My Erdős Number

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My Erdős number is 4.

Famous HNers and Their Sites

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Class night: T-tests and Linear Regression

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We had our first class night, which was a lot of fun. I’ve been meaning to reread this blog post Common statistical tests are linear models (or: how to teach...

20 things I learned in my 20s

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I turned 30 recently and have always enjoyed Sam Altman’s The days are long but the decades are short post. I decided to write something similar. A few notes...

Get your First Git Contribution

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I had a friend transition from her PhD to industry recently, and she messaged me expressing some annoyance at learning git.

Softdroid Interview

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I got interviewed by a Russian tech news site recently, which isn’t something I ever expected to say. Kinda cool:

Frustrations

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ChuckSort

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The internet is pretty cool; right now I’m watching some Harvard lectures on advanced algorithms. This one’s about sorting.

A Retrospective of InPyBio-20

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I recently finished teaching my first virtual CodeStories class, Intermediate Python for Bioinformatics 2020 (InPyBio-20). The course was eight weeks long an...

Post to HN on Sundays for the most points.

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A quick analysis of when HN stories are posted.