Posted May 26th, 2009 by Nick
A 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
Posted November 7th, 2008 by Nick
With 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
Posted October 29th, 2008 by Nick
As 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
Posted October 28th, 2008 by Nick
Once again I find myself faced with the need for journaling software. Last time I scoured the internets looking for good (and hopefully free) software for writing down and organizing my scientific studies (and other tasks) in a journaling program. However, I was disappointed in what I discovered. This led to the birth of Journal, [...]
Tags: journal, release, Science