bthomas

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by bthomas 14y ago
I'm a completely uninformed white male, but I'm weary of drawing analogies between sexism and racism. It seems like reductionism, I think they should be tackled separately.
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by bthomas 14y ago
Are there good examples other than Apple?
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by bthomas 14y ago
Random: page has a display bug on the retina iPad in portrait mode, content width is too big
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by bthomas 14y ago
They compare "77 other people +1'd this, including Larry Page." to "Larry Page and 77 others +1'd this." The latter definitely sounds better, but I suspect most users care more about # of likes than an individual person, as usually the indi
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by bthomas 14y ago
I think that's often a desire to get away from the people and culture in the dorms, not necessarily the lifestyle. A college dorm with people in their mid 20s working 9-5 jobs would be a fun experiment
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by bthomas 14y ago
Agree, but only because the items you cite here are too technical for an average user. I think the way the iPad implements location API is an example of permissions working really well.
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by bthomas 14y ago
Agree completely. I tried to check it out on nexus galaxy. Facebook login didn't work, still not sure why as the popup was disfunctional. Will probably never visit again.
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by bthomas 15y ago
True that we don't have a full sequence, but that's not the best example. The telomeres (ends) consist of the same set of bases repeated thousands of times. Recent research suggests that the length is probably super important. We're good at
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by bthomas 15y ago
(The following are all for genetics, others can chime in on other areas or bioinformatics in general.) -- I'm bias, but I think the best entry level book is still from 1998 - Genome by Matt Ridley [1]. It's what got me interested in genomic
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by bthomas 15y ago
I think it's important to give clear examples here - research questions that biologists have posed but are struggling to answer with existing software tools. They certainly exist, but I think some overestimate the bottleneck. For example, I
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by bthomas 15y ago
The best dataset for this audience is probably the most recent curated set of variant calls on 1000genomes.org. (Incidentally, the data access links appear down at the moment...) This provides data in VCF format [1], which I would argue is
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by bthomas 15y ago
More specifics about what you're interested in? I work in the space (human genetics - we analyse the output of 1000 Genomes) and happy to help, but "bioinformatics" is pretty broad. I'll also note so much of the human genetics space is so n
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by bthomas 15y ago
Totally agree. More accurate phrasing would have been "another reminder of how..." Book recommendation: Thinking Fast and Slow by Dan Kahneman. Great overview of how those factors affect decision making.
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by bthomas 15y ago
I'm the same way, though I feel like this flies in the face of reason. Switching to a less familiar language usually implies more headaches and less productivity, but the novelty makes it more enjoyable. Another example of how programming i
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by bthomas 15y ago
I'd prefer the local DMV be a special result, clearly separate from the universal search. See how "current time" gives you a special result on top - I think they could give similar treatment to a link. More generally, I think users apprecia
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by bthomas 15y ago
Don't you mean directly proportional? More ability => more reasonable expectation
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by bthomas 15y ago
I'd love an email API that you could forward an email thread to, which would be parsed into a set of linked emails with contacts attached. Email to JSON is great, but not when the body is the text of 20 forwarded emails. Seems like a gimme
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by bthomas 15y ago
Is there a writeup anywhere on how this is done?
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by bthomas 15y ago
Agreed, I'm reading it a second time now. I find it absolutely remarkable that Kahneman is 77.