Here is one person’s top ten list of ways to fail to obtain a PhD. Interesting quotes: Ph.D. school seems to be a magnet for every kind of procrastinator. Advisors expect near-terminal Ph.D. students to be proto-professors with intimate knowledge of the challenges in their field. They should be capable of selecting and attacking research [...]
This past May, I completed the Simulation and Parallel and Distributed Systems class that I was attending. While taking two classes while working full time was challenging; the pure fun of it all more than made up for the challenge! I will have fond memories of that semester for a long time. I can’t wait [...]
Sometimes good company can be the difference between reaching your goals and failing to do so. I’m wondering what online communities people find value in on their path to obtaining their PhDs?
In Spring of 2010 I am taking two classes: MSCS 6020: Simulation (syllabus) and MSCS 6060: Parallel & Distributed Systems (syllabus).
In Fall of 2009 I took one class: MSCS 6010: Probability which used Statistical Inference, Second edition by Casella & Berger. Addendum: 01/23/10 Here is the syllabus for the course.
This past December, on the fifteenth, I completed the Probability class that I was attending. We covered Probability from the theoretical (Calculus) and analytical (MATLAB) side of things. In my first foray into theory behind Statistics, I found the relationships between the distributions to be really neat to see, and along with the Calculus, a [...]
In the first half of the semester in the Probability course I am taking we learned (among other things) how to, given the probability distribution function for any distribution, derive, if possible, the: Commulative Distribution Function Population Mean Population Variance Population Standard Deviation Population Median Population Mode Moment Generating Function Everyone seems to be excited [...]