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The "personal" in personal genomics
I have a genome, you have a genome. We don’t know what it contains. Our understanding of how the genome works has limitations, but there are also a lot of really useful things that we do understand, or are able to predict once we know the ……
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My fungible laptop
Consider one of the following scenarios: you lost your laptop. Your laptop is stolen. You clumsily dropped it on a marble staircase. The battery exploded. The battery didn’t explode, but it got hot, produced smoke, and you had to inform a ……
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Private, persistent, virtual
Time to talk about something serious. I will concede that hosting a cross-platform Minecraft server on a Raspberry Pi might not be as essential as the access to drinking water or the right to education. However, I would argue that the access to a ……
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A Bayesian rant
Academic research is full of fuff, and sometimes peer-review fails in discriminating between trendy topics from actual, rigorously controlled science. Equally frustratingly, industry is also full of fuff, and public regulatory bodies sometimes fail ……
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The smallest unique subset
Slightly understating it, Dr. Iguaracy Pinheiro de Sousa knows a great deal about endothelial dysfunction. Apparently, because of this I entered in an algorithmic rabbit hole. It was a cool trip, overall. In a conversation I had with him last year, ……
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A game of trades
Long time no see. I was planning to write this post quite a long time ago, but life (happily) took over. Time’s ripe now, and if I don’t write it soon I might not be able to ever click Done on that reminder. Gamification of tasks is ……
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Spectorial
When I casually stumbled upon dnd5eapi, sweet nostalgia hit me. I immediatly had to write my little script to fetch D&D 5.0 edition rules from the terminal via queries to this RESTful API. Which, to be fair, I believe is quite a cool idea: my ……
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Sex emergence
Sex is arguably a great invention. It is, otherwise we could not acknowledge its existence across the tree of life: if sexual reproduction was not favoured by natural selection in at least some points in time and space, we would not observe it, this ……
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The beginning
Having recently started my PhD, I decided that keeping a personal blog to then look back at after many months or years was a nice thing to do. Time could prove me wrong - and this could happen embarassingly soon - but the curiosity to find out is ……