Tag Archives: Non-astro

OkCupid is a dating site that takes a pleasantly data-driven approach to the online dating game. If you read their blog, you run into a lot of interesting and surprising facts that the OkCupid staff have pulled out of their … Continue reading →

Thomas Vander Stichele, whom I have never met but works in some of the areas of Linux that I used to be involved with, writes about some ugly code he found in the Python standard libraries, and says I usually … Continue reading →

Last week I attended the 2009 Short Course on Parallel Programming, a boot camp put on by the Berkeley EE/CS Parallel Computing Lab. The “parallel” in the names refers to computers in which you have several independent processors that work … Continue reading →

For the past few weeks I’ve been traveling in China and not been up to any work. I did manage to experience the total solar eclipse in Shanghai, however. I use the word “experience” because it was cloudy and raining … Continue reading →