Benchmarking R and Rcpp
Examining speeds of R and the Rcpp package compare for a particular sampling problem.
2019
Political problems with machine learning in the context of water justice
This morning I was listening to a podcast from Marketplace from a couple of days ago and heard an interesting piece on using machine learning to identify whe...
Configuring credentials for multiple git remotes
Problem: Using multiple git remote services with Windows Subsystem for Linux. Recently, I’ve been trying to really understand version control with git in th...
2018
Penman-Monteith and Priestley-Taylor Evaporation
A synthesis of information related to how to operationalize the the Penman-Monteith and Priestley-Taylor evaporation equations.
Scripting Template
One thing I continually struggle with in R (or any scripting language) is how to organize my code. Over the last 5-ish years I’ve come up with my own solutio...
2017
Making a movie in R from still images
Making a movie in R from still images This summer I was doing some hydrogeophysics at a mountain fen to better understand the role biogenic gasses play in ...
2016
The four P’s of finding your life’s work
I really like what I do. But it took me a lot of trial and error to figure out I wanted to be in academia. That is, over the years I’ve held all kinds of job...
Getting started
Hi,My name’s Jason and I’m a PhD student at the University of Wyoming in the Department of Botany. The intent of this blog is to more or less to catalog thin...