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devlovstad
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About devlovstad
Likes functional programming, Bayesian statistics and programming languages.
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Comment #48804611
I've worked for a year in a lab doing cancer genomics and had to learn everything from scratch, since my background is in computer science. It's definitely possible to learn enough…
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Comment #48334785
I have AkademikerPension as my pension fund through work and this move suits me quite well. They've already excluded Tesla as well as a variety of companies that profit of weapon p…
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Comment #48291345
I work with genomics pipelines in my day job. This repo does not seem quite ready for serious usage until a comparison is made with existing tools such as Bowtie 2/samtools/Strelka…
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Comment #47961126
While it seems cool, I am still waiting for native Jupyter Notebook support for it to be useful to me. When that happens, I'll give it a spin, but it seems like they recently took …
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Comment #46702987
AkademikerPension is a quite unusual pension fund, even by Danish standards due to them being quite political in their holdings. This stance is based on surveys made from their mem…
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Comment #46498976
I've read through most of the first paper mentioned. Here, the authors have taken set up two synthetic experiments where transformers have to learn the probability of observing eve…
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Comment #45752287
uv has made working with different python versions and environments much, much nicer for me. Most of my colleagues in computational genomics use conda, but I've yet to encounter a …
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Comment #44027685
I took a course on massively parallel programming taught by one of the authors of this paper that extensively used Futhark and CUDA. While I have not used any of these languages si…
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Comment #43914249
The course did not use slides but instead wrote everything on a whiteboard. The lecture notes are not public afaik. The lecturer did suggest the following supplementary material: -…
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Comment #43913815
Slightly OT: I'm a master's student in computer science who focuses mostly on machine learning. Still, the best course I've ever taken was one on semantics and types, presenting ma…
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Comment #31402673
While I can accept the notion that we should reject Toyota, I don't really see how Lean is related to it. Is Lean the cause of Toyotas failure to protect its workers? How can we kn…