Ed's Big Plans

Science and Computing

In the present semester, I’m getting a firm foothold in my thesis at the University of Guelph. My interests are machine learning and bioinformatics. I like soft computing techniques such as artificial neural networks and genetic algorithms. I developed a novel syntax-to-architecture based neural network called the Neural Grammar Network in my master’s work and used it to classify and map the activity of biologically active molecules (a QSAR task). I recently finished four semesters as a graduate research assistant over at the University of Waterloo where I focused on the bioinformatics and biochemistry of symmetrical protein evolution. My current work seeks to replace (or augment) the human expert at the tail end of the DNA base-calling workflow.

Programming

I am very experienced in the C-family of languages including C# and Java. I run this very website from a home server affectionately known as Zinc (the Mac Mini). I also know Python, PERL, PHP, JavaScript and make. I must be emphatic that each of these languages has its own place. Except for PERL .

Ed’s Big Plans, SnOwy, CogFault and CogGram

This site, Ed’s Big Plans is a blog which accounts my thoughts about science, computing and programming. I generally discuss thoughts about best coding practices, my own academic progress, hints, tips and code I can offer up for free. My wiki, SnOwy is my notebook which I use mostly to keep class notes, lecture notes, maintenance notes and instructions that I will eventually need to search; it also doubles as a scrapbook to quickly put pages up online. The minisite, CogFault is a collection of case programming and arithmetic errors I seem to bump into now and again. The minisite CogGram is a collection of my drawings, diagrams and comics.

Contact

Feel free to contact me if you have technical or editorial questions.

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• Skype / Jabber: edoules

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