Programmerhumor Memes
In this post I’m going to try something a little bit different. I’m presenting at my alma matter this fall to talk about my research for Bristol Myers Squibb. As I’ve been reflecting on objective differences in project longevity, rigor, or collaborative style in preparation for some early-mid 20’s students,...
This article is geared for novice to intermediate users of OSX and Linux, perhaps a 20min read. Motivation At this point in your career, you may have your own hardware systems that you customize, optimize, and perhaps even maintain. It could be your laptop, your desktop dextop, or even that...
If Perl is Glorified Shell, Shell Scripts Are Dead. Long Live Shell Scripts For those of you who don't know me, I'm your typical beginner bioinformatician. I can script with a few languages but strongly prefer 1990s-2000s dynamically-typed languages like Ruby and Python and write algorithms when nothing else is...
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...
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?...
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...
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...