Rabbit goes meta(genomics)
Because it s what the cool kids are doing. WordPress is too sluggish: it took 20 seconds to get this editor window to load (slow Chinese internet, but still). Since Substack is now also doing RSS all the other stuff, I think it s a good platform and I am moving there. https://luispedro.substack.com/
This post describes grit, which is an vaporware alternative interface to git (grit does not exist). There are a few alternative interfaces to git, but they typically make the same mistake: they reason that git is complex because it supports many workflows that are only rarely useful, while 10% of the functionality would fill the needs of 90% Continue reading Grit: a non-existent alternative…
Heavy on Twitter this week Wholphins are a cross between a whale a dolphin (although, not really): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wholphin Very good Twitter thread on the Chinese language Latin Don t read the paper, read the data . By the way, this is also why I never read Discussion sections What Werner Herzog regrets:
https://medium.com/@leonidtiokhin/honest-signaling-in-academic-publishing-2de253b50ae5 the journal process is bad? Time for some game theory! https://www.audubon.org/news/no-its-not-actually-murder-crows — Seems that there are no actual instances of people saying a murder of crows to refer to a flock of crows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_taboo The naming taboo of the state (国讳; 國諱)…
Haskell rewritten to look like a standard programming language : Hinc . What is interesting is that makes you think how much of one s impressions of programming languages is based on superficial features. A good explanation of how AWS burstable instances work: https://www.cloudhealthtech.com/blog/amazon-burstable-instances-explained Free Our Knowledge : Solving collective action problems with…
I have recently switched my thinking to embrace remote as the status quo rather than a short-term situation and as part of that move, we are accepting remote interns for Fall 2020. We had two remote interns over the summer as part NSURP and this worked out very well, with two very different projects: Fernanda Continue reading Remote internships
This is motivated by the latest Microbinfie podcast, episode #24: Experimental projects lead to experimental software, which discussed the issue of “scientific software sustainability”. As background, in our group, we have made a public commitment to supporting tools over at least 5-years, starting with the date of publication.¹ I have increasingly become convinced that code made available for…
As we try to move the Macrel preprint through the publishing process, one reviewer critique was likely caused by the reviewer using our webserver in the incorrect way. We support using either DNA contigs or peptides input, but it is technically possible to use it in a wrong way by feeding it peptides and telling Continue reading Improving the UX of Macrel s Webserver
There is life besides covid19. We ve started blogging a bit as a group on our website, which is a development I am happy about. http://big-data-biology.org/blog/2020-04-29-NME/ : The famous Tank story of a neural network that purported to tell apart American from Soviet tanks, but just classified on the weather (or time of day) is probably Continue reading Random work-related updates
This is not a real question, we know that yes, unfortunately, they did. There are over one thousand confirmed cases. But a recent preprint, posits that over 40,000 and maybe as many as 80,000 people did. The preprint is COVID-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, California by Bendavid et al., MedArxiv, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463 The preprint is not very Continue…