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	<title>David Pratten &#187; Ambi</title>
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		<title>Academic Research &#8211; searching from your reference list</title>
		<link>http://www.davidpratten.com/2009/02/08/academic-research-searching-from-your-reference-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you (like me) find chasing down references for academic assignments to be a challenge then you may be interested in this. My use-case is the exploring stage where you would like to save a reference then search Scholar for that author and/or search on the title of the article.
I have just enabled Refworks references to link back to Google Scholar search. Google Scholar (which links neatly to your university’s library) naturally pairs with Refworks (I am currently on a 30-day free trial of this magic service for accumulating references from Scholar) But vanilla Refworks is a deadend. But help is at hand &#8212; now you use a greasemonkey script (greasemonkey is a plug-in for Firefox browser) to link back to Scholar search!
The script is called “Refworks link to Google Scholar”  and it makes Refworks.com  link back to Scholar!  As shown here &#8230;

Without the script enabled, the Refworks view normally shows like this &#8230;

Enjoy!
This script just scratches the surface of what is possible!
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		<title>Academic Writing experiences with Google Scholar</title>
		<link>http://www.davidpratten.com/2009/02/06/academic-writing-experiences-with-google-scholar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been writing a paper on internal marketing and marketing orientation and hitting Google Scholar and a trial subscription to Refworks pretty hard.
I have a few of use-cases that I would like to see better support for.
1) Given a search term which are the foundational break-through papers that initially defined the concept and defined the &#8220;ground&#8221; of the concept.
2) For a search term, which are the key papers that stand within the tradition established by the foundational papers that have developed the ideas in the last 5 years.  This could be translated into the query: &#8220;For a search term&#8217;s group of most cited N (therefore foundational) authors find all papers in the last Y years that cite M or more of them.&#8221;
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		<title>Ambi &#8211; streamlined &#8211; loses SEQ operator</title>
		<link>http://www.davidpratten.com/2009/01/29/ambi-streamlined-loses-seq-operator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ambi is proving to be a great extensible RPN calculator. Applying the &#8216;zen&#8217; of RPN to programming fun!
Enjoy the new release of Ambi.
This week I have discovered that the seq operator is not necessary.&#160; Initially, I thought that seq would be necessary, however it turns out that the other lambda operators are sufficient.&#160; So we now can write an interative approximator of cuberoot in this way &#8230;
function; root3;
&#160; dowhile;
&#160;&#160;&#160; import dup $n = $guess =;
  &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;$guess $prev = $n $prev sq / $prev + .5 * $guess =;
  &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;$guess $prev - abs .000000001 &#62;;
  &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;$guess export ;
125 root3 .

Not a seq in sight!&#160;&#160; And we may rewrite the function as a recursive function this way &#8230;
function; inner-root3;
&#160;if;
&#160;&#160;import $n = import $prev = $prev $n $prev sq / + .5 * $guess = $guess $prev - abs .000000001 &#62;;
&#160;&#160;$guess $n inner-root3 $guess =;
&#160;&#160;$guess export;
function; root3;
&#160;&#160;import dup inner-root3 export ;
100 root3 .
In addition the current release adds the ++ and &#8211; increment and decrement operators.

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		<title>Ambi is now a RPN inspired programming language</title>
		<link>http://www.davidpratten.com/2009/01/25/ambi-is-now-a-rpn-inspired-programming-language/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exactly how to generalise RPN calculation style into a programming language is a question that has fascinated me recently.&#160; I am pleased to report that there now exists a programming language that is a natural extension of RPN &#8212; Ambi.
A factorial operator may now be defined in Ambi. A new version has been posted today.&#160; 
// Factorial Function;function; ! ; &#160; seq ; import $n = ;&#160; &#160; ifelse; &#160;&#160;&#160; $n 1 eq;&#160;&#160;&#160; 1 export;&#160;&#160;&#160; $n 1 &#8211; ! $n * export; // Use the function ;5 ! .
Check it out!
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		<title>Ambi Calculator and Programming Language</title>
		<link>http://www.davidpratten.com/2009/01/12/ambi-calculator-and-programming-language/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have created Ambi Calculator and Programming Language as a result of investigation about the possibility of a Reverse Polish Notation Language.
Ambi operates in both Reverse Polish Notation and Polish Notation for arithmetic expressions.
Ambi 0.4.0 is now released as an online Calculator and Programming Language.
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