Tag Archives: best-prediction

The Year in Science 2007

Posted on January 22, 2008 by jcole

Now that 2007 has drawn to an end it’s time to review the science I did last year. As is the case in all efficiently-run organizations, the Agricultural Research Service bases most of annual performance reviews for Category 1 scientists … Continue reading →

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Visalia, CA

Posted on September 26, 2007 by jcole

Greetings from sunny, but dry, central California! I was invited out here to Visalia to speak about best prediction at an event sponsored by AgriTech Analytics and Holstein Association USA. My talk was yesterday afternoon and went well, I think. … Continue reading →

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Typesetting Partitioned Matrices with OOoLatex

Posted on September 7, 2007 by jcole

As I wrote yesterday I’ve been using OOoLatex to typeset the equations for the best prediction manual. In one part of the manual, when discussing the calculation of correlations among traits on arbitrary days in milk, I wanted to typeset … Continue reading →

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OpenOffice.org and LaTeX-stacy

Posted on September 6, 2007 by jcole

I’ve been working on the user’s manual for the Major New Version of the best prediction code that we hope to soon release to industry. I’m writing it in OpenOffice.org, and I’ve been grumpy all day over how bad the … Continue reading →

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I’m a code monkey

Posted on March 22, 2007 by jcole

Today has been another three-language day: Fortran [Wikipedia] for the best prediction code, Python for PyPedal, and PHP for my latest side project, Middleton. Oh, wait, I also did some LaTeX in the PyPedal manual and write a one-liner in … Continue reading →

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