I'm only putting this here because I will have to refer to it repeatedly in the future. There is no way I'll memorise this.
One of the most enduring ways to present software tools is through command line interfaces (CLIs). They are the bread-and-butter of most scientific computing and core software tools such as Git are built around them. CLIs have, over the years, converged on a pseudogrammatical style consisting of the following components: …
When Claude Shannon came up with his treatise on information theory, the one thing that was absent from his mind was the notion of semantic information. Information, he surmised, is in the eye of the beholder. The resulting technological revolution has always been grounded on these presuppositions: the utility of …
"By information I mean the specification of the amino acid sequence in the protein... Information means here the precise determination of sequence, either of bases in the nucleic acid or in amino acid residues in the protein."- Francis CrickYesterday, I got hit by a bus. A big, fat, …
When we talk about data, we have in mind the raw digital representation associated with one or more events. This we must distinguish from knowledge itself and information, which I will not attempt to define here.There are three main types of data:Media.Measurements.Sequences.The type of data …
Data science has become such a promiment field that it is almost impossible to get an answer that resonates across multiple sources. Typically, there will be a mention of statistics, data, coding, machine learning and, quite often, AI but occasionally sources toss in 'scientific computing' and 'the …