December 2009
1 post
This blog is moving.
I am moving this blog to http://jawillis.org/journal/
(Not that I have a huge, greater than zero, readership :-))
October 2009
3 posts
"Ulysses" semantic text editor →
On first glance, Ulysses seems to provide a publishing system similar to Emacs’ Muse Mode.
(Via Daring Fireball).
"Carefully Cleaning Up the Garbage at Los Alamos" →
No one knows for sure what is buried in the Manhattan Project-era dump here. At the very least, there is probably a truck down there that was contaminated in 1945 at the Trinity test site, where the world’s first nuclear explosion seared the sky and melted the desert sand 200 miles south of here during World War II.
August 2009
1 post
2 tags
"A Quick Guide to Organizing Computational Biology... →
Very nice article from Dr. William Noble at the University of Washington. I’ve been working with a similar setup. But one tidbit caught my attention:
Within the data and results directories, it is often tempting to apply a similar, logical organization. For example, you may have two or three data sets against which you plan to benchmark your algorithms, so you could create one directory for...