The Festive Sing-Along video from Duke Research Computing has become A Thing. This year, we draw inspiration from a scene...
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“Posters! Posters!” (Festive Sing-Along)
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“Posters! Posters!” (Festive Sing-Along)
You may remember last year’s stirring rendition of “I’m Dreaming of a White Poster.” It was fantastically popular and, we...
“I’m Dreaming of a White Poster” (festive sing-along)
While you are preparing your email to Gwen Waller to claim your poster slot (see the easy instructions), you can...
The Evolution of Evidence
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The Evolution of Evidence
First, a special thanks to Mark DeLong for many fruitful discussions on data management. This post grows out of a...
Order by data management
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Order by data management
Vignette A — Ordering books by color and size 1. A patron at a library seeks help finding a book:...
‘Twas the Night Before Deadline
Poster competitions can also be inspirations for Magnificent Poetic Achievement. Behold, below! Duke Research Computing Symposium registration HERE and declaration...
Some codes are haiku, some are sonnets, some are epics. Few are free verse.
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Some codes are haiku, some are sonnets, some are epics. Few are free verse.
A friend of mine emailed me last week after he had experienced the tragedy of missing a big deadline. A...
Polanyi’s jigsaw puzzle solvers and research computing
On Thursday evening I had a quick conversation with Terry Oas to close the day. Since so much of his...
Sixteenth century meets twenty-first century (Open Science Grid, Part 1)
It’s rare that you even want to look back at something you’ve written before, especially when that thing is a...
Research computing as substrate
The term substrate crops up in several places in Duke’s scientific labs, and as I was doing the rounds in...