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Re: Exam answer quotes

Bhojpurisongdownload — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:59:31 -0000

too funy

Re: Why kids don’t understand evolution

Flynn Mitting — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 06:59:17 -0000

I agree. This card offered no explanation about the image. I had to read this article to understand the reasoning behind it. Now, thanks to Dave Lunt, my 7 year old son is a little less confusted

Re: KCite plugin for WordPress blog referencing

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Re: KCite plugin for WordPress blog referencing

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Re: KCite plugin for WordPress blog referencing

Dave Lunt — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:16:53 -0000

Thats great Phil, I'm looking forward to the new version. I think you are quite right about the reference manager, I don't need that either, I like that KCite does a few things well.
I've just realised that one of the things I wanted (hyperlinks out of the Reference section) actually exists. Well the example Simon gives on FuzzierLogic at least has doi links in each set of reference details. Not sure if I can get that on mine?

Re: KCite plugin for WordPress blog referencing

Phillip Lord — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:26:39 -0000

Glad that you liked it. I have a new version in the works which has a few optimisations, is a little more robust and (rather clunkily) allows you to choose your citation style. Later versions will also add support for adding in the full reference details, to fix the problem where there are no IDs.

It was never meant to replace a reference manager; I use one to enter the citations for me!

Phil Lord

Re: Why kids don’t understand evolution

Dave Lunt — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:10:43 -0000

Yes it definitely existed Adrian. The problem is really that the picture on the card is not how it was, but rather how someone imagines it would have evolved over the next 65 million years if it hadn't gone extinct with the other dinosaurs.

Re: Why kids don’t understand evolution

adrian — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:34:06 -0000

and we also have that card

Re: Why kids don’t understand evolution

adrian — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:31:46 -0000

so did the stenonychosorus exist ___

Re: Electronic Lab Books 2

Jay Ramos — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 05:52:01 -0000

Nice article, I enjoyed reading it. Very informative and with something to learn. Thanks

Re: Bio-Linux in a VirtualBox

Dave Lunt — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:17:22 -0000

I was struggling to find mention of BioPython in the documentation and list of installed software, maybe that was just me. Anyway the BioPython installation docs give a set of tests that everything is installed OK, and these work just fine in BioLinux 6, so BioPython must all be pre-installed. Excellent.
http://biopython.org/DIST/docs...

Re: Manuscript writing with Google Docs

Dave Lunt — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:00:33 -0000

Hi Phil, its pretty much exactly like Word when you're doing stuff. Well, Word before it bloated out to have all that stuff you never use. I would definitely give it a go. Its been really great for me. Worst case situation, if its really just not working for you, Save As Word.doc, and nothing is lost you can carry on in Word as before. For me having 1 document in a collaboration is worth more than the very very detailed track changes Word gives you. If there is some change a collaborator wants to draw particular attention to they can always use the yellow highlighter, or suggest a change in a comment.

Re: Manuscript writing with Google Docs

Phil Wheeler — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:13:00 -0000

Dave, no idea how I ended up here...
Am considering using google docs to put together a final project report and develop a new proposal. In principle all good, but is it possible to view formatting (as it is in Word)? If not, that's quite irritating. I can't figure it out myself.
Phil

Re: Paperless Office

saurabh — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:15:08 -0000

How about getting a e-book reader with good PDF functionality

Re: Why kids don’t understand evolution

Spharion — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:41:42 -0000

Inteligence is a function of brain/body mass ratio AND absolute brain size. In a related group, brain/body mass ratio tends to grow as the body size goes down, so it's fairly common to have animals with a large ratio but with a tiny brain anyway.

Few have our brain size combined with a large ratio. Dolphins come to mind.

Re: FastTree 1: Compiling and testing

Mike — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 08:11:15 -0000

Thanks for the reply, I completely forgot to respond! I now have a nice small tree that belies the amount of data in it :)

Mike

Re: FastTree 1: Compiling and testing

Dave Lunt — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:44:20 -0000

Hi Mike, thanks for the comment. No FastTree2 doesn't have the malloc issue, glad to hear it compiles fine for you. Regarding compilation options, my guess is that either would be fine, I'm no expert though so I would go with their suggestions regarding these options not mine. What a great program FastTree is, I'm still really pleased with it! I keep meaning to write a more modern post on FastTree2.

Re: FastTree 1: Compiling and testing

Mike — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:00:20 -0000

Hi Dave,

Thanks for these instructions, I used them a while ago to compile FastTree on my old Leopard (pre unibody) Macbook Pro and ran into the malloc problem you describe. I've just reinstalled on my new, shiny Snow Leopard Macbook Pro and I thought I'd let you know that the 2.1.3 version of FastTree on this platform compiles fine without editing.

I'm not terribly savvy with compiling from source code, and I noticed that both your method of compiling and that on the FastTree site worked, but there are differences. They use the option -O3 instead of -O2 and include -finline-functions and -funroll-loops. Do you know what effect this has?

Thanks

Mike Cox

Re: Why kids don’t understand evolution

Dave Lunt — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:12:06 -0000

Good for him- my 5 year old thought the same. He was much less impressed with this one than the real dinosaurs and just tends to ignore it now.

Re: Why kids don’t understand evolution

Anonymous — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 07:19:17 -0000

I just found that card while playing with my 5 year old. Thankfully, he suggested it looked stupid, and off to the webs we went. He's now happy "it doesn't look anything like that".

Re: FastTree 2: Timing runs

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:08:26 -0000

Hi,
Thank you very much for your very helpful instructions for getting FastTree to run on Mac OS X. You are right that it is nice to have something like this documented online!

Is there any chance you could compile Fast Tree 2.0? My Mac OS X disks with the developer tools are not on the same continent as I am, and I would love to be able to use this.

thank you!
KW

Re: Paperless Office

Dave Lunt — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:22:21 -0000

I bought an HP C7280 Photosmart all in one scanner and printer, really please with it. Cheap, paper feed for scanning, decent OCR, wireless.

Re: PopGroup42

Dave Lunt — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:15:06 -0000

After talking to the conference regulars at the business meeting I have set up the site populationgeneticsgroup.org to host PopGroup meeting details from here on. I am also going to edit the post to change the link to the correct one.

Re: Electronic Lab Books

dorla — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:06:39 -0000

I posted mine! I'm so excited about this. Thanks for hosting it! Add

Re: PopGroup42

Dave Lunt — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:17:32 -0000

OK, so this www.popgroup.org site seems to have changed to something completely different and unreadable. I'll post an updated URL when I can find out what has happened.