Tower of sqrt(2)

What is the limit of this infinite exponential? Solution 1: $$x=\sqrt{2}^x$$ This leads to x=2 or 4 Solution 2: $$x=^x$$ This leads to x not equal to 2 or 4 Solution 3: MatLab simulation of series $$\sqrt{2}, \sqrt{2}^\sqrt{2}, [\s
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saveppt2, save MatLab figures to PowerPoint

I find saveppt2 is very useful in data exploration. I often have to view a lot of plots/figures for individual subjects during quality checking or data exploration. It would be ideal to have a script to automatically save the plots into PowerPoint an
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Adobe AIR 2 beta is out

Adobe AIR 2 beta is out last night (Nov 16, 2009). It includes a number of highly expected features including launching native applications. It also improves CPU/memory usages. Some sample applications include: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air2
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How to create TIFF files

When you submit a manuscript, many journals ask you to send your figures in TIFF format with some requirements such as 300dpi, flattened, LZW compressed, etc. How to do that? My figures are usually finalized in MS PowerPoint. I don’t use PowerP
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Winner take all in SVM?

updated: 2010/01/05, add plot of original data Assume our data contains two features and they are highly correlated (say, r>0.9). The 1st feature does slightly better than the 2nd one in classifying the data. The question is, is the weight of the
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Productivity Programs in my computer

My desktop computer in the lab is a Mac Pro. I also installed Windows XP on this computer through VMWare. Windows XP (and 7, now windows 10 64bit) major working environment, including manuscript writing, data analysis, preparing presentation etc MS W
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MatLab and Excel

I usually write MatLab scripts to parse the behavior data collected in a fMRI or NIRS experiment. It’s powerful and flexible. But as I have to do an Excel version recently, I found Excel has a great advantage — it’s easy to share wi
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