Directional markers in R/leaflet
So you have used the excellent exiftool to extract all of the GPS-related information from a directory of photos in JPG format and write to a CSV file: You’ve used R/leaflet to plot coordinates ...
Yes, you can use a single stick of DDR5 for bioinformatics and data analysis
<h4 style="text-align: left;">INTRO</h4><p>DRAM prices skyrocketed 171% in 2025 [<a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/dram-prices-surge-171-percent-year-over-year-ai-demand-drives-...
How to fix a broken towel radiator
<p>In a first for this blog – as a lame attempt to counter the increasing amount of dross when you google simple household tasks, and for my own reference – here’s a post with some D...
Video games in 2025: puzzles galore
<p>I played more games this year, particularly puzzle games. I also just bought a Switch 2, which seems good so far (nice screen).</p> <h1 id="puzzle-games">Puzzle games</h1> <h2 id="blue-prince"><em>...
Brief thoughts on: iNaturalist
Let me say first: I was wrong! My profile shows that I created my account at iNaturalist in August 2008, the year that the site was launched. I created a lot of accounts in those days. At the time, th...
We predict that the transcript abundance from the gene we are knocking down will (checks notes) decrease
The problem with gene-wise characterization of genetic interventions...
Mean squared error for estimates of differential expression
Bias-variance tradeoffs for virtual cell evals are weird...
Thoughts on generative AI contributions as an Open Source project maintainer
<p>To be clear up front, these are my personal opinions right now, and while they will influence any future policy I have a hand in writing, they are not the position of the Biopython Project or the O...
Making a map of the locations where bacterial isolates were collected
<p> I wanted to make a map of the locations in the world were some bacterial isolates were collected. I found a <a href="https://r-spatial.org/r/2018/10/25/ggplot2-sf.html">nice website</a>&...
Using R/anomalize to identify delays in games of Australian Rules football
In which we generate a dataset of game durations, do a little exploratory data analysis and then try to identify unusual instances and their causes. In my Twitter-whinge-post, I mentioned that one of ...