Mark Schreiber, PhD

She was BBC, you were ITV?

The kennel club of America would also like a word about recognizing any of these as breeds.

These are all signs of the end times.

1/ Bioinformaticians, I’ll say it loud:
Never blindly trust the data you're given.
Not from collaborators. Not from vendors. Not even from “reliable” sources.
Here’s why:

Given that scientists are trained to be skeptical we are disturbingly trusting of our colleagues data and software quality.

Apple develops a lightweight AI for protein folding prediction - 9to5Mac Apple developed an alternative AI model to predict the 3D structure of proteins, and it shows promise. Here are the details.

Apple develops a lightweight #AI for protein folding prediction| #biosky

a man in a suit and tie is standing next to a woman in a black dress . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing next to a woman in a black dress .

It’s often said that solar isn’t a reliable energy source. Yet it has reliably powered our entire ecosystem for several billion years.

I only realized a couple of episodes ago that the sinister Atom Eins (Boy Kavalier’s right hand man) is Vivian from The Young Ones.

Mine too. It really dials it up to 11.

But Alien Earth!

I’ve heard people describe mediocre things as “pretty ordinary” or “pretty average” so it seems we keep reinventing this idea that everyday isn’t very good.

Standard R shiny app?

You’re probably holding it wrong

There’d be no way to monetize it. As soon as people found out you were selling their data to advertisers they’d drop it like a hot turd.

Not sure there would be a market. People are generally too polite and shy to share their hot takes in a public forum.

You could make a social media app where people could post these 30 second gifs with audio 💡

Do we need an excuse for firing lasers at things?

Couldn’t agree more. The idea that your software works as expected is a hypothesis. Unit tests, integration tests etc are the control experiments. Don’t know how to write tests? AI does.

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In my day you had to build up a good head of steam in the Babbage engine before even attempting a “hello, world”! 👴

Product market fit?

I frequently am guilty of this. It’s often a good idea to document why certain design decisions were made. That way, when the technology or needs change, it’s more obvious that the solution might need revision.

Also sucks a lot of air between its teeth when you enquire about the possibility of performing any task.

It’s very therapeutic to watch someone else doing that 😂

Top tip, cooking spray is a trap. It contains a protein based emulsifier to make it easier to spray. When heated it forms a glue like substance that sticks to everything including non stick pans. 🤨

🚀 This is big! AWS HealthOmics now supports ECR pull through caches and remaps image URIs. Now you can use workflows that use containers from public repos without having to change all the image URIs. And you get all the reliability and security benefits of using ECR!

#genomics #wdl #cwl #nextflow

No doubt soon to be approved by the FDA

Getting your daily calcium?

I am super impressed by how they hit a tin droplet with a low power laser to make it the right shape and then again with a high powered laser to generate the ultra UV beam. All while it’s moving at high speed.