This fucking sucks and is terrible for America
20.09.2025 00:47
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This fucking sucks and is terrible for America
Big day for Vortex!
I have about 100,000 variants of the 1kG+HGDP dataset loaded into Vortex and have been working on a statistical & population genetics benchmark.
I think the open source infa is finally ready for a new generation of analytical tools for genetics!
100,000 Participants scanned ✅
We are delighted to have completed the world's largest whole body imaging project, scanning the brains, hearts, abdomens, blood vessels, bones and joints of 100,000 volunteers.
I so enjoyed talking to my colleague Carlos Lozada about migration. It was a rich conversation drawing on our writing, reporting and personal experience. You can read (or even better, listen!) at the his gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/o...
We seem also to create new homes and communities with our fellow cosmopolitans.
@polgreen.bsky.social fantastic to hear you and Carlos Lozada together again discussing our now.
I find this rootlessness or out of placeness can also arise among so-called native born Americans who travel from rural hometowns to urban centers in search of acceptance and opportunity.
W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
looks like an objective assessment to me
“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”
I think this is a strategic mistake, and it is buying into a model of political communication that is incompatible at core with Democratic political goals
I find the migration patterns of ancient humans endlessly fascinating
I had a lot of fun with Twisted Metal
I really don’t get this crisis of masculinity. I just don’t.
You can join the Army or become a paramedic or live in the woods. You can wear camo. You can go hunting or fishing. You can be a little rowdy. I’ve done all these things.
Just don’t be a dick.
This genuine rage is the only rational response from anyone who is bearing witness right now, and this man is my anger translator. It is so easy to go numb, to sublimate the molten anger into dark humor and try to endure. But someone has got to yell it out so a whole theater can feel it together
If you're at #IcebergSummit, be sure to come see our CEO and Founder @will-manning.bsky.social
present on Turbocharging Apache Iceberg scans with Vortex!
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📃 I am excited to share our @naturegenet.bsky.social review paper on the state of psychiatric genetics in Latin America, put forth by the Latin American Genomics Consortium (LAGC)! 🎉
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Exchange, recently pledged to give away half his family's wealth to charity. He's speaking at Cooper Union in NYC this Thurs with Alexander Vindman on the question of how to rebuild economic mobility in an age of widening income inequality
cooper.edu/events-and-e...
Whatever man, the masses have decided that a sufficient amount of linear algebra and logistic functions is AI and I guess I don't care too much what they call it.
Is "machine learning" really any less offensive than "artificial intelligence"?
I mean, yeah, this was my immediate reaction too, but I think that's unfair.
I've had to explain the difference between a GPU and a CPU and how to use multiple cores effectively so many times without a nice graphic. I'm glad this exists!
I mean sure, maybe I'd rather this didn't say "AI".
ChatGPT is shockingly effective at explaining assembly. I think it made a couple tiny mistakes about exactly what the cmovbe was doing, but it gives enough useful context that I, a very-non-expert at reading x86 assembly, can understand what is happening in this code.
chatgpt.com/share/67d867...
since she was 8 months old
www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...
One of the things I love about Paris is the amount of great cinemas. However, it’s sometimes difficult to follow what’s playing at any given time.
This weekend I built a site to show all the movies on one page: seance.paris
It’s still a work in progress, but go give it an early spin!
I tried to escape biology into @spiraldb.com but little did I know biotech is everywhere.
Unsure if you're doing #bioinformatics? Are there two columns with seemingly the same meaning but not equal? Is one of them a technical artifact that probably shouldn't be in this file anyway?
If yes, then, congratulations: you are indeed a capital-B Bioinformatician. Welcome and/or I'm sorry.
I wrote a little about using zone maps to save time by avoiding I/O when reading data in a query engine.
There's really a lot of subtlety in zone maps and metadata! I think I'm still parsing all the insights I found in "Big Metadata" by Edara & Pasumansky.
blog.spiraldb.com/zone-maps-or...
one of the things i hate most about "originalism" as a supposed methodology is that the practice of it rests on the idea that it takes the specialized knowledge of a special elite to be able to understand the plain language of the constitution.
