kzuberi

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by kzuberi 3y ago
I think LLMs will interact with programming language design, and software design, in a way that will likely be significant but is currently very difficult to predict. Sort of a singularity moment for software, where we're not sure what
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Scientific Computing in Rust 2023 [video](youtube.com)
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by kzuberi 4y ago
A useful introduction to the ideas is in Nathaniel's PyCon 2018 talk on trio [1], where he live-codes a solution to a concurrency-spaghetti problem. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLkfnc_UMcE
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by kzuberi 4y ago
For folks interested in understanding the subject of junk DNA a bit better, there's an upcoming book [1] that might be worth checking out. The authors blog seems also to be interesting on this and related subjects. [1] https:/&#x
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by kzuberi 4y ago
I also found the quality & proliferation of data pipeline tools to be baffling. Somehow always more painful to put these together than it seemed like it ought to be. At one point we wrote an internal tool (I think lots of organizations
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by kzuberi 4y ago
> this really makes the engineer's end of the bargain sound like janitorial work I don't think you should interpret it that way. Another take would be that its like collaborating with a domain expert outside your specialization
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by kzuberi 4y ago
Are any end users willing to pay for comp-bio software tools? Or the professional support of open source tools? I understand academic labs preference for free/open-source software, but there are lots of biotech companies out there as w
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by kzuberi 5y ago
The term junk DNA triggers a lot of confused discussion (on HN and everywhere else), and I suspect a part of that is our getting defensive about the idea of our DNA containing "junk". That term is just more loaded than saying some
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by kzuberi 5y ago
The choice of Go for this is interesting. Having worked with Python & BioPython for bioinformatics problems I've found that there was a good deal of complexity around eking out performance (Cython, C++ extensions, Numba and so on)
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by kzuberi 5y ago
While new discoveries of biological function are fascinating, I don't think it follows that we are overturning the idea of junk DNA (however the phrase was coined). More likely we are converging towards an understanding where most of t
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by kzuberi 11y ago
If you are interested in network visualization you might consider Cytoscape.js. It's being used e.g. in bioinformatics (visualizing networks of interacting genes, interactively inspecting & manipulating their layout etc). Open-sou