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Disable non-portable compiler flags with ~/.R/Makevars
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R CMD checkcomplains about non-portable compiler settings. To overcome such warning messages, setup a~/.R/Makevarsfile with the following content. -
Talk at *Insight China*
Insight China is an international student project organised by students for students who are interested in China. They are organizing a trip to China for dozens of students. An amazing organisation and a great project in my opinion!
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Molecular Phenotyping in Drug Discovery
Molecular Phenotyping characterizes drug candidates by profiling pathway reporter genes, i.e. pre-selected genes that are modulated specifically by human metabolic and signaling pathways, in cellular systems in order to infer drug-induced modulation of these pathways, which may predict late-onset phenotype in vitro and in vivo.
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On The Process of Becoming A Great Scientist
I found this article, On the Process of Becoming a Great Scientist, published by Morgan C. Giddings on the journal PLOS Computational Biology in almost exactly ten years ago (2008), highly readable and enjoyable.
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Machine Learning with CatBoost
Recently, during a hackathon event with my colleagues Iakov Davydov and Rudolf Biczok, I learned CatBoost, an open-source library of gradient boosting on decision trees, which is particular friendly with categorical features. Users do not need to pre-process categorical features and can directly start inference, which the authors argue is both fast and accurate.