Archive for February, 2011

sort ––debug is handy

Wednesday, 23 February 2011

Coming soon to a coreutils near you (it’s in coreutils 8.6 and later, which will hopefully be picked up by major distros soon) — the sort –debug option. It places “underlines” under the portion of the key used to perform the sort, which is very helpful when you’re trying to figure out why sort is [...]

Macro Benchmarks

Friday, 18 February 2011

US NGS benchmarks, from this publication. Posted via email from FORM PLUS FUNCTION

Life imitates subway maps

Sunday, 6 February 2011

A current sample of visualization of thesis data — in this case, the CIDR Report. Vertical position on the graph reflects ranking on the CIDR Report. Posted via email from FORM PLUS FUNCTION