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Modeling Coronavirus part V -- try the model yourself 22 Mar 2020

Modeling Coronavirus part IV -- understanding exponential growth 20 Mar 2020

Modeling Coronavirus part III -- predictions 19 Mar 2020

Modeling Coronavirus part II -- estimating parameters 19 Mar 2020

Modeling Coronavirus part I -- the SIR model 17 Mar 2020

The top 10 signs that you are running the Hejaz 50 Ultramarathon 28 Mar 2016

Step 7 - Automate the tests 29 May 2015

Step 6 - Keep track of issues 16 May 2015

Step 5 - write tests 15 May 2015

Step 4 - write docstrings 14 May 2015

Step 3 - Add a README and a License 13 May 2015

Step 2 - Code in the open 12 May 2015

Step 1 - Use version control 11 May 2015

12 steps toward rock-solid scientific Python code 10 May 2015

Testing whether your code produces the correct plots -- in Python and on Travis 13 Jan 2015

Reviewing my marathon training using MapMyFitness and Pandas 31 Dec 2014

How and why I'm teaching my kids to code 09 Dec 2014

Clawpack turns 20 01 Dec 2014

Teaching in the open 18 Jul 2014

KAUST goes open access 01 Jul 2014

Teaching with SageMathCloud 31 May 2014

HyperPython 28 May 2014

Dispersion relations for linear systems of PDEs 28 May 2014

The PETSc DMDA is not lightweight 11 Mar 2014

Notes 2014.03.03 03 Mar 2014

Notes 2014.02.27 27 Feb 2014

The Schrodinger equation is not a reaction-diffusion equation 22 Feb 2014

Notes 2014.02.22 22 Feb 2014

Open access is about open access, not journals 13 Dec 2013

A Tale of Two Theorems 14 Oct 2013

Documentation, testing, and default arguments for your MATLAB packages 12 Oct 2013

Giving a math talk using IPython notebook slides and Wakari 21 Sep 2013

Don't scrap the DOE CSGF program 23 Jun 2013

How to avoid javascript errors when copy-pasting Bibtex citations in Mendeley on Mac OS X 15 Feb 2013

5 reasons why you should submit your next paper to CAMCoS 17 Jan 2013

Convert SAGE worksheets to IPython notebooks 16 Jan 2013

Why I signed the Cost of Knowledge 23 Dec 2012

Open scientific collaboration 22 Dec 2012

Reflections on the 2012 ICERM Reproducibility Workshop 14 Dec 2012

Adopting the Reproducible Research Standard 06 Dec 2012

Switching from Blogger to Jekyll 25 Oct 2012

The parallel EPPEER code 17 Oct 2012

You might be a low-quality scientific journal if... 16 Oct 2012

Impact of the Elsevier boycott 11 Oct 2012

Blogging an iPython notebook with Jekyll 11 Oct 2012

Internal stability of Runge-Kutta methods 11 Oct 2012

A curious upwind implicit scheme for advection 11 Oct 2012

NodePy version 0.4 released 28 Aug 2012

7 Habits of the Open Scientist #3: Pre-publication dissemination of research 22 Aug 2012

7 Habits of the Open Scientist: #2 -- Reproducible Research 03 Aug 2012

7 Habits of the Open Scientist: #1 -- Open publishing 01 Aug 2012

7 Habits of the Open Scientist 31 Jul 2012

My favorite line from my first paper rejection 05 Jul 2012

Harvard suggests that its faculty resign from editing overpriced journals 26 Apr 2012

Can a region of absolute stability be rectangular? 17 Mar 2012

Should your advisor be an author on your papers? 13 Mar 2012

Dissecting Elsevier's "letter to the mathematics community" 28 Feb 2012

The Cost of Knowledge: I've signed 19 Feb 2012

Congratulations, you've reinvented Bibtex. 02 Feb 2012

What is this thing we call the arXiv, really? 20 Jan 2012

New Junk Publisher: MASAUM Network 11 Jan 2012

Endorse the Science Code Manifesto 07 Jan 2012

In defense of "Open Submission" in scientific publishing 16 Dec 2011

Support the stackexchange for computational science 30 Nov 2011

Do you know what your colleagues are reading? 15 Nov 2011

Book Review: Reinventing Discovery 10 Nov 2011

Collaborative scientific reading 03 Nov 2011

A better way to do multiple Gmail signatures: canned responses 02 Nov 2011

Managing publication lists in HTML 28 Oct 2011

Searching the scientific literature 27 Oct 2011

Springer denies scientist access to her own research 21 Oct 2011

What journals do you read? 14 Oct 2011

Academic Work-Life Balance at KAUST 28 Aug 2011

The one thing I can't stand about blogger (and Google in general!) 18 Aug 2011

How to edit all files containing a particular string 27 Jun 2011

More KAUST Beacon photos 25 Jun 2011

The KAUST Beacon is fully lit 23 Jun 2011

Mendeley's PDF import has improved dramatically 04 Jun 2011

The positivity pipe dream fulfilled? 31 May 2011

How do shock waves behave in inhomogeneous materials? 29 May 2011

My favorite new tool: ack 24 May 2011

Why I won't be a Mendeley university advisor (for now) 23 May 2011

What is science? 19 May 2011

Python code for making a histogram of your e-mail volume 07 Feb 2011

Visualizing my inbox load 06 Feb 2011

I have a book! 25 Jan 2011

nodepy 0.3 available via easy_install 13 Jan 2011

Using pylint to clean up Python code 06 Jan 2011

"Open Access" and unscrupulous scientific publishers 08 Sep 2010

Getting things to install for the correct shell in Mac OS X 24 Nov 2009

An Update 31 Jul 2009

Informational resources about KAUST on the web 08 Apr 2009