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Tenured professor leaving academia to join Google as a software engineer(chronicle.com)
3 points by phdtree 13y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: List of PhDs that produced the most PhDs(phdtree.org)
1 points by phdtree 13y ago|0 comments
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by phdtree 13y ago
Anonymous editing is a real problem for Wikipedia. There are already numerous "edit wars" by anonymous editors - mostly on ideological/political issues, but also celebrity people changing articles about them to remove critici
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Show HN: List of PhDs that produced the most PhDs(phdtree.org)
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by phdtree 13y ago
Python/Django/Mysql
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by phdtree 13y ago
After some research we narrowed it down to Scala and Go, and eventually decided to go with Go! Scala has excellent Play! framework, but Go feels more like Python
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by phdtree 13y ago
How this "equilibrium gel" is a new state of matter exactly?
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by phdtree 13y ago
Great! We at phdtree are considering switching from Python/Django to Go: http://phdtree.org
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by phdtree 13y ago
What is Precog? Why this is being upvoted? Anyone care to explain a bit?
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Show HN: List of Professors ranked by total number of PhDs & postdocs trained(phdtree.org)
2 points by phdtree 13y ago|2 comments
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by phdtree 13y ago
Big deal, chinese clone or copycat doesn't validate the idea that Medium is a viable business, probably just because Medium made a lot of noise on HN and they noticed.
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by phdtree 13y ago
http://phdtree.org/ , a Wiki project to document the academic family tree of PhDs worldwide. No buzzwords.
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by phdtree 13y ago
Specs: 5-inch 1080p (1920 x 1080) IPS LCD display, Tegra 4 SoC inside the Mi3 is clocked at 1.8 GHz, 2 GB of RAM, 16 GB of internal storage, a large 3,050 mAh battery and a 13 megapixel rear shooter (2 MP front). The cost? $330 for the 16 G
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Xiaomi's 5-inch MI3 Smartphone, 47-inch 3D Android Smart TV(nextpowerup.com)
1 points by phdtree 13y ago|1 comments
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Major Milestone: 1000 Editors Joined PhDTree Wiki(phdtree.org)
3 points by phdtree 13y ago|0 comments
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by phdtree 13y ago
http://phdtree.org/ , a Wiki project to document the academic family tree of PhDs worldwide
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by phdtree 13y ago
Looks cool. Just submitted our litte side project phdtree: http://phdtree.org/
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ZhongGuanCun: The next silicon valley(steveblank.com)
5 points by phdtree 13y ago|3 comments
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by phdtree 13y ago
"If they pay the two co-founders $150k instead of $100k each, that’s an incremental ~$120k (including additional taxes and benefits) in salaries over an entire year. That’s 10% of the raise. Hardly meaningful in the context of burn, bu
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by phdtree 13y ago
Thanks a lot, updated! Another question: I figured out John_Robert_Woodyard's PhD advisor at Stanford was William Webster Hansen, http://phdtree.org/scholar/woodyard-john-robert/ but then I couldn't fin
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by phdtree 13y ago
Anyone knows who was Doug Engelbart's PhD advisor at Berkeley? We have his profile at phdtree: http://phdtree.org/scholar/engelbart-douglas-carl/ but there is no where to find out info about his PhD advisor.
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by phdtree 13y ago
http://phdtree.org is a Wiki site that allows users to create & edit their academic family tree.
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by phdtree 13y ago
Yes, that's definitely one interesting direction we should go pursue. Thanks a lot!
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by phdtree 13y ago
Yes, we are actually thinking about that idea. The problem is, how to encourage more user participation?
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by phdtree 13y ago
Let's say, you're a first year PhD student trying to decide which research lab to join, you narrow it down to three labs, you can check the three professors to see 1) who their ancestors were 2) where their former lab members ended up to be
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by phdtree 13y ago
In case you're reading, here is the clickable link: http://phdtree.org/
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Ask HN: two developers with no marketing skills built an app, then what?
11 points by phdtree 13y ago|12 comments
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by phdtree 13y ago
Thanks, this is very valuable information, checking it out right now.
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by phdtree 13y ago
Thank you for correcting any errors!
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by phdtree 13y ago
Please create an account and add your and your phd supervisor to the database. The site is meant to be a wiki, anyone can edit/add new profiles.

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