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My random thoughts on science, math, and occassionally the places and animals I encounter.
Are overfitted models useful?
A thought experiment on the utility of overfitted models in biological research. Read More
Is your company's computational biology deck unique?
Why do all the biotech companies have the same computational biology deck? Read More
Stop recommending single-cell RNA-seq, recommend bulk RNA-seq!
I have realized that people are fascinated with single-cell RNA-seq, but increasingly I would like to see us develop methods that augment bulk RNA-seq to allow us to get the same information at lower cost. Read More
Why I love PCA for AI
Some thoughts on why I think linear methods like PCA are more important than ever in an ML world Read More
Hyperparameter tuning and ChatGPT's first failure mode!
An exploration of hyperparameter tuning and prompt engineering with ChatGPT Read More
A toy Neural Network and an introduction to Tensorflow
I wanted to take a dive into companion coding using ChatGPT, so I asked it to help me write a blog post on an introduction to ML methods in python, specifically, I wanted to build a Neural Network using tensorflow to analyze a toy dataset (I even let Chat pick the dataset!). Read More