{"id":2292,"date":"2011-09-21T15:34:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T19:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathgradblog.williams.edu\/?p=2292"},"modified":"2011-09-21T15:34:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T19:34:36","slug":"disaster-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2011\/09\/21\/disaster-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Disaster Strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"

So my trusty MacBook has been on the way out for a week or so. While on vacation, I got the modern equivalent of a sad mac face, the question mark of doom.<\/p>\n

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Now, I do backup. Just not enough or often enough. When faced with the prospect of a failing hard drive, I realized there were several files where I backed up the .pdf and not the .tex version. And I had copies of the code, but not the data. The list goes on.<\/p>\n

A professional was able to retrieve everything off my hard drive, but it was a close one, and I probably would have had to do about 100 hours of makeup work, recreating the lost files. So go back up your stuff. Today. <\/strong>I don’t care if you use an external, dropbox, or your department server.<\/p>\n

There are many types of mathematical “disasters.” Someone beats you to the publication of a result, a counterexample to your hypothesis is found, or you lose all of your data. What’s your math disaster story?<\/p>\n

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So my trusty MacBook has been on the way out for a week or so. While on vacation, I got the modern equivalent of a sad mac face, the question mark of doom.<\/p>\n

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