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How unexpected was the 49.9°C temperature recorded recently? An introduction to extreme statistics

More detective stories involving perceptual psychology

A vision scientist's review of The Greek Coffin Mystery by Ellery Queen (1932)

Mixing code and markups in LilyPond (or, coding for guitarists)

What can we learn from the Simpson's Paradox?

A mind-boggling analogy between machine learning and quantum physics

Heh, Emacs LISP function! Lemme give you a piece of advice!

Beautiful ideas in programming: generators and continuations

Simple exercises with grep, sed and awk in org-mode

Use basic data science skills to debunk a myth about koalas!

CV & publications

My Research

About Me

Personal Projects

Writing the Emacs configuration script in org-mode: a simple example of literate programming

About this site

How this website was built - a tutorial

How I run emacs in client/server mode under macOS

So, I designed a clock face

Notes for Collection of Sand - essays by Italo Calvino

Who did the first computer simulation of a biological neuron?

Let's make some spirals

Gradient descent on a non-Euclidean surface

Popular Science

Visualization Gallery

Reading comic books as brain lesions

Punning is no fun in Chinese

Which department threw out a freaking VAX?

Serendipitous photoshopping

Stereoscopic photography on the cheap

The ingenious sundial of Professor Moppert

Several places in the music of Charles Ives

A magic trick based on Fourier transform

The lens

Panoramic

The old man and the vacuum tubes

Norwegian wood(s) in Asia

Curb your nostalgic Japanese childhood enthusiasm

The seeds of quandong

How many photons get into your eyes?

The marmoset visual area DM for dummies

The retinotopic map of marmoset V1

Mangarevan arithmetic

Polar opposite

Teaching Material: PSY3310/Human vision as frequency filters

Teaching Material: RAD2092/Physiology of Visual Pathways

Teaching Material: RAD2092/The eye and the retina

Teaching Material: RAD2092/The Cerebral Cortex

Teaching Material: PHY3012/Plasticity in the visual system in development

Teaching Material: PHY3111/Prac

Teaching Material: PHY3111/Color Vision

Supplementary materials for undegraduate lectures