Archive

2021

The best parts of 2020 — January 1, 2021

2020

2019 in Review — January 1, 2020

2019

My first two years as a manager — October 20, 2019
The end of accountability — May 27, 2019
Modeling Organizations — March 16, 2019
100 Years of Bauhaus — March 13, 2019
Transitioning to management — February 18, 2019

2017

Responses to James Damore's Google "Manifesto" — August 12, 2017

2016

Writing code and prose — January 31, 2016

2013

2013 in review — December 31, 2013
Physician career satisfaction vs. salary — April 30, 2013
Quick BibTeX capitalization-preserving one-liner — March 29, 2013
Switching from R to Python — March 26, 2013
Publication Bias — February 27, 2013
Showing your work — February 26, 2013
Aaron Swartz, RIP — January 12, 2013
More science solves everything — January 2, 2013
Looking back at 2012 — January 1, 2013

2012

Really neat elections timeline — October 15, 2012
Ask Patents — September 20, 2012
Tyler Cowen's Unusual Final Exam — August 21, 2012
Private Sharing on Mac OS X — August 7, 2012
Apple v. Samsung — August 6, 2012
Do more in CoffeeScript — August 3, 2012
Let (and make) men chip in — August 3, 2012
A paired Dirichlet test — August 2, 2012
The game theory of the Olympic badminton forfeits — August 2, 2012
The PhD Job Market — July 11, 2012
The Dirichlet distribution for cell-cycle flow cytometry statistics — July 8, 2012
An Interesting Journal Business Twist — June 12, 2012
Using pylint with Vim QuickFix — May 22, 2012
Tech M and M — May 22, 2012
Punchcards and Terminals — May 15, 2012
BLAS-tuning by hand — May 11, 2012
Flight Control Racket — March 26, 2012
Tau — March 14, 2012
The Voice of Hemingway — March 13, 2012
Artifacts of UNIX History — January 27, 2012
Pre-rigor to Rigor to Post-Rigor — January 5, 2012

2011

Science museums for adults — December 12, 2011
Users Know: STFU About What Women Want — December 12, 2011
Selective use of technology---The Endeavour — December 8, 2011
Oblivious Supreme Court poised to legalize medical patents — December 7, 2011
Five Sci-Fi Children's Books That Should be Written — December 7, 2011
The Innumeracy of Educators, or Mark Twain Was Right — December 7, 2011
Don't be a Free User — December 6, 2011
Evolution always wins. Always. — December 6, 2011
The Reason Android is Laggy — December 6, 2011
Science Experiments for Unimpressed Kids: Surface Tension — November 30, 2011
More evidence for diseases of protein misfolding — October 7, 2011
Andy Grove's Idea For Opening Up Clinical Trials — September 28, 2011
Bodycount is out now, it's $60, and it's terrible — August 31, 2011
Doctor Who Definitions, part 203 — August 31, 2011
Comics for Beginners — August 1, 2011
Pigs Return to Earth: Federal Circuit Reinstates Most---But Not All---of Myriad's Patents — August 1, 2011
Gauss Facts — April 22, 2011

2010

Is long term solitary confinement torture? — December 31, 2010
An Introduction to Modern Chemistry: Experimental and Theoretic; Embodying Twelve Lectures Delivered in the Royal College of Chemistry, London. 1866, by A. W. von Hofmann — November 5, 2010
The Burger Lab: Revisiting the Myth of The 12-Year Old McDonald's Burger That Just Won't Rot (Testing Results!) — November 5, 2010
Dr James L. Sherley et al. v. Kathleen Sebelius et al. — August 24, 2010
An Apple ][+ music video — May 12, 2010
A Dicer-Independent miRNA Biogenesis Pathway — May 7, 2010
Lunch with a Michelin guide inspector — May 3, 2010
Nature News article on the growing problems of plastic contaminants in the lab — April 24, 2010
A bug hunt — April 9, 2010
Well, are plants like humans or not? — April 2, 2010
Genomics Law Report summarizes the Myriad decision — March 31, 2010
Genome-wide siRNA timelapse screen for mitosis — March 31, 2010
Myriad's BRCA1/2 diagnostic patents are down for the count — March 31, 2010