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My student's and I figured out how to use Pelican with Github.io pages to create some websites for work. We tried to type up the instructions as a tutorial and build a pelican template. Here is a link to the tutorial:

Pelican / Github.io Tutorial

Some of our websites …

These instructions are for installing RStudio on the HPCC. RStudio provides a variety of installers on their website https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download2/. However, the HPCC uses an older version of Linux and the precompiled binaries are not compatible. Trying to install RStudio from the source code is …

One of our postdocs stopped by my office today to talk about a problem with inconsistant runtimes on our HPCC. This user is running a lot of jobs with 512 cores (current cpu limit is 520). The problem is that it is really difficult for the user to estimate the …

Back when I worked for iCER I had my blog set up to automatically Tweet when I posted something new using a service called Twitter Feed. Unfortunately, Twitter Feed is no longer around and their website recommended dlvr.it as an alternative.

So far it was fairly strait forward to …

I gave an autobiographical talk today to the EnSURE (Engineering Summer Undergraduate Research Experience) students. I have given this talk a few times and it is noticeably different that most of my presentations because the EnSURE organizers asked me to talk about myself and how I got where I am …

Ugh! Rookie mistake! I just spent all morning working on my website and blog. I was really happy with the improvements. I was making some modifications to the Makefile in the pelican folder to streamline my workflow when... all of my files disappeared.

Rookie Mistake #1: I unintentionally did a …

This post describes a technique I use to plan an organize a course from scratch. I learned this technique from Dr. Brian O'Shea.

At Michigan State University (MSU) my official title is curriculum specialist. I have the unique opportunity to help develop entirely new courses for a brand new department …

I am weird that I like email. It is my preferred form of communication on projects (maybe I am just getting old). I trust that I will get to my email and that I will not loose things. I realize that this trust is often not true but it is …

I was invited to give a talk at the inverse seminars symposium:

https://inverseproblems2018.org/

At first I was a little nervous since I don't consider myself an expert in inverse problems so I did not fully understand what they wanted me to present. However after talking to the organizers …