This is a follow up post from my first post on changes in video game playing since COVID 19 began. It’s been about 7 weeks since then, so how are things looking in the world of video games? We had … Continued
Covid-19 has more people playing video games At the time of writing this many business are encouraging employees to work from home in order to avoid the spread of covid-19. Many other businesses are cutting hours, working on skeleton crews, … Continued
This is my second article on video game skin analysis (the first was on Rust) using data collected using Python via Steam’s API on the Community Marketplace. TL;DR: Read the headings and bold text, look at pictures At the top … Continued
The lab I am in mainly studies effort behaviors in rats and humans (and recently pigeons with my collaborators). We want to know what goes on in the brain when animals work at a difficult task. But knowing that a … Continued
This is the first post of (hopefully) many to come from my Python program that pulls Steam Community Market data for video game skins. If you want to learn how I got all this data, check out that tutorial. TL;DR: … Continued
Structures in Matlab are a great tool for organizing, referencing, and analyzing your data. They allow you to dynamically access your data in ways that you can’t with numerical or cell arrays. Follow along with the below code and comments … Continued
Note: As of September 30th, 2023, this code works for Counter Strike 2 with no modifications needed. The gameID for CS2 is 730, the same as CSGO. This Python project (using the Spyder python environment) aims to scrap data from … Continued
Not so bird brained after all; pigeons care a great deal about how quickly they get a reward, and we found the neurons that carry that information! Pigeons, just like humans, prefer rewards they don’t have to wait long for. … Continued
In all mammalian brains, from humans to bats to rats, there are specialized neurons called “place cells“. These brain cells are only active when we are in a particular place within an environment. You have some place cells for your … Continued
The events of this post are all true (as far as I can remember) and began on the 5th of June. Everything was going well. Too well. Nothing goes well in science, especially not as well as things were going … Continued