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by taltman1 5y ago
Check out this paper from my friend Ronen, and Prof. Fateman, putting Lisp into Excel: "A paper written with Ronen Gradwohl on Lisp and Symbolic Functionality in an Excel Spreadsheet: Development of an OLE Scientific Computing Environm
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by taltman1 5y ago
I'm late to the game, but I'm surprised that no one has mentioned StaticMan yet: https://github.com/eduardoboucas/staticman Just uses Git(Hub|Lab) to triage and approve comments for your static sites, like Je
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by taltman1 12y ago
Reservoir sampling in a few lines of awk: https://github.com/taltman/scripts/blob/master/EDA/samp It's shorter than this ruby implementation, and includes copious documentation, file handling,
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by taltman1 12y ago
For those who might want a fuller description of IBM's active facilitation of these kinds of crimes, you should read Edwin Black's book, "IBM and the Holocaust". Those tattoo's on Holocaust victim's arms? They
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by taltman1 12y ago
> An intelligence agency that keeps a list of demographic minorities for the purposes of spying & persecution is Holocaust-precursor-grade stuff Exactly. And that's how Jacob Appelbaum sees it too: “There is just a very real his
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by taltman1 12y ago
I used blueproximity successfully with my Linux laptop. I bought the smallest bluetooth headset I could find ($25), removed all extraneous parts, and carried it on my person (not my bag). It was so small that I didn't notice it. Effect
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by taltman1 12y ago
This is a great exercise of how to take a Unix command line and iteratively optimize it with advanced use of awk. In that spirit, one can optimize the xargs mawk invocation by 1) Getting rid of string-manipulation function calls (which are
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Google servers still support SSLv3, vulnerable to POODLE(ssllabs.com)
5 points by taltman1 12y ago|0 comments
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by taltman1 12y ago
KEGG filters at the MAP or MODULE level, but it merely highlights the enzymes of the mosaic MAP/MODULE that it inferred is present in the organism, rather than display the subset of the network that is actually present. I agree with yo
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by taltman1 12y ago
A problem with these wall charts and the KEGG diagrams is that not only do you not know which enzymes or pathways are active in which tissues within a single multi-cellular organism, you don't know which organisms they come from. These
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by taltman1 12y ago
Using Pathway Tools, the pathways are automatically laid out for you in a rational manner, organizing pathways and super-pathways based on a manually-curated ontology. For example, all biosynthetic pathways are displayed side by side. Wall
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by taltman1 12y ago
The Roche Biochemical Pathways charts were the inspiration for the MetaCyc family of pathway/genome databases, all enabled by the Pathway Tools software (itself written with 400,000+ lines of Common Lisp): Example pathway: Super-Pathwa
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Stanford IT password infographic(weblogin.stanford.edu)
1 points by taltman1 12y ago|0 comments
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by taltman1 13y ago
It's not exactly macrology, but here's a page on functional AWK: http://awk.info/?Funky
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by taltman1 13y ago
I love using gawk for slicing and dicing huge data files. The performance and conciseness of an AWK script is hard to beat. For those interested in general resources related to AWK programming, http://awk.info/ is a great place to start.
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by taltman1 13y ago
Notice how they cherry-pick among genomes to get their fitted line. A common fallacy is to associate genome size with the "complexity" of an organism. Even assuming that there is a simplistic linear ordering of organismal life (i.e., "lower
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by taltman1 14y ago
Whether vanilla TeX supports this out of the box or not, the TeX technology stack (including MetaFont and friends) has intimate knowledge of the size and shape of all glyphs. It is also not random as to which types of letters accentuate or
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by taltman1 14y ago
TeX uses a dynamic programming algorithm to perform its advanced hyphenation, which allows the text to fill the page "beautifully": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX#Hyphenation_and_justificati... If TeX is already using dynamic programmin
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by taltman1 14y ago
You can think of Eshell as a Unix shell that is 100% customizable, and those customizations are done in a very high level language like Elisp, not in C. Sometimes it's great to use macros in a shell script. Yes, it can be used for running s
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by taltman1 14y ago
In case anyone is interested, I've extended this code and put it up on GitHub as a script called 'samp': https://github.com/taltman/scripts
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by taltman1 14y ago
Looks like a valid sample to me. Are you bothered by the ordering of the sample members? Then I'd continue the pipeline to include a call to shuf.
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by taltman1 14y ago
As minimax stated, your awk code won't provide exactly k samples. Here's a bit of awk code that implements reservoir sampling (apologies in advance for any bugs) and prints the current sample to stdout, without needing to first process the
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by taltman1 14y ago
I don't understand why the data is unstructured, and thus SQL is not an option. Isn't the data coming in from calls to the company's own API?