As part of a CiSE submission I'm working on, I interviewed the lead developer on a scientific software package today. This software package is mainly used for evolutionary studies, and has a small but devoted following - ~6 developers and ~12 users locally, plus a few dozen users outside of MSU …
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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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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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heh, this applies to many fields, I think...
Luis Ibanez This presentation is a satire of the current obsession with intellectual property, innovation and originality that plagues the field of medical image analysis. The presentation makes the point that most Journals and Conferences focus on Originality and despise Reproducibility and …read more
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