Explorations

Those who know me know that my love for the Julia language has grown quite a bit in the past couple years. Still, I had trouble finding a project that would allow me to work more in this nifty language until I saw Jasmine Hughes solve all of last year Advent of Code (AOC) puzzles in Julia. ⊕ I know of Jasmine through the AOC RLadies leaderboard! See Jasmine’s valuable advice on “how to get …

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As I work closely with graduate students (whom I dearly call my apprentices), I share with them some tools I picked up along the way that help boost my productivity and just make my life easier in general. Often, they come back with “WOW!!! XYZ has been really helpful! I wish I knew about it 5 years ago.” So do I. Well, some of these tools might have been at their early stage or not even existed …

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Những tuần gần đây, mình đọc một số bài viết về nạn phân biệt chủng tộc ở Mĩ, chủ yếu là từ trải nghiệm cá nhân của từng người. Cho đến rất gần đây, mình vẫn nhìn việc phân biệt chủng tộc này từ một góc rất hạn hẹp: góc độ cá nhân. Bạn Trang Quạ viết: “sự kì thị này ăn sâu vào tiềm thức của các cá thể trong cộng đồng”. Mình đồng ý. Nhưng vấn đề chủng tộc ở Mĩ lớn hơn từng cá thể rất …

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It took me 30 minutes to figure this out. I hope it takes you less. Earlier today, I submitted a manuscript to GECCO Hot-Off-the-Press track. The submission process was pretty straightforward, until I hit Submit and encountered this error: […] All fonts must be embedded in the PDF. […] Googling this error led me to fiddle around with Acrobat Reader, try different TeX engines and …

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A few days after nonessential business closing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the streets and trails of Philadelphia are filled with runners. While it’s nice that a lot of people have reverted to this basic form of exercise, Welcome to the club! it pains us regular runners physically when we see you run in jeans and cotton t-shirts. If running for you is a outdoor family activity and the goal is …

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