Amazing. AEDs continue to come down in price, and are really racking up an extensive list of saved lives.
Good to see that he tells it like it is — you won’t hear any mention of this stuff from the administration at Tulane, you’ll just hear a pile of euphemisms, but we (who were or are there) know it to be true:
Imagine this: You have two text files full of information, with one data entry on each line. You want to find out which lines occur in both files. Now, if the files are mostly the same, it’s probably best to use a program called diff. However, if the files are mostly different, you can use this little incantation:
cat file1.txt file2.txt | sort -n | uniq -d
This will join file1 and file2, sort the joined data -numerically, and display only the lines that are not unique (uniq -d).
This came in handy for manipulating electrode files today. Our electrode files just contain lists of node numbers. The simulator gets unhappy when you try to do things with overlapping electrodes, so in this way we were able to remove the offending overlap without too much trouble.
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.
