Extreme websites to spike up your surfing experience
Just when you thought that you have visited all of the interesting sites in the internet, you might…
Showing posts from January, 2011
The ABC’s of Facebook
Facebook is the world’s leading social networking site today. Approximately 600 million users and y…
snowy in Boston, SUn-ny at MIT
Today is SUnS 2011 @ MIT . Artwork by Antonio Torralba SUnS 2011 is a multi-disciplinary symposium…
if you are starting your research in the field of object recognition / object detection...
If you are an aspiring computer vision graduate student and hope to one day shatter the boundaries …
Plugins with user interface
A while ago I wrote about plugins and now I received a mail from somebody asking about plugins tha…
How to perform descriptive statistics using MS Excel
Here’s a way to do some descriptive statistics using the MS Excel Analysis ToolPak add-in. 1. Encod…
How to load the MS Excel add-in for data analysis
The Analysis ToolPak is a Microsoft Office Excel add-in. This is a program that is available when y…
Defeating Sickness in Dreams
Many people send me dreams in which they fight and overcome an enemy. Some of these are personal de…
4 sites where you can download eBooks for free
In one of my previous posts about computers ( Computer: a grad student’s best friend ) I have empha…
Numb3rs, a TV series recommended for students in research and statistics
I’ve watched this TV series called Numb3rs in Cable TV a few years ago and I’ve been hooked to each…
How can colleges and universities help society?
Last Thursday, an article by Lawrence S. Bacow, Shamsh Kassim-Lakha, and Saran Kaur Gill came ou…
Top 10 interesting quotes from UP professors
The University of the Philippines is the country’s prime mover of academic freedom. It’s where the …
News about 2 grad students: the good and the bad
Recently, I subscribed to Google’s news alert specifically on the topic “grad students”. I did it i…
How to use Wikipedia (without citing it)
Wikipedia is the largest repository of encyclopedia articles in the internet today. Depending on t…