We just had an interview published today over at Floss for Science, and we’re super excited because it’s our very first media coverage.

Last week, I thought it would be fun to translate some of the Numerical Recipes algorithms into Ruby, specifically those for the Gamma distribution and incomplete gamma function. I got them all working pretty well, and they were only a hundred or so lines of code altogether.

But a voice in the back of my head said, “Hey, you should ask Bill Press if he wants to be involved.”

I thought I’d start by introducing myself. I’m the project director for SciRuby, and I’m a molecular biology doctoral student at the University of Texas. I work in the Marcotte Lab, and actually occupy the former desk (and lab hostname) of John Prince, another of the SciRuby project leads.