https://yakovlev.me/en/ I write rarely and at length — usually about things I had to figure out myself and found no decent write-up for. en https://yakovlev.me/en/posts/hello-flipper-zero-2023/ https://yakovlev.me/en/posts/hello-flipper-zero-2023/ Mon, 14 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT Six months have passed since I published the previous post about my first experiments with Flipper Zero. Surprisingly, it remains relevant and popular in the community, but the development tooling for Flipper has moved forward in the meantime. https://yakovlev.me/en/posts/hello-flipper-zero/ https://yakovlev.me/en/posts/hello-flipper-zero/ Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT A step-by-step history of the code developed in this post is available on GitHub. https://yakovlev.me/en/posts/para-slov-za-alphafold2/ https://yakovlev.me/en/posts/para-slov-za-alphafold2/ Thu, 03 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT A few thoughts on the event that split the world of computational biology into irreconcilable camps. https://yakovlev.me/en/posts/lean-intro/ https://yakovlev.me/en/posts/lean-intro/ Thu, 29 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT In this series of posts, I want to put a few things in order in my own head, create a simple reference, and help people appreciate the system if, for some unfathomable reason, they cannot be bothered to read the book—even though they absolutely should. https://yakovlev.me/en/posts/maghistratura-v-vshe/ https://yakovlev.me/en/posts/maghistratura-v-vshe/ Tue, 09 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT We decided to launch the Computational Biology and Bioinformatics master's programme at HSE University in St. Petersburg. To promote it, we made a very deliberate attempt to ride the COVID-19 hype. https://yakovlev.me/en/posts/web-razrabotka-eto-slozhno/ https://yakovlev.me/en/posts/web-razrabotka-eto-slozhno/ Thu, 19 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT I am trying to understand a JavaScript project. Having never done web development before, I found all the surrounding tooling deeply confusing. This note records my path towards creating the simplest possible project. https://yakovlev.me/en/posts/natural-numbers-encoding/ https://yakovlev.me/en/posts/natural-numbers-encoding/ Tue, 30 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMT The classic inductive definition of natural numbers is well known: zero is a natural number, and the successor of a natural number is a natural number. The simplest way to encode such numbers in the lambda calculus is Church encoding, which seems to have no direct connection to the intuitive inductive type. https://yakovlev.me/en/posts/untyped-lambda-calculus/ https://yakovlev.me/en/posts/untyped-lambda-calculus/ Wed, 29 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMT An attempt to explain the lambda calculus while implementing it in Haskell. https://yakovlev.me/en/posts/kak-my-nashli-bielok/ https://yakovlev.me/en/posts/kak-my-nashli-bielok/ Tue, 01 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT My favourite annual conference, PEGS Boston, ran from April 30 to May 4. For 14 years its logo and all related materials had featured the same protein, and for 13 years the organisers had been asking the same question: what protein is it? https://yakovlev.me/en/posts/bayesian-optimization-for-small-molecule-hit-generation/ https://yakovlev.me/en/posts/bayesian-optimization-for-small-molecule-hit-generation/ Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT I gave a talk at the Future Biotech winter school about methods for working with small molecules. Since it was streamed live, I can post the video right away. https://yakovlev.me/en/posts/naive-bayes-classifier/ https://yakovlev.me/en/posts/naive-bayes-classifier/ Wed, 22 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT I needed to put together a Bayes classifier quickly to test an idea and did not want to pull in anything large from Hackage. If you ever find yourself in the same situation, here is the code. https://yakovlev.me/en/posts/haskell-foldable-wats/ https://yakovlev.me/en/posts/haskell-foldable-wats/ Sat, 21 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT Do you know what happens if you ask Haskell for the minimum value of a two-element tuple?