Warning I need to fix some css problems with pelican-bootstrap3 and embeded notebooks.

You might want to view the notebook with nbviewer instead.

Recently I've been learning more about docker and all the things it can do for us. My student Lukas Heinrich has been working on the Recast project and using docker heavily. In parallel, Tim Head and I have been talking a lot about projects like binder and everware, which let …

So I recently learned about the ability to convert IPython notebooks into slides using nbconvert. Not sure how I overlooked that capability of nbconvert. There are some (somewhat out of date) references on Damián Avila's blog.

I'm pretty excited about the idea of using IPython notebooks as a more effective …

After a colloquium at Renaissance Technologies and sitting on Daniel Foreman-Mackey's thesis defense I gave a fun talk for the inagural NYC Open Science Meetup sponsored by authorea.

Our NYC #OpenScience meetup yesterday: @KyleCranmer showing how to detect Cosmic Rays on your smartphone pic.twitter.com/SA18UPTXvh

— Authorea (@authorea) April …

I'm pretty excited about the Recast reintepretation framework. The basic idea is that we want to capture the data processing pipeline associated with a search for new physics and then provide an API to it (original paper ). This will allow scientists outside the big LHC collaborations to request that a …