daniel@blog

  • Funding Open Source Bioinformatics Software

    We need sustainable ways to fund quality open source bioinformatics software. I’m not really sure what’s the best solution (funding model), so I’ll try to review some of what’s currently happening in the field. I will mainly focus on genomics and biological sequence analysis software since I’m most familiar with...

  • One Weird Trick for Getting into CS Research Roles!

    I’ve found the following method to somewhat work when applying to CS research teams. Try to get in touch with someone on the team. Very often, just applying online is not enough. Use prior connections for this. It’s the easiest if you have worked in a similar area as the...

  • So you want to do some scientific research as a high school student?

    It is difficult to get started doing research as a high school student without any existing connections with companies or university labs. Therefore, I have compiled a list of notable activities, programs, and awards that I have heard of. Obviously, I have not included every possible opportunity, but these should...

  • The birth of a new sub-sub-field: adversarial attacks on 3D point sets

    An interesting phenomenon with neural networks is that it is incredibly easy to perturb or change the input by a little amount, and cause the network to make a completely different prediction. In general, this field of adversarial machine learning contains two main problems that everyone is slowly chipping away...

  • Coming up with new research ideas

    This post contains some notes on methods for obtaining research ideas, so I can remember to apply them when I am stuck. I believe that working efficiently is more important than blindly throwing time at a project. For my research work, I spend a lot more time thinking instead of...