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My brain extension: März 2013
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The public notebook of a computational neuroscientist. Donnerstag, 21. März 2013. Automated pubmed searching with RSS. If you're regularly searching pubmed on a particular topic, you can make your life a lot more comfortable using automated searches. Everything that is required is a web browser and a RSS-aggregator, such as the soon-to-fade-out Google Reader, feedly, or a Tiny Tiny RSS. Instance (if you're geek enough to set one up. Here's how it works:. Type in your favorite search query. Hence, every t...
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My brain extension: April 2012
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The public notebook of a computational neuroscientist. Donnerstag, 19. April 2012. G-Node workshop on neuronal GPU computing: symposium. Last week, the G-Node workshop on neuronal GPU computing. Took place at LMU Munich. I had the pleasure organizing the scientific part, while Christian Kellner and Thomas Wachtler from G-Node. Did an extremely good job taking care of local organization (with solid support from lovely Manuela Brandenburg). First speaker of the symposium was Romain Brette. Doesn't. Als...
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My brain extension: AAAARRRRRRGH!! Matlab!!
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The public notebook of a computational neuroscientist. Donnerstag, 7. Juli 2011. Happy Matlab licensing trouble - yay! Anyway, Matlab is a dying species in our lab since most of us are using Python for scientific computing, except for a few legacy scripts. But every now and then, I need to run one of those legacy scripts. No more machine transfers available for this license.". Tools for efficient scientific computing. Here reference about using matlab :. 7 Juni 2012 um 01:10. 7 Juni 2012 um 09:00. The (a...
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My brain extension: November 2010
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The public notebook of a computational neuroscientist. Donnerstag, 25. November 2010. Towards fast scientific python. Seems to come of age in its role as an universal language for scientific computing. It already has a good standing in the computational neuroscience community. The Neural Ensemble project. Gathers some initiatives that use Python as the primary language for neuronal simulation and data analysis. Large simulator projects like Nest. Which is one of my current favorite papers. A compiler for...
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My brain extension: PNAS Editorial: Impact Factor corrupts science
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The public notebook of a computational neuroscientist. Dienstag, 23. November 2010. PNAS Editorial: Impact Factor corrupts science. The (ab)use of the impact factor to evaluate the scientific merit of individuals corrupts the way how scientists publish their findings, say Eve Marder, Helmut Kettenmann and Sten Grillner in their recent editorial to PNAS. After all, how much sense does it make to refer to the deprecated, intransparent and inflexible rule of author sequence to indicate contribution? A compl...
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My brain extension: Replace Google Reader with Tiny Tiny RSS
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The public notebook of a computational neuroscientist. Donnerstag, 21. März 2013. Replace Google Reader with Tiny Tiny RSS. Google Reader was an essential part of my workflow for keeping up with the literature. I had configured several PubMed-searches as RSS-Feeds. For example, I created an automated search for olf*. Now Google announced to shut down the Reader Service. Booooooh, bad Google! It took me two hours to set it all up, including dusting off my Mysql knowledge and learning how to use systemd...
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My brain extension: From netbeans to eclipse for python development
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The public notebook of a computational neuroscientist. Donnerstag, 28. Juni 2012. From netbeans to eclipse for python development. So it was clear: Python has no future in netbeans. And this meant that netbeans had no future as my IDE ;). Ut hey, it's a developer tool, and a Real Programmer. Should be able to figure out, right? What I didn't understand was the concept of the workspace, which eclipse forces you to choose on every startup. What the hell was so important about that workspace to justify ...
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My brain extension: Migrating from SVN to Git
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The public notebook of a computational neuroscientist. Freitag, 6. Juli 2012. Migrating from SVN to Git. As I'm waiting for Martin. To give me feedback on my most recent manuscript on a neuromorphic classifier. I maintain code, figures, documents and all other stuff relevant to one project in a version control repository. I'm working on different machines remotely, e.g., the gaia cluster at FU. The server at KIP Heidelberg. Briefly, I used two step-by-step guides: the one from John Albin. Is a good read ...
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My brain extension: Interview on Sciple.org
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The public notebook of a computational neuroscientist. Sonntag, 14. August 2011. Interview on Sciple.org. Has published an interview. With me. Sciple.org is a relatively new platform which is about people in science, with a special focus on young scientists. It also has a "Future" section with interesting graphs. still growing, but interesting to watch anyhow. That part reminded me a bit of Seed Magazine. Abonnieren Kommentare zum Post (Atom). PNAS Editorial: Impact Factor corrupts science. Tools for eff...
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My brain extension: Installing scipy 0.7.0 on openSUSE
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The public notebook of a computational neuroscientist. Donnerstag, 19. Februar 2009. Installing scipy 0.7.0 on openSUSE. I had to rebuild parts of my toolchain because I messed up my OS and needed to reinstall. In the process of searching for nice numpy and scipy packages for openSuSE (which failed), I discovered that now its actually possible to do. Provided that you have the python-distutils package installed). That's great. But. it doesn't work! In the build service. DL and unpack LAPACK. That takes q...
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