notQuiteEither

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   by notQuiteEither 2y ago

   You're suggesting to people that they should buy research use only chemicals and attempt to compound them at home? That is incredibly irresponsible and dangerous.
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   by notQuiteEither 2y ago

   There's a certain 'techbio' startup that also has this same requirement. Judging by how long their positions tend to be open for, I would anecdotally say it's not a winning strategy.
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   by notQuiteEither 3y ago

   FDA approval makes it considerably easier, and in many cases possible at all, to get reimbursement for these tests. I work in the field and this is a constant hurdle to overcome.
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   by notQuiteEither 3y ago

   As someone in the field, I can say with certainty to expect FDA approved liquid biopsy tests (for somatic variants) to start appearing on market in the next year, if not sooner. I'll also point out that detecting germline variants (whi
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   by notQuiteEither 3y ago

   Indeed, it's a fully functional scripting language that is an extension of groovy. So "looks programmery" is more than a little reductive. Edit: functional as in, it's not half-hearted, not functional as in functional pr
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   by notQuiteEither 3y ago

   Makes perfect sense! And yes, I edited my original comment because I skimmed far too quickly.
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   by notQuiteEither 3y ago

   I'll admit I may have missed it in my quick scroll through, but I don't see iterators (as a concept) or generators anywhere. I guess you could argue the latter are too advanced, but I'd argue both are central to proper python