Thinking about thinking

So far today I have been wrest­ling with get­ting my dis­ser­ta­tion expe­ri­ment bund­led into a stan­da­lone app via py2app. Inc­lu­ding opencv seems to be trou­ble­some. Until I find a solu­tion to the opencv pro­blem, I’m going to com­ment it out and focus on spee­ding up the real-time res­ponse force feed­back on the dis­play machine.

Spent most of the day wor­king on coding my first dis­ser­ta­tion expe­ri­ment, which will use an xbox gamepad’s ana­log trig­gers to index res­ponse force. I came up with a cool way to pro­vide visual feed­back of res­ponse force as well as res­ponse type, but I need to do some opti­mi­za­tion of the code to help it avoid drop­ping fra­mes. Enga­ged Jon Mulle to work on trans­la­ting this opencv C++ code to python for use in my expe­ri­ment for eye moni­to­ring via webcam.

Tal­ked at length with Matt Hilchey regar­ding the state of science and our sha­red disi­llu­sion with the scien­ti­fic publishing pro­cess. Advi­sed Heath Mathe­son on mixed effects analy­sis of mul­ti­no­mial data. Pos­ted an ans­wer on stats.stackexchange.com regar­ding analy­sis of ques­tion­naire data.

After mul­ti­ple dis­cus­sions with collea­gues, I’ve deci­ded to give the whole open lab note­book thing another try. I’m about to start up data collec­tion for my dis­ser­ta­tion as well as a comp pro­ject, so this is pro­bably an opti­mal time to start up again. I’ll try to update the page every cou­ple hours with what I’ve done since the last update.