posts – Learning with sckinta

bitBites (2026-02-11): Codex demo, AlphaGenome

bitBite

dplyr column recording: extension of case_when with cleaner coding.

bitBites (2026-02-04): R AI tool tutorials, single cell research and a spatial signal correction tool

bitBite

This week’s recap spans new project-based tutorials in the R AI ecosystem, reflections on how coding agents reshape learning, and recent advances in computational biology. I…

bitBites (2026-01-28): Posit Recap, EcoTyper and H&E to proteomics

bitBite

This week we will recap Posit summary of 2025, Claude-assisted refactoring stories, a few bioinformatics relevant new R packages, and some exciting work predicting spatial…

bitBites (2026-01-21): TMLE, Claude skills, Stack

bitBite

Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation (TMLE) is a semiparametric causal inference method for estimating the average treatment effect (ATE). It yield consistent ATE…

bitBites (2026-01-14): single-cell for drug development and clinical translation, R+Python polyglot, claude code

bitBite

In this week’s bitBits, I will highlight recent advances in using single-cell transcriptomics for drug prioritization and clinical translation, including frameworks like…

bitBites (2026-01-07): R stats, LLM prompts and update, Virtual cell

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R Package Development Advent Calendar 2025 by Athanasia Mo Mowinckel offers a comprehensive journey through R package development. Even with prior experience, I still…

bitBites (2026-01-01): LLM shiny, Advert of Agent, FOCUS, Scalable Perturb-seq

bitBite

Inspired by Stephen Turner¹ ’s weekly recap series, I’m starting a series called bitBites to regularly review what I read and learn. This is part of my New Year’s…

Python Environment Manager - uv

Python

Bash

As a computational biologist, I have relied on conda for Python package management for over a decade. This is largely because most bioinformatics packages and software are…

Buy low sell high on big tech stocks?

R

tidyTuesday

I am interested in Big Tech Stock Prices since I personally hold several big Tech stocks and experienced bloody plummeting in the last year. As an amateur investor, I have…

Understanding survival analysis - part 1

statistics

R

bioinformatics

I have been performing survival analysis for a while. Although I can create standard survival curves and summarize hypothesis testing tables, I have never really UNDERSTOOD i…