Saturday, November 27, 2010. Antarctica Part 2 - Getting to Mount Erebus. What made the walks even more interesting were the Weddell seals. That had chewed their way through the ice and were lounging on the sea ice near the marked trail. It was my first helicopter ride and it was simply amazing.

The musings and ravings of a computational biologist about science, computers, music and, you know, stuff. Machine learning people, your comments are welcome. How much do cows offset wind energy savings? On September 5th, 2016. For every 1kWh energy produced.

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