Category Archives: computers/software
Python: shared birthdays
A few days ago I found myself having a vague recollection of a statistics problem presented at some unknown level in my education. All I could remember was that it had to do with having a room full of people … Continue reading
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Mindforge Tutorial: Cleartype Tuner
As part of the continuing closet-cleaning series: WindowsXP text is ugly and induces eye-pain and headaches. Here’s what you can do about it:
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Mindforge Tutorial: Try out Linux using Wubi
Still cleaning out the closet… I made this video tutorial a couple years ago for my brother‘s and my short-lived computer company. It’s a little outdated, but (probably) still accurate.
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Mindforge Tutorial: Disk Images
If your first thought, when reading the title of this post, was “What in the hell is a disk image?”, you probably aren’t alone. But before you decide that you don’t care enough to read on, let me quickly tell … Continue reading
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LabTeX
Lab notebooks are the linchpin of any scientific endeavor, since they serve as proof for everything that an investigator has done (and as a personal reference for long-forgotten protocols). The standard is to use a bound notebook with handwritten (in … Continue reading
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Make Notepad++ your default editor (Windows7)
I previously showed you (without a screencast) how to make NP++ default in XP. Of course, people have successfully done this for W7/Vista as well, but the various tutorials I saw were all a huge pain in the ass. Except … Continue reading
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Python: Monty Hall modeling
You’ve all heard this classic statistics problem, based on an old game show: A contestant is shown 3 doors. Only one of those three doors hides something of value to the contestant (perhaps a new car), while the other two … Continue reading
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useful bioinformatics resources
I’ll try to keep this page updated with the kinds of things that I’m familiar with and find the most useful. The resources in this list will be used extensively in tutorials on this site. General Genes: … Continue reading
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average gene length in prokaryotes (part 1)
One of my side research projects involves processing large numbers of genomes (specifically, all fully-sequenced prokaryotic genomes). Since I’m playing with the data anyway, sometimes I end up with random questions that can be answered with what I already have on … Continue reading
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Get Notepad++ NOW
What follows is from an old post I wrote on replacing Windows Notepad with Notepad++, but is just the part where I ramble about how amazing it is and why you should use it. To get to the post on … Continue reading
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