Biophysics and Beer

Notebooks, teaching, and the occasional homebrew.

Social Distancing and Hospital Capacity for Coronavirus

There was a great Washington Post article on social distancing. It comes with simulations to show you the effect of different measures, and I think it’s fantastic #SciCom. I…
Mar 20, 2020
Michael G. Lerner
 

Starting my sabbatical

Super exciting news: I’m starting my sabbatical. Through a combination of luck, timing, and hard work on the setup, I’ll be spending the time working on computational…
Aug 14, 2019
Michael G. Lerner

Orienting

(You can download this post as a notebook here.)
Feb 10, 2019
Michael G. Lerner
 

Chromebooks for the kids

My oldest daughter is 9, and the twins are 6, so it’s probably time to get them involved in computer things. I could have done this earlier, but I definitely screwed up with…
Dec 31, 2017
Michael G. Lerner

Coin Flipping and Entropy

You can download this whole post as a Jupyter notebook here # Some useful interactive bits for coin flipping and entropy.
Nov 16, 2017
Michael G. Lerner
 

Post-tenure job stress, part 1/N

I’m feeling a little down job-wise, and perhaps looking for some advice.
Nov 6, 2017
Michael G. Lerner

Visualizing differential geometry in Jupyter notebooks

(you can download this post as a notebook here)
Oct 15, 2017
Michael G. Lerner
 

Switching to Nikloa for Jupyter Notebooks and a static site

I’ve been using WordPress for quite a while, almost entirely because it’s an out-of-the-box blog setup that just works. But it kind of sucks for what I mostly want to do…
Oct 12, 2017
Michael G. Lerner
 

Can I be smarter about late policies?

Questions: Is my late policy reasonable? Are there diversity implications for smart late policies?
Sep 18, 2016
Michael G. Lerner
 

Using numba to speed up mean-squared displacement calculations

You can download this whole thing as a Jupyter notebook here
Jul 2, 2015
Michael G. Lerner

More March Madness Monte Carlo style

You can download this post as a Juypter notebook here
Mar 19, 2015
Michael G. Lerner

Speeding up calculations with lookup tables and Lagrangian interpolation

This whole post can be downloaded as a Jupyter notebook here
Mar 19, 2015
Michael G. Lerner
 

Evolution of a Learning Goal

I just got back from the Lilly Conference on College Teaching. The first workshop I went to was on course design. One chunk of this was on learning goals. This came in the…
Nov 24, 2014
Michael G. Lerner

Making IPython Notebooks for the matplotlib examples

matplotlib comes with tons of fantastic examples. I’m not as familiar with matplotlib as I probably should be, so I often find myself wanting to tinker a bit, but needing…
Dec 29, 2013
Michael G. Lerner

Histograms and kernel density estimation KDE 2

You can download this whole post as a Jupyter notebook here
Nov 20, 2013
Michael G. Lerner
 

Drum head normal modes, with movies

We’re working our way through Boas in my Mathematical Physics class, and we’ve come to the point in the PDE chapter where every good Physics student figures out what the…
Mar 30, 2013
Michael G. Lerner
 

March Madness, Monte Carlo Style!

I’m teaching Thermal Physics this term, so obviously I rearranged the syllabus so that we could all run Monte Carlo simulations for March Madness!
Mar 19, 2013
Michael G. Lerner
 

Getting a working Python install, part 2

With the new laptop (side note: the 13″ MacBook Pro is a really nice machine. The screen certainly has enough pixels for real work, unlike previous 13″ machines. The only…
Mar 7, 2012
Michael G. Lerner
 

Getting a sensible Python install on my Mac

I recently had to get Python + things I like up and running on my Mac from scratch. That’s a significantly harder task than you might guess, so one of the main reasons I’m…
Dec 18, 2011
Michael G. Lerner
 

A simple Python logging example

I’m slowly converting most of my lab to Python. One of the great things is how fantastic the documentation for things like matplotlib is. On the other hand, some of the…
Jun 1, 2011
Michael G. Lerner
 

The blogging begins

I imagine that this will be a combination of posts for other people and posts that I’ll want to look up for my own reference later. Let’s find out!
Aug 9, 2010
Michael G. Lerner
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