My Own World...

... y estabamos ambos muy contentos. Dos frases que dijo me dejaron super orgulloso: I want you to start writing this for Nature... Esa wea ya es la raja. No se si lo acepten o no, pero con sus standares que considere que un resultado es merecedor de Nature, es por que realmente son mejores de lo que jamas pense. La otra frase tan solida como la anterior fue: Tell your wife she can start packing now Asi que seniores, pronto estaremos en Chile (Dios mediante!) =)

Today, I have resumed the writing of my dissertation. It is a long way to walk, but I am quite happy about the achievements. Espero todo salga super!

Estoy realmente contento! Luego de trabajar por dos anios en el uso de IR imaging para skin cancer, hemos enviado el primero (de muchos mas, espero) documento al journal Infrared Physics & Technology . Se que no es una revista excelente (tiene un impact factor de 1.46), pero es un gran comienzo para dar a conocer la metodologia que implementamos a la comunidad cientifica (ingenieros, especificamente). El plan ahora es obtener mas resultados (intra usuario e inter usuario) para estudiar la validez del metodo empleado a mayor escala. Nuestro plan para eso es enviar un paper al JAMA Dermatology or al Journal of Investigative Dermatology, con la idea de que la comunidad medica tambien sepa de nuestra idea. Esperemos que las cosas sigan asi de bien :) Seb

Despues de pelear por un buen rato para establecer el numero de workers locales para parallel processing en Matlab R2011a me entero de que el maximo es 8 para mi version : When introduced, the limit was 4; this changed to 8 in R2009a; and to 12 in R2011b. Tendre que comprar el R2011b si es que quiero usar los 12 cores de mi procesador en paralelo utilizando Matlab. No me gusto mucho eso :( Pero bueno. 8 workers lo haran mas rapido que los 2 que usaba originalmente, verdad?

... pero parace un muy mal chiste One mature Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) participated in the fMRI study. The salmon was approximately 18 inches long, weighed 3.8 lbs, and was not alive at the time of scanning. The task administered to the salmon involved completing an open-ended mentalizing task. The salmon was shown a series of photographs depicting individuals in social situations with a specified emotional valence. The salmon was asked to determine what emotion the individual in the photo must have been experiencing. Stimuli were presented in a block design with each photo presented for 10 seconds followed by 12 seconds of rest. A total of 15 photos were displayed. Total scan time was 5.5 minutes. Aca la fuente

One of my colleagues called me to tell the following story: "A high school student came to me asking for some work.  I could not really employ him, so I gave him the book of Ladan Arissian to read (Lasers, the Power and Precision of Light). He came back the next week with a few questions, and the following week and the following... It was amazing that he was able to understand it all, with only a high school background. After he finished the book, he was so excited about lasers that he enrolled in a real School of Optics (in Tucson, AZ)". and I am really sure that several talents are lost like this...

I am really, really happy. I worked more than 2 years on a paper that got finally accepted. The manuscript reads great and got minor revisions. Next goal: finish the JAMA paper and start writing my proposal!