What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate

Notes from the life of a [data] scientist

by What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate

April 5 2026 · Edited Apr 5, 2026

What’s changed?

Andy Saunders writes: A couple of things come to mind. The planet on the right contains, on average, around 70% fewer animals than the planet on the left. The atmosphere of the planet on the right

by What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate

February 15 2026 · Edited Feb 15, 2026

Creating custom (non-Font Awesome) icons for a Jekyll-based website

This one is pretty niche even by my standards. Notes largely for my own benefit, but they may be useful if you: I’ll assume that you have git-cloned jekyll-theme-chirpy, run bundle and are able to

by What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate

July 26 2023 · Edited Feb 5, 2026

Price’s Protein Puzzle: 2023 update

One of the joys (?) of having been online for…quite some time now…is watching topics reappear every few years or so. So what’s new? In terms of English word matches: not much. Some new proteins