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Guillaume Filion
Personal blog · blog.thegrandlocus.comsciencedata
Guillaume Filion writes The Grand Locus, a personal blog at blog.thegrandlocus.com about science and data. Since 2014, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “A Flurry of Copycats on PubMed”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on mathematical biology and statistics, such as its Burrows-Wheeler transform series and an analysis of whether Mendel's seed data was too perfect.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Guillaume Filion's blog | The Grand Locus - Life for Statistical Sciences
Most-linked posts?
- A Flurry of Copycats on PubMed2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-10-08
- Did Mendel fake his results?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-06-28
What Hacker News says?
For biologists reading this, I recommend the following series from a mathematical biologist in Spain (maybe Toronto by now): http://blog.thegrandlocus.com/tag/burrows-wheeler-transform
Comment linking /tag/burrows-wheeler-transform
on “Burrows–Wheeler Transform”Submitted A Flurry of Copycats on PubMed as a story · 31 points
HN discussionYep, a somewhat related example is how statistical analysis of Mendel's seed data [1] revealed that some bias crept in because its too perfect. In Mendel's case he was right about the genetics of inheritance (and the bias likely unconscious), which goes to show even when we're dedicated to the truth our capacity for self-deception exists. [1] http://blog.thegrandlocus.com/2016/04/did-mendel-fake-his-re...
Comment linking /2016/04/did-mendel-fake-his-results
on “Has a remote Amazonian tribe upended our understanding of language? (2007)”Submitted Is the scientific paper fraudulent? (1964) [pdf] as a story · 26 points
HN discussionThe linked original research into textual similarity[1] offers more compelling examples than those in the Scientific American article (which could plausibly be the innocent consequence of researchers diligently following a Chinese language "how to structure a publishable meta analysis study" guide and incorporating a few turns of phrase from the example papers) Especially, the use of a definition copied verbatim fro…
Comment linking /2014/10/a-flurry-of-copycats-on-pubmed
on “For Sale: “Your Name Here” in a Prestigious Science Journal”Submitted If cars were made by bioinformaticians (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Journal clubs, ranked from worst to best as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Did Mendel fake his results? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shadow libraries as a story · 1 points
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