End of Year Review (Part II)
It's rarely fun to admit your failures, but here's a list of things I didn't mange to pull off in 2015. What are the goals and milestones you missed in 2...
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End of Year Review (Part I)
My PI has requested that we answer a few questions as a reflection of the past year and as a mental preparation for the coming year. I figured it would be wo...
Teach Your Fourth Grader Python (Make a Game)
Welcome to the second post on introducing your child to Python! You should have Anaconda (or another version of Python) installed on your computer before con...
Teach Your Fourth Grader Python (Installing Anaconda)
It’s really never too early to start teaching your child to code. You may think, “What’s the point of teaching my kid to code so long before they have any id...
Calculating a Pearson Correlation Matrix
One of the great things about graduate school is you get to constantly realize how ignorant you are about how things work. If the domain name weren’t al...
Bot Battle
For those of you who don’t program, it may be hard to understand just how slow a process it usually is. Movies and other media don’t help this misunderstandi...
The Perceptron
Today in lab meeting, during our bi-weekly “Idea Potluck”, I dropped the ball while explaining how perceptrons work. We were running short on time, so I rush...
Bioinformatics Software
This isn't a long post, but I read something interesting the other day and wanted to repost it. First, here's the link to the blog: http://www.bioinf...
Excision Walkthrough
I take things too seriously sometimes. As far as I’m aware, I’ve always been like that. When I was a kid, I knew, deep down, that walkthroughs were bad. Mayb...
Excision Winner Announcement
Congratulations to Ankur Sundara for being the first person to complete Excision! For his dedication and problem-solving abilities, he’s won the first place ...