First: Principles

So this image shows rate of increase of the number of cases on a daily basis. It's not as smooth as I would like.

Say you need to generate a sequence, in C++, simply consisting of the first so many integers, like, 1,2,3,4,5. With a little programming e...

Tips for working with the command line from CLI magic . I like this one to s how all listening TCP/UDP ports for the current user: $ lsof ...

This is a visualization choropleth I put together of Covid-19 infections for each county over time. It's based on the NY Times data set...

A lot of code available that uses BeautifulSoup tells you to call it like so: from beautifulsoup import BeautifulSoup If you'v...

If you're working in a multiple-compiler environment, you may wish to get information at compile time about which compiler you're bu...

A report from the Obama Department of Energy in 2015. https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/05/f22/Enabling%20Wind%20Power%20Nation...

I needed to generate some ultrametric Newick trees for some simulations. There's a nice Newick tree generator online at  http:/Trex/tre...

How to delete empty rows in an Excel spreadsheet: https://www.itsupportguides.com/knowledge-base/office-2016/excel-2016-how-to-delete-empt...

At work I maintain a little Ruby on Rails site. Not a particularly interesting site, just a set of pages of statistics gathered from various...

In January a site went live called  readingroom.info . I suspect due to the timing and the subject matter it was a student project. The idea...

I wrote earlier about Fitnesse and Slim style integration testing. There are only a few commands associated with Slim tables, but the pre...

Fitnesse is a rather nice testing tool. It's been around since what seems like the beginning of the integration testing movement. It'...

In our quest to win a million dollars , we're trying to Index the Human Genome . A typical index, like in the back of a book, is compose...

Last time I had decided that to efficiently analyze the reads, we had to make an index of the human genome. So how do we go about that? ...

Last time I discussed using a program called BWA to try to determine if a given sequence was part of the human genome or not. It didn't...

Last time I discussed a million-dollar challenge posted by Innocenture . The challenge is to analyze a series of DNA reads and determine th...

Of course, you have to do a few things to earn it. Innocenture is running a challenge, with a million dollar prize, for the ability to take ...

A little story about immune responses in cells. Type-I interferons (IFNs) are important for antiviral and autoimmune responses.  They int...

This fall, for the first time, I've had the professional opportunity to work on some Python code. I find the language quite elegant and...