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Not Very Humerus

Open-source bioinformatics blog

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Magika A Sword Art Fanfiction

08 Sep 2019   By Matt Ralston

Officially, magic was a forbidden component of Sword Art. Magical skills, item stats, criticals, and ability leveling may have elements beyond the typical diagnostic expertise of the players. Yet, enchanted items, durability, and other components of the material realm of Sword Art have mechanics of randomness, high-level crafting, beyond the...

MISC

Second Shift Domestic Egalitarianism

23 Oct 2019   By Matt Ralston

Review notes These are some notes I jotted down while reading a study from Psychological Science linked by /r/science Reddit at 2.3k updoots. This article had a somewhat clearer design and premise than a more popular post (8.8k currently) this morning in the same subreddit. PDF to the former article...

MISC.

New Site Design

12 Feb 2020   By Matt Ralston

Welcome! Welcome to the new website, I’ve recently merged my blog Not Very Humerus with my static homepage. The point of this blog post is to introduce the reader to my experience theming with Jekyll and specifically the Bulma clean theme. The best part of re-theming was the essential plug-and-play...

Benchmarking Python Clis

16 Feb 2020   By Matt Ralston

What is benchmarking and why do it? Benchmarking your codebase can be a daunting challenge. If you’re like me, you tend to build large monolithic scripts, occassionally a poorly planned module, and testing suite towards the end of the development process. To add to the challenge, optimization is the root...

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Coding

#meta #prose #beginner #sysadmin

Data Science Workstation Build

22 Apr 2021   By Matt Ralston

In this blog post we’ll be reviewing the essentials of a mature workstation build, in this case, for graduate school. We begin with a look...

Science

#meta #prose #education #beginner

How Do I Become A Bioinformatician

05 Sep 2020   By Matt Ralston

I see plenty of posts on /r/bioinformatics of students or mid-career professionals asking what it takes to become a bioinformatician. What skills should I have?...

Coding

#python #beginner #noob

Sorting Out Modules In Python

26 Feb 2020   By Matt Ralston

Oh yeah, it’s all coming together If you’re comfortable with the differences between dictionaries and modules, skip ahead to the section about modules where I...

Science

#meta #prose #education #beginner

Data Engineers Vs Data Scientists

16 Feb 2020   By Matt Ralston

Introduction Big data is a meme, but there is a dichotomy worth discussing in the emerging interdisciplinary fields involving computer science. There is a choice...