R Tip: Fitting Sigmoidal Data
Posted February 17th, 2010 by NickUsing R to fit a sigmoid function to experimental data.
Filed under:Development, Science
Science Jobs… and the people that are looking for them.
Posted July 29th, 2009 by NickA few friends of mine have started a new Science Jobs blog were they muse about what it’s like to look for and work in science related jobs in this economic climate. Check it out at SearchScienceJobs.com
The Science of Hearing – We need you!
Posted May 26th, 2009 by NickA friend of mine, and neuroscience graduate student at Case Western Reserve University are conducting a study into the genetic basis of hearing the following sound:
http://tinyurl.com/2wjoxy
NPR recently did a story that teenagers have been using the above sound as a ring tone to evade the prying eyes ears of adults.
So we started a little investigation [...]
Tags: hearing, mosquito, Science
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Finally… back to Science.
Posted November 7th, 2008 by NickWith the election behind and a collective sigh of relief from the science community we can get back to the good stuff– throwing some fuel into the engine we call SCIENCE! For my part, I got some much needed time to learn about and implement some simple algorithms utilizing CUDA. CUDA is a c-extension from [...]
Tags: algorithm, CUDA, GPU, k-means, Science
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Chem(o)informatics
Posted October 29th, 2008 by NickAs a PhD student you start out by doing rotations, quarter-long research projects, in various Professor’s lab. In my rotation I am attempting to learn all there is to know about Chem(o)informatics. I write it that way because there is an apparent dispute as to what exactly to call this field of study (Cheminformatics versus [...]
Tags: cheminformatics, chemoinformatics, Science
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