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Managing Packages in R
I recently wanted to test out the newly released Seurat 5. However, once I was ready to switch back to Seurat v4, I ran into a great deal of difficulty trying to reinstall the required dependencies. If this has ever happened to you, or if you want to prevent such... Read more
Object Oriented Programming in R
In a recent project, I wanted to implement my own object class to simplify my code and make it more flexible. That’s when I realized that object-oriented programming in R can be unnecessarily complex. Therefore, in this blog post, I want to make it easy for you to get started.... Read more
Getting Started with R Scripting
The most important feature of scripting is its ability to reduce the amount of time it takes to accomplish a specific task. In the words of Uwe Ligges and popularized Patrick Burns’ R Inferno: Read more
Getting Started with Trading
I wrote this guide for the ultra-beginner, ie. me three years ago. This is the guide I wish I had before I dived head-first into the GameStop short-squeeze of early 2021. Prior to that, I had dabbled on-and-off unsuccessfully in my Robinhood account with no real strategy and lost quite... Read more
Image Classification using Tensorflow
As part of my application for Metis, I proposed a passion project that involved training a machine learning model to classify cells as dead or alive, then counting the number of alive and dead cells in an image. The reason I wanted to do this project is that while I... Read more