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A Week in Hacker News 8 Mar 2009 | 10:28 am
I started posting to Hacker News recently. The rise and fall of submissions through the rankings is really hypnotic. I wrote a screen-scraper to track my stories' trajectories, one thing led to anothe...
Python-powered webcam for MIT construction site--with time-lapse video 12 Jun 2008 | 02:07 pm
My office on the 4th floor of the Broad Institute looks down on the construction site for MIT's new cancer research building. Soon after they tore down the beautiful landscaping that used to be outsid...
stored_result(): automatic serialization of expensive calculations 16 Mar 2008 | 07:43 am
A very common situation I encounter: "Do [expensive calculation] and pickle the result; unless it's been done before, in which case unpickle the stored result." This stored_result() utility function m...
Victory is mine! 16 Mar 2008 | 07:31 am
I defended and graduated! PhD in Physics from MIT. Now it gets good. I crossed the street to the Broad Institute to do cancer research. Now, I don't interact with patients, or even deal with tumor sa...
ABT 25 May 2007 | 08:20 am
Today I passed 8.901, Astrophysics I, my final breadth requirement. That makes me officially ABD (All But Dissertation). Expect "Silencing and Recombination in Yeast Ribosomal DNA" at your local books...
CAPTCHAs and Tesseract 22 May 2007 | 08:01 am
CAPTCHAs always seem to come up in discussions of OCR projects like Tesseract, so I decided to test Tesseract to see if it was actually the next big thing in spammer technology. A commenter pointed m...
PyTesser: OCR for Python 18 May 2007 | 02:58 pm
In two years using Python, I never once searched for "Python X" without finding PyX, someone's labor of love making X easy to understand and use. Many examples come to mind. That's what hooked me when...
catachrestic (adj.) 16 Apr 2006 | 10:40 am
"He went to the store catachrestically."
ITA Software puzzle: Word Rectangle 16 Apr 2006 | 05:59 am
A few months ago job ads for ITA Software were all over Boston's subways. Each ad said "Solve this, work here!" and gave a non-trivial programming puzzle. I'm not about to do better than the people be...
Bootstrap statistics in Python 12 Apr 2006 | 05:43 am
bootstrap.py version 0.1, 3/08/06 Python didn't seem to have a straightforward published bootstrap statistics module, so here is my effort. Suppose you had 40 measurements >>> dist array([ 9.955873...
