clustering a graph using Python

For those of you who are interested in graph clustering and use Python, here is a Python implementation of a clustering algorithm that finds non-overlapping modules that maximize graph's modularity.

Maximal vs maximum

Here I am again: what do I use in a sentences, "maximal" or "maximum"? After some digging around, I discovered that Wikipedia has a whole page explaining what a maximal element is, but in short:

• "maximal" - a local maximum,


• "maximum" - an absolute maximum

About a year ago I switched from JabRef to Mendeley and fter this unusually long test run I am quite happy with it:

• it keeps my references in a cloud, so I can easily sync refs on my laptop and desktop machines;
  
• I have sorted my references into folders by their topic and by the project;
  
• my colleagues and I have created thematic groups through which we share relevant publications;
  
• I can search for papers at mendeley.com -- comes in handy when I am outside of university's network and do not have access to some journals
  
• I can add papers to Mendeley through their web importer clicking on a bookmark when I view the paper at the publisher's website
  

Despite all the pluses and minuses that a anonymous peer-review system has, there is one major issue that I have with it: bad reviewers. I'm not talking about reviewers who criticized my work, I mean those who are lazy, incompetent, or simply angry at the world, those who have no idea what my work is yet they talk about it with such authority!
I'd like to meet:

• reviewer who commented on a great video I submitted along with a paper that had no video


• reviewer who claimed I had no video - yet the other two reviewers found the video helpful (there was indeed a video)


• reviewer who claimed that TF-IDF scores were not appropriate for text mining


• reviewer who claimed "no related work as cited or discussed" for a paper with a page of related work and ~40 references. Given, it was not in a separate section titled "Related work" which, apparently, made it impossible to notice


• reviewer who noted that my draft needed "some wordsmithing" and continued on with: "I belief...", "no future more section", "in the introduction was stated...", "explore and asses similarity", "an consensus", "requirements were not disused", " identified cores seems to be..." in a broken English. Really?

Is this the best we can be?

Most used research tools:

• internet


• printer

Graduate school is not easy, but it's definitely fun - otherwise how could you survive 5 years of hard work? An important part of grad student life is choosing a topic to work on that will treat you well - you will enjoy woking on it and you will generate new knowledge (in units of posters, presentations, papers, talks, even books). Uri Alon gives tips on how to choose a good scientific problem - a short read that can save you some pain later in your career!

merging an svn branch back into trunk: step-by-step intructions

Words that warn me against the scientific work:

• "theorizing the web"
• "are people using NationOfNeighboors.com a community?" (take a guess)
• "cultivate creative ecologies for learning"
• "cultural economy"

In general, people using too many fillers in their talks and writing turn me off big time making it hard to assess the significance of their work.

Statistical methods for high-throughput data

Python Music projects

IDropInListItemRenderer instead of IListItemRenderer ListBase will pass more information to the itemRenderers