Resources to become a computational biologist outside of academia

A shortlist

Choosing someone to be your teacher is to bestow a great honor — you are giving them your time, which has a high opportunity cost, and your trust. I trust my teachers to…

Symbolic vs hard link vs copy vs move

And when to use each

File Systems: symlink vs hard link, move vs copy

When a file is made (and saved) to a computer, information that makes it a file exists as a minimum of three things: (1) its…

Train a cnn with the fastai library

Note: This is a draft in progress, but I thought it would be…

Jupyter Notebook extensions and embedding a gist

Get the JN gist extension & embed a gist in a medium blog

(Last updated October 19, 2018)

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Where to start? On the path to become a bioinformatician / computational biologist

TLDR: Choose a language, choose an IDE, make sure you are on the right path, and join nurturing communities

Why I decided to pursue bioinformatics and start a blog

Hello World,

After years of collaborating with amazing bioinformaticians and wishing they had more time to spend on our project, I decided that the only way to make it happen was to become a bioinformatician…

Slack Workspaces for Data Science

Need help? Ask your community & pay it forward

I haven’t yet posted to stack overflow, but when I do, my plan is to ask a few specific people or groups to look at my post and try to help me. Where do I find these people? From networking and…

My weekly/monthly MeetUp routine

My weekly MeetUps:

My MeetUp Routine

My weekly MeetUps

Tuesdays, 11am–6pm: freeCodeCamp @ Noisebridge

How to help improve fastai

Even if you are a beginner