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Matthias Mittner

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2026

Linux on a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 11

This post details my experience installing and running Linux on a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 11.

Matthias Mittner

Linux on a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 12

This post details my experience installing and running Linux on a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 12.

Matthias Mittner

Never Write PsychoPy Scripts Again

A case study in human-AI collaboration for experiment development: building a 646-line N-back experiment with EyeLink integration.

Claude & Matthias Mittner

Resources for learning (and teaching) statistics

This is an on-going collection of resources for learning and teaching statistical concepts.

Matthias Mittner

Association Between Executive Functions, Working Memory, and Manual Dexterity

I am thrilled to see that our fully-Bayesian, open-data paper "Association Between Executive Functions, Working Memory, and Manual Dexterity in Young and Healthy Older…

Stuff you need to know as new (foreign) employee at UiT

Even more than a year after moving to the best city on earth, Tromsø, and beginning to work at the best university in the country, the University of Tromsø, I stumble across…

Handling R packages/dependencies with conda.

Every now and then, I stumble across the case that I want to return to some analysis I have been doing some time in the past only to find out that recent developments and…

New paper: Toward a model-based cognitive neuroscience of mind wandering

I am happy to announce that our review paper on a model-based cognitive neuroscience approach to the study of mind-wandering has been accepted for publication in Neuroscience…

Publishing Bayesian analyses in a medical journal

I am excited to announce that our paper Predictors of response to Web-based cognitive behavioral therapy with face-to-face therapist support for depression: A Bayesian…

Commentary on our mind-wandering paper

Vadim Axelrod and Andrei R. Teodorescu wrote an interesting commentary on our recent mind-wandering paper that was published in The Journal of Neuroscience last year. I am…

Fixing numerical underflow in WAIC calculation in Stan

I recently switched to the amazing software Stan for my MCMC needs. Every now and then, it can be useful to compare different models using some kind of information…

Multi-Language IPython (Jupyter) setup

The IPython notebook project (which I adore) is about to be renamed to Jupyter to better reflect the fact that it can be used with other languages besides Python. At the…

(Dis-)Assembling of Clavinova CLP-970

I recently had to disassemble my clavinova CLP-970 for various reasons.

Get Deviance Information Criterion (DIC) when sampling in JAGS

I use the rjags package from R to sample with JAGS. When sampling with the coda.samples() function, there is no way of getting the DIC from these samples (you need to use…

Access IPython Notebook through SSH to avoid firewall

I usually run ipython notebook on a server and access the web-interface from a different computer. This enables me to start a lengthy computation, shut my laptop and come…

Highlight changes with latexdiff

Have you ever been asked to provide a resubmission with "changes highlighted"? Or have you ever received a modified version of your latex file and wanted to see the changes…

Setup for sharing org-mode agenda with google calendar

Note: this is only one-directional from org-mode to google calendar.

Import PDF in Inkscape without replacing fonts

Inkscape replaces text in PDF with bad fonts (especially when the PDF is generated with latex). I use Inkscape to rearrange some stuff or do some fine-tuning of a…