One of the things that I have struggled with over the years is how to teach people how to actually program -- by this I mean the minute-to-minute process and techniques of generating code, more so than syntax and data structures and algorithms. This is generally not taught explicitly in college …
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I received this letter in the mail the other day. Can anyone help?
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Dear Dr. Abby,
I am at a top-50 R1 research institution, and we are currently conducting faculty hiring searches for a number of professors in biology. The applicant pool has been stunningly good this year, and we …
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I was a reviewer on Boisvert et al., Ray Meta: scalable de novo metagenome assembly and profiling, and (as with DSK: k-mer counting with very low memory usage) I thought I'd share my review.
(Sorry, it's really short. My first round review had some comments that they handily addressed in …
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Why do I blog?
I've been blogging now for almost 8 years, since around when Grig Gheorghiu started the Southern California Python Interest Group. Since then I've gotten a PhD, taken a postdoc, had one child, started a faculty position, had another child, and basically gotten way, way busier. Why …
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One of my graduate students and I were reviewers on Rizk et al., DSK: k-mer counting with very low memory usage, and I thought I'd share our review. At the moment I cannot easily see the entire paper so I have not modified the review to account for post-review changes …
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I just spent a really fun and exciting two hours installing a piece of software that I needed to run to do a paper review. The software itself downloaded, but failed routinely on their own test data; after delving through four layers of Perl and Python, I discovered that the …
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