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Very short history of Data Science: Why now? (and no, is not the same as Statistics!)

For Data Science to appear many factors were necessary. Here a short introduction to what Data Science is and what it is based on.

5 min readApr 8, 2024

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Very short history of Data Science: Why now? (and no, is not the same as Statistics!)

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Florian Huber

A common Python myth, or why you don’t need map, filter, and reduce in Python

I very frequently teach Python. A lot. I teach Python to bachelor students, to master students, to researchers. And every standard Python…

3 min readJan 25, 2024

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A common Python myth, or why you don’t need map, filter, and reduce in Python

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Every day a datapoint

Stop using biological analogies to describe AI. It’s 99.999% wrong.

Biology-inspired terms are VERY common in machine learning (“A.I.”), but are much more misleading than helpful. So better don’t use them!

9 min readNov 11, 2022

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Stop using biological analogies to describe AI. It’s 99.999% wrong.

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Netherlands eScience Center

Welcome to the AI imitation crisis

Next generation language models will still just be enormeous parrot-systems that imitate intelligent behavior. But they will feel like…

7 min readJun 24, 2022

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Welcome to the AI imitation crisis

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Netherlands eScience Center

Build a mass spectrometry analysis pipeline in Python using matchms — part III: molecular…

Tutorial on how to use matchms, Spec2Vec and Python to compute networks based on mass spectral similarities.

7 min readAug 13, 2021

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Netherlands eScience Center

Build a mass spectrometry analysis pipeline in Python using matchms — part II: Spec2Vec

Introduction to Spec2Vec, a machine learning algorithm to compute spectrum similarities from learned relationships between spectrum peaks.

8 min readFeb 17, 2021

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Build a mass spectrometry analysis pipeline in Python using matchms — part II: Spec2Vec

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Netherlands eScience Center

Build your own mass spectrometry analysis pipeline in Python using matchms — part I

Quick introduction (with code!) on how to import, process, and analyze a tandem mass spectra dataset using Python and matchms.

13 min readJan 8, 2021

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Build your own mass spectrometry analysis pipeline in Python using matchms — part I

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Netherlands eScience Center

Being a minority in fancy coding land: a Windows user.

How I slowly went from my imposter-syndrome hiding to accepting what I am. A Windows user, at least most of the time.

7 min readNov 10, 2020

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Being a minority in fancy coding land: a Windows user.

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Netherlands eScience Center

Machine learning/AI for Research — use it or refuse it?

The deep learning trend has clearly reached most academic fields by now. But when does it make sense to hopes into machine learning?

6 min readSep 1, 2020

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Machine learning/AI for Research — use it or refuse it?

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Netherlands eScience Center

Mcfly: An easy-to-use tool for deep learning for time series classification

Mcfly is a Python library that allows to quickly generate and test deep learning model for time series classification. Get started here!

6 min readApr 15, 2020

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Mcfly: An easy-to-use tool for deep learning for time series classification

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Florian Huber

Florian Huber

Professor for Data Science at University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf | research software engineer | former biological physicist | former chocolatier |

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