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e.bar.goum and Timo, Thank you very much. Your comments were very useful. I have 3 hours per week for a whole semester (a 3 units optional course) so I guess I should go deep in order to fill the semester. Or perhaps I can first cover C++ and then some Python to cover their plotting and more...

Hello everyone, Head of our Physics department has asked me to teach a programming course for a few of their PhD candidates (mostly theoretical) who unfortunately are very bad in programming. He has shortage in his department and he wants someone from CS to do the job. I looked around and it...

Hello, I have forgotten most of the electricity physics we studied and I have problem describing/understanding a concept. Does AC current produce less loss than a DC current? I found this statement in a website: "AC electricity loses less power over power lines than DC"...

Thank you very much. It is very much appreciated. I hope it helps them.

Hi, I am teaching a machine learning course and the students have very poor knowledge about conditional probability, Bayes rule etc. Most students have done their undergraduates years ago and I guess their educational background has not been that good. Last lecture was on Naive Bayes...

Check the wiki page, I guess it points to publications etc.

Full professor of Stanford at the age of 31, the first woman to win the "Nobel prize of mathematics". News: http://www.nature.com/news/iranian-is-first-woman-to-nab-highest-prize-in-maths-1.15686 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Ycv05Q4Ao Wikipedia...

Thank you ZapperZ and DrClaude for your time.

Thank you Timo. I checked an it seems Elsevier, Springer, Wiley and Sons, AIP, ... all allow publishing the pre-print on arXiv. However it seems only one of the arXiv licenses is acceptable: These license are not allowed for pre-prints by most publications (since they do not allow transfer...

Hello everyone, I recently finished my PhD and I have started publishing my new results. I have a very good paper that builds the background for several others. I submitted the paper to the 2nd important journal in my field and after 2 months none of the 3 reviewers responded and the journal...

I have not received any answer for this question. I need to know whether this means there is no specific distribution for my purpose? ----- BTW I have previously tried to do this with Poisson distribution but there are 2 problems: - How can I control the slope (considering that I...

Hello, I am trying to find a clean solution for this (i.e. straightforward and academically acceptable). I appreciate if someone can help me. 1- I need to select between selections 1 to n (in my case 1-8 ). However each preceding item should have higher probability than the next one. For...

Mapes and choppy, Thank you very much for your useful comments. Having seen multiple papers of this reputable group of professors (working on cryptography) made me think it is not necessary to change the whole article. Their papers are almost 70% unchanged (word by word) and they just add the...

I returned from industry (after 8 years of work) to do my masters. because I was away from school I was forced to enter a medium university (a top university in a medium country i.e. Malaysia). As one of the professors in the school said my masters thesis was among the only 2 thesis which were...

Hello, I am doing a PhD in computer science (on simulation and modeling) and my research is based on the work of a few physicists. I have written around 10 papers (journal, IEEE and other international conferences and local ones) on this topic. I normally add a contribution (let's say 4-5...