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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The other day, I purchased a new car from the car company down the street. This was a small boutique shop, and their marketing brochure was slick -- 0-60 in 6 seconds, heated seats, a good safety rating -- and the technical reviews were amazing -- "Never seen anything like it! Really novel …
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I just left the NAS meeting on Integrating Environmental Health Data to Advance Discovery, where I was an invited speaker. It was a pretty interesting meeting, with presentations from speakers who worked on chemotoxicity data, pollution data, exposure data, and electronic health records, as well as a few "outsiders" from …
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I just left the NAS meeting on Integrating Environmental Health Data to Advance Discovery, where I was an invited speaker. It was a pretty interesting meeting, with presentations from speakers who worked on chemotoxicity data, pollution data, exposure data, and electronic health records, as well as a few "outsiders" from …
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For each of the last two summers, I've returned from co-teaching our Analyzing Next-Generation Sequencing Data course, slept for 48 hours straight, and then hunkered down and bunkered up to write grants. (To be clear, sometimes this bunkering up involves travelling out to California and sitting on my in-laws' beach …
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