Monthly Archives: March 2008

Muppetry

Everyone is visited by the F-Up Fairy, once in every while. And it happens to the best of us, including, I’m delighted to say, Nature‘s web team: We have had a number of complaints regarding the Nature Register page. After … Continue reading

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Feedback

I’d like to take this opportunity to give feedback on the feedback that the students gave on their feedback. With me? No? The Honours students gave their proposal talks last week. A random panel of academics assessed and made written … Continue reading

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Florida Standards Support Gravity — With a Twist

bq. When I started writing a weblog I made a conscious decision to avoid the cesspit of stupidity that is both sides of the evolution:creationist ‘debate’ (it’s not a debate if there are no cogent arguments). But this is too … Continue reading

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From the ‘Damn, but that’s cool’ department

Members of Joel Sussman’s lab at the the Weizmann Institute have developed Proteopedia (direct link ), an online tool for making structural biology clearer for chemists and biologists by linking textual content to 3D structures. Impressive. For a born-again structural … Continue reading

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On randomization, Monte Carlo, and the Fisher-Yates shuffle.

Textism is crap, as I discovered when trying to format the code snippets that I wanted to put into this post. The post I wanted to write is at http://blogs.usyd.edu.au/labrats/2008/03/on_randomization_monte_carlo_a_1.html It describes how I took a Perl implementation of the … Continue reading

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