On a sunny afternoon in July of 2008, I decided to join other residents of Tang Hall to a building barbecue. This seemed like a great opportunity to get some free food and meet some interesting people. But it was far more than that. It was probably the most marking moment of my stay as a visiting graduate student at MIT. Before I get into that moment...

It’s saturday night again and while baby is sleeping and I’m not in the mood for coding or reading, I decided to finish up these graphics and share. So, here is a set of 9 differently coloured test tubes I recently created. The zip file has all 9 colourful transparent background PNGs. Let me know what you think and feel free to make suggestions for...

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here. I blame it on Twitter (or just laziness). Anyhow, I stopped coding a bit this Saturday night and decided to fool around with some graphics tools. I wanted a new wallpaper for my shiny new macbook pro retina display and couldn’t find anything I liked so I decided to make something myself. So here is...

Over the last few months I’ve been spending more and more time with R. Not only R but also Bioconductor packages which allow me to easily work with the massive data contained within the microarrays I’m currently looking at. As this is my first post about R, statistics and Bioconductor, I won’t go over the various things I believe should change within...

Accessing the web from a smartphone is great but feels confined. For roughly 10 days, while on Christmas holidays, I was limited (sort of) to my smartphone for email and web access. This is all good and fine for things that have specific apps such as Twitter, Facebook and other popular websites. However, the web is far more than a collection of apps....

Warning: I’m going to get a little meta here. Not a usual thing for me but here it goes, nonetheless. One of these weekends, I was trolling around the interwebs and came across a post by someone with a hypothetical (far-fetched) question along the lines of: “What would you do if you suddenly discovered that you could not die?” Quite immediately the...