"I had no money growing up. My dad was a labourer and my mum did everything to make ends meet. Men worked hard. Women worked miracles. But education was free. As was the local library. I knew books were my passport to a better life."
~ Ricky Gervais
#Booksky

SciML: Open Source Software for Scientific Machine Learning Open Source Software for Scientific Machine Learning

How successful has the SciML Small Grants program been at getting newcomers to contribute to open source software #oss for #sciml #julialang and #ai4science? Very!

* 13 total projects initiated
* ~90% success rate

See the blog post summary of the first year!

sciml.ai/news/2025/07...

beige.party/@onekind/114...

Identification of common genetic risk variants for autism spectrum disorder Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a highly heritable and heterogeneous group of neurodevelopmental phenotypes diagnosed in more than 1% of children. Common genetic variants contribute substantially to...

(3/3) "This is how you undertake ethical research on the potential genetic influences on autism."

Identification of common genetic risk variants for autism spectrum disorder Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a highly heritable and heterogeneous group of neurodevelopmental phenotypes diagnosed in more than 1% of children. Common genetic variants contribute substantially to...

(2/3) "Inclusion in the sample was done with consent from the person (or carer) and once data was collected, identifying information was stripped out, so the sample cannot be used by lawyers or governments or lobby groups for their own nefarious purposes."

Identification of common genetic risk variants for autism spectrum disorder Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a highly heritable and heterogeneous group of neurodevelopmental phenotypes diagnosed in more than 1% of children. Common genetic variants contribute substantially to...

(1/3) From Mastodon:
onekind@beige.party

"We already have genome wide association studies (GWAS) totalling 18,381 people with autism and 29K controls (people without autism) to identify whether single genetic variations (or combinations of them) predict a person having an autism diagnosis."

Why not keep the date time column as well, just add the y/m/d columns as partition columns needed?

being the richest person in the world and the president of the united states can’t even stop this guy from continuing to crash out

elon musk depression posting is one of my favorite genres of posts

Podcrastination?

Iceland xkcd.com/2874