6. CSE 891, Computational Science for Evolutionary Biologists

   Course page at: http://ged.msu.edu/courses/2010-fall-cse-891/:

   This course will introduce biologists to computational thinking, practical computational techniques, and research topics in computational evolution. The course will consist of three intensive hands-on 5-week modules: computational competence in UNIX; data mining and hypothesis generation using the Avida digital life …

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7. Casual mentions

   (Everyone needs an "I'm wonderful" wall, right? Here's mine!)

   My rather snarky post on data management made it into Episode 34 of the Coast to Coast Bio Podcast.

   Turns out I'm now a leading evangelist for cloud computing in genomic research, which I guess is true if evangelism is relative …

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8. Which functional programming language(s) should we teach?

   Laurie Dillon just posted the SIGPLAN eduction board article on Why Undergraduates Should Learn the Principles of Programming Languages to our faculty mailing list at the MSU Computer Science department. One question that came up in the ensuing conversation was: what functional programming language(s) would/should we teach?

   I …

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9. How to teach newbies about Python

   Inspired by the brilliant mind(s) behind python-commandments.org, here's a list of ideas you can use to help newbies learn Python!

   1. Write Web pages with overly broad self-granted authority. That way they'll sound authoritative!
   2. Make sure they're anonymous pages, too. It's important that people not recognize that "Commandment" means …

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10. VMware: vmtn not defined error

    I've spent several hours in the past year trying to debug a frustrating error with the vmware Web UI for Linux. This UI relies on running iceweasel (aka Firefox) on the VM host machine. I think I finally solved the problem today, after much tooth gnashing.

    Briefly, if you get …

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11. My Addonics Storage Tower Just Works. Wow.

    Over New Years I ordered 2 Dell PowerEdge T300 servers with 24 gb of RAM for $1500 each. I had no interest in upgrading with Dell's overly expensive hard drives, so I ordered them both with the minimum of 2x160gb drives, leaving two slots bare.

    I then went to newegg …

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12. Some entertaining issues related to diversity

    a.k.a. "why we should care:"

    From the Comp Sci dept WIMS mentor:

    • "In terms of design teams and designing products, there's evidence from other industries that if you have just a male team, you could have a flawed product. Let's look at air bags, for example. Only 8 …

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