May 28, 2018 — Spam the Queue — Today I had about 10,000 scripts I wanted to run on a SLURM cluster, and I also have an upper limit of jobs I’m allowed to run at once. I’m too lazy to wait and monitor the jobs, so I... Read more

May 23, 2018 — Container Trees — We need to start getting a bit obsessive about understanding our containers, and in this post I will discuss some continued work to help you do just that. It’s a bit long, so choose whichever parts are of interest to... Read more

May 12, 2018 — Longest K Unique Characters Substring — Today I want to share a quick antecdote about struggling through deriving an equation for an algorithm. Yes, I’m aware it has label easy. I thought it would be easy too until I started programming it up, and my solution... Read more

May 11, 2018 — Instacart Musings — My new favorite game when browsing Instacart for a simple search term like “chickpea.” We demonstrate this example browsing the canned and dried goods sections. The game is based on asking one question, and then observing your own responses and... Read more