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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: January 24, 2012, 11:24:26 am »so weird, using firefox on my dad's freebsd computer, after typing this huge response it just automatically reloaded the page before i hit submit, bam gone.I am a computational biologist and sometimes freelance algorithm developer. Basically a glorified statistician.
really cool, must have some serious math skills.
ya, vim to be more exact this point.. ya screen + console providesextremely fast navigation.. splt screening is also very useful for coding in the top half & compiling in the bottom half, or issuing commands in the first half and tailing logs in the bottom half.. really helpful.
Studied math and chemistry in undergrad. Statistics are def waaaay less fun than the math you learn about as an undergrad but it's a really good field if you wanna have a job. Also a good thing to study if you wanna know how science and evidence works.
What do you do that has you coding so much?
just unix kernel/fs/userland stuff, network/security stuff.. i'm mostly into how operating systems work & how the internet works (various protocols etc), that's what i've always been drawn to when it comes to programming etc.
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If you want to have fun programming math problems check out http://projecteuler.net/.
It's a great site. It starts off really easy, too save time best initially to use a scripting language like python. The cool thing is after you solve each problem you get forum access to see everyone elses code. There is always some people that write everything in x86 or haskell or some crazy one-liner in J or APL, and you get to look at peoples really interesting efficient code. I have learned about as much on that site about coding math than I learned in 5 years of grad school. Watch out though, they get exponentially hard. I solved the first 50-100 problems in a couple weeks and then they started taking me weeks to solve each one and I had to quit to get work done.
hah cool.. i dont like solving math problems actually, my math background is horrible.. i always tested "gifted" in math growing up, but the public schools i went to were horrible and eventually all i cared about was basketball, pretty sad really. when i graduated high school, the most advanced class i took was geometry, with elementary level algebra classes.. had to take tons of math in college, stopped at calc 3/diff eq's. so my math background is pretty horrid.
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Finally, watch out for the Mac. I had a mac laptop and the mac terminal is set up ALMOST like the unix standards. However, if you write a lot of shell scripts or awk scripts you will invariably write something in linux that isn't portable to your mac. Really annoying but they follow the POSIX standard about 99% of the time and then the 1% of the time ruins you.
ya i don't get why so many companies/software dev'rs break posix/C99 etc, especially in this day and age.. at least *nix's are much more along standard lines than microsoft, who just reinvents and breaks everything.. hah
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Ah, got me there todday, when i say vi i refer to vim, we even have them aliased on our machines, to open vim u type vi
i installed vim on my freebsd box yesterday, using pkg's.. i got some message talking about set nomodeline in ~/.vimrc because of trojan'd "text files", wtf? never heard of that.. didnt google it yet but that sounds very weird hah.
oh ya btw t0ddday you must have been talking about ed not vi.. vi can use arrow keys, ed is 1 line input editor etc.. if arrows keys are broke with vi, it would have to be terminal settings.. it's happened to me before.
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