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by iafiaf 6mo ago
shouldnt it be the other way around?
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by iafiaf 11mo ago
These guys didn't do their homework correctly. Keeping aside commercial vendors; their own garage setup for doomed to fail with their coverage (or lack thereof). Garbage in, garbage out.
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by iafiaf 1y ago
I "smell" a bias there. Keep your politics out please.
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by iafiaf 1y ago
Seems useful, why isn't this more popular?
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by iafiaf 2y ago
I would urge you to watch a statistical debunking of these so-called "global goodness" metrics. Sanjeev Sanyal does a good job of it [1],[2],[3] Multiple organization(s) that manage such indices are, turns out, funded by the same
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by iafiaf 3y ago
The fugitive is the leader of the Khalistan-independance movement, eventho the majority lies in Pakistan. Yet, they want to secede from India. There are numerous reports he's terrorist being financed by Pakistan. I hope India adopts do
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by iafiaf 4y ago
HotBot represent!
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by iafiaf 4y ago
While we are at it, a small shout-out to PDF X-Change Viewer/Editor. Best part for me is that it works on Linux (via Wine) and Windows.
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by iafiaf 4y ago
Didn't think I'd see EJ mentioned here. I distinctly recall planning and reading raiding strategies in there fur hours. I think there largest Onyxia thread was started by me. Glorious times.
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by iafiaf 4y ago
I saw the video the day it came out. Its an OK video, but I question the timing in wake of the upcoming elections and Modi leading the G20. Typically I don't call out "ejection e manipulation" or "external interference&q
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by iafiaf 4y ago
There is a sampling bias at play right here in HN with the Modi-bashing comments. Indians, and India, is doing great overall. Modi's leadership has played a big role in this. Indians are (generally) emotionally people, and by no means
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by iafiaf 4y ago
I am not joining this pity-party. Companies hire tech workers to stifle their competition; whilst keeping their workers 'sedated' on fake projects (i.e. projects that are paraded as important, but the 'inner-circle' know
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by iafiaf 4y ago
FASTQ is not for Excel, obviously - although you can still explore it in the shell. Nonetheless operating directly on FASTA/FASTQ files is often a "one-time" preprocessing task. You then serialize the preprocessed data and co
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by iafiaf 4y ago
The "bioinformatics formats" might be terrible, but they work. In fact, they are meant to be Excel-readable which keeps my collaborators (and me) happy. Coming from a CS /programming background, it is natural to feel the urge
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by iafiaf 4y ago
I will bite. I dont think you care as much as you claim (or think) you do. Its likely you are not respected amongst your peers (for whatever reason) and you feel alienated. I've seen too many employees cite "lack of autonomy"
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by iafiaf 4y ago
Early in my career, I took to heart such books and articles and often felt guilty and lessor-programmer when I cut corners. Here's my 2 cents now: - Some of this is the coding equivalent of "6 rules for financial freedom" or
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by iafiaf 4y ago
AHK is excellent; created a fishing bot during the hardcore WoW raiding days (Stonescale eel for Flask of Titans, anyone?)
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by iafiaf 5y ago
I started my own bioinformatics+AI services firm that specializes in cell-type specific biomarker discovery and immune-repertoire profiling (i.e. we use single-cell and NGS technologies). I have developed a pipeline that integrates/aut
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by iafiaf 5y ago
My first job out of college was at a J2ME mobile startup (circa ~2005). Startup was the baby of a rich Arab, and I was the first actual technical hire in the team (the prototype was outsourced). I hired 3 engineers within the first month. A
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by iafiaf 5y ago
R is overwhelmingly used in bioinformatics. There is nothing quite like bioconductor. Most new tools/methods (for ex, in the scRNA-seq) release R packages first.
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by iafiaf 5y ago
> The bad news is that if it's not exercised, your fierceness will turn to bitterness, and you will become an intellectual playground bully: the grumpy sysadmin, the forum troll, the hater, the shooter down of new ideas. I like this
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by iafiaf 6y ago
I tried to sign up for the free trial but I don't want enter my CC details. Can I just do test a free-trial?