matthew_stone

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by matthew_stone 2y ago
Require diversity in the interview pool, not when making hiring decisions. e.g. in a male majority profession, for every two male applicants selected to interview, select at least one female applicant. But once the candidate pool is establi
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by matthew_stone 2y ago
I bounced off Midnight’s Children the first time I tried to read it, but that was probably 10 or 15 years ago now. I’m in between books at the moment, so your comment will push me to put it on the top of my list for the new year :) Girl, Wo
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by matthew_stone 2y ago
Three Booker prize winners I’m particularly fond of: The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo Pachinko by Min Jin Lee is another recent literary favorite
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by matthew_stone 3y ago
It has been possible to print double-sided since at least Lion/2008…
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by matthew_stone 3y ago
100% agree, and it's wonderful to see Snakemake on the top of HN. Snakemake is an invaluable tool in bioinformatics analysis. It's a testament to Johannes' talent and dedication that, even with the relatively limited resource
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by matthew_stone 3y ago
Yes, it's a DSL. Here's a simple scatter-gather example. Let's say you want to count the number of lines in each file for a list of samples, and report a table of counts collected from each sample. Define a rule to process ea
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by matthew_stone 6y ago
> I’d have directed an institute to run a report on theoretic safety and then a trial on volunteers. Commonly known as “pre-clinical development” and “clinical trials”
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by matthew_stone 6y ago
High-risk populations such as the immunocompromised are tested in a Phase 4 trial.
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by matthew_stone 6y ago
> Once automated/easy/rapid sample prep comes, there will be mass adoption in the space. Sounds like Elon calling biology a “software problem”. Not saying that you’re wrong, just saying that the computational folk tend to disco