Michael A. AlcornA Python User’s Response to “Python Criticism from a Julia Perspective”A colleague recently brought an article titled “Python Criticism from a Julia Perspective” to my attention. I didn’t really agree with any…Aug 25, 2022Aug 25, 2022
Michael A. AlcornHow Wrong Was Ioannidis?This video was censored on YouTube.Jun 18, 20203Jun 18, 20203
Michael A. AlcornWhen a Scientist Survives a StrokeAt approximately 9:00 PM on Tuesday May 14th, 2019, my 28-year-old marathon-running, scuba diving, Ph.D.-earning wife collapsed in our…Aug 1, 2019Aug 1, 2019
Michael A. AlcornYet Another PCA ExplanationI saw a post (since deleted) the other day on /r/MLQuestions asking about PCA and it made me re-realize that PCA, despite being commonly…Jul 21, 2019Jul 21, 2019
Michael A. AlcornMy Grad School ApplicationsI’ve applied to graduate school three times in my life — each time under rather different circumstances and with different goals.Jul 20, 20182Jul 20, 20182
Michael A. AlcornStuck in GRUB Rescue/Cannot Access BIOSThe other day, I decided to do a clean install of Fedora 27 on my Asus U24E laptop. I dual boot my laptop with Windows 10, so I figured I…Mar 31, 20181Mar 31, 20181
Michael A. AlcornHow to Use PyLuceneThis blog post will briefly outline how to install PyLucene on Fedora and give some examples of how to use the analyzers to process text.Mar 31, 20181Mar 31, 20181
Michael A. AlcornHow to Print Output for Debugging SolrPrinting output is a crucial part of debugging code. Doing so is easy in Solr, but it wasn’t at all obvious to me, so I’ve put the steps…Mar 31, 2018Mar 31, 2018
Michael A. AlcornFrom Evolutionary Biology Dropout to Data Scientist in Three YearsThis post was originally published on my blog in December 2015.Mar 31, 2018Mar 31, 2018
