I keep watching this video about cancer research. The speaker is Keith Baggerly, a statistician who (with a team) analyzed data from a series of scientific papers for reproducibility.
Specifically, they were looking at findings from research that determines whether or not a cell line is resistant to a drug – like a cancer fighting drug.
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I took this in my backyard back in the summer of 2004. I’d just picked up a macro extension to an old camera, and took a ton of pictures of a backyard full of gorgeous flowers.
UPDATED: now with shorter and more accurate instructions 
I keep forgetting how to do this, so here it is:
account add jabber [your email address] account set oauth on account gtalk on
And then you’ll be prompted to go through oauth authorization with a link in another chat window.
<3 bitlbee.
I’ve been sick for a few days, so I settled in with a nice cup of tea and started in on the tremendous backlog I’ve got on pgsql-hackers. I put patch status at the end of each paragraph.
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From Wikipedia
Jeff asked this in the comments:
Do you have experiences moving an organization to a culture of “it’ll probably work/we’ll deal with problems as they happen” from “you haven’t convinced me yet/what if it doesn’t work”?
What if you’re trying to effect change in your organization? Where do you start?
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I talk a lot about post-mortems, started thinking about this a long time ago, and I’ve run quite a few.
I tend to think about meetings in general as post-mortems, as typical meetings tend to be for talking about what’s been done, and what we might do, rather than *actually doing work*. But we can change our meetings to be better.
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Slides (as of this moment) are here: Mistakes were made. I changed quite a bit of the beginning and end, given how big the audience is. Previous talks, we’ve usually ended with a fun “omg, here’s the craziest story I know” session. I imagine we’ll get a little bit of that today.
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I had a wonderful time at the first AdaCamp, held in Melbourne, Australia on January 14, 2012.
I didn’t take notes during most of the sessions, and spent a lot of time listening and thinking.
The two important things I took away from the first AdaCamp were about context – my context, and the camp itself.
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So, I participated in BJ Fogg’s 3 Tiny Habits program last week. And now I’m running every day.
This isn’t a huge stretch for me – I ran cross country in high school, was a runner all through my 20s, and only in the last couple years have I sort of just let the running slide.
So, last month I decided I should start running again. Friends of mine are running and encouraging me to sign up for races. But, I just couldn’t do it. It was too dark, or my running clothes weren’t ready, or … I made up every kind of excuse.
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Wow. I asked on twitter about podcasts people were listening to these days, and got a TON of responses.
Here’s the list (with the ones I subscribed to have ✓′s):
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