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How to fix bluetooth mouse not working under windows…

I am using a Dell laptop with Windows 10. It’s been working great, but occasionally my bluetooth mouse won’t work. Sometimes I need to re-install the driver, sometimes I need to restart the computer. But it does not always resume working.
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Find cheapest flight

Another option is https://www.kayak.com/flights, which is also useful to find cheapest flight. I booked a direct flight (non-stop) from San Francisco to Beijing for my father last October. The cost is ~$300. It’s fairly che
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Recommend 3blue1brown

When I was in high school and saw the following equation, my mind was blown! $$1+\frac{1}{4}+\frac{1}{9}+\frac{1}{16}+…=\frac{\pi^2}{6}$$ Why is Pi here? Isn’t it supposed to show up only in circle related problem? But the left-hand has n
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Jobs available @ UCSF

Posted for Fumiko Hoeft, Director of BrainLENS at UCSF: Join us at UCSF Hoeft Neuroscience Lab and Precision Learning Center, a multicampus science of learning initiative consisting of 6 Univ. CA schools (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, LA, Merced, SF) and
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RA and Postdoc position at Stanford

Brain Dynamics Lab (bdl.stanford.edu) is a computational neuropsychiatry lab dedicated to developing computational methods for a better understanding of individual differences in brain functioning in healthy and patient populations. Current projects
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Postdoc position available in our lab at Stanford

Our lab is hiring a “sports neuroscience postdoc”. See the detail below. If you are interested, please contact Reiko Riley (mentioning that you heard about this position from Xu’s blog): —– A sports neuroscience postdoct
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Remote Desktops

I have quite a few devices now: one computer (PC) at Stanford, one (PC) at home, one Macbook Pro laptop, one iPhone and iPad. I am sometimes at work, sometime home, sometimes travelling, sometimes meeting people. One thing I always want to achieve is
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3 monitors

To be more “productive”, I recently upgraded my work space. I used to have 2 monitors side by side. Both of them are View Sonic but they are of different size and one is old. So I purchased two monitors (Dell U2415). Together with one ori
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Stork is my best research assistant (2): Grant alert

Does my boss have money? I am looking for a postdoc position; does my future boss have enough funding to support me? How much money was awarded to my field (e.g. NIRS)? And who got the money? What are they going to do with the money? Have you ever wo
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