How to Write an NCI Early K99/R00 in Less than Two Months: A Survival Guide
The correct longer title should include “while teaching a course for the first time, submitting a paper, applying for a green card, and dealing with chronic ...
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2018
Switching to Trello
I recently gave the Trello another try and was impressed.
The Miracle of Fresh Eyes
I’ve been working on an interesting high dimensional statistics problem 1 for which we needed to prove the usual Restricted Eigenvalue (RE) condition and stu...
Elastic Net: An Intuitive Explanation
Elastic net is a proper tool when we have lots of correlated features in regression.
Staticman vs. Disqus
On several rounds of effort, I tried to use Staticman as the comment manager service for this blog. I failed and finally gave up trying and fall back to Disq...
Introducing Jekyll-Scholar
Jekyll-Scholar is formatting references and citations on Jekyll blogs and “formats your bibliographies and reading lists for the web and gives your blog post...
The Curious Case of Ibrutinib-resistant CLL: Does Reverse-Mutations Exist? - Part I
The question is, can mutations vanish themselves? We discussed an applied example of CLL treatment with Ibrutinib.
Indexing with Factors
I spent a cycle figuring out, how R treats factors as an index.
Setting up KaTex for Jekyll
KaTex, the fastest library for displaying math on browsers, gradually increased its supported latex functions and is passing its rival MathJax.
Introducing Pandoc
I was trying to figure out a way to write math heavy blog posts where I found Pandoc.
Merging Data Frames in R by Row Names
I was trying to read in different features for a cell line, e.g., mutations and expression from separate files and reduce them to a single design matrix.
Indexing Data Frames in R
R provides many methods for indexing. Coming from other languages, it takes time to get comfortable with indexing in R.