Uncategorised – Samposium https://samnicholls.net The Exciting Adventures of Sam Mon, 30 Jan 2017 23:59:21 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.5 101350222 Laser Etching my XPS 13 Laptop: Orphan Black style https://samnicholls.net/2017/01/30/laptop-laser-engrave/ https://samnicholls.net/2017/01/30/laptop-laser-engrave/#respond Mon, 30 Jan 2017 23:58:32 +0000 https://samnicholls.net/?p=2091 Earlier today I got pretty cross with bioinformatics and our current state of tooling:

In an attempt to make myself feel better, I decided to stick my laptop in a laser cutter to give it a makeover1. Here is the exciting adventure-cross-how-to:

Pew pew, I stuck my laptop in a laser cutter

Although I had faith that this wouldn’t be a disaster (despite my screaming while pressing the Start button), but I’m actually pretty surprised with the quality of the result, which was beyond my expectations. Tom and I plan to investigate using the laser for engraving all sorts of other odds and ends in future.

  1. You should recognise the pattern if you’re an Orphan Black fan! Cosima and I can be laptop buddies. ↩
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]]> https://samnicholls.net/2016/04/05/pubeng/feed/ 0 685 Deeper https://samnicholls.net/2015/11/27/deeper/ Fri, 27 Nov 2015 11:48:46 +0000 https://samnicholls.net/?p=407 We Need to Go Deeper

]]> 407 Size Matters https://samnicholls.net/2015/10/29/size/ https://samnicholls.net/2015/10/29/size/#respond Thu, 29 Oct 2015 12:00:25 +0000 http://samnicholls.net/?p=314 jim_post

My datasets are so big, they trigger an NFS bug in the kernel

]]> https://samnicholls.net/2015/10/29/size/feed/ 0 314 Paths https://samnicholls.net/2015/09/09/paths/ https://samnicholls.net/2015/09/09/paths/#respond Wed, 09 Sep 2015 11:00:35 +0000 http://blog.ironowl.io/?p=146 My back of the envelope worst case calculation indicates 2.8 million decillion decillion possible valid paths so in retrospect, yes it was a bad idea to try and enumerate these to a terminal.

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"Thank you for submitting your manuscript to Bioinformatics."

— Sam Nicholls (@samstudio8) August 11, 2015

]]> https://samnicholls.net/2015/08/11/first/feed/ 1 190 Surprises https://samnicholls.net/2015/07/21/surprises/ https://samnicholls.net/2015/07/21/surprises/#respond Tue, 21 Jul 2015 11:00:01 +0000 http://blog.ironowl.io/?p=198 Just when I think I have tricked the computer into finally doing what I want, it reveals that it has come up with a new way to fail obscurely and avoid detection.

]]> https://samnicholls.net/2015/07/21/surprises/feed/ 0 198 Pipelines https://samnicholls.net/2015/04/29/pipelines/ https://samnicholls.net/2015/04/29/pipelines/#respond Wed, 29 Apr 2015 10:04:34 +0000 http://blog.ironowl.io/?p=254 [text: 'pipelines', photograph of a standard bioinformatics pipeline transforming data from one mess to another]

[text: ‘pipelines’, photograph of a standard bioinformatics pipeline transforming data from one mess to another]

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[text: ‘~/scratch/’, photograph of you desperately trying to pack your data for a programmatic excursion only to find that the airline charges by the bit for hold luggage]

]]> https://samnicholls.net/2015/04/25/scratch/feed/ 1 256 My First Research Proposal https://samnicholls.net/2015/03/10/my-first-research-proposal/ https://samnicholls.net/2015/03/10/my-first-research-proposal/#respond Tue, 10 Mar 2015 12:00:06 +0000 http://blog.ironowl.io/?p=112 [text: "my first research proposal", photograph of the front cover of my new fantasy fairytale]

[text: “my first research proposal”, photograph of the front cover of my new fantasy fairytale]

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