Mykel’s Research Tips!

“we are not trying to sell our ideas, we are trying to sell understanding”

Levels of Critique

• high level: “is this problem important/can it scale?”
• mid level: “do the experiments show what is claimed”
• low level: typography, grammar, style

State contributions before and after.

Good Presentations

• not too stuffy nor casual
• frequent use of graphics
• you don’t want bullets with more than 2 lines
• clear, upfront objective of the paper
• everything was understanding during presentation: timing presentations such that its digestible as drinking down

Time Management

Randy Pausch’s time management lecture.

Importantly, we have to keep our data under something that can be called RDD: “Resilient Distributed Dataset”; it is a theoretical dataset, but you don’t actually load it.

RDDs are has a single vector datastore under, but there are special RDDs that store key-value info. For Spark, RDDs are stored as operational graphs which is backtraced eventually during computational steps.

Pair RDD

A Pair RDD is an RDD that stores two pairs of vectors: you have a key and you have an value per entry.

resistors do resistor stuff.

resistors in series

Their resistance add!

\begin{equation} R_{eq} = R_1 + R_2 + \dots \end{equation}

CURRENT remains the same through the resistors.

resistors in parallel

Their resistance add by inverse fraction!

\begin{equation} \frac{1}{R_{eq}} = \frac{1}{R_1} + \frac{1}{R_2} + \dots \end{equation}

VOLTAGE remains the same through the resistors.

in C/C++, its a keyword:

f(restrict char *a,
  restrict char *b)

means that a and b are unique pointers to the objects to which they refer.

A reticle is a photomask/template for a lithography system (like a negative). KLA was the first company to automatically inspect wafers and reticles.