MS Word's Latex support

http://iun.edu/~mathiho/useful/word07shortcuts.pdf

Matlab Keyboard function

keyboard function is useful for debugging purposes. It stops execution of m file and allows user to watch and manipulate variables.

Reset Random Number Genaration of Matlab

reset(RandStream.getDefaultStream,sum(100*clock))
http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/en/data/1-18WH6/

Matlab Jit Acceleration

• Avoid sparse matrices
• Avoid static variables
• Vectorize the code
• Use scalar values in range of for loops
• Only call built in functions in for loops
• http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~marios/matlab/accel_matlab.pdf

Moving file to folder in HG versioning system

Just copy files into desired directory. Go into that directory and right click. Go to hg->guess renames. Rest is straightforward.

http://kiln.stackexchange.com/questions/1943/moving-a-file-in-a-repository

Semi Turing Test

A loosely definition for semi-Turing test is whether a human is capable to understand an output from human and output from computer aided human. For example If I am using spell checker , how someone can understand that I am doing so. It requires much more effort to distinguish.