Growing up in the 1990s, I was entranced by Star Trek. Specifically, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space 9, and Voyager. Most Star Trek fans would argue that the 1990s were “peak Star Trek”, given the amount and quality…
Corwin Olson
Statistical Estimation Engineer, Author
Category: General
Four Pillars: Exercise, Part 3
A few final thoughts on exercise. Bear with me. Beyond doing a single workout each day, I also recommend finding ways to stay active throughout the day. For example, squeeze in some pushups and situps during a mid-morning or afternoon…
Four Pillars: Exercise, Part 2
Guess what? I have a bunch more to say about exercise. Shocking, I know. An example of a highly effective exercise routine: first thing in the morning do a 1+ mile run starting at your front door, perhaps going through…
Tips on Performing a Literature Review
Focus on relevant journal papers, textbook chapters, and to a lesser extent conference papers. Odds are you will learn more of what you need for your research from these sources than your graduate classes. Textbooks tend to be more polished…
Avoiding auto-align issues while cropping in PowerPoint
Recently I’ve been working on a PowerPoint presentation that has images which fit the width of the slide. I wanted to make a set of images, each on a successive slide, consistent with each other (making the axes on the plots appear…
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