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better than planned uncontrolled burns

DeLillo may not believe it, but I do. From the start of the interview: "INTERVIEWER: Do you have any idea what made you a writer? DON DeLillo: I have an idea but I’m not sure I bel…

Don't hate the player...Game on!

In a previous life, I became a scuba instructor that kept me in the latest dive gear. (This was along side working towards a Ph.D.) Eventually it burned me out -- instructing is a …

It'll help with re-sale (still 22 years to go!) - one likely outcome before you kick it.

"...keeps publishing biased articles about the drawbacks of doing a PhD" I think that startups have a lot more interesting and important things to do than support or promote hit pi…

Bay area (Emeryville and East Bay are pretty interesting, in addition to South SF), and Research Triangle Park (North Carolina). Seattle a bit.

I built a little tool to audit objects in your R pipeline here: https://jabustyerman.com/2017/09/29/auditing-your-r-data-pip... This basically allows you to tag (wrap) intermediate…

Curious to know why you landed on snakemake for bioinformatics? Were you considering other workflow engines?

Nice! Look into tufte style class for book layouts. It's particular and if you like that type of particular then you'll love it.

You can present to people, or be present to people. Sales would be much better if it was much more of the latter.

Ira Glass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2wLP0izeJE This guy is perfect.

Completely agree. From the article: "It's all about the amount of glucose, or sugar, in the plant," Lavine said. "Rice plants with higher glucose levels are older and dying. That i…

The Invisibility Cloak by Ge Fei (2016). Chinese author and setting (contemporary Beijing). Following the theme of the solitary male antihero...a la Murakami.

We don't want to do it unless it's going to move the needle.

Nope! Base R works great. Old-school vi to edit scripts, and R base installation to run them (or REPL around). Of course, the IDEs do offer a lot of support, and RStudio is great f…

What service do you use for options trading? (would you recommend them?)

cycling through 1936 - 1945 (year by year) is pretty interesting.