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georgeg

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About georgeg

I am a bioinformatician

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    This tool and ecosystem does not support Julia. I would expect that at this stage a data science polyglot tool is not just R and Python. Not sure why they would not support Julia.

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    Comment #44506164

    I am an East-African and this article does not provide the key reasons why Swahili is an important part of East-Africa and which often requires understanding of its history. Tanzan…

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    Comment #34429896

    Am Kenyan in Tech/science. For the nature and the volume of work, the wages sighted here are grossly low. In addition, it appears that Sama was paid in US dollars and negotiated a …

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    Comment #30564093

    Am Kenyan - Born and raised and I lived at the Kenyan Coast. Kiswahili is very widely spoken and loved here. I studied Kiswahili as a language and i very much admire the rich vocab…

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    Comment #23230093

    Would be nice to see your take on D-lang https://dlang.org/

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    Comment #12531448

    I live in Africa and I am pretty envious of this trip. I plan for something close when my son gets 16 if he agree to that is. It would be wonderful! I think you will agree with me …

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    Comment #10978094

    Nyuzi is a Swahili word for threads.

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    Comment #9763398

    I feel that this discussion would be incomplete without mentioning D-lang ( http://dlang.org ) and the vibed framework ( http://vibed.org ) as alternatives to the technology platfo…

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    Comment #8802147

    I am happy with the Gates foundation and the strengthening of basic scientific research that has come about from their grants particularly in resource poor countries. Respective go…

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    Comment #8706260

    Does Julia community have a typesetting tool(s) like knitr + Latex? a.k.a can i embed Julia code on to a latex document the same way I can do with R code? That is one feature that …

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    Comment #7377578

    lost precious time for thesis writing! evil game!

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    Comment #6338916

    For some reason i found myself calculating the patterns of blue, red and black and if words like 'the' 'and' always fall on black or red highlights. I guess that slowed me down big…

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    Comment #6047933

    This is the kind of functionality that D language is really good at. If I were to go beyond the fun bit of this project, i would have a look at D language.

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    Comment #5815400

    I am sure you could have taken a better picture! but it has to look like this so as to read not so far from the stereotype.

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    Comment #5486341

    And I wished the R main website would get a face-lift as well :)

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    Bioinformaticians share their own dna in personal genomics textbook

    When bioinformaticians Joel Dudley and Konrad Karczewski set out to write a new text on genomics, they took the task personally. Their book, Exploring Personal Genomics, is an intr…

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    Comment #5163190

    Well said.

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    Google’s Eric Schmidt Sees Nairobi as Africa’s Technology Leader

    Nairobi has emerged as a serious tech hub and may become the African leader

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    Comment #5004139

    "After mining the complete rubygems.org repository we performed some network analysis and visualized the complete Ruby Ecosystem by looking at the relationships between developers …

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    Ruby Research Team. Any one know more about it?

    "After mining the complete rubygems.org repository we performed some network analysis and visualized the complete Ruby Ecosystem by looking at the relationships between developers …

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