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Not Very Humerus

Open-source bioinformatics blog

Code Syntax

01 Mar 2015   By Matt Ralston

Popovers Code blocks To insert highlight code inside of a post, it’s enough to use some specific tags, has directly described into the Jekyll documentation. In this way the code will be included into a .highlight CSS class and will be highlight according to the syntax.scss file. This is the...

Hello World

17 Mar 2018   By Matt Ralston

Hello world, I am building my first blog for science and technical topics called Not Very Humerus (NVH). I’ll be adding periodically to this collection and focusing on the technical side of my journey for a bit. I’ll try to proceed chronologically with some retrospectives at the beginning of the...

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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...