linux · science – 

Data clustering with Python

Notice:Just now I realized this has been linked to to a Stack Overflow question. I recently wrote a new post that uses a different technique and a combination of R and Python. Check it out!
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linux · science – 

Buggy bioinformatics software

As people who read my science-related posts know already, I’m not a big fan of . Recently I’ve stumbled again into similar software. Namely, I’m talking about the TIGR Multiexperiment Viewer (TMeV), a Java-based program which is often used for microarray analysis. It’s not exactly “fit for publication”, because it has reached version 4 last year, but shows some of the problems () with releasing bioinformatics software.
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Opinion on the KDE Krush day

Yesterday I spent some of my free time to help with the KDE 4.0 Krush Day. Unfortunately, I did a lot less than what I was supposed to do, mainly because at some point the home directory ran out of space (I forgot to remove qt-copy object files), then I inadvertently removed some of the directories and I had to re-sync with SVN.
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KDE 4.0 bug squashing day!

Aseigo announced it a few days ago: on Saturday, on the Freenode IRC network, #kde4-krush channel, there will be a day-long session to triage and squash bugs in order to improve the overall quality of KDE 4.0. I will try to be there, so that I can give out my (little) contribution as non-coder. I’ll be sure to report later.
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science – 

Thesis completed

My supervisor has given me an OK for my thesis (save for a couple of cosmetic changes), therefore now I have just to wait for the verdict of the Ph.D. council then fill in some paperwork: the next step is the defense, sometime in January.
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New sport, Plasma bashing

First of all let me make some disclaimers :
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linux – 

My experience with KDE4, part 2

I obviously did not want to stop with a single compile of KDE4, therefore I’m updating more or less randomly my build off the SVN to check what has been changing.
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