Yesterday two of the HIV modelling folks from Intellectual Ventures presented their model in the CSSS seminar and met with the Network Modelling group.  I was really impressed with their work, as was Martina.  Much of what we talked about was the partnership formation model.  Basically, they have a queueing process and individuals join the queue at ( Read more... )

I went  to the third funeral of my life today. It was for the baby of two friends. Emma was c-sectioned in her 23rd week because she and her twin sister had something called Twin-to-Twin-Transfusion Syndrome. Basically, most of mom's blood and associated resources were going to Ella who was getting too much, while Emma was getting too little and ( Read more... )

 I have an extra ticket to see The Wet Spots at Comedy Underground tonight at 8:30. Give me a call if you're interested: 999 6866.
At this late date, I just want to see the seat get filled -  it's on me.

Here's how they describe themselves:

The Wet Spots (Cass King and John Woods) are a musical sex comedy duo who write sophisticated lyrics paired with ( Read more... )

My funding at work is running out over the course of this month and it has kind of snuck up on me.  I know I was aware of it in like October or November, but somehow the word "May" got into my head instead of "March" and so I didn't realize it was going to be quite so soon or quite so all at once.  I've called in some IOUs and so I'm okay until ( Read more... )

 I did something unpleasant to my hamstring last night at soccer. I'm really mostly fine, but prudence dictated that I not go slide down mountains for the next four days.  So I'm surprised to find myself in town with no plans.  Anything fun and nonstrenuous that I should do?

So it turns out that this solution to a problem that I've been working on is essentially identical to Wright's Fst. I guess if you're going to spend time replicating someone else's work, you could do worse than the guy who invented the field. It is a little embarrassing to have not done a decent enough literature search to find it though. It's an ( Read more... )

Funny story from today ( Read more... )

In the past week I ( Read more... )

I had a lot of trouble getting to sleep last night - went to sleep shortly after 1:30. When I gave up on getting to sleep and got up, it was 4:00. I spent about 2 hours on the computer, mostly catching up on responding to email, before crashing. Surprisingly, I woke up about 10:30, feeling not very well rested, but not feeling like I could go ( Read more... )

I wrote this up in comment to Terri Kim saying that she'd been moving a lot. Figured I might as well record it here ( Read more... )