Cyan Ching

Cyan Ching

Postdoctoral researcher working in method development for microscopy image processing.

Summarised list of Ig Nobel Prizes

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Attached you can find a text file where I summarised all Ig Nobel Prizes up til 2025. I like to sneak it into any function I make and distribute so when it runs successfully, the user gets a random row of the file displayed as a fun reward. I got this idea from Gromacs, a legendary free and open-source molecular dynamics software. I will try to remember to update this list yearly.

Download the list here

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An essay, The Missing Half of Science: Rethink Negative Results

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This essay, written with my friends and fellow researchers, examines a major bottleneck in modern science: the loss of knowledge from failed or discontinued research. We argue that these so-called dead ends are often the starting points for iterative improvement, and that preserving them through structured reporting, shared databases and reformed publishing practices could make research more efficient, collaborative and transparent.

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This is my current favourite replacement for jet, or any other ‘rainbow-like’ colour map. It is based on the Okabe-Ito palette, which is designed to be colourblind-friendly, and extended into a continuous map with a pleasantly wide dynamic range. I am mildly offended that this is not already included in Matplotlib as a built-in colormap.

‘R-rated’ Bash reference manual from Epstein files

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This Bash reference manual is brought to you by the U.S. Department of Justice, having been discovered among the Epstein files. It is somehow labeled ‘R-rated’, so you must confirm that you are over 18 to view it, despite being a very thorough manual ideally suited for complete beginners learning Bash. It remains unclear why it ended up in the Epstein files, perhaps his true struggle was Bash coding, because nothing turns a good man into a villain quite like shell scripting. Let us just hope Tux the penguin has never visited the island.

Concise radiance field maths article

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A concise and clearly written ‘vintage’ article (published in 2012) that delves into the mathematical foundations of radiance fields, and I really like how it weaves in the underlying physics.