Faith Okamoto

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• Updating explanations of meaning

  When what your code does changes

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on June 28, 2025

  This topic I really could not figure out a better way to summarize in a few words, so y’all have to deal with a confusing title. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • last-pass
  • science-meaning

• Provide context for code

  June 2025

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on June 19, 2025

  I have today off so I figured I’d do a blog post. Thought I could trust Nature to have some nice code for me to look at. Given the quality of the code for the first paper I clicked on, perhaps I’d do better to focus on computational journals in... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • published-code-critique
  • readme
  • documentation

• Using simple structs

  Name all the things!

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on June 7, 2025

  The last assignment for my class on plotting required sophisticated data processing and storage. My storage method of choice was a simple struct. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • naming

• Double-check your comments

  May 2025

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on May 24, 2025

  I usually critique biology/bioinformatics papers (since that’s my field). This month, we’re looking at a paper where I do not understand any of the jargon. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • published-code-critique
  • comments
  • last-pass

• Parameters implying other parameters

  But what does that mean?

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on May 17, 2025

  Some options are meant to be used together. This might be bidirectional (e.g. both a sample name and a data file) or it might be one-way (e.g. an alignment file needs a genome file, but not the other way around). In either case, using a specific optional argument requires the... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • parameters
  • errors

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