October 13, 2018 open-source
When looking for a project to which you’d like to contribute, there are two major aspects you may want to consider. One is the way it’s released and managed, and the other is the community...
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October 09, 2018 open-source
I’ve been a fan of open source software for a long time. However, up until recently, I wasn’t seriously contributing to any specific project; but why would you want to contribute to an open source...
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December 06, 2017 healthcare
Background¶ A weekend in October (15-17.10.2017), on the side of the 9th World Health Summit (WHS) I attended a hackathon called Hacking Global Health. We were nearly 40 people, in about 20 teams,...
Read moreOctober 05, 2017 ethics
I’d like to talk about this study: Deep neural networks are more accurate than humans at detecting sexual orientation from facial images, and it’s not going to be a praise of the research!...
Read moreApril 18, 2017 science
Although the context of this post is bioinformatics and cancer, it applies to many other fields as well. I’ve had this idea for a while, and this an effort to make it more concrete. In this post,...
Read moreApril 16, 2017 science
Reproducibility (in science)¶ It’s almost not a word, to the extent that as far as I know it’s only used in the context of science, and it has its own Wikipedia page. In simple terms, a scientific...
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April 02, 2017 machine-learning
Hackathon¶ To me, a hackathon is when a group of people gather for a day or two, working for a somewhat common goal, develop, have fun, meet new people, and to home. Unfortunately for whatever...
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October 06, 2016 machine-learning
Problem description:¶ This work was done in Mister Spex GmbH, and slides of a presentation I gave at PyData meetup are available now here. There is a website, in this case an e-shop, and we have...
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September 01, 2015 ethics
I was reading this article on the ethics of editing human genome and I realized there’s a missing point in there. CRISPR in short is a technology that allows us to edit our own genome. Of course...
Read moreAugust 07, 2015 sysadmin
After quite a few days struggling to configure a Zimbra server so that it automatically fetches users from our freeIPA (LDAP) server, I finally managed to have a configuration which works. I got...
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