While discussing yet another Google interview blog post with a friend, I formalized a suspicion I've had about Google's interview process. You see, it's puzzled me a bit that Google insists on a fairly reasonable knowledge of algorithms, because, in my own experience, that is a fairly small part of …
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Just a short note to say that I've taken a faculty position at Michigan State University, in Lansing, Michigan. The position is split 65%/35% between the Computer Science and Microbiology & Molecular Genetics departments, and I expect to be working on a fairly wide range of problems. My computational "focus …
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I spent part of the last few days figuring out how to get my cross-platform GUI, FamilyRelations II (a.k.a. FRII), to build on Windows. It used to compile on my old desktop machine, which we then converted over to MythTV with a Windows partition for compilation, but that …
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Over the last few days, I put a bunch of time into my ongoing refit of Cartwheel.
Cartwheel is a sizeable toolkit for doing bioinformatic sequence analysis; it's got a Web interface, a batching and queuing system built on PostgreSQL, and a client library for manipulating things over XML-RPC. So …
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I bought my wife a toy plane for Christmas, and we promptly broke it. While scouting for ways to fix it, I came across this helicopter which has to be the single coolest toy I've ever had. My brother and I are absolutely addicted to flying this thing; sadly, its …
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The Slashdot forum managers have approved yet another troll message: In Cameras Help Cops Catch a Killer, they ask whether or not the use of cameras to help catch a killer justifies the increasing use of surveillance in public spaces.
The answer is "no".
There are a couple of ways …
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I just wrote a small GalCon strategy guide, available here. Comments welcome.
--titus
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Posted by Brian Dorsey on 2007-01-05 at 13:24.
I think we should play some GalCon at PyCon this year! (Your earlier post about GalCon got me completely addicted.) Take care, -Brian
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