Here's a draft PyCon '14 proposal. Comments and suggestions welcome!
Title: Data intensive biology in the cloud: instrumenting ALL the things
Description: (400 ch)
Cloud computing offers some great opportunities for science, but most cloud computing platforms are both I/O and memory limited, and hence are poor matches for …
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Note: Yarden Katz (the author of MISO) sent me the e-mail below, and I asked him if I could post it as a guest-post on my blog. He said yes - so here it is! Feedback solicited.
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Hi Titus,
Hope all is well. A recent tweet you had about Ben Bolker's …
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I've been reading Peter Seibel's excellent book, Coders at Work, which is a transcription of interviews with a dozen or so very well known and impactful programmers. After the first two interviews, I found myself itching to highlight certain sections, and then I thought, heck, why not post some of …
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I've been reading Peter Seibel's excellent book, Coders at Work, which is a transcription of interviews with a dozen or so very well known and impactful programmers. After the first two interviews, I found myself itching to highlight certain sections, and then I thought, heck, why not post some of …
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The tech community is messed up in da head, yo.
Several times since Steve Holden's I'm Sorry post I've written long blog posts about my own views on codes of conduct and professional behavior, including the views informed by some of my own extraordinarily embarrassing transgressions. I never felt that …
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Random algorithms and probabilistic data structures are algorithmically efficient and can provide shockingly good practical results. I will give a practical introduction, with live demos and bad jokes, to this fascinating algorithmic niche. I will conclude with some discussions of how our group has applied this to …
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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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