While preparing for my talk at Gotham Phyiscs X ML I made my first word cloud pun using Andreas Mueller's word_cloud tool.

Code:

import matplotlib

#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
Masked wordcloud
================
Using a mask you can generate wordclouds in arbitrary shapes.
"""

from os import path
from …

For the IRIS-HEP organization we need to collect publications and update our webpage regularly. I also have to do this for our group webpage, my CV, etc. It's annoying to copy/paste all of this information. The http://inspirehep.net website lets you export bibtex, latex, and plain text for …

I like murmurations!

Bernard Chazelle proved that if each bird adjusts its velocity and position to the other birds within a fixed radius, the time it takes to converge to a steady state tends to infinity as the number of birds increases. pic.twitter.com/Wq9iruUefl

— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary …

Despite the reputation of 2016 as a terrible year, it was pretty good for me on a personal and professional level. Many of the ideas that were born during my sabbaticall matured this year. Many of my collaborations also flourished.

The 750 GeV Excess

The year started with a bang …

I've been a bit annoyed with feed.mikle.com, the RSS feed widget I'm using on my homepage. Sometimes it doesn't update, and while it is convenient, I can't modify the code to be able to tweak it. In particular, I'd like to get mathjax to work on the titles …

This is my first attempt at a collaboration map -- it's woefully incomplete and I've largely omitted projects happening within the ATLAS collaboration. Check it out first, and then read the blog post below. The collaboration map has three components:

• people: center
• projects: left
• collaborations: right

For a long time I've …