lkirk

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by lkirk 2mo ago
I think this is a bit optimistic compared to my view (wrt portability). There's a large stack of software that is involved in training and probably less so in inference. I'm not saying it's impossible but there are definitely
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by lkirk 1y ago
For me, in my use of Python as a data analysis language, it's not python's speed that is an annoyance or pain point, it's the concurrency story. Julia's built in concurrency primatives are much more ergonomic in my opini
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by lkirk 3y ago
This thought led me to a strange conversation with chatgpt. I just base64 encoded "Hello chatgpt how are you" as "SGVsbG8gY2hhdGdwdCBob3cgYXJlIHlvdQ==" and sent it as the first prompt. Notice how there is no question mar
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by lkirk 4y ago
Yes, I would agree that technical and non-technical usability is one appealing spreadsheet use case. I think that another thing I find myself using spreadsheets for is simple data entry. By using a google sheet to enter data, you've al
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by lkirk 6y ago
Is this something that the internet archive would preserve?
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by lkirk 6y ago
Can you elaborate a little here? I made the switch from classic notebooks to jupyterlab recently and find the bin experience very similar (there's a few subtle differences that I can't remember offhand, but I don't recall hav
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by lkirk 6y ago
In my experience, there's a balance to be stricken. I really like notebooks for documenting the algorithm development process. I used to do a ton of repl driven development and Jupyter is a repl that allows you to persist commands acro
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by lkirk 7y ago
A sequencing run (at least in the context of Illumina's technology) requires a few very expensive consumable reagents: First being the flowcell (microscope slide that the dna sticks to while being read by a laser), the reagents (contai
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by lkirk 7y ago
Nanopore sequencers may require less prep and may be cheaper, but their sequencing error rate is astronomical, so you'd end up doing a lot more sequencing of the same material before you reached a consensus sequence.
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by lkirk 7y ago
Indeed, one could only imagine the cost of sequencing the dna to retrieve the data (not to mention the current lack of random access). Illumina's highest capacity sequencer will do 6Tb (terabases). The machine costs about half a millio
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by lkirk 7y ago
I think the biggest thing, for me is Cython. I've not seen anything quite like it in other languages. It allows you to compile python code to c, with gradual typing. It also allows you to write c code inline w/ your python or inte
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by lkirk 7y ago
I thought that it was implemented in Arc: http://arclanguage.org/
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by lkirk 7y ago
A big use case for python is glue for high performance c/c++ code. How is racket at this? Also, is there a cython alternative for racket? I would also argue that, though racket may have more batteries included, there are definitely not
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by lkirk 7y ago
It would be nice if this language was extensible to running on various compute cluster managers. From what I can tell, these workflows only run on one machine. I like the bioinformatics tool examples though... you can tell who their target
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by lkirk 7y ago
I've heard of it, not sure how mature it is these days. Maybe I'll give it another look
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by lkirk 7y ago
I'm also a heavy user of an X-only window manager (xmonad). Learning about this makes me wonder if I should start learning how to work with another window manager so I'm not caught off guard when something stops working.
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by lkirk 7y ago
Sorry, but that's not a vcf. It's a tsv of genotypes. Here's the spec for VCFs: https://samtools.github.io/hts-specs/VCFv4.3.pdf
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by lkirk 8y ago
Very cool, thanks. I will probably be using this in the future
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by lkirk 8y ago
I have used this in the past. There are only a few places where this bites you, for instance wifi authentication portals. Some of these wifi access points change your resolv.conf so that you can load their internal page for terms and condit
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by lkirk 8y ago
The title of the site is "Matrix - ITA Software by Google". Also, on the site, they link themselves: Want to explore flights and get fast results? Try Google Flights Almost seems like a deprecation notice...
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by lkirk 8y ago
It really depends on how light it is outside. I like light backgrounds when it's light outside, but dark ones at night.
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by lkirk 8y ago
I think people also forget that there's a decent amount of fortran in numpy. I'm pretty sure they are the originators of f2py as well
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by lkirk 9y ago
A pid file is the best IMO
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by lkirk 9y ago
Yes, these are the same
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by lkirk 9y ago
Noooooooooooo :(
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by lkirk 9y ago
Just an FYI: the newest version of ipython allows you to tab complete keys
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by lkirk 10y ago
Anything from Jupiter broadcasting, but specifically the Linux action show and bsd now http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com