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I think this is a bit optimistic compared to my view (wrt portability). There's a large stack of software that is involved in training and probably less so in inference. I'm not sa…

For me, in my use of Python as a data analysis language, it's not python's speed that is an annoyance or pain point, it's the concurrency story. Julia's built in concurrency primat…

This thought led me to a strange conversation with chatgpt. I just base64 encoded "Hello chatgpt how are you" as "SGVsbG8gY2hhdGdwdCBob3cgYXJlIHlvdQ==" and sent it as the first pro…

Yes, I would agree that technical and non-technical usability is one appealing spreadsheet use case. I think that another thing I find myself using spreadsheets for is simple data …

Is this something that the internet archive would preserve?

Can you elaborate a little here? I made the switch from classic notebooks to jupyterlab recently and find the bin experience very similar (there's a few subtle differences that I c…

In my experience, there's a balance to be stricken. I really like notebooks for documenting the algorithm development process. I used to do a ton of repl driven development and Jup…

A sequencing run (at least in the context of Illumina's technology) requires a few very expensive consumable reagents: First being the flowcell (microscope slide that the dna stick…

Nanopore sequencers may require less prep and may be cheaper, but their sequencing error rate is astronomical, so you'd end up doing a lot more sequencing of the same material befo…

Indeed, one could only imagine the cost of sequencing the dna to retrieve the data (not to mention the current lack of random access). Illumina's highest capacity sequencer will do…

I think the biggest thing, for me is Cython. I've not seen anything quite like it in other languages. It allows you to compile python code to c, with gradual typing. It also allows…

I thought that it was implemented in Arc: http://arclanguage.org/

A big use case for python is glue for high performance c/c++ code. How is racket at this? Also, is there a cython alternative for racket? I would also argue that, though racket may…

It would be nice if this language was extensible to running on various compute cluster managers. From what I can tell, these workflows only run on one machine. I like the bioinform…

I've heard of it, not sure how mature it is these days. Maybe I'll give it another look

I'm also a heavy user of an X-only window manager (xmonad). Learning about this makes me wonder if I should start learning how to work with another window manager so I'm not caught…

Sorry, but that's not a vcf. It's a tsv of genotypes. Here's the spec for VCFs: https://samtools.github.io/hts-specs/VCFv4.3.pdf

Very cool, thanks. I will probably be using this in the future

I have used this in the past. There are only a few places where this bites you, for instance wifi authentication portals. Some of these wifi access points change your resolv.conf s…

The title of the site is "Matrix - ITA Software by Google". Also, on the site, they link themselves: Want to explore flights and get fast results? Try Google Flights Almost seems l…

It really depends on how light it is outside. I like light backgrounds when it's light outside, but dark ones at night.

I think people also forget that there's a decent amount of fortran in numpy. I'm pretty sure they are the originators of f2py as well

A pid file is the best IMO

Yes, these are the same

Noooooooooooo :(