John Gall apparently said:
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with …read more
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I recently had the pleasure of being the technical reviewer for a new Apress offering, Beginning Python Visualization, by Shai Vaingast.
To quote from the apress page,
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- Write ten lines of code and present visual information instead of data soup.
- Set up an open source environment ready …
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The decision of python-dev to deprecate bsddb has left us in a bit of a pickle (hah!) over in the pygr project. We're looking for a replacement for bsddb for default storage of infrequently- (or never-) changed pickled Python objects. Some of the parameters under consideration are:
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- Python version availability …
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The latest hot shit idea for making a protein-protein interaction database leaves me lukewarm.
A few months ago I met with a genomics group, and we had a back-and-forth about genome annotation. The conversation went something like this:
them: "We have to improve the tools for annotating un-annotated genes!" me …read more
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We're going through the PyCon '09 review process, and participating in the process has been pretty interesting. (I joined the Program Committee in large part because I was told to put up or shut up after I critiqued PyCon '08. Ahh, the open source world... where you're encouraged to go …
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As a new prof, I've been too busy to blog much. What am I doing?
Apart from all the normal academic crud (meeting with people, answering e-mail, doing paperwork, etc.) and parenting & home ownership stuff, I've been teaching my Intro to Database-Backed Web Programming course. This has been neither a …
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My last post initiated a discussion on the biology-in-python mailing list about BioPython, among other things. (Here is a link to the discussion, which is kind of long and unfocused.)
I'm happy that the bip list is serving as a place for people to interact with the BioPython maintainers to …
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