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by daemonk 6y ago
I've wanted something like this for barcodes. My company depends on our users to enter in a 16 digit barcode correctly. It would be great if the 16 digit barcode can somehow be bi-directionally translated into a sentence (grammatically
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by daemonk 6y ago
Awesome. I am a huge fan of D3. I am still using v4. But I will definitely spend some time migrating on my next refactoring.
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by daemonk 6y ago
Yeah me too. I think visualizations are cool and can be useful in terms of monitoring the progress of analysis runs. But I can't see my self using a GUI for setting up pipelines when I can do it more explicitly through scripting or som
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by daemonk 6y ago
This seems like a resource allocation issue then? Async python is just starting a bunch of jobs with no regard to how each job claims CPUs. Whereas sync python is using native OS threads which I guess does a much better job of allocating CP
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by daemonk 6y ago
Basically: smoothing data != model forecast It's a fair point. But what should have a discussion turned into playground name calling.
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by daemonk 6y ago
Yes. It takes a lot of time for concepts in biology to sink in and become interconnected mentally. People who are not in the field tend to think about concepts in isolation. Tech people also tend to think more mechanistically/rigidly b
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by daemonk 6y ago
I was referring the XKCD #1831 comic the previous post linked to. https://xkcd.com/1831/
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by daemonk 6y ago
There is definitely a trend of tech bros 1831'ing biology. While it is very annoying, I do think we should try to be more charitable in how we respond to them. It's ultimately a good thing that other people are interested in what
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by daemonk 6y ago
That's pretty much how modern genome assemblies work. We currently do not have a reliable or accurate way of sequencing DNA longer than ~200 bases. So we fragment the DNA into small pieces, sequence them and then put it all back togeth
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by daemonk 7y ago
Cool technique that uses existing Sanger sequencing equipment that has been optimized for decades. So you are sanger sequencing the loci + a synthetic frame-shifted oligo that you spike in. Then you essentially "demultiplex" the c
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by daemonk 7y ago
Off topic here. But what's kinda interesting about covid19 is that a significant amount of the fatalities appears to be associated with cytokine storm syndrome. Suggesting that the effects of the infection might not kill you, but your
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by daemonk 7y ago
Looks like it's a RT-PCR. How different are their primers compared to the IDT sets ( https://www.idtdna.com/pages/landing/coronavirus-research-re... )? There are also a couple of papers on biorxiv with primers
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by daemonk 7y ago
What are the demographics of those that dropped out of the work force? Didn't some UBI studies observe that while there are people that dropped out of the workforce, these people consisted of mothers that can now go back to child reari
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by daemonk 7y ago
I don't know enough about the cases. But initially identified cases doesn't equate to patient zero. I think it was just the first case chronologically identified.
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by daemonk 7y ago
Interesting paper. I haven't dug into the methods/data in depth. But the gist of their interpretation is: - Out of the initial 41 cases, 27 were linked to the seafood market. The first identified cases + 12 others had no link to t
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by daemonk 7y ago
I think he was referring specifically to their traditional function as a repository of information. I think in that regard, libraries are outmoded. Of course they have been and can be transformed to perform other important community functio
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by daemonk 7y ago
I wonder if it is possible to forward robocalls to another service that will attempt to keep the robocaller busy as long as possible. It would be great if everyone can just answer the robocalls and press a button to forward to a time-waster
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by daemonk 7y ago
does this work both ways? can we get cheaper prices if we are not willing to pay more and when it is not very busy.
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by daemonk 7y ago
I like turn based games. I don't really care about latency when playing Civilization.
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by daemonk 7y ago
I have a genetics phd and work as a bioinformatician. It takes time for concepts to fully "sink in" in biology. Learning one independent theory/fact/concept is great, but it is when you hook it up to all your other knowl
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by daemonk 7y ago
Hetzner is great. Cheap for what you get.
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by daemonk 7y ago
Are they selling access to the DNA biobank or are they generating sequencing data and selling access to the data? If you guys are generating sequencing data, how are you guys doing it? I would assume you guys are actually sequencing the DNA
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by daemonk 7y ago
Perhaps I am not the target for your frustration. But I just like how it drives and its minimal interior. I like that I don't need to go to a gas station every week. And I actually like the touch screen. Everything else is just a nice
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by daemonk 7y ago
The bio in biotech makes all the difference. Dismissing the unpredictable nature of bio R&D by saying we can just outsource to a CRO is a massive oversimplification. Time and effort is not linear to results in Biological research.
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by daemonk 7y ago
In the short term, command might be determined by charisma or personality. But I think for long-term survival command will ultimately be based on how much responsibility someone is willing to take on. Basically, when a fuckup happens, who i
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by daemonk 7y ago
Is there a standardized definition of what is considered "processed"?
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by daemonk 7y ago
Does it support any kind of HPC job launching feature?
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by daemonk 7y ago
Perhaps the more interesting question is whether the traditional nuclear family is the "optimal" mode of human society? Is the unhappiness that we may be observing with the decline of family a product of this transition period fro
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by daemonk 7y ago
While I appreciate all the terminal personalization/customization available out there, I generally just stick to vanilla bash as I regularly have to ssh out to remote servers where I'll just lose my setup. I wish there were some k
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by daemonk 7y ago
Sounds like no one person or group wanted to take responsibility for the project. If the project fails, they wanted the blame to be distributed among as many people as possible.

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