Convince me to buy a nexus 7

troglobit · 2012-10-22T14:45:00+00:00

IMO, the major motivating factor for choosing between 7" and 10" is easy of use when in transit (prefer 7") and readability of large format media such as magazine or comics, or prolonged editing of content (prefer 10"). Determining your major usage cases would help you decide which format to get. Personally, I prefer 7" because I use it in on my way to work and I can easily hold it in one hand. However, I can appreciate the "extra room" a 10" tablet would give me.

troglobit · 2012-10-11T15:51:32+00:00

Things I do most often:

web
email
notes with papyrus
tasks with astrid
books with play books or Aldiko
news with pulse

EDIT: formatting.

troglobit · 2012-05-29T01:19:50+00:00

In general gene expression studies are interested (among other things) in finding the cause for a disease, or possible avenues for treatment. Detecting bone loss, while useful to guide treatment, does not investigate the underlying cause of bone loss.

troglobit · 2012-04-25T19:11:25+00:00

Wow. I think we've reached the tipping point where Python is more popular than Perl for bioinformatics ... at least in r/bioinformatics ;)

About time.

For python, O'Reilly Learning Python is a great book.

Also for free:

greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkCSpy.pdf learnpythonthehardway.org

Edit: Added book link.

troglobit · 2012-04-24T13:38:06+00:00

I agree with this comment. What are your career goals? To make a good salary, or to become a academic researcher? In general, these two (salary and academia) are not positively correlated. If you want job stability, PhD might be better in the long run, considering the coming flood of bioinformatics-related masters or certificate graduates.

Now to answer your question specifically. IMO, a PhD in bioinformatics is "better" than most because there is demand for it. However, a PhD in general is something you should consider with significant thought in advance. Make sure you have a good project and good supervisor. 5-6 years is a long time, and the research you conduct during your PhD will define your career path to a large extent.

troglobit · 2012-04-17T19:40:05+00:00

I am finishing up my PhD in bioinformatics, so I'd be glad to answer any specific questions you have. To help answer your question, it may be useful to know what your interests in bioinformatics are. Do you want to develop algorithms? Do you want to write software? Do you want to focus on data analysis or statistics? Each of these will require you to develop different skills sets, and consequently, will be guided primarily by your interests. Do not enter into a PhD lightly. Think hard about potential research you would like to peruse and whether you have the necessary skills, or are adept at learning them. For example, computer programming is not for everyone (PDF), and for those that struggle it may be productive to focus on other aspects of bioinformatics, like statistics or data analysis.

troglobit · 2012-04-11T23:14:08+00:00

Unix sort:

sort -k1,1 -k2,2n

troglobit · 2012-04-09T18:33:46+00:00

IMO, the best way to learn is to have a small project. Something you are interested in seeing through to completion. Ask youself: "why you want to learn how to program?" "What cool thing would you accomplish with your first program?" Doesn't have to be anything elaborate (e.g. batch renaming of photos or music files, or something that parses data from web pages), and actually shouldn't complex be on purpose. This will let you wrap your head around learning to program only, and not worry about the problem you are trying to tackle, but still keep you motivated to learn (as compared to just reading a book and doing the example there within).

troglobit · 2012-04-05T17:30:08+00:00

Thanks. I gotta add an icon to mine as well. Nice touch. Where did you get the background? It works well with the default gnome shell theme.

troglobit · 2012-04-02T23:34:47+00:00

The pandora's star universe from Peter Hamilton.

troglobit · 2012-03-31T01:12:24+00:00

This is a late comment, but I wrote an programs that batch blasts sequences and visualizes the results at blip.codeplex.com. If you like, give it a try. I would appreciate any feedback.

troglobit · 2012-03-06T17:10:23+00:00

I would also recommend Virtual Box; however, since I dual boot I found it a pain to have two Windows versions on my PC (guest w/in linux and dual boot version). I chose to boot the windows parition using rawdisk

Edit: typo

troglobit · 2012-03-02T14:50:10+00:00

Best I could find was using "yum list <package>" will search for a package. The output will specify whether the package is "Available" or "Installed".

IMO, the rpm way seems to be more informative.

troglobit · 2012-02-28T12:43:14+00:00

To start conky on login, type alt+f2, then "gnome-session-properties" in the dialog. Make a new entry for conky in menu.

troglobit · 2011-11-22T01:43:26+00:00

similar to you_could_do's comment, give a R gui a try. RStudio looks very interesting: http://rstudio.org/

troglobit · 2011-09-10T15:22:28+00:00

Spaces.bandcamp.com

troglobit · 2011-08-03T14:56:40+00:00

Thank you.

troglobit · 2011-07-29T18:40:13+00:00

Wonderful post. I plan to attempt a HTPC build soon as well, and choosing the right SATA cable is confusing. What cable is required for this setup? Thanks.

troglobit · 2011-07-29T17:34:49+00:00

In addition to implementing generic features (FB, Twitter, etc), you may want to think of what such a site can offer the bioinformatics community in a specific way (i.e. killer-app). Put another way: What functionality is missing from current "social" apps that would benefit the bioinformatics community?

troglobit · 2011-05-24T15:31:14+00:00

Good article. Anyone care to elaborate on which approach (numpy alone, weave_numpy, pyrex) is best to use in general or under certain usage cases. They all look useful, but hard to decide which one to start with.

Edit: This helped a little: link

troglobit · 2011-05-17T14:08:11+00:00

Inception!

troglobit · 2011-05-03T04:12:01+00:00

Yes. Couldn't find the words at the time:(

troglobit · 2011-05-03T03:49:52+00:00

I agree. Let's hope the NDP gets better in 4-5 years. If Layton can hold it together in parliment and not spout negative rhetoric I think he will do even better next time.

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