The political situation in Iran has been in the news and on the nets a lot this week. I hope that the friends and families of all my Iranian colleagues are safe. I’m thinking of you.
Posts Tagged as ‘gbd’
May 24, 2009
Anatomy of a Django-driven Data Server
I haven’t had time to write anything this week because I am up to my neck in this Seven-Samurai-style software engineering project. You know, where a bunch of untrained villagers (that’s me) need to defend themselves against marauding bandits (that’s the Global Burden of Disease 2005 Study), so they have to learn everything about [...]
September 24, 2008
Disease Modeling and the Global Burden of Disease
If you’ve read some of my previous posts, you might be wondering, what does Health Metrics have to do with sampling independent sets in graphs? (What is Health Metrics? you might also be wondering.)
In my new job, I’m not that interested in sampling independent sets. I’m mostly interested in sampling from a weird [...]
