So I wrote this thing that got an awful lot of comments, many telling me that I'm just plain wrong. I think it's impossible to respond comprehensively :). But here are some responses.
In that blog post, I argued that software shouldn't …
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Update - I've written Yet Another blog post, More on scientific software on this topic. I think this blog post is a mess so you should read that one first ;).
This blog post was spurred by a simple question from Pauline Barmby on Twitter. My response didn't, ahem, quite fit in …
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I'm reading Galileo's Middle Finger by Dr. Alice Dreger (@alicedreger), and it's fantastic. It's a paean to evidence-based popular discourse on scientific issues -- something I am passionate about -- and it's very well written.
I bought the book because I ran across Dr. Dreger's excellent and hilarious live-tweeting of her son's …
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tl;dr? A while back I wrote that there are three uses of research software: replication, reproduction, and reuse. The world of computational science would be better off if people clearly delineated whether or not they wanted anyone else to reuse their software, and I think it's a massive mistake …
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(The below issues are very much on my mind as I think about how to apply for another NIH grant to fund continued development on the khmer project.)
Imagine that we have a graph of novel functionality versus software engineering effort for a particular project, cast in the shape of …
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