So, it's nomination season for the Python Software Foundation again... and I have this niggling feeling that I'm forgetting about several people that have demonstrated significant commitment to the Python community, are good 'uns, and are otherwise people I would trust with some part of the future of Python and …
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Courtesy of Rich Enbody, this blog post, How XML Threatens Big Data -- Dataspora, elicited a big "duh" from me.
You don't solve any of the semantic problems with data by elaborating on a textual format. You may bring them into the light, but along with the visibility comes "bureaucracy" -- technology …
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OK, so you have a genome -- let's say it's about 1gb in size -- and you want to do ChIP-seq on a transcription factor that you think binds ~1000 places in the genome. You've measured the specificity of the transcription factor and it seems to enrich about 10-fold over background (an …
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Victoria Laidler just announced a Pandokia release. She gave a great lightning talk on Pandokia at the PyCon '09 testing BoF and I've been looking forward to this release.
Pandokia seems like a nice way to manage test running and results analysis & reporting, and it fits a fairly unique niche …
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After being on the new Python diversity mailing list for a bit, I've just unsubscribed. While there was an unpleasant personal incident that catalyzed my decision, I also don't think I'm a good fit for the style of discussion taking place. (YMMV ;)
That having been said, I want to give …
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I'm nominally involved in co-mentoring or cheerleading 5 Google Summer of Code projects this summer, and several of the students have the same problem: they send me one big e-mail (or post one big blog entry), every few weeks, asking for input.
This imposes a big energetic barrier to me …
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The last two weeks were pretty miserable, for some scientific/collaboration reasons as well as some personal reasons (visiting sick parents != fun). Two things that weren't miserable -- that were in fact quite fun -- were PyOhio and the Science 2.0 talks in Toronto.
PyOhio was a nice little community-based conference …
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