Comments on: Off the line http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/off-the-line/ Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:47:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: hlee http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/off-the-line/comment-page-1/#comment-801 hlee Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:41:08 +0000 http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/?p=1032#comment-801 A couple of good friends advised/helped me when I was pursuing a minor degree in EE from PSU and one of them said the following: <blockquote>Many of signal processing researchers are like the statisticians you describe. Even though what they are dealing with are images and videos in many cases, they are ‘frugal’ to make use of visual effect, color, image, or fancy decoration. For example, my dissertation advisor once asked me “Is there any special reason for you to use the boundary box in your slides? If not, why don’t you remove it?” I feel like they try to “encode” their ideas and results in most “efficient” ways “in the sense of information theory” and if images or fancy stuff does not increase the amount of information enough to compensate for their “redundancy” they are reluctant to add them. This is the “rate-distortion theorem” for presentation style of signal processing researchers. To the contrary, I was impressed by many brilliant talks from natural scientists, which demonstrated effectiveness of visual stuff. </blockquote> He's one of not many brilliant people that I know. A couple of good friends advised/helped me when I was pursuing a minor degree in EE from PSU and one of them said the following:

Many of signal processing researchers are like the statisticians you describe. Even though what they are dealing with are images and videos in many cases, they are ‘frugal’ to make use of visual effect, color, image, or fancy decoration. For example, my dissertation advisor once asked me “Is there any special reason for you to use the boundary box in your slides? If not, why don’t you remove it?”
I feel like they try to “encode” their ideas and results in most “efficient” ways “in the sense of information theory” and if images or fancy stuff does not increase the amount of information enough to compensate for their “redundancy” they are reluctant to add them. This is the “rate-distortion theorem” for presentation style of signal processing researchers.
To the contrary, I was impressed by many brilliant talks from natural scientists, which demonstrated effectiveness of visual stuff.

He’s one of not many brilliant people that I know.

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By: hlee http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/off-the-line/comment-page-1/#comment-800 hlee Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:21:23 +0000 http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/?p=1032#comment-800 Facebook, LinkedIn, hi5, etc… in addition to personal blogs. However, these have some age bias, not profession bias. Facebook, LinkedIn, hi5, etc… in addition to personal blogs. However, these have some age bias, not profession bias.

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By: vlk http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/off-the-line/comment-page-1/#comment-789 vlk Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:24:54 +0000 http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/?p=1032#comment-789 I suspect that you will find a strong positive correlation between professional looking web pages (texty, wordy, sober portraitures) and possessing business cards. I suspect that you will find a strong positive correlation between professional looking web pages (texty, wordy, sober portraitures) and possessing business cards.

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