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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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Python: GEB and Wondrousness
While perusing a bookstore a couple years ago, I stumbled upon a fascinating book by Douglas Hofstadter called Godel, Escher, Bach. If you like math, biology, music, art, computer science, and philosophy, this is really an amazing read (though, admittedly, … Continue reading
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Python: Clean up and translate nucleotide sequences
Some simple, hopefully useful, and totally non-optimized functions for working with nucleotide sequence data (note that there are many more tools as part of the biopython distribution, if you’re interested in learning the library) : First, for cleaning up a … Continue reading
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Notepad++ and Regular Expressions
A few years ago I wrote a post on making Notepad++ your default text editor, wherein I expressed my extreme love for this little piece of open source software. To date, I use it for just about everything and, after … Continue reading
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Connecting Python to the Web at UT Southwestern
While working on a little Python script to do some datamining for lab, I stumbled upon a serious problem: When connecting to the Internet via the school’s network, whether hard-wired, wifi, or through VPN, I could not get Python to … Continue reading
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LaTeX and R: hard to search; but Go? SERIOUSLY?
I have been often frustrated by the difficulty of searching for solutions to my LaTeX and R problems. Google keywords have to be carefully chosen in order to not find sites relating to latex rubber (in the first case) or … Continue reading
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Python: ad infinitum
In Seth’s post on dice rolling, he briefly mentioned something called a “while loop”. It has the basic structure while (this is true): (do this) Note: Courier font or italics show code. WordPress is douchey about font-changing, so it’s easier … Continue reading
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Inkscape: Digitally sign a PDF
Printers are dumb and waste paper. There is little that I hate more (aside from Apple) than having to print a document, sign it, and then scan, fax, or mail the stupid hardcopy. So, I decided to try to cheat … Continue reading
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R: Getting Started
If you’re like me, you love data. Ok, so it’s likely that you aren’t like me, at least in the data-loving regard, but you have to admit that (1) data can be beautiful, and (2) data is how we understand … Continue reading
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The Boiling Point
I have now totaled 96,000 views (mostly on the companion cube cake post, followed at a distance by the LaTeX posts) over 194 posts and received 212 comments. Every time I see that number, 212, I immediately think of boiling water (it is, after … Continue reading →
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