Xu Cui

 

   



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Statistical type II error (beta), and power

Even though I learned power analysis in elementary statistics class, I totally forget it because I never use it. As we have to put power analysis in our grant, I am forced to relearn this topic. Definition: type II error: null hypothesis should be re
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Chameleon changes color

Original Video– More videos at TinyPic
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Peaya Paper, Paper and PDF manager

I’m using Peaya Paper to manage my papers: http://www.peaya.com
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How to make your external NTFS hard disk writable in Mac?

You can only read, but not write to, your external NTFS hard disk? Here is a solution: 1. Go to http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ and download/install macfuse 2. Go to http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/24481/ntfs-3g and download/install ntfs-3g 3.
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Why choose this book? Chinese version 如何做出選擇?

Read’s book, Why choose this book, was pubilshed in traditional Chinese recently. Here is a link: Simplified Chinese version is hopefully coming.
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Hide icons of free web traffic service

<span style=”display:none”>traffic statistics code</span> You should put this right before </body>
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Two games, iterative thinking

1. The smallest unique number The host asks each of a large number of participants to write down a positive integer. The person whose number is unique and smallest wins. If you were one of the participant, which number do you write? e.g. If the numbe
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Screen capture and video editing

I use the following free programs to capture screen and edit the videos. CamStudio for screen capture. Output is AVI. Current version: 2.5 beta VirtualDub for editing (e.g. trimming unwanted frames). Output is AVI. WinFF for converting AVI to FLV. Al
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Show debug error window of installed AIR application

By default, the debug error window are suppressed for an installed AIR application. Sometimes you may want to enable it (say to gather information from internal test users). Here is how: After installation, create an empty file “debug” in
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