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Copy/Paste keyboard shortcut doesn’t work under Mac

In your AIR application, if you overwrite the application menu, you might find that the keyboard shortcuts (e.g. Cmd-C, V) doesn’t work under Mac. It seems the “Edit” menu in the default application is essential to these functions.
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SVM regression with libsvm

SVM is mostly commonly used for binary classifications. But one branch of SVM, SVM regression or SVR, is able to fit a continuous function to data. This is particularly useful when the predicted variable is continuous. Here I tried some very simple c
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Brain surface plot with MatLab

This is an example of brain activation plotted on surface. In many circumstances surface view is much more straightforward than a slice view. Here is how I created such a plot using MatLab and SPM. Environment and Tools: Windows XP MatLab (v7.6) SPM
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tcpip connection with pnet

We use TCP/UDP/IP Toolbox 2.0.5 to read and write data from/to a TCPIP port. It’s fast and reliable. The version we use is 2.0.5. Below is a matlab sample script showing how to connect to another computer (called ETG-4000) with TCPIP : %Connect
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Noise removal in NIRS

Noise removal methods in NIRS can be divided into 4 categories: reducing noise based on its temporal characteristics: The instrument noise is usually in the high frequency band and thus can be removed by band pass filtering. Band pass filtering can a
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GMail Advanced Search

As I have quite some emails (>13000) in gmail, searching more efficiently becomes a necessity. Fortunately gmail offers some advanced search syntax. http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=7190 Search emails with attachment f
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Just became a new dad

I just became a new father. My daughter Iris was born 4 days ago. Currently sleep deprived …
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3D Rotation

Assume you have a vector (x,y,z) and you want to rotate it to, say x-axis, you can multiply the rotation matrix to the vector. First, make the vector a column vector and append 1 to the end. It becomes a 4×1 matrix: v = x y z 1 Then, convert the
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The power of words

Several years ago in San Diego I was in a friend’s car when he hit the car in front. The accident was mild and nobody was injured. After the two cars pulled over, I was wondering what the other driver would say. He said, “I am sorry to me
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