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a_136_chiffa

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About a_136_chiffa

Post-Doctoral Fellow in computational biology, blending software development, data analysis and looking for new cancer treatments

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    Comment #48629716

    LLMs were invented by AI2, before Transformers were a thing - with RNN-based ELMO.

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    Comment #25011600

    Alan Kay on Dijkstra, (1997 OOPSLA keynote): 'I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijk…

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    Comment #17868149

    I am a computational biologist with a heavy emphasis on the data analysis. I did try Jupyter a couple of years ago and here are my concerns with it, compared to my usual flow (Pych…

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    Comment #17802839

    > But history has judged him as one of the worst presidents. Nah, not if you talk to any craft brewers or beer enthusiasts. They are basically inches short of having his portrait h…

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    Comment #17751580

    > The baseline percentage of the population which experience depression (and other mental illness) each year is known to be pretty high -- and highest in for people in their 20's. …

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    Comment #17734876

    One where you don't get sustained funding to maintain it. In compbio even major resources, known to everyone in the domain only have funding from one two-year grant to another.

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    Comment #17734275

    Absolutely not. In case it's someone you don't know a colleague, you open a communication channel allowing them to switch to a different topic and indicating you are not currently …

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    Comment #17618724

    You can change your credit score, social circles or what you search. Your genome is frozen in time and is passed down to your children.

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    Comment #17618686

    Whether you like it or not, US tends to lead the world. Tools developed here tend to implanted elsewhere, even if they get regulated after about a decade.

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    Comment #17618678

    > I really doubt this. I've been genotyped by 23andMe and the most interesting information I've seen from their health reports are a handful of disease probabilities and some fairl…

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    Comment #17618628

    If they don't find your data, they will likely use your relative's data to infer the risk. I doubt your cousins, uncles and aunts would think twice before signing up with their rea…

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    Comment #17604564

    The issue with such software is that it's mission-critical. In other terms, it needs to be zero-downtime, bullet-proof, audited and certified by external actors and to be supported…

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    Comment #17541461

    The issue is not to repeat the experiments, but rather to avoid putting the logs in the wheels of people who want to re-analyze your existing data (including yourself a couple of y…

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    Comment #17525350

    That's why free/leisure time to figure WTF is going on politically/economically socially and an education not to get lost on the way of getting there have been considered as pre-re…

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    Comment #17472688

    They are military personnel, writing code for military applications. They are under the obligation to refuse to execute orders that go against international conventions and have an…

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    Comment #17265113

    Not really - the inflation is currently reported on a "reference consumer basket", which doesn't really represent different segments of society. In other terms, if you are spending…

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    Comment #17093385

    Hope not. In the US, at least, the craft beer came to be dominated just by a couple of types that are easy to make - notably the IPAs. Some other types are present as well, but the…

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    Comment #17093266

    As a French - you can actually taste the difference between a 5$ and a 50$ wine, even despite the difference itaste. In France. Not in the US. For some weird reason, the US wine is…

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    Comment #17065627

    Wound you mind elaborating?