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Blog Archive
- • 2023 •
- On PhD advisory committees
- • 2022 •
- Fisher information (with a cat)
- Does science need statistical tests?
- Journal clubs, ranked from worst to best
- • 2021 •
- A gentle introduction to the Cramér-Rao lower bound (with a cat)
- A tutorial on t-SNE (3)
- How to teach yourself math
- • 2020 •
- The most important quality of a scientist
- Scientific models
- • 2019 •
- A tutorial on t-SNE (2)
- Focus on: the Kullback-Leibler divergence
- • 2018 •
- On open peer review
- A tutorial on t-SNE (1)
- Pro recruitment tip: ask your mum!
- The curse of large numbers (Big Data considered harmful)
- Interview with Miguel Beato
- • 2017 •
- A tutorial on Burrows-Wheeler indexing methods (3)
- A tutorial on Burrows-Wheeler indexing methods (2)
- When scientific models fail
- Against recruitment panel interviews
- Three lessons from peer coaching
- • 2016 •
- One or two tails?
- A tutorial on Burrows-Wheeler indexing methods (1)
- Did Mendel fake his results?
- How to teach research?
- • 2015 •
- ENCODE data, Principal Components and racism
- Stick breaking and DNA alignment
- Bayesian networks and causation
- What is bioinformatics about?
- Why do bioinformatics?
- If cars were made by bioinformaticians...
- • 2014 •
- Longest runs and DNA alignments
- Why Linux is awesome
- Nature on code sharing
- Bioinformatics without Excel
- A flurry of copycats on PubMed
- (Mis)using the KS test for p-hacking
- Shadow libraries
- Detecting trends in culture
- Once upon a BLAST
- June babies and bioinformatics
- How to write a cover letter
- Four illusions
- So you want to be a group leader
- Infinite expectations
- • 2013 •
- Who understands the histone code?
- The rise of epigenetics
- Meet planktonrules
- How to stop sucking and be awesome instead
- 100% non functional
- One shade of authorship attribution
- Genetics and racism (3)
- ... and academic reprints for all
- Genetics and racism (2)
- • 2012 •
- Genetics and racism (1)
- Unpredictable?
- Does the Earth have a mind?
- Is there a gene for alcoholism? (2)
- Lessons from Intelligent Design
- Let’s Disqus
- Focus on: multiple testing
- The most dangerous number
- Is there a gene for alcoholism? (1)
- The chaos and the doubt
- The autistic computer
- The geometry of style
- Are you human?
- The elements of style
- Did Sweden cheat at Eurovision?
- Lost in punctuation
- Poetry and optimality
- The fallacy of (in)dependence
- The reverend’s gambit
- Why p-values are crap
- The Brownian labyrinth
- Drunk man walking
- What’s in a title?
- I’m the boss!!