LaTex: Vertical Text

Scientific publications in computer science are often created using LaTeX. Here is a little tip for making text appear vertically in Latex.
First, you need to include the following library:

\usepackage{rotating}

Next, you can use the sideways environment, as follows:

\begin{sideways}YOURTEXT\end{sideways}

Finally here is an example used within a table:

\begin{tabular}{|r|r|c|}\hline
\begin{sideways}Letter\end{sideways} & \begin{sideways}Frequency\end{sideways} & Words \\
\hline
A & 0.05 & Apple, Algebra, Altruistic, Angel \\
B & 0.45 & Basketball, Ballroom, Bear, Bountiful \\
\hline
\end{tabular}

Which produces:

Quick Mac and Windows Keyboard Switching

Since Mac OS X doesn't save profiles for multiple keyboards (which I hope will change in subsequent versions), I had to find a solution for quickly changing between a Windows style keyboard and a Mac style keyboard. After spending some time with Google, I found some AppleScript that seems to provide an adequate solution. For convenience, I made two scripts: one called keyboard_win.scpt that switches the modifier keys on a Windows style keyboard to behave Mac-like, and one called keyboard_mac.scpt that restores the default keyboard behavior for a Mac style keyboard.

(1) keyboard_win.scpt:
(2) keyboard_mac.scpt:
Hopefully, this will save you some time.

Escaping JavaScript and PHP

Here are some references for encoding and decoding in JavaScript and PHP, so that passing information via ajax or urls can be done cleanly.

The Art of Web - useful testing area for JavaScript and PHP.
W3Schools JavaScript Reference - just JavaScript

Javascript Word Jumper

Here is a little JavaScript I wrote that can be used to move the cursor between words within a input fields.

Exploring Bayesian Methods

Bayesian methods can be used to deal with uncertainty.
Here are some links that help to explore the area:
Bayesian Inference
Empirical Bayes
Hierarchal Bayes
Bayesian Network
Bayes' theorem

Statistics Topics
Expected Value
Likelihood
Mean
Variance
Mean Squared Error (MSE)
Posterior Probability
Conditional, Joint, and Marginal Probability
Utility Functions (Link  2)

Distributions
Normal
Gamma
Poisson
Beta
Binomial
Conjugate Prior

Other Related Topics
Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)
Simulated Annealing
Tabu Search (Link 2)
Kalman Filter (Link 2)
Particle Filter
Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAG)
Markovian Random Field (MRF)
EM Algorithm (Bayesian Structural EM - Friedman)
Reading List of Bayesian Methods

Helpful Software
JavaBayes
Graphviz

Useful Java Libraries
Colt
Tomato