December 2010
9 posts
NYT: Seeking the Connectome →
i collaborate with all these guys
WatchOOPSI: A Family of Optimal OPtical Spike Inference Algorithms for Inferring Neural Connectivity from Population Calcium Imaging (by joshua vogelstein)
my thesis talk, for those who haven’t seen it ;-)
JoVo Home →
updated the website. check it ;)
Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of... →
We constructed a corpus of digitized texts containing about 4% of all books ever printed. Analysis of this corpus enables us to investigate cultural trends quantitatively. We survey the vast terrain of “culturomics”, focusing on linguistic and cultural phenomena that were reflected in the English language between 1800 and 2000. We show how this approach can provide insights about...
nyc for nye?
if anybody looking for a place to stay in nyc between 12/27 and 1/2, a beautiful place is available by donation for that time (and possibly beyond). lemme know….
Google eBookstore →
>3 million books already, and relatively platform independent ;)
it’s snowing in baltimore! first snowfall of the year ;)
10810 error on mac osx
i’ve recently been getting the horrible 10810 error upon trying to launch a new program. a bunch of investigation online resulted in the following information (which i have compiled for my uses, and anybody else that suffers the same problem):
Symptoms: cannot launch new programs.
Problem definition: The following file defines the error -10810:
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unlocking pdf files
sometimes, pdf files that we download are locked, such that one cannot save, print, edit, etc., without the password. to get around this, upload the file to google docs, and then print it. simple. fast. free. platform independent. effective. love it.