 +0000

Wohoo. I can post!!!

By: maverick

maverick — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 02:14:14 +0000

Actually you can already write entries and pages. Again, by default, once I see a Weanie register, I will grant the authoring rights.

Now for people outside of CMU, my feeling is that we should let people write too, once someone here vouch for their authorship.

By: Anupam Gupta

Anupam Gupta — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 02:06:10 +0000

I am not allowed to post blog entries, right?

By: maverick

maverick — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 02:04:02 +0000

I note that depot.aladdin.cs.cmu.edu does not exist yet. (It will.)