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It’s been 5 months since baseball. We are all a littler older, perhaps a little wiser, and I have finally gotten over the devastating defeat of the Phillies in the NLCS and then the subsequent...
View ArticleInstalling numpy and scipy on Snow Leopard
If you want to install numpy and scipy on Snow Leopard, don’t mess around with checking out and building the standard packages yourself. This is frustrating and involves building gFortran and a few...
View ArticleMy new laptop
I finally bought a new personal laptop after having the same first generation Intel MacBookPro since early 2006. Technically it was still working in the sense that it still turned on, but only operated...
View ArticleCoachella 2011
I went to Coachella for the first time this year and it blew my mind. I’d try to describe it, but no description I heard comes nearly close to doing it justice. I’ll just say that if you love music,...
View ArticleLeaving Google
After 21 months in my current job, I’ve decided that I’m ready for a new challenge. This week was my last at Google. I’ll do another post later about my new job/company, but I wanted to jot down some...
View ArticleBike accident
This morning at 12:15AM riding back from a birthday party at Benders I was hit by a pickup truck. I was not drunk or even tipsy and neither was the driver of the vehicle. On 19th street as I was...
View ArticleChomp August App Search Analytics
Today Chomp released its monthly App Search Analytics Report. Along with the standard set of analytics, we dug into search traffic for the queries hurricane and earthquake. Both saw huge temporal...
View ArticleInstalling MACS (Markovian Coalescent Simulator) on OS X 10.7 Lion
After a few years break from my dissertation research on coalescent modeling of HIV sequences, I’ve decided to dive in again. I am interested in generating some sequences from coalescent models with...
View ArticleHoney Cake Recipe
In addition to hating on Klout and writing random code blog posts, I’ve decided to branch out a bit with my posts and write about one of my other passions: baking and cooking. I recently had a Rosh...
View ArticleLegends and Dates in R plots
After looking up how to create a legend using ?legend and searching the R forums for the 86586586th time, I’ve decided to write my own post with a few examples and tricks I’ve picked up. I also provide...
View ArticleNotary in DC and Virginia
Was recently visiting Washington DC to see some friends from college and I had a notary emergency. It was late on Saturday, but My DC Notary came through. I’ve had to notarize a few things in DC and...
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