Recent content by vrkosk

In my lifetime, there will be at least two major challenges to human society: climate change (of which you have hopefully heard) and peak oil (of which not enough people are talking). The first necessitates decreasing emissions, going green, reducing consumption, likely a reorganizing of human...

Thanks for the advice, people. I tend to forget there is an ever-growing demand for scientific computing. However, and call me picky if you want, that's not my ultimate goal. I want to work with pen and paper, not monitor and keyboard, to put it in naive terms.

Hello all. Without further ado, my situation is this: I graduated with a Master's in computer science from the University of Turku, Finland earlier this year. It's equivalent to a UK MSc. I have a strong maths and physics background; I started as a physics major, but switched over to...