17. July 2022

Running a shell command for each entry in a PCollection

I was preparing for something I needed to do at work with beam, namely running a shell command for something that isn’t possible to run natively in the beam runtime, and did not find much documentation for it. It’s relatively straight-forward but I have not “blogged” in a while so here goes.

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22. May 2022

Transferring Musical Likes Between Services

After using spotify for many years, I decided to try switching my music service a few months ago. I was finding that any time I put on shuffle, spotify would eventually direct me back to funk and soul music from the seventies. I generally love those styles of music, but for a service that is supposed to provide discovery, it wasn’t really working for me.

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03. May 2022

Doing some biological modeling

At my new job our focus is to uncover scientific insights to accelerate and improve scientific research. I’m a data engineer by trade, but the science side of the business bleeds in to what I do on a fairly regular basis. Without the scientific and research background that many of my peers have, I feel the need to do some self improvement in those areas. So I was happy to find a series of videos on youtube titled Computational Biology with Python (Modeling Gene Networks) created by Mike Saint Antoine

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