gilesc
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Graduate student, bioinformatics, Univ. of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Machine learning, text mining, gene expression studies
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NLTK is great for _learning_ NLP, but Python is much too slow for scalable deep NLP (by which I mean tagging and parsing, as opposed to TF-IDF etc). Also parallelization can become a problem because of the GIL. It's a…
It's largely been supplanted by Ruby?
Like sports, instruments, and any other developed skill, there will be days you feel like it and days you don't. The key IMO is to pace yourself: don't overwork on days you feel like it, and force yourself to work --…
Maybe referring to this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657135
While they were still choosing targets that either "deserved" it for some moderately reasonable ideological reason (Sony) or should have top-notch security (FBI), yes. Now that they're choosing targets at random, no.…
Interesting that the author of the fake in-browser Finder apparently uses Dropbox.
Reads like a HOWTO for burnout.
Working on this, if anyone wants a corpus (positive examples from twssstories.com, negative from fmylife.com) https://gist.github.com/945614
In the US, PhD students in biology are paid tuition plus salary. So assuming his undergraduate student loans were subsidized, a PhD who decided to teach high school would not be in a much different financial position…
Well, first of all, a traditional student will be out by age 26-27 not 40. Secondly, PhD students in the sciences are paid. Not much, admittedly -- about $22k, on average -- but enough that you have positive cashflow.
Well, bioinformaticians are far from uniform in terms of language usage (my mentor staunchly defends his use of VB6, for instance...), but this link shows people using Python for structural bioinformatics as early as…
To be fair, there are also private research foundations and private sector companies -- i.e., drug or medical device companies that also hire biologists. You can also pivot somewhat easily into public health and work…
Ha! Thankfully, Perl seems to be mostly going out of favor in bioinformatics in favor of a Python / R combo.
I think this article is a bit sensationalist. Yes, there are niche techniques in biology, but many -- Western blots, qPCR, cell culture, transfection -- are transferable to almost any other biology lab. The article's…
This looks like a slightly better cake. After all, cake provides a persistent VM and you can run scripts with cake with !#/usr/bin/env cake. It's nice that it doesn't require ruby and has a few additional features like…
Although I also dislike .NET, it seems the primary complaint here about .NET is that it abstracts programmers too much away from the bare metal. But doesn't that apply equally to non-MS languages like Python and Ruby?…
see also: https://github.com/weavejester/clucy
It's a great idea technically, but I'm not sure whether you can sell a social networking app. Social networks are valuable in proportion to the number of users, and pay-for-access adds a huge barrier to growth. They…
Independence / self-direction. Searches google / manuals for answers instead of asking you every few seconds.
This is absolutely gorgeous. The only thing the standard RGui has on it is basic emacs/bash-ish keybindings (C-e, C-a, etc.) for navigation.
The best toolkits are probably in Java: -Stanford's Tagger, Parser, and NLP Core -Apache OpenNLP -Lingpipe Many smaller components are made to be compatible with IBM UIMA (of Watson fame), so they are able to be…
Oversimplifying things a bit, these writers are saying that scientific objectivity is impossible. This line of argument tends to reduce the credibility of science in the eyes of the public, with negative consequences…
I like and use it, but it's based on reverse-engineering Pandora's encryption keys, so every once in awhile (when Pandora changes the keys), it breaks the client, which is annoying.
If she ends up losing the data permanently, that will severely hamper her ability to apply for future grants (which usually require preliminary data), and lose funding. This offense is definitely self-punishing.
I'm a student at OUHSC, and her husband, Dr. Janknecht, is one of my professors. Although failing to make a backup is obviously stupid, he is an extremely competent researcher (I don't know her). Clearly, calling the…