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Sunday, September 21, 2014

Some Cooking Updates from the Kitchen-Field

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I've been making some slow and steady progress in expanding my cooking repertoire. I even got some plants to aid in cooking! Here are s...
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Thursday, September 18, 2014

Experiment: Daily GitHub Checkins

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I've been doing a lot of relatively mindless but decently labor-intensive code-related work (colloquially known, especially in the brog...
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Thursday, May 15, 2014

Dual Booting Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 14.04

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It appears that Windows remains ahead in this operating systems arm race: dual booting with Linux has become even more difficult. Here are...
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Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Run Your Research Demo Site on the Cloud

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Last week, Travis Hance and I spent hours wading through the many blog posts of the internet to figure out how to set up a simple websi...
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Tuesday, January 07, 2014

Careful Where You Click

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The other day, a friend and I were talking about how fun it was to check Google Analytics. When I asked her if she knew most of her readers...
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Wednesday, January 01, 2014

2014 is the Year of Laughing like Kafka

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This year, I'm trying this trend where I have a theme instead of a resolution. And this isn't just because I broke all of my concre...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

I'm Using Python Now

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I have a confession. All these years I've been evangelizing strongly statically typed languages, I've been going home at night and ...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Dual Booting Ubuntu and Windows 8

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This blog post commemorates the better part of a work day I spent installing a dual boot of Ubuntu Linux 13.10 and Windows 8 on my Lenovo X...
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Why I'm Not Taking a Vacation from Facebook

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The internet does not seem to like Facebook these days. Studies are coming out (for instance, this PLOS ONE study ) suggesting that Faceboo...
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Travel Meets Technology: A Weekend in Portland, Oregon

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When Facebook Graph Search came out, skeptics bemoaned the end of personal privacy. Now that people can perform targeted queries over you...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Facebook Graph Search as a Journalistic Tool

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Facebook is becoming an ever-powerful stalking tool. The social network now associates users with not just profiles stating some facts abou...
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Computer scientist writing about academia, computer science, gender, tech, travel, and life. I've had this blog for a long time. @jeanqasaur on Twitter. jeanyang.com.
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