Faith Okamoto

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• On quick issues

  totally not just laziness

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on June 7, 2026

  First off, I passed my qualifying exam, yay! Then I took a trip. So this will be a shorter post than normal, just me musing about something that happened this week. That thing being some polishing of my undergrad’s project, a pipeline to perform parameter searches of vg giraffe. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • development-process
  • github
  • mentorship

• Releasing code without data

  for legal reasons

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on May 30, 2026

  For those readers who care about the ongoing “Faith loves Project Hail Mary” storyline, I’ve now watched it five times :D [Read More]

  Tags:

  • published-code-critique
  • runnable
  • examples

• Not every speedup is snazzy

  An optimization is an optimization

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on May 16, 2026

  I’ve been doing optimizations because my code that used to be winning on speed is now losing on speed. Or, actually, it was half-winning last I checked, but that was after several rounds of optimizations. Thought I’d write on it. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • optimization
  • algorithms

• Maybe it should do less

  an ode to simplicity

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on May 2, 2026

  Yeah, I work on the behemoth that is vg, but this post is about the benefits of task-specific tools. Instead of a be-all end-all multi-functional soup. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • pipeline
  • usability

• Code is for running, not just reading

  (though reading is important)

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on April 25, 2026

  I usually start my published code critiques by copying the previous post, just to get the formatting, which means I’m now noticing that last month’s critique was after the first time I watched Project Hail Mary. I’ve now watched it thrice. You may not have guessed that this bioinformatics PhD... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • published-code-critique
  • runnable

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