Author Archives: mt4

Posted on March 24, 2012 by mt4

I’m reading James Gleick’s The Information, and finding it exceptionally thought provoking.  I’m almost done.  The book is a vivid historical journey and exposition of various interconnected forms of communication as discovered and/or practiced by humans, including the syntax and … Continue reading →

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MATLAB Subsref

Posted on February 17, 2012 by mt4

I learned a new MATLAB command which seems like it’d be useful for many applications, especially for switching between different methods for subsampling from a vector.  Here’s some sample code: As I was searching for how best to include Matlab … Continue reading →

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Hacking

Posted on February 16, 2012 by mt4

What does it mean to be a hacker?  If you’re like me, a physics graduate student or any other person struggling to meet your programming demands and expand your programming skills, you might agree with my opinion that it just … Continue reading →

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The Zen of (a course in) Management

Posted on January 18, 2012 by mt4

Sometimes I stress about the degree of specialization many of us pursuing a PhD feel.  This semester I enrolled in a management course, and while it can’t oppose the pressure to specialize, it has already  provided an outlet for me … Continue reading →

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MATLAB for controlling external hardware

Posted on January 8, 2012 by mt4

Happy New Year!!! For a while we’ve used patchy solutions for controlling a digital micromirror device (DMD), first just by roughly changing the included API code, then a professional software engineer designed a beautiful but very complicated Java code to … Continue reading →

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Figures with LaTeX

Posted on September 19, 2011 by mt4

Here’s the latex wiki page for how to make some nice figures directly in latex. [link]

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LaTeX Formatting

Posted on July 26, 2011 by mt4

Good stuff on page formatting from the latex wikibook: Page Layout section

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Matlab for reading from ccd camera

Posted on July 20, 2011 by mt4

here’s a blog post about it [link]

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Posters in LaTeX with beamer

Posted on June 19, 2011 by mt4

I’m preparing to make a poster for an upcoming meeting, and I’m sick and tired of powerpoint.  I’ll have a lot of math and I want my .eps figures to be seamlessly weaved in, so naturally I look to latex.  … Continue reading →

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TV reconstruction with cvx

Posted on May 19, 2011 by mt4

TV reconstruction with cvx

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