MATLAB 2013a natively supports Kinect
There have been wrappers for interfacing with the Kinect device before, but the latest update to MATLAB makes it native to the Image Processing Toolbox. source
Drop a Kinect in…
Trimming pipette tips
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I saw Benjamin Judkewitz trim the fat end off of a pipette tip and stick it onto a 1 mL syringe to make a fine tip for the syringe (above). This is handy for…
A clinic in figure design
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You don’t have to be an APBRmetrician to appreciate the graphics Kirk Goldsberry puts together from his analysis. They’re clear, the data-to-ink ratio is high, and there are appropriate…
The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)
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“The Journal Impact Factor, as calculated by Thomson Reuters, was originally created as a tool to help librarians identify journals to purchase, not as a measure of the scientific quality of research in an…
Cheap DIY Kwik-Cast
I find WPI’s Kwik-Cast handy for some things around the lab. When we were modest users, the price didn’t bother me too much. However, when we started going through so much of it, I…
HG2 for Better Graphics in MATLAB
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Undocumented MATLAB has an in depth look at the next generation graphics handler for MATLAB which you can use today, although it’s not officially released yet. Use the command line option “-hgVersion 2”…
Feedly, to replace Google Reader
Here’s a follow up on the previous post about alternatives to Google Reader (which is being shut down).
Patrick Mineault commented that Feedly is looking good. I agree. Basic functionality is smooth and…
Scattering in tissue
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Post by Jeffrey Stirman
The opacity of the brain is one barrier to optically imaging individual neurons and their connections. Scattering in tissue is the main reason tissue is not transparent; absorption also plays a…
Google Reader is going away
Google Reader is going to be shut down on July 1.
If you use Reader, here’s what to do:
Step 1: Export all of your subscriptions from Google Reader
(takes less than 1 minute)
Python IDEs for science
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xcorr has done a nice series of reviews of IDEs for scientific Python: First, Second, Third
Previously
Online scientific Python
NEURON and Python
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