On professionalism
I'm a huge fan of Conan O'Brien; there's just something about his demeanour, humour, and wittiness that I admire. I discovered him on YouTube around 2012 and was quite oblivious to who he was, what...
Closing my tabs (Aug 29, 2025)
RAND corp AIxBio report, AI accelerating: GPT-4b for stem cell reprogramming; AI is slowing down; UVA SDS on Bluesky; LLMs and education; Python needs R's CRAN; learning R+Python together...
Reproducible Computing in Bioinformatics: Lessons from My Latest Talk
Hey everyone, it’s Tommy here. If you’ve been following my blog or my Twitter/X (@tangming2005), you know I love diving into the practical side of bioinformatics and g...
Hosting your own Git repositories
As you may have already heard, GitHub just got less independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation. What does this mean? Well, I guess nobody knows for certain but it probably will mean that GitHub...
Job search 2025 post-mortem and advice
The comp bio job market is scarier than usual: 2023 was a biotech bankruptcy bloodbath, 2024 was a little better, and as far as layoffs, 2025 has been worse. Academic and government sectors are also r...
How long does it take to run gpt-oss:20b?
gpt-oss is OpenAI's open-weight models designed for powerful reasoning, agentic tasks, and versatile developer use cases. You can easily use it via Ollama and read more about it in their blog post....
10X Scoops Scale
News broke this afternoon that microfluidics single cell genomics leader 10X Genomics ...
Announcing taxburst, an update of the Krona software for taxonomy exploration
Announcing taxburst for metagenome taxonomy!
...Crashing Excel to Curing Cancer: How AI and Open Science Transformed One Scientist’s Path
We’re bringing a podcast to the conversation: AI on the Hill — and our very first episode is now live!
In this show, host René Bastón sits down with 🎯 Ming “Tommy” Tang, a first...
Panel discussion: From Physics-Based Modeling to AI-driven Drug Discovery
