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by daemonk 2y ago
I am not a writer/novelist by any means, so please forgive my ignorance. Does the act of creative writing tend to lead to mental drift? So much so that minor distractions are so detrimental to the process? I’ve always wondered if the h
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by daemonk 2y ago
As an exited founder who left 2 years after acquisition, this really put into words thoughts that I’ve had leading up to me leaving. Founders can sometimes be walking contradictions of being hyper self critical and also have supreme confide
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by daemonk 2y ago
Practically, learn linux if you’ll actually use it to its full potential. Most webdev work where you just need to plumb together components don’t. For personal development and satisfaction, it’s always fulfilling to learn something new.
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by daemonk 3y ago
I enjoy my apple products and am perfectly fine within their ecosystem. I also appreciate naysayers who shit on their products whether with good reason or not. I think counterculture or contrarianism is a necessary force. The louder they ar
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by daemonk 3y ago
The problem of non-selective cleavage of all terminators, whether they have been incorporated or not seems to be the most significant one. Is engineering a selective polymerase really the best solution here? If you don't top-up the rea
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by daemonk 3y ago
Instead of killing and starting a new process for every input, it will keep re-using the same coproc'ed process. I guess it's almost like daemonizing the process into several daemons and then feeding inputs through the daemons as
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by daemonk 3y ago
I tend to agree. I see databases as a type of file system with more strict constraints in terms of reading/writing. One can maybe argue that file systems are just an address book and databases are a more much complicated address book.
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by daemonk 3y ago
I wrote this one a long while back with react and d3.js: https://damiankao.github.io/life/
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by daemonk 3y ago
How well does it work with sklearn/scipy/pytorch?
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by daemonk 3y ago
“I had depended on the idea that scientific research is a sacred trust” And that is part of the problem. Having gone through a phd, this unspoken religiosity that underlies scientific research where you are expected to be monks for science
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by daemonk 3y ago
I appreciate the perspective. There appears to be a lot of commonalities between your viewpoint and themes of classic Russian literature.
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by daemonk 3y ago
While I get that states is frustrating for share-ability and communicating your work, it is extremely useful for prototyping. Perhaps there just needs to be an explicit toggle for stateful vs non-stateful for notebooks
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by daemonk 3y ago
I would pay a monthly subscription for an app on my phone where I can take a picture of the doc and it will just immediately upload to the cloud without any bullshit. And I can go back and re-sort these document later with an intuitive UI.
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by daemonk 3y ago
This is relevant also: https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2023-03-07-hyena
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by daemonk 3y ago
I actually would not mind a ceiling mounted design where the headset is counterweighted so it is essentially "floating" and you pull it down to put on your head. I know it will take away from the mobility of the headset, but I am
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by daemonk 3y ago
None of the existing headsets I've tried has worked out in terms of working setup replacement. If it can replace a desk/monitor and lead to better ergonomics and flexibility, I would pay upwards of 5k for it. I really want Apple t
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by daemonk 4y ago
Here is a game of life simulation I built almost a decade ago when I was learning react.js http://damiankao.github.io/life/
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by daemonk 4y ago
The best storage format for genomics data is DNA. At some point in the future, it might actually be cheaper to just re-sequence than to store the fastq. Instead of optimizing the digital infrastructure, it might be better to just optimize t
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by daemonk 4y ago
It's difficult, but not impossible. There are plenty of whole genome amplification methods out there for single cell DNA-seq.
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by daemonk 4y ago
Idle games are the perfect distillation of what some people want from video games. Seeing numbers go up from low effort actions gives you that artificial sense of achievement that can be missing from real life.
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by daemonk 4y ago
I guess the viscosity of the resin prevents structures of certain size from sinking? I assume you would still need to try to print it in a way where "heavier" structures are done first on the bottom and work your way up?
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by daemonk 5y ago
I've gone through many sleep apnea oral appliances. The best one is this one: https://www.smlglobal.com/zyppah-k It might look a bit flimsy with the dental rubber bands, but that's actually the best feature. Most
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by daemonk 5y ago
I think this is cool. But at some point in my career/life in the tech space, I stopped caring as much about my tools as long as it works to a reasonable degree. I am fine with whatever Dell/Apple/Asus/etc laptop that&#x2
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by daemonk 5y ago
Nice. I read about these cool new systems all the time, but have to end up waiting for some reagent company to start producing them after they resolve all the IP stuff. A lot of commercial and academic labs don't have access to the fac
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by daemonk 5y ago
This is awesome. And the data can be really valuable. I think feeding and litter box habits are some of the best indicators for a cat's health.
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by daemonk 5y ago
Is this product geared towards academic labs that deal with maybe hundreds/thousands of samples/reagents? Or is it geared towards industry processing labs where there are easily thousands of new samples that go through workflows e
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by daemonk 5y ago
I understand this argument. But if we separate out the mass screening/data-collection approach from its practical constraints (undue stress, overwhelm medical system), I think we can both at least agree that it is a correct direction t
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by daemonk 5y ago
I’ve been wearing one for a couple of years now. One of the best decision I’ve made for my health and quality of life. Waking up from actual restful sleep is like coming out of a fog.
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by daemonk 5y ago
There is a grey area between cleaning data and feature engineering. At some point, the more sophisticated methods for data cleaning becomes imputation and inference of features. I wonder what are the ramifications of this.
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by daemonk 5y ago
Thanks for the response. I look forward to it. I've used both Dgraph and RedisGraph for some toy projects previously. I really think that graph dbs are the way to go for storing biological/health data which I am involved in. They

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