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About olivia-banks

https://oliviactl.net/ oliviabanks@fastmail.nl

I work in public health, writing HPC C/C++ with data analysis in R and Python.

In my current role, I help maintain software behind ForeSITE and UT-NEDSS (EpiTrax). I also work in speculative outbreak response.

Recent public activity

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    I remember years and years ago getting a Raspberry Pi from my father. We were going to use it for something or other, but that plan fell through, and I ended up using it to "deploy…

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    Comment #48851601

    Oh my god, Salt Lake City! I never see anything here, and the first thing I click on today no less... unfortunately I'm not a Ruby programmer but I'm happy to see that some stuff i…

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    Comment #48068710

    It at least predates 2012, since the same text is seen on the this page's first archive on archive.org.

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    Comment #47722895

    "If Educational Videos Were Filmed Like Music Videos" - Tom Scott https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G025oxyWv0E

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    Comment #47523706

    I agree. There's also something to be said in it being another level of abstraction, only linguistic instead of technical, but failing to understand that they are "random" is a rec…

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    Comment #47509239

    To be fair, DNA sequencing was very hyped up (although not nearly as much as AI). The HGP finished two years ahead of schedule, which is sort of unheard of for something in it's do…

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    Comment #47509174

    I actually hear about this fairly often. In quite a few of my college classes, there's a large focus on AI (even outside the computer science department). I find it surprising the …

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    Comment #47509132

    At least it happened after I did my work for the day... jfc!

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    Comment #47508541

    Having "NA" being treated as nil/null/None by default seems like it would cause the Namibia problem!

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    Comment #47456019

    Yes, that was what I was referring to, although I thought the reason of staying at 0.y.z was more of a cultural one. v0, at least to me, implies that the API may change arbitrarily…

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    Comment #47418358

    I will say that this doesn't seem to be how semver is used in the wild, which I would argue is more important. I personally didn't know about this rule. Tons of Rust projects follo…

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    Comment #47418218

    Really glad to see we're getting a native PEM API.

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    Comment #47417974

    As far as I know, PyPy doesn't support all CPython extensions, so pure Python code will probably (very likely) run fine but for other things most bets are off. I believe PyPy also …

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    Comment #47269437

    True! I didn't think of it that way ;-)

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    Comment #47269309

    I didn't read it as this, what signs do you see?

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    Comment #47253337

    Interesting. I’ve never been to Poland and yet Polish the default second option in a ton of places for me. No clue why.

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    Comment #47252644

    Strange how someone in a cave with no internet can push 10,000 bugs a day.

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    Comment #47252532

    This is a seriously fun tool. Bravo!

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    Comment #47252485

    I've been wondering about the Polish thing. On the screenshot at the top of the page, it reads "Translate Selection to Polish," and I initially thought this might just be something…

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    Comment #47248964

    I'm mildly allergic to bananas, but I don't think the number of people allergic to bananas is "sizable."

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    Comment #47238441

    This is fantastic news! Long COVID is awful, so I'm glad to see that she's recovering, if only incrementally.

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    Comment #47188891

    It might not be; I did a couple of GitHub searches in their organization for strings on their homepage, and found no matches.

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    Comment #47162497

    That's fantastic! I may very well bring this up at our next all hands, since we recently just wrote a ton of documentation for our modeling code.

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    Comment #47141735

    This is something that I've been thinking about off and on, so it's neat to know there's an off-the-shelf solution. Is there an option to just get notified that some docs are out o…

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    Comment #47066515

    I assume this might be changing. Anecdotally, from what I've read here, I think we're starting to see headless browsers driven by LLMs for the purposes of scraping (to get around s…