研究生甘苦談的漫畫

看到同學給我看的台灣版碩士生生活甘苦談漫畫，http://www.wretch.cc/album/album.php?id=gradlive&book=2
我不禁想起我在博士時最喜歡的博班生生活甘苦談的漫畫：
美國版：http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php

比較比較可以看到更多趣味。

A new book of applying ABM to Political Science research

這本新書Identifying Threats and Threatening Identities


The Social Construction of Realism and Liberalism (2006) by David L. Rousseau 是近年極少數能夠做到利用多元研究方法來研究政治學課題的創新之作。其中它使用民調資料與代理人基模擬來探討「認同形成」的做法可算是樹立了新的研究典範。



http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?book_id=5415

Computational social science PhD fellowship opportunity for fall 2008, George Mason University

The PhD program in computational social science at George Mason, for a student to begin studies in fall 2008.  



-Network structures in International Relations - network-based  

imperialism, structural properties of international agreements and alliances, economic interdependence networks, agent-based models of evolving relations;

- Evolution of social networks - dynamic network models, cascades and avalanche processes in networks;



More information about the program and center is available at:

http://socialcomplexity.gmu.edu/



For specific questions related to the graduate program, contact Dawn Parker, acting director for the CSS PhD program, at cssgrad@gmu.edu.



Full application instructions are available at:

http://socialcomplexity.gmu.edu/phd.php

Multi-Agent Simulation Suite (MASS)

Multi-Agent Simulation Suite (MASS), the agent-based modeling toolset developed at AITIA International.



MASS contains a dedicated programming language for agent-based simulations (FABLES), which is compiled to RePast 3.1. (So, you can continue editing it and add advanced features, or you can directly develop your model in Repast and use the other components of MASS). FABLES has an integrated development environment (called FABLES IME) built on top of the Eclipse

platform. The MASS suite contains further modules as well, like a

graphing/visualization package with wizards, a tool for running and processing batch experiments (the Model Exploration Module or MEME), and a web interface to web-enable your simulation (also useful for doing lab experiments with human subjects -- ie. mixing them with your artificial agents). Unfortunately, this last module (the Participatory Extension or PET) is not yet available in the public release.



The public release of MASS is free, but not open source. It does not contain all the latest features, but we believe it is generally usable.



The suite is available at

http://www.aitia.ai/services_and_products/simulation_systems

Public Opinion Pros: An online magazine for survey researchers

心理學和經濟學界在其專業期刊之外亦發行大眾導向的雜誌，政治學界除了Foreign Affairs之外，比較少看到這樣的雜誌。免費的線上版Public Opinion Pros讓人眼睛一亮。

Gspace: another reason you should try Firefox

把2Gb容量的Gmail空間當作網路硬碟來使用，這真是太神奇了。http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/10/198249

XnView: A nice tool to capture screens

XnView is a nice free tool for viewing pictures and capturing screeens. Most importantly, it supports both Windows and Linux (Fedora)!

先學做人，再學做一個好的學者

弟子規並不八股。很多其中的道理只是我們不知道而已。

且看這些道理如何運用在擇偶和經營幸福家庭這件事上。

wma -> wav

Q: In linux, how to convert an wma file to K3b burner?

A: use mplayer and decode it to wav. then burn it. something like:

mplayer -ao pcm /tmp/$file



the converted file is named "audiodump.wav"

Freeware for Social Network Analysis!

To those who are interested in analyzing social networks, this will be of interest: Libsna.