Evolutionary Computation, Evolvability, and Python
Funnily enough, an antievolutionist brought a recent article on evolvability to my attention. The paper, “Evolvability Is Inevitable: Increasing Evolvability
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Raspberry Pi: An Update on Sound
Life has been a bit demanding lately, so it has been a while since I last worked on the Raspberry
Read moreA New Year
The Mayan apocalypse failed to appear, so I had a nice New Year’s day here in Florida. The temperature got
Read moreFlorida: Marco Rubio is Not A Scientist, Man
US Senator from Florida Marco Rubio gave an interview to GQ recently. Rubio was asked a question that Republican politicians
Read morePopulation Modeling in Python
One of the courses I enjoyed most in my Ph.D. program was taught by Prof. Kirk Winemiller on population dynamics.
Read moreNot Everything is Easy in the Land of Raspberry Pi
I had the chance to work with my Raspberry Pi some more late last night and this morning. Quite a
Read moreRaspberry Pi First Run
I checked the UPS tracking number periodically today. My Raspberry Pi was marked as delivered at about 2:30 today. When
Read moreOfficial Interference in Biology
We’ve heard tales of officialdom greasing the way for people to profit over the consideration of species and ecosystems. Now
Read moreRaspberry Pi On Its Way
I got email from Newark today saying that they had shipped my Raspberry Pi. I should get it this week.
Read morePersonal Research and the Budget
Diane and I are working on a personal project to put together an acoustic sampling system that could yield information
Read morePython and the STFT
I’ve been going through biosonar data and while the SciPy specgram method is serviceable, I was interested in a short-time
Read moreA Brief Monty Hall Problem Digression
At lunch at the Spoonbill Bowl on Saturday, I was privileged to volunteer with a group of students, faculty, and
Read moreBiological History: Strickland on Zoological Systematics
In looking at the Wallace biogeography flap, I came across an interesting passage in Wallace’s 1855 Sarawak paper: We shall
Read moreSome Data Analysis and Visualization
As noted here before, I’m working through refreshing archived data, mostly from CD-ROM media. I’ve run into a whole batch
Read moreThe Weekend
I don’t know what other people got up to this weekend, but mine has been pretty well filled with computing
Read moreNo One Expects the Comparative Anatomist
Upcoming television series on PBS: Inside Nature’s Giants, begins January 18th at 10 PM. Professor Joy Reidenberg is an unlikely
Read moreSMM 2011: Sirenian Workshop
I’m attending the Society for Marine Mammalogy biennial conference this year. The location is the Tampa Convention Center, making this
Read moreMultiple Sound Sources in the Bottlenose Dolphin
It’s been a long time coming, but the paper on evidence for multiple sound sources in the bottlenose dolphin appears
Read moreCool Acoustics Product: Tern Micro GR4
I occasionally check out the Tern Micro website. They are manufacturers of controllers and expansion boards for embedded applications. Their
Read morePlotting a Dolphin Biosonar Click Train
I’ve been busy recently doing up figures for a paper on dolphin biosonar. One of the figures we ended up
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