using .map() to iterate and modify objects in array

 const myUsers = [

    { name: 'shark', likes: 'ocean' },
    { name: 'turtle', likes: 'pond' },
    { name: 'otter', likes: 'fish biscuits' }
]

const usersByLikes = myUsers.map(item => {
    const container = {};

    container[item.name] = item.likes;
    container.age = item.name.length * 10;

    return container;
})

console.log(usersByLikes);

Source: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/4-uses-of-javascripts-arraymap-you-should-know 

http://www.seriouseats.com/2013/09/the-serious-eats-guide-to-ramen-styles.html

PhD comics

A list of personally relatable PhD comics when I was completing my thesis.
References
Life Plan vs. Life Reality
Data: by the numbers
Conference
Writing your Thesis Outline
Your Thesis Title
The Actual Method
Seminar Bingo
More of the same
Keeping your paper within the page limit
Quantum Gradnamics, pt. 1 of 3
Quantum Gradnamics, pt. 2 of 3
Quantum Gradnamics, pt. 3 of 3
Research Diagram/Research Reality
Your Life Ambition
Vicious Cycle
How to ruin a grad student's evening
Average time spent writing one e-mail
How long your Prof. thinks it should take to do something
Clever Acronyms
Abstract Mad Libs
Vacation v. Stress
Buzzwords
A story in file names
Call for Papers!
Too due list
The Repulsor Field Explained
Procrascorrelation
The Out-Of-Office Reply
Intellectual Freedom
The Methodology Translator
The Plans
Your Thesis Outline

Interesting Reads: On the wave-particle duality

http://statintquant.net/siq/siqse3.html#x50-70003

Interesting Reads: The Franck-Condon Principle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franck%E2%80%93Condon_principle

http://www.paintfont.com/

Create your own font using your handwriting

Potential solution to keyboard not working during booting

Solution: USB Optimization was enabled. Enter the BIOS by holding onto the power button until you hear three beeps.

Source: http://superuser.com/questions/313024/how-to-get-into-bios-when-usb-keyboard-is-not-powered-and-have-no-ps-2-ports

Doing stuff in Ubuntu

The following works for Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS

In the terminal:

- Checking the ubuntu version:
lsb_release -d

- Installing programs:
sudo apt-get install program-name

- Looking for a certain type of file within the current directory, e.g. .pdf files:
find -name "*.pdf"

- Increase the screen idle dim timeout for Ubuntu 14.04:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay number-of-seconds

- Opening files in the current directory:
xdg-open file-name


 Other:

- To create desktop shortcut, go to /usr/share/applications.
Select the icon and press Ctrl+c to copy it. Go to the desktop and press Ctlr+v.
Note that drag and drop won't work.

Changing colour of visited hyperlink in Microsoft Word 2010

Issue: You want the colour of a hyperlink to stay the default blue colour, but after clicking a link in Word, the colour changes to a purple-like colour.

Solution: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-word/hyperlinks-purple-and-microsoft-word-2010/93cb5832-dafc-4634-89a3-82358acf9b6a

Go to Page Layout, Colors, Create New Theme Colors. Change the colour of 'Followed Hyperlink' to the same colour as 'Hyperlink'.

Interesting Reads: Nick Brown smelled bull

http://narrative.ly/pieces-of-mind/nick-brown-smelled-bull/

Interesting Reads: Making of Crash Bandicoot

http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-bandicoot-part-1/

Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin, creators of the original Crash Bandicoot released in 1996, details the makings of the game, over a series of 13 blog posts.

Bolded text in pdf

Problem: After compiling latex, pdf containing images have text bolded. Problem only occurs within Adobe Reader

Solution: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/141/why-are-some-pages-in-my-pdf-coming-out-bold

To remove transparency in photoshop, Layer-> Flatten Image. Save the image, and recompile latex file. pdf should now look normal in Adobe Reader.

Installing Cygwin

1. Grab the installation package from https://www.cygwin.com/
2. Install any packages you require. Common packages include: vim, gnuplot, x11.
- vim is a text editor.
- gnuplot to generate plots
- x11 to open up new windows. Need to use this for gnuplot

• Attempting to open the gnuplot directly from the cygwin terminal won't work. Have to type in "startxwin", which will open another window. From this window, gnuplot will work.

• To change the home directory from the default location of c:\cygwin64 to something else, say, your dropbox account, follow instructions here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjxEH_tr7e0

• Default vim will have problems as outlined here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18115644/vim-has-many-ui-bugs-on-cygwin-on-windows-8
  To fix this, do the following: type into the cygwin terminal "vim _vimrc". This will create a file. Into this file, type "set nocompatible" and on the next line, "set backspace=indent,eol,start". Save the file. Problems listed in link above should be fixed.

Using a Playstation controller (Dualshock 3) on the PC without bluetooth dongle

1. Download and install the appropriate software from http://www.motioninjoy.com/download
2. After installation, connect controller to pc via a usb cable. The cable used to charge the controller will work.
3. Start the DS3 tool program.
4. Go to the driver manager tab. After a minute or so, a driver will appear, something similar to Port_#0003.Hub_#0004
5. If nothing appears, do the following: Open up internet explorer, go to tools->internet options-> security. Change the security level to the lowest setting (default is Medium-high).
6. Open up DS3 tool again, go to driver manager tab, and a driver should appear. If not, try restarting the computer.
7. If you see the driver, click 'Load driver' and this will install the driver for the controller.
8. If it has been successfully installed, on the Profiles tab, instead of the message 'Wait for controller(s) to be connected', it will say  'Dualshock 3/sixaxis (USB)'. This indicates it has been installed properly, and can now use the controller on the PC, say, for a PS1 or PS2 emulator.

http://keepass.info/

How to play PS2 games

1. Download a Playstation 2 emulator. http://pcsx2.net/download.html
2. Download bios, and put in bios folder.
http://www.4shared.com/rar/VVnHPrYz/PS2_Bios_package.html
3. Install emulator.
4. Download roms to play games.
http://www.emuparadise.me/Sony_Playstation_2_ISOs/41
5. Check http://wiki.pcsx2.net/index.php?title=Main_Page to determine which configuration is best for the game being played.

http://jootix.com/

Useful sites for learning Japanese grammar.
http://www.maggiesensei.com/
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/columns/0002/ Pera Pera Penguin

Resources:
http://jisho.org/
http://www.japaneseverbconjugator.com/JVerbList.asp
http://www.jgram.org/pages/viewList.php?t=15
http://www.kansaiben.com/