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by jboggan 2y ago
I have the book this site is based on and it's beautiful. My wife is a quilter and we plan to make a quilt from our local foraging.
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by jboggan 2y ago
If you're ever in central Utah you should make the trip to see Pando, it grows beside Fish Lake which is teeming with life, and surrounded by beautiful hills and mountains that make for great campsite views. The lake is full of landloc
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by jboggan 2y ago
The models and tools designed for the CASP competition were an example of running around the solution space at a glacial pace and getting stuck in local minima. I can't speak for Rosetta by my labmates had fairly successful tools that
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by jboggan 2y ago
Congrats to David Baker and his lab!
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by jboggan 2y ago
>the COVID model that drove lockdowns in the UK and USA was nothing but bugs I would love a source but I believe this given my experience with coding standards in the computational biology space, especially given that some of my own prev
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by jboggan 2y ago
>I think the real issue was your boss wasn’t active enough in your work to make it robust to coding mistakes. That's a major issue and it went beyond coding, I picked a very well known and influential advisor and eventually discover
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by jboggan 2y ago
When I was in my doctoral program I had some pretty promising early results applying network analysis to metabolic networks. My lab boss/PI was happy to advertise my work and scheduled a cross-departmental talk to present my research i
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by jboggan 2y ago
Real scrum has never been tried!
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by jboggan 2y ago
Could you expound on the first point in greater detail
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by jboggan 2y ago
Exactly. I quit Google in 2017 to work on a promising start-up idea (generative AI chatbot for coding, a tad early on that one) and ended up raising barely any money, running up massive CC debt to finance cost of living and GPUs, and taking
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by jboggan 2y ago
3) It's also a form of hazing to make the engineers conducting the interview feel better about their current station.
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by jboggan 3y ago
That re-entry video was quite amazing and beautiful.
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by jboggan 3y ago
When I was a kid in south Georgia there was a year where two other cicada broods lined up. The sustained volume in and around the woods was measured at well over 85dB and peaking much higher locally, to the extent that if the woods were a
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by jboggan 3y ago
Which my child demands almost every night and I struggle to not choke up when I get to the "because I love you" part.
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by jboggan 3y ago
I do wish they'd mention the music and inspiration in the credits. S1E17 (Calypso) is built around Camille Saint-Saens' "Organ Symphony" 4th movement. S1E1 (The Magic Xylophone) is based on Mozart's "Rondo Alla
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by jboggan 3y ago
To expand - most kid shows that adults can stand to watch are written to adults in some sly way that flies over the kids' heads. Often that adult targeted humor is something that kids have no context for (subtle sexual innuendo, pop cu
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by jboggan 3y ago
Bluey is a godsend in our household. It's not annoying and the amount of classical and original music woven into each episode is wonderful. There's one particular episode - "Sleepytime" - which I cannot bring myself to w
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by jboggan 3y ago
Legend has it that he did all the early test firing with his left hand so that if there were a catastrophic failure he could still draft the next version with his right.
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by jboggan 3y ago
I use PIOUS and TEARY but only because it's somewhat of an invocation in a morning ritual.
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by jboggan 3y ago
This really should be discussed more here as it has the potential to shut down a broad swath of the industry and strangle nascent companies in their crib.
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by jboggan 3y ago
I have not a single bad thing to say about Dr. Promislow, I never studied under him in graduate school and only worked loosely with him in undergraduate research. I also played a lot of music with him back in the day. If you are trying to s
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by jboggan 3y ago
In a related note of worst practices, the main research assistant (who was doing most of the lab's work) died unexpectedly and since no one was using any form of version control we couldn't find his code and data after his death.
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by jboggan 3y ago
The best "researchers" are poor scientists and vice versa. I thought I had hitched my wagon to a star in grad school when I joined a lab with a high profile and big money-raising PI. After awhile I realized they did no research th
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by jboggan 3y ago
https://twitter.com/growing_daniel/status/172561788305578426... Given the sudden shift in billing terms that is quite possible.
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by jboggan 3y ago
Yik Yak was one of the funnest things to come out in the last decade but it was too wild and dangerous to be allowed to thrive.
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by jboggan 3y ago
Silicon Valley doesn't understand The Story of the Eye. Never thought I'd be reading Bataille quotes on HN before I had my coffee.
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by jboggan 3y ago
Modifying the argument, I'd say even the companies that do need Snowflake or Databricks for an analytical use case tend to get run over by the hype train post adoption and start using it everywhere as an anti-pattern and causing much b
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by jboggan 3y ago
Sure, I felt similarly when I read it 3 years ago. But the problem is that there is not a single atmospheric model that can explain the magnitude, rapidity, and localization of the current warming. This does all three and I don't see w
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by jboggan 3y ago
I came across this hypothesis a few years ago and thought it was an interesting possibility, but that there wasn't any data that really supported it. In light of the data of the last few months I honestly can't think of a hypothes
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by jboggan 3y ago
Her*, thank you.

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