As of this week (Feb 2011) I’ve left UCL to start at Last.fm as a data scientist. Big up to the CATH and Gene3D crew who’ve made it such an excellent few years! This site’s staying here but I probably won’t be updating much — check the journal instead for updates.
Tagged last.fmAlong with a lot of other people, I was a bit perturbed by the impending closure of Delicious. I’ve been using it for years and have hundreds of bookmarks, and none of the new crop of competitors seem up to the job, either lacking in features, having no bulk-import facility, or just being too new [...]
Tagged delicious, googleMy Maschinenfest roundup, featuring my top five acts of the festival — Frl. Linientreu, Matta, Niveau Zero, Subheim and Architect — is online now at Connexion Bizarre.
Tagged maschinenfest, musicFor the next BioGeeks Tech Meet, I’ll be giving a tutorial on RapidMiner, the nifty data analysis package. RapidMiner — machine learning for the rest of us All are welcome. Although I’ll be using examples from biology, there’s nothing bio-specific in RapidMiner, and it might be useful/interesting to geeks of other varieties too.
Tagged data mining, machine learning, rapidminer, statisticsThis month’s London BioGeeks will be at Imperial on the 21st of October. This month we’re bringing you a special selection of talks on next generation sequencing: Experience in variant calling from exome sequencing Francesco Lescai, Elia Stupka Sequencing whole exomes in order to identify high penetrant variants in few individuals is becoming relatively easy, [...]
Tagged bioinformaticsThe next London BioGeeks tech meet will be on 21st of October at Imperial College — full details to follow. We’re looking for another speaker. If you want to do an informal talk on a topic to do with bioinformatics, genomics, or any practical tech subject that might be of interest to biogeeks — cloud [...]
Tagged bioinformaticsTwitter recently switched off basic HTTP authentication, forcing developers to use the more complex (but hopefully safer) OAuth. There are lots of OAuth examples out there, but they all seem to focus on interactive apps, where the user is sent to Twitter to authenticate, and then the app uses the resulting access token to post [...]
Tagged perl, twitterI’ve recently taken possession of a flashy new workstation running Fedora, and with joy in my heart went to install Spotify on it, only to discover… Noooo… They only offer .deb packages for Debian and Ubuntu. Thankfully, the solution was easier than I thought. Do all the following as root… 1. Install dpkg, the Debian [...]
Tagged linux, music, redhat, spotifyThis took a bit of head-scratching, so for future reference, or anyone else looking: Say I am working outside the office firewall, on a machine called home, and I need to get into a MySQL server inside it. (Doesn’t have to be MySQL, but just for argument’s sake.) There’s a machine called gateway I can [...]
Tagged linux, OS X… is hidden away on the last tab of the Java Formatting Profile editor (Preferences -> Java -> Code Style -> Formatter -> Edit). They’ve finally (after nearly six years) added the ability to temporarily turn the code formatter off for a tricksy block that needs its own custom formatting. e.g.: // @formatter:off xml .append( [...]
Tagged eclipse, java, LJC
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