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Python is not a great language for data science. Part 2: Language features

Python is not a great language for data science. Part 1: The experience

LLMs excel at programming—how can they be so bad at it?

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Random seeds and brown M&Ms

If your random seed is 42 I will come to your office and set your computer on fire🔥

Most graduate students propose to do too much

We still can’t predict much of anything in biology

How to write an NSF GRFP research plan

How to write an NSF GRFP personal statement

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Have you ever seen a man with whiskers?

Executive function revisited

How do bicycles work?

Teaching data visualization in the time of generative AI

What is executive function?

3D-printed houses are a disappointment

PhD-level abilities and character traits

Move over Strunk and White

Getting a PhD is not easy

Slides that present themselves: The assertion–evidence approach

Are AI papers now written by AI?

A paragraph is longer than a sentence

When should you stop doing science and start writing a paper?

"I asked the AI" is not research

NIH-funded researchers can't catch a break

No replication crisis in fruit-fly immune system research

Limitations of protein language models applied to viral data

Read out all of the text on your slides

No one reads your paper anyway

No, AlphaFold has not completely solved protein folding

PhD-level intelligence or the graduate student from hell

Practice the presentation speedrun

What's in a name

Large university endowments encourage high tuition costs

Nobody understands university finances

Are we overproducing PhD students?