Research Diary

For the longest time I was looking for a site where I could find information on lab protocols. I read all these papers talking about special experiments and only understand 10% of the techniques. Now with the help of this site I am hoping to fill in the gaps. [Biowww.net : Bioscience lab research protocols, [...]

I do not understand people who want to have data storage attached to their pocket knife. The new versions boost up to a crazy 2GB storage. Why? What would you do with it? Carry music? Files? On a pocket knife? It is either a pocket knife and you use it accordingly (cut/screw/slice things) and make [...]

January 23rd, 2006

Okay..it snowed again yesterday. I had to showel in the morning and then in the evening I used the electrical snow blower to get rid of the wet white stuff… Today I was day dreaming and came up with the "Microwave Snow Melter" idea. Attach couple microwave generators on a stick and allign them. Then [...]

I have more than 2 machines that I use to surf the web. On all of these machines I am running Foldershare to sync documents. I use Firefox on all of these machines and I use only one machine at a time. All of the machines have very similar bookmark structure and I want them to be the same. I want the changes to propagate.

This is a great site with a vast collection of various network visualisations. Browsing through the networks gives one great ideas about representing data. Check it out. [visualcomplexity.com | A visual exploration on mapping complex networks]

I am getting a new laptop and started planning how to maintain it so that it works always at its peak performance. Most of the tips in this article were known to me. Some of them I already do, some others cause headaches that I cannot afford, but in general I believe it is a [...]

I read about this years ago. Nature has a hand in accounting apparantly. Great tool for audit companys to detect fraud in the books. I want to collect a set of these interesting indicators to analyze timeseries for signatures. Log-periodic properties in earthquake signals or stock market crashes I believe would belong to that [...]

Pandora.com was nice. It selects music for you based on your declared taste. This site is different. You select what you want to listen to, add the songs to your jukebox and listen to them online, for free. Kind of on the grey side of licensing I am sure. Apparently they search through radio.blog sites. [...]

I am reading a lot on Bayesian Statistics lately. Somehow my brain is wired in a deterministic way. It is very hard for me to understand the contepts in probability. I have no problem with classical statistics. All the distributions, variances, confidence intervals… they all do make sense… but somehow the prior/posterior concepts are like [...]