Choosing a good code editor for science — If an artist is only as good as their tools, then I spent years finger-painting, followed by years getting hand cramps from paint-brushes I couldn’t figure out how to hold correctly. When I was in High School, I used to write HTML in Notepad. Then my friend showed me Notepad++…

(is there any other type of scientist?) — Although there are many Python tutorials for beginners and scientists, there aren’t any that guide a fledgling Scientific Pythonista through the wide range of Python features and tools. After you’ve mastered functions and familiarized yourself with classes, where do you go from here? This is a common story among scientists…

CB Insights (a leading tech and startup publication) has included ProteinQure as a top AI company in the Healthcare space for 2020. We thought we could celebrate by highlighting some of the methods that ProteinQure has used to help generate novel proteins for therapeutic purposes. The field of Machine Learning…

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A much better version of this post is on my new blog. The text below is kept for posterity. When I was first getting interested in Cognitive Science, I started reading “How to Build a Brain” by Chris Eliasmith. By the end of it, I truly felt biologically plausible modelling…

Why it’s worth answering your own questions in public — There’s a much better version of this post on my new website. The text below is kept for posterity. The next time you have to figure something out, to make sure you understand it, leave a question/answer pair on the relevant StackExchange. Why? I’LL TELL YOU WHY! You’re helping yourself the most You take notes…

[epistemic status: poorly written, potentially missing the point and desperately in need of some figures] Today I found a lab’s blog that explained everything using only the 1000 most common words in the English language in the manner popularised by XKCD. I thought I would try to do it for…

No one wants to read a series of blog posts about the various tools I use on a daily basis and how I feel about them. But maybe someone wants to read one blog post? Here it is in one place. Love Bandcamp You let me buy and download music for…