Population Modeling in Python
One of the courses I enjoyed most in my Ph.D. program was taught by Prof. Kirk Winemiller on population dynamics.
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General scientific topics or issues
Not 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
Read moreRevisiting Code
Back in graduate school, I wrote tens of thousands of lines of Delphi code in support of research projects I
Read moreGrab the PDFs — Ends 12/31
The Synthese special issue on “Evolution and Its Rivals” allows downloads of the full PDFs for all the articles, but
Read moreHere We Go Again… North Pole, This Time
Quark Expeditions is having another popularity contest for a blogger to go on a trip, this time the destination is
Read morePrice of Misunderstanding?
Miriam Markowitz has a piece in The Nation about George Price and the Price equation, a significant advance in mathematics
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