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sinab

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I enjoy drinking tea, riding bikes, taking photos, and exploring nature.

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www.sina.bio 24d ago

Does Your Paper Really Suck?

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www.biorxiv.org 5mo ago

Science should be machine-readable

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twitter.com 5mo ago

OpenAI's Prism was prototyped 15 months ago

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blog.cultivarium.org 12mo ago

Capturing the Invisible Art of Scientific Practice

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454.bio 2y ago

First at-home open-source DNA sequencer

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author.link 2y ago

Show HN: Author.Link – A LinkTree for Academics

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twitter.com 2y ago

Apple Watch Ultra running Quake 2

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stephanango.com 2y ago

In Good Hands

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readsomethingwonderful.com 3y ago

Read Something Wonderful

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www.nature.com 3y ago

Autonomous self-burying seed carriers for aerial seeding

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twitter.com 3y ago

Run AlphaFold from the Command Line

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www.cell.com 3y ago

A quantitative database of human impacts on Planet Earth

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longform.asmartbear.com 3y ago

Making a maximal multi-dimensional decision

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onlinelibrary.wiley.com 3y ago

Repurposing a dead spider to build an actuator

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en.mgi-tech.com 4y ago

MGI to sell DNA sequencers in the US after lifted ban

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www.wood-database.com 4y ago

The Wood Database

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piszek.com 4y ago

The optimal human performance formula: the basics

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twitter.com 4y ago

“Ginkgo Bioworks is a colossal scam”

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

Data mining the Parler Dump

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twitter.com 5y ago

Order of magnitude estimate of Beirut explosion at 3 kilotons of TNT

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liorpachter.wordpress.com 5y ago

How to profit from Covid-19 testing

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docs.google.com 6y ago

Covid-19 Testing in US Universities

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github.com 6y ago

Paycheck Protection Program Loan Data and Analysis

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preferences.crunchbase.com 6y ago

Opt out of sale of personal data on Crunchbase

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liorpachter.wordpress.com 7y ago

How to solve an NP-complete problem in linear time

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liorpachter.wordpress.com 7y ago

Single-Cell RNA-Seq for Dummies

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liorpachter.wordpress.com 7y ago

Technologies of Narcissism

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pachterlab.github.io 8y ago

Open Source Syringe Pump for Microfluidics

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alum.mit.edu 8y ago

Tea with Teachers at MIT

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www.teawithteachers.com 8y ago

Show HN: Interviewing MIT Faculty about their personal lives

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The app, "SnackPass", faces a similar issue. Coffee shops spend time fulfilling mobile orders, placed in advance to avoid waiting in line, resulting in a delay for in-person orders.

While I was unable to view the entire article (paywalled), I suspect that some kind of priority queue that weights an order's priority by the user's distance to the store may be useful to solve the waiting issue.

I got an error when passing a prompt with about 20k tokens to the Llama 4 Scout model on groq (despite Llama 4 supporting up to 10M token context). groq responds with a POST https://api.groq.com/openai/v1/chat/completions 413 (Payload Too Large) error.

Is there some technical limitation on the context window size with LPUs or is this a temporary stop-gap measure to avoid overloading groq's resources? Or something else?

The data availability statement in this article undermines its entire premise.

We did not publish our raw data along with the manuscript because it could be understood that we are publicly shaming authors who did not want to share their data. As for the raw data that were received during this study, we informed our study participants that those raw data will be deleted after being examined and that all data and communication will be treated with strict confidence.

Interesting article on the history of Perl for bioinformatics.

As someone who is currently a bioinformatics PhD student, Perl has become the vinyl of programming languages. While some older folks script with Perl, most packages I’ve seen published recently use either R, python, c++, and more recently, rust.

This essay is beautifully written. I particularly appreciate the vivid detail the author used to describe their childhood memories.

The last paragraph caught me off-guard with its shift in tone and focus. The narrative makes the point that while memories can be strong, they often fail to remind us of all of the details. This is certainly germane to how the justice system operates; I just feel that its relevance was rushed in at the end.

I wonder if the problems with the data would have been discovered sooner if data sharing been enforced. It's clear that the reason the article was retracted by the editor-in-chief was because of the lack of data:

It appears that sequences were neither uploaded to Genbank nor to the BOLD system at the time of the study. It does appear that sequences related to this article have been uploaded to Genbank in September 2020, but as this happened six years after publication and no voucher information is presented in the article, post-publication review was unable to confirm whether these sequences were indeed derived from the research described in this article.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10531-021-02316...

I share the same sentiment. Something I've realized recently is that people who complain about car-centrism (myself) often fail to identify ways to start solving these problems. To remedy this, I've been thinking of writing a set of practical posts, sort of a how-to, in which I explore ways to solve these problems. Is that something that would interest you?

What I hate about "car discourse" like this is the apparent blindness to public transportation. Trains, bikes, buses, and street cars solve almost every problem that the author complains about.

The only outstanding problem, however, is that American infrastructure has been deliberately designed solely around the car. Those who suggest alternative modes of public transportation are immediately written off as "impractical". Discourse ought to be centered around democratizing and diversifying the ways people can get around, not on how one ought to "make dumb cars".

The article demonstrates a multi-axis base for dampening the force imparted by S-waves, generated by Earthquakes, to artwork. But earthquakes also generate longitudinal waves (P-waves). I wonder whether P-waves are strong enough to damage artwork and whether a system should also be put in place to protect against them.

I read this essay with interest as I work at the intersection of biology and engineering; I was disappointed. The essay fails to identify low-hanging fruit in automating biology and fails to explain how their company (Transistor Bio) is "picking" those low-hanging fruit. In retrospect it reads more like a poorly argued marketing pitch than an exposition on interesting and achievable problems in biology automation.

The company's website also leaves much to be desired; though they have reinvented the liquid handling robot [1].

[1] https://publish.obsidian.md/serve?url=transistor.bio/busines...