Category Archives: Programming

Should Papers Have Unit Tests?

Posted on January 7, 2015 by dabacon

Perhaps the greatest shock I’ve had in moving from the hallowed halls of academia to the workman depths of everyday software development is the amount of testing that is done when writing code. Likely I’ve written more test code than … Continue reading →

Posted in Off The Deep End, Programming | 5 Comments

Why I Left Academia

Posted on September 22, 2013 by dabacon

TLDR: scroll here for the pretty interactive picture. Over two years ago I abandoned my post at the University of Washington as a assistant research professor studying quantum computing and started a new career as a software developer for Google. … Continue reading →

Posted in Extralusionary Intelligence, Go Ahead, Waste Your Time, Off The Deep End, Programming, Self: Meet Center. Center: Meet Self., The Loony Bin Called Academia | 12 Comments

Science Code Manifesto

Posted on December 29, 2012 by sflammia

Recently, one of the students here at U. Sydney and I had the frustrating experience of trying to reproduce a numerical result from a paper, but it just wasn’t working. The code used by the authors was regrettably not made … Continue reading →

Posted in Computers, Programming, Scientific Publishing | 3 Comments

Q-circuit v2.0

Posted on September 16, 2011 by sflammia

Many readers are familiar with the LaTeX package called Q-circuit that I coauthored with Bryan Eastin. If you aren’t familiar with it, it is a set of macros that helps make typesetting quantum circuits easy, efficient and (reasonably) intuitive.  The … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcement, Programming | 4 Comments

Tidbits

Posted on September 8, 2010 by dabacon

Penrose reviews Hawking and Mlodinow’s new book The Grand Design. Kim sends along a link to a classic telescope catalogs and manuals Mason Porter, after an inspiring talk with Aaron Clauset and Michelle Girvan (a not uncommon circumstance with these … Continue reading →

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