Ocassional Notes
22. May 2022
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.
03. May 2022
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
12. April 2022
I’ve blogged several times about wordle before. It’s a great game for someone like me who loves words. I don’t think I’m a great wordle player, but I love thinking about the intricacies of the game. One bugaboo in wordle, which I’ll call “diabolical answers” is when you reach a point where you have four letters correct and there are many possible answers. The worst of these would have more than six possible words, meaning you aren’t guaranteed a win even though you’re almost done.