Every person has their own style of traveling reflecting their interests, prioritize, budget, and physical abilities/limitations. I’ve had the privilege to travel quite a lot during the last five years, usually by extending work trips by a few days but sometimes just for pure pleasure.

Imagine that you really want to go camping in any of the more popular National Parks here in the US, but there’s fierce competition to get the spots, what do you do to get an edge? You obviously write a bot to beat the other people to it.

A brief discussion about the naming convention of the observations in spatial transcriptomics.

An excerpt from the Epilogue of my PhD thesis. These are the lessons I’ve learnt, the predictions I have, and the hopes I harbor.

t-SNE is one of the most commonly used methods for dimensionality reduction in RNA-seq analysis, yet few people know how it actually works. Here we’ll walk through the original t-SNE paper by van der Maaten and Hinton; looking at the motivation behind it, the mathematics that fuel its power, and how to interpret its hyperparameters.