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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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Stork is my best research assistant

When I was a graduate student at Baylor College of Medicine, I found myself often in an embarrassing situation — I felt completely lost when my fellow graduate students heatedly discussed a paper in our field but I never heard of this publicati
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文献鸟Stork是我的科研好帮手

我在Baylor College of Medicine读研究生的时候经常遇到一种尴尬局面,就是同学们在热烈讨论本领域某篇文献的时候,我一脸茫然 — 因为我压根就不知道这篇文章。回头Pub
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How to retrieve text from a picture

Update: a free online tool where you can paste image directly: https://alivelearn.net/?p=2047 I get a picture and would like to copy the text in the picture. But since there are a lot of text, I do not want to type. So I wish there is a tool which ca
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Raspberry Pi for research labs (1)

Raspberry Pi for research labs (3) Raspberry Pi for research labs (2) Raspberry Pi is a mini and incredibly cheap PC. The size is like a credit card, and the price is $35. See how small it is compared to my hand. If you connect Pi with a TV (or monit
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Backblaze, a nice backup tool

I purchased at least 2 portable hard drives and many USB drives to backup important files. For a while I did my backup every day by copying files to the portable hard drives. But then I get lazy and stopped doing this. The last time I backup was prob
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AutoPager Chrome, Very useful productivity tool

When I search google or browsing blogs, I often need to click “next page” to go to the next page. This Chrome extension by Wend Li will automatically load the next page: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autopager-chrome/mmgagnmbe
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Learning PaperBox in 2 minutes

PaperBox is a cloud reference manager ideal for labs and teams to collaborate. Get it here: http://www.peaya.com/paperbox Learning PaperBox in 2 minutes from Xu Cui
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Cohort analysis

Cohort analysis is a good metric on how users engage to an application. To do this, you: Break the users into cohorts according to when they register (bin size usually a month) Count the number of users in each cohort who login in over time Plot it W
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