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BigTech

How to Stop Complaining and Improve a Web Service Yourself

How to streamline internal workflows without developer help by combining Tampermonkey, a bit of JavaScript, and a user-journey audit.

How to Move from Senior Analyst to Team Lead

A step-by-step checklist for moving from Senior Analyst to Team Lead: which skills to level up, how to earn trust, and where to find support along the way.

Biology

GMO in the Kitchen: My At-Home Experiment

GMO in the Kitchen: My At-Home Experiment

We tried to make grocery-store yeast glow green with a DIY biotech kit, documented every step, and learned a lot from an experiment that technically failed.

In silico Pathway Activation Network Decomposition Analysis (iPANDA) as a method for biomarker development

In silico Pathway Activation Network Decomposition Analysis (iPANDA) as a method for biomarker development

Nature Communications introduces the iPANDA algorithm, which denoises transcriptomic data and flags consistent pathway signatures that separate paclitaxel responders from non-responders across multiple breast cancer cohorts.

Learning

How I Learned Spanish from Scratch and Passed the Theory Exam: Frequency Analysis, Anki, and a Bit of AI in Three Months

How I Learned Spanish from Scratch and Passed the Theory Exam: Frequency Analysis, Anki, and a Bit of AI in Three Months

A three‑month, data‑driven pipeline to learn ~1,500 Spanish words from the driving‑theory domain using frequency analysis, spaCy, Anki, and a light touch of AI.