I found this neat video on YouTube today when looking at some related videos to my own. This shows how an ectopic focus in the heart can develop into a spiral wave.

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There’s a long and (two-year-) old screed over on K5 entitled How I Was Saved ostensively about the proper way to write C++ code. I actually found it in my trove of old bookmarked to-read articles using Readeroo. In it, there’s a very good, very penetrating thing said about the responsibility of engineers [...]

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Maria has an excellent little vignette about nerve firing (which is very very similar to cardiac cells firing) over at intueri. Here is an excerpt (whose prose is typical of her excellent writing):

Sodium ions flood into the single brain cell through the gates of channels linking the exterior and interior of the neuron. Other channels [...]

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I’ve been totally absent from most of my life the last week as a result of some problems we had with our code on the cluster. My jobs kept dying, taking down compute nodes in the process, for no apparent reason. After a while I narrowed it down to the time when restart files (from [...]

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About this time five years ago, I was a nervous junior undergraduate studying Biomedical Engineering at Tulane University. I had just been accepted as an undergraduate member of Dr. Natalia Trayanova’s computational cardiac electrophysiology lab. The goal at that time was to complete a research project for my undergraduate thesis.

So very many things have [...]

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