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When biology got too big for statistics - why genomics needed machine learning

Tracing the path from early AI dreams to modern genomic applications - why biology needed machine learning, and what it took to get here

13 January 2026

Supervised learning: teaching algorithms to learn from example

Unpacking the mathematics behind supervised learning - from linear regression to gradient descent to avoiding the common pitfalls

22 August 2025

Unsupervised learning: finding patterns without labels

An introduction to clustering methods in biological data analysis

29 July 2025

Understanding neural networks without the math (yet)

A gentle introduction to deep learning and where it fits in the machine learning landscape

28 June 2025

Version control with Git: from zero to hero

A practical guide to version control - why you need it, how to use it, and what’s actually happening under the hood

04 May 2025

Building a Personal Academic Site with Quarto

How I set up this blog using Quarto and a custom theme—and why you might want to do the same

20 April 2025

Getting started with the CHPC: a practical guide

A bare-bones guide to getting up and running on South Africa’s Centre for High Performance Computing

04 March 2025

A deep dive into PCA for biological data

A comprehensive walkthrough of Principal Component Analysis from theory to implementation in R

22 February 2025

WSL for Bioinformatics: Setting Up a Functional (and Pretty) Environment

A practical guide to setting up Windows Subsystem for Linux for bioinformatics work—from installation to prettification

28 January 2025
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