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Designing Command Line Interfaces in Haskell
Command line tools are essential in many computational fields of science, not the least because command lines are often the only interface… Read more
Published March 24th, 2021Bye bye Wordpress
Update: Since the summer of 2020, my website has undergone a further upgrade to gatsby , another static site generator that builds more… Read more
Published October 16th, 2019Tracking your time helps you stay mentally sane.
Working in academia comes with unique freedoms and challenges. I would argue that in no other job we have so much freedom to define our own… Read more
Published August 29th, 2019Behind the paper: Paleo-Eskimo ancestry in North America
This post appeared originally on the Nature Ecology & Evolution Community blog . Reference: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-01… Read more
Published June 5th, 2019On human mobility and language dispersal
We recently advertised 16 new PhD positions within our newly founded Max Planck Research School for the Science of Human History , an… Read more
Published December 22nd, 2018Und nun die Wahlvorhersage...
von Stephan Schiffels und Andrej Fischer Vorhersagen von Wahlergebnissen aufgrund von Umfragen gehören zum Standardgeschäft des politischen… Read more
Published August 12th, 2017Hypothesis testing without Alternatives
Note: The Equation rendering does not work currently. I'm working on a fix So, I am reading this book called “Probability Theory; The logic… Read more
Published June 9th, 2017How rare genetic mutations help us understand human history (Part II)
In my last blog post I have shown how we estimated the Anglo-Saxon genetic contribution to modern English from rare variants. Here I’ll show… Read more
Published May 24th, 2017How rare genetic mutations help us understand human history (Part I)
Human history is deeply imprinted in our genomes, through patterns of common ancestry. These patterns can be studied by looking at mutations… Read more
Published January 22nd, 2016A brief introduction to neutral theory
This is a response to a creationist’s post on Human evolution , in which I found so many flaws that I have to at least correct the most… Read more
Published January 6th, 2016