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devlovstad

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About devlovstad

Research Assistant, AI for cancer genomics. Copenhagen-based.

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…