Earlier today, I posted our response to the reviewers' comments on our k-mer counting paper, "These are not the k-mers you are looking for: efficient online k-mer counting using a probabilistic data structure.
A side note -- I was wondering how many public examples there are of the whole paper submission …
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A few months back, we received some reviews for our paper on k-mer counting with khmer. After many months, we (mostly Qingpeng Zhang, the first author) has finished revising the paper. Here is our response to reviewers.
The latest (resubmitted) version of the paper is here, while the version the …
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I've just made my full application to the Moore Foundation's Data Driven Discovery Investigator program available, but wanted to post an HTML version, too. You can also see a short sci-fi story about what I want to enable.
You might wonder why I'm posting this. Well, there's a snowflakes chance …
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My second-round Data Driven Discovery application is due on Monday, and my first draft contained the following story. I don't think I'll include it in the actual application, but it was entertaining enough to write that I thought I'd post it here.
A vision of the future I would like …
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There were lots of problems with PyCon this year. For example, the free, hi-speed wifi made you log in each day. And it was in Montreal, so one of my foreign students couldn't come because he didn't get a visa in time. The company booths were not centrally located. And …
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tl;dr? The Software Carpentry train-the-trainers workshop in Toronto this past M-W was just fantastic. I can't recommend it enough.
A bit of background: Software Carpentry is a project to teach scientists to use computing more effectively. Started by Greg Wilson about 16 years ago, the project has progressed through …
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I recently finished two books that really stood out in my memory of recent reading. Lighter fare than I have recommended in the past, but more representative of what I read day to day :)
The first book, The Martian, is a near-future book about an astronaut who wakes up on …
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