Faith Okamoto

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• One year later

  Looking back

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on August 27, 2025

  A year ago, I published my first blog post here. I wasn’t sure how long I would keep going, but clearly I haven’t stopped yet! I’m about to start on my second year as a PhD student. Soon I’ll be helping to run a bootcamp for incoming PhD students. The... [Read More]

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  • meta

• Tell me how to install this

  August 2025

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on August 16, 2025

  I admit this [published-code-critique] is slightly petty. The paper promised a new method quite relevant to my research interests. Yet the details are nowhere in the preprint. I ended up having to dig through section 7 of their supplementary note. At that point, I figured I might as well check... [Read More]

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  • published-code-critique
  • readme
  • installation

• Include sources in error messages

  So what failed, exactly?

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on August 9, 2025

  I’ve mentioned before that error messages should be useful. Today I’ll discuss a specific facet of usefulness that can easily be overlooked: having error messages say where they come from. [Read More]

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  • errors
  • screed

• Developing a testing script

  Yes, tests are still development

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on August 2, 2025

  As promised, I’ll dive into a case study on a testing script I developed recently. Hopefully after reading this blog post, you’ll have a better understanding of how to craft useful tests. [Read More]

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  • testing

• Simplicity does not excuse bad comments

  July 2025

  By Faith Okamoto

  Posted on July 25, 2025

  Usually the papers I review are published. But Heng Li recently put the most beautiful paper on arXiv, and I wanted an excuse to read through it again. [Read More]

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  • published-code-critique
  • comments

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