Charles Vaske

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Genomics, bioinformatics, diagnostics, cancer, housing, and transit. Слава Україні https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8151-6612

California counties in a scatter plot, HUD 2-bedroom Fair Market Rent (FMR) versus county-level Area Median Income for a 4-person household. Santa Cruz County is an outlier with the highest FMR of any county, far out of line with its AMI.
Plot of price-to-income ratio of housing in Santa Cruz County, from 1990 to 2024. Housing prices come from FHFA (ATNHPIUS42100Q), income from SAIPE (MHICA06087A052NCEN). There are wide fluctuations due to housing boom and bust, but the trend is from a ratio of 6.3x in 1990 to 9.3x in 2024.
Table of 2026 HCD income bands for affordable and subsidized housing in Santa Cruz county. The "low income" cutoffs are all significantly higher than the "median income" line.
Norwegian oil rig, icy sea and mountains, and the northern lights.
macOS Finder listing of two different Numbers.app programs right next to each other.
Summary The transition to decarbonized energy systems has fueled a controversial debate over the necessity of traditional “baseload” power. Skepticism remains regarding the reliability and economic feasibility of power systems relying mainly on cheap variable renewable energy (VRE) sources. Addressing this, the German Academies' project “Energy Systems of the Future” (ESYS) analyzed the role of baseload power plants within a decarbonized, continental-scale energy system. Their findings indicate that a secure, net-zero European electricity system is technically robust and economically viable when based on VRE paired with extensive flexibility, storage, and grid interconnections, without requiring new baseload capacity. The integration of new low-carbon baseload technologies, such as nuclear fission or fusion, natural gas with carbon capture and storage (CCS), or geothermal energy, has a marginal impact on overall system costs. While low-cost baseload technologies could be efficiently integrated to achieve high utilization, their future role is contingent on achieving cost reductions beyond current realities.
Doppler radar showing a squall line approaching a town. The squall line is labeled with a wall of "Woke 2". The town is labeled "Anti-YIMBs." A small red patch is labelled "CRTornado"
Slide from a talk showing big science projects from physics: James Webb ($10B), CERN ($5B), Perseverance Mars lander ($2.7B), Hubble ($10B), Expanded Very Large Array ($2B). Below:,Life Science: Human Genome Project ($2.7B), Protein Data Bank ($10B). (Note that PDB is not a coordinated centralized funding mechanism, but an organic effort, collecting $10B worth of work)
NYTimes coverage of Russia's war in Ukraine for Nov 10, 2025. Articles are titled "The Village Where Draft-Age Men Have Mostly Vanished," "Anti-Corruption Agencies Double Down Despite Pressure From Zelensky", "Escaping Ukraine's Front Lines", "Sanctions on Russia", and "Ukraine Gamifies the War"
Plots of population and water usage from 1951 to 2020, titled "Santa Cruz decouples water use from population growth." Population has tripled since 1951, even as water usage decreased significantly since 2000.
Scatter plot of countries, showing happiness versus metal bands per million. There is a positive correlation.
Fell for it again awards shaped into a stealth bomber, dropping hapless MAGA heads as bombs.
Photo of a "Radical Biotech" sticker on a laptop
Map image depicting location of housing blocked by the Coastal Commission.
Meme of Scooby Doo "let's see who you really are," with the masked ghost as "General Artificial Intelligence" and the unmasked ghost as "Information Retrieval"
The Trolley Problem meme, depicting a trolley on track to kill five people on the tracks. A bystander has a hand on a switch to divert the trolley to only kill one person on the alternate track.
GitHub Languages summary for the exFINDER repository, showing 99.1% of the code as HTML and 0.9% of the code as R.
The quak jupyter widget for exploring data tables. Atop each column is a histogram or categorical barplot, which acts as a filtering widget.
County map of California, with counties shaded by the margin in favor of Proposition 34 on the 2024 California ballot. Alpine county is deeply against the proposition. A sketched arrow points at the county with text: "What happens here?"
Neo: What are you trying to tell me, that you want to take my car away? Morpheus: no, Neo. I'm trying to tell you that when we're done, you won't need it.
Infographic comparing the width of thoroughfare needed to carry 50,000 people per hour: Cars: 175m Buses: 35m Metro: 9m