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by michaelbarton 14y ago
I am the original author. Thank you for writing this. I wish I had known this six years ago. I am coming to the end of my first post doc and I wish I had just done the minimum work to get it published. I could have then used the extra free
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by michaelbarton 14y ago
I am the author of this post. I don't disagree with anything you wrote. Several posts on my blog say exactly this. The software I wrote however is open source on github [1], has it's own website [2], has man pages for each command [3], exam
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by michaelbarton 14y ago
I strongly agree with your statement. I am the author of the original post. I removed a sentence stating that job search committees care about the number of publications and citations more than they do about if your software is well documen
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by michaelbarton 14y ago
I have a feeling that there is great deal of buggy software in biology. Taking non-scientific software for example such as Rails, if there is a bug this becomes obvious a page is loaded incorrectly or a model is pulled incorrectly from the
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What's the point of writing good scientific software?(bioinformaticszen.com)
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by michaelbarton 14y ago
> believes in and fears anthropogenic global warming It's a bit frustrating to see the term 'believe' used with respect to global warming. Global warming has been described using sound science and 99% of climate scientists agree on this
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by michaelbarton 15y ago
I think part of the point abeppu is making is whether or not the two the statistics for each advertisment type are different. You see a difference of a 0.02% CTR but is that significant? An analogy (from an interesting post I can't find) is
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by michaelbarton 15y ago
I agree with your point, however I would like to highlight your use of confidence intervals: "If two statistics have non-overlapping confidence intervals, they are necessarily significantly different but if they have overlapping confidence
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by michaelbarton 15y ago
Many bioinformaticians come from either biology or CS so this is a common question. In general if you are from CS you have to learn the biology, and if you are from biology you will have to learn to program. Both types will also usually hav
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by michaelbarton 15y ago
I see what you mean about it being "all over the place" first they discuss a great product alone is not enough but then instead talk about plans and ideas rather than prototypes/implementations. I've never started a business so my naive vie
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by michaelbarton 15y ago
Does the first point match your experience? I feel like VC emphasises getting a great product ready first over everything else.
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Ten Simple Rules for Starting a Company [PLoS Computational Biology](ploscompbiol.org)
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Simple functional programming in R(bioinformaticszen.com)
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by michaelbarton 15y ago
After the reading 'the power of less' I trimmed the number of feeds in Google Reader down to 10 + comment feeds for my own sites. If I find a new feed I want to subscribe to I have to choose another to remove in its place. For instance inst
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by michaelbarton 15y ago
I think comfort can be provided in some measure by having savings or at least being dept-free. Also being relatively employable, should things go bad, may also provide a degree of security. Perhaps certainty is the only thing that can't be
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by michaelbarton 15y ago
That would be great. I was disappointed when the AI class didn't have programming exercises. I feel like these were the part that really enforced the learning for me. I think another part that worked well was that getting 100% for each exer
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by michaelbarton 15y ago
Join all the ones you're interested in then drop the least interesting classes. I joined the ML and AI class this year then focused on the ML class because the octave exercises are a great way to learn. The probabilistic graphical models lo
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Thoughts on presenting software as a poster at a conference.(bioinformaticszen.com)
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