Today I learned an amazing bash command: shuf. It shuffles the lines of an input file, and prints them to the standard output. This is super useful when you want to sample a few lines from a very large file, to have an idea of its contents. See the image below for details: I learned […]
Yesterday I decided to see “Don’t Look Up” on Netflix. All I heard about the movie was that it involved a comet disaster, and mass media trying to distract the public from the reality of science. I remember that I really liked Deep Impact and even Armageddon back in the day, so I was looking […]
This Sunday I heard in a podcast a researcher telling the story of how they started a research institute from a meeting with friends over Pizza. That got me thinking how we (and by “we”, I mean “I”, but I suspect that I’m not alone in this), how we have less social meetings these days, […]
1. It’s Kakenhi season. For many researchers in Japan, this means writing out their best research plans, hoping to get some much desired funding from JSPS. For me, it means painful weeks when I fight every procrastinating fiber on my body to extract those 5-6 pages explaining why my project is worthy to a trio […]