vsbuffalo

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Super salt-tolerant rice, after 34k crosses (and 1 survived)(irri.org)
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by vsbuffalo 14y ago
If you industry folks knew the stuff we see in scientific software in academia... It's scary. I complain about this all the time.
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Write a genome assembler in Python(nbviewer.ipython.org)
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by vsbuffalo 14y ago
Pet peeve: Conditioning on a non-random variable doesn't make sense (i.e. P(data | H_0))[1]. [1] http://normaldeviate.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/double-misunde...
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by vsbuffalo 14y ago
That's just part of learning programming languages. Learn a language well, then decide. I thought Python was better than R, but a homoiconic functional language just makes sense for statistics. You get really neat functions like with, withi
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Custom notebooks with QR codes as digital tethers(drbunsen.org)
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The history of the word "cruft"(en.wikipedia.org)
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Bioinformatics and Interface Design(vincebuffalo.org)
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by vsbuffalo 14y ago
But employers use diplomas as a signal[0]. The increases in the number of college graduates only further necessitates that smart people require one for signaling their productivity. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics)
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by vsbuffalo 14y ago
I agree with him, and have been complaining about the same shit for ages (I work in bioinformatics too). Sadly, biologists don't care. We're treated as the number crunchers. The real problem isn't that we waste computational resources, it's
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The Inside Story on Shared Libraries and Dynamic Loading(cseweb.ucsd.edu)
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by vsbuffalo 14y ago
Brace yourselves for copycats.
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The flaw in the Enigma Code(youtube.com)
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by vsbuffalo 14y ago
Everyone here is saying the word monopoly, but realistically ISPs are natural monopolies ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly ). We don't see competition because startups (even incredibly well funded ones) just don't have the fun
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by vsbuffalo 14y ago
Maybe I am a bit of a wet towel. Part of this is because I work in science where funds are scare (and we're trying to do really helpful and good things). Part of it is because I've been in the situation where I've had managers invest in fri
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by vsbuffalo 14y ago
>We've been using make-me to power all of our 3D printing needs including decorating our office with various prints and making useful trinkets. Pardon my ignorance, but is this really necessary? It seems like an office toy.
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by vsbuffalo 14y ago
Here's a startup idea: a hip site with daily exercises targeted at people like us. There should be two levels: no supplies and having basic weight set (so it gives me the option of doing it at work on home too). You could track fitness, and
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by vsbuffalo 14y ago
Simple answer? Programming and statistics. These are desperately needed in the sciences, and having them makes me very valuable. I work as a bioinformatician in plant genomics. My background is in economics and political science, with a min
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by vsbuffalo 14y ago
You'd get weird mixture model type systems. There are certain subclasses: school-based vs non-school-based. You'd have to control for this since school-based shootings are highly temporally correlated. But then maybe there's crossover too.
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by vsbuffalo 14y ago
I really like the elephant and gazelle argument. I am a huge emacs proponent and I love using it, but I feel like it need to be forked and gutted. The whole beauty of an extensible editor is that extensions should be optional. Including mor
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by vsbuffalo 14y ago
I'm very curious about this. I've had the opposite experience: I was a slow Vim users (but stil, Vim lover), and I switched to emacs to use ESS-mode for R. Soon I realized the core movement operations I clumsily had to switch modes for in V
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by vsbuffalo 14y ago
Lisp is too slow? I find this hard to believe. SBCL is incredibly fast, allows run-time compiling, and if you dig in the source, actually is partially written in assembly for speed. That's in part why Duncan Temple-Lang and Ross Ihaka sugge
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My First Recommendation to New Coders: Learn Visualization. (vincebuffalo.com)
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by vsbuffalo 14y ago
Yea, but still gross. map() isn't even an endomorphism.
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by vsbuffalo 14y ago
And you can't pass them as simple functions to do stuff via the multiprocessing module because they can't be pickled. I don't understand this infatuation with FP in Python. To me the essence of functional programming is immutable state. Pyt